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I just went out and tried to pick the garden, okra mostly, because I have a bunch of it and if you don't pick okra approximately every two hours it gets about a foot long.  So I'm wearing a long sleeve tshirt because if I don't I return from the okra fields looking like I've been rolling around in concertina wire.  I started picking okra, and what I thought were crows with fangs, but turned out to be mosquitoes, started attacking me.  I didn't know humans could loose that much blood so quickly and survive.  I came in and sprayed my legs in Skin So Soft, I've never seen a mosquito anywhere around me while wearing SSS, because not even mosquitoes can stand the smell of it,  but that only slowed them down a little bit.  After getting the okra picked I came back inside and rehydrated and replenished my blood supply with Natural Light.  Currently I'm hiding inside with the AC and a ceiling fan but soon I will have to venture back outside because a little while ago I shoved a can of beer up a chickens butt and that's on the grill now. 

Anyone have any thoughts on the Sub 2000 versus the Hi Point carbine?  I've been eying the Hi Point for a while.  Like many of you I think these types of guns are cool but not $600 cool.     

Caught the satire at the first sentence.  One of these days when I have some extra cash I might get Ebay certified to carry as well.

I can't imagine a scenario at a place like the Wilson County fair where you could safely use a firearm to defend yourself.  That said, years ago I used to compete in the trap and skeet competitions held there every year.

If you want her take her.  You will be doing her and probably the "owners" a favor.

I got a HTE Evo4

New phone came in the mail today.  Wasn't supposed to get here until at least Monday.  Ordered it on Friday, figuring in the weekend there that's pretty decent shipping time.  Although it is a used phone it looks to be in perfect condition.  About to get activated and all that mess.  So far so good.  I'll give a report on Ting once I've used it for a couple of days.

Good to hear this I grew up in MJ and when I was coming up a typical interaction with MJPD consisted of "You are being pulled over for being 16" it was common for them to use 2 or 3 cars to pull a kid over and harass them for nothing.  I've been held at gun point by MJPD twice for doing nothing wrong and exactly what they said.  After I got out of college I wanted to be a police officer, MJ was paying well but I refused to have anything to do with a department that treated people that way.  I sincerely hope that they have turned themselves around. 

I was with Verizon from 2002-2011.  Their coverage is second to none, as is their bill.  I was paying $105 a month for one smart phone.  I had problems on a near monthly basis with my bill and would have to spend about 20 minutes each month getting it straightened out.  When I cancelled my service I told them that I was just not going to pay that much for a phone anymore, I was not countered with any kind of offer to lower my bill.  Plus I don't want to be in a contract. 

I think it will work well for me.  I would like to have the ability to look something up and check weather when need be.  My current Tracfone was working great and 180 minutes were getting me through about 3 months so that cam out to about $7 per month.  This past month I used up 150 minutes.  Still probably pales in comparison to what most people use.  If Ting works well I think it will be great, last time I had a smart phone it was with Verizon and I was paying out $100 a month for it.  No desire to go back to that. 

While shopping and doing my research it seems very common for companies to advertise "Unlimited Talk, Text, and Data" then the fine print will say "up to 500mb data."  I'm not sure how they are able to advertise 500mb of data as unlimited.  Just beware when doing your own shopping and read the fine print.

Well I just ordered a a HTC EVO 4G through Ting.  Looks like a decent deal.  Got the phone for $80 shipped and I get a $25 credit as well.  Thanks for the info CZ9mm, this was just what I was looking for.

For the past two years I've either not had a cell phone or I've had a prepaid Tracfone.  The Tracfone has met my needs until recently.   Now I'm in the market for another smart phone.  I would prefer to stay away from the larger carriers such as Verizon.  Having a good coverage area would be nice as well but wouldn't be a deal breaker.  I don't need a ton of data, just want to be able to look something up when need be.  Pricing is important as well, would like to spend $40 a month or so.  Heard some good promotions advertised from Boost Mobile the other day but don't know anything about them.    So, who is your carrier, are you happy?  Pros and Cons?

Wouldn't worry about the color of the barrels, the deer could care less. 

I for one enjoyed AB's post just because I knew that he was always going to post something off the wall.  I didn't necessarily hold what he said in high regard just found it interesting.  If he was as smart as he claimed to be he would understand that you can't just say whatever you are thinking here.  Heck sometimes I have to sit back and devise something other than what is currently going through my head, but that's the way it is here.  I consider myself a guest here and a long standing member should know what is acceptable and respect that. 

I was always taught not to treat people with disabilities any different from others.  Hmm, seems that works both ways now.   Seriously though.  I'd say anytime an incident occurs and you make it out unharmed without shooting then you did the right thing. 

Good idea calling the cops but we were in a dead zone miles from service.  Looking back now getting the tag number and making a call when we got back to town would have been a good idea.

This happened to me years ago, and to this day I'm not sure what the best way to handle the situation would have been short of hastily breaking camp, or just leaving our stuff there and getting out as quickly as possible.  Anyway here's what happened.    I'm in college, two buddies and myself decide we are going to camp out down by the river.  We've done this before and never had any bad run ins.  The locals are known to be unhospitable but non aggressive, meaning they won't bother you but they won't give you help if you need it either.  Setting is Jackson County, Tennessee.  Location we are camping at is a wooded area a quarter mile from the paved road.  We have our camp set up and are cooking wild boar over an open flame, it is sometime shortly after dark.  As we are having a good ole time headlights pull up on the opposite side of the river.  We really don't think much about it until they start firing a handgun in our direction, we could hear the bullets impacting around us. Quickly we are dashing for cover and I retrieve my handgun from the truck.  Keep in mind it's dark so I can not see the shooter.  I don't have a flashlight bright enough to cover the distance and I'm not sure that it would be wise to give my exact location away with a flashlight anyhow.  I consider firing warning shots, but I've always said warning shots are stupid so I don't.  I reevaluate, I consider that if they know that we have a gun they are going to go find someone else to mess with, then I consider that they may have guns and if they cross the river they will have the advantage on us because they know our exact location.  I finally decide to not fire any warning shots.    The subjects leave.  We are relieved.  About 10 minutes later we see headlights coming down the dirt road that leads to our camp.  It takes about 10 minutes to get to where these guys were on the other side of the river to our camp by road.  At this point I have my handgun on me.  Before the car gets there we run for the trees.  We are 10 yards from the fire and it is 10 yards to my truck past that.  We stay tucked down for about 30 minutes.  The car is just short of our campsite and has just been sitting there, apparently no one has gotten out.  We are not sure if they are watching us or what.  After about 30 minutes the 3 of us quietly make our way to my truck, quickly get in and drive up to the paved road.  As we pass the car there are two males "asleep" in the front seat.  I think this is very strange.  We turn around and go back to camp, as we come upon the car from the rear the tail lights look very much like the tail lights from the car across the river.  We sit around the fire.  We figure that the guys are close enough that if they get out of the car we will hear the doors open anyway.  About 1 a.m. I look at my buddies and tell them that we can stay if they want but I'm not going to get any sleep, they agreed.  We broke camp and headed back to town.    Years later I'm not sure the best thing that I could do.  I think we handled it relatively well.  My guess is that it was local people trying to get a laugh out of scaring us.  I think about this a lot when anytime I'm camping by a river. 

This will pass with time.  For now carry just in places where you are comfortable and eventually it will just become second nature. 

Like the majority of the guns I own I have no practical use for this thing either.  It's just something fun to do.

I know the politically correct thing to do here is let it slide.  I work too hard for my stuff to do that.  I'm not by any means saying I'm going to shoot some high school kids.  But I would do my best to have a confrontation with them. 

Never been into radio controlled stuff except for cars when I was a kid but I received a Syma X-1 quadcopter the other day as a gift and I've had a lot of fun with it.  I actually managed to lose the first one in about 5 minutes, even after spending a couple of hours looking for it I still couldn't find it so I ordered another one off of Amazon for $29.  I'm sure some others here fly these as well?  I'm really impressed by what this machine does for the money.

A local east Tennessee bank, ORNL, who by the way, has less than gun friendly policies tried this with their employees recently.  It makes me sick, I know I have some twang, I'm proud of it.

Heck of a deal for an entry level 1911.  If that that is your budget it may be a good gun for you.  I'm a sucker for a bargain but I was lucky enough to get a good high end 1911 at a time in my life when I had some excess income and honestly have no desire to enter into the budget 1911 market.  Again not putting this gun down, just saying if you can afford a nice one buy it and don't look back. 

After looking over the website I'm still skeptical.  But if it works it may be worth looking into.  Even still it would take forever to produce a significant amount of ammo with this thing.      http://22lrreloader.com/