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My daughter asked me yesterday if we could go shooting, this only took 21yrs to happen :).   Her only experience with a gun prior to today only involved a squirt/nerf/bb gun. :rolleyes:   So I pulled out 3 pistols, ammo and range bag and went out into the backyard, started off with a bodyguard 380, shot several mags with/out the laser, then broke out the 9mm's, first was a Beretta 92F, then a PX4 storm compact, shot a couple 100rds, her favorite was the 92F, as we were finishing I told her to sit still because I needed to go back to the house to get something, as I return she was puzzled by me holding a rifle and a mag, I was in hurry up training mode as it was getting dark, I told her to shoot 10rds one at a time (not in the video), then had her rotated the selector, the giggling made me remember my first time shooting FA.....best hour I've spent in a longtime...   https://youtu.be/ZWPSUnW9d2U  

My wife was just yelling at me to get out of the bathroom. She said, "I need to get my makeup on so we can go...did you hear me? You better not just be sitting in there talking to your little toilet friends!!!" Guess I should scroll the forum from the living room more often. Heh heh... [emoji372] [emoji57] Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk

Possibly the best response ever! I was cutting up with a customer this morning. He had a gorgeous Australian Shepard puppy in the truck. I says, "Whaddya take for that dog there." He says....A life. That's a fella what loves his dog. Lol!

Guilty as well.  As a matter of fact had to make an emergency visit to Home Depot today in Maryville after eating lunch (absence of gall bladder syndrome).  I was going to check on the toilet friends, and guess what Home Depot WIFI prohibited TGO!  I almost left, but I was committed by this point. 

Just a few weeks ago I was talking to a friend who was complain about his wage cuts due to low gas prices. He works in the oil fields. Funny, he didn't complain one bit when I could barely afford to drive to work on almost $4 a gallon gas but he was making 6 figures and had an $80k diesel dually with tons of aftermarket work. When I said something he told me to find an oilfield job and quit complaining. He got the same advice, find a different job and quit complaining. Cheap gas means more money for food, entertainment, guns, hobbies, etc which is good for the economy Sent from behind the anvil

My dad and I went up to Watauga Lake today for a bit, till the wind blew us off the lake. Ended up catching 4. Broke off a few as well. Had a blast! Any time fishing with the ol man is time well spent...

Funny, but TMI

Being "engaged in the business" is defined by 18 USC 921.   I fail to see how an EO can add to federal code without an amendment of the statute itself by the Congress.   - OS

It is possible to farm raise deer legally.  The meat is super expensive.  I'm guessing from farming stand point beef is more profitable.  I get what you are saying about criminals not following the laws anyway and I usually agree with that position.  I suppose that there are quite a few folks out there that would sell deer if it were legal but refrain from doing so since it is not.  So, this law probably does do something to protect the population.  Of course, without a doubt, we'd be stupid to believe that no one is selling deer meat because there is a law against it, I'm sure that it happens all the time.

Just thought I would ask how many Bass anglers may be on TGO? Reason I am asking is I have a hobby that includes making an assortment of Hand poured soft plastic baits and I sell them to anglers to help cover the cost of materials so I can make more. I use to do a lot more of it than I do now but just wanted to let folks know that if they are interested in using some great soft plastic Bass Catching Magnets I make some. I also make  Bass Jigs and Floatin Flies. If anyone maybe interested you can PM me for more information.        bersayguy

R.I.P., Lemmy! [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcf7DnHi54g[/media]

All the old double standard. "I'm privileged, and you're not." I need protection, after all, I'm smarter and worthier than you. I know what's best for you, and you don't.

Daisy ready for Christmas dinner

With the money saved from low gas prices you can use the saving to pay the increase in your health care increase.

Dunno. Brand new, unknown, untested. Why not save a few bucks, step up to a cheaper, more powerful caliber, and probably a slimmer gun and get a Shield 9 without a safety, if desired? For under $400, I simply cannot find a better designed or finished EDC. I think the G43 and XDs are fine guns, too, but you have to spend $100-200 more for those. Of course, those are striker fired guns, not hammer guns like the Bersa or RIA.

  I'm with you.  I'm also of the belief that if you need something bigger than a 9mm or .40SW to do the job, you shouldn't own one either.  :D

Man, there really is no such thing as privacy anymore.

Ha!! I laughed so hard at this...while I was poopin.

Way more info than I really need!! Runco I feel for ya bro' I too had my gall bladder out.

      That's exactly what I was thinking.  If one is "in the business" of selling firearms then they are required to have an FFL, so this doesn't accomplish anything except to confuse the situation and placate anti-gunners.  What a bunch of BS.

I expect last, but certainly not least (looking at my gifts) is me. I was out of the country from the 15th and just got my mail. What a surprise and absolutely incredible gift! I want to thank my Secret Santa for the extremely generous gifts. It is a real testament to this community (I use that word very purposefully) when looking back through this thread. Needless to say, I am already looking forward to next year. While I understand not everyone can give more, I will be paying it forward even more next year. I have to say, I get more out of giving than receiving these days. Thanks again to my SS. This is really one of the best gifts I have been given.

I understand that feel! Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk

Honestly this is my favorite league. Both seasons, everyone who took part in your league knew what they were doing and kept it highly competitive till the very end. Yours is also the only one that has a ppr format. Standard leagues just aren't as fun anymore. 

  Late to the party on this but:   phase 1: end reciprocity phase 2: .... phase 3: profit!

Actually looks a bit like me in the mornings! I just can't seem to get up lately. Wife gets up and I pull quilt up over my head so I don't hear her getting ready.

I'm all for any anti gun politician having to hoof it with no security detail. After all, can't THEY just dial 911?  

This is a good video, with one caveat - as he says, this video doesn't cover all the variations in handguard attachments, trigger guards, etc.  For those, the Brownell's video series on AR building is probably better, although considerably longer. Here's a link to all 52 videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k0aL0wtMPA&list=PLa6yB5pDvYiiR1KVxS1yrjYr9u9SL31RL

It's actually still pretty high if you calculate all the money and lives we've spent on babysitting the east.... that's our oil. On top of what we have here.

  that was definitely Glock's fault.  Need to change your story.

I thought you'd never ask! BACON GREASE is the ticket, preferably from thick-sliced peppered bacon.

Tech-Challenged! I've all but covered the Webley revolver manfucturing evolution from the 1868 Pre RIC's(Royal Irish Constabulary) to the Bulldogs, Pryse, Webley Government models and the War Department approved Mks: I-VI. Also have the semi-autos: 32acp. 38acp, 9mm Browing Long and the No1Mk 1 in 455cf, if I could figure out how to post pics would gladly do so and in more than one post!!

    I doubt they would go up appreciably. If you do the math, the lifetime license only makes since if you are under age 40 and expect to live past age 80.   $500.00 (lifetime rate) / 12.50 (the current per-year fee rate) = the equivalent of 40 years worth of prepaid licensing fees.   For those of us over 50, it's not really economic sense. The per year rate would have to increase to $17 or more for older folks to break even. However, for young whippersnappers and millennials, the lifetime is not necessarily a bad deal though-- except that, just like the 5-year renewals, it could be suspended or revoked for any number of reasons, and if that ever happened,  I seriously doubt that you'd get any kind of pro-rata refund. Because of this potential revocation factor, I prefer to pay as I go, thank you very much.

Nice fish!

Thought I smelled something. :ugh:

http://www.handloads.com/loaddata/default.asp?Caliber=35%20Remington&Weight=All&type=Rifle

  If were to end up being reasonable (random example, 120 guns per year, probably even half that or a fourth of that), then other than an issue of freedom it wouldn't much affect me. If it is something insane like you cannot sell 2 or more guns a year than that is not something I could even potentially think positively of. But to me the issue isn't whether or not it is reasonable but rather that it only affects law abiding citizens instead of criminals. The San Bernardino shooters show what bad guys do when they cannot or feel they cannot pass a background check.

Great set of four fish! You hit the trifecta there.

I'll save everyone  from clicking on the link:   What's Next on Gun Control: Obama and the Loophole   Monday, 28 Dec 2015 12:46 PM     The next shoe to drop on gun control may come by mid-January, when President Barack Obama is expected to issue an executive order requiring everyone "in the business" of selling firearms to perform background checks. Wait a second, you might be saying. Doesn't federal law already oblige gun retailers to do computerized criminal checks via the Federal Bureau of Investigation's data base? Yes and no. Yes, when it comes to federally licensed dealers. But no, when you're talking about people who lack federal licenses and sell guns from their personal collections. The problem is that an awful lot of firearms are sold in the latter fashion by individuals who aren't technically gun retailers but who sell weapons at weekend gun shows or from their homes. Forthcoming research by the Harvard School of Public Health estimates that 40 percent of all gun transfers occur without background checks (that's the so-called gun show loophole). Presumably the background-check gap permits some criminals and mentally disabled people to buy guns who otherwise might be stopped. Following another a year of shooting massacres of Americans, Obama has let it be known from his holiday retreat in Hawaii, through unidentified advisers, that soon after New Years Day he plans to follow through on plans to expand the definition of who's "in the business" of selling firearms — and who's thus required to perform background checks. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, among others, has strongly backed this idea, and now Obama appears ready to make its implementation one of the first major acts of his final year in office.   Another fan of expanded background checks: Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP and founder of Everytown for Gun Safety, the nation's leading nonprofit advocating tougher regulation of firearms. Bloomberg visited Obama at the White House last week to discuss gun-safety strategies.   The timing of the expected Obama move on background checks guarantees it will receive a hostile reaction from gun-rights advocates, thousands of whom will gather next month in Las Vegas for the firearm industry's annual Shooting, Hunting & Outdoor Trade Show, known as SHOT. An ironic twist is that many of the attendees at SHOT each year are federally licensed bricks-and-mortar gun dealers who sometimes concede privately that they have no real problem with all gun sellers being forced to do background checks. These full-time retailers resent competition from casual unlicensed sellers at gun shows.   But the National Rifle Association's orthodoxy — that any additional gun control is merely a first step toward bans and confiscation — holds sway in the firearms world, making outward expressions of support among gun sellers for Obama's proposal unlikely. While the enormous gathering in Las Vegas isn't technically an NRA event, the group's strong anti-Obama stance will almost certainly be evident there, and a fresh proposal to stiffen regulation may have the effect of pouring gasoline on a fire already burning hot. There will probably be calls to challenge Obama's authority to broaden the background check mandate without congressional involvement. Lawsuits and objections from pro-gun Republicans on Capitol Hill will likely follow, as has happened with other efforts by the administration to use executive authority in the environmental arena. Another sure thing: Texas Senator Ted Cruz and other Republican presidential candidates will condemn the Obama proposal. In other words, the Great American Gun Debate will continue in 2016.   © Copyright 2015 Bloomberg News. All rights reserved.  

I hate that SOB. That is all.

Okay... how does he know the slide didn't go forward and the gun didn't go into battery?   Did he notice that the slide was still OOB and then fire anyway?   :doh:

Regardless of what caliber it was, you can greatly overcharge pretty much any case if you're using a really fast powder. (like titegroup, for instance) I'm not arguing whether this was a doublecharge, etc, just clarifying a point about powder and case volume. Yes, some recipes will use a powder that nearly or completely fills a case. Some even will compress the powder charge. (H110 in 357 or 44 mag both do that under max loads with most bullet options) However, that same case and bullet, when loaded with a fast powder will leave TONS of empty case volume. You can fit 4 charges' worth of TG in a 44 mag and throw a bullet on top if you were so inclined. All of that to simply clarify that statements like "doesn't X caliber fill the case?" Aren't as simple as they seem.

In this case I'm glad the government has stepped in.  If deer meat could legally be sold I think that they would be hunted and poached into extinction. 

Well my question is why or what is your issue with the safety on the Bersa? Is it that it needs to be swept up to fire, whereas on most other guns with a safety you sweep the safety down?   I've carried a 380 Thunder and still keep a .22 Thunder for target as well as a Beretta full size for home protection and don't feel this would be an issue. Simply for the main reason as I don't use the safety as a safety; decocker yes but as a safety no.....   There is no need to use a safety if so equipped on a double action handgun...   I also keep several 1911 and close variants so the thumb safety sweep down comes 2nd nature as this is simply the nature of the beast and memory takes over when I pick one and carry any of these guns...   But I'll be honest with you my favored carry is a CZ RAMI decocker as it has simplified controls as it has no safety only a decocker lever....

found this while googling ar parts and thought i would post it here, though i'm sure some of the steps don't need to be done but non the less its a decent video of how to do the upper and lower   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8sY5CQmlHI

Guys, Always remember buying these knives from me, since I am friends and pals and a trusted dealer for Protech, if you ever have a problem I will get it sorted out quicker than anyone,

KY jelly is my personal favorite.   I once listened all day to a guy who was a bolt expert talk about bolts. The one and only thing I brought away from that fascinating sermon was "The larger your shaft, the better grade lubricant you need".   That's my extent of grease knowledge. :D Hope it helps.

Women who kill people get a 2-3 pt boost on the scale, generally speaking. I knew one in Iraq who did the kinetic targeting in our battlespace. Though not directly, she's responsible for the deaths of untold numbers of jihadis. If she wanted a JDAM dropped on a house, a JDAM got dropped on a house. I met with her once a week for targeting, and the way she nonchalantly discussed killing insurgents was hot. I can't explain it. Perhaps it was how non emotional she was about it; not celebratory or remorseful. Most dudes will at least talk with a degree of celebratory attitude after taking out a bunch of bad guys. She just treated it like a job, and the lives of these savages were nothing to her. So hot.

Over on some other sites, glocks have been used by certain seal teams for years.  I believe this latest decision was more budgetary and good lobbying by glock.   I like both, prefer Sig, but Glock will do.    I have said it before, Sig is like taking the trophy date to the prom, but Glock is the ugly one.  No worry, both will put out when needed. 

I just put these on my new CZ75B:  http://www.midwayusa.com/product/240352/lpa-ttf-adjustable-sight-set-cz-75-85-steel-fiber-optic So far I only had one range session in (this was a recent purchase, one of my Christmas presents. The other one being a CZ2075B for carry). So far I'm happy. If you're comfortable with basic gun-smithing, install is straight forward. The front-sight needs a groove filed in for the roll-pin. (I used a small triangular fie). Some people drill, but filing a groove seems to be sufficient.   Cheers!

  The Hi-Viz are very easy to see and feature very bright light pipes. LPA makes some good ones too, but they're a lot more spendy; http://www.midwayusa.com/product/240352/lpa-ttf-adjustable-sight-set-cz-75-85-steel-fiber-optic