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Gentlemen, I have received payment from all of you who ordered, thank you for keeping your word on this. I expected to have these knives this week, but Pro Tech is having issues with the machine that makes the two tone blades, there is an Engineer there today who will hopefully sort this issue out Nonetheless as soon as I get a confirmed shipping date from Dave I will update this and gather all of your shipping information,

A while back, I bought a set of tires on the classifieds here that used to belong to David. On the way home, I stopped at Discount tire in Lebanon to ask how much they'd charge to mount and balance them. Their price was high, so I said thanks and started out the door. The salesman stopped me asd asked what I'd pay. I told him what I could have it done for locally, and he invited me back in for them to do it at the same price.   Well, they did a great job, and were very nice and professional. I remembered that. Last week, I was looking for a set of tires for my son's truck as a birthday present. After pricing tires, I ordered a set from the Gallatin location. I went to have them installed today, and after pricing some trailer tires, I pulled my trailer with me, and bought tires for it as well. Again, I was met with the most friendly and professional people you'll find.   Also, I can't find anywhere to beat their prices. I'll be dealing with this place until something changes.   I like to read about good experiences with local businesses, and thought I'd share one. If you need tires, this is a great place to go. :up: :up:

I'm only $15 plus $10 TICS in Hendersonville.

WOW!!!!!!   It must have been monumental to have pissed off Leroy.

Discount Tire in Franklin is literally next door to Everything Weapon's gun range.  I can drop the vehicle off for a free tire rotation and go into the range for an hour or so.  2 birds; 1 stone.

ET and all... I've been patiently waitin for this Frontier Firearms thing to come up... As the God Man said: "... And you will know them by their works..."...    I have refrained from sayin bad things about the folks at Frontier, not because they weren't true; but because i figured it would come out sooner or later... This overbearing, dismissive attitude has been goin on for the last 12 years or so; at least... Looks like the chickens have come home to roost...   My particular run in was with the harpy that is evidently the owner's wife (...or girlfriend...)... She, was (...or still may be...) either a sheriff's deputy or policeperson in the kingston/roane county territories... She used her loud "command voice" on me over presumin to take the ejector rod out of a used Ruger SA to inspect the barrel and verify the cylinder was marked to the gun (...it was used...)...She evidently thought i was about to steal a part or wasn't smart enough to put it back together correctly... The whole thing smacked of a police encounter with a fugitive...   I had my then 12 or 14 year old son with me, so i didn't paint a "verbal picture of what i thought of her and her "command voice" and retail skills were at the time... I politely handed "the weapon" back reassembled correctly and told her where she could put it...I also reminded her that i wasn't her dog and didn't appreciate being hollered at like one...  One of the guys tried to smooth it over with me, but to no avail, as you all can tell... It is beyond me why anyone would do business with this trash...   I have not darked the door of their establishment since that time; and i will not in the future... Further, ive regularly told this little story to everyone ive met in a face to face situation when the subject of Frontier Firearms comes up...Now, all of you who read this post know it too..     In the interest of "full disclosure"; i never had any trouble with the guy i took to be the owner or any of his employees... This monstrous harpy was the only one that i ever saw being rude, and i had seen it a time or two before our particular run in... I figure the owner is henpecked and is afraid to call her out... I say the hell with the both of them... Her for bein an overbearing jackassette and him for bein a weenie... They dont have anyting i need...   leroy

Here's about 1/4 of the stuff I have on hand right now. The really limited stuff, including my bottle of Van Winkle, are locked away in a cabinet and I keep a fully stocked bar elsewhere in the house. The wine rack is running dry; I need to replenish that soon before the holiday parties start up. Right now I'm the only one in the house drinking anything distilled, brewed or fermented so I haven't been chomping at the bit to run out and buy more wine. There's too much good beer and good whiskey and bourbon this time of year to spend money on grape juice.

  Personally I would walk into and out of my hot tub nude.  One look at my naked body would prevent them from ever looking my direction again :)   Thanks Robert

  I don't think the factories have raised prices much more than natural inflation.  Prices go up every year...without fail.  Since .22 has not been readily available for close to 3 years now it's hard to truly gauge.   But I do know this. Academy and WalMart have not seen any increases attributable to anything more than yearly hikes.  For example,  Acadamy still sells Federal Automatch 325 rnd boxes for $17.99, WalMart sells them for $18.97 I believe.  That's not a whole lot more than a couple of years ago.   You can thank DEALERS and the umpteen middlemen in between the factory and them, and of course those who pay the absurd prices for the problem.

Retirement     One day a man decided to retire.   He booked himself on a Caribbean cruise and proceeded to have the time of his life, . . . that is, . . . until the ship sank.   He soon found himself on an island with no other people, no supplies, nothing, only bananas and coconuts.   After about four months, he is lying on the beach one day when the most gorgeous woman he has ever seen rows up to the shore.   In disbelief, he asks, “Where did you come from?  How did you get here?”   She replies, “I rowed over from the other side of the island where I landed when my cruise ship sank.”   “Amazing,” he notes. “You were really lucky to have a row boat wash up with you.”   “Oh, this thing?” explains the woman.  “I made the boat out of some raw materialI found on the island.  The oars were whittled from gum tree branches.  I wove the bottom from palm tree branches, and the sides and stern came from a Eucalyptus tree.”   “But, where did you get the tools?”   “Oh, that was no problem,” replied the woman. “On the south side of the island, a very unusual stratum of alluvial rock is exposed.  I found that if I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted into ductile iron and I used that to make toolsand used the tools to make the hardware.”   The guy is stunned.   “Let’s row over to my place,” she says “and I'll give you a tour.”   So, after a short time of rowing, she soon docks the boat at a small wharf.   As the man looks to shore, he nearly falls off the boat.   Before him is a long stone walk leading to a cabin and tree house.   While the woman ties up the row boat with an expertly woven hemp rope, the man can only stare ahead, dumb struck.   As they walk into the house, she says casually, “It’s not much, but I call it home.  Please sit down.”   “Would you like a drink?”   “No! No thank you,” the man blurts out, still dazed. “I can’t take another drop of coconut juice.”   “Oh it’s not coconut juice,” winks the woman. “I have a still.  How would you like a Tropical Spritz?”   Trying to hide his continued amazement, the man accepts, and they sit down on her couch to talk.   After they exchange their individual survival stories, the woman announces, “I’m going to slip into something more comfortable.  Would you like to take a shower and shave?  There’s a razor in the bathroom cabinet upstairs.”   No longer questioning anything, the man goes upstairs into the bathroom.   There, in the cabinet is a razor made from a piece of tortoise bone.  Two shells honed to a hollow ground edge are fastened on to its end inside a swivel mechanism.   “This woman is amazing,” he muses. “What's next?”   When he returns, she greets him wearing nothing but some small flowers on tiny vines,each strategically positioned, she smelled faintly of gardenias.  She then beckons for him to sit down next to her.   “Tell me,” she begins suggestively, slithering closer to him, “We’ve both been out here for many months.  You must have been lonely.  When was the last time you played around?  She stares into his eyes.”   He can’t believe what he's hearing.        “You mean, . . .” he swallows excitedly as tears start to form in his eyes, . . .           . . . “You’ve built a Golf Course too???”

I am usually not one to get too excited about my rests and things like that, but this one is pretty impressive, enough so that I though some others may be interested in it, at least from the craftsmanship standpoint. It is one of those very specific needs and limited mostly to rimfire benchrest use, but craftsmanship is craftsmanship, and this is pretty impressive in my opinion. In the Rimfire BR game, there are only a few major players in the one piece rest market. One of the competitors who is also a machinist started making his own version of a pretty common design. I am having a new benchrest gun built and decided to go full out ready for competition. I just received the rest today and had to share. First clue on how someone values their work can be seen by how they protect it in shipping. This thing fit like a glove in this box. I may use it as a carry case for it. The entire rest. All Aluminum except for a few wear plates which are bronze and the delrin in a few areas. For reduced friction and tracking, this is a new style top with roller bearings. and last, but not least, all micro controls are at the rear of the rest for easy access while shooting. Now just to wait for my rifle to get done. I am excited to run this thing through its paces. Anyone else around here into Rimfire BR (ARA or PSL).

Desert ironwood scales really set the look of this off IMHO. They were provided by the customer.

Maybe one of them Hornanday bewlitts melted in your barrel.

  Yeah Spots, we're still $10 for the firearm and $10 for the background check. We decided from the day we opened that we'd never punish a customer for finding a better deal elsewhere.   Some of our local competitors actually charge a percentage of what you paid for the gun for the transfer! That's none of their business!

Ya know...facts and stuff. It's long but a great read. http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Articles/Harvard-University-Study-Reveals-Astonishing-Link.aspx?p=1 Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk

  I recall those specific words being used in his description for many people on this very forum.

I think in the 10s of thousands of pieces of 9, 40 and 45 brass that I've reloaded, I've not had any that failed to chamber unless they cracked (after being resized in a Dillon resizer - always used Dillon pistol dies).     If you think about it: the die is much harder than the brass; the inside diameter of the die is fixed at whatever tolerances it was manufactured to; and, if the brass goes all the way to the base, it will be resized to fit - if it is so badly bulged, it may crack.    Most of the issues I've seen when helping folks with issues with 'glock'd brass' is due to: bad tolerances; extremely wornout dies (talking old steel dies); or, the die not being properly set for all straight wall cases: raise the shellholder as high as it will go, screw in the die until it touches firmly lower the shellholder and tighten another 1/8-1/16 of a turn and tighten

He is not dead...I know that for a fact:)..well..mostly interwebs stuff.. :)   Carry on:)

I'd be inclined to make a shooting rest outta the crate it came in.

I didn't realize you did transfers, or had a business [emoji106]

I will offer my insight here based solely on experience and observation.  As some folks have said, each case is unique, so trying to pin it down to exactly one thing causing these suicides can't be done.  From what I've seen, the deployments and experienced combat were not the root cause, but rather exacerbated existing conditions or situations.  At the same time we consider this, we should also consider that adults at highest risk of suicide are males in the 18-24 age range; this is a significant chunk of our military.  Two big things, at least in my experience, which are unique to the military crowd are long deployments and combat experience.    Long deployments create family problems.  I don't care to count how many guys in my unit were divorced.  With the exception of one, every person I knew who committed suicide was having, or recently had, serious marital problems or separation from their spouse.  So while the deployment may have not been the direct cause of the suicide, it certainly played a part.    As for what is experienced in combat (and I mean actual combat, not deploying to a FOB and hearing a few indirect rounds hit now and then), it will change a person whether he realizes it or not.  I'm not saying that everyone who experiences combat has PTSD, but as with most other life experiences, it changes how you perceive the world around you.  Anyone who has children knows this very well.  You aren't the same person you were before your first child came into the world.  Someone who experiences close combat, especially on a regular basis for extended periods of time, will view the world in a different context than he did before.  The level of violence I brought on people, and how comfortable I became doing it, is not something that can be explained to someone who hasn't had a similar experience.  People look at you like you're either a psychopath or are a poster child for PTSD.  This is why people like me don't talk to people about it.  Not because I don't like bringing up those memories.  If you get me and my buddies together, we'll be recalling war stories in graphic detail after a couple of beers.  We just don't like talking about it with people who can't possibly relate to what we're talking about.  It makes us uncomfortable.   With that in mind, most of us view our own mortality very differently than a person who hasn't come close to being killed, or haven't seen their buddies killed, or haven't killed another human being before.  I can't describe it, other than to say that folks who have this experience are more comfortable with their own death than others may be.  Perhaps because we accepted it at one time or the other.  Speaking for myself, back in those days death was something that would happen or it wouldn't, but I accepted that I had no control over that and it made it easier to do the things I did without letting self-preservation instincts take over when it mattered.  I have to believe that changed my perception of things significantly.  Even now, when I consider my own mortality, my concern is for the future of my wife and children.  Without them, I don't believe I'd place such a high value on my life that I would be uncomfortable with the concept of dying.      I wrote all that to help put it into context what might be going on with someone who commits suicide that has had these life experiences.  It isn't about PTSD, it's about the context in which they see life and death.  It's just different than regular people who don't ever experience that.  Kinda in the same way that a person is at higher risk for suicide if someone in their family commits suicide.  I think there were 5 members of Ernest Hemingway's family that killed themselves after he did?  Something like that.  I think it's much the same way for people who are in a unique situation where they have had to digest the full spectrum of death; accepting their own, coping with the loss of many of their buddies, and killing other people.   Just last week I spent a few hours talking with an old friend who's wife left him recently, and took their kids with her.  We have known each other since just after 9/11, and spent a deal of time in training together just prior to invading Iraq.  He's always been a bad drunk, and more impulsive to say things than most.  After a few deployments between Iraq in Afghanistan, I could see the changes in him.  He would likely be diagnosed with PTSD somewhere on a spectrum, if such a thing existed.  But talking to him last week, those aren't the issues that I need to talk him down from.  It's the loss of what is most important in life which has him on the ledge.  Now I don't know if he's really considered taking his life, but where he is emotionally I have to believe the thought has crossed his mind, and with his experiences similar to mine, I'd have to believe that death isn't as scary to him as it is to most people.  This is the recipe right here.   The problem I have with the media and the Army's lip service to suicide, is they keep wanting to put a hashtag on it and wrap it up with the PTSD bow.  That's not what is happening, at least not from what I've observed.  When they do this, they are tacking on the cause to a problem which has little or nothing to do with the problem, which makes it difficult to address the real reason why servicemembers and veterans are killing themselves and develop an effective solution.    What it keeps coming back to is we have to do our best to look out for each other.  When you know your buddy is going through some hard times, reach out and let him talk.  Just taking the cork off the bottle will help.  It's uncomfortable to say all the things you're supposed to say.  I heard that with a potentially suicidal person you should just come right out and ask if they're thinking about killing themselves.  I don't know if that's correct, but I found that I couldn't even say that the other night to him.  Hopefully he's doing better now than he was before, and if he isn't, I hope to have the courage to ask the things that need to be asked.

What a HEARTLESS bunch we have here......poor 'ol glenn ain't even cooled off yet and ya'll are calling dibs.......... :rofl:   PS...(Glenn is still alive) LOL

There are a whole lot of questions about this right now, that a bunch of us are really struggling with - and for good reason.  Whether it's actually the combat service, the protracted lengths of deployments or the lack of services as our soldiers transition home, we're not doing a good enough job at preventing suicides.  A lot of people I've spoken to regarding suicide note isolation and lack of community - whether real or perceived.   But, here's an offer that any TGO member should be aware of and take advantage of where needed.  We've got a whole lot of members who have been where you (proverbially) stand.  Whether it's transitioning out of service, dealing with stuff at home, feeling the guilt of coming home when your brothers aren't - or whatever, we've got people who have been where you are and understand what you're dealing with.  Please reach out to someone here!   We've had some members for whom a lot of us have cared deeply take their own life.  There are a lot of us who think about some of them almost every time we log in.  Every time I see the "What are you listening to now" thread, my heart skips a little bit.   No one here should let themselves or a family member get to that point.  Community is worth nothing if it doesn't support it's own in their time of need.     Please let one of us know if we can ever have a conversation with someone who is struggling.

Am a discount tire fanboy.  Every set of tires now come from there.  If you guy a lot of tires, get their store credit card, they have a lot of specials where they give an extra $60 or $70 in rebates just for using it.  You can also bargain with them, do some searching on tirerack.com (usually the cheapest price per tire - not counting shipping and install etc).  Tell the people at discount tire you'll by the road hazard warranty if they price match tirerack's base tire price, they usually will and you'll end up getting an additional discount + whatever rebates they have going on through the manufacturers + the store card rebates.   There was another thread from the labor day sale where I mentioned I got a set of 4wd truck tires for right at $600, then got $135 in prepaid credit cards as part of a double rebate thing.  $465 total cost in the end.   Great store to work with, and all of the locations seem to be willing to work the same kind of deals with you.

The logic of enacting unenforceable laws.   - OS

You ain't lyin my friend...that Michters is pretty damn good.

Meh... are you listening, Hornady??? Now, THIS... would change EVERYTHING. Until then... go back to sleep.

  No man, I'm asking why you haven't already!

  You don't have to log in or have an account to view.  Most businesses and news sites have open FB pages.  It's a really good way to get irritated when you start reading what the average "American" goes on about.

Link to his Facebook page? I have some reviews I would like to post as well. Namely the way they fixed a loose front sight. The one time I was in there he acted like a baby when I refused to pay almost double for a scope he had for sale.

New 2x's won't fix that. A wire from top outer corner to lower inside corner with a turnbuckle should do it though. Worst case, just rebuild a new door for no more than it would cost.

prices will come down but they will never be low like they use to be. the factory found out people will pay the higher price for 22 lr ammo.  look at the fools that paid the "scalpers"  price.  they kept scalping going on for sometime.  

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Keep us updated, I was thinking of doing the same thing but I want to do some more reading up on the areas to find out where pigs are more prevalent.

  I can help with that...if you like FDE or gray...

Suicides by military personnel is not anything new. It just gets more attention now than it did back in the Vietnam era. Like GT said some guys didn't do it because of what we were facing over there but it was what was going on back home in many cases. Also back then many of the young men that were drafted and forced to serve at such a young age really messed them up.  Far to many young men went to Vietnam were expecting to be killed. You could see it in their eyes when they arrived in country and didn't have a clue how to approach anything. They were just told to follow orders and they would be fine. Of course that was told to them by an officer here that had never see combat so it was easy for them to say...........JMHO

Never know what is going on in someone's head, but for any of those of us who have been deployed to hot zones, you know your life is never the same after.  Even if you never get shot at or shoot at someone, you still worry about it 24/7 without break.  Go to sleep not knowing if a mortar round is coming into your building while you sleep and wake up not knowing if a suicide bomber is going to hit the gate you're pulling guard on.  Walking to get lunch on base, not knowing if some random sniper fire is coming in, or when you're out on patrol going through houses and there's a guy with a scatter gun standing on the other side waiting.   As I've always said, suicide is for quitters but don't take that the wrong way, I'd rather see $500,000 in tax money spent getting a vet help so they don't reach that stage than to just let them off themselves.  It's hard to adjust from the life of active military to the civilian world, especially when you go in young to a combat arms MOS and then you get dumped into the civilian world with not skills other than being a good janitor.  Going from operating a $3,000,000 tank, blowing stuff up, living eating breathing 16-20 hours a day for years and then ending back at some retail store to be a mid-level manager is a shock to the system that is immeasurable.   Although I'm not a psychiatrist or read a single study in why these happen, I believe that the military should REQUIRE soldiers to learn a civilian trade while they are in, either via college or a trade school, so they have a skill they are familiar with and useful when they get out.  That won't eliminate every incident, but I think it would result in a serious reduction.   I'd be interested to see the correlational data between this and MOS, and comparison between commissioned percentages (usually already have college/trade to go into after) and enlisted members with no college or trade.

Welcome back Turd! Glad to see a post from you. Don't be a stranger, maybe even visit the house some weekend if you feel like it. Arrange it with the Monkey and I'll whip up some chow. Don't be a stranger.

I'm a Medical SGM and get the quarterly suicide reports. They are disturbing. It encompasses all ranks and the methods used to commit suicide are varied compared to the norm. This is a weekly subject at meetings with my Command and is taken very seriously. It is good that we have a large community here to talk to. If someone needs help to navigate the system I'm here to help. I deal with this quite a bit. The Reserves have surpassed the Active duty in suicides a long time ago due to the confusion in where to get care until the last couple of years. Things have been getting better to a certain extent.

Although bolt-actions are incredibly simple they require far more skill than slapping together an AR.  First you'll need to find a barrel that fits with the correct threading.  I don't know anything about buying Mauser action barrels but am pretty sure a barrel in that caliber will most likely be a custom job......more than the cost of an entire Mosin rifle.   The barrel on bolt-actions such as this are screwed in and held on with nothing more than good old-fashioned tension.  There aren't any screws, pins, gas tube or anything else to hold it in place.  It has to be screwed down tight!  You'll need some kind of barrel or receiver wrench to do it right....then there's the headspacing.  That will require not only gauges but a lathe to tune the barrel face if needed to adjust it correctly.   Not saying it's not doable,  just thinking it will be really expensive.

Seriously?   The moderating team really doesn't have time for this.

    I'd prefer dessert myself, I'm not fond of the taste of sand.  ;)

  Hadn't thought of that. Only problem there would be that, unless I am mistaken, trailer hitch balls have an integrated bolt that allows it to be secured through a hole in the hitch, itself.  That means you'd have to have a shaft thick enough that you could drill it and insert the bolt into the shaft.  That was why I liked the idea of the large lug nut - the shaft, itself, could be made to just screw up into the lug nut.    Along those lines, though, I have bought some pretty cool looking, antique metal door knobs (no keyhole) at flea markets and the like with the idea of using those for handles.  The bolt that fits them is thin enough that drilling the shaft to accommodate it shouldn't be a problem.  I will get around to using some of those door knobs one of these days and I think that, if I can execute it well, the combo will make a really nice walking stick.

If you'll take a solid spine magazine, open it to the mid way point, and lay as many quarters as will fit side by side down the seam, then close and roll it, it makes an amazingly tough impact and thrusting weapon. Sent from behind the anvil

I've bought guns at Royal Range that were cheaper than Bud's - comparing prices straight up. Once you compare transfer vs. sales tax, Royal Range was a good bit cheaper.   Edit: forgot about the shipping being included in Bud's prices.

When I picked up my wife's new pistol at Nashville Pawn, the folks there told me that they average 3 FTTs/day from Bud's. I would rather deal with a local vendor but no one local seems willing to even want to compete with Bud's prices.

I think with the difficulty we had getting the park carry law passed and signed into law shows the great difficulty we would have in legalizing carry in colleges and more so K-12 schools in this state with a handgun carry permit.  You will never get college carry legalized in a Constitutional Carry law in this state.  In roughly half the states you can carry on a college campus, with a license.  Out of that half, maybe ten you can legally also carry in K-12 schools, again with a license.   The politicians in this state somewhat tolerate the handgun carry permit system and like to throw a few crumbs toward improving it every so often so they get a vote.  It is important to remember that the House Speaker and the Lt Gov/Senate Speaker could have never allowed a floor vote on park carry.  The recent democratic house speaker never would allow floor votes on any bills that improved the handgun carry permit.   I think you'd have a greater chance in dropping the 'no guns' signs penalties for people with permits and maybe college carry with permits before you would ever get Constitutional carry.  With limited time during legislative session, that is what I would focus efforts lobbying for.   Gun rights organizations just need to work the best way that they can with committee chairs and other key legislative leaders, especially with realistic bills that make sense in improving the permit system.

Sorry for the loss of your father....   If they had been willed to me from my father there is absolutely no way I'd trade or sell any of them ever....

You know, I have found that if I put on my seat belt, obey ALL the traffic laws including the speed limit and mind my own business, no one really cares where my guns are in the car.   Just store them responsibly and drive safely to your destination.  I'll give 99.999% guarantee you'll never have an issue.