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A generous TGO Member unbeknownst to me gifted me with a Benefactor Membership. I have previously had benefactor memberships, but let my membership expire when things started getting tight. Whoever gifted this to me, I do not know why you did this, but I want you to know that I greatly appreciate it and that it was very kind of you to do so! In honor of this member's generosity, I would like to continue to pay it forward to other members of this forum. I am giving away a New In Box, Fisher Bullet Space Pen. This is a fantastic pen and excellent for Everyday Carry. When closed, it is only a few inches long and when open, it is nearly a full sized pen. It will write in any direction and on almost anything as well. A quick story regarding this pen. One of my good buddies this weekend had an accident on a Polairs where he managed to roll it over, break his arm and suffer an 11" complex laceration to his scalp. His skull was visible. After I got him to the hospital, I pulled out my own Fisher Bullet Space Pen and recorded his mother's telephone number on my arm. I was afraid that if I used my phone, it might get lost in cyberspace and since it was extremely important that I retain this number, I wrote it on my arm. It worked great! This pen is small enough that I actually keep it in my wallet. Rules: Everyone is welcome to participate but you must at least be a member at the time of this post. Post in this thread that you would like to be included in this giveaway. Benefactors and moderators will get two entries. I will draw a name via random number generator probably around Monday. When I draw the winner, I will PM you. Respond within 72 hours and include your address. If you don't respond, i will redraw a winner. Then enjoy your Space Pen! Regards, Slappy This is a picture of the actual pen I will be sending:

You're probably right. I'm gonna shoot it down anyway. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Just picked her up, Bought from a Gentleman on this great forum, my new Tavor! Thanks again AJ, I love it!

I added a Burris QD P.E.P.R. mount, a Nikon 4-12x40 Monarch scope, Troy flip-up rear and front sights, sling and slip-on recoil pad. I sighted in Troy sights at 100 yds and then re-attached QD scope/mount. I had to recenter scope which slid forward on rings after several rounds. Moved bullet impacts low and to left to center of target.

Doug, I hate listening to reporters report about things they clearly don't understand but they still report it as if they do. When they said he "missed" the airport at Tune, they should say the aircraft was attempting an instrument approach procedure ( pilot can't see the ground because of cloud height or visibility ). The pilot flying the aircraft for one reason or another didn't see the runway the first time he attempted the approach and chose to try the approach procedure again. He was, more than likely ( [b][u]supposed to be if he was in the clouds[/u][/b] ), in Nashville's FAA radar environment and getting radar vectors back to the final approach course to land on runway 2 at John Tune. John Tune airport is what is called an uncontrolled airport. Meaning there is no FAA control tower on the field so it would be the pilots responsibility to turn on the runway lights himself by using a series of radio clicks on a very specific radio frequency. As far as having someone there for him, that's the pilots call. He would only need a ride to where ever he was staying. Sometimes rental car companies leave a car for you at a place like Tune or the airport [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-base_operator"]FBO[/url] will let you barrow their "courtesy car" if they have one. I've done both 20 or 30 times. I took a date one time for a ride in the helicopter I was flying to another city where I knew a good restaurant was and I knew the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-base_operator"]FBO[/url] ( place where I parked my flying machine and bought gas from ) would treat us like Rock Stars. Let me tell you, it was a good date night but I digress. A few things I hear reporters say that drive me F^%@#$%@! crazy are like "gunned the engine", "aborted the landing" just to name a few. It really doesn't take much effort now days for reporters to [b]not[/b] sound as stupid as they really are. Flying can be a very unforgiving and instrument flying ( where you use only your instruments to fly ) is also a skill that is very perishable if not exercised often. I'm afraid that the aircraft last night [i]could[/i] have taken on ice. When the wings and the props ice up and when the anti-ice and de-ice capabilities of the airplane are exceeded, the aircraft turns into a very expensive very fast anvil. I've been ice before in an airplane that had great de-ice and anti-ice capabilities and it still was coming down whether I wanted it to or not. Luckily we were at 15,000 feet and got out of the icing conditions when we descended to a different altitude. I feel real bad for the families loss.

That's the one to be used for .45 ACP wounds. :)

Mobility and comfort are my big things. A pistol is a defensive weapon. If I think I'm gonna need body armor, I'm probably gonna need a rifle. Tapatalk ate my spelling.

Things that make you go . . . hmmmmmm . . . From the article: The sponges work fast: In just 15 seconds, they expand to fill the entire wound cavity, creating enough pressure to stop heavy bleeding. And because the sponges cling to moist surfaces, they aren’t pushed back out of the body by gushing blood. “By the time you even put a bandage over the wound, the bleeding has already stopped,” Steinbaugh says. How A Simple New Invention Seals A Gunshot Wound In 15 Seconds An Oregon startup has developed a pocket-size device that uses tiny sponges to stop bleeding fast. By Rose Pastore XStat When a soldier is shot on the battlefield, the emergency treatment can seem as brutal as the injury itself. A medic must pack gauze directly into the wound cavity, sometimes as deep as 5 inches into the body, to stop bleeding from an artery. It’s an agonizing process that doesn't always work--if bleeding hasn't stopped after three minutes of applying direct pressure, the medic must pull out all the gauze and start over again. It’s so painful, “you take the guy’s gun away first,” says former U.S. Army Special Operations medic John Steinbaugh. Even with this emergency treatment, many soldiers still bleed to death; hemorrhage is a leading cause of death on the battlefield. "Gauze bandages just don't work for anything serious," says Steinbaugh, who tended to injured soldiers during more than a dozen deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. When Steinbaugh retired in April 2012 after a head injury, he joined an Oregon-based startup called RevMedx, a small group of veterans, scientists, and engineers who were working on a better way to stop bleeding. XStat, before and after RevMedx recently asked the FDA to approve a pocket-size invention: a modified syringe that injects specially coated sponges into wounds. Called XStat, the device could boost survival and spare injured soldiers from additional pain by plugging wounds faster and more efficiently than gauze. The team’s early efforts were inspired by Fix-a-Flat foam for repairing tires. “That’s what we pictured as the perfect solution: something you could spray in, it would expand, and bleeding stops,” says Steinbaugh. “But we found that blood pressure is so high, blood would wash the foam right out.” So the team tried a new idea: sponges. They bought some ordinary sponges from a hardware store and cut them into 1-centimeter circles, a size and shape they chose on a whim but later would discover were ideal for filling wounds. Then, they injected the bits of sponge into an animal injury. “The bleeding stopped,” says Steinbaugh. “Our eyes lit up. We knew we were onto something.” After seeing early prototypes, the U.S. Army gave the team $5 million to develop a finished product. But kitchen sponges aren’t exactly safe to inject into the body. The final material would need to be sterile, biocompatible, and fast-expanding. The team settled on a sponge made from wood pulp and coated with chitosan, a blood-clotting, antimicrobial substance that comes from shrimp shells. To ensure that no sponges would be left inside the body accidentally, they added X-shaped markers that make each sponge visible on an x-ray image. “By the time you put a bandage over the wound, the bleeding has already stopped.” The sponges work fast: In just 15 seconds, they expand to fill the entire wound cavity, creating enough pressure to stop heavy bleeding. And because the sponges cling to moist surfaces, they aren’t pushed back out of the body by gushing blood. “By the time you even put a bandage over the wound, the bleeding has already stopped,” Steinbaugh says. Getting the sponges into a wound, however, proved to be tricky. On the battlefield, medics must carry all their gear with them, along with heavy body armor. RevMedx needed a lightweight, compact way to get the sponges deep into an injury. The team designed a 30 millimeter-diameter, polycarbonate syringe that stores with the handle inside to save space. To use the applicator, a medic pulls out the handle, inserts the cylinder into the wound, and then pushes the plunger back down to inject the sponges as close to the artery as possible. XStat sponges Three single-use XStat applicators would replace five bulky rolls of gauze in a medic’s kit. RevMedx also designed a smaller version of the applicator, with a diameter of 12 millimeters, for narrower injuries. Each XStat will likely cost about $100, Steinbaugh says, but the price may go down as RevMedx boosts manufacturing. If the FDA approves XStat, it will be the first battlefield dressing created specifically for deep, narrow wounds. Gauze, the standard treatment for gunshot and shrapnel injuries, is only approved by the FDA for external use, but “everyone knows that if you get shot, you have to pack gauze into the wound,” says Steinbaugh. When RevMedx submitted its application to the FDA, the U.S. Army attached a cover letter requesting expedited approval. According to Steinbaugh, RevMedx and the military are now in final discussions with the FDA. Last summer, RevMedx and Oregon Health and Science University won a seed grant, sponsored by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to develop a version of XStat to stop postpartum bleeding. In the future, RevMedx hopes to create biodegradable sponges that don’t have to be removed from the body. To cover large injuries, like those caused by land mines, the team is working on an expanding gauze made of the same material as XStat sponges. “I spent the whole war on terror in the Middle East, so I know what a medic needs when someone has been shot, ” Steinbaugh says. “I’ve treated lots of guys who would have benefitted from this product. That’s what drives me.” Rose Pastore is an assistant editor at Popular Science. Follow her on Twitter at @RosePastore. http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/how-simple-new-invention-seals-gunshot-wound-15-seconds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBXvrVgWToM   Man that is so awesome, especially when they show the absurdity of how the administration thinks a camera thwarts more terrorists than a big ass patrolled fence.  :rofl:

#90. I case anyone hadn't figured it out, the order we placed our orders in had nothing to do with what number we got. I would have been the last to order, or at least close to it. I got my order in just after the deadline, which is funnily enough why I will choose to business with CMT again should I need anything they offer, hands down. I was expecting to have to beg and plead to get on the list after deadline, nope, took my info, thanked me for working with them and off the phone in less than 15minutes. Class act all the way.

Dave, Luke, Ruger and other participants of this thread, yall visit the General Chat section and enter yourself into my giveaway.  

Grandpa's New I-Pad!!! Here's an example of what happens when the young ones give gifts of technology to the old ones! A daughter is visiting her father. She asks: "Tell me dad, how are you managing with the new iPad we gave you for your birthday?" This is in German...but no subtitles are needed: Just need to watch it... http://www.snotr.com/video/8965/   Got this from another TGO member

  I see you left some out, FTFY. I mean, obviously for $1900 it comes with some perks, right?

    Mine are quite well protected.  My wife keeps them in her purse.  I don't really need them anymore anyway...

http://www.wbir.com/story/news/local/military/2014/02/03/mossy-grove-lines-streets-for-soldiers-return/5195987/ Went to high school with this guy, so glad he made it home safe.

     Glad to hear he's doing well and hopefully he won't need the surgery. I had a whole mess of staples around my left leg at the the knee when I pretty much had my leg torn off and had a handful in the other knee as well. I'd much rather have stitches because the staples are so rigid that they seems to always be trying to rip you open more, not to mention I've always taken out my own stitches and saved myself a trip to the doc but the staples aren't quite that easy ;) . Joe is exactly right, i'll take 1 calm guy that doesn't know everything, standing back over 3 knowledgeable folks that are layin' on the panic button all up in the way. That person always ends up being valuable, especially when out in the field or woods because someone needs to be able to communicate rationally over the phone whether it be with family members or a dispatcher and also be making the plans to get the person moved and write down anything that comes up. I crunched my right akle up bad enough that it wouldn't even keep my foot in place and the other two guys that were with me were so paniced that I ended up having to be the rational one as well as the injured. I made the call to line up a driver the the ER as well as rigged up something to keep my foot in place so I could get on the bike and ride back to the road. That was a fancy thing I rigged up too, It consisted of part of a atv gun rack, 2 bungee straps and a piece of an old 2x4 that happened to be laying on the creek bank. My point is, having the ability to stay calm and logical is often times more important than anything else. Let us know how the Dr. appointment goes tomorrow.

Done. Thanks man

Doing good, thanks. The last couple of months has been crazy busy for me with a lot of travel. Work, kids, wife, work... where has time gone, lol. I started suffering from TGO withdrawal though.

What's happening Batman? Haven't seen your posts in a while, before deer season I think I talked to you on here daily ha ha. Hope you're doing good. Several guys on here have offered to let me and several others partake in yote dispatching, and I can't wait to go!

Looks better than the Mossberg tactical lever rifle.

  Don't worry hardknox, I've got a brother who is a software/computer guru/engineer/savant who talks like this.  I think all those guys actually take ancient Sumerian in college and throw that language in just to confuse the rest of us ...

So you want a NIB never shot gun here you go... http://dealernfa.com/shop/sealed-nib-colt-m16a2-commando-22-rare-8030009/ Someone cashed in 5-IRA's, Ruben sold 5 of these last week for $40k ea.

I have #53, but it's #1 to me!  :-)

[quote name="RC3" post="1106132" timestamp="1391546768"]So, what about that little guy up top? And how much does the TACOPS go for? I have two regrents D100's and they have been fantastic. Really well machined for their price. And just like hipower said, there IS something about the 1911 that can not be described.[/quote] That feller at the top is the mall ninja insurance policy. You know where you hear these guys that say never shoot a perfect score cause if you are in a shooting it will be used against you. And after I shot this I went out and found tinfoil on sale and made a bunch of cool hats. Not really... That was the first round out, first time I ever shot a 1911 or a 45. I would expect to see the price on a Tacops between $1000-$1100 depending on the dealer. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

The penalty is staggering for illegally possessing an item that does nothing but suppress sound.

When and if body armor is as comfortable as an undershirt I may consider it.  Until then it's just and odds of needing thing vs hassle factor.  My odds of needing body armor or even my handgun are fairly low, but the hassle of carrying is not very much and as of now the hassle of wearing armor is pretty high.   For those saying "Why go where you need armor?"...I ask "Why go where you need a firearm?"

I couldn't shoot up 65000 rounds before I died. Not with the .22's I got.

YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Clean rifle though, props.

I think it's a ploy by Coca Cola to make everyone forget they are peddling poison in a can.

Me, too...I was more than a little disappointed.   Mine had rust on the mag tube cap when I bought it.   I have one box of the Rio left. If it cycles all of them this weekend I am going to call it good.

As far as I can see, no one, I mean NO ONE has any right buzzing around your house without your consent. If you want to look at my roof or anything else for that matter, just a simple knock on the door to ask permission. Better yet, if I didn't call you...leave me alone! As far as I'm concerned it's an invasion of privacy to do otherwise, and your little drone will be dealt with accordingly. I live out in the county and shoot at least one shot daily at my chosen target. Adding a drone to that target list is as easy as pie! By law, I can't shoot a peeping human, but a drone is fair game in my book!   Dave

Sounds like fun. Weak hand standards? What kind of twisted MD would do that? B)

[quote name="gregintenn" post="1104343" timestamp="1391207699"]If price isn't a concern, I'd recommend a Green Egg.[/quote] Big Green Egg. It has changed my life. Seriously. I'd mortgage the house a second time before giving up the egg.

   Annnnnnd now i'm second guessing hitting the woods in search of hogs with you Dave! ;) Just kidding, it actually sounds like a good time so long as everyone is well prepared and equipped.

First, welcome to the board.  Second, let me recommend that you have a house, a car, and a good career before going beyond the rifle and pistol that you already have.  Guns are a strange addiction.  You will never satisfy your addiction to guns, ammo, holsters, IWB, OWB, paper targets, range bags, gun cleaning supplies, oils, rags, rods, safes, reloading, benches, books, gun magazines, gun magazines that you read, gun shows, armslist, TGO, other forums, ebay, Amazon, Midway, Brownells, powder, boolits, and did I mention guns?  More guns, and more guns, and.........................See what I mean.  :screwy:

TigerDirect.com, Newegg.com, Best Buy...

So I couldn't stay out of the woods too long! This is day one of my LBL coyote hunt. Got a buddy and his 16 yr old brother with me. Second set of the day at the 4 minute mark 3 came in hot and busted the 16 yr old as he mounted the gun. 3 dogs, 3 shots and no fur busted. Made about 5 other sets today and no luck. Gonna beat em up pretty hard tomorrow and head home after lunch. Hoping tomorrow will be more productive. Nothing like 3 dogs full tilt at you to break the winter blues. And it's all on GoPro vid!

  That's probably because the players keep embarrassing themselves with them.

I'm still using the #2 pencil. :D Haven't picked up the forms and publications yet, however.

  The metal finish has gone to hell also. Lots of the entry level 870s with rust on the shelf in last few years too.   - OS

I would gladly own any one of those baby poop green rifles.

    You can watch the following page for updates.  It has not yet been added to a calendar.     http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1771&GA=108 Last year, I posted updates as often as I could and kept the board in the know with the calendar.  I'll be doing the same this year. 

New one

If there is somewhere that I feel I need a vest, then my defense is not to go there. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Wearing a vest and getting in a shoot out or even defending yourself... Your not going to fend very well in court. Good luck with that. If you need a vest or personally feel the need, you should be carrying a much bigger weapon than a pistol, and at that point, you probably have a lot more to worry about.

I agree Jason, I bet they don't get returned. Almost doesn't seem possible to double charge a long rifle .22 though. In a modern .22, you'd think the hot load would work fine. Most .22 mag models are the same rifle, just a longer chamber.

John did mine and was a pleasure to work with.  Answered the tons of questions I had.    

Y'all have found me out at last!

  Rats, how could you deny us such an ongoing source of valuable public service information? You must have been a DHS mole all this time!   - OS

use a cpa you will be glad you did in the long run