Ronald_55

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So have you ever just been SO excited about a potential new hobby that you tell all your family? Being good people they want to help you pursue your new passion. They really don't know where to buy the stuff, but they try. Isn't that important part? Then you realize that the equipment for your other 42 hobbies pretty much prevents you from adding anything else. Or the wife says that anyway. About the time you realize (are told) this, work does it's best to suck out your soul by trippling the workload and reducing manpower. So another nail in the coffin of a new hobby. Then the final nail pounds in when you realize just how crazy it is having 2 kids in college. I mean, I know I am not the only one here that fits this situation. Well short story long. this leaves me holding some Dick's Sporting Goods gift cards that I am not going to let myself use. Yeah, I decided that all on my own. really..... I figure someone on here looking for golf, Kayak. Yeti. or other sports gear might find them more useful. I mean even if you don't like the store, the cash is already spent. Not like you are giving them anything. Maybe you already have a purchase in mind anyway. Stanley mugs anyone? So here is a chance to save some on that next sporty purchase if you read this far.. I have cards totaling $609.23. I would take $550 shipped for them. Or I can just provide you the card numbers to use online. These also work on the Public Lands website from my understanding. Might be open to some pretty limited partial trades, but like I said, space is part of the issue here. Question? PM me please. That way this thread doesn't get longer than it already is.

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For sale is a PTR 9 MP5 Type 9mm pistol This comes with everything from the factory. A really nice factory SKB rugged case, sling, 2 mags, sight adjustment tool, lock, and user manual. Good condition. $1800 Really looking to sell but might talk partial trades. Possible options are S&W revolvers, S&W Model 59, Sig all metal pistols, and Centerfire Savage 24s. I am in Upper East TN

I missed out on a late 60s blue Malibu that was mint when I was 18 and ended up stuck in a crap brown Pontiac 6000 for 6 years. I think the guy wanted $3500 for the Malibu.

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Wife had full blown surgery on her shoulder a couple years ago. I feel for you. Hope PT goes well.

Why would it be bad? People keep all kinds of things for purely sentimental reasons. At least guns have a use and overall normally increase in value. My Dad has a very heartfelt request I get my Papaw's police sidearm. I remember that chrome Model 19 riding on his hip when I was a kid. Same as my Dad's .444 Marlin Lever gun. It is the association of each to them that makes them more than wood and steel. Once gone you can never get that back.

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Does a cigarette lighter next to the wife's hairspray in the bathroom count?

I had a revolver I bought used that was old enough to have the transferable lifetime warranty. It had issues and they replaced it. Covid caused the replacement t to take 7 months, but not really their fault. So. beater gun turned into. NIB one. But YMMV and if that is sentimental that might not work for you.

Do you have a addiction to Chicken Minis? Have you done shameful things just to get a chicken sandwich? Here is your chance to get your fix cheaper and with no dignity loss. I have a $20 Chick-fil-A gift card for sale. For only $15 you can get it mailed right to you. Or if you are into that new fangled online ordering, I can just give you the number. It will save you the wait in line. If you are in the Tricities, I might take a trade so you don't have to explain the disappearance of cash. I just can't help you explain the Polynesian Sauce on your shirt. Trade options. Ammo - .38 SPL, .357 Mag, .45ACP, .308, 30-30, or maybe even some decent 9mm. Magazines - Ruger P85 or P89, Star Firestar, decent quality 1911 full size, or M&P 9mm or .45. OEM preferred, Promag not. AR mags I am probably good on. Other trades considered since I know you have pawned a bunch already under the control of the cow influencers. Cash or most Fee free electronic payments taken

I expect it is growing pains of a totally new platform set up for them with the swappable magwells.

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Blowing that right got you free long distance. They are a collector's items for some groups.

I enjoyed the sequels. They stretched a few things a bit thin but were pleasant reading. I rarely read books like that for SHTF tips though, just pleasure. It is a nice area. We spent time there for a lot of years but not so much in the last few.

Welcome. I am too far away to help on the Gun Club, but TripleGGG seems to have that on a good start.

I have and the 2 follow ups. Funny story, I read it the first time on vacation sitting on a porch with a view of Black Mountain. I drove through Old Fort and past the Montreat College sign on the way in. I had no idea they were included when I started.

@JW3Percent Don't believe most of what you read on the internet from either side.... Conspiracy ideas abound and can drive you crazy. The internet has only made it worse than it was before. My worry is what is happening that that all these hijinks are meant to keep us focused off of. Best you can do is be as prepared as possible for whatever scenarios you deem likely. I personally think a wide range EMP would be the worst. No way for a person to prevent it and then there are 330 million hungry people fighting for whatever scraps are on the shelves locally. How likely is it that the EMP strike is not noticed and prevented I do not know. Plus it would have to take out most of North America or we would just send aid from the areas not affected. Would be an issue but not long term. Bombings and insurgent activity might affect big cities, but no one is bombing or deploying forces to Crossville or such. Maybe Oak Ridge or Nuclear Fuels in Erwin as a stretch. They are heavily guarded so much less likely to cause huge issues. DC, New York,Chicago, etc would be possibilities due to population density and lower percentage of armed citizens.

I have a Rossi lever in .357 and .44. Been good guns for me.

I hate to say it, but if you are referring to the nation as "our people", you have already lost. People rising to the occasion in times of need makes good news stories. Those acts are a drop in the bucket of the self serving if not all out depraved things that will happen if it all spins out. Generally all the news outlets are really only there to push what sells papers, creates clicks, and makes money. So fear mongering is a big part if it too. Very few in the nation will ever really know the exact truth about anything. We just get given the narrative that X group wants us to know. So while it great to be on alert, resist the urge to jump in a bunker and lock the door just because the news person says the sky is falling. Best to tighten that circle down to trusted family and friends to have a hope of survival. It would be great if we could all be part of a large group that planned to come together when crisis strikes, but few of us have that luxury to trust so many. Best we might work out is M.A.G.s (mutual assistance groups) that we hope hold together. In the end though it is like I was taught growing up, you take care of family (blood or otherwise) and that might be the best you can do. So I would start with that. The methheads in the house a mile away will be more to worry about than a huge group of anti-US insurgents that for some reason decide to descend on TN. The Soviets were the boogie man for forever and that turned into nothing for 99% of US citizens. I never see a Red Dawn scenario happening. The manpower, equipment, and supply chain needed for it would be staggering. For comparison, the largest force Genghis Khan ever assembled was less than 240,000 men. Ten times that might start to invade and control the US as a whole. That is if none of the 330 million citizens fought back. If COVID in 2020 taught us nothing else, it showed the frailty of our supply chains. I think disruption of those is a far more like threat. And it could bring the country to its knees just as hard.