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One of the nicest pistols you will ever see or hold, the Browning Medalist 22lr is phenomenal. It is as accurate as it is gorgeous. Comes like new in the display box with the goodies. Like most of these, this looks like it has hardly ever been shot. Pristine is an understatement. Made in Belgium in 1969. Don’t miss your chance to take this home this investment that you can pass down. I am only selling this because I have another like it. Local pickup at my Brentwood office or I can meet towards Cookeville on weekends. 1400 obo Rick

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Engraved Smith & Wesson Pre-Model 18 22lr for sale. This is a gorgeous piece of functional art. Engraver unknown but the work is well done. Gun is in wonderful shape for a gun over 60 years old. Lovely piece to add to your collection. Local pickup at my Brentwood office or I can ship at your expense since I have a C&R FFL. Gun is also listed on the SW Forum, but I wanted to list it here as well for my Tennessee brethren. 1500.00 Rick

Colt Custom 1911 in 38 Super…Bright Stainless ‘Centennial’ Edition for sale. Only taken out of the box for pictures. Bought new in 2011 to celebrate the 100 years of service. Absolutely stunning. Hard to photograph because of the glare.:) Comes new in the box with the shipping case as well. Never fired and pristine. Rollmarked to celebrate the 2011 100th anniversary of the 1911. Priced less than GB closed auctions. Save the tax and shipping. Local pickup in Brentwood at my office or I can meet towards Cookeville on weekends. 2500 obo

HK SP5K with 2 30 rnd mags and extra threaded barrel for sale. Excellent condition with hardly any use. Has been a true safe queen. What you see is wha you get. I can’t locate the bungee cord sling or the manual, but that’s easy to get. These are ‘made in Germany’ quality. If you know, you know. Comes with threaded barrel and extra handguard. Barrel must be installed by an armorer. Priced accordingly at 2000.00 Local pickup at my Brentwood office. Possible meet towards Smithville on weekends. Don’t miss this chance. My reputation and feedback speak for themselves. Rick

For sale -- nice condition Swiss K31, 7.5 Swiss, with original sling, original bayonet, and two original stripper clips. Matching serial numbers on bolt and receiver date this gun to 1940. Photos show butt of stock is in good condition; no water damage from standing in the snow, as is seen on many of these guns. With the bayonet and stripper clips included, this one is ready to load up and go fight Nazis. $725 to an honest citizen legally able to purchase long guns. I live in Chattanooga and will drive a reasonable distance for a deal. For trades, right now I'm looking for a shooter-grade over/under 12-gauge shotgun with 28" barrels. A Browning Citori would be great (I can add some cash for boot if needed but I don't want a shotgun that costs as much as a car). Other trades considered, but I already have all the plastic pistols and ARs that I need. Thanks for looking, Whisper

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The knives are the same blank as well as the handles made from Walnut. 4116 SS 4MM thick. OAL is 10" and blade is around 5 1/2". The only thing that makes them different are the carving shapes and colors in the handle. Comes with leather sheath shown. $100 shipped. Never store your knife for long periods in the leather sheath as it tends to hold moisture and could cause rusting, tarnishing or discoloration. 1. Sold to Snaveba 2. Sold to KahrMan 3. Sold to ArmyBrat61 4. Sold to hlb14

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My father bought this new in 2002 and has had it till my son bought it this past year as his first car. It has 213000 miles and is still mechanically solid. $5000 Nashville area. The Bad: It's older and has a few dings, specifically in the driver door, rear bumper, and a crack across the windshield. The check engine light is on due to the O2 sensor. Interior is good but is starting to get thin. It's 22years old! The Good: It has new front and rear brakes, new front end including suspension. It was re-painted white (factory color) this summer, new headlights, and new front bumper. Toolbox is in decent shape and everything works. It's a solid work, utility, towing V8 Toyota.

I just put 2 on an enclosed and they are running on the rear axle. For me it makes sense to have a new one on each side

I love compensated guns. When I saw Colt decided to drill ports into the Anaconda, I knew I end up with one. And here it is. I will say I am impressed with the build quality they are now delivering. Some may recall the Anaconda I had posted here a year ago or so which had to go back home for timing and barrel cant corrections. Colt did a fantastic job taking care of it, but left me of the opinion that they still had production bugs to work out. Happy to report this Kodiak is perfect in every way. Not only is the build quality spot-on, but the action is even a little slicker than the Anaconda's was. Very much looking forward to seeing how it shoots

Now that Republicans have control of all three branches, it would be the best time to push for this to pass. @Worriedman, is TFA and or GOA in any discussions to get this pushed through before we lose steam in this new administration? S.401 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Hearing Protection Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

All are the same 4116 SS blank that is 8 1/4" long with a blade of about 3 3/4". They are 4 MM thick. All have jimping on spine and come with combo kydex/leather sheath shown. All the handles are stabilzed. They are $105 shipped. 1. Double dyed oak. Dark green and white accents with dark green liners. 2. Stabilized oak with tan and cocobolo accents. 3. Double dyed with lime green and white accents. Has hammered look on sides of blade. 4. Triple dyed with red and white accents. 5. Single dyed with Black and white accents with black liners. Has hammered look on sides of blade.

This is the discontinued model of the Springfield Loaded MC Operator with G10 grips. The gun has less than 400 rounds thru it. Will come with the original 2 magazines, case with all paperwork, custom High Noon Slide Guard holster and 1 box of Federal FMJ 230 grain ammo. $950 or best offer. SOLD Must be legal to own and show TDL . HCP permit preferred. For sale only in the Knoxville area.

(I got this hunt through the Sako forum. It was used as a way to raise money for the site. I wrote this for that site but thought I would also post it here.) My first decision to make was deciding on what rifle to take. Spaher offered up one of his Sako’s if I did not want to bring my own. The choice came down to either my Finnbear in .338 win or my M995 in .30-06. I though the .338 was a little much so I opted to bring the M995. This would be the M995’s first hunt. I have a bad habit of buying guns and putting them into the safe and not shooting them. Time to go to the range and sight this beauty in. The M995 is topped with a Swarovski Habicht 6-18x50 scope. My local indoor range has a 75 yard rifle range. I didn’t have time to get to the outdoor range so 75 yards would have to do. The first three shots were cloverleafed at 75 yards about 3” inches left and 1.3” high. I adjusted the scope and got it shooting dead on right to left and still about 1.3” high at 75 yards. That should give me a dead on hold out to approx. 250 yards. I was shooting Federal Premium168 grain Vital Shok with Sierra Gameking BTSP bullets. The plan was to arrive on Wednesday around noon. We would have a light lunch, go verify zero on the rifle and then head out for an afternoon hunt. I had decided to drive down. I am the kind of guy that likes to drive straight through instead of splitting the drive up and getting a hotel. So I took off from Nashville and drove straight through till I arrived at the ranch. Spaher was running a couple of errands so he had one of his buddies meet me at the gate. The first thing that I noticed was how well maintained the road was leading down to the kitchen and bunk houses. We get to the bunk houses and park and that’s where I met his ranch manager. Super nice guy. He got me set up in a room and showed me around the main camp area. We were having lunch when Spaher came in. He instantly made me feel welcome. We sat and talked for awhile. Not only is Spaher into deer and land management but also history. It was fascinating learning a lot about the lands history. After verifying zero on the rifle it was time for our afternoon hunt. Spaher does a lot to manage his property. He does supplemental feeding with corn and protein for the wildlife. Just understand that these deer are 100% wild deer. It is not high fenced, there are no pen raised deer or anything like that. Spaher does a lot of culling to make sure he has the right mix of bucks to does and the correct bucks that have potential to grow into giants. They run a lot of cameras on the ranch so they can keep track of the deer from year to year. That way they know what needs to be culled and what needs a chance to grow. The brush can get a little thick on this property. It is full of cactuses and other thorny plants. Because of that Spaher asks that you shoot the deer right through the front shoulder. He does not want the deer to be able to run very far. That afternoon we went to a blind that was beside a pond. It was not long before a fawn came out to feed and play. Not long after more deer kept coming out of the brush to feed and drink. There was a pretty even mixture of does and young bucks. Where I hunt it is a good day to see a couple of deer. I had a blast just getting to watch all the deer. There were 5 young bucks between a spike and up to a small 8 pt and 7 does. About 20 minutes before dark another buck comes out and you can instantly tell he is a mature deer. The ranch manager glasses him for a minute and say that is one on our hit list. I have not seen him in over a year. After a minute or two he says aren’t you going to put your rifle up and shoot him. Not sure why but for some reason I had it in my head that I was going to be shooting cull bucks. So I say I can shoot him? He responds that’s why you are here. Well then the buck fever hit me. This was a beautiful 14 pt. He was a perfect 6x6 with split brow tines. I put the cross hair on his shoulder and pulled the trigger. He bolted off into the underbrush. We wait a few minutes and then go look for blood. We get to where he was standing and can not find any blood. My stomach just drops. I get that sick feeling that I made a bad shot. A few minutes later the ranch hands show up. They are expert trackers. One of the hands found a piece of hair with a little meat attached to it right where he was standing. Still not sure how I missed it. They head off into the brush tracking the deer by his footprints. About 60 yards in they found a couple of drops of blood where it looks like the deer stopped and stood for a minute or two. I was not a lot of blood. It was dark now so they decided to pull out and look again in the morning. After talking it over the with the ranch manager we think I shot low and hit the deers’ leg. Nothing I could do now except hope we find him in the morning. So we head back to camp and get cleaned up for dinner. There is just something magical about sipping on bourbon while steaks cook over a live mesquite fire. We had a great dinner and then off to bed. The next morning the manager and I go a different blind. We are sitting there in the dark waiting for it to get light when he says hear all that crunching. I am like what is that. He says that is a bunch of javalina. They are very loud eaters. As it got light enough to see I could make out 20-30 javalina feeding off to our right. I am watching the javalina when the manager says he sees 2 deer at the end of field. We can 2 bodies through our binoculars but can’t make out if they are bucks or does yet. After a couple of very long minutes we can make out that they are both bucks. We watch them for about 10 minutes and the manager says lets take the one on the right. He is an older mature deer. He looked like a solid 8 or maybe a 10, I was not positive. I ranged him at just over a 100 yards. I took my time, put the cross hairs right at the top of his shoulder and squeezed the trigger. I saw him hunch up a little and then take off into the underbrush. The manager says I head the bullet hit him. We message the trackers and then head up to where the buck was standing. We start looking around and again we can not find any blood. I am thinking what the hell is going on. The trackers get there and we show which way the deer went. They follow the tracks pointing out where they could see the deer turn but still can not find any blood. After another turn or two one of the trackers yells found him. Talk about a sense of relief. We head over that direction and find him piled up next to a tree with broken branch laying across him. First thing I did was look for my shot placement. Sure enough there was an entrance hole right in the middle of his shoulder. I hit him right where I was aiming. He was standing broadside when I shot him. The weird part is there was also an exit hole but it was 4-5”s back near the back of the rib cage. So we have an entrance and exit hole but not one drop of blood could be found. As soon as we moved the deer and its body shifted, blood started flowing out of the exit hole. It was then I started looking at the rack. We have all heard about ground shrinkage but this was the opposite for me. The rack looked a lot bigger than what I thought it was. It turned out to be a beautiful 11 pt. I was estatic. The deer in my neck of the woods are a lot smaller. We load the deer up and head off to the processing shed. The ranch processes a lot of deer every year. Over the years they have devised a very efficient system for getting the deer from field to cooler. The first thing we do is weight the deer. They have a hoist attached to a rail system like you would see at a butcher shop. After it is weighed it is slid over to these angled holders. The deer is put into the holders. There is a big rubber bucket at the end of the holders. The stomach is sliced open. The pelvis gets split with an axe and all the gut are pulled down into the rubber bucket. The deer gets pulled back up with the hoist and slid over to outside the cooler. It is then hosed down inside and out. All the mud and blood is washed off the deer. Then it is pushed right into the cooler to hang. This cooler can hold over 100 deer. The whole time from weighing it till it was in the cooler took less than 5 minutes. I am not kidding when I say this is an efficient operation. After the deer was in the cooler we went back to have some breakfast while the trackers went back to look for my deer from the night before. After searching some more they could not find any more sign from the deer. We are assuming I grazed the leg and the deer will survive. At least I did not leave a mortally wounded deer out there although I am still sick about making the bad shot. After lunch we make our afternoon plans. Spaher decides to take me out and we go back the blind where I missed the 14pt. Knowing he is injured we are hoping he comes back to the pond for water. We see a lot of deer that evening but nothing mature. After dinner we retire to the Spahers Cigar Bar. The back of the kitchen is one of the coolest man caves you will ever see. Spaher has a couple of humidors, several nice leather chairs and a bar. There are a lot of beautiful deer taken from the ranch mounted on the walls along with other trophys he has gotten. This is where you sit around, smoke cigars, drink whiskey and tell lies. It is a great way to end a long day of hunting. Next morning the ranch manager takes me out again to a new spot. Not long after light we start seeing deer. Again it is a good mixture of fawn, does and young bucks. We are watching the deer feed and mill around. In the mix was a nice 8 pt and a real nice 10 pt. The 10 pt was a young deer probably 3.5 yo. He has good potential. The ranch manager, after comparing the older 8 pt to the younger 10 pt, decided he wanted to cull the 8 pt and told me to get ready to shoot. This was about a 90 yard shot. I had to wait till the deer behind him cleared out of the way. I put the cross hairs on his shoulder and squeezed the trigger. Another solid hit but again he took off into the underbrush. I walked up to where he was standing and looked the way he took off. It was fairly open in that spot and I could see him on the ground about 35 yards away. This time there was good blood spray all the way to him. The strange thing is that the bullet performed exactly like the last one. He was standing broadside and the bullet entered the center of the shoulder and exited about 5”s back at the rear of the ribs. The trackers soon showed up and we got this 8 pt back to the processing shed. This deer was 4.5 yo and weighed 196 lbs. One of the rules the ranch has for culling deer is if a deer reached 4 yo and is only an 8 pt or less he is culled. The ranch manager explained it like this. Since they want to keep a good mix between bucks and does they have to decide which bucks to take. He would rather put time into trying to grow the young 10 pt into a monster instead of hoping the older 8 might get bigger. The younger deer just had more potential so the older one gets culled. After the 8 pt was in the cooler we all head to a local spot for a late breakfast/early lunch. For the final evening hunt Spahers friend took me out. We went to a spot that was more open field and light underbrush than the other spots we had been hunting. About an hour before dark we started seeing deer. Young bucks and does but nothing mature. All of sudden something spooked them and they took off running. We are looking around and then we hear the distinctive call of the sandhill crane. 4 large sandhills land right where the deer had been feeding. They fed for a few minutes and then took off. As soon as they left the deer came back out to feed. Right before dark another buck came out. I was told to get ready to shoot but wait for the ok. I get my scope on him and he is a pretty, symmetrical 10 pt. After what seemed like forever I was told to go ahead a take him. I squeezed the trigger and he dropped in his tracks. Whew, we did not have to track this one. Growing up when I would think about what my ideal deer would look like it was always a symmetrical 10 pt. When I walked up to this guy and got a good look at his rack you could not wipe the smile off my face. This guy was thick as well. I think that is why the racks always looked bigger once I got to the deer. The body size is so much larger than I am used to that the racks don’t stand out as much compared to the big body. This guy weighed in at 236 lbs. When I bid on the hunt I had no idea what a great experience this would turn out to be. Spaher is an interesting fellow and a great host. It is rare to find someone as knowledgeable, as gracious and as willing to share what he has with a stranger as Spaher. I can not thank him enough for the experience. For the longest time I have been in the mode of acquiring stuff whether it be guns or whatever. Now I am at the stage of life where I want to get rid of some of my “stuff” and replace it with memories. I sold a couple of rifles I never shoot and purchased this trip. What a great trade off. I got rid of something I never use and replaced it with memories that will last me a lifetime.

I have for sale a P.Beretta-Gardone V.T. model 948 chambered in .22 long rifle. The gun is in decent shape. Made in Italy and dates back to the 1950’s. Has a 3.5 inch barrel. Comes with two mags. 21+ sale only Located in Knoxville Price: $450 *Must be a TN resident and legally allowed to own a firearm. Must be willing to fill out a bill of sale.

I know there’s gotta be some Andy Griffith Show fans around here. Has anyone ever noticed that the rifles in the gun rack of Sheriff’s Taylor’s office changed every show? I did years ago, but just now finished watching “The Loaded Goat” for the umpteenth time and the hardware changed in the middle of the show!

I HAVE AN EXCELLANT CONDITION MARLIN SS 1894 JM STAMPED 20" BARREL 44 MAG/44 SPEC WITH LEUPOLD VX-FREEDOM 1.5-4.0X20 WITH MOA RECTICLE, BASE AND RINGS PLUS SKINNER FRONT SIGHT. $1500 OBO FOR RILE $1860 OBO FOR RIFLE/SCOPE/RINGS/BASE TRADE INTERESTS: STEVENS 311 SxS 16 GA OR 410 GA (PARTIAL TRADE AND BOOT), REMINGTON 1100 16 GA OR 12GA WITH VENTILATED RIB (PARTIAL TRADE AND BOOT). RUGER SS MARK III 22 CAL WITH 5 1/2 BARREL OR SHORTER (PARTIAL TRADE AND BOOT). BUYER MUST BE LEGAL TO OWN A RILE AND HAVE TN DRIVERS LICENSE AND/OR TN HCP (PREFERRED) PM ME IF INTERESTED.

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All are 4116 SS 4MM thick. All come with leather sheath shown. Never store a knife in a leather sheath long term as leather more often than not retains moisture even from humidity changes. Remember even stainless is not completely rust proof....it just stains much less! 1. 10 3/4" over all with 5 3/4" blade. Walnut handle with SS fingerguard. $130 shipped. 2. 9 3/4" with 5" blade. C10 patterned handle with thumb jimping on spine. Brass pins and lanyard tube. Red G10 liners. $110 shipped. 3. 11 3/4' long with 5" 5 1/2" blade. Full flat grind with polished flats. SS finger guard and pins. Water buffalo handle. $120 shipped. 4. 9 3/4" with 5" blade, thumb jimping on spine. Handle is made from a hodge podge of different woods. $120 shipped.

Goodmorning folks. Sorry I haven't checked in lately. Overall, I'm reasonably Ok. Finished cardiac rehab in one piece. Now in physical therapy for my back. This week winds that up. Hasn't helped much. Probably will have to do the shots. Remains to be seen. Have difficulty walking. Legs weak & short of breath. Using a cane to help out..Finally swallowed my ego & got a handicapped placard. As the song said, Im doing pretty good for the shape I'm in. LOL. Hope all you folks are doing well. FYI, spare parts are hard to come by for old folks. See ya, ........

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Grunt 67, I had a heart attack on April 15. Went to Acencion ST Thomas Rutherford and they put 2 more stints in (total 11 now) and cleared a blood clot that blocked my "windowmaker" 100 %. My cardiologist is at St Thomas West in Nashville. I was lucky to get through it. I did the rehab, and it really helped me. I am now having difficulty with stamina. Can only work hard for a couple hours, maybe 3. Takes days to get over the heavy exercitation. Being 76 has some to do with it, however I can really tell a difference after the attack. My daughter has a horse farm, and I go out and help her sometimes. Usually finished in 3 hours and really exhausted for the rest of the day. I feel good and have no heart pain so consider myself lucky to still be here. I give God all the credit for showing mercy to me, and my wife, and allowing me to still be in this realm. I very well could have entered the next realm on April 15th. I am one of God's faithful followers. I have put my faith in His Son Jesus and believe he will do what He has told us in the pages of the Bible. I have accomplished the thing I need to do to put myself into a position to be able to take advantage of God's saving grace through faith in Jesus. Guys, believe me, you should do it also. Our time here is limited. We are not meant to stay in this realm forever. Please I urge you to prepare yourselves.

I also use https://shootingtargets7.com for probably 90% of my steel and would probably go 100% now. I had a few targets before I found shootingtargets7. I color code my targets since the thick steel doesn't ring well when hit with a .22. My Red targets are .22 only, Yellow is for handguns and carbines, Green is for pretty much anything I own. Obvious all of them can be used for .22. I have a hill going up into a thick forest behind the house so my range is scattered on the hill and form a natural backstop. I shoot from my back deck, so I'm shooting down at the closer targets plus all of them are tilled to deflect down. I find the rubber mulch that Aldi's puts on sale most every spring to be good cover for under targets. This is my 10 yard target. I know it seems close but I'm probably 10 feet or more above the target. This is my longer targets. These pictures were taken about 4 years ago so the trees have grown up a lot. I have to keep up with the trimming. I also have a place for paper targets beside the 10 yard target and at the upper Green targets for zeroing in site. I have a portable shooting bench I can setup down the drive away to get longer shots to the upper green targets but seldom us it. I also have a rimfire dueling tree that I bring out once in awhile. Hope this gives you some ideas, feel free to ask questions.

I recently within the last 6 months took on a Ruger SFAR in .308- I didn't know at that time how much I would enjoy shooting a larger caliber AR- But I like it plenty-

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Governor Bill Lee-Marsha Blackburn and Bill Haggerty had a lot to do with stopping the Feds also- So remember if they are your Senators help them stay in office-

This has been one of my Grails for many years and I finally picked one up today. Langdon Tactical 92G Centurion Hoping to hit the range this weekend for some quality time.