Darrell

Wal Marche and Rural King have it at "normal" prices from time-to-time. It's sure not there every day, but if you keep checking you'll find some eventually.

Wowzer! I had no idea a deer would do something like that. Live n learn.

Interesting, Ed. Just to satisfy my curiosity, how old are you? I ask because I wonder how much the things you're experiencing are going to effect younger shooters. I think that guys my age, 65, are unlikely to give up shooting unless ammunition simply becomes impossible to get. But maybe a 20 year old might be interested in the shooting sports but find that it's just not worth the hassle, just as you are finding it's not worth it for you. New gun sales seem to indicate that there are lots of new owners out there, but how many of those will be "shooters" as opposed to "owners". I play a lot of racquetball, but I'm seeing fewer and fewer young people taking up the game. The average age on the courts seems to be growing right along with my age. I'd sure hate to see that happen with the shooting sports, too.

Yes, that's what I mean. You may find a different situation wherever you move. I live half an hour from Crossville, and less than an hour from Knoxville, but have found that it's really difficult to find skilled or unskilled labor of any kind. There's a retirement / resort community nearby, and it seems that most of the trades people get enough work there and really don't want to come the extra distance. Again, your mileage may vary.

I saw an ad on Armslist this morning for 10K CCI SPP for $650. I was interested, but it turns out they're in Memphis, way too far for me to travel. But in today's market $65 per hundred is a decent deal. The guy has his phone number listed, so one need not be a member of Armslist to respond. I have no association with the seller at all, so do your own due diligence, but I wanted to pass this one on. The seller did offer to ship them to me, but I don't want to mess with that. But If someone from around Knoxville is going through and wants half, I'd happily take the other half off your hands. I don't want to list the ad link here, but all you need do is search for "primers" and you'll find the ad.

Retail or from a private seller? I'd surely love to find some at that price!

I hope she called the cops.

This guy insulted every new gun owner out here, and I reckon he insulted those of us who are long-time gun owners as well. Most LE that I've spoken with are staunch proponents of legal gun-ownership. Biden couldn't have chosen a worse nominee for us!

Man! I've bought and sold a LOT of bikes over the years, and have never bought one without test-riding it and never refused a test ride when selling one. I guess if it's your bike you get to make the rules, but there is no chance in the world I'd buy a bike without running it to red-line, running it through all the gears, and trying out the brakes.

Hmmm, I have a Sportster, a BMW sport tourer, a Ducati 1098 Superbike, a kinda rare 89 Yamaha RD-350YVPS, and GasGas trials bike. I'm pretty sure I'll find another one I need, though. I have a brand new set of Toomey pipes and the RD is sitting on the work bench waiting for them. Just a matter of finding the time. Anybody have the rear grab bar for sale?

I believe that there are still some secondary (recycling) smelters in operation, but no more primary smelters. We have a lot of lead in the ground in this country, but I don't know if any is being mined. If it is, then it's being shipped somewhere else (Canada? Mexico?) for smelting.

Thanks a lot, I sure do appreciate it. But no way am I going to pay $55 a pound! Well, not this month, anyway.

You need to keep it in ANY case!

Did you happen to note whether they had any Ram Magnum? I'm planning to drive by there next Tuesday, but I reckon whatever's in stock today will be gone tomorrow...

I kinda wonder if he has any clue what he actually said there. He certainly hasn't much concept of magazine capacity.

I'd sure like to have a lot more information on this story. I think there's good deal more to be told.

Not me, thank goodness! But my younger brother got shot in the face with a .357 at close range. Blew a big chunk of his jaw out, along with a bunch of his teeth. Screwed him up mentally for the rest of his relatively short life. He was shot by his wife's boyfriend. Bone fragments from his jaw put out her eye. The ex-wife and bf were going to take my brother's measly insurance money and live the good life in Florida. The shooter got out of prison a few years later, tried an armed robbery of a store, and took a bullet to his spine for his trouble. He went to prison in a wheelchair and died there a short time later. There's a whole lot more to the story, but I doubt anyone here wants to read a book about it.

That isn't conjecture, it happened fairly frequently before the election. As if Trump went to the lab to develop the thing.

This kind of story worries me. OP failed to maintain his lane in traffic, something I see too much of. The guy behind him reacts in a negative way, OP escalates, then claims he exercised restraint and would have been justified to kill the other guy. OP makes a point of saying that people think he's Billy Bad Ass and walks with "a swagger", though the other driver couldn't have known that during the event in question. Those comments say something about his attitude. Scary stuff, and just the sort of thing that the anti-gun crowd eats with a spoon. I am generally armed when I'm driving a car, generally not when I'm riding my motorcycles. I decided long, long ago to avoid confrontational situations, and to react to every unavoidable confrontational situation as if I were NOT armed unless there is absolutely no alternative. As Dralarms suggested, usually a friendly wave and recognition of your error (and OP DID make an error by failing to maintain his lane) will diffuse the situation. It's pretty easy to wave and say "sorry" even if you don't feel at fault in the situation. It would be pretty hard, and very expensive, to live with shooting someone over a situation that started a simple case of poor driving.

I'm sorry to learn of your daughter's difficulties.

Have you considered consigning the bike at a HD dealer? You might be able to keep that two grand in your own pocket that way. Bikes are going for top dollar right now, and I doubt that you have to discount yours to sell it. Per NADA: Values Suggested List Price Low Retail Average Retail Base Price $16,549 $13,255 $17,440 Options (Add) Total Price $16,549 $13,255 $17,440 PS- It sucks that your "friend" would stiff you like that. If a person can't qualify for a vehicle loan, there's usually a REALLY good reason. If a dealer can't make financing work, then that person is a horrible loan risk, as you unfortunately have learned.

Which draconian population control laws?

Yikes! Maybe I should have stopped and bought a few boxes, but I have a ton and I generally roll my own.

Is ammunition becoming available again? I rode past a gunship in Crossville yesterday and their outdoor reader-board was advertising 9mm at $21.00 a box. I didn't stop, so I don't know what brand it was, but I was encouraged to actually see ammo ADVERTISED as available. Now if I could just find some primers.....

I'm a transplant here after living most of my life in WA. I can tell you that large minority of folks there hate the way the government has changed. WA was a blue-collar, logging, fishing and farming state when I was a kid. I finally had to leave because of politics and taxes, but I hated that I was driven to that. My point is that we don't want to paint everyone on the west coast with the same brush. There's a majority of left-wing voters, but there are plenty of conservatives there, too. If you were to take a look at the way the counties voted in WA you'd see that the blue areas are a very small geographic part of the state. I think that a lot of people in WA and OR would love to see Portland and Seattle have less influence, but there it is.