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I finally got my new bumper sticker on my SUV, courtesy of MrsMonkeyMan2500!

Just read that and the guy just had a death wish and Dallas PD provided him with it. You just don't attack a police station and expect to come out on top. It does not happen..............jmho

These issues seem to be centered around the same inner city areas. As police stop being proactive in these areas the population will just be screaming for more of them. I do feel sorry for good cops in these areas.

Automatic weapons and an armored van, multiple suspects in multiple locations? I’m guessing it will turn out to be one angry man, with semi-auto weapons, in a van acting alone. It wasn’t too well planned or thought out.

Looks goofy and awkward to me but as long as he don't shoot anyone else, I could care less.

TGO dinner and a show? :shrug:

Goodwill; where the sidemen shop! :D

And it all started over the last brick of 22 left on the shelf

Ok , here's a few closer shots ; thanks for the interest. He's a very good mechanic and an ex-Dodge mechanic , if you have a diesel and a prob get in touch ; he is a member here. Midnight Smoker , just not very active , he hangs on the Cummins Forum.

THE STORY OF MY GUN………….. * Today I swung my front door wide open and placed my Remington 30.06  right in the doorway.  I left 6 cartridges beside it, then left it alone  and went about my business.   While I was gone, the mailman delivered my  mail, the neighbor boy across the street mowed the yard, a girl walked  her dog down the street, and quite a few cars stopped at the stop sign  near the front of my house. After about an hour, I checked on the gun.  It was still sitting there,  right where I had left it.  It hadn't moved itself outside.  It  certainly hadn't killed anyone, even with the numerous opportunities it  had presented to do so. In fact, it hadn't even loaded itself. Well you can imagine my surprise, with all the hype by the Left and the  Media about how dangerous guns are and how they kill people.  Either the  media is wrong or I'm in possession of the laziest gun in the world. The United States is 3rd in Murders throughout the World.  But if you  take out just 4 cities: Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC and New Orleans,  the United States is 4th from the bottom, in the entire world, for Murders. These 4 Cities also have the toughest Gun Control Laws in the U.S.  ALL  4 of these cities are controlled by Democrats.  It would be absurd to  draw any conclusions from this data -right? Well, I'm off to check on my spoons.  I hear they're making people fat.

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I didn't think a rebel like you would have rules!! ;-) I'm a bit jealous of your vehicle though. I would be stickers on windows only with that!

Stickers on paint is just a massive pet peeve of mine. Windows only. WINDOWS ONLY!!!!

:mad: You put it on your paint! :wall:

I wouldn't jump in.  Unless I'm attacked, or there is a danger of serious injury/death, I'm staying out.  Yeah, the lawsuit aspect is valid, but it's really none of my business, and separating two fighting women is asking for trouble.   Besides, they both look like they can use the exercise a fight brought.

Few videos from the range day. :up: https://vimeo.com/130644738 https://vimeo.com/130644831 Johnny hitting exploding targets with Colt LE901 https://vimeo.com/130644899 https://vimeo.com/130644653 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Went by the show today.  Lots of the same characters with the same stuff.  Lots of ammo dealers and .22 prices are still at crack-head levels.   Good news is David (our very own DLM37015) is there with plenty of reloading supplies, including pistol powders, and he always treats TGO members right.  Great guy to do business with.   Also, ammo can prices have comes back down to earth a bit.  Lots of cans available and .50 cals are $10/each or less....$9 from one vendor.

Arby's and curley fries be enough?

Great story and fascinating history lesson.   Your parents (like my grandparents and parents) clearly came from a generation that just did whatever they had to do to survive, without expecting anyone else to take care of them. Good lessons there for a bunch of folks today.   Thanks for sharing your story with us!

My wife and I went on a trip to Savannah Georgia this week. We were looking at a World War Two monument there when a little girl and her mother walked up. The little girl looked up and read curiously...."World War Eleven." :ugh: What really bothered me is that her mother heard this and never corrected here. I don't suspect she knew any better either. This country is in trouble folks.

Hey Luke I watch Waters go out and I almost cry because of the stupidity I hear, like when did Columbus discover America and get answers like 1944. There is a remedy to this though and I am proud to say my son and daughter-in-law will start home schooling our 2 oldest grand kids this year. They too are fed up with the crazy common core crap and the history that is not taught. What boils my blood is that the left has somehow gotten the authority to "change" history. It makes as much sense as them thinking they can change the climate, or is it the weight of the money in our wallets that they are really after. I believe it is a simple CONTROL issue and I ain't real good at being controlled, just ask my wife!!

Concur but I expect things to progressively worsen for police officer. It's gearing up to be the 1960's and early 1970's level of violence against police. Unfortunantly stuff like this plays right into the hands of government and agitators.

Great read EssOne. Thanks. Your dad reminds me of my grandfather. It's funny that with his 7th grade education he would be considered a mechanical engineer by today's standards.

Thank goodness it looks as though the only person killed was him.

My thoughts too.

I reaffirm my original statements. Though I'm a massive gun nut, I don't read gun mags. I have no idea what the writers are being paid to sell. TGO is the only gun forum I read. At various ranges and gun shops, I've met more people in the last year who have personally gotten into 10MM and like it than ever before. How many manufacturers even make a 41 Mag these days?

I enjoyed the read, thanks for sharing!

We have several chickens and a couple of guinea's. The guinea's lay these eggs that are quite a bit smaller than the chickens, and the shells are like concrete, very hard to crack. Inside, it's almost all yolk. The chickens always lay in the nesting boxes, but the guineas lay wherever they feel like it. We watched one lay an egg while walking across the concrete floor in the barn. Didn't even bother to squat, just dropped it where she stood. The egg fell onto the concrete floor with a plop and never broke. In fact, it may have chipped the floor.  :)   I made a waterer out of a 5 gallon bucket and installed some chicken nipples in the bottom. I hung it up from the roof inside the coop, but the stupid chickens completely ignored it. In fact the outside pan I had water in dried up, and they were dying of thirst when I put them away in the evening. I even tried putting their beaks up to the nipples to show them how the water comes out, but they acted like I was trying to kill them.   My plan was to run water with a hose into the coop, and install a toilet valve in the bucket to keep it at a set level. For now, we just use those round chicken waterers and hang them from the roof of the coop with a rope. We hang them just low enough for them to drink from. It keeps them from standing on the waterer and pooping in it.

I know what it is. It's an .88 Magnum. https://youtu.be/Hd-0F4v1C54

Great story!

Yes thanks for sharing your story. Sadly many like it from times past are just gone. So good on you for getting it recorded for your family.

    OR...if you wanna buck a trend and get this thread back on track....   I have a .308 Survivor Handi rifle.  I could send it to Jess at JES Reboring.  He can rebore a 308 chambered barrel to 338 [or 358 for that matter] for $225 returned.  HOW he does it for that price is beyond me.  I've seen his work, his rifling is AWESOME and his rebored rifles shoot extremely well.  You don't even have to remove the action on most guns.....but I digress.  Rebore the 308 to 338 and add another Boyd's stock like this.  In a world of tacticool tacticrap, it would be a north bound train on a south bound track.

Guy we kind of get better with age at 80 I see things a lot differant then most.   People today are into their self,.... selfish and greedy.  The machine is taking over their mind,  no feelings of any kind to their fellow man.  It's all about me.  When you lose touch with history,  and the schools wont teach how our country got where it once was .....were done.   I ask my grand daughter if she knew about what happened at Auschwitz.......she laughted and thought it was a disease.

Kind of. Though, if I'm being honest I've got a soft spot for your favorite .358 Winchester, too. I figure if I'm shooting subsonic and limited to 1040ish FPS, then I may as well make the biggest hole I can.

If I could like this 1000  times I would. That is some of the truest statements I have read in years. And Yes even though I am in my living room by myself, when I am getting ready to watch any sporting event that has the Pledge of Allegiance or Star Spangled Banner I stand and Salute until it is finished since I am a veteran and still love and respect my country with all my heart........ :usa:

If you free range your birds ..I would really advise against clipping the wings.. they need those to fly up to roost if they are outside at night .Clipping them will prevent them to be able to fly up.. Also the wings will give them enough lift and speed to get away from a predator.. ie. dogs and stuff..  Its like declawing a cat if its outside :)After a certain period they will not run off or  fly away..usually 2 to 3 week period inside the coop and once let out they will stay if they have enough stuff to eat and feel safe   Heating the coop in thewinter is not going to kill your birds..  just dont overheat the coop.. keep ti low enough to where the temp is around 40 or even less.. if its to high it can also promote bacterial growth or mold..

  You dummy. That's not agenda. That's vagina. :D

Classy.     it drives me nuts when people record video in portrait mode...

I just wrote "World War II" on a piece of paper and asked my 8 year old grandson to read it.     He said world war two.

Only two types of snakes: If they rattle they're rattlers, and if they don't they're cobras.

Senior citizens are constantly being criticized for every conceivable deficiency of the modern world, real or imaginary. We know we take responsibility for all we have done and do not blame others. But, upon reflection, we would like to point out that it was not the senior citizens who took   The melody out of music, The pride out of appearance, The romance out of love, The commitment out of marriage, The responsibility out of parenthood, The togetherness out of the family, The learning out of education, The service out of patriotism, The religion out of school, The Golden Rule from rulers, The nativity scene out of cities, The civility out of behavior, The refinement out of language, The dedication out of employment, The prudence out of spending, or The ambition out of achievement, And we certainly are not the ones who eliminated patience and tolerance from personal relationships and interactions with others! Does anyone under the age of 50 know the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner? Just look at those Seniors with tears in their eyes and pride in their hearts as they stand at attention with their hand over their hearts! And, unless many of our younger generation learn to count in the absence of computers and calculators, they will be back to counting on fingers and toes. Remember.......Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what in the world happened.

  I've been shot at, come under mortar fire, driven down roads with IED's , and have been audited by the IRS...but when I see a snake, I jump on top of something or run like a complete bitch because shooting them never seems to be an option.  I'm confident in my manhood and if it wasn't for them eating disease carrying rodents, I'd want all snakes eradicated.

Good shooting. It was a fun match for sure. I'll play along, not all my runs got recorded, but here are a few... http://youtu.be/2P9P-Ngst8M

MObile 1 synthetic.  I bought two quarts of some oddball weight (0w-15) at Walmart a few years ago because they were red tagged half price.  For about $10 I have a half gallon of REALLY good lube and I use it on guns and my presses.  Unless I pull a full on Caster and spill it, it will last for whats left of my life.  

Bull. Worked in a check cashing place, carried a gun with out a permit while at work and to and from. Also got told last week can't carry in a bank, was sitting in the bank at the time with 2 on me and one on my wife. Told him to check Tennessee law because unless posted they would not stop me from carrying. That and the crap that you can't carryin a commercial vehicle really gets to me. Your employer can tell you not to carry in a big rig but there is no law against it.

The camo one, most of y'all have seen in my paint thread. The other two I just finished. The TGO lower I bought already assembled from a member here, and the Spike's Tactical I put together (my first one ever). One upper is a PSA and the other is a Radical Firearms upper, both with free float handguards. I can't claim to have completely built these since the barrels were on the uppers that I bought, but I am still wanting to do one complete from scratch just to say I did. Anyway, here they are. Here are some closer pics at the RF upper.

I guess I'm the only person who doesn't find glocks ugly.  I LOVE the look of my 26 and I love the simple no frills, no rail look of a gen 2 19! Maybe it's the minimalist in me. Congrats on the purchase. 

I've seen them before at Walmart and our local Academy Sports.

My understanding of the reason for no pointy blades was to reduce the likely hood of injury if a knife was dropped from high up in the rigging. Wharnecliff has became a term very similar to bowie, where it covers a very broad genre of blade shapes. The reason I like the modern Wharnecliff for self defense is that it has a straight edge from ricasso to tip and it is a leading point. As it cuts, the point is drug into the target instead of away like on a drop or clip point. Those are trailing point designs. That straight edge also makes "achieving point" easier. That is basically touching your point to the target at the beginning of a thrust. I still like a bowie for self defense, but they each have their pros and cons. And a medium sized wharnecliff fits the bill for me right now

Nice.  Very clean and elegant design.  Good trade, Spots - especially considering that if you get to missing the knife you traded too much you simply have to fire the forge and make another!  Funny thing is that - to non-knife folks - you could probably pass that off as an innocent letter opener.   I had my doubts about the Wharncliffe style as it is generally promoted almost solely as a self-defense knife style (and, unlike Spots, I have no training or knowledge of using a knife for SD beyond 'try to stick the pointy end in the threat until it stops being a threat.)  However, I recently found that the Folts S.P.E.W. from CRKT wouldn't leave me alone - I just liked the look of it so much - so I bought one and, having carried it a little in neck knife mode, have found that the style can work pretty well even for a guy like me who uses a knife more as a tool than a weapon.