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Jeff:  Take a look at one of these from here: http://flashlightconnection.com/Dereelight-Flashlights/Dereelight-DBS-Cree-XM-L-versions/Dereelight-DBS-T-Cree-XM-L-Flashlight-Warm-White-p422.html   The Dereelight stuff is good stuff... I've had one with an extender on it (...it adds battery time and makes the light more easily carried...) for several years... I can stand on my back deck and illuminate utility poles on the lower street (...probably 250 ft away...) like it's daylight... They are a great light and they are well built... As to the flashlight Connection guy; i've bought stuff from this guy for several years; he is a good guy... I would avise buying some rechargable li-ion batteries and an inexpensive charger... They work like a charm...   PS-- If ya get interested in this flashlight thing; go to Candlepower Forums... You'll learn more than ya ever wanted to know about this flashlite stuff....   hope this helps a bit... leroy

Now that's Theology i can believe in!!!    Keep up the good work brother....   leroy

There aint much to say... Loosin a dog is, in fact, loosin a dear family member... Thank You God for dogs...   With great sadness, deepest empathy and prayers,   leroy

When in doubt on sharpening steel; always use diamond... It always works... I've gotten to where i sharpen everything with DMT bench stones...  They are well worth the money...  The other stuff works well too; but ive grown pretty fond of the old time way with the bench stones... For a recurve, there is a great DMT tool that looks like a big half cone... I've also discovered diamond paste on hardwood (...or smooth leather...) will finish off an edge quickly...   leroy

If i remember right; the Ted Williams brand wuz a sears brand from the 50's...  I cant remember what mfr built the shotgun...  They are a neat peice of history... Well worth (...ithink, at least...) what ya gave for it...   congratulations... leroy

Glad to have ya!!! .... Welcome.... As others have wisely opined; Congratulations on your escape from the "sourlands"... Nashville is a neat place....   leroy

Like HK said; these things tend to multiply if ya like knives...  I'm a great ESEE fan myself; along with the knife-connection scales, they are great... They dont cost an arm and a leg, they take a great edge, and they are made in a variety of sizes that are, in fact, useful...  We've got several of them tucked away in the jeep, in camera bags, and shootin bags...  They are a great thing...   Enjoy... leroy

I like it!! No home should be without one... I'm sure you will teach here how to shoot it well....   Keep up the good work... leroy

I'm glad you are there, and evidently thinkin about what all that symbolizes....   Everybody should take a trip to these locations and do a bit of thinkin..... Its a great and very sobering thing to go and just stand and think at these places...   I'll never forget going to the Manassas Battleground and seeing the statue of Stonewall Jackson; erected (...i think...) on the location where he earned this nickname "Stonewall"....  History is very important; and a goodly portion of this country has forgotten (...or never knew just how and just what happened...)...   The truth is that we are still reaping the harvest of and feeling the effects of the politics of the civil war at this very time in history; over 150 years later... What we are seeing on the political and policy scene today is round two of Civil War Reconstruction.... The parties have changed; but not the goals...  The goals are to punish those who would believe that the Constitution says what it means and that free men are, in fact, free to decide their political course at the local level without feeling the effects of special interest or the heavy hand of outsiders and proffiteers...   What we have now is federalism on steroids where the "best and brightest" tell us delightful rustics what to do and how to do it... The fact is that Obama is, indeed, like Lincoln; he just aint called out the troops (...yet...)... He has just called out his lackeys from the NPS and the DC police....   leroy

Thanks Mike....   It's a negative gift learned from my sainted mother, now gone home....  She wuz never at a loss for words...She wuz a great woman ...   leroy

I like this "new racism" displayed here:   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2456015/New-report-shows-racist-LAPD-dogs-bite-blacks-Latinos.html   I wonder what these guys think Sharpton and Jackson (...the both of 'em...) taste like??   HEHEHE   leroy

Folks:  I believe there is a day commin, and commin soon, when the EBT cards will be turned off and the individual states will handle this sort of thing thru block grants at the state level... Wait until that hits...  There will be some real growlin, but it wont make any difference... I say:"...let it happen and happen soon...".   leroy

Thanks for posting this... Hickenlooper symbolizes all that is wrong with the limp wristed hippie wannabee trash that wuz incubated in kalefornia and imported to colorado and other places out west.... The overbearing, condescending attitude and breathtaking stupidity is great to watch if ya are in the mood... It provides great entertainment... I cant imagine why the citizens of colorado are puttin up with this puke...   leroy the "un-hickenlooper"

OS:  RE: cocking the 238...  I'm one of them "unsafe" old time guys who wuz used to cocking a 1911 from the "hammer down" or on half-cock on draw ALA the old single action army days... This style of gettin ready to shoot with your ole 1911 is now out of favor due to our "newer, safer, better, more erudite mindset"; and is looked down upon by the 1911 police... I have been chastised and thrashed as a heretic, a nincompoop, and a generally undesirable son of perdition because of doin this sort of thing by the "1911 cooper method enforcers" and disciples and apparatchiks of the great Clint Smith right here on this forum; but im all better now... I'm kinda like the late Robert Byrd who wuz once in the KKK; but was rehabilitated for doin and sayin the right things....   With that background in mind; i originally wuz worried (...like you...) about carryin my little pocket pistol "cocked and locked"; so i tried to cock the 238 on draw; but my thumb is too big and the rowel hammer on the 238 is too small... I never could master the "cock on draw" thing with the 238; so i had to go to the "cocked and locked" thing... To make matters worse; im also a lefty and my little pistola has a right handed safety... That has caused me to learn to shoot "wrong handed"... I guess ever little dark cloud has some sort of a silver lining..   That's why your PM9 is such a great solution to the pocket carry thing... No "wrong hand"; no need to knock the safety off or to "cock on draw"... Just reach and get it, and (...God forbid...) go to work if need be...   leroy

OS:  RE: I carry mine "cocked and locked"... Sig did a good job with the safety on this little pistol.. Mine is firm with a good detent when the safety is applied and let off... Ya need to work a bit with your thumb to knock the safety off... My pocket holster covers the safety; so it has to be drawn to be knocked off...Ive been carryin it for the last two years plus; and the safety has never been disengaged unless i disengaged it...   RE:  The PM 9; i dont think ya could do better...  I been lookin for one myself (...at the "right price"; of course....) so i could gift either my 238 or the PM to my 24 year old for pocket carry...   leroy

I'm a SIG 238 fan myself... I have one of the more humble ones (...nitrolon, walnut grips...) that stays in a D M Bullard pocket holster from putting my pants on to takin them off... They are the best of the "pocket pistols"...  It is more compact (...width wise...) than my beloved j frame smith 36 and some of its j frame brethren layin around the house...  It shoots my hot handloads like a dream and is deadly accurate... It's everything a pocket pistol should be... I highly recommend them to anyone who feels the need to carry a pocket pistol...   leroy

The feds cannot unilaterally establish martial law... the governor of the state has to request federal troops in the rare event that the state government becomes unable to do it's job... I doubt that martial law will ever be declared anywhere but in a blue state with the current regime in power....   leroy

HEHEHE.... Looks to me like some of the delightful rustics aint bowing down... I say: "...good for you, remember there is an election commin up in 2014; vote early and often...."..   leroy

I fully agree that everyone who loves liberty and believes that the Constitution says what it says sould be both watchful and engaged in this whole thing...  It is very important to be involved... In no way did i mean to make light of the situation.. My point is simply that as government is constituted based upon the Constitution alone; this UN treaty thing means nothin...   As to being proactive and fighting the "progressivists"; i certainly think we should and are...That's why the democrats and republicans are both howling about the Tea Party and the Club for Growth and calling them names... The people are pushin back and the political class is being affected by it; just as it should be... More and more people are gettin madder and madder about what government is doin to them and they are pushing back... That's the reason for the Tea Party and the Club for Growth...   Look at what the Tea Party has already done within the Republican party; not to mention the Club for Growth; the guys that are "targeting" RINO's and others via the primary process... Listening to the republican establishment in some quarters; ya would think that the Club for Growth guys are satan... The reason; they are shaking up the political establishment and tearing down some long standing deals between the two parties; and that is a good thing...   While the pundits on both sides said the Tea Party wuz extreme and wuz dead; the Tea Party, the Club for Growth, and folks like Rand Paul and Ted Cruze have changed the political landscape and the republican party for the better...  The solution is, in fact, politics and winning; but the right kind of folks need to win...The other solution is the Civil War solution.. Politics is always better...   Look around... The Red States are politely saying no to federalism for the most part... Look at what happened in Wisconsin the other day with their governor declining to close a supposedly "national park" when directed to by the fed...  This is interestin stuff...  I contend that that trend will continue because if ya get people that are fed up with this stuff in a socialist paradise like wisconsin; just think what ya have in the "former confederate states"... Look at what wuz said right here in Tennessee by Bill "Snozz" Haslam  RE:  the proposed gun ban stuff that failed in congress... He said:   (...my rough paraphrase translation....): " ... we are looking into the constitutionality of these proposals with an eye toward protecting the second amendment rights of tennesseeans..."     For the first time since the civil war; federalist power is being challenged and curbed by the states... That's a good thing... What's goin on now is just a "divided government" thing... Its the executive branch and the senate against the house in a stalemate...   Remember, it's always a good thing when the gubmt is fightin among itself...  They cant do too much that's stupid(er) than usual...they cant agree on anything...  On a personal basis; i think it would be good if the dammed government wuz shut down... period... for a while... It would straighten lots of things out...   Hope this helps explain a bit more...   leroy

I like it!!!  My take on Kerry's purple heart is that he wuz head wounded in a beer joint somewhere in viet nam.... That would explain his idiotic and treasonous behavior....   leroy

Take a look at Marathon Seatcovers... We've got a set on our jeep wrangler... They are waterproof nylon canvas (...totally waterproof....)... they fit well and work like a charm... Ours are (...naturally...) camo...   Here is the website: http://www.marathonseatcovers.com/   leroy

  I think this is a fair question...  As long as the Obama regime makes no move to implement any of this stuff that infringes on the Constitution; i think nothin will happen; because it doesnt need to...  There will be another election and this whole little thunderstorm will go away like it never happened...  If they do, in fact, decide to implement some unconstitutional provisions of the treaty unilaterally; my guess (...and it is a guess....) is that the opposition party (...whoever that might be with standing, NRA, Republicans, Tea Party, you, me....) would file suit in federal court... The suit would move thru the judicial system and be adjudicated (...again...)... The problem with all this hand wringing is that this has already been settled....   Just because a bunch of political operatives sign something that is patently unconstitutional doesnt make it binding on all of us; nor does it make it a law... Again, its theater for the "children"... Dont get dragged into the maelstrom about this...    A far more important battle is goin on now over this gubmt shutdown and the debt limit... Its an argument about who has the power of the purse when the constitution clearly says that the legislative branch holds it... There is no place in government where this heinous bunch of would be dictators isnt probing to find out what they can get by with; legally or otherwise... On balance, they have lost big every time they go up against the Constitution...Thanks several times to the Supremes and the lower Federal Courts, who some of us (...me included...) regularly blaspheme here...   I think it's extremely interesting that while the executive branch is runnin wild and the legislative branch tends to be weak and fractured; the judicial branch is doin it's job of (....for the most part...) protecting us from this idiocy and encroachment on liberty.... I think they full well know that they better do their job and do it well; because they can come under attack as well as we citizens can...They seem to realize how high the stakes are in this current thunderstorm and are acting accordingly...  Mainly, doin their job exactly as the Constitution calls for them to do...  Remember, the Obama regieme has taken a horrible beating at the hands of the supremes and the federal appeals courts on lots of things; and i predict there is more commin...   More than that; just who is gonna take up the guns and where do ya think they will start?....  Stuff like that started the Revolutionary War... No one is gonna take up your guns in a red state... Some of the "children" in the blue states may voluntarily give theirs up; but i dont believe for a second that will happen down here; and in the long run, it wont happen in the blue states... the reason;...its unconstitutional.... Remember Charles Krauthammer's recent opining on this very subject...  Obama and Reid like to talk about us being a "nation of laws"; and we are.... That's exactly why they cant do the UN arms treaty thing; plus lots of other things they dream of...   I say in the kindest possible way; dont worry about a lame duck president/pseudo emperor and his idiotic apparatchik signing a piece of paper that is clearly unconstitutional on its face... Worry about what our weak-kneed republicans might do with any budget deals; its far more important...   leroy

Folks... ETP's post above (...#33...) is exactly right...  Treaties cant trump the Constitution (...as others have wisely opined...)....    As to the UN "enforcing" anything... Dont worry....  .    As to politicians here in the good ole USA doin anything about "banning guns"; the supremes have ruled on that one too... The Second Amendment is an "indivudual right"; despite whatever Rugh Bader Ginsburg and others say... They lost...     The signing of the un arms treaty wuz red meat for the anti-gunners and a red flag to infuriate the "real people" in this country... It was agreed to in symbolic terms only (....treaties require ratification and cant trump the Constitution....) by two of the most heinous anti american sons of satan who have lived since the civil war --- maybe ever in our history as a nation...     They are both overbearing, pompous, narcissistic, nincompoops who have no notion of anything other than that they should be emperors and that us delightful rustics should bow down and do what they say--- after all, they are the best and brightest; and we (...and the Founding Fathers, evidently...) are just ignorant old men......    Their main problem is that we wont bow down, the Bill of Rights restrains them, and there will be another election soon; and they will be out... That is the true genius of our system of government... The hell with them both... Keep your powder dry...   leroy

I'm a great Dillon fan myself.... They build a great product and absolutely tops on their service of their equipment...   leroy

Very interesting.... The good news is that they are dead...    leroy