JD_Shellnut

Miserable

I’ve heard circumcision helps with that. Man, that’s just UNFAIR…yours has a sight post on it!? No wonder I’m always pissing on the rim with mine!

It’s hotter’n a blistered peter in a wool sock

If it happens, so be it. I’ll adhere to it just like I do speed limits and my doctor’s advice. Those selfsame citizens that think themselves “awoken” are oblivious of the fact that they’re a weeklong power outage away from burning their cities to the ground. What irony. I’ve lived to see the day where “awake” people actually couldn’t be more asleep if they swallowed a whole bottle of Ambien and washed it down with a big jug of NyQuil.

Hello, self. This is your alter-ego speaking. What’s the deal with your previous post? Why on Earth would you post those foolish, uninteresting links? I mean, what’s so uncommon about a group of modern Islamic militants stumbling across a forgotten cache of 5000 perfectly mint, Nazi MP44s? I mean, that’s almost as common as someone responding to their own post! You big oaf you!

Hey there neighbor! I can’t be positive, but if there’s anywhere that would around these parts, it would be Tennessee Silencer in Seymour. The road that takes you there is a bit hairy, but it’s very much worth the visit. You can have some serious fun there…I’ve seen people slinging lead there from some of the wildest weaponry that I’ve ever witnessed…give them a try. Even if I’m wrong about the tannerite, I can assure you it’ll be worth it. https://www.facebook.com/TennesseeSilencer/?ref=page_internal

……….and then there was THIS… Hey…along the same lines as above…anyone here like apples? Yes? Then hows about THESE FRIGGIN’ APPLES <hint> anyone else ever scratch their heads about a decade ago when photographs began surfacing of Syrian jihadis armed with vintage STG44s, and Kar98s with modern optics duct taped to them? I remember thinking it was some kind of joke….nope. That was REAL! See for yourself - try the links and be stupefied (and very covetous, if you’re anything like me)

please hear me out on this… As ashamed as I am at the fact that I’m quoting myself here…it’s only to call attention to a bit of an oversight on my part. I am guilty of never clicking links to videos; when given the choice of text or video, I will choose text 100% of the time. Since this is my first experience with being a part of an online community, I find myself with a bit of a learning curve. Several hours after starting this topic, it dawned on me that I had included the above link along with the body of the corresponding article without bothering to make sure the video matched the transcription! Again, because I simply comprehend the written word better than I’m able to glean ideas from videos…. …or so I thought, that is! I was reminded today of the power of the spoken word, especially when coming from the mouth of a master debater….I mean a cunning linguist…seasoned politician! This will probably be the only time I ever say this, but I think you all should watch this man deliver these words via the video then, if interested, read the transcription that I included. This is powerful stuff. Please y’all, let’s talk about what this means, together. CLICK HERE AND JUST LISTEN TO THIS MAN TELL THEM HOW IT IS!!!

My heavens but you’re full of surprises, Fujimo! That is an exquisite piece, sir! PS Oh, on a completely unrelated note, is there anyone out there that can loan me $1486.43?

I apologize - I know it’s a long post but it’s really rich. I beg everyone who reads these words to at least read the spaced-over section which contains an absolutely brilliant monologue. He makes the very points that all of us have been pointing out for so long. I have a challenge for anyone interested. Try your best to honestly play the role of devils advocate as you read his words and see what kind of rebuttal you come up with. I’m being serious. I can come up with nothing (other than sarcasm) that can support the contrary position. PS I wish to thank Ronald_55 for being the impetus that allowed this glimmer of hope to be presented. It was his recent post about the rescue of a WW2 Sturmgewehr that led me to this material. Lord, why couldn’t it have been me that this lady brought that beautiful weapon to? I know one thing, if I had a job like the man in that story, I’d carry one hell of a large lunchbox!!!

I came across this as a result of the post that another of our members recently made regarding the rescuing of that STG44…it came from same site. This is absolutely wonderful, except for that very last sentence. I realize that I’m preaching to the choir here, but a little edification never hurt a congregation, does it? Here’s the link to the original…. A firebrand Southern lawmaker spoke out against further restrictions on the Second Amendment during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing this week. Congressman Clay Higgins, the straight-talking Louisiana lawman who earned a reputation as the "Cajun John Wayne" before running as a Republican for Congress, confronted Joseph Gramaglia, the Police Commissioner for Buffalo, New York, over the Commish’s support for controversial "red flag" gun seizure laws. "So, you support confiscating guns from individuals 'determined to be a threat to themselves or others – determined to be,'" asked Higgins. "By this legislation, my colleagues are putting forth, my understanding of the letter of that law, which I 1,000 percent oppose as would our Founding Fathers, the letter of that law says an anonymous tip from a citizen. So, if this was law, Commissioner, would you confiscate? Would you go to your neighbor’s home and confiscate his legally owned weapons? A man that was not under criminal investigation nor under arrest. Would you do it? Gramaglia: The red flag laws would... Higgins: That’s a yes or no, brother. I got five minutes to make an hour and a half statement here. Gramaglia: It’s more than a yes or no answer. It would be up to – it would... Higgins: We’ll move on. If you cannot say yes, you would confiscate weapons from an American citizen that was subject to this law that my colleagues intend to push through this Congress, and you said in your statement that you would confiscate those weapons if an American was determined to be – your quote – a threat to themselves or others. According to the letter of the law, determined to be is defined by an anonymous tip that an American citizen is a threat to themselves or others. You’re a police commissioner, a "thin blue line" brother sworn to uphold the Constitution, and you’re saying you’d seize those weapons. I see that as a problem. Then Higgins sat back and delivered a monologue on life, liberty, and gun laws, which is just a home run. Higgins this week voted against both H.R. 7910 and H.R. 2377, Democrat anti-gun laws which passed the House on roughly party-line votes.

She’s slicker’n a minner’s peter! I have to say, those are excellent photographs. What a beautiful piece…best of luck, sir.

Sir, I beg of you to please give this some more thought. Granted, this is a forum of gun owners, for gun owners, by gun owners, but don’t make the mistake of equating the carrying of a firearm with the possessing of the internal fortitude to actually use one to end the life of another human being. It’s very easy for us to sit here, while in relative comfort and safety, and criticize these officers for their actions (or inactions), is it not? This is always a temptation for most of us, but I pose the question “how can we be certain that we’d do any better?” Do you want to know how to tell the difference between a veteran of the military versus a vet that has been in combat? A man who has been in combat will never second guess a man’s actions once the bullets start to snap, not from his armchair, anyhow. I attest to you right now that until one experiences such an encounter, there is absolutely no way to know how one might react! With God as my witness, I will say that a man whom everyone counted on as being a leader became a quivering baby, and some others that I would’ve bet my life would be the first to call for mama while sucking their thumbs actually transitioned into absolute animals! Is this logical? Not at all but on my very life I can attest to the reality of it. Please, sir, know that I respect your opinions whether or not I agree with you or not. I’ll go a step further and encourage you to speak out from your heart no matter what people like me have to say. I see how you get knocked around a bit on here for having a bit of different perspective than the status quo and that’s a very, very good thing in any conversation. I applaud you for it…doesn’t mean I have to agree though, same for you. Fact is, fellers, there is nothing that can be done, ever, to prevent this type of thing when the perpetrator is determined. I know there are some people on here that have worked in jails and prisons…I’m sure they all have stories about the resourcefulness of the determined criminal mind. The sad truth is that these incidents begin in the home….the family, or sadly, the lack thereof. There is an attack on family, morals, community, and God that is being hurled at as all from myriad fronts, but it is the corrupt news media that is the spearhead. Until they are held accountable (you know, the concept that all the rest of us are guided by) for what they are knowingly and maliciously doing to the people of this country, it can only get worse! Propagating lies, fear, anger, and division to the masses, and for what? Ratings? Greed? Entertainment? It is pure, unadulterated EVIL. There is only one WAY to overcome evil.

Now sir, I take issue with this statement! Without input from Reddit I would’ve never completed Red Dead Redemption 2!!! PS joke

Young fella, you have every right to hold this opinion, or any other one for that matter, but, if you want to have people respect your ideas, what you should strive for is to qualify your statements with the factual evidence that you used to reach your opinion. Many people in this age have strong opinions to share, but very seldom do you hear how they got there. This statement that you made earlier would be a very irresponsible thing to put into circulation if you cannot back it up with factual evidence. I think you will find that you are in the company of some extremely well informed and intelligent Tennesseans (myself excluded, obviously) who know a thing or two about our government, and may not appreciate here-say…which is basically a statement that makes an assertion yet lacks the evidence to confirm whether or not it’s the truth. Look, please don’t think that I’m picking on you here, because I am not. Rather, I’m trying to give you some helpful advice. Making a claim like the one that you made is akin to what is being fed to the misinformed every waking hour from the corrupt news media in this country. Thanks to social media, non-events are flamed into conflagrations in no time flat because we are living in a time where people simply react in a knee jerk fashion rather than take the time to find out whether something is true or not. Sometimes, God forbid, innocent people get hurt. This is tragic. What if some day in the future you work for an employer who bids on, say, a government contract? Perhaps this contract requires you to obtain a clearance to work on a sensitive piece of equipment. When those fact finders dig into your life (and they most certainly will), a statement where you publicly go on record and blame the government for a heinous act such as the one perpetrated by that disturbed young man will not be to your advantage. When we hit ‘send’, our words go out into cyberspace and you can’t simply reel it back in. Do I agree with that? No, no I do not. Everyone has said things, thought things, even done things that they regret as soon as it happens (myself very much included!). People change, opinions change, people grow, mature, become wiser, smarter and to judge someone’s lifelong merits based on a tweet or text is the definition of insanity…but these are the times we are living in, unfortunately. These terrible events are not going to go away. They are here to stay and they’ll keep getting worse because the die has been cast and there’s no turning back. We as a nation have collectively turned our back on the only One who could possibly right this sinking ship. Professing to be wise, we’ve become as fools. It is far too late to save this country but, thankfully, people can still be SAVED. Brothers, if you want to understand why these things are happening, just search the Scriptures. Solomon (who has the distinction of being the wisest mortal to have ever lived) wrote “there is nothing new under the sun”. Think about that for a minute….all the ‘advances’ our society has made…the technology, even! It’s nothing new, only packaged differently is all. It was Paul the Apostle who reminded/warned us in Ephesians Chap 6 and verse 12 that “we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places”. Just in case anyone isn’t familiar with “principalities, powers, and rulers”, those are different ranks, or classes of wicked supernatural entities that serve the (little g) god of this world, also known as “the Prince of the Power of the Air” - our Adversary, Satan and this is all his doing. This domain is his until Christ returns to take it from him. Come quickly, Lord Jesus.

Seems like I heard a while back that they were expecting to be in production early to mid 2023, but I’m not certain if that particular firearm will be among the first produced…heck I don’t even know what all the plant will produce at all, now that I open my big flapper! Is it like automotive where they have several factories that each one produces a few products or how it works. I, too, would like to know that.

I love me some 10mm, but gotta agree with this. I was a bit puzzled as to why they would go that route in the first place, speaking of the comparison to .41mag in the advert above. Sure, if you take a scalding hot 10mm load, say for instance something offered by DoubleTap, Underwood, or Buffalo Bore and then compare it to a .41mag standard load, then sure it’s comparable but you don’t even have to understand the first thing about firearms to see the obvious fallacy! Now that you mention it, krunchnik, it seems like I came across this same comparison somewhere else recently…I mean, what happened to .357mag? That’s a much more realistic comparison all around and what’s not to respect about that man stopper? Can I get an amen? You’re practically always going to come out ahead, stat-wise, with a revolver when compared to an auto-loader, platform vs platform….BUT (and there’s always a ‘but’) I cannot argue that I prefer my chances with the 10mm when it comes time to reload, am I right? Take, for example, this elegant lady that SA has just offered to us above…just for fun let’s say we have a charging rhinoceros ( thank you spellcheck) bearing down on us. You would have to reload your revolver twice and have one single shot left (before having to reload a third time) by the time you took your 17th shot - with our SA you get 17 rounds down range before the first reload! A flic of the wrist and you have 17 more shots. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I can reload my semi-automatics WAY, WAY faster than I can any of my wheel guns, speedloader or not! When you think of the devastation you can unleash with 17 rounds of 10mm versus 6 rounds of .41mag, well, then they may have a point, but that opens up a literal ‘Pandora’s Box’ of other arguments in itself. All that to say, yep, head to head, round vs round, it’s disingenuous to say 10mm Auto has equal power (or comparable to, really) with .41 Mag. If you REALLY want to widen the gap, lol, compare the two with custom loaded rounds max vs max! You’ll see the .41Mag is a wicked, wicked beast! Aaah…still gotta love the TEN MIKE MIKE. It’s truly my favorite platform.

GI got this email earlier. It’s very nice but I’m not for sure why it has been given the “new” label? Anyone know what the ‘Elite’ aspect carries with it? I’m honestly curious to know. ThanksMor ris ( Sent from ProtonMail for

What an uncanny resemblance his visage has to Richard Ramirez, the night stalker. My prayers go out to the families. How extraordinarily devastating

Thanks for saying so, my friend. Those very few lines of text that you shared with us were extremely powerful and moving. I would very much like to hear ‘the rest of the story’, if you’re willing to share it. It is stories such as yours that move me the most as I have always been amazed and impressed to hear about how others have found a way to overcome such adversity and continue to simply press on! So many people have found a way, and that should be an encouragement to us all! Please, my friend, if you’re up to sharing your story, please do….as little or as much as you’d like. I would especially like to hear more about your Step Father because it sounds like he really stepped it up for you. After my Dad passed, my Mom remarried about a year later. At first I must admit that I was not very happy about this…I suppose I wanted my Mom to mourn his passing for the rest of her life and simply be miserable! Thankfully, and very much like your own situation, the Lord saw fit to place a wonderful man into our lives and today I love him every bit as much as I love my own Dad….truth is I’ve now had my StepDad longer than I had my biological father! You really just never know how things are going to shake out, do ya?

You can proceed however you wish with this wonderful acquisition, but if it were me, I’d be very tempted to borrow an old redbone hound dog, go out somewhere on your property and cut loose with both barrels…making certain that the projectiles hit the ground. You might just strike a bubblin’ crude! PS Oil, that is. PSS Texas Tea.

Hey there my friend. That’s tough news brother, tough news. I’m going to add your sweet mother, and you also, to my prayers each morning and night. I’m going to pray for her comfort, for her peace, and also for her caretakers. For you, Moped, I’m going to ask the Lord to comfort you, to strengthen you, to give you assurance, and also that He might Bless you during this very difficult time. I know exactly just how difficult of a situation that you’re facing, and I just want to encourage you and, perhaps, inform you as well. My information is just this: you have a friend who’ll listen if you ever want or need to talk about it….any of it. On a supernatural level, you have God….and on a much, much lower plane of existence, there’s me!. I’m no social worker and have no special skills, but I’m willing to lend an ear if you should ever need one. I love to talk guns and that’s what brought me here, but I’ll talk about the difficult things as well…with anyone, actually. In the meantime, though, I’ll be praying. I keep an old notebook beside me because otherwise I’m afraid I’ll forget, but when I tell someone I’m gonna pray, I make sure that I do…it’s one thing I try to get right. Thanks for sharing with me.

My friend, this is something else that you and I share in common. Dad chose to be buried in his work uniform! I guess it was something he and Mom had discussed, and I remember being caught off guard by it when I first saw him there, but then it was like “of course he wanted to be buried in his work clothes!” Haha….it was all any of us ever saw him wear anyways, except on Sundays. What a comfort it must be, knowing that your sweet Mother has such good neighbors, that they check in on her every day! It put a real smile on my face, friend, just knowing that you have this peace of mind. I appreciate you sharing your memories of this great man with us all here! I sure wish I could’ve known him while he was here with us for a while. I’ll certainly look him up on the flipside! You remain in my thoughts and prayers.

No such thing. Even my childhood Red Ryder (what I refer to as “faux lever”) with a barrel bent 30 degrees was beautiful. Anyone heard any news regarding Smith Wesson getting into the Lever Gun market? Seems like it was about a month or maybe two back, but I participated in a very detailed questionnaire/feedback survey regarding this topic at their behest and I’m betting I wasn’t the only one here who did. Took about an hour, but then again that might’ve been more me than them! PS I lied about the whole “faux lever” deal. Sorry, just really wanted to mention that old BB gun, so I made it up on the fly.

Ugh. Fiscal responsibility, foresight, and a gloriously fantastic beard…DANG YOU MR FUJI