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I really enjoy smoking and eating anything and everything. My wife hates the smoky flavor, and my son refuses to eat anything that isn't a dinosaur shaped chicken nugget. So I just don't get to smoke things often. I'll do a pork butt and eat pulled pork butt myself for a week straight every now and then. Some of my favorite less traditional things to smoke: - trout - cream cheese (with either hot honey and everything bagel seasoning, or mustard and dry rub) - Bologna - burgers

As a genealogy buff, I found this idea very intriguing but could not bring myself to do it because I did not want my DNA in a database such as this. Really glad I made that decision.

I don't typically like it much when people move here from other states and complain about the way we do things. But in this matter I agree with everything the OP stated 100%.

Sure enough! I'm not sure how that one got by me. Seems pretty silly in my opinion.

For that matter Tennessee doesn't even issue concealed carry.

The Buckmark is a fine pistol, as are the Ruger standards. I would not pass on the TX22 though. It will hold it's own against either of the previously mentioned at half the price. Amongst others I own a Ruger Standards and a Mark IV 22/45. The TX gets shot more than both Rugers combined. Additionally I wouldn't recommend a Standard or Mark series pistol, previous to the Mark IV due to damn near having to graduate gun smithing school to reassemble one. Once you know how it isn't bad, but it's not intuitive.

I've never had issues, but I like to be ready for issues.

After selling my Coachmen 23' (2003) model maybe a month ago (it had developed a roof leak over the winter and needed a rebuild) I thought that I was done with campers. Personally, I don't enjoy piling into a campground with a few hundred other people and pretending that I live in a trailer park for the weekend. I had some outings where I boondocked miles from pavement and didn't see another human for days. I really enjoyed that but those opportunities are drying up fast. I recently acquired some property where we will build a house soon but it's 30 miles from where we currently live. I found myself running up there to work on Fridays, getting nasty and then driving back home to shower and head out early Saturday morning to do a little turkey hunting and get more work done. Decided I needed a camper so I picked up a 2021 23' Palomino Puma XLE. Seems to be put together well enough, and very well cared for by a meticulous former owner. I'll send it to a new home once my house is built. It affords me the ability to stay the weekend comfortably and shower after cutting down trees and rolling around in poison ivy. I'll probably even spend a weeknight or two each week there.

Great advice. I'm a Toyota guy as well but I've owned several Mazdas over the years and each one has been a great vehicle. I bought a 1990 Mazda MX6 for $900 off of eBay while in college. I drove the piss out of it, loaned it to anyone who needed to drive somewhere, hauled dead deer in it and many other such abusive activities. It never let me down other than breaking the timing belt while still in my driveway, which was a fairly easy repair as it wasn't an interference engine. I gave it to a friend when I got done with it but got my $900 out of it for sure.

Because of the way they are made they have the potential to last much longer than other brands, plus the overall craftsmanship is just better. Most campers will have a rubber membrane roof with 1/4 OSB underneath. The sun reeks havoc on the rubber and eventually it leaks. The airstreams are built out of aluminum panels and riveted together. I would almost say they won't leak unless sustain serious damage by being hit by something. I've shopped some older Airstreams with the thought of building one out the way I want but even shells are often $10k. A used newer Airstream will run twice what you can buy a new "comparable" model for. To really answer your question I think it depends on what you are looking for, how much you want to spend, and whether or not you want a project. Expect to pay $40k+ for a 5ish year old Airstream that is ready to go. There is a nice looking 1973 model on Marketplace now for $12k. It's not uncommon to see Airstreams from the 50s, 60s, and 70s still in use, that can't be said for many brands. Personally, I would probably take a 30 year old Airstream over a 10 year old anything else.

Rare as hens teeth because everyone wants a 457 action. It worth asking, but if you don't find one just grab whatever you can find and sell the barrel and stock. I recently did this with a Lux on eBay and the barrel and stock brought about $550. eBay took what was IMO more than their fair share.

I can't recommend any particular models other than the ones that say "Airstream" on them, but I totally understand why you don't want to go the Airstream route. I'm probably going to offend someone by saying this, but they are all junk. Most all are manufactured by Thor Industries in Elkhart, Indiana. This is what I would suggest if not buying new: - if it hadn't at least been stored in a car port and preferably indoors I don't want it. - if it has the slightest hint of mold/mildew, or the smallest hint of a leak run the opposite way as fast as you can. Don't let anyone tell you that it has or had a minor leak and it's fixed. The only way to fix a roof leak in these things the proper way is to peel back the roof membrane, remove all affected decking, insulation, and ceiling material, replace/rebuild all of it. By the time you know there is a leak there is almost always extensive damage at that point. - turn everything on and make sure it operates properly. Run off of the house battery and connected to shore power. - make sure all of the slide outs work properly and don't have water damage on the floors and ceilings. - as someone else suggested hire your own inspector. If you thick you can DIY print out a check list of things to look at. - of anything doesn't look 100% right, run. - stay away from Camper World, I have no dealings with them but have talked with enough people who had horror stories that I will never go there. To sum it up, these things are rolling garbage and poorly made. Scrutinize everything. Keep in mind these are also expensive to work on. Best bang for your buck is buy one that is a couple of years old, keep it for a couple years and sell it. Rinse and repeat. You won't lose too awful much doing that and will always be in a relatively new unit. I've had one in the past. Rebuilt it twice and sold it after the 3rd leak. About to buy another to live in while we build. Wife suggested keeping it, I have less than zero interest.

Yeah Memphis is different for sure. Haven't spent much time there until recently. But the driving is wild.

1) I'm not above a white lie to keep a West Coaster away. And 2) there is an alligator population in West Tennessee.

There weren't near as many bad drivers here until the residents of every flippin state in the Union decided to move to Tennessee. Some of them I welcome and most of them I wish would go back to where they came from. People used to get under my skin when they talked about how Tennesseans were back woods rednecks. Now I just add that living amongst the mosquitoes, ticket, chiggers, poison ivy, rattlesnakes, copperheads, and alligators makes us that way because they are literally everywhere.