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It would be interesting to know why she passed on the other school, as the Chief stated she decided, "That school had too much security." I would like to know the security that steered the shooter away from attacking that school. Whatever it was it worked in this instance. I believe all our Rutherford County Schools have SROs in them. Edited to add; IMO, good use of taxpayer dollars, SROs in all schools. When are they going to learn entrances need to be hardened to public buildings. For sure where children are inside. Would not cost too much to apply the 3M membranes to the entrance doors and windows. I don't think they can shoot and bust out the glass like this shooter did. the material supposed to keep the glass in tact and not have it shatter. I have double pain storm doors with the 3M plastic between the pains and the company(Larson Security Doors) guarantee no one can break through the glass parts. These doors cost about twice what a normal storm door cost. I paid 400.00, each door, 10 years ago. That 3M material can be applied to inside of glass pains and it strengthens them. I don't think it is bullet proof but would like to see if it would help keep the glass from shattering.

I gave the one I had to a grandson. It had a 6X scope on it. Him and his dad used it deer hunting this past fall along with the Savage 308 w 3X9 Weatherby scope I also gave them. Sighted the Marlin in and said it was on. That price is "outrageous." Edited to add; I have a pistol caliber Henry I paid 850.00 for about 7 years ago. I go with Henry because of price.

The Chief said she left a manifesto. Edited to add; will be releasing camera footage, from entry team, later. They also have church camera system. Don't know if they will release that footage or not.

I purchased a Mdl 19 Gen 5 and have never shot it. Had a good military discount and only paid 450.00 for it. I think they call it the Blue Discount, but I was able to get it because I am a Veteran. I favor the S W M P's over Glocks. I had a 19 Gen 3 and gave it to a granddaughter a few years back. The grip on the 5 fits my hand better but I have never really favored the Glocks. My opinion, a Mdl 17 or 19 if you plan to conceal carry. The 19 goes nicely IWB holster.

Glad your OK. My house is 40 Y O and about 7 years ago I was washing my car and notice I touched the incoming conduit into my splitter box and seen a blue spark shoot to my hand. I called my Son-in-law who works for the local electric department. He came over and said he bet my lugs were loose on my main boxes, 2-200amp boxes. Took the cover off both and for sure they had to be tightened. Evidently we caught this in time because the wires had not heated to the point of damaging either breaker box. Makes me wonder if I need to retighten them now. I haven't noticed any problems. Over time aluminum wire shrinks and that is what my installer put in for the entrance cables from the weather head to the mains in my boxes. Ground was not making good connection and the spark came from that. I had noticed a large drop (dim Lights) when the heat pump kicked on also. You are a lucky man, and your dog is to be praised.

When I was in the 3rd grade my sister came to me on the playground one day. Her knee was bleeding, and the side of her face was scratched. Told me butch Anderson, the school bully, had shoved her down and her face hit the merry-go-round. I found Butch, he was larger than I, and busted his nose as hard as I could. He never bothered us again. If my grandson does that now, he will be removed from public school, and sent to a school for troublemakers, with NO exceptions. They don't tolerate fighting in public schools any longer, even if it is off school property and just off school buses. Edited to add; My grandson is in the 8th grade.

I have had my card number used in California, New York, and England on three different occasions. The California chargers got over 4,000.00 in appliances. Card company refunded every time. I don't use debit card any longer, only credit card. I call and give them my itinerary when we travel now. One time we were on the road and the card was canceled. We always try and take some cash with us now. Every time this happened it really bothered me.

Job looks good. I am a fan of good textured grips. I like my S/W MP's and Glock Gen 5. I have medium hands, and need, and enjoy the extra gripping ability brought on by good stippling. Enjoy your piece.

SIL and G-son, they sent me movies yesterday where they went to indoor range and burned 400 rounds of ammo. Had a Glock 19 gen 3, a new max 9 Ruger SIL just purchased last weekend, and a practically new Remington 1911R1. Said nothing burped and all went well. I gave grandson the new 1911 and Glock last year. They had trouble with the 1911 first time they took it out. Told them to clean and lube it good and take it back. They live in Mt Pleasant S Carolina and mom was out of town. Them boys are really getting into hunting, fishing, guns and the outdoors. Grandson has his own boat, 16' flat bottom fiberglass, with a 50 HP Honda motor. Mom's boss gave it to Parker. Said he did not use it any longer. Dad has a 27' sea worthy Carolina fiberglass w/ a 150 HP Yamaha. Doing it together. You gotta love it. They fish Charleston Harbor for the giant RED Fish. Grandson caught a 38-pounder last season. Makes me wish I was young again. Got 5 more visits with Cardiac Rehab for me. Will have finished 36 visits. Looking forward to getting finished. Really sapping my energy, for sure, since I am on a no carb diet. Lost 8 pounds so far and need to loose 40 pounds. Edited to add; grandson is 14 now. Being bullied in school because his ears are large. Wouldn't want to be a kid now.

I like corn bread muffins. My sweetie makes them then we freeze them. Take 2 or 3 out, and warm them then eat'm. Can't beat them.

You guys are serious corn bread eaters. I like it also, but my sweetie makes it. (Mexican style) I am on a low carb diet so cannot eat C B at present. You guys eat it for me. Got to take off 30#. Diabetic!

Took My new reset 22 LR targets out this afternoon and sweetie and I tried them out. Took my 8 shot 3" SW revolver with 3" brl out and it would not knock down the 3 reset targets on the big target. Did aa good job of knocking the new paint off. The revolver did flip the traffic lights out and back, but they are harder to hit from 23'. Swing out targets are about the size of a silver dollar. She shot all my targets with her 2 revolvers, my Ruger Max 9, and my 22LR Revolver. We shot 275 rounds in all. Really like the Ruger. I shot 75 rounds 38Spl practice through my 7 shot Snubby. Did not fire any Self Defense today, just so expensive. I have a hard time burning a lot of 2.00 per round ammo. My wife has a Ruger 5 shot LCR 38Spl she purse carries and a S W model 65 Lady Smith Revolver for her house gun. She does not like pistols, however, is warming up to them. I let her shoot mine when we go out to practice so he will know how to operate them. I make her pick her own ammo and load her own handguns. I had 3 different calibers out today. Had a good day!

My daughter purchased for me 2 Owl nesting boxes for my 75th birthday. Told my wife I would like to have a box last Monday, just in passing, and behold by Saturday I had 2 at my party. One is for Screech Owls who nest together with both male and female in the box. The other is for Great Horned Owls or barn Owls who just the female stays in the box with the young while the male brings food. The directions said to mount them in trees, on to the trunk, and about 10 to 15 feet from the ground. Need to be facing south for warmth. I put the Screech Owl box at 13 feet and the other at 16 feet. Directions said we need to have them out by February, so we are a little late. Any ways, we will see. I have never tried to attract Owls, but we did have 2 Great Horned Owls last spring, but the crows ran them off. I have also had Screech Owls in the past. We just finished putting them up, so we are ready! Bring them on...

Thanks hipower. Had a great time. Daughter got me 2 Owl houses for my back yard. Told my wife, last Monday, I needed to make one. One is for Screech Owls and the other for great horned owls. Will put them up soon and hope we get owls. Son-in-law said we need a Bat house also. (???)

Put the targets together this afternoon. They are small. Did not have time to try them out. Today is my 75th birthday and my sweetie had things for me to do. We are getting ready to party me down. My computer has been down for the last week. Picture fell and unplugged my monitor. Son in law just plugged it back in.

My Taurus 2" brl mdl 617 7 shot snubby. Very few like them. It is a K frame size Pocket Revolver and is rock solid. I own 3 in 357/38Spl, and one alloy frame lightweight in 38 Spl only. Gave one to a daughter for protection a few years back before she moved to Florida. You can't pick up a magazine without seeing 5 stories about the worshipped 1911 which is not a pocket pistol and only holds one/two? more round than the Revolver. I pocket carry one of my revolvers daily and have for the last 12 years. My revolvers do still have the factory triggers and I practice drawing them with my thumb over the hammer so they will not get caught on pocket material. For a second gun I IWB carry SW M P 9MM 2.0 C pistol at the 4 O clock position strong side, if I feel the need for a backup. My Taurus's get very little respect. The M P's do have "some" respect.

Gary-boom, they were purchased at Hammers in Sevierville. Next to Floyds golf shop and Goodwill. One was 64.95 and the traffic light was 49.95. Of course plus tax. They are small for 22LR Only.

Purchased 2 22 LR self-resetting targets while in Pigeon Forge last week. Both are small and only for 22 LR. The larger one has 3 targets on it, and they are in a straight line about 6" apart. You shoot the 2 3" left targets, and then the one on the right. Knock it down and they all are spring loaded and reset to the upright position. The other target is a traffic light design. Shot out the red, green and yellow lights and they swing to the left and lock. Then you shoot them on the left-hand side of the yellow traffic light then they fly back to the inside of the light position and lock into place. It is als0 small with 3" targets and stands about 32" tall. I need to put them together and try them out. Both should work fine on my small back yard range. I have several hanging steel hanging plates of differing sizes also. Also have 3 stands to attach a B 28 target on. The larger plates can take up to 30 06 rifle. Hope to get some trigger time in on Wednesday.

Sad situation.

Purchased 1000 rounds box of Blazer 124 Gr FMJ 9 MM practice ammo while in Pigeon Forge yesterday. Had to pay 13.50 per box plus tax. Hated to do it, but that is the cheapest I have seen in 3 years. I shot about half that much last year so needed to replace it for future practice. Waited for years for it to go down with very little success. Edited to add; Purchased this at Bud's Guns behind Smokey Mountain Knife Works. S Mtn had Winchester Wildcat 22 Lr 500 round box for 34.99 and Federal 556MM 55Gr-BT 100rounds for 48.88. Got this for Son-in-law.

The price of name brand ammo just seems not to be coming down very much from the online suppliers I have been purchasing from. SG Ammo, Lucky Gunner, and Midway are still about the same as always. I was hoping for some relief on prices by now. Guess we will be saddled with high prices from now on. I shoot mostly 9 MM, 22 LR, and 38 spl. Go to the range now and you think your paying a car payment afterwards. My range trips are much fewer rounds now. A box of 50 rounds is 30 to 50 dollars now for practice ammo. Self Defense ammo is 1.25 to 2.00 per round. Fixed income "Old Men" cannot shoot much at these prices. Edited to add; Just looked and Luky Gunner is 255.00 to 275.00 for 1000 9 MM, and S G Ammo is 255.00 to 275.00 per 1000 for practice ammo. Been there for 3 years now.

I go in off seasons most times except for last of October. Not a lot of people around during off times. Will be going this week for anniversary and staying in a cabin near P Forge. I enjoy Pigeon Forge, but G-burg is a crowded mess. Also the park is getting crowded. Don't know about paying to using parking in the Park? We RV there most times.

ALOHA8, I have the Dakota system RED 333 has also. Thanks RED.

Aloha8, I don't remember the brand or model number. I purchased it from Amazon a good while back. Throwed the box away. I looked on the transmitter and receiver and they don't have any markings or brands on either. Sorry.

We had driveway pirates Christmas Eve night on our road and another road across Hwy 96 E. I had all my doors locked on my cars and they never got anything from us. I don't leave valuables in my cars of trucks. some of my neighbors were not as lucky. I purchased a driveway alarm afterwards, and we have really used it. Purchased it from Amazon and it and one transmitter cost 245.00. It will take multiple transmitters. Installed it myself. I have the sender hid in a shrub beside the driveway and it had a magnetic detector and 50' of cable that runs back to the transmitter. On the other end of the cable is a magnetic detector which is buried in the middle of the driveway, and it sends a signal to the receiver inside the house. It even picks up my lawnmower, on the 2nd round, when my granddaughter mows beside my drive (60" cut") in my yard. My drive is 300 feet long and I can see every car coming in from my Lazy Boy chair and it wakes us up at night. My drive is situated such that all the cars must pass over the sender unit in the drive. I put the transmitter 50' up the drive so people just turning around don't set it off. I would highly recommend one. As far as I know it has worked every time someone comes in. The transmitter runs on 4, 9 V batteries, and they have lasted 14 months. I am sure I run another porch pirate off a few months back because they come up my drive shortly after Amazon left a package on the porch. I took a few extra minutes to go outside to retrieve the package, and the dude seen me come out then backed 100' back down the drive and sped off. NO one comes that far up my drive and backs out to turn around. Like I said I recommend the alarm. It will let you know if your home. My neighbor has one and is a retired Policemen. His alerted him to a guy coming to kill him. He testified against the thug when the county sent the guy to the pen. He got out and came to neighbor's house to waste him. Thank God the Deputy got there in time to arrest the drunken convict before he got into neighbor's house. Neighbor was in wait just inside the door with his 40 caliber on his hip and shotgun on the couch beside him. He is the one who told me to get the alarm. Glad I did. Hope fully it will wake me or let me know when someone comes. A few extra secs/mins will allow one to get up and come to himself, hopefully, if asleep.