Leaderboard

Everybody is different. I just recently sold a piece of machinery, the buyer paid for it in cash because "I don't trust the banks." His words, not mine. Shortly after that I bought a used pickup and paid for that with a few thousand dollars in cash. Pretty much everything I buy that's worth more than a few hundred bucks is bought in person, with cash. A lot of it is used, and most private sellers don't have a way to take plastic and don't trust a check. I certainly don't when I sell something. I don't think we'll see cash, or the $100 bill going away anytime soon.

Yes... I love my job...

In God We Trust, everyone else pays cash.

So, as many of you know my Dad passed away August 8th. I am still going through the stages and that is a slow process. However, I had an interesting experience recently. 35 years ago my Dad’s boss gave me a beat up old Remington 510 Target Master single shot 22. Dad and I broke it down and cleaned it, completely stripped the stock and refinished it. I remember being disappointed when we found a crack in the forearm area. Dad told me not to worry as we could repair it. We spent several weeks sanding and prepping the stock. Dad even got the crack repaired well so it only showed a little. After refinishing I had that old gun for 2 or 3 years. I sold it and bought a Ruger Single Six at one point. I have regretted that for 35 years. For about the last 20 years I have been looking for another 510 so I could have one similar to it. I have found a few over the years but most had pretty bad barrels. One had an obvious bulge the dealer tried to put off as handling marks from being in a safe. So a week ago my son and I went over to Dad’s to be with Mom and help clean up a few things. While in town I ran by the local gun store as to me that is therapy. As usual I casually looked at the offerings in the racks. I spotted a Remington 510 on a rack towards the back. I picked it up and looked it over. As my son was looking at it I again told him the story of the gun (I am sure my sons are tired of hearing it). I told him I had been looking for one and he kind of gave me the “yeah, I know look”. As we were looking it over I told him about the refinishing and the crack. He turned it over and pointed to the forearm. Now comes the scary part. There is a crack that looks like the very one we repaired 35 years ago. As I look over the gun I get more and more memories of Dad and I working on it. Now as this model has no serial number there is no way I can be 100% sure but I would swear it is the exact gun I sold many years ago. Probably just silly thinking but as I do not go in that particular gun store very often I think Dad steered me there. I know it sounds funny and I have never had that feeling before but as I said it is the scary part. I like to think Dad is looking down and smiling, knowing that my kids and grandkids are going to help me refinish that old single shot. I can’t think of a better way to get my Grandkids into shooting and the joy of working on guns. Hug the ones you love and say what needs to be said now. You will never forget all of the things you wished you could have said. Thanks for letting me ramble on folks! I just needed to get that off my mind.

That's how we've bought all of our vehicles. Dealer wasn't quite sure exactly what to do when I bought my '01 F-350 a few years ago with an envelope full of $100s.

My response to that will be something along the lines of "if you don't gtf away for me the only thing I'm going to be hiding is my ____ in your ____!"

"Why do you need to circumvent the system if you have nothing to hide?" -a statist, probably

Cash=anonymity=freedom. Even if the government eliminated cash people would develop some sort of alternative hard-currency or just use straight barter. The ability to use cash or hard-currency to hide purchases from the prying eyes of the government is a feature, not a bug.

$1400 is a great price on actual HK.

Dammit.

For some reason, I've been on an antique lighter kick lately. Specifically, I've been looking for something called a trench lighter. These things have a bit of history, and got their start from soldiers making them from spent bullets. They would put a little shield on them to hide the flame so an enemy would not see the flame at night. Companies took the idea and started making them in production for sale. You can see that as you slide up the outer sleeve, the cap folds over. This one is in pretty good condition and looks pretty new. I'm going to keep looking for more, and hope to find one with an older looking brass patina. There are several manufacturers. This one is a Bowers, made in Kalamazoo, Michagan

Thats good to hear that she is enthusiastic about shooting! We welcome you to bring your daughter to our range and try some of the rental options we have available for a fun time.

I bought a air soft pistol for my daughter last year to teach her the firearms fundamentals. She liked it and did well with the safety concerns so I picked her up a SR22 this week off Arms List. The first shot was dead center from 15 ft. You could not wipe the smile off her face. After the first mag. she said " wow that was fun" we spent the next half hour working on stance and the trigger reset. She is hooked.

Since I was 11 years old I have wanted a real Darth Vader helmet. EFX makes some killer Star Wars props. In 2011 they did a Legend edition helmet that cost over $900.00 it sold out in 4 minutes way before I knew they existed. A couple of years ago I pre paid for another Star Wars prop that never materialized, I was offered a Special Edition Darth Vader helmet in store credit, as soon as I heard they were doing that helmet I jumped on it, it is the closest thing to the one David Prowse wore in A New Hope, the original Star Wars movie, it was delivered to me last week and man do I love this thing!

My Favorite ZT knives Wickedly Sharp

I submitted the form 1 on 3/1, approved 8/23. A big thanks to Michael Dresner of Law Enforcement Sales for doing my trust engraving and adding the folding stock. Sent from my SM-G930R4 using Tapatalk

I've always wanted to do that. One day.

Diogenes might masterbate in public. Nothing to hide.

I got a PSA AR10 that I set up as a heavy carbine. I had to change the bolt and get a heavier buffer spring to fix some of the feed issues and it's ran like a champ since then.

I find it best to use the phone with gun stores. Expecting technology much past that will only result in frustration.

If you just want a quick, down and dirty class, Smoky Mountain Knife works offers a build your own blade class. More touristy than academic, but my son was proud of the knife he built.

Most folks don't publicly post email addresses on web pages because it attracts spam. The web forms you fill out generally send an email to an email address that they respond from.

No one ever had their credit card number or identity stolen using cash. Merchants pay around 3% per transaction for you to use that card. That equals higher prices. How are you going to use a credit card when buying a used lawnmower or whatever from some guy off Craigslist? When people have to wait behind you in line at a convenience store for your card to clear on a $2 purchase when they have cash with possibly exact change in hand...well, I'll refrain from labelling. So are you insinuating that those whose prefer cash are trying to hide something?

I'm interested. Just depends on the details. Sounds pretty cool.

yep. a 1-4 or a red dot with a flip magnifier would do great. 200yds only long range until you shoot at 400 and beyond enough. Then 0-200 becomes short, 200-400 becomes medium, and 600-... becomes long range. If you are shooting minute of 8" plate, a burris ar332 will serve you so well from 50yds to 300 and beyond. great little prism optic.

So want to hunt pigs.

It's about time

I don't know, but Sumner Gun & Supply is now!

I teach on occasion, traditional blacksmithing in a coal fired forge, reclaimed material to completed knife. It's to hot to teach right now, it'll be 115 in the shop with the forge running, but I can do a class this fall if you want. Feel free to PM me and you can see the shop and other work at www.flatwoodsforge.com Sent from behind the anvil

Also, beware of any Texas outfitter that's offering '3 day' hunts that run noon to noon hunts. Generally you'll start hunting at noon on the first day, all the second day & up to noon on the 3rd day. My math makes that 2 full day's, not 3. Chances of killing a hog on your first 2 days are always super slim just because it takes that long for an area to settle & for you to get acclimated. That really gives you the last day. Bear in mind that hogs are crepuscular to nocturnal, that reduces your last day of hunting to 6am to maybe 10 so......realistically you have a 4 hour window where you actually have the chance to kill something. Virtually non of these bods let you spot & stalk so no hunting bedded hogs & no javies.

It's much more accurate to say the Ruger and Taurus are almost the same as the Keltec. The Keltec was out several years before the other two came along. I have a Keltec and quickly learned that it likes hot ammo. As long as I don't try to use the low power target loads it runs perfectly.

Guess who gets to pay the rest.?

Thanks to all who opined on this subject... i never thought much about this much before reading these posts... The MOS thing would be a great idea for us optically challenged geezers who tote a big gun in a vehicle... I can already see that i need a glock 40 MOS when the new wears off of 'em... Thanks again for all the neat info... optics ready leroy the gimp

It's strictly on a need to know basis, and you sir, don't need to know ...

It takes practice to pick up the dot from a draw and of course shooting with both eyes open. But once you figure it out it's a good option for a guy with vision not what it once was. I've been doing it for about five years now and I'd never go back to open sights again.

I spent 90 for a Georgia non Res annual small game. No bag limits 24/7 night or day. As far as outfitters, can not help you there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Someone asked me on a different forum, "Did you buy it?" Yes I did. [/URL]

Are you kidding? If I owned that helmet, I'd wear it everywhere...you couldn't MAKE me take it off.

Personally, I prefer this dark lord.

I got into building light sabers a few years ago. The one in the top photo is made from an actual HR & MPP camera flash parts like the one used for Darth Vader in the original movies. I still need to locate a flash clamp & it will be complete. The bottom photo are two I made using sink, camera, & misc. electrical parts. (Sorry for the poor quality pics. Camera flashes don't cooperate well with chrome) I'm working on a Ep. IV "Graflex" light saber like the one given to Luke in the original Star Wars film, but it's taking a while because parts are hard to find or are too expensive.

This is all you are getting, the house animals are freaking out and my African Grey parrot will never look at me again!

Aegis is the name of the lab,they do drug analysis ,drug testing and a lot of stuff I can't spell. They are just getting in to ballistics and needed a little help getting there tank going. Super nice guy running this part he showed us around and invited me back to try out the tank! He's restoring the models, he said they were teaching tools for soldiers back when they were still being used. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

There have been several advances in bullet design in the last few decades. Several are far better in a defensive situation than ball ammo. I use the Lehigh XP after through testing in my p238 I'm confident that they will function should I need them. If they didn't function in my gun I'd likely pick one of the available Hornady xtp loadings I could find locally. Since I'm somewhat OCD I'd love to take time to test my own ammo but since there are guy's like TNoutdoors9 and ShootingTheBull410 to do it for me I just watch their videos and then verify function in my own weapons. I believe this is a truly innovative projectile design for micro pistols chambered in .380, that said it doesn't seem to lend itself to other calibers as well since over penetration is a concern at higher velocities.

I wouldn't care what they said, its my house and I'll run it as I see fit. If I don't tell em I have it and place it where it would take em a little to see it, they can just go pound sand.

Ive got several Orca coolers. We use the 75qt the most. It keeps ice all weekend even in 100* weather even being opened and closed all day. Lifetime guarantee, headquartered here in Nashville, TN, and made in the U.S.A. This is the 75QT Orca next to a 60 QT Igloo Cube the Orca has my 4 year old in it..

:bowrofl:  :bowrofl:  :bowrofl:  :bowrofl:  :bowrofl:  :bowrofl:  :bowrofl:  :bowrofl:   You sir are my new hero!         Who needs a hobby with a spear gun on yer rifle?  :wave:

So an under slung shotgun is a Master Key. So does adding fishing equipment make it a Master Baiter?   *ba-dum-tis*   Can I suggest that you add a rope to the spear so you can climb walls?

I did some work on a adding more solidity to the mount. It's pretty sturdy now. Bring it, lake pirates. :rock:

Trimmed the pistol grip down this morning.... still a few tweaks away, but I'm on the right track.