Jamie Jackson

Great gun, great price! Congrats to you both!

Oh heck yeah! It smelled of anise and a few drops in a tablespoon of water turned cloudy. My grandmother would "medicate" my cousins and myself if we were running around like wild heathens just so she could get some rest! It worked! LOL But it actually was a good med. Worked on teething infants (rub it on their gums). colic, and old fashioned bellyaches kids get. People will abuse anything though... <sigh>

I agree with @Garufa that a single stage press is a good way to start, and it'll serve you well for years to come. I handload 99% of the ammo I shoot sans RF .22 I started on a Lee single stage back in the mid 1980's and finally wore it out, and replaced it with the same, about 2 years ago. My Dillon 550 is set up strictly for 9mm (had it since around 1990) and I load all of my .38/.357 and .32 variants (.32 Short, .32 S&W long, and .32 H&R mag) along with occasional .380 acp on the Lee. I use a Hornady manual primarily, newer addition, but a Hornady manual is what I started with. I have several additional resources available. I would highly recommend obtaining and reading a quality manual first thing. Of course you'll need good dies, calipers, powder measure, scales and some method of cleaning your brass. Components have been the most serious challenge the past few years. They are becoming more readily available, but are expensive at this point and time. Don't really know if they'll come down more. But even at today's cost I can produce quality, accurate ammo for much less than I can purchase it for. Midsouth Shooter's supply, Powder Valley, Graf's and even Midway USA have been my go-to places for many years. The component manufacturers are excellent resources as well. I've emailed and received help from Alliant more than once. Good folks there. I don't currently cast, but have the gear, and plenty of lead. Will get back to it eventually. These are just some rambling thoughts. Reloading is an awesome pursuit in and of it's own right imho There are many folks more knowledgeable than I am on the subject here and hopefully they'll chime in. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1013005426 https://www.hornady.com/reloading/handbook

Well my green beans, at least the first bed, have ended <sigh>, but did well for their limited space. I pulled them and planted speckled butter beans in that 4x8 bed. I'll probably cut the other bush bean bed and plant it with something else. Maybe more carrots as they seen to do well in that particular bed. I have 1/2 white runners (pole beans) spreading out and up in 2 different beds, 4x4 areas each. Planted some more turnips and carrots as well. So time will tell.

Can't figure out the rotated photo thing...

Yesterday I cooked down around 30 pounds, maybe more as I didn't weigh them, but 6 gallon bags of previously skinned tomatoes. I added sauteed bell peppers, onions, and squash to the mix and fresh herbs for the garden. It took around 6 1/2 to 7 hours to reach the desired consistency for marinara sauce or spaghetti sauce, about 1/2 of the original volume. I was able to pressure can 10 pints and put 3 pints into the freezer. I'll vac seal the frozen sauce later this morning. It was well worth the time and effort imho. Nothing beats homemade! I'll try and attach pics using my phone as my photos wanna load sideways using my computer... Greg. If I was anywhere close to Macon county I would have taken you up on your generous offer! Purple hull peas are delicious!

Beautiful. Pretty darn awesome actually. Congrats!

I've used the Berry's before with no problem in a .380 Shield. I have been using Hoosier's Hi-Tek coated bullets in 9mm and .38/.357 a lot for the past couple of years. Hoosier's has some 95 gr. .380 bullets at .355" listed currently. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend their bullets. Quality made, fast shipping, and just good folks. https://hoosierbullets.com/380-caliber-95-grain-round-nose/

Thank you. I'm pleasantly surprised with my TX Compact. Federal Automatch is what I have the most of in my stores, CCI Mini Mags have always been a favorite of mine. Thankfully my TX isn't being too picky. I have 4 of the 16 round mags and 2 of the 13 rd mags and all function very well. The 16 round are actually less expensive. Go figure. I haven't noticed any excessive wear, but will certainly keep an eye on things. Rhett Neumayer with Demonstrated Concepts (has a Youtube vid or several) has put a bunch of rounds through one without issues. He's an incredible shooter imho. If anyone will wear one out he will.

Just thought I'd mention I finally I shot over 2200 rounds as of yesterday. Work and life interfered with my shooting... I had my 2nd Fail to Feed, but it was a somewhat bent 10+ year old Golden Bullet and I just wanted to see if it would feed. Nope I don't know if mine is an anomaly or if this is the normal for the TX series. But I'm quite pleased with this little .22 especially in combination with the Holosun. Great pairing.

@peejman The green beans are Landreth's Stringless Bush Green Bean. I've been using them for a couple of years and they definitely have produced more and for longer than any other green beans I've tried. I get the seeds from https://victoryseeds.com/ Everything I've tried from them has had good germination and production.

Crazy isn't it? I normally get 4 pickings. The volume is diminishing, but the suckers are still producing. I normally cut them down at 4. I guess these just want to live

I'm with you on this. 100% I carry an LCR in an AHolster, but have certainly carried my 640 this way for a long time. I can have, as I've read elsewhere, a "Clandestine low ready" using this method, without telegraphing it to the world. I do have, and tried with my S&W Shield in an AHolster. Getting that full assured grip just wasn't consistent for me. Nor did it ever draw as smoothly as a J Frame sized revolver. Pocket carry is generally as a 2nd gun, but sometimes as a primary. The environment will dictate the carry method of course. Just my $.02 worth

The antacid is a necessary condiment! Those peppers are nice and hot Thank you Sir.

Oh yeah. Jalapenos are doing well. So Friday afternoon I decided I needed to eat a few. Thankfully I had cream cheese, Mexican cheese and bacon on hand. Any suggestions of the photo thing? Drat!!!!

As I only have raised beds my volume of production is limited. Even though it's not been the best year of production so far it's not been bad either. I've been eating out of the garden several times a week for a couple of months now. I've managed to scald, peel and freeze 6 gallons of tomatoes so far (mostly Roma) with plans to cook them down into a marinara sauce in a couple of weeks. I'd like to have 8-10 gallons so I'll have enough to can. My bush green beans plants are on their 6 picking now. I usually pick around 1-1.5 gallons a week. I blanch and freeze about 1/2 of them and eat the rest. I agree they are nearly as delicious blanched and frozen as canned though. Just don't have the volume to can...yet. I have two 4 foot sections of pole beans coming up now. Fingers crossed I did spend the past couple of weekends canning. I put up a good bit of Kosher Dill pickles and Kosher Dill green tomatoes and some vegetable mix (onions, carrots,green tomatoes, yellow squash and zucchini...all from my little garden). I bought a head of cabbage and a couple of bell peppers and canned some Green tomato Chow-Chow. It is awesome, but I like such stuff. Kroger has peaches on sale for $.99/lb right now, so I picked up 15 pounds. I canned quarts of spiced peaches yesterday. I didn't have any Allspice berries, so I used ground Allspice, cinnamon sticks and whole cloves. The ground Allspice gives the finished product a bit of a darkness to it. I used the peach peeling to boil down and made peach jelly from them. They all Set!!! (That's a big deal if you make jelly! ). Curious. No matter what 360 orientation I set my photos they seen to load in a cockeyed orientation. sigh

The Good Lord was quite obviously with your daughter, and you. Thank you Lord. As Mac and others have said, the modern engineering is remarkable! I've been on the ER receiving end of many, many MVA's or MVC's over the past decades. Automobiles are safer now than they've ever been...but God's hand was evident here! Seat belt injuries can be pretty severe, both superficial and internal. I'm sure your daughter was thoroughly examined/scanned. I Pray for a speedy recovery for her. I can't, as a father, imagined how difficult this was for you and the family as well. I didn't know this about the I-phone's capabilities. That's pretty incredible. Prayers for you all KahrMan.

Wishing you a speedy and uneventful recovery @pop pop. My respect for, and avoidance of, confrontations with gravity grow more each year. Gravity is simply indiscriminate in it's ability to abuse us, especially as we age... and recovery takes a bit longer each time. I've done a good bit of home remodeling in the past couple of years, all with "aging in place" at it's core (I'm knocking on 70's door). Stair Lift, walk-in shower, grab bars and handrails etc. And still have the walkers, shower chairs etc. my beloved once needed readily available. I've seen too many negative outcomes from injuries during my past 50 years in Health Care. The mind may be willing. But... Again, speedy recovery Sir.

And Pickles. Kosher ill pickles, Kosher Dill green tomatoes and Kosher Dill mixed vegetables out of my garden. Disclaimer. I have already shared all of these with friends and family, I had around 28 pints all together. ARRRR another tilted photo. My cyberskillz are weak...

Looking Good Rob! That'll be some good eating! My garden has been riding the struggle bus this season what with the heat and the rain... I have been eating out of it daily and managed to put up some green beans, turnips, and rutabagas though. I spent the past 2 weekends waterbath canning, Prep takes longer than the actual canning of course. I decided to make some Chow Chow. I had to use store bought cabbage and bell peppers... limited growing space in my raised beds and such. But I got 14 pints put up over 2 weekends, The onions, carrots, green tomatoes, and jalapenos came from my garden. I had to resize the canned jars and for whatever reason it tilted the photo. Gravity is not to be blamed.

I think this would be a pretty good gun for a young person's introduction. I wear a medium size or 7 1/2 size surgical glove, so I have smallish hands and the grip girth and trigger reach is fine. Should be for the kids.

You know David, if someone had asked me 5 years ago whether or not I would recommend a Taurus product I would have said "No". A year ago "Maybe" (I still want to handle a 856 Toro in person). Now? "Probably". I'm actually surprised and obviously very pleased with this Tx22 Compact. Especially at it's current price-point. Give me another week and I hope to have between 2000-2500 rounds through it. All I'm doing at this point is a quick bore brush with CLP through it after a range session and keeping the slide lubed. I honestly didn't expect to like it so much. Or that it'd run so well and be so accurate. Hat's off to Caleb Giddings and the folks at Taurus at this point.

I picked up my TX 22 Compact on July 7th, ordered through Range USA, Took it inside the indoor range, removed the slide and inspected it, put a bit of Lucas Lube on the rails. I shot 150 rounds of various .22 ammo through it. CCI Minimags, Federal bulk, Remington bulk, Federal Spitfire and CCI Stingers. 100% feed and ignition. Great ergonomics and a surprisingly nice trigger. I was impressed. My old eyes were challenged with the factory sights, so I ordered a Holosun 407K for it and two 16 round magazines. A couple of additional range trips after putting some orange paint on the front sight with a total of 1000 rounds through it. I had one FTF out of a box of 50 Federal Punch. But Caleb Giddings, marketing manager from Taurus, warned this round may have difficulty related to the rather flat bullet profile. I did have 4 Failure to Fire rounds out of the same box 325 rounds of 2008 Federal Automatch at this point. I mounted the 407 on 13 July. Really easy mounting, effortless. It only took 12 rounds to have it zeroed at 15 yards. I like the 6 MOA dot and the window size is decent. No co-wittiness with the factory sights of course. Oh, I also purchased 2 of the 16 round mags and they run great. As I type this I have a total of 1200+ rounds through it. So 5 Fail to Fire and 1 FTF. To me, that's pretty darn impressive for a .22 RF semiauto. An extra bonus is that it fits the Dale Fricke Archangel holster I use for AIWB carry for my G19. Thanks for the insight and input on this thread. And the TX series is made to be dry fired by Taurus,

Incredible deal! Congratulations to all.

Welcome and a second for ORSA (Oak Ridge Sportsman Association). Members only, but the info is on their website. Easy to join. Windrock Shooting Range in Oliver Springs isn't much further out for where you'll be and it's both a pay & shoot or membership. I think Windrock uses Facebook more than their website FWIW.