bobsguns

Have you talked to lately all those folks who bought those blankety blank Beanie Babies back in the 90s? Ask them how that worked out for them?

Correct, but doesn't the exit sign say "Ooltewah"? Or am I misremembering? LOL! No, it's not. But I admit to having been in Nashville for 50+ years, I got spoiled on their layout, which (despite the traffic) is pretty darn good. Getting to the interstate from, say, Erlanger, requires a bit of travel. Same for a lot of Brainerd Rd area, IMO. But it is what it is.

Mark Twain once wrote: "When I was 14, I thought my father was the stupidest man I had ever known. When I was 20, I thought he had turned into the smartest man I had ever known." I know I messed up his quote, but that's the gist of it. One thing I miss from working gun shows for 30+ years is talking to the older fellas, at least the interesting ones. My mother is now 90 and men her age well remember buying a gun from Sears & having it delivered right to their doorstep. They saw WW2, Korean War, Viet Nam, Sputnik, the moon landing, computers, party lines for phones, etc. Just amazing, IMO. gregintn, no offense, but knife collecting is in fact a dying thing. It seems no one under the age of 50 even looks at multi-blade knives anymore, IMO. Everyone seems to be into the tactical knife, auto knives, lock blades (save fingers!), etc. But I'm happy for you that you got some you like.

Whisper, I'm a couple of counties east of you but I get to Chatt regularly. Allow me to opine my observations of driving there for work for a couple of years: Downtown Chatt is wholly unorganized, IMO. Unlike Nashville (where one can hop on an interstate in 5 min anywhere in town), one can often get REAL frustrated in finding an on-ramp to 24/75 downtown. Just crazy. While there's a few ok areas downtown (Market St area comes to mind), a LOT of it is very lower class. Not dangerous, just lower class. Rows of empty buildings all over town, which surprised me after seeing Nashville's economic boom. Sad. Downtown is helter skelter in how it's laid out/grouped. The Infinity dealership is just around the corner from a bunch of housing projects, for example. Just................... odd, IMO. Around the Erlanger area & Riverside Dr area, there's NO restaurants aside from one or two fast food places. Just weird. Sooner or later, hit Wally's Restaurant on McCallie Ave. They're like Dan's Restaurant on Lafayette St in Nashville, IMO. Good food, meat-n-three type of joint. Breakfast & lunch only though. 99% of the good eating places are going to be around Hamilton Place & Gunbarrel Road (I love that name!). Ale House Restaurant is a fav of mine. If you like cigars, Burns Cigars on Jordan Dr is the go-to place. I buy most of mine there. Good prices, excellent selection, excellent CS there. If you like beer, Hutton & Smith micro brewery is my fav. Boathouse Rotisserie on Riverside Dr is a cool place to eat. Not just seafood, steaks & stuff too. North Shore is filled with hipster shops and eating places. I only went there a time or two so I can't tell you too much about there. Nice area though, right next to the river. The only gun shop I went to was off of Hwy 153. I can't recall the name of it, sorry. Chatt lacks a lot of options on gun shops when compared to Nashville, IMO. Gun shows are at Camp Jordan, off Exit 1 I-75. Right on the TN/GA line, behind Bass Pro. Nice place for a show, free parking, all that good stuff. If you like books, there's a McKay's Used Bookstore in Ootlewah. I use them quite a bit. If you're into motorcycles, there's several dealerships on Ringgold Rd, all close together. The HD dealership is in Oolteway. I use Pandora's, FWIW. As mentioned, Chatt is full of history, most of it Civil War stuff. Pointe Park, Lookout Mtn are a must-see, IMO. I've not done Chickamauga Battlefield yet, sadly. Signal Mtn is worth a Sunday drive, cool views up there. If you use GPS, check out (I think) North & South Crest Rd. It takes you over the ridgeline instead of through the tunnel at Brainerd Rd. Incredible views, beautiful houses. Cleveland has a couple of gun shops, one on South Lee Hwy, just off of Hwy 64 Bypass. The other is on Keith St. Sorry, I can't recall their names. They're ok, nothing like The Armory, Franklin Gun Shop or The Gun Crew. But it is what it is. If you ever want to get over to the Ocoee & Hiwassee River areas, give me a shout. It's incredibly rural, beautiful & exciting for kayaking, rafting & fly fishing. The cool thing about SE TN is we have as much (or more) of the beauty & activities but without all the traffic of the Gatlinburg area. All this is about a 30-45 min drive from Chatt, so it's just down the road. Hope this helps some. My .o2

Story While I personally don't do country music, I had great respect for Mr. Emery. I never heard him say anything mean about anyone, even when some of them deserved it. LOL! He basically single handedly got the Judd's started, putting them on his show 2-3 times a week until they got signed by a record label. I'm sure he helped a lot of others too. He was a class act, IMO.

Went to Wally World in Cleveland today. Had to return an item & needed milk & bread anyway. Much like else where, I saw LOTS of empty spaces all over the grocery section(s). Lots of produce missing too. Thankfully, all of my needs got met but I bet some folks with diet needs were going to be SOL. I didn't see anyone complaining to Wally employees, I hope that's the norm for those poor folks working there. I noticed Wally employees "guarding" both door entrances for shop lifters. I don't know why, they can't stop them or anything.

Maybe, maybe not. A polite phone call wouldn't ever hurt, IMO. I hope the S&W move to TN will improve upon their CS attitudes? Again, the one time I used them they were pretty good to me. This was in the early 1990s.

Mine was almost as bad as yours. Mine was confiscated as evidence when I shot a burglar. A couple of weeks later the detective released it. When I went to get it, my H&K USPC .45acp magically turned into a POS Ruger/Kel-Tec/Taurus (Can't remember which one). I pointed this out to the female property clerk, a middle aged battle axe. She literally snatched the paper out of my hands and stomped off. I responded the only way I had available: I threw the pen she gave me at her back & called her multiple vulgar names. (Keep in mind, *I* was NOT the accused, nor was the gun stolen, nor was I charged with anything.) She got the detective on the phone, told him all sorts of BS about how *I* was acting, all this out of my sight & hearing. She brought the phone to me for him to speak to me. I quickly explained the truth of the matter, about the gun being wrong & how she acted. His response: "Yeah, she's been know to act like that." They finally got it fixed, I got my USPC but then she wouldn't give me the ammo that was in the mags. "You have to come back for the ammo, we don't give you both together", she said. I wasn't going to get off work early, drive downtown, find a place to park, pay for parking & waste my time for 8rds of Federal HydroShok. Every time I used to hear about raises for Metro employees, I'd think about that witch. I hope she has a miserable retirement & her husband leaves her for a younger woman!

Not saying that at all. The guns they keep are the ones they take off of the thugs when arrested. However, Metro IS pretty strict about proving ownership. I'm not sure holding the S/N is or is not enough proof for them these days. Metro big wigs are notoriously anti-gun. I had a bit of a time getting a sign-off when I got my first suppressor or two. Thankfully that law got changed to remove the sign-off requirement.

It's not Metro PD's policy, it's the city's policy. Heck, they could even sell them out of state but they won't even do that. They could use the funding for new vests for officers or donate it all to a women's shelter. But nooooooooooooooooooooo, the mayor's office & county council can't have that.....................

Is there anything wrong with getting staples so you don't have to go out in bad weather?

Well, if they were smart they wouldn't be out breaking the law(s) now, would they?

Getting mine tomorrow but we won't get any here. We do get horrendous traffic jams on I-75 through Chatt though......................

People would be angry to learn how many "destroyed" guns end up at some officers' house as "his". At one time, a Metro Nashville PD Major had his own gun case at the old Gun Mart on Charlotte Pike. He sold guns out of that store that he had "liberated" from either the evidence room or the recovery room, I can't recall which. He got shut down & was "allowed to retire" in lieu of charges. Seem like I recall he did no 4473 nor BGC on any of those sold. I do know Metro Nashville NEVER releases, sells or gets rid of confiscated guns. They're stored & left to rust solid rather than being sold at auction to FFL holders. TN state law prevents them from destroying them, so Metro allows rust to do their dirty work for them. Sad.

True, but they can talk to you & lie like a dog & NOTHING will come back on them for it. But not vice versa, which is BS.

How is that different from the gun grabber's "if it saves just one life" BS???? Not to mention, shouldn't the public demand that cops be honest? In court: "Were you lying then or are you lying now, detective?" How would a jury know which part was/is the lie? To me, resorting to lying means someone is too GD lazy to do their job properly.

Nah, but it's well known. Google it if you need to.

There's only two spots a revolver cylinder will lock upon 99% of the time: front & rear. The forcing cone gap is the logical suspect most of the time, IMO. I've had the opposite experience, I once had a Model 25-5 I could've stuck a toothpick in the gap & not touched metal. The cylinder rear obviously has moving parts that must all be in synch for it to work. I would hope the S&W boys would've spotted something there as it's quickly obvious when there is.

Not questioning that, just the age group of who is buying them.

I use a spread sheet for my S/N inventory. I then email it to myself & stick it in the "saved" folder. That way even if my computer is stolen or my house burns to the ground, I still have my S/N list. Keeping the list accurate & up-to-date is a different story...........................

But demand drives the market. Demand for trucks are at an all-time high. Not so much for lever actions, IMO. I don't know too many under-40 types who give a fat furry rat's behind about lever action rifles. They're all about the tacticool types, IMO.

I have a 63 that runs perfect. I bet yours was ammo related, it shot "dirty" & locked up the cylinder with trash. It's not unheard of with .22 guns in general. Of course if the problem persisted with multiple types of ammo, then the gun may have had too tight tolerances? Sorry you had to lose a nice shooter.

Yes, I know it's not TN but I think it's still newsworthy. The USSC has ruled the police have a right to lie to a suspect in order to solve a crime. However, should a suspect return the favor and lie to the cops, he/she will be prosecuted for doing so. I strongly feel this is both an unjust and horrible ruling, but the USSC didn't ask my opinion. While I'm sure we can all be in agreement to support the local police, I find it feeds the anti-police movement. It casts a bad light on all police when this sort of thing goes on, IMO. One case had a forged report entered in trial as evidence. Is this how honest cops believe they can earn the public's trust? Regardless, one can make up their own mind on this sort of thing. Story

No, you're not reading it correctly. It's anything above 9mm: .40S&W, 10mm, .44spl, .44mag, .45LC, .45acp, etc. Not just .50AE or whatever.

I've used S&W's warranty one time & they took wonderful care of me. It too was a brand spanking new PC revolver. How it got past their QC is beyond me as the problem was immediately noticeable to anyone who knew squat about revolvers. But they fixed it pretty quickly (back then).