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I'm excited! Thanks TDR!

Very nice! Been thinking about doing something very similar with one of my Mosins for a while now. What stock is that?

I'm in agreement with the rest of the crowd here. This is a responsibility that she took on when she decided to cosign. It was not hidden, there is no surprise. This is what life insurance is for, financially responsible people have life insurance.

[quote name='RobertNashville' timestamp='1354290032' post='852839'] I don't know if I'll have have good feelings about Cookville...I seem to recall that the police like to shoot family pet dogs at erroneous traffic stops. [/quote] I know the officer in question professionally and have had dealings with him several times. I'm not sure what happened that night with the dog but Officer Hall (I believe that he is a detective now) is absolutely a stand up guy. Perhaps he made a split second bad decision but my dealings with him have been nothing but top notch.

Yep, TTU alumni here, Cookeville is a great little town I enjoyed the time that I spent there and probably would have stayed in Cookeville after I graduated had there been more job opportunity. But, if you son thinks that anywhere is better than Memphis then he needs to visit Detroit, or in my opinion most of Arkansas.

[quote name='Il Duce' timestamp='1354207583' post='852445'] Talking on a cell phone, maintaining a straight line, and driving above the speed limit is not that difficult. I do not understand why others cannot do the same thing. As far as habits, it depends on where I am at, city driving is around 10 over and interstate the cruise gets set to 95. [/quote] That's brave! I would be all for no speed limits on the interstate IF we had proper driver education. My 9 over routine seems to work pretty well. Most troopers that I know will give you 10 or 15, I don't know any that give more than 20. How has that worked out for you?

I have a good friend who politically seems on the fence about people carrying he sees the pros still shes a lot of cons. His wife thinks that anybody that carries is "trying to be a cowboy." Her brother and sister in law carry and do so irresponsibly. The SIL was recently in a drive thru where she got irritated at the car in front of her so she got out of her vehicle walked up to the vehicle in front of her and announced "I have a gun and a permit to use it, get out of my way!" Morons! I hate that fence sitters are exposed to idiots like this and think that we are all that way. I did explain to my friend that that is not the intention of a carry permit and that a responsible permit holder is only going to reveal that they have a gun if their life is truly in danger. He does acknowledge that his inlaws are pretty stupid.

[quote name='Glenn' timestamp='1354136954' post='852060'] I am pretty sure it is illegal to harvest a roadkill deer without permission from the TWRA. At least thats what they told me. [/quote] Well sort of you just have to notify them within 48 hours of picking it up, I also believe that you can simply notify the sheriffs dept instead of TWRA if you like. [quote] [url="http://michie.lexisnexis.com/tennessee/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=main-h.htm&cp="]TCA 70-4-115[/url] [b](c) [/b]Motorists are not required to report game accidentally killed by the operation of a motor vehicle. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, wild animals accidentally killed by a motor vehicle may be possessed by any person for personal use and consumption; except that, first, personal possession of a deer accidentally killed by a motor vehicle is permitted only if the person notifies the wildlife resources agency or any law enforcement officer within a reasonable time not to exceed forty-eight (48) hours and supplies that person's name and address; and second, personal possession of a bear accidentally killed by a motor vehicle is permitted only when authorized by an enforcement officer of the wildlife resources agency and the person is issued a kill tag. In deer-kill notification situations where a law enforcement officer rather than someone with the wildlife resources agency is notified, the law enforcement officer or the officer's designee shall be responsible for notifying someone with the wildlife resources agency and supplying the information relevant to the deer-kill. [/quote]

I used to work loss prevention, I've worked in Putnam and Anderson Counties, both heavy meth use areas. I've been sick after having meth cooks in my office for 30 minutes. The sickest I ever got was when a known thief/methhead was trying to return a whole bag of clothing that was obviously stolen. I couldn't prove that she had stolen it but I had seen her steal several times before. I walked out and introduced myself as the head of store security and explained to her that we had had a big problem with people stealing clothing and them returning it so I would have to check the items against our sales records. I was pretty much bluffing just to see what she would do. I took the items back to my office and about 5 minutes later she left the store. I just tossed the bag over in the corner and it wasn't an hour later I became violently ill. It was obvious those clothes were saturated with meth cooking fumes.

I have a 3 year old, my wife and I are simply raising her into the "gun culture." At 3 she knows what a gun is and not to touch it. That does not mean that we leave guns lying around. My wife usually checks her gun when she gets home. That means either on top of the refrigerator, dresser, on or in the safe, just depends on what we are doing. I will usually carry on myself and check my gun if I'm playing with my daughter. Seems that it does make it a little harder to conceal in public while picking her up and whatnot so I'm always conscious of that. My best advice is to talk to your kids about guns even if you think they aren't big enough to understand what you are saying. We've tested out daughter by leaving an unloaded gun on the kitchen table. She immediately came and got us to tell us there was a gun. If you shield your kids from guns completely and they come across one they will not know not to touch it.

If I had to travel to a place like that I would have to take my cane with me because my knee really acts up when I get in a "gun free" zone. Other than that remember that situational awareness is your #1 defense.

I saw those down at the Walmart the other day, they had several colors available, funny though they were only selling them in 2 packs, who wants a group buy?

I love my 642 but a lady friend of mine got an LCR in .357. After shooting it one time I wanted to throw rocks at my 642. The trigger on the LCR is awesome. Let her shoot both at the same time and decide for herself.

I own a 23 and a 27. I'm not a really big guy and I didn't carry the 23 very much at all the first few years that I had it, matter of fact I didn't like carrying it and that is why I bought the 27. A good holster and belt solved that problem. I open carry at work in the summer, I'm standing and sitting about 50/50 and moving around quite a bit. The 23 is comfortable for me to carry all day. The 27 I forget is even there. I can comfortably conceal the 23 in public this time of year under a light jacket. In the summer I'll just tuck it under my Tshirt if I'm going into a store or something, a close look would get me made but most folks probably never notice.

I used to fly for work a lot. I know the drill. When I fly I usually wear comfortable clothes, no belt, shoes that slip off easily etc. I know what is and isn't acceptable. One time even after putting on my "flying clothes" and what not I somehow managed to let a pack of razor blades get into my pocket. I stepped through the metal detector about 3 times before I finally found them. As soon as I realized what I had done I tossed them in a trash can and the TSA agent was getting pretty snarly with me. I was just glad that they let me board the plane without further questioning. We all pretty much know what we are and are not allowed to take on a plane. If not the list is easy to find. If you choose not to do research before you fly it's your own fault. Don't walk around ignorant and try to blame it on someone else. We all dream of the day that we can keep our sidearm on when we fly but until that day, follow the rules or don't fly, there really aren't any surprises here.

Tn does have a wonton waste law. OP, is there any chance that the backstraps and antlers could have been harvested from a roadkill deer? Personally I see nothing wrong with harvesting just the backstraps from a roadkill. At that point it is going to rot anyway. If someone can get a few meals off of it then why not. I would probably take the backstraps off of a roadkill if I didn't have the desire to process the whole deer. However, I would never shoot a deer without the intent to use all of it that I reasonably could.

Didn't the anti-gun lobby coin the term "assault rifle?" Personally I cringe every time I hear the word.

Looks like the TSA agents keep all the cool stuff for themselves.

The traffic laws in this country have been dumbed down in order to accommodate the lowest common denominator. Instead of making people learn how to drive before they get a license we just make sure that the rules are really easy to follow. Apparently society thinks that everyone should be able to drive, driving is a skill and not everyone posses that skill. I spend a lot of time driving in Knoxville and Nashville. Growing up in Nashville I have noticed that Nashville traffic has gotten much worse in the past few years, it is much more congested and drivers are much more congested. I'll take Knoxville traffic over Nashville traffic any day, Knoxville traffic may be fast but at least it moves. I personally do about 9 over everywhere I go and would go a lot faster than that if I could get away with it. I use cruise control if I'm driving something that is equipped and if not I have no issues maintaining constant speed, because that was one of my dad's pet peeves that I picked up when he taught me how to drive. I can't stand that guy that passes me 8 times on my Knoxville to Nashville trip and it gets me even more when he gets in front of me and slows down, I have noticed that 9 times out of 10 that person will be on a cell phone.

Is this a an apartment complex? Report them to management maybe? Doesn't really sound like you would be out of line having them towed since you have asked them twice already. It's just plain inconsiderate, you have things to do and places to go.

I had mine out at the age of 22. It was rough, I was on the couch for 2 weeks.

I've lived in Tennessee my whole life. I've met people from all over and I am proud to call them my friends. Treat others as you would like to be treated and you will have no problems in all but the most remote areas of the state.

[quote name='strickj' timestamp='1353370014' post='848473'] Says me. Dunno... thought most of the retailers paid double. :shrugs: Quick look, looks like even Wally pays double time for paid holidays worked. [/quote] Very quickly becoming a thing of the past. I've been out of retail for a few years now but they are cutting corners to save money everywhere that they can. The number of paid holidays that we got paid extra for declined every year that I worked, when I got out of retail we got Thanksgiving and that was it. It won't be long before they cut that out. Big companies really don't give a damn about any of their employees except maybe the very upper crust.

I worked in retail for 5 holiday seasons. I was fortunate enough to never have to work on Thanksgiving it self. Black Friday was a different story. Most years I had to report to work around 3-4 am. I still refuse to shop on Black Friday period. I despise the whole idea honestly. I was recently talking to an old co-worker that was telling me that my old store will be opening on 8 pm Thanksgiving Day and staying open through the night. Stupid, they will lost money. I'm just glad I don't have to deal with that anymore. Also thankful I don't have to rush off back across the state after Thanksgiving "lunch" so I can get into bed early. Thanksgiving should be a time to spend with family, not a time when corporations can make more money at the sacrifice of their near minimum wage employees.

That literature looks like it is aimed at anyone controlling nuisance species and charging a fee. It doesn't look like that really pertains to someone that is killing yotes on private land and not charging a fee. If I am not mistaken in order to hunt coyotes legally you would need to complete a hunter safety course and obtain a hunting license. Hunting coyotes is a lot of fun but very challenging.