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+1 on what has been said about doing tit yourself.  It makes harvesting your deer a much more intimate, fulfilling,  and satisfying experience.

A friend of mine who is a quiet member here lives up there and killed one a few years ago.  Weighed around 700 pounds, had to get it out of the woods with a backhoe.  Said it tasted pretty good.

Sold my car tonight and celebrating with a couple of glasses of CR.  I  usually drink whiskey in cooler weather and beer in warmer weather.  That is until I do something really stupid drinking whiskey, don't drink for a few weeks, and then start back on beer.

I like your dad's style Tanker.  I like to think I'm like him, although I will use a scope depending on the situation.  I think it's fun to hunt with my father in law, who owns every hunting item and garment that Gander Mountain carries.  I like to show up with my old .270, brown Carhardt's, binos and seat cushion and out hunt him.  

Shop at Costco and you might as well just be giving your money to anti gun campaigns.  No wonder we can't make any headway for gun rights, we have gun "enthusiasts" that are spending their money at places like Costco.  Sorry, but when it comes down to my beliefs there are no if, ands, or buts.

  Like I said, you can let them sit in a freezer for years and they will not freeze. 

Unless you are using something like liquid nitrogen paintballs will not freeze.  They just get brittle and explode before they exit the barrel.

M82 Jack Daniel's commemorative edition.

I have read that since Costco is a private club so therefore they can prohibit firearms on their premises without a posting because supposedly it is in your membership agreement.  

Costco doesn't like my gun being in their store so this one is a no brainer for me.

1989 is a great place to sell baseball cards.  Sorry dude, I'm in the same boat.

Over the years I've been on a number of forums.  Mostly motorcycle related.  I've made donations towards a couple of them which were small forums where pretty much everyone knew everyone outside of the forum.  I'm also an admin on another small forum.  TGO is the first of these forums which I have ever paid a membership and in my opinion it has been worth the money, though I don't ever sell guns I've used the classified section for other things.  I don't mind paying the money because TGO is a well run forum.  The kinds of people that make forum life difficult are usually removed from TGO in short order, and the mods just do a great job of making it a cool place.    As for how much money you can make owning a forum, if you go into it with profit in mind you probably will not make anything.  Forum administration is a calling.  You are going to put up with more crap than you could ever imagine so it has to be a labor of love. 

My grandfather was blind for the last 6 years of his life due to injuries sustained in a car crash.  He talked about getting a permit but never did.  Dave S hit the nail on the head when he mentioned that many SD shootings take place at arms length.  Not to beat a dead horse but just imagine George Zimmerman, forget the circumstances leading up to the shooting, just imagine being blind and being held on the ground, no reason you could not effectively use a gun to neutralize the threat.  Blind people are already easy targets for criminals, we strip them of their right to use a gun and they become an even easier target.  While wrestling in high school and college I encountered several blind wrestlers, it was amazing what they could do and how their other senses heightened after not having another.  To say that blind people should not be allowed to defend themselves with a gun is taking a step backwards for all of us.

Yep, when you start mowing the road between the house and the beer store you are asking for trouble.

I have a Snapper zero turn, it has a joy stick that only requires one hand to operate, now that's a mower designed by a beer drinker.

Pre-marriage I would have spent time riding motorcycles or fishing.  Post-marriage I just cut the grass.  The lawn mower is loud and slow so I just pretend that I'm riding a Harley.  Just gotta get some chrome for it.  Plus it's kosher to drink beer while I mow. 

    Crossing the Cumberland in winter could quickly become deadly.  Depending on where you are you are talking a minimum of what maybe 300 yards across, 50ish degree water probably?  Add into that current.  In the summer I wouldn't hesitate to swim it but in the winter that seems like a recipe for disaster.   What do you think Spots?  Would that still be a go for you?  I think in an emergency situation I would be looking for a boat to "borrow."  Yep I think that cold water could compromise my morals pretty quickly.   I just don't get the people who OBJECT to preparing, especially when they say things like "Oh, that will never happen."  Chances are that  my house will never catch on fire but I like to keep a couple of fire extinguishers on hand, doesn't hurt anything.  Of course these people probably don't do that either.

$100 to play with?  A caulk gun and a bunch of caulk.  Seal up all f your windows good.  That's a project I have to do myself this fall.

My wife carries a Walther PK380.  It shoots well but for the size of the thing I wouldn't carry it.  She likes it though and I'd rather her carry that then nothing.  Sometimes she'll carry a Glock.  She doesn't care for 1911s because of the manual safety.  (Yes, I'm aware that the PK380 has one as well, go figure.)

I carried a borrowed BG for a few days but I didn't get to shoot it.  My normal carry gun is a G23 or 27, the BG was much more concealable than either, I'm a small framed guy as well.  Usually concealment is a non issue for me (as in I don't care if it's concealed or not.)  I thought the BG would do very well in a "need to conceal well" situation.  The trigger may not be great but it's a "get off me gun" not a competition 1911.  Would really like to see S&W come out with a non laser model.  I found the laser a little difficult to operate quickly.  In a defensive situation I would probably not use it, I would be more concerned with eliminating the threat than pushing the button just the right way to get the laser turned on.

Another option is to get a bond.  It may or may not work for you in your financial situation.  It worked well for me when I was single, had 6 or 7 vehicles (all older stuff not worth much), and not much else, and rented my house.  A bond follows the driver, not the vehicle, so you are covered on anything that you operate.  I still have a bond but it only covers me for $10,000, I now carry additional insurance on all but a couple vehicles which do not get operated on the street very often.  A bond runs me about $400 per year.  Now that I'm married, and own a home, wife has a nice car, etc.  I'm not as comfortable with just having a bond.  When this one expires I'm going to see about upping it to around $100K or so, I think that I would be comfortable with that level of coverage.   Just weigh the advantages and disadvantages.  When I first got a bond if I were sued for hitting something there wasn't much they could get.  Now I could easily be homeless.  Evaluate your own situation accordingly.

I'm really wanting a bike.  I just find it ironic that as a kid I always wanted a motorcycle but never could afford one, but I always had a bicycle.  Now I have a garage full of motorcycles and can't afford a bicycle.  Seriously, it looks like a decent bike is going to cost more than I have in most of my motorcycles, but I do tend to find motorcycles on the cheap.

Surprised no one has mentioned pretty much the entire area of Madison.  I worked out there 2008-2009.  Had grown up in the area and it wasn't too bad.  Dad worked in Madison for 30 years and watched it go down hill.  By the time I got out of there in '09 it was crap.  Of course there are decent neighborhoods stuck in here and there, I feel bad for the people that have worked their whole life to have a nice house there.  Not to mention the other neighborhoods I passed through to get to work like Lakewood and Rayon City.  I hated that the cops enforced that 50 MPH speed limit on OHB so much I always felt 50 MPH made me an easy target.

  I'm only an aspiring bicycle owner. But, as a motorcyclist I just wanted to say don't give it up when winter rolls around.  I get some of my best motorcycle riding in during the winter.  Specifically that's when the dirt bikes come out as they require more physical work to ride.  50 degrees is about my perfect dirtbiking temperature, which depending on weather is pretty common throughout the winter around here.

  I think this may be a good idea.  My daughter is 4 and there are 2 things I'm waiting for her to mature enough to do, shoot with me and ride on my motorcycle.  My motorcycle friends tell me that 6 or 7 tends to be a good age as they need to be able to reach the pegs and listen and follow instructions immediately.  I think that the part about following instructions is parallel here.  I really like the idea of when the child can recite the 4 rules and tell me what they mean they are ready for the range. My question is is there anything wrong with letting a child shoot in a 100% controlled environment as in she's sitting in my lap and I have full control over what she's doing before she is mature enough to handle a task such as that?