Handsome Rob

https://www.manchestertimes.com/news/local/scam-alert-buyers-beware-when-purchasing-hunting-and-fishing-licenses/article_a9389d3a-3e03-11ea-a791-eb679ce11563.html#utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social I just saw this today!

Man, I'm so jealous that you guys got to be teenagers over here! I traded a Vespa P125 for my first car, back in England, in '91 . . . . 1977 Fiat 127. Arsehole brown & everything. 900cc of god-awfulness. Flat out at 60 & the damn heater didn't work. I freaking hated it.

I'm sure a lot of folks will try to talk you up to a better sight and, at some point, you'll probably want to upgrade. However.... I have that little Fieldsport red dot on my dedicated hog/HD shotgun. It's never had anything but slugs & heavy buckshot loads through it & I must say, the sight has held up FAR beyond my expectations! It's still functionally perfect after several hundred, HARD recoiling rounds. The dot isn't perfectly crisp & it's far too large for any sort of precision (4 or 6 moa, I believe) but inside of 100yds, or for CQB plate smacking, it's great!

Does anyone here have a muzzle squaring & possibly a crowning tool with a .30 caliber mandrel? I'm looking at whipping a barrel down & would like to get a completely square muzzle. I've done it before with files, but I figured the correct hand tool would be much simpler

I make a couple of gallons every year. Happy to post the instructions, if anyone's interested!

Y'all clean your barrels???

To be fair, a single bad example can happen in any price bracket, for any item, any time. I had a Browning X-Bolt that I bought brand new & it wouldn't shoot any ammo worth a crap. Doesn't mean that all mid-price range hunting rifles are bad. It doesn't mean all Brownings are bad. It doesn't even mean that all .300wsm X-Bolts are bad! Ask it mans is that THAT one was bad. A sample of one is statistically irrelevant, I'm afraid. I guarantee you'll find that 99.9% of PSA $159 upper users are tickled pink with them.

I meant on a standard AR upper, but if you're buying......

Sooo......I've just 'acquired' one of these scopes. It's the 3.6 with the M240 reticle. Can anyone give me any info how well these work, basically, with a standard 55 or 62gn .223/5.56 round?

To be honest, I really don't think there are any bad uppers.

I want to give you my children. That's an insane job!!!

I'll be honest, it wasn't sure where to post this. I have a really good mate, just got back to TN from his deployment to El paso. He's looking to buy a few guns & he doesn't know of any reputable FFLs in his area. He doesn't want to travel far, so can anyone recommend a good, cheap license holder around Clarksville for transfers?

FAT wrench is the best game in town, price wise. It's not the most precise, but it's better than 'crank it until the Allen wrench flexes' I'm intrigued by the new digital job....

What's a step down from 'underwhelmed'?

The only new Glock I'm ever going to get giddy over would be a single stack 10mm, the same length & hight as a 19, with the width of a 43/48.

I've been wanting to do the self same thing & I haven't found anyone in middle TN that will do it for a reasonable cost. I've been in touch with these guys....http://www.colonialchokeandtool.com/sitemap.php?view=pages & they're prices and turnaround time are pretty tough to beat. I found one other place in California that's got a way faster turnaround (mail it Monday, guaranteed return delivery by Friday) but they're a little more spendy. Colonial have excellent reviews & from everything I can find, a great reputation.

Have you thought about a .17 hornet, or .17 Fireball?

Terrible! I've got no more freezer room for local venison!

You really, really need to stop that. You understand marriage, right?!

Yeah......I need to quit selling ####. Maybe buy a bigger safe.

This is one time I can utterly agree with a Chuck Hawks review. I had a wonderful little .223Axis I chopped down to 16" & it was consistently sub ½moa. I really, really regret parting with that one.

Lots. My 6.5 Swede is built around an Axis action. I'm a massive fan of the platform. But...... The action is great. Literally every other part of the firearm is cheaply built & it feels like it. Nothing (other than barrels) ate interchangeable with the 110 series, aftermarket support is almost non existent (besides Boyd's stocks) & although they're typically 'Savage accurate' they're really, really cheap feeling. I doubt you'd like it at all, to be honest. Nothing like a higher end Savage. I've dumped enough money into mine to have bought 2 Remington 700s now, but I had an idea in mind & well, we all know how that goes! Literally the only stock part is the action body itself.

I wish I'd never read this thread. It got me to thinking about a big folder I sold a few years ago. Sold it for what I thought was an exorbitant price back in '08, £200. I get to thinking I'd like to have another so I checked eBay. Yeah.....Mick Strider XL Custom Monkey Edge. They're between $1300 & $2000 now *sickening facepalm*

To answer a couple of questions..... Anything starting with a '2' or better will kill TN deer at all ranges you'll ever be shooting. Caliber is totally subjective, to be honest. My go-to deer rifle is a 6.5 Swede, among a stable of .308s, '-06s, .358s etc..... It's soft recoil, flat trajectory & wind-bucking ability at longer ranges find me picking it up more often than not. I've shot deer with bullets from 95gn, right up to 160s & they've all universally killed the deer, dead as a wedge. It's far from being my lightest or prettiest gun, but I know exactly how it shoots from the muzzle out to 500yds (if need be) I'm an unabashed fan of Vortex optics. Scopes, binos, the works. My 6.5 is topped with a bottom of the range, $150 Crossfire 4-12x42 (I think) with the bdc reticle & I don't think I've ever cranked it above 8 power (I actually prefer 2-7 power scopes for hunting) If I HAD to only keep one hunting gun for the rest of my life, it'd be my Tikka T3x in .30-06 It'll happily kill anything I'm ever going to shoot with it (including a 450lb cow elk, a couple of weeks back)