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I've passed on several deer this season waiting on the big one. However, I just can't lay off the coyote. No cool story behind this one. No calling or squeaking. She just walked up on me after daylight. The land owner named this dog "Lone Ranger". Always barking and yipping alone.

I work in manufacturing and I respectfully disagree. Suppressors aren’t rocket science. They can quickly be adapted to changing baffle types and techniques. When you are selling enough to mass produce them in quantities that would eclipse what is being done now, and you can dedicate machines to them; the price would plummet. At a reasonable price with no paperwork and no ridiculous waiting times they would be selling thousands of times more than they do now. I’m sure there would still be $800 suppressors; just like there are $3K 1911’s… if you want them. But the guys that are innovative know that and would be selling $200 suppressors. And the gun manufacturers would have threaded barrels as a standard option.

While browsing gunbroker, I ran across a gun that spoke to my soul.... So I bid on it and was the only bidder.... I'll post better pictures when it gets here. It takes the obsolete 7.5 Swiss Ordnance round, which there are none to be found online for sale. So I'll probably just be sitting around fondling it for a while. Anybody else have one? It should make a good accompaniment to my K31 and 1896/11

NRA members should be the one selling it well. I get writing/calling/emailing your Congressman, which should be done...but if I was being hounded for money by the NRA, I'd tell them that with a Republican President & Congress, funds are no longer defensive, but will be allocated for what they produce. In realistic theory, the NRA could have a few major items knocked off the list within a year. The threat of endorsing primary challengers in the mid-terms should be enough to scare incumbents. On my end, I fully expect the SAF to get hot on filing suits once Trump's judicial picks settle to the district and appeals courts over time. There's is the long game, but the NRA has to strike while the iron is hot now.

Tell him congratulations on a nice buck!

Well, I about went into cardiac arrest this morning! Sitting in the stand since 5am and haven't seen anything! Getting about that point where your mind starts saying "well it's a beautiful day but probably won't see anything if it's been this dead". 9:26 am I look up to my left and coming down the ridge is a buck! I'm like hell yeah! Ease up and glance through branches and only see the tops and think that it's the 8 pointer 2 1/2 year old that's not much bigger than the six I just killed Tuesday. My buddy hasn't got a deer at all yet so was planning on watching him pass and hope my buddy could get him later. BAM! Out he steps where I can see the rest of his head and I see the 3 kickers and off the back side of his left G2. Yep, that's when it hit me! I haven't seen this deer on camera since August and zero daytime photos. I have my rifle up but watching for him outside the scope because it's so thick back there where he's walking and didn't want to lose him. He stops at about 50 yards from me behind trees and I think uh oh. Then he turns around and stops, as I realize the wind that's been hitting me straight in the face ALL morning was blowing right towards him. My heart was going crazy as I'm thinking he's leaving. But it wasn't just a thought, he started walking back out. I grunted, he stopped and walked. I grunted again, he stopped and then walked. I watched his silhouette walk right back out the same way he came in and I was shaking like a leaf! He's at least 12 points. Afterthoughts: Should I have grunted? I'm worried now that I shouldn't have since he didn't like something. Even if he didn't wind me, he could have not liked the Doe in Estrus smell that I'd put out? I'd think he'd have ran if he knew I was there right? Anyway, I waited an hour and moved my stand back away from that side of the hill where the wind swirls. I have mock scrapes over there and that's where I had him on camera. that's where I think he was heading so I put my climber about 50 yards across from that spot with several shooting lanes if he comes back tomorrow. God I hope he does, he's a magnificent buck!

I would buy suppressors, and pay decent money for them. My holdup is the tax stamp. I refuse to put up with the unreasonable restraints. Just one more thing that needs to go away.

I was discussing this just yesterday with a guy who works at a gun store that sells silencers. (I won't name the store because I imagine the employee might get in trouble for his candor.) He said he does not own a silencer himself but has been planning to buy one. Now that Sauron has been defeated, he says he is going to wait. His view: If the Hearing Protection Act becomes law, new silencer manufacturers will appear overnight like dandelions in the spring, and silencers costing $1000 now will cost $200 by summer. Trump promised a stimulus to American manufacturing. The HPA would sure help. Cheers, Whisper

A valid criticism this election cycle has been whether or not certain evangelical leaders have a sold out to the power of politics - overlooking Trumps moral failings in return for the promise of a as yet undefined "conservative" agenda. Russell Moore, who's sort of a public theologian out of the Southern Baptist Convention recently gave the Erasmus lecture at First Things, a Catholic publication concerned with the intersection of faith and civic life. Moore deals with the question of the religious right, and whether it can/should be saved. While I don't come from either of these traditions, I really appreciated the commentary. While I expect the audience for this will be quite small, if you enjoy podcasts and such, it's well worth an hour of your time.

I am a big fan. Best knives I own so far...

Damn y'all I stepped out to go to a wedding for a minute. This escalated quickly Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I wouldn't count too much on the NRA expending a lot of resources on trying to repeal NFA laws and regulations. They have their hands full nation wide just supporting basic ownership rights. The fight is not in Washington. It's in every state and local government where the anti's have focused their resources.

The range I go to now is roughly 50 yards off the interstate at the Sugar Limb Rd exit. To join one simply has to visit the LCSD and pay $50 for the full year. There is only one spot for rifles though so only one person can shoot at a time. It's nice for pistols, but not much more.

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My nephew got this nice 9 pt this morning. Has a split brow tine. Almost a 10 pt but not quite.

Hope you get him. Didn't see anything this morning. Hopefully I will see something before dark.

If they're legal (even if a background check is required at purchase), the price should fall fast. I think the biggest drop in price would be as other large manufacturers get into it. Imagine how competitive the silencer/suppressor market would get if Daniel Defense, and BCM add full time can production to their offerings. We'd have a good game on then.

I finally saw a deer yesterday morning. 3 actually. 2 does came along a trail I was about 30 yards from. I thought about taking one since I have a doe permit but decided to wait. About 15 minutes later a spike came down the same trail with his nose on the ground. Very small antlers with one broken off but good body size. It will be some good eating though! He's at the processors now. Not worth a picture, but weighed in around 110 lbs field dressed. My first deer since I started back hunting last year.

I would pay the $200 reluctantly. It's the registration and all the other regulatory bull####, like not being able to carry the gun out of state

Same here. But I did leave the tumbler running too long the first several times. Really didn't seem to do anything other than make the casings nice and shiny.

Dave and Mike hit the both sides of the issue here. The NFA suppresses not just ease of acquisition but also the desire to even purchase suppressors in the first place. (The principle of that $200 stamp has kept me from buying.) That keeps the market small, prices high and the innovators out. How many John M. Brownings have been stopped over the last 8 decades or so because of the legal issues around being able to tinker in the garage? The removal of suppressors from the NFA will result in an explosion of demand, innovation and manufacturers.

Brownells is never the cheapest. But, they are always top notch. AAA vendor in my book.

You would see some cheap ones but the guys that are innovating and not using antiquated technology will still be close to current pricing. Guys like Dead Air, Silencerco, Griffin Armament, etc. would be your innovative guys whereas the guys selling $200 suppressor now are like companies who sell 1911s and ARs. Nothing special about them, they work, but don't have the newest technology.

In TN it is already legal to make your own, and kits have been available since at least the 80s. So if the feds make it not illegal you would see almost an immediate drop in price but increase in profit due to sales, win-win.

Trump or no Trump, it has to pass the House and the Senate first. If you want it, you should mail a letter to your Congresscritters. They ignore email, pretend to listen to phone calls, don't even print faxes. Real mail followed by a phone call works best.

All good answers. Storage condition is the key. I've shot 50+ year old 45acp my dad loaded, and some military ball with boxes stamped 1950. I wish I'd just kept them instead.

I hope it's it your freezer lol

I think Steve said they're gonna do some for the 24 as well

Dropped a healthy doe at 4:15, not bad for public land, and no I won't tell where it is.

I'm happy to arrange, but I don't have a ton of bandwidth right now. If you want to participate, PM me as follows: Screen name Real name Street address City, State Zip code

Unreal. Those are some freakish looking deer. Not very attractive if you ask me. Sort of equate that with a botched boob job.

Just one more reason to stay out of that separate and strange country.

SHHHHHH!!!! Don't tell the bed-wetting leftists our secret!

You know what's funny? A scope really makes a gun more deadly than a suppressor does. Give me iron sights and a suppressor at 400 yards and I can't hit you. Give me a scope at 400...you're dead.

You're probably right. It should be no different than buying a flashlight or scope though. I hope they can get it done.

Dunno. I have been regularly buying 22 for a nickel a pop for months now. Will it go down another cent and a half? Doubt it. Maybe just a smidge more, but I don't think I'll see $14.97/550 again. What I want to see is brass cased .223 or 5.56 at $225/1000.

I'd rather be in the relative open at the urinal so I have a shot at getting away (get off the X). In a stall you're completely boxed in. Someone kicks the door in, the only way out is through them.

So I just found this in Cartridges of the World.... "The 7.5mm Swiss revolver cartridge is identical to and fully interchangeable with the 7.5mm Swedish and Norwegian rounds" "The two cartridges differ only in bullet type. Most Swedish cartridges use an outside-lubricated bullet whereas the Swiss also used an inside-lubricated type"