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Governor signed the bill today.  Lifetime permits have been reduced from $500 to $200.  Effective maybe July 1st of this year or next.  See here if you really want to figure out when:  http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB1424   That figures since the $500 fee wasn't really a good deal for me and just last week I wrote The Man a check for about 87 dollars and 50 cents for the current renewal scheme.  

Might be worth it solely from the PITA reduction standpoint.

I'm due later this year. At 38 years old this might be a good way to go now.

Well, it's finally here. Took almost a year and a half but I have my new double rifle in my hot little hands. She's a bespoke double built specifically for me by L'Atelier Verney Carron. Azur model in .450-400 Nitro Express. She handles like a dream. I can close my eyes and shoulder the rifle... when I open them the sights are perfectly aligned. The balance on this thing is unbelievable and makes this 9.6lb rifle feel much lighter than it is. Of course all this quality comes at a steep price... this is by far the most expensive weapon I've ever purchased and the only way I pulled it off is with the help of TGO. I joke that in order to afford her I had to sell every gun I own that doesn't have a name and while that's an exaggeration it's only because I don't name my handguns. So, if you've bought a gun from me in the last year and a half... thank you... you helped pay for this bad girl. Oleg Volk did a photo shoot with her and you'll find some of the photos below. These are unretouched studio shots so there are a few studio artifacts that will be removed before they are published, but I just couldn't wait to show her off. Enjoy and thanks again to everyone who helped me make this happen.

Twist have nothing to do with barrel length.   I hear people say a bullet must make one revolution in the barrel but that is complete an utter BS. If that was the case then no pistol would ever stabilize a bullet.

Being a refugee from upstate NY my self. There are 2 things that the south is missing out big time on. Those are Pizza and good old fashioned Greek Dinners. A real large Pizza is 18 inches in diameter with a hand tossed crust that is nothing like the crapola you find in Caesars, the Hut, Brothers ect, ect. all garbage. The only joint that comes close is Empire Pizza on Kingston Pike in Knoxville. Get a fresh baked per order Garlic knots and large pie there and you will know what I'm talking about. There are some OK Cafe's here but they all close at 2 or 3pm ! Yankee private dinners have huge menues and stay open to at least 9pm. Cracker B has nothing on these joints. Now that rant is over, Every single other aspect of life is way better here than the Liberal North period. I thought to retire in NH up in Thornton township on 92 acres I had up against the White Mountain NF. Then I found out what my property tax was going to be with 1.5 acres taken out of "Current Use". Live Free or die is a joke. Property tax there is WORSE than where I was in NY! The Schools in NH are totally funded by property tax. The Massaholes have over run NH and are pushing out the original Conservative base. Most Tennesseans have no idea how bad life can get under Libs. One year a City Lib got elected town supervisor and wanted to pass a law that you can't mow your grass on the week ends because the NY City folks that have week end homes complained about all the noise. And the Safe Act that was supposed to make you pay for a NICS check for a box of ammo. So yeah, I'm a Dam X Yankee that will be Dammed if I don't do everything humanly possible to stop that Liberal poison from creeping into TN. Maybe just let a few True Italian Pizza n Pasta joints in...... Maybe.

  At the church I attend, I bet half the people are armed on any given Sunday. Nobody open carries but I have seen a bunch of prints.    Of all the places I regularly go, I consider attending church one of the riskier places I go for mass shootings. There's getting to be all kinds of extremest that hate Christians. I'm surprised there hasn't been more church shootings and bombings.    

Here is my attempt at a better photo of the results of my most expensive pocket knife, I am beginning to figure out how to photograph it

Okay, as much as it pains me to admit - and as much as I wish otherwise - I am not all that great at identifying tree species. I know what the 'basic' leaves look like on the most common trees (oak, maple, hickory, etc.) I know that if it has acorns it is an oak, if it has hickory nuts it is a hickory and obvious things like that. I can identify a pine tree pretty easily (I think most folks can - although I probably couldn't tell you what species of pine it is when it comes to making pine needle tea and the like), etc. but am usually at a loss with other species or even with less common variations within the more common species. So, I am wondering three things: 1. Are there any folks on TGO who have the background to be considered SMEs when it comes to tree identification, particularly from pictures of leaves, etc.? 2. Would those folks be willing to participate in a possibly long-running thread where those of us with less tree identification skills and knowledge could post pics of leaves (or the tree, bark, etc.) to get help in identifying various tree species? 3. What resources would those 'in the know' recommend - both electronic and in print - for clearly and concisely identifying tree species in Tennessee (and, specific to me, at least, in East Tennessee?) I have always been interested in such things but am becoming more interested in them as I become more interested in things like cooking over an open fire with 'gathered' wood. I recently took a week off from work and spent most of it digging a fairly sizeable 'fire pit' in my yard and setting up an outdoor cooking area complete with a hanging grill, pot hangers, a place to cook in a frying pan, etc. and even an oven. I had my nephew weld me some pot stands out of a few railroad spikes so that I can use 'regular' cast iron pots the way you would use a Dutch oven. I have been 'in' to smoking meats for some time, now and can usually tell one kind of wood that I have for smoking from another. However, those are larger pieces that are cut up so that I can see the wood inside and also I already know what kinds of wood I have in my smoking wood pile at any, given time so that narrows things down a lot. For this kind of cooking, I am wanting to do more of a 'campfire style' cooking where I gather smaller pieces of dead or fallen wood, just as if I were camping, etc. To that end, I'd like to have a better idea of the types of wood I am picking up. I don't think there are very many truly poisonous woods around where I live but there are some woods that impart a better flavor than others (while things like pine can burn well for just a fire but often produce a lot of dark, heavy smoke and are no good for cooking.) To get things started, here are a couple of pics of leaves from trees right in my yard: This first one looks sort of like some pictures of white oak that I have found but not exactly. Is this some type of oak or something else, entirely? The second one I think is a 'chestnut oak', at least according to the pics I found online. Is that correct?

https://youtu.be/41EiJvu6SAM

Dang, I wonder if they will give refunds for those that already paid the $500. *sarcasm*

Dude you need the leafsnap app...   Throw the leaf on a white piece of paper, take a pic and it identifies it for you.

I've been doing a lot of tree cutting on our property for deer habitat, I've found this PDF very useful. https://www.tn.gov/assets/entities/twra/attachments/treeidguide.pdf

I have a friend who strung one up for carpenter bees. Two wires about a half inch apart - one hot and a ground right outside their holes. A quick pop and flash and a lot of dead bees.

  That is surprisingly accurate.

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Well, my buddy didn't have that issue because he was not driving a company truck but his own rig and the company Bel-Tex Corporation was thrilled with his actions and he didn't lose a 45 foot bullnosed trailer which also belonged to my friend along with Bel-Tex livestock on board. All I can say from what I learned back then. He was pulled over in rest area catching up his log book when he felt the truck cab shake. He looked to the right and saw a guy with a small caliber gun pointing it at him and he looked at his side and there was a guy with a long knife. He had his dirty Harry 44 in a sleeve beside his seat. He had his hand on it when he felt the cab shake. He brought out the gun and shot the guy with the gun in the face first  through the glass and shot the guy on his door in the gut through the door as the guy was jumping down and shot one more coming at him as he got out of the truck and pickup truck took off. he hit the 3rd guy center mass dead in the chest with 1 round. The only one that survived was the one he shot through the door with the knife. The dumb butt running at him had a tire iron from the PU truck. Insurance paid all the repairs to his Long Nosed KW (Kenworth tractor). All I can say is the guys picked the wrong truck.   I still visit my ole friend once in a while down on his ranch in Cheatham county when I am down that way. If I call and let him know I am coming he has grand kids go gig a bunch of Frogs and catch some big Shell Crackers out of one of the Ranch lakes and we have a feast.

You don't need wiggle room.  The law states you can confront someone steeling your stuff, the law says you can use physical force against someone stealing your stuff.  The law says you are allowed to defend yourself with lethal force if you believe your life or your family's life is in danger. What wiggle room is needed?  I can definitely state right now that if I see someone stealing my stuff, they will be confronted, I don't rightly care what worth the stuff has, it's mine and only I will decide to dispose of my stuff how I see fit.  I also hope I don't need to take another human life, specially an American Life; but when it comes down to it, I'll bite, pull hair and use a 2x4 to defend myself and yes a firearm too and damn the consequences.  Does that mean a thief's life isn't worth that much to me?  No, it means that the sanctity of my home and property mean that much to me, what a thief's life is worth I will leave that up to the thief; because ultimately he is the one that will choose the direction the confrontation will take.

If I found myself in a similar situation I'd have to find a new job. Of course that's been the case and a known risk at any job I've had since I started carrying. Companies have their policies, I have mine. If they ever come into conflict then I'll just mosey on down the road to drive a truck somewhere else.

For stopping a hairline crack in an M1A stock I used one of the CA watery glues (a super glue like agent but very watery) the crack has "disappeared". I used a hobby shop syringe applicator. I used masking tape to limit run off onto the stock's surface. I left it clamped for two days. Such CA watery gluing agents are available at Woodcrafter retail stores or online. The brand I bought was "Titebond" - Wood Adhesive. Hope this helps. This stuff is amazingly strong but be careful handling it since it sets up very quickly.

      Absolutely right.  Anyone who argues that point needs to spend time with muzzle loader shooters.  I've seen muzzle loaders clover leaf at a hundred yards running a 42 inch barrel with a 1/48 inch twist.     It ALL about matching ALL of the components.  Building a "Do-All" rifle or trying to compromise and then being disappointed with the results is down right silly.  

Any chance of getting a nice write up in a publication? Double Gun Journal comes to mind seeing Oleg Volk's studio shots. An article that captures your double's beauty but then bridges over to photos of its maiden voyage to Africa would be a natural for DGJ! Congratulations!

I have a buddy that drove his own personal 18 wheeler and hauled Livestock from Tennessee to Texas rwice a month. There was an attempted hi jacking of his truck and load  just outside Texarcana Texas one night while he was pull off in a rest area. It went bad for the bad guys with 3 shot, 2 dead and one got away in a pickup truck. No charges were ever filed against my friend. There had been several hi jackings of live stock rigs in that area with 1 driver killed and the Sheriff in that jurisdiction almost wanted to pin a medal on my buddy but knew better of it. Now with that said , My friend was drivng his own personal rig with his own insurance and was hauling livestock for Beltex Corporation in Texas  and the families of the bad guys did try and sue him but judges in Texas through all the cases out. This has been 10+ years ago also.

Bersaguy I have to admit that sounds like the most fun one could have with their pants on......

Still made in Brazil?

The mountains are already occupied. Try west Texas.

We could start meeting there to do our trading of bottles. LOL

Now if you were a benefactor I would say mail it to me an I will thread it.

The knives are being built at this moment, they are awaiting Bolsters for them I'll update when I know when they will be completed

After action report: wedding went fine no problems at all! My observation Of downtown Memphis, people walking around (in my view) totally unaware of what is going on! (Head in the clouds,completely oblivious to what is going on around them!). End of report! Thanks for all of the suggestions!

  You bet! Come to the next Music City SCI meeting and we'll talk Africa. MusicCitySCI.org

For me my older S&W and Colt Revolvers are priceless. As stated already you can throw the book away on them. It comes down to what you are willing and can afford to pay. I have a few guns that public opinion would say I paid too much. But, they are hard to find, I found them, and had the means to pay the price. For some reason my brother and I got into collecting rifles and pistols manufactured in 1965 the year I was born, and 1970 the year he was born. It has been fun for us to hunt for each other. The conversations it has opened up between us has made some of our finds priceless just from the journey. I hope you get this beautiful gun for your collection.

i'd try drilling a small hole at the end of the crack and put a dowel into the hole.  Use just a small amount of wood glue on the dowel.

Grip spray will get you killed on the streets.

Back to the P22. I took mine sort to clean it and the front sight fell out, in my garage, never to be seen again. Pathetic! Then I remembered they throw in two others at different heights. Dug them out and put it back together and just fired 60 rounds. 1 failure due to limp wrist. Great fun and I think I like it better than my ruger lite. The Walther is lighter, smaller and still accurate. Love me some .22 pistols!

By "bellyband" you mean girdle right? I wondered how you stay so trim! Seriously though, if it were my son getting married I would carry, OWB with jacket cover, my wife is cool with it. Sounds like your wife isn't so cool with it? If my wife wasn't down with it, I'd just make sure that I invited some of my buddies like prag, Spiffy, dmeadows, and Rickey. If the chit went down I'd just cover my wife on the floor (yeah baby yeah) and let them take care of business. I'm sure prag would have at least one extra he could toss me if it turned into an extended gun fight. A more likely scenario, Spiffy would confront them, DMeadows would grab them, Rickey would hit them on the head with a beer bottle, and prag would stop the bleeding. Edit: If the Brazilian place gives you a hard time just look at them and say "Vai cargar no mato!" That's right fools, I sprechen!! All jokes aside, I hope your family has a joyous day and your son has many happy years of marriage with lots of kids!

Why would you need money in schools, government buildings, California or Net York? Everything will be free!

Hmm. Wonder if they will ban $20 bills in schools, govt buildings, CA and NY, lol.

I would have to think about it too, Colt is not what it used to be. :hiding:

I've decided upon a new way to enjoy the show- i'n rooting for the zombies

I'm already where I plan to be when the chit hits the fan.....unless, of course, my wife happens to be "the fan". :eek:

Are you going on tour with a band? If so, that's pretty ridiculous that they would tell you no. The artist I work for and all people I've worked with feel safer knowing I'm carrying always. Is this a country band? If so, how disappointing..

  I don't usually go for the gussied up types(does that make me sound old? lol), but that is a fantastic pistol. If even half as good as it looks on video...well you get the idea.   But way out of my price range. Heck I'm still wondering if I could stomach the cost of a Wilson.

  LOL   I wish I hadn't seen it myself!   I guess I need to buy a lottery ticket...it could happen!? :drool:

<<nevermind>>

Love my Ruger 22/45 Lite.

If you haven't already read it, there is a free copy of Suarez's Using Red Dot Pistols available as a PDF over at warriortalk. You've got a good looking gun and I'm sure you'll enjoy it. I'm not a fan of the MOS because it's just 1 more layer of something to break over getting a slide milled. I'm fat so I can get away with a G34 EDC :devil:

That is a nice looking setup.

Extreme Window Tint is good. If I tint my current vehicle I will probably use him. I've known many of people personally who have used his place and his work always looked good. Be careful with the tint, tickets can end up costing more than the tint. 35% all around is the lowest allowed and that is total you have to factor in factory tint or frosting with the tint for the total number. Unless it is the few vehicles allowed by law to have darker.