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I was listening to Guns And Leather radio hour a few weeks ago. They mentioned they had Mossberg Shockwaves in 20 gauge on sale for $339 . I always wanted one but in 12 gauge. I waited a week and then got one of the 20 gauge. I am so glad I went with the 20 gauge. It is way more manageable than I thought and still has a good thump towards the target or bad guys. With the 14 inch barrel it's neat as neat could be ! Plus I figured if there was another "Clinton ban" these things would definitly get banned so why not get one now. I am all about practical weapons and practical tools but this thing is fun and can be. It can also hide very well in a car or truck to just bring along If you're checking on some farm stuff or just riding down the road messing around and too lazy to strap on a pistol. I am very pleased with it. It is the most unpractical thing I ever bought but it is truly fun. I'm keeping the forearm strap on it cause I can see how your hand could slip past the forearm and get blasted by the muzzle very easily. You cant beat $339 for something like this . Here's it is . I slathered on a heavy coat of Ballistol after shooting it so that's why it looks wet especially on the bolt. Thanks to Guns And Leather !

April 7 & 8, I was pleased to present a pair of classes in Waverly, TN. It snowed. In April. In Tennessee. Here is a review written by Dr. Sherman House.

I'd begin my conversation by asking everyone in the room the purpose of our country's military. I assume the common answer would be to protect our country. If that is indeed the case, I'd suggest that if one has no problem protecting one's country via force if necessary, then I wouldn't expect him to have a problem doing the same for himself or his family.

OK up to a point, but you only have two cheeks. Just saying............

Here recently I began a record of my life to see how far back I could remember things in my life. Good bad and everything between. When I am just setting around kicking back I have began thinking about my life. Funny how CRS works. I realized that I can remember things all the way back to age 5 but can't remember a lot of what I did yesterday. I can remember getting my first polio shots and as small as I was back then it took 3 people to hold me down while the doctor stuck me in the arm. I was 5 and had to have them before I began school. I was 6 years old when I got to catch my first fish on an old cane pole the old man that lived next store to us had. He was 85 years old and lived in a 2 room cottage next to us. He owned about 5 acres next to us and had 3 big buildings full of stuff. I don't think he ever threw anything away. We had a couple Black dirt ponds about 5 or 6 acres in size about waist deep behind the house where we lived and they had Carp, Bluegills, Bullheads and Grass Pickerel fish in them and once in a while the old man or I would catch a Bass. I can remember that old man like it was yesterday. We became good friends and my mother was cooking for 4 growing boys with me being the youngest plus my father when he was home. He was a truck driver and not home a lot. Mother always cooked a little extra and every evening my mother would send him a plate of food for his supper. He had these beautful Flower gardens every year and people would drive out of Chicago to buy plants and flowers from him all summer on weekends. He also taught me how to catch snapping turtles from the dirt ponds with turtle lines. He built me a few cages to keep the big turtles in and people would come and buy them to eat and I could make extra money selling them. The bigger the turtle the more they paid and there was some I got 5 dollars for but they were almost as big as a number 8 washtub. Most of them I got 2-3 dollars for. He also showed me how to catch night crawler worms after each rain at night with a flashlight. He built me a worm bed of black dirt and screened bottom so we never had to dig worms when we went fishing. Just go get some out of the bed and go fishing. He also taught me how and when to catch the baby painted turtles which I was able to sell to pet stores in the area got 25 cents each. He taught me several ways to make money back then. On weekends African Americans would come out of Chicago to fish in the Desplaines River that ran through my hometown and they would buy night crawlers in Chicago and paid a dollar for 10 crawlers. I went up there where they were fishing and began selling them night crawlers 25 in a can for 50 cents. All the people on my road I lived on would save cans for me and soon the people would begin bring back their old cans and I would just swap cans with them for 50 cents. Oh well I know ya'll are tired of reading about my life as a child. You might find it fun to just see how far back you can remember in your life when your sitting around just kicking back............JMHO

If I had a family, I would protect them before myself or my country. I served in the Army in 'Nam & have two shot up legs, feet to show for it. Now's the time to defend my own castle. I had no problem defending either at the time.

Yes sir. There's a lot of good information there that should not be overlooked.

Technically, mine is a pistol with a collapsible brace and a 4.5" barrel, but it acts a lot like a carbine, except it isn't shouldered of course.

I envy those of you who have a place you can have an honest discussion of a religious nature without someone becoming a total jerk if everyone doesn't totally agree with them.

I had a 3" and now the 4" gun. Liked both a lot. Both went back to Springfield to have the chamber opened a bit and the feed ramp relieved a little. After that, they both ran like sewing machines. I still want the bobtail 4" version. Both hit where they looked, but a shorter or taller front sight can easily remedy regulation issues.

I have one, and after a few hundred rounds without a single hiccup, am proud to report this thing is awesome. The stock mags are great, but I really prefer the 12 rounder. Great trigger pull, very accurate and manageable recoil (especially for a gun this small). Manufacture date of 3/23.

KJV is close, but if you want to do it right, learn Ancient Greek. We talk about this routinely in my Sunday school class. With 4-6 people we normally have at least 3 translations and we often discuss how one word can have a huge impact on how we interpret a specific passage. The class leader often brings out the Ancient Greek words for key points in the text which sometimes clarfies and other times confuses. I've only recently started going to Sunday school, and I've really enjoyed it. I know several of you guys enjoy history stuff as well, if so you should check out this type of Bible. I've found it fascinating. https://www.christianbook.com/niv-zondervan-study-bible-hardcover/9780310438335/pd/438335?event=ESRCQ I also recently attended a men's Bible study at my neighbor's house who is the pastor of a church nearby (not where we go). It was a program called "Resolute" and was pretty good. It addressed many issues men face today and how hard it can be to "be a man" in modern society. A man's role is provider and protector, among others. You can't do either of those if you're dead because you didn't fight back when you needed to.

Dang! We gett'n preachy up in here!

I'll be up front here and admit that I do not regularly attend church. Having said that. One has to take into account the translation from language to language the Bible has gone through. In addition the time span of the writings. Words can take on different meanings over the years in a single language, much less the same word meaning different things in the same language but different countries at the same time. Fag is a perfect example of this. In England it's a cigarette, something entirely different here.

One point re: the passage where Jesus tells them (11 apostles) to buy a sword, they tell Him 'We have two', and he says 'That's enough'(Luke 22:35-38)--I believe the argument could be made that being armed for self defense isn't a problem; however, Christians are not to 'arm to the teeth' and go out as a conquering army, forcing 'conversions' at sword-point. We're having world-wide trouble with a certain religion which has taken the latter view.

This will be more concise in outline form, so... The class covered the following: - Identify common threats we might encounter. - Day-to-day good habits we can adopt to make ourselves harder targets and enhance our awareness. - Countermeasures (passive and active) to the threat, to include: - Escape - Using the vehicle to your advantage - Armed resistance to the threat The instructor presented different techniques, followed up with dry and live fire practice. We then moved on to the vehicles where we used the techniques in/around our vehicles (dry and live fire). Students were encouraged to try different ways and find what worked best for them with their particular vehicles. We covered fighting in the vehicles as well as movement in/out of the them, including how to use them for cover and concealment. We didn't just try out the techniques but got plenty of "reps" to internalize them, firing from and around the vehicles at many different angles and from many different positions. Finally, we did some two-person work, coordinating our movement and fire in and around the vehicles. This is a great class and well worth the time/money. Randy Harris (the instructor) presents things in a straightforward, no-nonsense way. There is no wasted time which leaves plenty of time to work on the techniques and get feedback from Randy. I learned a lot, am very happy with the class, and would highly recommend it. Al

Good review! It snowed again today in Clarksville Tn. LOL, middle of April and snow!

Interpretations of the Bible are like polls. Depends on who's doing the interpretations & who's conducting the poll. You can get a grain of salt for each for little or nothing.

Heat the grip up with a heatgun until it's shiny and then dab brillo pad/Chore Boy (or the equivalent wide scrubbing pad) on it. Makes a good textured grip without being too rough.

Another of my favorite versus is Romans 14:4 "Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. God has many servants, and it's not my job to judge them.

Four if you count.........ummm nevermind.

And therein is the problem with religion. Human interpretation.

I dunno. That one has always been interesting to me as well. If we followed the doctrines of some people when they bring up that verse we would gleefully allow some thug to come in and slaughter our entire family and not be allowed to lift a hand to defend them. But I've also heard or read some translation of that somewhere (it's been more than 5 minutes ago so I don't remember) that that concept referred to that time in which it was written where a slap to the face was a supreme insult. I'm really not sure how to translate that, and I don't claim to have all the answers. I just know what I believe, that Jesus Christ is Lord, that He alone has redeemed me (as unworthy as I am), and that he who doth chooseth to-eth raise-eth his'n own hand agin my family shall be slaughtered forthwith and forever more (there's my mix of "olde englishe" and redneck).

Eugene is no expert either. Blown up guns sure made for dramatic effect when watched by the general public though. It's TV people ....... just TV. I enjoy the series much more when I don't pick it apart. You can do that with most TV series. Miami Vice was even worse than this in the firearms department.

I have one in 12 gauge. It goes everywhere with me in my truck, and I can't think of a better tool to go along with my side arm while in the woods or camping. Talon makes a grip cover for it. I thought about that or stippling, but for the time being I have a bike inner tube on it and that seems to be just the ticket.

Haha. You knew I couldn’t resist.

I got to add that back in the day when The Road Warrior came out I always wanted a short barreled shotgun like Mel Gibson used in that movie and this thing surpassed that . Very high on the cool meter !

No jail time for two unregistered machine guns, I think he did just fine. I actually can't believe he got away with no jail time.

Finally found time to try out my new steel targets after a little turkey hunting. Hearing the ding is a lot more satisfying than punching holes in paper.

I actually completely forgot we had knives on the way.

Bersa, the pleasure was all mine. Tell Darby I said Hi, what a precious puppy for sure.

Love my 25-45 still working with the 224 not ready to pass judgment yet

I just wrote a check to uncle Sam big enough to support a large illegal family in perpetuity. I thought this thread would be about the IRS.

I’m happy with my Sig MPX carbine.

Since I've already posted about this rifle on a couple of the collector forums I frequent I might as well add it here too. For those of you who are not "into" Finnish Mosin Nagants, the M28/30 was the last iteration of the pre-war Finnish Civil Guard's attempts to update and modernize their rifles. It's predecessor was the M28, which gained a reputation for very good accuracy, the M28/30 added to that reputation by it's use in the World Shooting Championships of 1937. Many of the features of the M28/30 were later incorporated into the M39 rifle which was adopted jointly by the Civil Guard and the Finnish army just before the "Winter War" between Finland and the USSR. Production of the M28/30 officially ended in 1940, but some rifles were built during later dates, primarily as the M28/57 and M28/76 marksmanship (or sniper if you prefer) rifles. It is commonly believed that the "late date" M28/30's were made for officer training in marksmanship in the period 1968-1970. Few examples are known today. This is my post from the other forums: " Picked this one up during the holidays, thought it would be a good Christmas present to myself. The rifle was advertised on one of the common listing sites of arms as a "1970 M39". The picture clearly showed it to be in an M28/30 stock although little else could be determined from it. Intrigued, I took the chance and bought it over the phone. The rifle turned out to be a 1970 M28/30, in a post-war (what else) stock. It has a 2-stage trigger, shimmed action, but no barrel sleeve as my other M28/30 does. The tang date shows the receiver to be a 1913 Izhevsk, with the normal mix of various manufacturers stamps on the remaining parts. I knew from other references these late date M28/30's existed, but this is the first one I've come across. Although most of my collecting interest is in WWII and earlier rifles, I like this one a lot."

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We come to you for that kind of information. lol