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That's a shame. Sad really. Why kill the gator? What'd he do wrong? He wa just doing his part to keep his state safe.

Is it just me or did anyone else smell an odor of pot and unwashed hair from that photo?

I'm single with no kids. Therefore I don't have to justify it to anyone but my bank account :D

I hear thier quiet... :) http://youtu.be/h27qVNUvaNk

After viewing the $1100 Damascus blade Magic knives on the Protech site, this knife became an easier decision.

Since you said you were new to the gun, I would have someone else shoot the gun to see if they get the same results before getting a gunsmith involved. Assuming you are right handed, this chart will help diagnois potential causes.

For the first time in my firearms owning life I'm now considering a bullet button Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Fast forward 70+ years

Hence the AK for me. I'm not big on safe queens. My AKs look like AKs. Plus they're relatively cheap in the realm of military style rifles, so if I lose one I can go get another without much heartache. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/12/gun_deaths_map_how_many_people_have_died_or_been_injured_in_shootings_around.html   I hit this link on reddit earlier and thought "wow, those numbers are surprising". That was until I picked a random selection from Middle TN. Of the 3 I selected:   1.)Potential homicide 2.)Accidental discharge 3.)LEO shot and killed a robbery suspect   Granted... the map is there to represent shootings, regardless of the reason. But the article specifically calls out "What you’re seeing, then, is gun violence in all its other forms: homicides, attempted murders, assaults, self-defense shootings, and accidents.". I'm sorry but a LEO shooting a robber is not what I consider violent crime.   ***edit*** i speel gud

I was asked about why I own guns and why it's important to me... I thought I would share my response.   As a Citizen of the USA I choose to exercise my rights as written in the Bill of Rights. All of these rights are important but the first two particularly so as they ensure that the Citizens remain in control rather than the government. Our nation was founded on the idea of independence. This basic idea has been educated out of many of our Citizens. Most of us can no longer support ourselves. We rely on to many other people to provide services to us Food, Security, Shelter, etc. Most people expect to live a secure safe life and want to depend on others to keep us that way. For these people security is a phone call away they HOPE.... What US Citizens are learning it that this isn't true and never was! Our police do their best, but they cannot save us from the truly BAD people that live in this world. They simply can't respond quickly enough. The police officers know this but are powerless themselves to correct the situation. It’s a simple time-speed-distance math problem, and all the hope in the world can't change that.   The terrorists and criminals in our society are nothing more than bullies. If we GIVE them power over us they will use it. Don't EVER give a bully anything, If you make a bully work for it they always quit. They want what they want the easy way. If you make it hard for them they always quit ALWAYS. The mentally ill and criminally insane have no feelings and the only way to deal with them is eliminate them from our society. This is the place that our police can best help us. They are trained to remove these psychopaths and sociopaths. The best way for you and I to prevent them from killing us is to be vigilant, know your neighbors, and be a functioning member of your community. Do not isolate yourself, and hide. Speak up and stand up in your community.   An armed and outspoken Citizenry is the only solution. Evil people exist and are only held in check by the fact that there are more good people than bad. There are many old sayings about this, but the best I ever read was "Given that there are more good people than bad people. What would happen if All the good people and All the bad people had guns?"  (Col. Jeff Cooper) As Citizens it isn't just our right, I think it is our responsibility to take care of our own security, help our neighbors, express our thoughts and listen to others. Never act in a lawless manner, but be prepared to defend yourself and others.   Carry, Vote, Speak the truth (in no particular order)   Bob    

Let me grab a link to one I seen a while back. It has law tactical folder, folding pistol grip, and the barrel has a quick detach, so it'll fit in a small bag like something you'd take your gym shoes home in. :up:

I use this one. Too bad it's not available anymore. I LOVE it   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q4YoT-Iq3c

I'm always on the quest to see tanks I havnt seen, or seen in a while. I was in the 24th late 80s into iraq. Never saw anything older than our m1s on Stewart. Did see some jeeps and equipment in a storage area being sold off or scrapped. No armor in sight while I was there, course stewart could hide a army.

I'm a Redneck AND an Infidel. And, I advertise...

I'll take the title Redneck and own it! It's a sign of hard work as friends as I'm concerned. Interestingly I wasn't in a conversation where I had to justify myself. It was a more honest and open conversation. It ended with them saying "I never thought of it like that" I find it a bit curious that some people seem to find themselves shocked into seeing our world from a new viewpoint. They're shocked to discover that we might not be as safe as they thought. Evil and terrorism aren't just in some other pace any more... They also don't have a clue what to do about it! Bob

Got it.  We all have our preferences.  This Sig has the short reset trigger and a threaded barrel, so it will host a suppressor.  That's the main reason I picked it up. Bought if from a private party - won't pay the price for a new one.  Anyway, thanks again for your 2 Cents.

I do have a set but they are back in Nashville along with all my other useful stuff haha. I have 150 more rounds so I may just shoot those through it. I manually cycled all the mags again and they didn't hang so it may just be a break in thing now. I am hesitant to do anything to the frame feed ramp since that is not replaceable. I may polish the barrel itself a bit of I still have problems in the next 150. I guess I just have to realize it isn't a glock hahaha. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Been a while since I updated my collection...but here's the latest 4 additions.

Quality management, and the fact that you're only allowed 2 bucks in an entire season are the driving forces.   A couple of decades back, we could only kill bucks, and several of them at that. This led to only immature bucks being seen, and if you didn't shoot one, you weren't getting a deer.   Attitudes have changed, and the deer population has exploded, leading us to take more does, and leaving the immature bucks to grow into trophies.   I can see a difference in the quality of bucks I see, and I like it.

Fast forward to 2016... Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk

Yugo's are built like tanks

Blond - I'm good with that   She can learn English   Very old now - work with me here.   Cow bell - That's the uniform, not her.   Hate Mosin's - Good sir, they is something wrong with you!  :shake:   The short of it:  Comms and Night can't handle a woman that may be a better shot than them.  

Bleh. - too Russian - Shes like 86 now - blonde - No speaky the English - I hate mosins - needs more cowbell Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk

She's just parroting the people that are promising her all the free crap. She doesn't have her own thoughts.

Looks like she and her Mosin needs to get a room. :)

Several reasons I suppose, and a couple good ones already listed here. The one I haven't seen listed yet is for a "get home gun." There was quiet a good thread on this a while back. In societal collapse/shtf scenario if you have to abandon your car or truck because of traffic gridlock, would you want just a pistol to navigate populated areas with? Or would you rather have a long gun to keep you company on the way to your safe place? With the prices on components for building AR's these days, one could build a complete barebones AR for around $400. I'm not rolling in money, but if I put $400 in a trunk gun and my car/trunk gun was stolen 1. my insurance would cover it, and 2. I wouldn't be broken up about it. Just replace it at my earliest convenience. Just my line of thinking. But the other reason already given that was my second answer to your question was "better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it." Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

etzioni@gwu.edu Write and give him a piece of your mind. Mine will simply have a subject line of "Leave. Move to safer place with utopian disarmament." And be sure to copy his personal email account: amitai.etzioni@gmail.com Spam anyone?

Update. Just got back. No hogs. Busted a bunch of quail and trashed an armadillo. I was not mentally prepared to party with the boys from south Texas. Our outfitter had more of a drinking camp that hunted. But a good time was had by all. The son of one of the guys there got to shoot a 13 pointer with a drop tine so he was pumped. I passed on a 4 spiral black buck because I didnt want to eat the $2600 price tag tight before Christmas. (these guys had a ton of exotics...axis, buffalo, elk, fallow, blackbuck, trophy white tails, javalina, feral hog, orx, red stag...and a cougar running around that had a $10k price on its head) But the food was killer (sweet bread wrapped in bacon, carne asada, chorizo and potatoes), the drinks were top shelf, the weather was perfect, the company was great and everyone came back without a bullet hole. We are counting it as a win...until next year. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

You can't beat MR GTs work. I just got knife from him and I love it. Doug

I would never shoot a spike or a split tine. My biggest problem when that 8 point walks by is judging its age. I do not have enough experience to have mastered this. Any sure fire ways to judge?

This was not a good thing for us.  Obviously, the Supremes are going to leave it in the hands of local/state governments to decide what is legal to own.  I can a flood of "assault rifle" bans coming down the pike in liberal states, like California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, very, very soon.  They just got the green light.

A carbine in the truck to me is just the next logical step in getting me home. My first thought is in most recent times the BLM protestors blocking roadways. Granted blocking a road alone is not a cause for pulling the trigger, but what if you run into that amount of attackers armed? Or just simply violent? I like 90 rifle rounds over 30 pistol from my Glock 19 in that scenario. If you drive a vehicle with a fold up rear seat, this is something I saw that seems like a very legitimate way of mounting one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mossberg Maverick 20g youth model. Under $200 brand new. Heck, I'm tempted to get one myself. Nice and small, that'd make a heckuva HD gun!

    you know I never really was a fan of the Eagle Rare, but I'm sure its about personal likes and dislikes.  I like 4 roses single barrel, and think Corner Creek is exceptional especially considering the price.

  Carbon dioxide is a pollutant and is causing global cooling, I mean global warming I mean climate change, resulting in people committing workplace violence, I mean possible terrorist acts.   Not sure what is so hard to understand about that.  Oh and words hurt, don't respond to my post for the next 15 minutes because I need my safe space.

I am the opposite. If I were involved in an active shooter/mass shooting situation I would try my damndest to get to my vehicle and get my rifle. If I were away from danger and people were still being killed and I could engage the threat from 30+ yards now with my rifle, you better believe I will. My pistol is just a tool to fight with UNTIL I can get to my rifle. So you're saying if you were safely out of the line of fire and could take a shot at the bastard from a safe distance (maybe even with cover) you wouldn't? I couldn't live with myself. That's just me.

Well, Greg has had a substance dependency problems in the past, so maybe he fell off the wagon? - OS

Borax is another option, I think it does a better job than salt. JMHO

Very wrong, but oh so right.  He's lucky he didn't get shot.   I am going to have to re-use the triple F-up line.

So let me get this right... Three law breaking felons buy guns they know they can't legally posses which is another feloney charge for them and the Anti-Second Amendment activists on the Metro Board of "Fair Commissioners" voted to halt Bill Goodmans gun show as a result? How does it even make sense when Goodman was following the law and all gun dealers (FFL's) do background checks there? This was 3 felons illegally buying guns via private party sale (not through licensed gun dealers aka FFL's), such as if I, a non-FFL, decide to sale my gun privately which is perfectly legal, to another person? It is the felon who was dishonest and broke the law, not the gun show, so the felon should be punished (prohibited person [felon] possessing a firearm) to the maximum the law allows, and be done with it. How about enforcing the law instead of trying to punish legal law abiding businesses and citizens? The law:   I. POSSESSION OF A FIREARM OR AMMUNITION BY A PROHIBITED PERSON: 18 USC § 922(g) & (n). Punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment. May receive minimum sentence of 15 years without parole if offender has three or more prior convictions for a felony crime of violence (e.g. burglary, robbery, assault, possession of offensive weapons) and/or drug trafficking felony. Elements A. Possession or receipt of a firearm or ammunition;   B. By a subject who falls within one of the following categories: Felon - (Additionally, persons awaiting trial on felony charges are prohibited from receiving firearms.); Drug user or addict - (Often shown where paraphernalia seized, subject tests positive for drugs and/or subject claims drugs were possessed for personal use.); Alien - (Includes illegal aliens and aliens lawfully admitted under non-immigrant visas, i.e., those aliens not admitted for permanent residence. This provision does not prohibit aliens who lawfully possess a so-called “green card” from possessing guns or ammunition.); Is subject to a domestic restraining order - (The order must prohibit contact with an intimate partner, or child of the subject, and must have been issued only after a hearing of which the subject was notified and at which the subject had an opportunity to participate. The order must also find the subject poses a threat to the physical safety of the intimate partner or child or must prohibit the use, threatened use or attempted use of physical force.); Has a prior conviction for domestic assault - (Includes a prior conviction for any assault or threatened use of a deadly weapon against a present or former spouse or partner or child or guardian of any such person. The subject must have been entitled to a jury trial and been represented by counsel in the prior proceeding or be shown to have waived those rights.); Fugitive from justice - (Fled any state to avoid being prosecuted or to avoid testifying in any criminal proceeding.); or Dishonorably discharged from the military; AND C. The firearm or ammunition was transported across a state line at any time. http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-ut/legacy/2013/06/03/guncard.pdf

Dogs are very cathartic when it comes to healing a hurt. My mother went ahead of me to be with our Lord back in September and it has been difficult getting used to the void that remains, especially now that the holidays are here. That being said...my wife and I rescued a GSD pup and named her Duchess Hilde von Wolfsburg...she was 5 weeks old when the rescue took place. She has East German and Russian bloodlines and is a silver and black shepherd. She started to thrive as soon as she arrived and has gained 10 lbs a month for the last 4 months. Duchess is a sweet girl and I know that God had her waiting for me to lick my sorrow away. Duchess at 5 weeks http:// Duchess at 12 weeks http:// Duchess at 16 weeks http://

The past few months have sucked a little more than others, having lost our 10-year-old male Doberman and our 10-year-old female Boston Terror [sic] within two months of each other. Bostons are highly social animals and become very attached to their people and to other animals that live with them. The vet says the Boston passed after the Doberman pretty much due to grief and depression. Very sad. After the Doberman passed, and before the Boston stopped eating, we contacted a few local rescues to see if we could find her another "big dog" friend. Sadly none of them responded to us quickly enough. MrsMonkeyMan put us in touch with a wonderful lady who owns a combination training org, breeder AND rescue of Dutch Shepherds and we seriously considered that as an option although my uncle in VA, a retired SWAT officer, K9 handler and trainer, told us that a Dutchie might be a little more "high octane" than we wanted. Others here with experience with the breed echoed those concerns in this thread too. While a Dutch Shep is not off the table entirely for us, one of the local rescues did get back in touch with us. To make a long story short, here is our new fur baby. We call her "Mina" as it's a perfectly good German name for a perfectly good German lass. She's about 5 years old and is even pedigreed. She learned her name quickly, has chosen me as "her person" in the family, and watches over our 2-yr old daughter like a guardian. She even endures my daughter laying on top of her. (I'm pretty sure she enjoys it)

Here's my motley crew. All are rescues. Left to right is Francie, Ruger, Sissy, and Cassie.

They don't Mike or at least I have NEVER heard of a 922r compliance check. I imagine if they ever started there would be a lot of pissed off people and right now they do not want that, way too many people already pissed off. Everyone is on the look for someone to blame and at the top of that blame is our government. They really can't take a chance.   It really is a stupid law that does NOTHING for safety or security. It only serves to grief gun owners and stifle those who are in the business of selling guns or gun related items.   Like the stupid law that says a parts kit cannot include the original barrel. Every time they pass a stupid law gun parts, and especially AK parts, get more expensive. You used to be able to buy parts kits with original barrels for a few hundred dollars but now those same kits are $600+ and if it still has the original barrel add a few more to that number. I seen an RPK kit the other day that sold for $1,200 that probably originally sold for a few hundred dollars. Krinkov kits with the original barrel are $2,000+ and still $1,500 without.   We are in for a really, really rough road over the next 3-5 years as gun owners. We are already being targeted by our government as terrorists. Even Hillary has said gun owners are terrorizing the rest of the nation and should be dealt with like terrorists. Obama just announced he will have a domestic terrorism counsel to look for "right wing extremists", those who hold racist, bigoted or anti-government views or see themselves as “sovereign citizens. They have already declared veterans should be viewed as potential terrorists. So they are going to be coming for anyone they feel is a threat to the agenda. The government has even said "right wingers" are more of a threat than ISIS or any other jihadist. So imagine the resources that will be brought to bear against us if our government thinks conservative gun owners are terrorists that are more of a threat than ISIS. So anyone who does not feed into the BS our government is doing or saying will automatically be considered a terrorist.   Every year more laws get passed to control us. Eventually it will be impossible to live as a free man and that will be the day I become a criminal.   http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/new-obama-czar-will-hunt-right-wing-extremists/ http://www.inquisitr.com/2053456/hillary-clinton-compares-gun-control-foes-to-terrorists-video/

This thread needs some Bulldog! - Gus

Well guys, ignore me, but here's our new addition we picked up this morning. She's a husky/lab mix. I believe her name will be Lola.

This is my hiking buddy.

Here are my three girls. Tank, the white Pomeranian, is about 9 and sleeps with me every night. Spoiled rotten. The other two are sisters. And it should come as no surprise that their names are Smith and Wesson. Smith is the sable and Wesson is the black. Otherwise known as my three bitches:)