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The kimber would have done exactly the same thing....Knowing certain people with their penchant for bad luck and all. Looks like they turned it around pretty quick...would be surprized if it gave you any more problems.

Free market capitalism...How does it work?!? Baloney - He will take his business elsewhere and buy it from someone who has a better price. I am one of the folks who will buy locally if the price is right. If it isn't I will find a better way to buy and not feel sorry at all for the local business. If done right a local business has their hands of the pulse of a market and can provide both service and price. The gun shops in chattanooga S-U-C-K-E-D for decades because of the reasons given by the OP. I wouldn't have lifted a finger to save any of their jobs. It would bad enough to where I wanted these people to be jobless. Everyone in the area thought the same and a place called Ammo Dump and GT distributors embraced the local market and addressed the issue. Making bucketloads of money in the process despite having much lower margins.

I've told someone it was to shoot rats in my attic

CDNNinvestments had some not long ago....Complete slides at a decent price. Might want to give them a call.

Yes they do....and they are fantastic Make my S&W (that cost quite a bit more I must add) look like a dog

That book is THE book for single action Rugers. There is not, nor will there ever be, a better manual for these guns. If you can do a 10/22 trigger you will be fine on the BH. An alignment block can be had for $40 (if you have the tools - far less) + a little time and you get the trigger pull you want.

I know that it is because I am a perfectly happy married man, but I really did wonder if the hoppes would remove her nail varnish or would cause damage to those rather unworked hands. But then the other side of my brain thought....a lady who dressed like that and smelled of Hoppe's 9 is a pretty good thought.

What range do you shoot at? ...I have had one since they first shipped a couple of months now and would let you shoot it all you want if we cross paths. PM me if it is CRC and we will shoot. And yes....they shoot as nice as they look.

Jim - Yup....that is what it boils down to. Lot of people may like them, but if they didn't rub you right then you have every reason to go somewhere else. You aren't the only one to say what you did about that shop - there is even a commonly known nickname for the shop itself. BTW - they may have done some extra work than putting a 3.5# connector and NY1 in that Glock....would be interested to know what they did for that $129

You got that right. I love this one... Sure hit the nail on the head there. Wonder what they charged to to a trigger job on a glock. I could do a factory approved one for $5 using glock parts wearing a blindfold.

Maybe so, but they are still terribly unstylish. Kinda like the lumberjack on the paper town rolls, but older and fatter.

might want to make sure, depending on what they are, to have someone there who is knowledgable before they ship off. There are more than a couple of WWII and KW "bring overs" that may run afowl of class III laws if you are not careful. Believe it or not this happens quite a bit as some of the greatest generation has passed on. If they can give you some pictures first it might help you ID them. If you are lucky it will be a bunch of GI 1911s. FWIW - even if you get slapped with $25 each the gun will be worth more if you don't want them.

I like mastercast bullets. mastercast.net For the price of 1000 anywhere you can almost buy everything you need to cast....Minus some odds and ends. 50 pounds of scrap lead that you get from WW or picking up at the range will cast a LOT of 38 bullets. Alox lube and lee 5-cavity and you don't even have to resize them.

Some others => look also for 5.11 pants + ninja boots (they allow one to climb up knotted rope - you know just in case) as a dead giveaway. =>Fanny pack! =>Any 30+ man wearing a vest is packing - or terribly unstylish. =>Also the ones who seem unnaturally suspicious of everything. The idiot eyeballing the lady scooping ice cream at the candy store as a potential interrogation subject...he is packing while wishing he was back in his gated compound rather than being dragged along with the wife and crotch fruit.

But then again that is found in every city...The worst is no worse than Memphis, Nashville, or Knoxville.

You folks feel green in East Lake you haven't spent enough time there. Having both friends and family who live off 35th and Clio right down the street I could write a whole section about the stupid things they have to put up with. The story this week is about his neighbor sitting in the back seat of a car - Getting carjacked, taking a knife from the perp, then taking a tire iron from the perp, then konking the perp over the head. All while cruizing down the blvd. The previous week was catching a guy in his dodge truck trying to steal crap from the center console....He was pulling him by his feet out of the car like playing tug of war with the dude still hanging on to the truck when the police arrived. The stories never end.

bowling pin shoots are A-W-E-S-O-M-E What a blast to the past. I'll bet it has been 20+ years since I have heard or seen a pin match.

Good grief Jonnin. Worst tour guide...ever.

Also since OP is in Chattanooga....Visit Montlake shooting clays. They are less money, closer, and just as nice as Benton.

Amen....it is the shooter more than it is the gun. Commandos can blast away all day long at paper and get away with being smug at the range. Can't pull that on the clays pads. It is pretty obvious to everyone pretty quick if one is all talk.

If you are an outdoorsy type then it is paradise -visit parks, camp, hang-glide, climb or raft the Ocoee or Hiwassee If you are going as a tourist...Go downtown and stay downtown. There isn't anything in the areas that isn't found at any big city. If you want a unique hotel you can stay at a room in the Delta Queen riverboat. All the other hotels are nice too, but pricey. If you have kids an indoor pool will beat the heat. Everything touristy is downtown within a couple of miles with few exceptions. You need to go to the aquarium and make across the pedestrian bridge to cooledge park. Lookout Mtn has a couple of tourist traps, but point park and Rock city are pretty cool. If you all have bikes and it is cool enough then I highly suggest bringing them and riding the distance of the Riverpark. 20+ miles round trip and GREAT fun. Also Chickamauga Battlefield is best visited on a bike. Places to eat depend on your tastes. Sticky Fingers is the best rib eating outside of Memphis. Cheeburger-Cheeburger is ok but pricey. The chain places are there also and make the family happy. Taco Mac is good too. Clumpy's ice cream on frazier ave is worth a walk over the bridge. Obviously....don't wonder around at night away from the popular places. Same as any big city. Gun shops- If you have a gps map then go to GT distributors - You will never find prices as low as you find there. For example they had two Glock model 34 pistols there for $360 used ...just don't get lost because that area is rough as a cobb.

Think less about the type of steel and more along the lines of what you are doing with it.... For me it must be -stainless steel -drop point -hollow ground -full tang -sub 4" blade -full size handle I use it to cut rope, general fishing, occasional skinning, general workshop stuff. Like mentioned before....find something that fits your requirements - Then find a reputable knife with a good report. It almost makes the task of picking the steel irrelevant as long it is of modern metallurgical knowledge.

Same here. Hand wash, hit with the steel before use, and don't let my wife touch them. I use them 2 (sometimes 3 times) a day and they are honestly just as sharp as I got them 10 years ago. I am still in disbelief that the edge has lasted that long. The paring knife has a bad angle on it, and I corrected. Other than that they are outstanding knives.

They tumble it twice!? Yikes. Wiping the brass off with a rag upon completion works just as well and does not require re-tumbling. Takes no time as you are doing a visual inspection at the same time.

In my thousands upon thousands upon thousands of reloads over several decades I have never tumbled a cartridge without the primer still in the case. The deprime/sizing die always clears the debris and has never been a problem with blocked pocket. No offense intended, but from a functional perspective tumbling serves the purpose of ridding material that will otherwise shorten the life of the dies....even then I have a .38 die set with over 100,000 cycles of dirty cases and it is still in spec. The weight and reduced capacity that occurs between dirty and clean brass is so minuscule that it is barely even measureable even for the most anal of benchrest shooters. In other words - perfectly clean brass only gets you piece of mind. Nothing else. The target shooters may argue otherwise, but they argue about practically anything and have fortunately found a hobby infinitesimally toiling over insignificance - it keeps them in a basement far away from others.