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I just had to post up a pic of my new holster for my 29-2. My friend owns a holster company out of Mt. J and does a ton of LE stuff for the locals and a few not so local because of his reputation of high quality. Any ways I will let the pic speak for it all. But I can tell you that as a middle aged male with a gut this holster is very very snug to my body and for being a 4" N frame it is hardly noticeable!

I knew a man like this in the small town I grew up in. A lesson of life Read the following and have a GREAT day! I was at the corner grocery store buying some early potatoes. I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean, hungrily apprising a basket of freshly picked green peas. I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas. I am a pushover for creamed peas and new potatoes. Pondering the peas, I couldn't help overhearing the conversation between Mr. Miller (the store owner) and the ragged boy next to me. 'Hello Barry, how are you today?' 'H'lo, Mr. Miller. Fine, thank ya. Jus' admirin' them peas. They sure look good.' 'They are good, Barry. How's your Ma?' 'Fine.. Gittin' stronger alla' time.' 'Good. Anything I can help you with?' 'No, Sir. Jus' admirin' them peas.' 'Would you like to take some home?' asked Mr. Miller. 'No, Sir. Got nuthin' to pay for 'em with.' 'Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?' 'All I got's my prize marble here.' 'Is that right? Let me see it' said Miller. 'Here 'tis.. She's a dandy.' 'I can see that. Hmmmmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort of go for red. Do you have a red one like this at home?' the store owner asked. 'Not zackley but almost.' 'Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you and next trip this way let me look at that red marble'. Mr. Miller told the boy. 'Sure will. Thanks Mr. Miller.' Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me. With a smile she said, 'There are two other boys like him in our community, all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just loves to bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes, or whatever.. When they come back with their red marbles, and they always do, he decides he doesn't like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one, when they come on their next trip to the store.' I left the store smiling to myself, impressed with this man. A short time later I moved to Colorado , but I never forgot the story of this man, the boys, and their bartering for marbles. Several years went by, each more rapid than the previous one. Just recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho community and while I was there learned that Mr. Miller had died. They were having his visitation that evening and knowing my friends wanted to go, I agreed to accompany them. Upon arrival at the mortuary we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased and to offer whatever words of comfort we could. Ahead of us in line were three young men. One was in an army uniform and the other two wore nice haircuts, dark suits and white shirts...all very professional looking. They approached Mrs. Miller, standing composed and smiling by her husband's casket. Each of the young men hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly with her and moved on to the casket. Her misty light blue eyes followed them as, one by one, each young man stopped briefly and placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in the casket. Each left the mortuary awkwardly, wiping his eyes. Our turn came to meet Mrs. Miller. I told her who I was and reminded her of the story from those many years ago and what she had told me about her husband's bartering for marbles. With her eyes glistening, she took my hand and led me to the casket. 'Those three young men who just left were the boys I told you about. They just told me how they appreciated the things Jim 'traded' them. Now, at last, when Jim could not change his mind about color or size.....they came to pay their debt..' 'We've never had a great deal of the wealth of this world,' she confided, 'but right now, Jim would consider himself the richest man in Idaho .' With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her deceased husband. Resting underneath were three exquisitely shined red Marbles. The Moral : We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath.

Don't know if this qualifes as a rare caliber but I do have one of these in my safe and shoot it once in a while and people do look at me if there is anyone in the range because it does make a real amount of noise when fired. It is a Tokarev 7.62x25.

I always use the charging handle on all rifles out of habit. I rarely, if ever use the bolt release.

I have sold a couple I regret doing it. One one that bothered me a lot was a Remington 510 target master. It was a gun my dad and I refinished when I was 12 or so. Never should have sold it. Long story but a week after my dad passed away last fall I stopped in the local pawn shop. After 25 years or so of looking I found one. Turns out to be the very one dad and I had refinished. It came home with me and will never leave again. That was true remorse. Thanks dad!

There are a couple of YouTube videos of the 50 Thunder being fired and they are a little snappy to say the least. I've never fired any of Big magnum pistol calibers like the Casulls, S&W 460 or the 500 but I do have a T/C in the 45-70 Govt. that will get your attention with a 405 grain projectile. Not a great photo but these are mine. The one on the bottom is my .35 Remington deer hunting pistol, it's relatively tame compared to the 45-70 Govt.

Well here they are....my versions of a Karambit. First off is a matched pair or 1/4" thick 1095 carbon steel. The have African Blackwood scales and SS pins. It's about 9 1/4" long with a 4 1/4" blade. It has a pattern etched into the blade but my picture taking apparently sticks cause it's a bit hard to see it. It has thumb and heel jimping and is a stout and dangerous blade. You can see some of the rock pattern ground into the spine as well. They come with black kydex sheaths. Note....there are some lines on a couple of pictures that are not on the blades. Next is a lighter pair made from 3/16" thick 1095 carbon steel with a different handle shape and Bubinga scales and mosaic pins. The over all grip is less that the previous set but still very good. It also has a pattern etched into the blade and slightly less rock pattern grinding on the spine. It does have thumb jimping on the spine as well. It is also 9 1/4" long but the blade is a bit longer at 4 3/4". It also comes with black kydex sheaths.

There's also one gun that I really, REALLY regret not buying. It was a 'still in the wrapper' straight pull Mauser 96 I found at the Murfreesboro gun show, 6 or 7 years ago. The guy was asking $300 & I didn't know then what I know now. I wanna say that I went back & looked at it 8 or 9 times. The second I made my mind up to buy it, someone else was handing over the money. Guy sold it for $225. Then, I was bummed. Now, I feel sick.

I haven't had seller remorse but have had buyer remorse from finding a gun I should have bought, only to find it sold by the time I went to purchase it.

WHAT??????? You mean the Right Arm of the Free World has been retired?

The experience at GM is just bad, I don't mind if something is a few bucks more but when you have to pop smoke to get help at a gun counter, something is wrong. Almost makes one appreciate the yahoo commando at the lgs, at least they man the counter Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Aha! I found my jokes! The yoke is on me . . . . . I guess it is a badge of honor to have all your stuff consolidated into a single thread. Either that, or it's a royal whack on the pee-pee . . . . . I'll have to think some more up tomorrow, it's getting too late to be funny . . . . .

Uh on - a new heavy rifle followed me home today. Now I just have to decide if I can get up to speed with it in a week, or if I should just bring my good old faithful. Hmmm....

Tennessee is not hurting for morons but we're way ahead of flori-duh.

China Travel Service . . . . . At a travel agency in Shanghai, I asked the pretty young Chinese girl behind the counter if she could escort me on a city tour and I asked her for her cell phone number so I could call her to make arrangements. She gave me a big smile, nodded her head and said, "Sex sex sex, wan free sex for tonight?" I replied, "Wow, you Chinese women are really hospitable!” A guy standing next to me overheard, tapped me on the shoulder and said, "What she really said was: 6-6-6-1-3-6-4-2-9."

The flight was coming into Dallas when a combination of mechanical errors and unstable weather caused the plane to start plummeting to the ground! The pilot feverishly worked his controls, and finally, the engines roared back to life in time to prevent the plane from going splat on the ground! As the plane landed, airport officials rushed to the disembarking gate and were stunned to see 200 midgets shakily get off the plane. Finally, the crew got off the plane and the local manager of the airline came up to congratulate him on his perseverance under extreme odds. As the official and the pilot were talking, the official commented how unusual it was that there were so many midgets on the flight. "Those weren't midgets," the pilot replied. Those were Texans with all the **** scared out of them!"

Does it come with plaster to make yourself wrist casts?

The biggest crowd pleaser I have is this one . . . . . . S&W 460 XVR in .460 Magnum. It's also somewhat of an "unusual" caliber. She also shoots .454 Casull, another oddball, and .45LC which is not common, but not weird. So I get a two-fer on this one. S&W 460XVR - .460 Magnum & .454 Casull

8mm Nambu is as odd as I get

Even though it probably isn't that unusual to folks on TGO, I still consider my Nagant revolver to be pretty unusual where most folks are concerned. Don't have a pic right now but I'd guess that most on here know what they look like.

I have a S&W model 53 in .22 Remington Jet....basically a centerfire .22 I inherited this from my Dad along with 4 boxes of ammo, 6 SS inserts for .22lr and the apparently very rare .22LR cyclinder that came with it. The box had a cut out for the cyclinder but I understand Smith used the same box to sell the ones without the cyclinder....just didn't punch out the hole.

The Old Man and the Marine . . . . One sunny day in 2017, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, “I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton.” The Marine replied, “Sir, Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn't reside here.” The old man said, “Okay,” and walked away. The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, “I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton”. The Marine again told the man, “Sir, as I said yesterday, Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn't reside here.” The man thanked him and again walked away. The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same Marine, saying “I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton.” The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, “Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mrs. Clinton. I've told you already several times that Mrs. Clinton is not the President and doesn't reside here. Don't you understand?” The old man answered, “Oh, I understand you fine. I just love hearing your answer!” The Marine snapped to attention, saluted and said, “Yes, Sir, see you again tomorrow."

We've had a Food Saver brand vacuum sealer for years. Coming up on 16 years as I think it was a wedding gift. It's been great. Best way to preserve stuff in the freezer. I have learned to double seal both ends of the bags. Sometimes bags don't seal completely and will leak back up a bit. Just use that stuff first. I've also learned to put a napkin or paper towel in with anything juicy. Yes, every bag will get at least an inch shorter every time you use it. I've never found that to be an issue. I've used both Food Saver brand bags and Ziplock brand with success.

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.

Favorite is my 686 6" no dash. Was carrying a G23 until I got an FNS 9 last year. Almost feel like selling Glock cause it's so harsh at the range (165 or 180gr) compared to the FN.

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.

You caught the '04 sleeping at the tree

Man, those are incredible.

We are into some new "Sh74" now!! AWESOME!!

Wow - when you do a new blade style you make it look as if you have been making that kind of blade forever.

You'll hear about as much criticism about TSA as NRA here, but IMNSHO, it's absolutely worth joining and keeping up with yearly renewals. - OS

My mags were REALLY tight when new. Took several range trips before they would seat and the bolt would close 100% on a full mag. Now that I've got around 2k rounds through it all seem to have cleared up. Of my 10 mags it was worse with 4-5 of them than the others, I chalked this up to the others having been loaded/unloaded a few more times while I waited for the rest to come in.

I got a Thrunite Ti3 with an Amazon gift card I got for Christmas. Nice little light, noticeably smaller and brighter than the single AAA light I was carrying. Thanks for the recommendation.

My wife and I are the only people in our home along with my best bud Brodie, a large for his breed Yorkshire Terror that hears everything. My handgun is laying on my bedside stand every night holster free and keeps my flashlight and two full extra mags company. I'm too old to fight and to slow to run.....and I have no intentions to do either.