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It's almost like a pathetic game to see who can get the farthest.  My guess is that if anyone ever makes it out the other side we will never hear about it. 

I acquired a .45 muzzleloader the other day and can't seem to find any bullets for it.  Seems the .45 has gone the way of the dodo and everybody shoots .50 now.  Walmart doesn't carry them and Dick's didn't have them in stock.  I'd check Gouger Mountain and Bass Pro but it's a pretty long drive for me just to check.  Anyone else using .45 and having trouble finding them?  

Yes, from my understanding once a rifle always a rifle but a pistol can go back and forth.

I understand that if I want to build an AR-15 pistol from a stripped lower that I have to designate the lower as a pistol on the 4473.  Is that correct?  If so, if I buy a stripped lower in a FTF transaction is it automatically ineligible to be built as a pistol?  I have no interest in skirting the law as I have never seen a ATF agent with a sense of humor.  I just don't understand how if we don't have registration how I would prove that my AR-15 pistol was built legally.

I've eaten it up to 3 years old.  I can't seem to kill enough deer to keep my family in deer through the year.  MAtter of fact I'm eating my last bit of deer from last year as I type this.  Hopefully muzzleloader season will be good to me.

Do they come in colors other than pink?  They shouldn't. :yuck:

I've probably fired more rounds in Wilson county than anywhere else.  Being out of the city limits is the first step but there are a lot places outside of city limits that still are not okay to shoot at.  Just use your common sense.  #1 question should be is it safe.  As long as it's a safe location ask yourself if you are disturbing anyone.  Maybe feel out the neighbors if you have any.  I've lived in places where I've had people close to where I was shooting and it was never a problem.  I just limited myself to shooting in the middle of the day when people were not home and kept my sessions short.  Sometimes this method works really well because neighbors can not get upset about what they don't know about.

Lots of wind here but that's it so far.  Tonight and tomorrow will be interesting for sure. 

We all know better but I got complacent and broke a bunch of my own rules on this one.  For the past 10 years my EDC has been a Glock or a 642, both of which are going to function flawlessly 99.999% of the time.  Fire it, carry it around, throw it in the dirt, carry it around, clean it bi annually and it should be good to go, no worries.  I bought a Taurus TCP a few months back from a close friend.  (Buying a Taurus, first rule broken, which I don't regret.)  I've been carrying this gun around for say 4 or 5 months and honestly have not had a chance to shoot it.  (Not shooting a gun before carrying, second broken rule.)  Since I have not fired the gun I haven't cleaned it at all.  (Third rule broken)  The gun has spent most of the summer bouncing around in my work truck which is a very dusty, and dirty environment.    So finally last weekend I fired the gun and found it to be a complete jam-o-matic.  So I took it home gave it a through cleaning and polished the slide and the feed ramp.  Took it out yesterday and she ran like butter!  We all know that pocket guns are finicky but I have to forget the Glock mentality and make it a point to clean this gun at least once a month for now on.  The gun is actually a pleasure to shoot, it has a wonderful trigger and I was hitting cans every shot at 10 yards, not bad for a pocket gun at all.  I believe that there is no perfect carry gun, each one has its pros and cons but I'm very happy with this one.  Just have to make sure that it stays clean.   So people, please, if you haven't fired or cleaned your carry piece lately, take the time to do so.  It may save your life.  

  We protect it like a daughter.  Now, where is my shotgun?  I feel that my state has been violated...

I don't know why anyone would want to move here. The winters are long and rough, the summers are long and sweltering got, and let's not even get started on the humidity. The mosquitoes are the size of birds and the ticks range in size from pinhead to tennis ball. Fire ants and rattle snakes are abundant. Fall and spring don't actually exist. Well, we usually do have that month of constant rain where everything floods just between the snow and those long summer days. So unless you are looking for all of this while being surrounded by gun toting country folk I wouldn't bother.

Using a laser as a crutch until you get "trained up" is alarming. I'm not trying to be hateful but if you can't handle the gun without a laser on it you don't need to be handling the gun period.

Not only do they sell the benefits they also buy stuff with their benefits and resell it. I learned this while working in a grocery store. Very common to see them buy a cart full of cokes or a bunch of steaks and set up shop selling them in the parking lot.

Bought an electronic call once that had some crow calls on it.  I took it home and managed to get 3 crows right off the bat.  I lived at that house for another 2+ years and never once even got a crow in range with that call again.  They would check it out but wouldn't get close.  Some decoys would have probably done the trick.

Nothing like a nice S&W.  My collection is short on revolvers but I will remedy that one day.  a 5 or 686 is 2nd or 3rd on my list behind a 629 and a 625.  I don't plan to carry anything other than a compact revolver so I like longer barrels on these guns.  At least 6" for me.

Very common for the Amish to use power tools, especially on items built for commercial sale.

  Take it apart to where you can mount it on a 3 foot wooden stake.  Just put the stake in the ground in front of where you set up.

I was raised around guns always have been an active shooter.  One day a couple of months after I turned 21 and moved out on my own I was living in a camper in Roane County.  A methhead knocked on my door at 4 am asking for money.  Got my first not .22 handgun that weekend. 

We were taught in hunter safety that by using a harness properly you may find yourself in an odd situation but you will always figure a way to get out of it. So far I've found this statement to be completely true. I've found myself in some real pickles over the years but always got back to the ground safely and on my own.

Cursing has little bearing on determining a person's intelligence. The same can not be said for discretion.

I see that there are several apps out there that have a variety of calls on them. Seems that wouldn't be too effective just using the phone, may be quite effective using in conjunction with a remote speaker. Anyone here done anything like this?

That is great! As long as you have.the work thing figured out it's a great place to live.

Just not desperate enough to pay $7.49 for 100 rounds.

The biggest downside to the area is work. That is why I moved away. I around up staying in the same position but transferring to another area for another $3 an hour. That's been a few years but decent jobs are few and far between and the competition is fierce to get what jobs are available. .

I lived in Cookeville for a few years and still have friends there. It's probably my second favorite place in Tn, the first being Blount County. Cookeville is growing fast these days and seems to be getting more liberal all of the time, but it's my opinion that has a lot to do with being a college town. As Someotherguy suggested you can pretty much go any direction from Cookeville and be in a wonderful area. Bend of the River gun range, about 10 miles north of Cookeville is not a fancy gun range but if Charlie is still running it you won't find a more friendly or helpful guy.