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My son Stephen is down there right now on a storm recovery team for Townsend Tree service, they put them in the BB&T Coliseum in Sunrise FL. He tested me this morning and said there are Tornado's all over the place down there right now. If you are the praying type keep him and his co-workers in you prayers please.

Here are a few somewhat less crappy photos with outdoor lighting. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I have been watching the Weather Channel guy standing around in Naples for nearly an hour waiting for him to get blown over. I demand satisfaction.

Made from 3/16" thick 1095 carbon steel differentially heat treated to show a hamon. IPE contoured handles for a great fit with mosaic pins...this thing is a beast.

Just saw a thread by an expert on these surges. Cited a 1900 hurricane where the rise when it came back was 4 feet in as many seconds. This is definitely different than your typical nor'easter depression. It reminds me of the signs in beaches in the Pacific Northwest warning you to be aware of the tides because you could be caught out unable to get back to the trailhead. One in particular changed 18 feet over during some phases. Edit: link to the twitter thread for the interested: https://twitter.com/mikamckinnon/status/906946816523956224

About six years ago I borrowed a friends utility trailer to use for a school class float. The trailer light wires were broken as was the one remaining light. I re-wired the trailer and replaced the lights. I went ahead and wire brushed the trailer and hit it with a coat of rust-o-leum. I returned the trailer the day after the parade. Five years later (Last year) he called and asked if I wanted to borrow his trailer again.

That 1/4" on the barrel and on the grip just screams FULL SIZE!!!! I carry a M&P 4.25 just as easy as a Glock 19.

Back to normal would be a more appropriate way to describe today's gun industry.

When I was a small kid, I helped my neighbors pollinate tobacco. They made tobacco seed for Co op. I also mowed yards, milked another neighbor's goats, etc; for money. As I got older and stronger, I helped cut and spike tobacco, and hang it in barns, as this paid much better than the pollinating because it was much harder work. I also hauled baled ha and straw. By the time I was in high school, I had purchased two classic cars, a 4x4 truck, bass boat, a Harley Davidson Sportster, and a racing dirt bike. I had a friend down the road who was more industrious than me. He raised his own tobacco crop, and built his own barn when he was about 14. Today, he's still a farmer, and a multi millionaire. The money is out there if a fellow has a little ambition and a good work ethic. Education not required.

Absolutely stunning. Really nice job!

Just a few years ago, Weidners had all 5 Swiss rifles for $1700. Sadly, I missed that boat

I was not always a milkman(boy) but I did other things to make money also by age 11.There was this very old gentleman that lived next door to us on the country road and in the swamp ponds behind the house were fish and big turtles the old man taught me how to fish. He also taught me how to catch snapping turtles in the swamp ponds. Then in the Spring of the year he showed me where and about when the baby painted turtles would hatch and cross the road to get back to the swamps from the warm hill sides. Now I bet your wondering what I ment by not always a milk boy. As I grew a little older I began catching those snapping turtles and putting them in cages in our back yard the old man gave me. People in the small town we lived in loved to eat snapping turtle so as they wanted some turtle they would come out to our house and buy a turtle. I would put the turtle alive in a tote sack and place it in the trunk of their car for $6.50 cents but the turtles would weigh about 35 to 45 lbs depending on which one they picked. I would sell about 40 to 50 a summer. In the Spring when the painted baby turtles began crossing the road they would come at rate of 25 to 50 a day and I would collect them and when I had about 200 or more my mother would take me to several pet shops in the area and I would sell for 25 cents each and make an average of 40 to 50 bucks a trip. I was also in the bait business. The old man showed me how to catch night crawlers at night after a good rain. They would come out at night and you had to be fast or they would scoot back in their hole. You would use a flashlight to find them in your yards. I found that by putting a green colored lense on the light they didn't move back to hole quite as fast making them easier to catch. The DesPlaines River ran just out side of our town and the african Americans would come out of Chicago on weekends and fish for Carp and Bullheads along the banks with mostly cane poles. They would buy their night crawlers in Chicago and pay $1.00 for 10 crawlers. I began taking tin cans of night crawlers with 25 worms for 75 cents and I sold out every time I went and I would have 50+ cans. All my neighbors save cans for me. When it did not rain my father knew the guy that ran to Golf Course in the town and they would water about every day and the man would let me collect night crawlers on the fairways but was not allowed on any greens but I could almost fill a 5 gallon pail in 2 hours. The old man had built me a big worm bed for me to keep the night crawlers in and I kept it full during ice out when the river was flowing. Later when I was about 12 or 13 the old man taught me his secret weapon Dough Ball bait recipe made with Wheates, eggs, Vanilla extract and water and Carp loved them. I would make them during the week and freeze them wrapped in wax paper and take them to the river along with the night crawlers and sold them 10 for a dollar but first I had to prove to the men that they worked. I had stepped up to rod and reel then and owned 2 Zebco 33's on metal rods and got to the river on my bike pulling my wagon full of products before sun up and would catch a couple bigger Carp that lived off the bank so when they saw me catching fish on them they not only bought the Dough Balls but bought the big Carp too. The summer I was 13 I was selling snappers, Painted turtles, Worms and Dough balls and fish and ended the summer earning over $500.00. I had a bank account and every Monday I would make a deposit. I would keep out what I wanted to spend and saved the rest. I was quite the business man for a couple years which was what helped me be able to buy a few shotguns for hunting and my Colt single action back then. I lost the old Gentleman as he passed away when I was 15 and I had lost a very good friend. I know this was kind of long but I thought some might find it amusing how a young person would work back then to make money verses what kids think is important today in their lives......

I should have bought from Aim Surplus 4 years ago, hand select for under $400. Jealous.

I fell into the college trap. I goofed off for a couple of years then borrowed my way through college. I spent the next ten years or more doing nothing related to what I went to school for. Sure, I had a decent job and made a decent wage, after years of hard work and proving myself. I sat behind a desk, in a shirt and tie telling people what to do and where to go to make money. Then I realized that I had hated this life for years. I became a plumber. The point remains that my first year as a plumber on my own truck I will be grossing 40-50% more than I was as a Logistics Manager. It is a respectable job, but we don't have kids lining up to do it. To the point that honestly, if someone told me they wanted the job, I could have them hired the next day. One of the local unions (I am not union) runs ads daily up here offering a four year debt free apprenticeship program and $30 an hour top out with all benefits included. You get paid to learn a trade.

I have a B.A. and 20-years of experience working with computers in the Print-biz (Prepress wizard extroirdinaire for you industry folks). Avg. job now pays 12-13/hr., you're lucky if you find 15 (was 20-25 when I gradumicated in 96) With my CDL-license I'm earning easily 300/wk. more, and just got a promotion after a little over a year on the job (granted, my degree probably helped there, but wasn't a requirement). That's got me ALMOST back to where I was 15 years ago when printing was a well paying 'craftsman' job. And the kicker is, when I was 22 I was offered a sponsorship into the plumbers union. Would probably be 6-figures had I taken that, but noooo, I wanted to put my degree to use. - K

Not to detract from your beautiful firearm @maroonandwhite but I haven't put mine out there much. I've always wanted a 336 but have no real purpose for one. It would not see full use and to fancy for a range piece. A Henry in 22LR or the Big Boy in 38/357 is a bucket list item personally. When it's time it will hopefully be custom obviously to get a round barrel to match the old man 1866.

That is probably 5 months and 29 days more than most kids today. My Dad ran a landscape, tree trimming, acoustical ceiling, handyman business on the side. I was told that was my "job" until I got out of school. Sometimes Dad tossed me a few bucks. I made most of my cash picking up aluminum cans at the drag strip while my parents worked there Saturday nights. I usually got a couple full trash bags even if I crushed the cans. Dad hauled them in for me every few months and kept a few bucks for gas since it was a decent ways to the center. That is how I saved for my first car. Things like that taught me to be resourceful. There is always money to be made, you just have to see it and work for it.

I remember that as well. If anything did come of it, I don't know either.

Winchester 1866 second model (1869).

My eyes are not what they used to be, I missed quite a few. Does not really matter though because the birds were flying and it was a great afternoon to be out hunting.

It would tsunami those vertical-filming goobers back up on dry land.

My guess is when the old guys retire your company is USCWAP just like most companies are right now. Trump is trying his best the bring jobs back on shore but I don't think he realizes that 85% of the Millennials don't want the type of jobs he is talking about bringing back. They don't want manual labor jobs. They want 9 to 5 jobs with full benefits that pay 6 figure salaries or they ain't going to work. They will continue to live in Mom and Dads basement on the free ride. I began working when I was 9 years old, getting out of bed at 3AM and meeting the milk truck driver at my driveway and I ran milk in glass bottles to the houses from the truck and got done about noon and made $2.50 a day. I wonder how many 9 year olds would be willing to do that today???

Does it have the thing that goes up? Good looking!

I bought a Swiss 1911 Long from classic and just got it about 3 days ago. Holy crap the trigger on it is amazing. Haven't had it out on the range yet, but with the long sight radius, and that trigger, I can't imagine it being hard to hit the bullseye with

These professions would command lower salaries.

You have some very good points for sure. I have heard all my life I want better for you than I had so you need to go to college. I offered college to both of my sons which of course oldest died in a car crash but youngest son was working part time with me in Auto Repair business while finishing High School and Auto Mechanics was what he wanted to do in his future so I did pay for his education in Auto Tech School in Nashville and when he graduated I turned the business over to him as I could no longer work due to health. He is still in business today repairing cars. He was able to put both of his boys through a trade school and the oldest one is an owns an Electrical Contractor Business and his little brother works with him as general manager and his business is booming and he has 8 full time 10 person crews running wide open trying to keep up with demand with all of the construction going on in Tennessee. My Grandson was very smart in doing one thing for his business. He decided to get started he would subcontract his small operation to much bigger Electrical Contractors and that was how he got started 12 years ago. All the time he was subcontracting his services he was adding more and more employees and being able to do more jobs for the big guys. A year ago he became 1 of the big guys and the big contractors were actually recomended him to building contractors for jobs they could not get to. His father and I are very proud of the two boys. They have made big bucks and did not squander it all away like many young people do these days. They both built houses for them selves and they are paid off and now both have small families. Well I have gone on long enough. I try not to brag about my family to much but I am proud that I don't have any slackers in my son, grandsons or Son in Law..................

One thing I have learned from all these posting is that all of us should stay out of boats.

It's everything the Gen 5 Glock tried to be.

....also known as me . I was at a pawn shop today and noticed they had a Norinco clone of the Winchester '97. I haven't touched one of those in over 50 years when I used my Dad's. I've had Model 12s, 1300s and a couple of Mossberg pumps and truly love pump shotguns so naturally, I had to handle it. As I racked it to open the chamber I realized that I had forgotten a lesson I learned 50 years ago, the slide on the top of the receiver that cocks the hammer moves to a position where your thumb is not supposed to be. I had to bite my lower lip to stifle the pain and looked around nonchalantly to make sure no one noticed what an idiot I was before returning it to the rack. At least there was no blood this time

Might I suggest everyone take a deep breath and remember to leave the swamp in the swamp?

Beef jerky would be an excellent staple for living out the end times but it's so tasty I would gobble it all up the first day or two.

I wasn't arguing anything with you and I don't worship him. No sense in you being an ass because I don't care what you believe or who you think is a "dumba$$".

I believe it was a joke having to do with the Hispanic name. Lighten up , Francis!

Nah, you just go on worshiping at his altar. I am fine believing he is a dumba$$. Arguing with me is not going to change my mind on that fact. I will leave it at that.

Yeah, they need to get out quickly before any more time passes!

I also took that same Oath when I entered the military and will honor it with my life if necessary. I have been member of Oath Keepers since it formed and is why I get emails from them. Because of my health I cannot do things like many are doing in Houston but I did donate what I could afford to them and their work. As for the people that believe they are a radical racist organization, well they are not!!! But people will believe what they want so won't go into that.........JMHO

It's a Rambler. They were designed for Grandma, who never drove at 3000+ rpm ...

Welcome! Hickman county huh, I bet that's a little bit of culture shock?

9mm capacity > .45acp stopping power and antiquated delivery method. Everyone knows the Glock 19 is so much better than the 1911, they could drop the 11...

Can't we all just get along? I know that we all can agree, 9mm is waaay better than 45acp ...

If you know how many guns you have you don't have enough.

I looked up the word "Stupid" in the dictionary and found a picture of a compensator on a 9mm.  I haven't located that particular one, but I'm hot on it's trail.   :D