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Being full of Christmas cheer and all, I'm giving away two six-month TGO Benefactor Subscriptions. *EDIT* Our very own Fourtyfive has generously offered to pitch in for a one-year Benefactor Subscription. That makes a total of three winners! *EDIT* An extremely generous member of TGO who wishes to remain anonymous has offered to add two Lifetime Benefactor subscriptions to the giveaway. That makes a total of 5 winners. RULES: Must have a minimum 30 posts prior to the creation of this giveaway. OR You must have a minimum of one positive TGO iTrader feedback prior to the creation of this giveaway. If you have ANY negative feedback, you are not eligible to participate. Current Benefactors are not eligible to participate. If you meet the criteria above, simply post "Merry Christmas" to this thread for your chance to win. Two random winners will be chosen on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas and good luck to all.

These toys are side by side. Sandpeople always stand single file to hide their numbers.  

Liberals piss me off. Guns piss liberals off. Any questions? :)

I like to go light. Mall ninja is for amateurs. I go scuba ninja.

How else am I going to post operator pictures of myself onto Facebook?  Chicks dig selfies with military style rifles.  Just ask them.

Among other reasons....because I can. :)

One of my favorite holiday traditions...TDR's Christmas pay it forward!

We have a few ladies here. I don't want to steal them away from their husbands by tempting them with a constant reminder of my sex appeal.

Can't say enough good things about the HP. Only negatives are possible hammer bite and trigger. Both are fixable. Just remember the HP is what John Browning wanted the 1911 to be. It was his dream design. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk

I am not the man, but I do know the man. His birth is what this season is about.

While I have already introduced myself, I thought I would start another post that others thinking of joining the TGO community.   I lurked around the TGO forum for a while then signed up for a free membership. After I did I found that other members have been VERY helpful and willing to share their knowledge. I am so impressed that i signed up as a paid member. Frankly it’s a bargain. For the cost of a good dinner with a drink I now have access to the TGO community and am doing my part to keep it up and running.   Thanks to everyone here at TGO and I look forward to being a member of this fine community for a long time!   Bob

Yes it does. Yes. It. Does.

because a gun is more fun than reading self-absorbed liberal hipster poetry....

I would say that if you get offended because someone says Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays respectively, it is you with the problem.  When did we become a nation of weenie's on everything.

If it ain't broke.....

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/16/us/los-angeles-sheriffs-department-guns-report/index.html   And, on top of that, your gun is more sensitive than say, a Beretta. So, make sure and give it a hug tonight.   ;)

Couldn't believe it a Star Wars figure has hit the shelf ready for jihad against all infidels. Using a trick from another TGO member i did my part to minimize jihadi/ Isis exposure to our "yutes" If you see them at a store near you place them in an about face.

The whole shebang costed me a fair bit of money, but after 10± years, my girlfriend finally obtained her HCP. I figured a gun of her own would be the next logical step. I picked up a 9mm Shield (her choice) and had Amendment 2 Custom Coating make it all purdy with some pink Cerakote. With her Birthday and Christmas being only a few days apart, she has somewhat reluctantly accepted the occasional Happy Birthday/Merry Christmas gift. I haven't been brave enough to try and get away with that, until now. With the HCP class, HCP itself, the Shield, and the Cerakoting, I think I was able to get away with it this year. She's super stoked!

I'm a new compared to all of you. Monkey had a permit and an dec when we met and I thought he was nuts. I never had any experience at all with them. That has obviously changed now. While we purchase with the intent of self defense, range time is always in the back of my head. I love it. And I think it makes it a fun "hobby" for us to do together.    That is up until he started liking guns I had that he didn't. Now it's an all out competition in this house about who has what and all that. I have to bribe him to leave me alone by making trips to Knoxville for Bourbon and GT has seen some business for me. I keep thinkinging if I bribe give him enough great gifts, that I might be able to get that Dan Wesson I have had my eye on.

Welcome. It's a great place. I don't need to know anything else besides you're a UT fan. Go Vols! Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk

:panic: .........you mean there are more????? Gosh!!! I just showed that one to Kasey and she went and hid under a.. :hiding:  .................... :shrug:  

Once something is seen, it cannot be unseen..... :stunned: :stunned: :panic:

There is nothing I can say that can improve on this!!!!! Priceless for sure.................. :rofl: :rofl:

Got this in my e-mail. I liked it a lot. --------------------------- (Apparently not from the original source quoted in the e-mail I received, but rather from Ben Stein in 2005)   My confession: I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat... Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old but there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to. In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking. In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school... The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK. Then Dr. Steven Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about.. And we said okay.. Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.' Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace. Are you laughing yet? Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not, just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

I have self-defense as the primary reason, but I also very much enjoy shooting for my personal enjoyment.  My guns are bought with a combination of both in mind, but I don't have a gun I couldn't use in some self-defense scenario and doubt I'll ever buy one that couldn't fit a role for that need somewhere.

Because they're like Lay's Chips, can't have just one.

Just for fun and just in case.

Hmmm.... I was hoping to see an option that said "2nd Amendment" because that's my reason. :)

i am pretty sure there are more important things to be concerned with than merry christmas or happy holidays

The most obvious answer of course would be for defensive purposes. But I grew up in a rural area in the 50's and early 60's, so hunting was their primary use then.

  Hey!  I don't need a big truck to have a small pecker!  I can do that just fine without the truck, thank you very much!

its amazing how completely metal guns shoot when you've been shooting plastic. brings more fun to shooting. 

Some of the most perfectly finished semiauto handguns ive ever handled were FN Browning Hipowers... They are a work of art... As to reliablility... They are as reliable as any semiauto can be with good magazines... As to shooting... They shoot like a dream... If ya are into 9mm, ya need a hipower...    leroy

Liberals make my sick. that is all.

Thanks for showing me that. Signature is updated. Sent from my iPhone using tapatalk. Now here are some senseless lyrics from Beck: In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey Butane in my veins So I'm out to cut the junkie With the plastic eyeballs, Spray-paint the vegetables Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose Kill the headlights And put it in neutral Stock car flaming' with a loser And the cruise control Baby's in Reno with the vitamin D Got a couple of couches, Sleep on the love seat Someone keeps saying' I'm insane to complain About a shotgun wedding And a stain on my shirt Don't believe everything that you breathe You get a parking violation And a maggot on your sleeve So shave your face With some mace in the dark Saving' all your food stamps And burning' down the trailer park (Yo. Cut it.) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? (Double-barrel buckshot) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare Banned all the music with a phony gas chamber 'Cuz one's got a weasel And the other's got a flag One's on the pole, shove the other in a bag With the rerun shows And the cocaine nose-job The daytime crap of the folksinger slop He hung himself with a guitar string Slap the turkey-neck And it's hanging' from a pigeon wing You can't write if you can't relate Trade the cash for the beef For the body for the hate And my time is a piece of wax Falling' on a termite Who's choking' on the splinters Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? (Get crazy with the cheeze whiz) Soy un perdedor* I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? (Drive-by body-pierce) (Yo, bring it on down) Soooooooyy.... [Chorus backwards] (I'm a driver; I'm the winner; Things are gonna change I can feel it) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? (I can't believe you) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? [Repeat] (Sprechen sie Deutsch, baby?) Soy un perdedor I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me? (Know what I'm saying

I knew there was a good reason I did not install it on my tablet.           Sent from the woods using voodoo. :rofl:

Ha! Friend of mine was just telling me what a great deal on his new truck. Ford F-350, 2015, diesel big ass engine 4 wheel drive all the goodies, etc,blah,blah. Listed at $65,00 and he was so thrilled to bring it home at $56,000. What the hell are people smoking?

Some Monkey got pure spoiled today. However, I did also get some wine for myself but I feel like this was a pretty good haul. He told me he needs an all new gun safe just for the bourbon. Here I thought we could have a bar and share it. Someone clearly likes to squirrel away brass but now also bourbon. LOL [URL=http://s166.photobucket.com/user/predsgirl33/media/IMG_2849_zpsvxyux6dz.jpg.html][/URL] I originally just stopped in for the Woodford White Corn, but then recommendations were made, a sweet eldery woman handed me the Whistlepig and told me it was great for sipping. How do I say no to that? Monkey's already cracked it to try it. [URL=http://s166.photobucket.com/user/predsgirl33/media/IMG_2850_zpsq7asr0r3.jpg.html][/URL] The Ocean has been a huge hit in this house. He loves it so I always restock it whenever possible because I don't want him to run out. Basil's is one that he's always enjoyed and then the other 2, well they speak for themselves. I am probably going to even get in on the Handy once I figure out a good cocktail to make. I am not even strong enough to attempt it on the rocks!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/17/pal-san-bernardino-terrorists-arrested-on-federal-charges.html paragraph #4 gives me another good reason for an AR in the truck plus a few mags. They were going to stop traffic on the hwy, then shoot people in their stranded cars.

Like HP I voted for two reasons. First one was I grew up in a rural area and was raise hunting and fishing for the table to provide food. As I aged and and still hunted and fished I found it becoming more and more important for not only providing food but also protecting my family as the world was changing and with that I had to change also. Now I don't hunt and fish occasionally for the table which has many less mouths to feed My goal now is to protect my mutt and our lives and our food..............jmho

Damn OS, you're getting extra crotchety in your old age. ;) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great shooting Joe. The jail target on stage four effed me. 10 points down hurt. But it was a great four shot group! I guess I should have jiggled it more like Andy! Thank you to everyone who came out tonight. Those toys are going to put smiles on a lot of faces this Christmas.

They gotta pay for all 89 gazillion television ads that they run every 8.375 seconds....

For those that have interest, you can rent sleds at Stone's River for $3-4.  A lot of folks on here don't like Stone's River because of the fussy lady.  She is only on the pistol side.   The guys on the rifle side like are awesome.     All of them wear hearing protection, though one or two of them don't really need it as there is nothing left to protect. ;)

  Wow, that's frigging amazing timing  as far as this thread is concerned!   - OS

If they charge $20 with refinishing I dare say you won't find a price cheaper anywhere. I've done my own (only 3 though) and I wouldn't do one for less than that. I've welded mine, no reason to mess with that other stuff if you can weld IMO

Looking at that group if true then the muzzle may have been counterbored to re-crown the barrel. If so you should be able to see a distinct step not far from the end of the barrel when looking from the muzzle end. Bob

Muzzle may be counter bored due to wear. Need to see if it looks so.

Why does everyone use Tapatalk? Is it that much better than the mobile version of the website?

  YES! I tried many different makes and models before I purchased the M&P 9C for my concealed carry piece. I like it quite a bit. Shoots great, even I can have tight groups at 10yds, fits my hand well, and with the 12-rnd magazine (thank you Peace!), I find it easily concealable: I have a Desantis holster I wear around the 5 O'Clock area outside my pants, and something over top (coat, etc.) A wee big for a pocket-carry (pants pocket) IMO, but I've kept it in my jacket pocket many times with no-troubles. Use a 17rnd full-sizeM&P  mag. as my backup. Gives me 29-chances to GTFOOD! I like them odd's better than the 7 or 9 rnds. in my wife's gun!   - K