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The Little White Dot . . . . A kindergarten class had a homework assignment to find out something "exciting" and relate it to the class the next day. When the time came to present what they'd found, the first little boy the teacher called on walked up to the front of the class and with a piece of chalk, made a small white dot on the blackboard and then sat back down. Puzzled, the teacher asked him what it was. "It's a period," he replied. "I can see that," said the teacher, "but what is so 'exciting' about a period?" "Darned if I know," he said, "but this morning my sister was missing one. Mommy fainted, Daddy had a heart attack, and the boy next door joined the Navy."

Vaseline . . . . A man doing market research for the Vaseline Company knocked at the door and was greeted by a young woman with three small children running around at her feet. "I'm doing some research for Vaseline. Have you ever used the product?" She said, "Yes. My husband and I use it all the time." "If you don't mind my asking," he said, "what do you use it for?" "We use it for sex," she said. The researcher was a little taken aback. "Usually people lie to me and say they use it on a child's bicycle chain or to help with a gate hinge. But, in fact, I know that most people do use it for s*x. I admire you for your honesty. Since you've been so frank so far, can you tell me exactly HOW you use it for s*x?" The woman said, "I don't mind telling you at all. My husband and I put it on the bedroom doorknob and it keeps the kids out."

Two married buddies are out drinking one night when one turns to the other and says, "You know, I don't know what else to do. Whenever I go home after we've been out drinking, I turn the headlights off before I get to the driveway. I shut off the engine and coast into the garage. I take my shoes off before I go into the house, I sneak up the stairs, I get undressed in the bathroom. I ease into bed and my wife STILL wakes up and yells at me for staying out so late!" His buddy looks at him and says, "Well, you're obviously taking the wrong approach. I screech into the driveway, slam the door, storm up the steps, throw my shoes into the closet, jump into bed, slap her on the butt and say, 'You as horny as I am?' . . . And, she always acts like she's sound asleep!"

Rose . . . . An elderly couple had dinner at another couple's house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen. The two gentlemen were talking, and one said, 'Last night we went out to a new restaurant and it was really great. I would recommend it very highly.' The other man said, 'What is the name of the restaurant?' The first man thought and thought and finally said, 'What's the name of that flower you give to someone you love? You know, the one that's red and has thorns.' 'Do you mean a rose?' 'Yes, that's the one,' replied the man. He then turned towards the kitchen and yelled, 'Hey Rose, what's the name of that restaurant we went to last night?'

I love the M1 Carbine in .30 Cal so much that I started looking for a handgun in the caliber to match. My search led me to both of these. An AMT/IAI Automag III and a Ruger New Model Blackhawk - both in the awesome .30 Caliber Carbine.

I'm a big fan of the crowd pleasers, especially when I'm setting one off. They also have the added benefit of getting everyone to stop shooting the freaking AR's when you get tired of hearing them.

I've always wanted a Blackhawk in .30 Carbine only for the fact I've heard they are obnoxiously loud.

I saw this article in yesterdays paper. An ammo manufacturer is moving and to make brass and ,seems to me, ammo in the future. I did a quick Google on them and didn't really find much. Anyone know anything about them? http://clevelandbanner.com/stories/new-industryto-set-up-shopin-area-vairog,52932

My 2mm pin fire.

Okay I will play along but I'm going to get really unusual and obscure. Who can tell me what this is without using their Google Fu? I will tell you that I inherited it from an uncle that immigrated from Germany and was in WWII, on the American team. One other note, the photo is one I grabbed off the web because I don't have a good quality picture to post here but this one appears be the exact same as the one I have.

Zoid's Grandpa . . . . My 90-year-old grandfather went to his doctor, "I've never felt better. I have an 18-year old bride who is pregnant with my child. What do you think about that?" His doctor considered his question for a minute and then said, "I have an elderly friend who is a hunter and never misses a season. One day when he was going out in a bit of a hurry, he accidentally picked up his umbrella instead of his gun. When he got to the Creek, he saw a rabbit sitting beside the stream. He raised his umbrella and went, 'bang, bang' and the rabbit fell dead. What do you think of that?" Grandpa Zoid replied, "I'd say somebody else killed that rabbit." His doctor stated, "My point exactly."

You have to be very strategic with Cabela's. I don't think their firearm prices are very good but otherwise I buy a majority of my hunting gear and ammo from their online store. The savings is with not having to pay sales tax for online orders and when you typically spend $99 or more its always free shipping. I have the Cabelas Club credit card and receive 10% off my order plus free shipping at least once a month with special offers they send me for being a club memeber. In addition they have a pretty generous points system so between using points for purchases, no sales tax on my orders and generally having free shipping it beats out the other big box stores and other online retailers. Their store brand products are also reasonably priced and high quality unlike Bass Pro. Some of the Cabela's brand products also have lifetime warranties. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

Music City Tactical Shooters will be holding a Falling Steel match this Saturday and Sunday (02-25 and 02-26) at our outdoor facilities in Dickson, TN. Setup begins at 7am, shooters meeting at 8:45, rounds downrange at 9am. We will have 5-6 stages of challenging fun. One stage will be par timed and color coded boxes. We offer a safe and fun atmosphere. We welcome new shooters and offer instruction and coaching during the match. Come out and bring your friends. Divisions Saturday: Pistol Shotgun Pistol caliber carbine Hope to see you there!

I hadn't heard much about this, before. This morning I saw where the officer involved is being charged and the Chief is on suspension. http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/chief-of-policeofficer-charged-in-death-of-grandmother-killed-during-citizen-academy-training My question is, why in the hell were they using real firearms in the first place in a training event, especially one with non-police citizens involved? Yeah, I know they were 'supposed' to be loaded with blanks but if the rule about never pointing a (real) firearm at something you don't intend to destroy had been observed this would not have happened. I realize that airsoft guns or laser marking guns may not be as realistic for training purposes but I think that some concessions have to be made in training events such as this, especially when there is a chance (and, in this case, more than a chance as it actually happened) that an innocent person could be shot - not once but three times - by an officer in training. Now a lady is dead and an officer's life is ruined all because the decision was made to risk using firearms that were capable of firing live, lethal ammunition as part of this training. I hope that, at the very least, this incident results in any department that is or was using real firearms with 'blanks' changing the way they do the training and using equipment that cannot fire real ammo.

Yup, Going Heavy for this match.

Yep, that's my .38 there...well, not mine, but a twin. Second favorite handgun I've ever owned, and was a birthday gift from my wife to top it off. My fault though. I stopped at a "no carry" establishment and left it in the car. Then forgot about it when I got home. Someone decided to check my car for stuff that night and bingo, they had a winner. Awesome gun though!

I have the feeling that thing is unpleasant to shoot.

I'm still reading and digesting all the info, but this is a good day for gun rights, even if it isn't an outright denial of overreach since they only kicked it back.  It seems the aftereffects of Heller and McDonald are felt in this one.  Some very valid logic was applied, and it's worth special attention that the Chief Judge of the Circuit who wrote the majority opinion was appointed by President Clinton in 1998.     Read the rest of the story here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/appeals-court-decision-casts-doubt-on-marylands-assault-weapons-ban/2016/02/04/8a234240-cb59-11e5-88ff-e2d1b4289c2f_story.html   And the full opinion here: http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/141945.P.pdf     The politics/law geek inside me is giddy to dive into this one. ;)

Funny, United states v. Miller says weapons of war ARE covered, and only them. Which is it?

Beautiful.....just frickin' beautiful.

I also have a .30 Carbine Blackhawk. I guess unusual caliber is a matter of opinion based largely on the person you're talking to. Often I've been at the range with guns quite common to me and had somebody ask about them. I tell them its a .44 Special or maybe a .38 Super and get blank stares. "Its a what? Never heard of that one?"

What you do is figure out the length of the bullet listed in the manual. Normally you can find them on the manufacturer's website and if not call them and ask. Measure how much of sticking out of the case and subtract that from the total length of the bullet to determine how much of the bullet is in the case. Now measure YOUR bullet and seat it deep enough to leave the same amount of space for the powder. I know it is a pain but sometimes being safe is not the easiest way.

When will people learn? What a shame and a tragedy. I don’t know all the facts but I can’t think of a reason this isn’t reckless/negligent.

I pretty much figured it was the magazine, too, but as I said I had the same problem with the factory mag, a Kimber mag and (finally remembered what the third one was) a Chip McKormick mag. The Kimber one actually had the fewest jams - but that just means it got through a couple of mags with only one jam rather than the two or three jams per mag that seemed to be 'standard'. I thought about trying to get ahold of a Wilson Combat mag just to make sure all the bases were covered but by that point I had already thrown good money after bad trying different (premium) HP ammo in it over the course of about a year. Heck, I even tried Federal Guard Dog - the expanding FMJ stuff that is specifically intended for guns that don't want to run hollow points and still no joy out of any of the three mags. Honestly, at that point even if I had found a magazine/ammo combo that appeared to work it would have taken a long time and a lot of ammo ($$$) down the barrel before I would have trusted it. That Tracker, on the other hand, I lightly cleaned, took it out, loaded with three different types of ammo - two JSP of different weights and one JHP - and all three functioned flawlessly. It really made me smile. With its matte black finish and 'ribber' grips it certainly isn't as nice to look at as the little ATI, though. The ATI never seemed to have much trouble with extraction as long as the round actually loaded in the first place. Also, the Titan models (like I had) are kind of a 'hybrid' design. I don't know that much about 'standard' or 'government model' type 1911s but my understanding is that the ATI Titan models don't have the parts that a lot of folks end up 'tuning' to make their 1911 work better. I know that field stripping them for cleaning is different than a 'normal' 1911. Honestly, I think a big part of the problem was that the Titan was just so small that if one, little thing is off that big, ol' .45acp round just won't cycle right. My nephew has a full-sized ATI 1911. To my knowledge he hasn't ran any JHP through it but, unlike the Titan model I had, it runs FMJ like a scalded dog. I just don't have any, real interest in a full size because, and this is just me, if I am going to carry a semiauto that big I want the one thing that I think semiautos have as an advantage over my beloved revolvers - much higher ammo capacity. I did shoot a Smith and Wesson 1911 in 9mm on one occasion. It was the model that Smith created to be a 'production target gun' or some such (can't remember the model number, now.) That danged thing was as accurate as a laser beam. I put the first, three rounds I fired out of it into a group about the size of a nickel from ten yards shooting offhand and with the exception of one, minor flyer the first eight fell in a group that I could cover with the palm of my hand with plenty of space left over. The guy who owned it didn't even shoot it that well and said, "Man, I hope I don't ever give you a reason to be shooting at me!" I didn't tell him how much of the credit his gun deserved for the group, I let him think I was just that good (I am a decent shot but that pistol made me look downright good). I wasn't really even shooting all that slow a rate of fire. The sights, trigger pull and the way it fit my hand just seemed to be a 'perfect storm' for accurate shooting even though I had never even held a 1911 before that point. Was a lot of fun to shoot and the guy wanted to sell it so sometimes I have a little - just a little - twinge of remorse for not trying to work a deal with him on it. Not really the same as the trader's/seller's remorse you are talking about but along the same lines. I think I had just bought something or another that had drained my gun budget, though and I didn't have anything I wanted to trade.

Seller's remorse is real. I traded-in my favorite car - a 2013 BOSS 302 Mustang - so that my wife could have a car that she could drive. We had a truck, (for pulling the travel trailer), that we carpooled in because she couldn't/wouldn't drive it. She didn't dare try to drive the BOSS. I still miss that car. I also miss my Sig Sauer DMR that I sold in a weak moment of frustration brought on by a failed LASIK surgery.

I know this is about guns, but the only remorse I have involves a truck. Dad had a white '72 C-10, stepside, 3 on the tree when I was a kid. It wasn't especially pretty, but we hauled untold amounts of firewood in it. We went to the golf course all the time in it. Every winter we'd all pile in the cab and go dig up a Christmas tree from a farm out in the boonies. He sold it when I was still too young to drive. Whenever I see a C-10 now I'm reminded of that truck. I'd love to find that old truck and fix it up.

I'm picturing Raoul's bug out bag . . .

We use a weston sealer. Much better quality unit. Not cheap, but in the long run we would have been better off to start with it and not have 2 lower cost units fail and need replacement. It doesn't offer some of the special features like vacuum sealing jars. But for us it's not a big loss. We do use some food saver bags and like the pleated ones for large items.

Where are these currently being debated? I just got an email from NRA ila talking about totally different bills. On that caught my eye was HB 1006, which gives civil and criminal immunity when a law abiding civilian takes on a violent felon. This should just be common sense. Violent felons should have no right to sue or have repreive for their actions. Sent from my FRD-L04 using Tapatalk

Word for word truth here.

buy a chronograph. they are cheap. you don't have to buy the high dollar one, a $100.00 dollar chronograph will do all you need. book load data is a starting point. a chronograph will help you dial in your loads.

I tend to not sell guns but I did have remorse for one. My first shotgun was a Mossberg .410 lever action. A misunderstanding of ownership and my Father sold it. Almost 40 years later I decided to try and get it back since I knew who he sold it to. I hadn't tried before because I was told the fellow never sold a gun and figured he would not sell it to me. My Mother still lives in the same town and knew him and contacted him. He said he had sold it to a big collector in Cleveland. He remembered who he sold it to and tried to contact the collector. The fellow had died but his wife was in the process of selling his guns and she still had it. My Mother was informed and she told him to buy it for her and arrange to have it picked up. On my next visit we were only home a few minutes and she disappeared into her bedroom and came out with it. She would never tell me how much she paid for it, she just handed it to me. So it took awhile but my gun remorse went away. If I had waited much longer it would have been gone forever, sold to someone else and the original fellow that bought it from my Dad is in his 80s and had a stroke the next year and has never completely recovered so would not have been able to make the connection to where it went.

En Banc results released today...sorry to say gun rights lost. I'm still unpacking this, and it'll take a bit with all I have going on this week, but this part near the begining says it all. Basically, they said assault weapons (as the government defines them), & magazines are not protected by the 2nd Amendment because they're weapons of war, and that intermediate scrutiny, not strict scrutiny was good enough even if they were when cases like this come up. I hope that this is appealed, that SCOTUS takes it up, and puts commonly used/produced assault weapons under 2A via the Heller standard. Sad day, friends.

A Texas cowboy walked into a drug store and asked to talk to a male pharmacist. The elderly woman he was talking to said that she was the pharmacist and as she and her also widowed elderly sister owned the store, there were no males employed there. She then asked if she could help the gentleman. The cowpoke said that it was something that he would be much more comfortable discussing with a male pharmacist. The female pharmacist assured him that she was completely professional and whatever it was that he needed to discuss, he could be confident that she would treat him with the highest level of professionalism. The old bronco-buster agreed and began by saying, "This is tough for me to discuss, but I have a permanent erection. It causes me a lot of problems and severe embarrassment, and I was wondering what you could give me for it." The pharmacist said, "Just a minute, I'll go talk to my sister. When she returned, she said, “We discussed it at length and the absolute best we can do is, 1/3 ownership in the store, a company car, and $3,000 a month plus living expenses.

I can't remember the number of times I've walked into Gander Mountain with money to spend only to walk out in frustration trying to get someone to get something out of the case. There aren't many places I choose not to spend money - but Gander Mountain is on that list. That frustration is probably documented in some old thread. I'm surprised they've lasted this long. But, I expect they won't be the last casualty as the market turns.

It's hard to attract customers when your prices are 15 to 20 percent above everyone else.

You'd do me in a heartbeat and you know it.

I'm in for heavy.

He did have some fun stages today.

Great stages today Matthew Stewart! Excellent job. Thank you for running it on your birthday.