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No wife or girlfriend here. My parents asked me once if I wanted to let them know what my combo was I just replied "Yall won't tell me what yours is, if something happens to me just get them to drill it.

Thanks, I do my shopping in Maryville and Alcoa, I'll stop by and check them out next time I need something.

I've spent a good amount of time on a tow motor. Never tried anything like that. Don't think it would be too hard though with a bit of practice time.

That would be his O.S. detector. OS is just a much more flagrant form of BS.

My work schedule is pretty nutty but I love my job. I'm off on Mondays and Thursdays. Tuesday and Wednesday aren't too bad. Weekends are hectic and I get very little sleep. Might get to sleep 4 hours on Friday night and 3 on Saturday night. The good part is I'm off from Thanksgiving until around the middle of February first of March. I don't get to do very many recreational activities during the on season, you gotta make hay while the sun shines. As soon as I wrap stuff up at Thanksgiving I spend the rest of deer season in the woods. I don't get to bow hunt anymore which I miss but I just don't have time. It is nice to be able to get so many days in during gun season though. I don't get to fish anymore either, which I really miss. I about went crazy staring at the walls January and February of this year. I did spend quite a bit of time hiking this winter though. I usually spend one of my days off each week running errands and doing domestic chores and whatnot and the other day I try to get out on my motorcycle or do something fun.

Check all of your connections. You are dealing with a corrosive rich environment. Most of the time on smaller boats the ground will run back to the battery, so make sure your post and terminals are very clean, clean them good then apply dielectric grease to the connections. If that doesn't help start tracing your wiring, any time you get to a connection clean and replace it. I'd be willing to bet you either have a short or a bad connection. It's probably something really simple that if you spend a little time on won't cost much.

I grew up jugging, limblining, and trotlining. That was my grandpas favorite method so I kind of fell into it. I never caught monster cats but I caught a ton of cats 15 lb and under. For limblining I would find a good strong limb that had some give to it 3-6' above the water. I would use nylon string and tie it so that the hook rests about 6" below the surface of the water. You want to set it in atleast 3' of water or else that cat will hit the bottom and get loose. As previously mentioned bluegill work great. Go catch a bucket full of them and hook them right under the dorsal fin. I always baited my lines just before dark and checked them as soon as it was light out. When I got old enough I would check them every two hours during the night, rebaiting as necessary. I usually used blocks of styrofoam for jugs, maybe 6"x6"x8" They were more durable than milk jugs. Half the fun of jugging is finding those things in the morning, it's also fun to just float at night and check them with a spotlight periodically. If you do use jugs fill them about 1/3 with water, especially if you are using live bait as this will cause them to drift a lot less. I'm thinking if you wanted to go after bigger fish use bigger bait and bigger tackle. I always just went after the smaller ones and would catch so many I wouldn't keep anything bigger than 2-3 pounds a lot of times. Been a good 10 years now since I've run a line or chased a jug and writing this has got me missing it. My friends and I used to run about 50 limblines, 25 jugs, and 4 trotlines all at the same time. By the time we got everything checked it was time to start over, we kept the whole community in all the catfish they could eat. I remember having a 4th of July catfish cookout and having over 100 people show up, and we didn't run out of fish.

This hasn't been said yet, but since Rob is going turkey hunting for the first time I thought I would throw this out there. Don't aim for the head, aim for the neck. If you aim for the head half of your shot will be going over the bird. This is where spending some time patterning the gun will really pay off, so you know just how far down the neck to hold. besides that, if you make a good shot to the neck and no shot happens to make it to the head you will still have a dead bird.

I've thought about doing this before but I'm a little ignorant to some of it. Is inbreeding among rabbits ever a concern? Seems eventually they would become inbred?

I wear hoodies, a lot. They are comfortable. I like to wear them at work because if it gets cold or the wind starts blowing I have a head covering right there as I don't have much hair. The fact that I wear hoodies to work probably sets me apart from most of these thugs, seeing as I would be willing to bet most don't have jobs. I hate to give up my beloved hoodies but I certainly don't want to get confused with these hoodlums, of course I wear my pants around my waist, with a belt (helps keep my gun up,) I wear Wranglers and boots, and say yes sir/ ma'am no sir/ma'am to everyone older than myself. Oh yeah, and most of my hoodies are ripped/torn, tattered and have various stains on them (from being worked in), maybe I'll be alright.

So you are asking if your HD gun that you would depend on to kill a person can handle small game? I don't guess it's ideal, I would be careful at what range I'm shooting at. Go ahead and pattern the gun, you say that you can't afford it but a box of 25 shells (hunting loads)costs about $7. I'll just stick with my old plain Jane 870 Express with the 28" barrel and wood stocks. It's not all tacticool but it's not going to make a damn bit of difference to the guy breaking into my house anyway.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has this issue. Those things are cursed for sure. That reminded me of a funny joke... Little Johnny has a used lawnmower for sale. The preacher down the road buys it from him and takes it home. A little while later the preacher comes back down to Little Johnny's house and says "Johnny, I can't get that old lawn mower to start, I think you sold me a piece of junk." Johnny replies "Oh no preacher, it's a good mower, you just have to give it a good cussin to get it started." "A good cussin'?" says the preacher "Why I haven't cursed in 25 years." Johnny just replied "Keep on pullin' that rope, it'll come back to you."

Good to hear, Nashville is running out of "safe" places to shop. I know HH and Rivergate have decided to not allow us responsible citizens to protect ourselves on their premises. What is the carry situation at Opry Mills currently? It's been a while since I've been in there but I don't remember it being posted, not from the Bass Pro Shopps entrance anyway.

I built a walkway at my church between the parking lot and a picnic pavilion. The walkway was about 320 feet long and included a small bridge. I used 8 foot landscaping timbers, pegged in at each end with 1/2" foot long pieces of rebar. The walkway was 5 feet wide and filled with mulch. It looked really nice when it was finished and gave everyone a way to reach the pavilion without walking through high grass and a sometimes dry creekbed. I don't remember exactly how many hours I logged but it was well over 100. I had help from my troop members and several family members. Lowes donated the landscape timbers, a local steel business donated the rebar and a local nursery donated the mulch. I remember out of pocket costs being almost nothing. I had a lot of good memories doing that project, I pulled my fair share of the weight but I had lots of people more than willing to help.

Seems to be very common. I remember one guy I was in with got to the scout office about 2 minutes before they closed on his 18th birthday. I think that "prompt" should be the 13th point of scouting, seems we have an issue with that. I was looking at the current requirements for the Eagle Scout Award. When I got mine you had to conduct a project consisting of at least 100 man hours. It seems that there is no longer a hour requirement. See the requirements here http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/BoyScouts/AdvancementandAwards/eagle.aspx. When I was in the swimming merit badge was a requirement, I see that they have now included an alternative of hiking or cycling. I remember at least one scout that didn't obtain the rank of Eagle because they couldn't pass the float test for the swimming merit badge. Don't remember the requirements for hiking but the requirements in my day for cycling were pretty tough, I remember a 100 mile ride being in there. I have no qualms letting a guy replace swimming with cycling.

OK NFA guys, what do you have to do to make the one on the bottom legal or can you? Since it just has a pistol grip it's not a SBR, right? Can you get a stamp to convert a rifle to a pistol? If so what stamp is that, is that an AOW? I'm trying to learn NFA rules but I'm not an attorney so it's a little difficult, but I'm trying.

I have a Nikon D40 that knock around with and throw in the bag for some sort of event of what not. It's small and sufficient for most things. Then I have a Canon Mark III that I use to make a living and use for situations the D40 can't handle. Now, comparing the two, besides the fact that the Canon is a serious professional camera, the interface on the Canon is MUCH easier to learn. I still find myself stumbling around trying to figure out settings on the Nikon. I've shot with a friends Rebel, which is very similar to my Nikon and thought that the Rebel was more user friendly. It's whatever you get used to but I prefer Canon. I will agree for sure that glass is very important. I wish I could find a good lends that worked for me for $800 but it ain't gonna happen. As an experiment I recently used a Sigma 70-200 2.8 lens then used a Canon 70-200 2.8, I was culling about 3 times as many shots with the Sigma lens. Keep in mind though that the Canon lens costs $2500. It doesn't make sense for most people to drop that kind of money on a lens, but there is a difference for sure. If I personally wanted to get into photography right now at the OPs price range I would be looking for a good used Canon 1D Mark IIn, you can pick them up for under $1000 and they are more than sufficient for an amateur photographer.

Went in a Tiger cub came out an Eagle Scout, had my Eagle Scout paper work submitted about a week before my 18th birthday. I really took my time on that one, I was one of those 4 year Life Scouts. I loved it almost the whole time, I hated that I had to get out but my troop had dwindled down to nothing and folded shortly after I got my Eagle so there wasn't any leadership opportunities available there. I see several people here and elsewhere that say they quit scouting because of a conflict with other scouts or leaders. I was a member of 3 different troops throughout my scouting career. I left the first two due to leadership issues, most of which were grown men that wanted to be in charge of something. I might not have liked what was going on then but leaving scouting never crossed my mind, I just knew that I needed a new troop. I am very thankful for the skills I learned as a scout, not just in the woods but in life in general. I hate how much they are sissifying things these days but kids aren't as tough as they used to be. If it's hard they will not be interested so I guess we have to dumb scouting down a little bit to keep it alive. I liked scouting alot, so much that when I got out I got the BSA Eagle Scout emblem tattooed onto me. Only tattoo I have ever gotten.

I don't recall anything too wild. I've found a couple of weather balloons, but there is a weather station in the vicinity that releases balloons twice daily. Found a nice rack on a dead 6 pointer one fall, still have the complete skull. I remember rabbit hunting and finding a bunch of blankets in the middle of the woods, that was odd. Found a ladder stand on some property that I hunt that the landowner asked me to remove, SCORE!

I think half of the ticks in the state reside at Boxwell. I was always told it was because of all of the cedar trees, which aren't really cedar, but juniper. Lots of good memories there though, spent a lot of summers there.

I was terrified of snakes as a child but I'll share one that about got me in a load of trouble once. I was 12 and was "babysitting" my brother (9) and a neighbor kid (7.) Both sets of our parents had a church function to attend and left me in charge for a couple of hours. We mess around, play some ball, and get bored when one of us decides to play a prank on passerbys. We collected some dog excrement from the yard, about enough to fill a paper lunch sack, rolled up the top, taped a dollar bill to it and put it in the intersection in front of the house. We then went up stairs and watched through a window with the lights off. It was right at dusk, several people slowed down and took a look but no one got out or anything. One neighbor comes by, this guy is the one that would have been the head of the HOA if we had one, to give you an idea of his mentality, he slows down, then gets out and looks and goes home. A few minutes later he and his family walk down to the end of the street and are standing there, finally I realize "he's called the cops!" Sure enough a few minutes later a bunch of cops show up with a bunch of firefighters and the bomb squad. The bomb squad guys come out in full gear and retrieve the "package" and put it in somesort of enclosed trailer and everyone leaves. I'm thinking we are in the clear until the last deputy to leave runs into our ditch and gets stuck. Fortunately he and one of his buddies gets it out. I think I finally told my parents about that when I was about 25, they saw the humor in it then but I doubt they would have at the time.

I used to live and work close to Norris Dam. I worked a shift from noon til 9. I would go fishing several mornings a week before work and go in smelling like trout. I'd have the trout in the cooler in the car then go home and fry them up after work. I never cared that I smelled like fish at work. I miss the Clinch but it's quite a haul for me now.

Go buy some good quality spoons and learn to do it yourself. It's a PITA the first couple of times but you will save a fortune doing it yourself. I used to set the wheel in between two 2x4s and back my car up on them to break the bead. Primitive but it works, helps a ton if you have a friend to help. Not joking about buying quality spoons though, if you get small cheap ones you will learn very quickly how far you can throw them and the extent of your personal 4 letter vocabulary. Feel free to PM me with any specific questions. One other thing, if you don't have stands for your bike... I put 4 eye bolts in my basement ceiling and bought a 4 pack of heavy duty ratchet straps for about $20. For less than $25 I have a rid that will pick up any bike that I own and suspend it from the ceiling. I wouldn't try that with a large cruiser or heavy touring bike but it works fine for dirtbikes, motards and sporties.

You would think they would give you a half decent price if you were buying that many.

I know of one website dedicated just to people who do things such as this. If you fit the demographic of the guy that revs his bike at a stop sign then you better have some thick skin before clicking the link, otherwise you may get your panties wadded up. http://slayerhater.com