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Here's another from somewhere atop the Million Dollar Highway between Silverton, CO and Ouray, CO. We were well above 10,000 ft when I snapped this. Not much else higher than us and those few peaks up there.

A little bit of Sedona, Arizona for you... no post processing of this photo either. The colors are just THAT vibrant out there.

High up in the San Juan mountains in Ouray, Colorado. Exact same trip. We had everything from hot scorched pavement to soupy wet sand to snow and ice that adventure. :D

Here's a shot of my 2010 FJ at the Petrified Forest NP in New Mexico. I wish I hadn't gotten rid of that vehicle. We had a great time exploring the southwest United States in it.

My "primitive hunting" setup:

Received the scope back today via Fed Ex.   Accompanying the scope was a work order with the following:   Rifle scope warranty service, NO CHARGE. RZR- 4.5-27x56 EBR-2C Reticle Mrad:  (scope had wrong reticle).  Installed correct reticle.  2C Mrad.  Cleaned checked and purged unit.  All functions are normal and in good working order.           Thus ends the tale. Case closed and one happy customer.  Now, to the range!

And here's a shot from the mountains just above Jerome, Arizona...

Waterfall at Amis mill in Rogersville Tn.

Sell big house, move into smaller home. Guarantee you will start a feud between kids if you show favoritism to one over the other. Divide proceeds evenly between you and the kids.

Move into your smaller home, sell the bigger one and use the funds to winter in Boca for a few years. :cheers:

Took this pic of my wife among a family of Giant Sequoias in Sequoia National Park two years ago.

Finished up this fun design last night, except for sharpening. 9 1/4" overall with a 4 1/2 " blade of 01 steel. Yellow, OD Green, and Coyote Brown Micarta scales with brass pins and Toxic Green liners. This blade design might not be for everybody with the bottle opener and Pommel, but this design just kinda morphed as I was making it! I am really jazzed about it and so is the new owner that I will deliver it to tomorrow. Here it is for your critiques and viewing pleasure!!

    Whenever I see a hot girl I pretty much automatically think that "someone,somewhere is sick of her sh*t"

Every time I read this, in my head I hear the "Me" portion of the conversation in Hank Hill's voice. Am I the only one?

So I bought this gun here on TGO sometime last year with the intention of suppressing it. Problem was the factory barrel had the front sight too close to the muzzle and the front sight was dovetailed in so there was no way I could have moved the front sight back. But rather than give up I bought a Green Mountain barrel blank and made my own barrel. It is 416 stainless, button rifled, stress relieved and air gauged and this thing is amazingly accurate. Part of the accuracy is because I chambered it using a Lilja spec chamber reamer. It is also threaded 1/2-28 at the muzzle and that is my 22 silencer I made 4-5 years ago screwed onto the end of the barrel. The barrel is 18" long making it lightweight and handy. With the suppressor it is extremely quiet with subsonic ammunition. It sounds like I am dry firing it. And I still have the factory 22" barrel if I ever decide to go back to the factory setup but honestly I see no reason to. The sights are from a Contender. The rear is easily adjusted while the front is fixed but I can replace the blade if I so choose. I might add a tang sight at sometime in the future so I can make some really long range shots. If I ever start hunting again the squirrels better watch out. And when the granddaughter gets old enough it will likely get a coat of pink paint. Excuse the dirty gun. I am not a fan of cleaning and this thing is so much fun I have been shooting the crap out of it since it was done.

You mean you actually put down your beers? I made that mistake one summer day while working in the yard with my dad. A bee landed in it while I wasn't watching, and when I took another drink I got stung on the tongue. Dad's fatherly advice was "Finish it before you put it down and that won't happen again."

  He chases them down and slashes their throats with a little Bowie knife... Tarzan style :)

I had to do chores at David's house for a weekend.

If you miss them, they'll die from smoke inhalation  :up:

    I agree, but getting to that point was probably pretty enteraining. 

I want to thank the gentlemen who was kind enough to split the last 8 boxes of 9mm Perfecta with me at the Charlotte location this past Friday evening. I did not want to leave it unsaid in the event you were a member of the forum. 

You need to move. Everything you have posted in the last six months would make me nervous as hell.

My ex-wife had a mood ring, it would leave a red mark on my face whenever she was mad.

Think I'm gonna put up a classified for a single stack 9mm Glock, and see how many fall for it... :rofl:

Sounds like constitutional carry to me. I don't think it would pass seeing as the state would no longer get to collect money from permit holders. Plus no one needs to be running around with a gun without training, my 8 hour HCP class basically gave me the skills of a highly trained operator.

I would stand 20 yards away and watch you shoot it.

It's kind of a double edged sword to me. On one hand the government should have absolutely no say in whether or not I can carry a gun or be able to make me do something I order to have the privilege to. But on the other hand it seems to me that a lot of people nowadays lack the mental capacity to acknowledge they are carrying a deadly weapon that could hurt not only them or the bad guys but also innocent bystanders. And as such, they should seek out training in how to use their weapon. But like in so many other aspects of life, some people are so stupid/ignorant/stubborn, that everyone has to be regulated into doing what is right. There would be no rules/laws if everyone just did what was right.

I have to echo what has been said before me.   Move into the smaller house and sell the big one. If you 'give' it to any of the children the others will become angry and it will tear your family asunder. Take the proceeds from the sale and put it in the bank, let it draw interest will it to the children to be split evenly after you are gone. Or give it to them now. Keeping it in the bank allows it to draw interest, meaning it can be larger down the line, or in case you need it for an emergency.   My parents didn't give me a damn thing in this world other than a bad attitude and a lot of bruises, but at the end of the day, while they are horrible people and I don't have but one fond thought, that one fond thought is the relief that I am self reliant. If i have it, it is because I got it, not because anyone gave it to me. Doesn't mean it was the easy way, doesn't mean I like it, doesn't mean I will do the same for my daughter, but it is what it is, and it made me who I am.     And, I wouldn't breathe a word of this plan to any of the kids. If they got wind of it, odds are good just the idea of it could start tempers flaring. I don't know your family, but I do know that I have seen perfectly normal seeming families fall to complete pieces over money. 

It's yours to do what you want. I agree with your current plan, but to keep the other kids from being butt hurt I'd sell it and give the kids an equal share of the profits to do as they please.

Tom Givens is a respected instructor...it would be money well spent.

I use a blade tech with the teklok option in the cooler months when I can wear a jacket. In the summer months I have a simple kydex holder that carries a mag in my back pocket and resembles a pocket knife clip.

Trikes, too. I don't mind riding tail gunner--use to it.

okay, so I went to the Walmart in south Memphis while I had time at lunch today. Sure enough, they had about 20 boxes of the Perfecta in 9mm.  I asked the clerk to scan a box just to see if there was some sort of mark down that was not showing on the price listed in the glass cabinet. It scanned $13.97. I mentioned some of the brethren had purchased this fine ammunition in other locales across the state at 1/2 the price she had quoted me. She had no idea why the price difference. There was a "Zone Mgr" just a few aisles over and she called her over.  I explained to the Zone Mgr about the prices reported across the state and asked if she could sell me the ammo for the same price. She then took out a small hand held computer that looks like a pricing/inventory tool, and was able to pull up the current price for the same ammo in Jackson, TN, where Jct1911 had purchased his ammo. She told me there was a "Rollback" on the ammo but it was now selling for $10.97 per box. She could not explain why it was for sale in Jackson and other stores across the state for $6.94, but could only confirm that it was selling for $10.97 now.  She agreed to sell it for that price. The only problem was, they still have a three box limit per day per customer. Before I left, I asked who set the prices and why they differed between cities within less than 100 miles apart. The Zone Mgr said all the prices are set in the home office in AR.  :ugh:

I really like the overall shape of that knife.  Recently, I noticed a type of old trade knife called a "Coureur des bois" knife after the French trappers/woodsmen who largely used them.  The thing that caught my eye about that knife style is how - at least the ones I have seen - seem to be an almost continuous arch along the spine and back from the tip of the blade to the end of the grip.  That shape is very pleasing to my eye and looks like it would be very comfortable to use.  Your Boker has a very similar shape although it is much smaller.  As I think of a knife as more of a tool than a weapon, I also like the beefiness of the blade - it looks like it would hold up well to general, light to medium utility cutting duties.

John C, I don't mean to mind your business, but as a word of advice from someone who's been there done that, I would think twice about spending the Geisselle price for a trigger on an entry level rifle until you've scoped out the less expensive ALG triggers. I have found that unless you intend to do some serious target work, the Geisselle SSA trigger is sort of overkill on a recreational range rifle.  Take a look at the ALG ACT trigger in the $65 range - which by the way stands for "Amy Lynn Geisselle A Combat Trigger." T'were it me, (and it ain't,) I'd buy the less expensive trigger and invest the difference in mags, ammo, sights, and things like that. I have both triggers and the Geisselle unit is installed on a scoped rifle where the slightly better trigger pull makes a goodly difference - which I don't think you'll realize on a basic bangaway range rifle. The Geisselle trigger is a supurb piece of equipment, however you decide to use it. Suptayou. Best wishes. 

Try some of this, it's better than holy water. Holy oil for guns.

  Yep...and if you read the story of The Battle of Athens, the same kind of passing around of government office from one buddy to another and swapping it back and forth was alive and well then also.

You may want to move back to TN.

Old lady has one. It's accurate and reliable but she does bark loud and bite hard So does the Kimber.

OGOD mine are haunted by a liberal!!!! THE BULLET ALWAYS LANDS LEFT OF TARGET LOL Or it could be me having a hard time breaking myself from using the Weaver stance lol

That is one awesome place, staircases going no where, room after room of nonsense. It is pretty wicked to visit.

'Splains everything!  My guns are haunted!  Most of the time I put them center on-target but the bullets hit someplace else!  Good to know why... Anybody know how to do an exorcism on a gun??

The great thing about Tennessee, and the southeast in general, is that there is very little riding off of interstates that is not incredibly scenic. I have ridden 33 different states in the last 3 years, and am always glad to be home after these rides. I've seen a lot of land, and nothing compares to where we live. The Rockies are majestic, but harsh. Not at all like Appalachia, where everything is full of life. The deserts out west are scenic for the first 15 minutes, but the flatness and monotony of the view wear on you. Not like the gentle up and down and sweeping curves like we have here to keep you engaged. The buttes in Utah are amazing, but the abrupt hills of the Cumberland plateau shame them. I could go on waxing poetic for a while, but the fact of the matter is that we live in the best motorcycle riding land in the U.S. Also, Kansas, Eastern Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Iowa have absolutely no redeeming qualities for motorcyclists. Horrible flat, windy terrain. YMMV

Just a guess here. Are you under 30?

He's probably been on a grizzly-bear wrestling marathon or something.   Or maybe riding a girl's bike wearing Mom jeans. Oh wait, that's our president.

I think it's going to be too little, too late for them.  Sure, loyalists will dump whatever they already have in order to fund the purchase of one, but most folks who wanted a single-stack polymer 9mm already bought one from another manufacturer by now.   As much as I love my Glock 19s, I love my M&P Shield 9mm just as much.  It's the handgun Glock should have built two years ago.

      Thats about what I paid for my last 100 rounds or so. Not a cheap gun to shoot, but a fun one nonetheless. I love my Enfield, they're a fine example of what craftsmanship used to look like in a different time.

Damn...what an abortion.