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Sig 238 for an auto.... Any smith "j frame" for the revolver... The alloy frame smiths are easiest to carry; but a steel frame ain't bad either...   leroy

Great find!!... Remember the genuine Colt 1911 is the only worthy successor to that greatest of military sidearms, the Colt Single Action Army... It aint an accident that the 45 ACP (...Colt Automatic Pistol...) cartridge is a shortened, rimless version of the 45 Colt....   Enjoy!!! leroy

RE: OS post above ^^^... My bet is that tercel is left handed and is workin on a right hand draw for the car... I got the same problem... Us lefties dont like the idea of the holster bein on the "wrong" side in a car... I carry right handed all the time because of it...   leroy

Buck....   leroy

If the republicans put up a smuck like Cristie; they will be finished as anything but a marginal special interest group... They will elect hillary by default and we'll get rid of the republican party and finish the pickpocketing of america by the political class... I cant stand any of these sons and daughters of satan... The hell with 'em all....   leroy

I dont like gas stations either; and i damn sure don't like folks walkin up on me... I always try to fuel up at a grocery store type fueling place; but i know ya can always do that... I'm never not watchin...   leroy

I love the German Shorthairs too; and this one is, indeed, a beautiful pup... Havin said all that, ill join the chorus of those who say "to wait"... Dogs need space to run and play, and the Shorthair is pretty energetic....   leroy

A genuine work of art... Exquisite, and a helluva caliber...   Enjoy... leroy

"...I'd have to start with a Tower Pistol and work up, i think..."... I'm like Caster; there's a lot of waitin and holdin steady for a flintlock to do its work...   Good luck.... leroy

What 2.ooohhh said!!! ^^^^^^... We shoot train photos all the time with a nikon d80... I always use a 50 mm F1.8 lens...   leroy

Refleks'  insightful post made me think of the specifications for the Walker Colt percussion pistol; the first magnum handgun.... "...good out to 200 yards on man and beast...; and that was for a percussion revolver... It's somethin to think about....   leroy

Get a copy of "Sixguns" by Elmer Keith...   It will be very enlightening in regards to extreme range shots with handguns... The truth is that handguns are far more accurate than the majority of folks holding them... We used to shoot at 75 to 100 yards with revolvers and 1911's...   leroy

Here is another vote for the  S & W "j" frame; but with a bit of a twist... I've got two of them; an all steel (...model 36...) and an airweight hammerless... The triggers on the S & W's can be worked on if ya need to, and parts are readily available...   I would strongly recommend that ya learn to shoot whatever ya decide on double action; that's the best way for defensive shootin...   Something else to consider is that the "plus P" ammo out of a lightweight revolver will be teeth jarring...   If i wuz gonna opt for a "Plus P" type revolver, it would be a all steel S & W, or a Ruger SP101 (...which i like a lot...)...   All that being said, I like the airweights with regular 38 special loads (...158 grain semiwadcutters or full wadcutters...) as they shoot well and are easy to carry... There's lots of bad (...and good...) guys layin in the graveyard after being shot dead with the lowly 38 special... It was the "standard" police carry gun for lots of years... It's highly underrated...   Good luck...   leroy

Paul.... Good start here.... Check the whole thread out; it pretty well tells the story of upper east tennessee...   http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/77478-planning-to-re-locate-to-the-johnson-city-area/?hl=leroy#entry1131658   leroy

I'll join the chorus of the "... they won't notice camp..."...   I'm a firm believer in what several other opiners here have said... Most folks are oblivious to those around them until something happens to draw their attention to a particular person; unless it's in a work enviornment...   I don't think there is a 1 in 100 chance of a person spotting exposed clips for an IWB holster, much less putting two and two together to figure out what they are for unless they already know (...E.G... LE or fellow HCP folks...)...   Here's the reason: ....I used to carry a glock 33 or a 27 in the hip pocket of my dungarees in a kydex hip pocket holster... Every now and then, the top of the glock would peek up a bit just below the top of the pocket where ya could look down and clearly see that it was, in fact, a handgun stowed in the dungaree pocket... The only person that ever saw or even acted like he saw that was my 24 year old... He knew what it was and what to look for....   Dont worry about a couple of clips showin...   leroy

I'll chime in with another vote for the Yeasu 270R handheld... Just bought one... It's an excellent radio...    leroy

Bingo!!!.... Clod said it exactly right...   Good job... leroy

I think that from reading the description this is a standard finishing reamer... It will bore the chamber to finish dimensions with standard freebore per the SAMMI dimensions... To add free bore, i think ya will need a different reamer... Havin said all that; the answer, as Dave posted above, is to call or e-mail the Manson folks...    Good luck... leroy

I'll join the opinions of our fellow posters who mention the "two legged" varmits... They are far and away the most dangerous things down here... There are lots of places in the woods around east tennessee and southern kentucky where ya really dont want to go unarmed... Lots of marijuana growing and meth labs; even in the national forest type places...   Im a geezer and i generally dont stray too far from the jeep paths... We do lots of travelling around from north of knoxville up into eastern kentucky and west toward the Cookeville area on the plateau... All this country should be considered "the frontier" and you need to be armed to wander around there...   I always keep a small caliber (...380 or 38 special...) in my pocket and a "big gun" in reach... The "big guns" are large frame smiths (...357 and up; mostly up...) and sheriff model rugers from 357 to 44 special or 45 colt loaded with my usual recipe of a heavy hard cast semiwadcutter and lots of 2400... As much as i love the smiths and the ruger single actions; I've grown extremely fond of a recently acquired glock 20... I like it a lot... Fifteen shots of 10 mm is about a round thru a wheelgun plus two reloads with no fumbling to reload; that is hard to beat...   I'm like several other posters; if i wuz out all nite or in a camp i would pack my AR or a riot shotgun if i could manage it...   leroy

Chuck... Ya blew up my "grey paint" thing...   Keep up the good work... leroy

The thinkin may be that the "stealth gray" mags will paint well (...they will...)... Gray is a neutral base color... Colors sprayed over it will be "true colors"....  That leaves them with two colors, black and gray.... It simplifies the feed materials thing for their manufacturing process is my uneducated guess...   leroy   PS-- I like the FDE mags too....

Like lots of other posters here....  If my pants are on, there is a gun in the pocket... There are always multiple guns in easy reach in the home and in vehicles... When "...on the frontier..." (...as my 24 year old is fond of sayin...); i have at least two firearms in reach; sometimes more...     Remember, ".... it's better to have it and not need it; than to need it and not have it..."; and "...an armed society is a polite society...".      leroy

Thanks for posting this... I think the state of georgia has hit a home run shot with this one...I saw the knoxville local TV news this mornin; and they were whining about it too...   I think the "take away" from all this is that georgia has a pretty good share of single welfare mothers and the usual chorus of the "anti-violence" black movement (...which i find laughable; they need guns more than anybody to protect themselves from their own children and imagined "night riders"... Reference the florida study on self defense shootings...), along with the other children of the forest that are scared of guns and gun owners who are howling to high heaven... They have lost the battle in the legislature and now they are resorting to making the usual claims of "dodge city" and "blood in the streets" to console each other in their loss on this issue...   The fact is that lots of people everywhere are edgy and they are being proactive in protecting themselves and their loved ones from thugs, perverts, dope heads, and "stone cold killas"... I say that's a good thing....Way to go Georgia citizens, legislature, and governor.... Keep up the good work.... Maybe the Tennessee political class will take a lesson from this....   leroy

Mike... Take a look at an old Guns Digest "Cartridges of the World".... The one i have is probably from the 70's....I think it will list some data and bullet weights for the broomhandle.... By the way; i think they are great!!  A real piece of history...   PS--- Googled this:http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?48262-30-Mauser-Load-Data   probably a good place to start... Looks like your buddy needs to slug the barrel to see what size the bullets should be....   Hope this helps... leroy

Sad ta hear it... I still get teary eyed when i think of our old retriever... He's been gone 3 years now...    leroy