10-Ring

Go to a credit union, get a loan with a lower interest rate than what you have now.  Screw a credit card, screw a credit rating.  Need a house?  Show up with a 20% down payment and a reference from your landlord about how you pay your rent on time every month and you will get approved for a house.  The typical 1% "reward" you get for using a credit card just isn't worth it to me.  Not that I know anything I'm just a 30 something with a house that does have some mortgage on it, but I have a car, truck, boat and a couple of motorcycles all of which are paid for.  The only payment I have each month is my mortgage, it's amazing how much further my money goes now.   

KFC just plain sucks.  The last time I ate there was after a morning deer hunt that lasted until well after dark and involved a long walk across a mountain.  All I had to eat that day was a Snickers bar really that morning.  Needless to say I was starving and would have eaten about anything at that point.  After all that I still thought that it was horrible food.  I rank KFC below Churches, whose demographic is poor people that live in the ghetto.

I understand that sentiment.  Particularly in regards to religion there are a few around here that like to belittle others for what they believe.  I don't think think it gets much lower than disrespecting someone for their religious views.

Man, you ask everyone to pay nice and this is what you get...

You could just buy another Mosin for what you will pay to have them clean it.

Legally you can't cross a boats wake within 100 yards of the boat.  

That's asinine, I could perhaps see some reasoning in not allowing kids to have live ammunition at school but shell casings?  They are completely harmless.  I think when I was in school back in the 90's it would have probably been confiscated and the student sent back to class.  And we all had inert ammo key chains.  Of course those of you old enough to remember when it was okay to leave your deer rifle or shortgun in your gun rack at school really had it made plus you guys never even shot a school up.

It seems to be the norm that these people that do tv shows don't follow the rules.  I hope the book is thrown at them.

Nothing makes me grumpy like hearing how they did it somewhere else.

I bite my tongue on a daily basis here and will do my best to continue to do so.  

Okay,  I just went back and looked, it does specify alligator gar, so I suppose short nosed gar are fine to take.

I went the Canon route.  There is plenty of room in there but I honestly don't think it would take a determined person with a crowbar and a hammer very long to get into it.  That's part of the reason that it did live in the bedroom closet at our last house.  Having the space to offer my wife use of the safe for her valuables didn't hurt on getting it in the closet.  I would really like a Liberty that is the size of my Canon, in the meantime I think the Canon well do fine protecting against smash and grab type burglaries and keeping the little people hands of of the guns.

FYI, page 10 of the 2015 TWRA fishing regulations states that it is illegal to harvest gar in Tennessee and they must be returned to the water immediately.  There are plenty of things that the TWRA does that I don't care for but if I'm going to fish and hunt in Tennessee I feel that it is my responsibility to follow the rules. 

I am right in Between the 109 bridge and the 231 bridge, Barton's Creek area. 

MDA has about as much business giving lessons on gun safety as I do giving lessons on flying space ships. 

Thanks for the tips Bersa.  The steam plant isn't unfeasible but it's 10 miles down river from where I keep my boat and that boat just don't go anywhere fast.  If I can manage to get my butt out of the deer woods on an October day I just may have to do that.  I'm going to go out tomorrow evening and see if I can get into some catfish and/or rockfish.  I had planned to hunt archery this year but I just haven't had the time to get the bow practice in and I'm going to have to restring the bow before I use it.  I have really been wanting to get that done so I can put my fishing equipment on it and shoot some gar.  We're rich with carp too and I'm pretty sure I've seen some asian carp.  I kind of hate to kill stuff and not do anything with it but both species seem to be invasive. 

I've done well with top water baits in the creeks.  The Rapala popper is my favorite, but I'm partial to top water.  I will say the bigger bass may be deeper I'm not catching much that is over a pound and a half or so.

I'd really like to get into those rockfish, I kind of thought that's what they were.  I trolled one morning using some white jigs after I saw several jumping but didn't have any luck.  I may try a whole bluegill and see how that works.

That's unfortunate and all but the situation could have been completely avoided by 1) educating yourself of the laws where you are traveling to.  I'm sure this was a lot harder in the 80's before wide spread use of the internet.  and 2) Not going to states that have ridiculous laws.  I love to travel but there are some states that I guess I'll just never get to see. 

I think it's cool but it's just too expensive for something that I would not have a good use for.  I know virtually nothing about big bore air rifles but is the rifle ammo rifled?  Seeing as it's a smoothbore, it may be a .50 but that will mean nothing if you can't hit anything with it. 

This post makes no sense as there is no dog in the pictures.  Purina seems to work just fine though.

Why would you put it in a drop box for free when you can get a $50 gas card with your stolen gun?

As I've mentioned in some other posts I've recently gotten a boat and started fishing OldHickory lake again.  Last time that I actively fished the lake on a regular basis was around 2002 or 2003.  I'll fish for anything, I'm eventually wanting to get after some rockfish but I need some bigger gear first.  For now I'm fishing for bluegill, catfish, bass, and I troll for stripe when the family is out with me because they just want to ride around and don't like it when I stop and fish.  So, I've made the following observations now as opposed to 12-13 years ago. 1)  I'm catching more bass and they are bigger!  I credit this to the 15" minimum limit and the 5 fish creel limit put into place several years ago.  It looks as if it has finally had enough time to make a difference.  I haven't gotten to do as much bass fishing as I would like but I'd say my average bass is around a pound while 12 years ago the average was maybe 1/2 to 3/4 of a pound.  2) I'm catching more catfish.  Not necessarily bigger catfish but more smaller ones and that's fine because I prefer to eat the ones under about 3 pounds the most.  3)  This one puzzles me but in the panfish arena I'm only catching very small fish for the most part.  It's rare that I catch one that is big enough to clean.  Years ago I separated them as I caught them by cleaning size and catfish bait size.  There were always plenty that were big enough to clean but not anymore.  I caught about 60 Friday evening and 3 or 4 were big enough to clean.  Maybe that's why the bass are bigger and there are more of them?  If that's so why are the smaller panfish plentiful?  4)  The number of gar has drastically increased.  It used to be rare to see one now I can't hardly fish a bank without seeing one. 5)  I see a lot of really big fish jumping in the middle of the lake, I haven't figured out what they are but I'm talking at the very least 20 pound plus fish.  I haven't tied into any of these while trolling, I've also thrown Rapalas out in the early mornings but have yet to hook into one of these huge fish.  6)  I've caught several large skipjacks while trolling like 2+ feet long and probably 4-5 pounds.  Never really remember catching them before on that body of water.    I never thought about the lake being any different to fish than it used to be but there certainly are some changes.

This completely trumps the stupidity of bringing a knife to a gun fight.

Yes, I read it on the internet.