Will Carry

   If an LEO starts tail gating me and I think he's being unsafe, If a deer runs out in front of me, or a child, I'm going to stop fast, then I will pull off the road at a safe place. If he pulls off too and wants to chat, that's fine. I'm a law abiding tax payer and if he asks why I pulled over, I'll tell him straight up.  I have a good report with cops. My family is full of them.

Wow! Took his weapon and dropped out the magazine, in the blink of an eye.  Imagine what he could do if it was a real threat. Instead of holding that magazine he'd be holding your family jewels.

I tied a muzzle loader to a tree once and tied a string to the trigger. It worked, no problems.

I bought a Single Six without the magnum cylinder. Ruger said that for a price, they would fit a magnum cylinder for me. I decided to just stick with the 22lr cylinder, this revolver had a 5 inch barrel and the 22 magnum didn't offer that much. I do have a Single Six with a 9.5 inch barrel. A 22 magnum works well with the longer barrel.  How does 2000fps sound? Smokin'!

If I could just get my Hi-Point carbine to jam or fail to fire, I could probably think of a good joke.

    That could be but what kind of wind could blow a rock the size of a donut?  I think you are on to something even though the wheels being independently controlled doesn't mean they won't slip. It could have fallen off the rover and may have fallen on to the rover at some time previously! That's it!  I knew the rover was the most likely culprit but maybe the wheels aren't the cause. I love a mystery!      At a speed of 0.5 mph, I know it wasn't designed by a redneck. That's jest too slow.

  The Mars Rover is a source of potential energy.  Wheels rolling over rock, even slow rolling wheels, can slip if all of the weight of the rover is on the other wheels.  I see no other sources of enough energy to move a rock on Mars.  I'm thinking they are playing this for the media, trying to promote interest in the Mars Expedition.   Robert of NASHVILLE. I am very interested in astronomy, ever since I was a kid.  I know all the constellations and where many of the galaxies and nebula are. With computers you don't even need a telescope any more.

Anyone who has ever driven on rocky ground knows that wheels will kick up rocks. The Mars Rover that took this picture kicked up this rock as it drove away. I picked that up right away. If those Eggheads can't figure that out then they need to hire a Redneck to work with them.

Nice rifle! The 30-30 is the rifle I grew up shooting. It will put the meat on the table.

I knew it was one of them Yankees!  Thanks for the correction.  I am not sure about Sherman. I was taught that he was a pyromaniac that burned a sixty mile wide path through Georgia and South Carolina. Burned Atlanta and Columbia!  He was a villain when I grew up in Georgia.  Yet, after reading about him I don't hate him so much.  Houses, barns and even cities can be rebuilt but you cannot give a man his life back. I don't think Joe Johnston or John Bell Hood could have put the Army of Tennessee in a position to beat Sherman.  Who knows what Forrest could have done.

General Sherman once said "I want that devil Forrest dead if it costs us 10,000 troops and breaks the federal bank!"   After the war General Robert E. Lee was asked by a reporter "General, in your opinion, who was the best general of the war, north or south" Marse Lee responded "It is a man I have never met. His name is Forrest."   I have read Wyeth's book on Forrest and a few others. I still don't know what Forrest was really like. His tactics were brilliant. He never read a book on military tactics but he seemed to follow many of Tsun Tsu's doctrines.  He personally killed over 30 men and had nearly that many horses shot out from under him.  That was because he led from the front, a custom adopted by Patton and Rommel. If you have never read a book about Forrest, it is amazing what he did.  To me, he was the greatest cavalry leader I have ever read about. No offense to JEB Stuart but Forrest was not hampered by a West Point education.

   It's really hard to judge people who lived 150 years ago, by today's, politically corrected, standards. Is it possible to study the past without forming some kind of opinions? Probably not.       One of the reason's the southern colonies rebelled against the king of England was that the king was on the verge of abolishing slavery in his colonies. The rich southern aristocracy had amassed tremendous wealth and power through King Cotton and they did not want their system threatened.       Had the south successfully seceded from the union, how long would slavery have lasted?  King Cotton was a flash in the pan. The south didn't have much topsoil to begin with and cotton was ruining what there was. Before the Civil War you could travel from Atlanta to Montgomery and it would be one great cotton field after another. Now that soil is so bad it will hardly grow pines, scrub maple and briars. Much of it has been converted to pasture land because nothing else will grow there.

It is a little known fact that the Union occupation forces in West Tennessee were wrought with corruption. They did great injustice to Tennesseans living in the area.  The union commander of Fort Pillow (Lionel Booth) was a known scoundrel involved in smuggling, extortion, thievery and barbaric acts against civilians.  He occupied Fort Pillow against Grant's orders and used it as a base of operations for his criminal gang. You never here this part of history because the winners get to write their version. Lionel Booth was not his real name, he changed it to keep his own family members from hunting him down. Booth died at the battle of Fort Pillow.     Forest tried to stop the massacre but it had gotten out of hand. A group of union soldiers who had surrendered decided they wanted to UNsurrender, in the confusion of battle and the burning hatred of Forrest's men, it was hence called a massacre. A union army investigation cleared Forrest and his men of any wrong doing, but history did not.    Forrest once said to General Steven Lee, after Lee had lost a battle, "Don't feel bad general. If I had me a West Point education, the Yankees would be whippin' me too."  Forrest's tactics were studied in detail by a young German officer named Erwin Rommel.....

I have a CZ-75 SP-01. It has been 100% reliable.  Which puts it ahead of my Glock and tied with my XD-45.

The 38 special is going to be a shorter round than the .357 so you well get some build up at the end of your cylinder. This sometimes makes the .357 rounds a little harder to load. I just make sure I clean the cylinder bores and look to see if there is any build up. I shoot 38 special in my .357 often but it's not as much fun as a full house .357 load.

 At least you tried. Maybe you planted a seed. Sometimes that seed will grow.  I asked my son-in-law what he was going to do when someone breaks down his door and he doesn't have a gun.  I have taken him shooting twice and told him that I would GIVE him a Glock 19. He's afraid my grandchildren will shoot themselves with it.  It makes me want to scream!

Mine came with OWB holster.  I tried it and didn't like it. I carry mine IWB with an N8 Squared holster.

I have always liked the lever action 30-30. It has probably put more meat on the table than any other cartridge.  95% of the deer I have bagged have been from less than 100 yards, most have been 50 yards or less.  My second choice would be a bolt action 30-06 but I'm old fashion.

  I remember those Christmases in the 1970s on Grandma Carry’s farm.  She had seven children and lots of nieces and nephews. Now Grandma didn’t allow no spirits in the house but after a good Christmas dinner all the hippie liberals younguns and all the redneck conservative younguns would go out behind the horse barn and an hour later they’s come back all smilin’, red eyed and happy. They loved each other that night. Now that they have all grown up they don’t do that any more. It’s a shame.

That’s the best Christmas present ever! Thanks. May the peace of the Lord, which defies understanding, be with you always. (Lutheran)

I jumped on the .380 bandwagon a few years ago when all the pocket .380s came out.  I still have a P-238 and DB380. I don’t know why? The .380 is over priced and under powered.  I hope it’s a single stack 9mm, or an evil black revolver. Either way, I never buy a handgun when they first hit the stores. I did that with the DB380 and learned my lesson. 

  We didn’t learn that in 4th grade. I don’t even think zirconium oxide was invented when I was in the 4th grade.  After reading some reviews on Amazon, it seems I am not the only one to complain about the sharpness of these knives. Maybe I was expecting too much. I also Googled Zirconuim Oxide. Your never too old to learn. 

Thanks for the feedback but for $20 and the trouble, I’ll try two hundred more strokes. My wife has a set of Almar knives and a couple of high dollar Japanese knives that I can sharpen. If I mess up the blade on the ceramic knife…. I’ll use it to spread peanut butter. ;)

  I bought my wife a Boker ceramic kitchen knife that “never needs sharpening”.  It’s as dull as a butter knife.  I tried using my Lansky sharpener with a diamond encrusted stone. Two hundred strokes on each side and it’s still dull!  I guess I can try two hundred more…….

They haven’t just asked us to tolerate gays. I do just that. I tolerate those people just like anyone else. I don’t have to accept them, just tolerate them. I am OK with that, if you are gay, that’s OK with me. It’s a sin, but I am a sinner too. I cannot pull a splinter out of your eye, when I have a plank in my eye. The Bible is what it is, it says that being gay is a sin. We are all sinners. The gay people are just going to have to start accepting that. They cannot change what the Bible says, only that, through Jesus Christ, they CAN be forgiven. That’s all Phil was trying to say.