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I had the frame of my wife's Shield Cerakoted Tiffany Blue and just got it picked up last night. I just took a few minutes and put it all back together so figured I would post a pic here. [URL=http://s303.photobucket.com/user/lukeduke_03/media/Mobile%20Uploads/6B7A299F-C2CF-490A-80F1-3C298CA6E018.jpg.html][/URL]

OK, I know that this isn't a firearm. However, I noted a few others posting items they're proud of. This is one of mine! While in Iraq in '06 our Motor Pool OIC brought his knife-making equipment (he forges and makes his own). He taught some of how to make knives when we had some free time. My blade has been cut (with a plasma torch) from a piece of HMWWV armor (off an old vehicle). smoothed and shaped by me. The handle is a piece of wood from a door frame out of one of Saddam's palaces (Radwaniah Palace, southern end of BIAP). Start to finish:

  What I was thinking. It's TGO. We'll have this case solved way before the TBI :)

Bread and milk my brothers, bread and milk...

  There is just as much if not more anecdotal evidence that initially presenting your permit during a traffic stop gets you out of a ticket, and that the vast majority of LEOs will not care about disarming you.   - OS

Just in from the Knoxville zoo. Taken moments ago: [URL=http://s963.photobucket.com/user/runco0318/media/giraffe_zps095d7ddf.jpg.html][/URL]

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  Personally, I would rather see Prius's and other hybrids!  :)

Whoever they bring in will only be worse.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Hope he lives the rest of his life with Bubba in the Gray Bar Motel.....................jmho

[quote name="Hershmeister" post="1109830" timestamp="1392235231"]Ive run into one or two idiots with vertical grips on their pistol versions of rifles.And as far as why, would you want to be the range owner and have someone accidentaly hurt someone with an illegal gun - i guarantee you'd be suffering from a civil suit suggesting some liability. You may win, but having good policies is smart business.[/quote] If I was a range owner I wouldn't want anyone to hurt anyone with any gun. I don't expect it to make any difference in a lawsuit, especially since every range I have seen requires a waiver of liability, although we know what that's worth. In the end, they are welcome to ask and I am welcome to go elsewhere if I don't like their rules. I'm ok with that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

  Or GA or AL.     Unless something has changed, no retail walk in there.   - OS

We went to Mammoth cave & also took a tour of the Corvette factory a few years ago & they said that area has hundreds of sinkholes. Mammoth cave is estimated to have about 600+ miles of tunnels under KY & sinkholes are everywhere.

Next time put the sight in the freezer for a while and heat the slide up.  It'll probably slide right in. 

RIP Officer Ellis http://www.odmp.org/officer/21789-police-officer-jason-scott-ellis My condolences and prayers go out to the family, the community and the Officers that worked with him. Some gave all.

As you wish, just came in the mail 30 minutes ago, I love this rifle!

I have several threads about my recent interest in older firearms and working my way back. I have finally made it back to my first C&R purchase and would like to share some photos of it with everyone. I am no expert but am interested in any experience you have with it. I think I have a 1956 S&W pre39 in good shape to be about 57 years old. Thinking about getting it lettered so I have the facts on it. My understanding is it is the first American made DA/SA pistol to make it into regular production. It also seems the serial numbers started at 1000 and went to about 2500 on the pre39 models. I have 15xx. Again any knowledge you can share about them and their history would be great. Also I wouldn't mind getting it closer to original, so if anyone has a box, paperwork, mag, etc that is the same age I would be interested in it. Now for some eye candy. Thanks

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

  Maybe they should build a luxury resort there & then give free memberships to Obama & his staff. I wonder how much crap that hole could hold?   :usa:

  :stunned:    :rofl:  :rofl:  Now that's just cold.!

Very cool, sort of a Hussein Hudson Bay. :) - OS

$10 admission $5 parking All the ambiance of a cheap flea market.   If Sam is there selling reloading supplies, it'll still be worth your while to go. If not, make other plans.

Dang, I was hoping BA was next.

i forgot about him so maybe it's over for a while again, even though the other two were much older and I think died of natural causes he would still make three connected to Tensile Town I guess.............jmho

Well I sold an AR from the collection to move to something different, so I got a Tavor. Mine is the FDE 18" version... liked that extra 1.5" of barrel while still same length as a registers SBR. Got it yesterday and sent it off to PA today to have the whole thing swapped to left hand!! now the two week wait. love that it will take my AR mags and co-witness with any of my AR optics with ease.

I would guess the number would be near 100% from reputable organizations. But it’s not like the names are going to be announced or be in the news.

Seems like pro US constitution laws should be flowing through the TN Republican held House and Senate like water running downhill. And signed by the Republican Governor in light speed. We are missing an opportunity!

  Yep, silencers are not controlled items in many European countries, and indeed their use is even encouraged just for that reason.   The US is still hung up on silencers being a "gangster hit man" thing.   - OS

  No, it's obviously for the good of the community... lmao, you just can't fix idiocy.

  Any lawyer can make enemies, when you deal with anyone and anything in the legal system someone can get hurt or screwed bad in some way. Now killing someone with a bomb no matter what they did to you is a lowlife, careless way to do it because bombs are indiscriminant, can kill an innocent person. Someone has to be totally thoughtless of others to kill someone with a bomb. Don't know what the details or motivation is, maybe this lawyer really screwed someones life up. I might actually feel a little sympathy for someone if that was the case, if they had shot them or killed them in a way that wouldn't hurt or kill someone else but when you use a bomb the guy is going to rot in jail for life if i'm on a jury. Now a vengence killing I wouldn't excuse totally because it's against the law even though I might understand, if some dirtbag murdered someones family member and got off and they killed the dirtbag with a crowbar or something like that, I may have to find them guilty of littering and fine them $100. Anyway no one knows the motivation, I can't make an opinion except that using a bomb is thoughtless of innocent lives and whoever did that is a scumbag killer for that reason alone.   (edit) P.S. Wartime is a different story and killing terrorists with bombs sometimes is the only option. Besides there's usually no innocent people hanging out with terrorists.

This sounds pretty cut and dried to me; at least based on the stories I've read.  I haven't seen in any of the stories anything that would indicate that the shooter's life was ever in danger or that he had any rational reason to believe he was in danger. As such, his claim of self defense should be a non-starter.   I had hear early on that the shooter claimed that the three in the SUV had a shotgun and was or had pointed it at him but apparently that was either a lie by the shooter or he imagined something that just wasn't there.   As armed citizens we have a higher duty to avoid conflicts when we can.

You mean Remington sells .22LR that's NOT defective?!

In answer to .. why?   There is no reason. Just the seemingly all consuming desire of the "me, me and I want it now" that seems to be the way of our society. To be responsible...to take responsibility for  one's actions....that is just not entering the thoughts of more and more people these days.

They changed the rules awhile back so that all priority mail now has tracking on it. Tapatalk ate my spelling.

I'm afraid if I keep reading stories like this I'm gonna snap. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Can I get a link for PSA.   I tried google but kept getting Prostate-Specific Antigen and related items.

I second that.

Here is the Hebrew Hammer that I was referring to http://www.shotgunnews.com/2013/03/26/the-hebrew-hammer-iwi-tavor-review/

I like to keep a minimum of one thousand rounds per caliber, but I'm starting to think that is too much. I know that number is only a saturday range session to some guys. My new train of thought is that most of us are middle aged or old guys and with the exception of the time spent in combat, most of us have never been in a firefight. With that being said, based on real world situations (not conspiracy theories) I believe that most of us will die of natural causes before we get to go out in a blaze of glory in that fantasy firefight that we carry around in our heads. As for you younger guys...YOU'RE SCREWED! :) Just Kidding

I've been using frog lube for about a year now.    Their solvent does not seem like its a very powerful cleaning agent.    The lube works very well on my glocks and ARs. It does seem easier to clean after multiple applications. The carbon does not stick as bad.   Also, the door on my truck used to always freeze shut. Frog lube on the weather stripping and do more freeze...   As noted prior,,,it does not play well with other lubes especially petro based...

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

I have owned or still do just about very configuration of the small Smiths.  Most people think the lightweight scandium, titanium, and alloy ones are the ones to own.  While individual mileage may vary the lightweights recoil a lot, I mean a lot.  The all steel 36, 60, 49, and such normally only weigh a little bit more but it helps so much with recoil.  I bet if you were to let your lady shoot an older 38spl 649 and then shoot a 638, she would pick the all steel, especially since she won't be carrying it.  Everyone recommends 5 shot snub nose for women but generally they are a terrible choice for a new shooter.  The 638 is what is called a bodyguard configuration 38/49/638/649, in my opinion it eliminates the best qualities of the chief series 36/37/60/360and eliminates the best qualities of the Centennial 40/42/340/342/442/642/640/940.  People that have never owned a j frame think the exact opposite is true.  Even though there is not an instance where cocking the hammer would be needed in self-defense, with a bodyguard, I don't think in a high stress situation you would be able to do it.  Also the bodyguards tend to collect all kinds of crap in the opening. That opening is a funnel for water to enter into the mechanism, a lot of old cops that wore these in pockets or on ankles would have non functioning guns a month or two after standing in the rain during investigations.  With the Chiefs Special the spur can actually add some retention, if someone tries to pull the gun from a pocket it snags.  When you go to retrieve it, place your thumb on the hammer and you can pull it right out.  Also most retention holsters are made for the spur, but will work with the centennials. You either have to modify a thumb strap  holster for a bodyguard or get the type that goes over the trigger guard.   The Centennials or hammerless as they are called are probably the best, very low maintenance and not much to stop them.  I foolishly let the cream of the crop, a 640-no dash, out of my collection a year ago.  At 20oz it was a dream to carry and even more of a dream to shoot.  Prior to that I had carried an old 642, fine gun but it was like having dynamite go off in your hand with any ammo worth a flip.

You could wait until the BCM KMR (keymod rail) comes out. It is supposed to be rediculously light and slim. http://www.bravocompanymfg.com/kmr/ that site shows the KMR13 but they will have a KMR10 as well. Designed by Eric of VLTOR and made with an aluminum-magnesium alloy. Should be around $250-270.   LW barrels are also an option. There are the BCM, DD, and Spikes LW barrels that are good options. Or you can flute or recontour the barrel at ADCO https://www.adcofirearms.com/shopservices/

I'd like to thank the TGO mod staff for understanding when to and when not to lock a thread. AND for understanding the need to leave some meat on the bone and toss it to the jackals ever so often. We appreciate it.

Be scared if they ask, "is your TGO screen name..."

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