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I worked for Papa John's for a time almost 10 years ago. Then the policy was absolutely no firearms in your vehicle period. Probably is the same now. I always carried anyway, no job delivering pizza is worth your life.

I haven't been around bear hunting for most of my life, not until recently. Bear hunting seems to be a pretty big deal around here where I live and I can respect tradition. From what I have observed thus far I'm not really sure why it is allowed to hunt bear with dogs, it seems like to me that there is no sport in it what so ever. I also realize that what most people in a group do does not apply to the entire group but around here the bear hunters are really known as a bunch of disrespectful savages. I've heard numerous stories about them trespassing (I've hunted with dogs so I can sympathize to an extent,) worse than trespassing though is the manner in which they become irate if a property owner confronts them about it, even several accounts of several hunters beating land owners within inches of their lives. Personally, I just can't call letting dogs go on the side of the road and tracking them with a GPS hunting. Not to mention the fact that the animal has virtually no chance of escape with the packs of 10-20 dogs that they usually are hunting with. If there is any bear in the area it is going to be treed and shot out, it will never have a chance to escape. Am I out of line here? Am I missing something? Am I possibly grumpy and irrational about the situation because there was a bear treed all night last night a couple of hundred yards from my house and I got sick of hearing the dogs on tree? Never thought that I would disapprove of any type of hunting but now I'm starting to think otherwise. I still have an open mind though so educate me if my observations are incorrect.

I'm usually just after does but I had a buck with a really ugly rack come out in front of my last year, I was hunting our property so I decided to take him out to keep those bad genes from being spread around. As soon as I was eating on him I was regretting it. Does just taste so much better.

I've done it twice, I process my own so I really don't have much of a desire to have 3 deer carcasses on my hands at one time. Each time I did that I gave away at least one.

I'm planning on a new(er) truck sometime next summer. Very similar to what the OP is looking for, I'm not picky about year, I have a '92 F-150 now that has been great, it is just plain worn out. I want an F-250, 4x4, manual, manual T-case, Powerstroke, prefer extended cab but I'm considering regular if I get the right deal. This will be my first venture into the world of diesel and I'm looking forward to it. Question for the gurus, I've heard guys speak of 20+mpg with the right tuning. Is this for possible? If so which engines can this be achieved with? I was preferring a 7.3 but would consider a 6.0 as well.

Very nice I would love to do that with a bobcat. There have been lynx spotted around here recently, not even sure if there is a season on them though. BTW not only were they spotted clear pics were taken.

Check out anything by C.J. Box, most everything is outdoor themed fiction. I especially like the Joe Pickett series. Joe Pickett is a somewhat clumsy Wyoming game warden. Always outspoken, always on the edge of getting fired, and always solves the case and comes out a hero. His sidekick Nate Romanowski should have his own series, Nate is a mysterious fellow with some sort of top secret government background, he is eventually portrayed as a fugitive in the series. Nate carries his .454 everywhere. Once after Nate is arrested and gets out of prison he borrows Joe's truck without his permission and returns with a new .454, Joe asked him how he bought a firearm being a felon and he replies "I didn't, you did!" very good series of books, lots of accurate gun references and very good reading I usually blaze through one of his novels in 1 or 2 days.

Netflix carries it I just ordered it.

That shouldn't be a shim under bucket design, which means it is very easy to adjust. I agree with LazyAce though, check your carb first. I've put tons of miles on dualsports and dirtbikes and I've never seen valve clearance be an issue until you get lots of wear on the bike. I've seen them be dead on on a motor that was completely ragged out for 20K. I think $400 is awfully high for what amounts to a 20 minute job. Even if it is a shim under bucket design it isn't hard to do there are just a few extra steps, just do your math on the valve clearance and the shim to figure out what size shim you need. One more thing, do not use the cheap standard/metric feeler gauges that are commonly available, get a decent metric set. A friend who is a tech in the shop I go to told me that one day when I went in to pick up a shim. We compared a combo gauge to a just metric gauge and the thickness was way off on the combo. Not what you want when 100ths of a whatever term of measurement they use counts. Wish I could be of better help but I'm out here east in riding country.

And that is using the term "legit" very loosely...

I thought I was the only person upset about that. Glad to see that others don't like these laws either. I've talked to several guys locally who are now going to NC to hunt hogs. By the time these guys have all their money wrapped up in their dogs and everything I can see how they are frustrated with Tennessee's laws. I see where they are coming from trying to prevent the release of hogs but this is technically an outright ban on the sport hunting of hogs and I would hate to see that become a foothold for antis to keep us from hunting anything else. What was that law that was passed in TN a few years ago about hunting being a right? Could that possibly have any relevance here?

Always have the Sportsman's License option. What is that up to now $150. I bought it years ago when I hunted G/M/A, I haven't bought one of those in years. I think they were $100 last time I got one. As much as it pains me to buy the license that is just part of it and you will get days of enjoyment and some food out of it if you are lucky.

Next gun on my list but it's not in the cards at the present time. I will be sticking to the trusty ol 870.

Thank you this is just what I was looking for.

I searched and couldn't find an answer on this. I have heard many conflicting stories from LEOs, gun friends, etc. Is it or is it not legal to carry a long gun loaded off of your private property? I've heard that it can be loaded but not chambered. I've heard you can carry it as long as you have a HCP (which makes no sense to me.) So what's the real story here. Without giving too many details here is my deal. Would like to carry a long gun with me to work, may be around "the public" occasionally but more often than not no one would see a gun sitting next to me while I am working. The reason that I feel a need to carry such a firearm is a strong presence of bear and hogs in my immediate work area. I see more bears than hogs but see lots of both. I've never had a problem with a bear but I would feel a whole lot better if I was carrying a gun that would easily take a bear down. (I carry bear spray as well.) I would probably never have to use the gun but I'd rather have it and not need it... Any citation of the TCA code would be appreciated as I would like to carry that with me to show any LEO that says anything about me carrying the gun. If it makes a difference I do not work on private property.

Thank you Sir.

I am a TTU graduate and lived in Cookeville for four years, I will tell you what I can about Cookeville. Not I moved away July of '08 so take that into consideration. -I worked loss prevention for 3 of the years I was living in Cookeville. I had lots of interaction with local PD, back then anyway it was a very good department. Most of the officers were very good people that really wanted to do good for the community, of course there were a couple of bad apples, but all in all it was a good department. Bad thing was that the pay was really bad, $27,000 per year IIRC. -The sheriffs dept has a reserve deputy program that was pretty easy to get onto, it doesn't pay anything but is a really good way to get your foot in the door. -Cookeville is one of the cheapest places in the country to live. A few years ago it was ranked #2 nationally. Rent could be had when I was there for as little as $300 a month utilities included and that was a decent place. -Lots of great scenery and outdoorsy things to do if you are into that, you really don't have to drive far out of town to be in the middle of nowhere. -You can get about anything you need in Cookeville, I always wished they had a good electronics store like Best Buy, but besides that I was able to get anything I needed locally. -Jobs period, but especially good jobs are really hard to come by, that was the main reason I moved after I graduated was that I couldn't find a good job. 6 months after I quit my job in Cookeville I moved to Nashville doing the exact same job for the same company but they were paying me $3.25 an hour more. Don't know what it is about that town but unless you want to bus tables decent jobs are difficult to find. -Best gun range ever is 10 miles out of town (Bend of the River) it's a little primitive but Charlie, the guy that runs it, is super nice. He will help you fix your gun, run the skeet range for you while it's snowing, show you the easy way to zero a scope, and loan you guns if you don't have what you need. The guy just really loves guns and wants to help you anyway he can I can't say enough good things about him. If you are a TTU student he will give you a year membership at the range for $20 I think. Oh yeah and TTU offers the following electives...Handgun safety and familiarization, riflery, archery, and trap and skeet, all taught by Charlie at the range. Those are just a few things off the top of my head. If I can be of any assistance or answer any questions for you please shoot me a message and I will do my best to answer it.

I'll play. Most all of these were shot with a Canon Mark III, Canon L series 1:4 lens. I've shot all of these this summer.

IRRC killing a dog is a felony offense. Probably not the best advice. I was on the opposite end of this situation one time. My dogs back at everything that comes into the yard, which I like. Other people in the neighborhood let their dogs and cats run loose and my dogs would bark at them when they would come into the yard. My dogs stayed in a fence all the time BTW. No one ever approached me about the dogs. They went straight to the police. I happened to be very well connected with the local PD through work and knew the officers everytime they responded, they told me that the person calling was just an old kook and not to worry about it. Then the neighbor got a hold of animal control. They left a warning on my door one day, it said that if the problem continued I would be cited and have to appear in court and be subject to a $500 fine for each offense. My dogs at that point became indoor dogs. I'm really glad I live in the sticks now, don't miss the city life one bit.

I do my own. I also kill a couple or so deer each year for friends but they go to the processor. I figure 8 hours of labor per deer by the time I skin, quarter, debone, and grind. I am VERY picky about how the meat is handled and separating the sinew and silver skin from the meat, it is very labor intensive but I've had several people tell me "this is really good BEEF!" yeah I don't always tell my guests what they are eating. It feels like I throw away a lot of stuff when I am separating out all the junk but that's just the way it is, besides something (racoons maybe a coyote) will eat it when I throw it out so it's not going to waste.

"American Psycho" an ex left it here. horrid movie, took several attempts to get through it without falling asleep.

Does she want a DSLR or a point and shoot? I have my big cameras but I like to carry a point and shoot around in case I see something that I want to take a picture of, I usually just use my phone for that though. The sky is the limit pricewise, I have used Canon and Nikon and prefer Canon. I am assuming that you would like to keep costs somewhat low? A Canon Rebel DSLR has a whole lot of capability for general use. Unless she is really wanting to tackle some serious stuff (like blowing up landscapes really big or shooting in low light) that would be fine.

Amongst other things wrong with this story is the fact that the shot on the "bear" was taken unethically. No ethical hunter takes a shot like that. It is obvious that the "hunter" did not know what part of the "bear" he was shooting at. Good hunters don't go putting bullets into an animal willy nilly, we pick and chose shots to make a good clean kill. Very sad.

Sounds like firing would have been a good way to make a boss that has been really cool about allowing you to carry change his mind on the matter. I'm sure that in an upperclass West Knox neighborhood someone would have freaked out at the sound of a gunshot, likely would have called the police, your boss would have gotten an ear full, and you would have gotten an ear full, especially if the client whose yard you were working in didn't like the idea of you shooting a snake in his yard. Most of those people in that part of town don't cotton too well about shooting and killing around their houses. Now if it had been a legitimate threat you may be justified, I just can't see a snake in that situation being a legitimate threat.

My first shotgun was a single shot 20 at the age of 11, then I moved up to a 12 gauge 870 at the age of 12. I only weighed about 80 pounds when I was 12 and I handled the 12 gauge just fine. I was just shooting field loads then, no magnums or 3" loads. I was very good with that gun, I remember out shooting some snobby kids with O/Us at a skeet and trap shoot when I was 14. I still have that gun, it is my go to shotgun and really the only shotgun I keep in my house. I still use it on a regular basis. Go ahead and get your boy a gun that will last him a lifetime. Of course every boy needs a .22, which I see you are covering already. Hard to go wrong with a 30-30 for deer, good solid gun with little recoil.