Marswolf

Please do that and let us know what you find out. First I've heard of this.

I took a look at the Sevierville Indoor Range website. Looks like they are doing a lot of things in the right way. Prices seem reasonable. And I think including a month of range time with the HCP class is a very smart business move.

I've done some business with them in the past. They have funky hours and a no-carry sign on the door. If you want something in particular, be sure to call them first. Seems like they are always out of about half the stuff I want.

David, in my experience. the slide should be re-coated. That means blasting and re-coating. It cost me $40 on an DX blast and re-coat.

I'm a Civil War nut... I just love to hate Braxton Bragg.

Let me be somewhat blunt. Stripping the slide and not re-coating it is not entirely an act of intelligence.

Comment posted, in topic, there.

Interesting how many of us are into trains. I'm mostly into "O" scale,but have no room (or time) to put in a layout. I do have an old wind-up Marx train for sale, if I can figure a price.

Having been on the receiving end of that argument, I'd say that it's true. We had two of us wounded. It wasn't a matter that if we had been killed, our buddies would have kept after them. We were significantly outnumbered. But the pain and bleeding definitely slowed us down in getting to an extraction point.

It depends on body chemistry too. I know a couple of people whose stainless slides begin to corrode after a day of wear.

I love that!!!!

There are bluing removers available. I don't know if Wal-Mart has them. But bluing is not there to make the firearm look pretty. It is there for protection against rusting. If you strip it off, it needs to be replaced by something to prevent rust and corrosion.

The Geneva Convention has nothing to do with the choice of not using HPs. That came out of the Hague Accords. The no HP deal is from the 1899 accords, which we did not sign. But we did sign the 1907 accords that say that we wont use rounds intended to create unnecessary suffering. But in 1985 the JAG ruled that expanding point ammo is permissible in counterterrorist operations. The reason we don't use HPs on a normal basis is that FMJs are a better round for military use.

Hollow points are designed to expand causing a larger wound channel and, very importantly, stop before exiting and causing harm to individuals behind the bad guy. That's important in the civilian world. FMJs penetrate better and you really don't care if you take out the BG and his buddy behind him with one shot.

Phantom6, is drinking an option at these shoots? It surely looks like it.

I very seldom delete posts,unless I need to delete users. I think I'll go buy a Glock and a friendly pit bull, just so I can argue with myself. [edit] Have any of you heard the story of Braxton Bragg (after whom Fort Bragg is named) and his requisition. Somehow this reminds me of some of us here on this board. From http://www.bookrags.com/Braxton_Bragg There is a famous story about him as a lieutenant commanding a frontier post where he also served as quartermaster. He submitted a requisition for supplies, then as quartermaster declined to fill it. As company commander, he resubmitted the requisition, giving additional reasons for his requirements, but as the quartermaster he denied the request again. Realizing that he was at a personal impasse, he referred the matter to the post commandant, who exclaimed "My God, Mr. Bragg, you have quarreled with every officer in the army, and now you are quarreling with yourself!"

I'm mostly just ragging you Mike. My old camper has had flat tires for several years and I gave away most of the backpacking stuff. I get enough "camping" in my job.

I'm not really big on shoulder rigs, but have used them and even drawn for real from one years ago. If I used one much, I'd probably put big bucks in a good one, but I use it so seldom that I use an Uncle Mike's Sidekick Vertical Shoulder Holster. Works just fine. I DO NOT like the Pro-Pak design. I much prefer the vertical design to the horizontal. If things start looking strange, I flip off the retention strap and let gravity handle keeping the pistol in the holster.

GOA's position is that the sky is falling on every gun issue. That's their money raising technique. If you read Executive Director Larry Pratt's history you can understand that. I want no association of my name with that guy.

I don't understand why people go "camping" to do the same things they do at home. I go camping to get away from that sort of stuff. And the older I get, the more I enjoy being angry and threatening.

Back before we had these plastic Airsoft goodies to play with, I bought a S&W CO2 practice pistol. It had a half-power setting and I had some neighbor's dogs that were getting into my garbage can. I didn't really want to harm them, just persuade them to not mess with my garbage. It worked. For some reason as soon as I bought the gun they stopped coming over. Never fired a shot at them.

Boy, this thread has gone through some changes. And isn't it fun taking advantage of the deranged?

You owe me a keyboard!

Kinda a teddy bear that will bite when he growls. They were bred as guard dogs. Lucky died January 18 of this year. I have lots of Lucky stories. Another fantastic doggie. But not for everyone. He was a rescue. He was "biting the baby". Why have I always thought the baby and his parents probably deserved to be bitten?

If you fire up a generator anywhere near where I am camping, you should have spent the money on a burial policy. Anything louder than a Coleman lantern will set me off in a campground. No radios, no generators, I'm there to be out with nature. I wonder if those folks at the Cape Hatteras campground were ever able to get their generator working again?