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I bought this at a gun show a few years back. It came with a set of stag grips. I finally located original style grips for it. This was no easy feat. In case anyone isn't familiar, this is a Smith and Wesson Heavy Frame Target Model, also referred to as a Bekeart Model. I'm not sure the year of manufacture, but it is roughly 100 years old, and chambered for 22 Long Rifle. I've always wanted one of these, but never thought i'd actually have one.

We're starting to see more promising data from the vaccine and how it's working on the new strains of COVID-19 we're seeing. I get a daily news update from the NY Times and here is what they sent me this morning. All five vaccines with public results have eliminated Covid-19 deaths. They have also drastically reduced hospitalizations. “They’re all good trial results,” Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, told me. “It’s great news. In the official language of research science, a vaccine is typically considered effective only if it prevents people from coming down with any degree of illness. With a disease that’s always or usually horrible, like ebola or rabies, that definition is also the most meaningful one. But it’s not the most meaningful definition for most coronavirus infections. Whether you realize it or not, you have almost certainly had a coronavirus. Coronaviruses have been circulating for decades if not centuries, and they’re often mild. The common cold can be a coronavirus. The world isn’t going to eliminate coronaviruses — or this particular one, known as SARS-CoV-2 — anytime soon. Yet we don’t need to eliminate it for life to return to normal. We instead need to downgrade it from a deadly pandemic to a normal virus. Once that happens, adults can go back to work, and children back to school. Grandparents can nuzzle their grandchildren, and you can meet your friends at a restaurant. As Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, told me this weekend: “I don’t actually care about infections. I care about hospitalizations and deaths and long-term complications.” By those measures, all five of the vaccines — from Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Novavax and Johnson & Johnson — look extremely good. Of the roughly 75,000 people who have received one of the five in a research trial, not a single person has died from Covid, and only a few people appear to have been hospitalized. None have remained hospitalized 28 days after receiving a shot. To put that in perspective, it helps to think about what Covid has done so far to a representative group of 75,000 American adults: It has killed roughly 150 of them and sent several hundred more to the hospital. The vaccines reduce those numbers to zero and nearly zero, based on the research trials. Zero isn’t even the most relevant benchmark. A typical U.S. flu season kills between five and 15 out of every 75,000 adults and hospitalizes more than 100 of them. I assume you would agree that any vaccine that transforms Covid into something much milder than a typical flu deserves to be called effective. But that is not the scientific definition. When you read that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was 66 percent effective or that the Novavax vaccine was 89 percent effective, those numbers are referring to the prevention of all illness. They count mild symptoms as a failure. “In terms of the severe outcomes, which is what we really care about, the news is fantastic,” Dr. Aaron Richterman, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of Pennsylvania, said. What about the highly contagious new virus variants that have emerged in Britain, Brazil and South Africa? The South African variant does appear to make the vaccines less effective at eliminating infections. Fortunately, there is no evidence yet that it increases deaths among vaccinated people. Two of the five vaccines — from Johnson & Johnson and Novavax — have reported some results from South Africa, and none of the people there who received a vaccine died of Covid. “People are still not getting serious illness. They’re still not dying,” Dr. Rebecca Wurtz of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health told me. The most likely reason, epidemiologists say, is that the vaccines still provide considerable protection against the variant, albeit not quite as much as against the original version. Some protection appears to be enough to turn this coronavirus into a fairly normal disease in the vast majority of cases. “This variant is clearly making it a little tougher to get the most vigorous response that you would want to have,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said. “But still, for severe disease, it’s looking really good.”

The appropriate response to that bill will include tar and feathers

As others have said, important to remember that the reasonableness of your actions will be judged by people who aren't scared, who didn't just wake up to the sound of a stranger in the home, and who don't have loved ones in the next room. @ Raoul - My wife and I were living in a low-end apartment 15 years ago and were both off work and asleep in the bedroom about 2 pm. She shook me awake and whispered "There's someone in the house." Maybe seven seconds later I had grabbed my 1911 from a drawer and heard heavy footsteps in the hall. Someone rattled the locked bedroom doorknob from outside the room. I sounded off with "Get out or I'll shoot," racked the slide, and aimed at the door. Immediately I heard footsteps running away. Stupidly I opened the bedroom door and followed the sound. I made it out the front door in time to see a guy start his engine and drive away faster than I would have thought a pest control van can go. Afterward I had a huge adrenaline dump, figured out what had happened, felt angry, felt frustrated... and was very relieved I hadn't fired through that bedroom door. About two days later the apt. leasing office admitted to me that they routinely gave keys to a local pest control company to send contractors inside units (with no prior notice to residents) and spray for bugs during the day "while residents are at work." Suffice to say, we moved. There's a lot about it that I could have done better. But no one got hurt.

Some folks might be better off not thinking or opining on the dozens of ways such a situation could go.

This is a complete ban on guns. It takes 6 months to get a psychological evaluation now. Imagine everyone getting a gun signing up. Of course insurance isn't going to pay for it, so how much does one or two psych evals costs?

The point of passing a law like this is to create non compliance. (SMASH) "Looks like you've got a tail light out...." "We've got to pass the law to see whats in it!" If anyone suggests The Constitution something something I'm going to smack them....

I had been looking to start a processing center to extract CBD due to the incredibly low prices for raw materials. The insane amount of farmers jumping in the past 2 years thinking this was going to be an instant bump in profits caused prices to bottom out. I had heard it was mostly due to a lack of processors, but looking more into the data, there's a significant drop in demand on the retail end. Surprisingly, retail prices haven't come down yet. I believe retail could drop prices 20% or more and increase sales significantly. I also believe the biggest reason for the drop was the FDA crushing any advertising on products where the benefits were listed. If its not in the name, like "soothing salve" or similar, most folks don't realize what the product could do for them. Further, the FDA prohibits any information as to amount required to achieve effects the customer needs. I'm not talking about sensitive people getting high on trace amounts of THC, but the effects of the CBD. So when someone walks in to try a CBD product, like edibles or tinctures, they have 10 different concentrations to choose from. The staff are not supposed to say which amount to buy or how much the customer should take. Customers have to figure out that on their own. That makes it sound like snake oil to just about anyone that hasn't done a lot of research, and the price is prohibitive to trying it out. There is a pharmaceutical drug on the market that is just CBD. It's listed as for seizures. The concentration is over 1000mg per dose. If you get a 1000mg bottle of tincture at a shop of a reputable brand, expect to pay well over $100. And you would have to consume the whole bottle to get the 1000mg dose. I'm not saying you would need that much to affect your ailment, but you may. I have heard that other countries, especially those where THC is legal, has a higher demand since most farms are dedicated to THC production rather than CBD. If you can get into exporting, your friend may get his sales back. I'm not sold on topical treatments where oils need to be absorbed through the skin and into the affected areas. I tried one once, i did not notice any affect other than the menthol. That's my opinion based on my research. just my 2 cents.

I used the "angry" face as I agree and the actions make me mad.

I’m no expert either but I think the market is definitely over saturated. Seems like you can’t drive a mile around here without passing a CBD shop or seeing/hearing an ad for one. I also believe big retailers are getting in on it as well

I'm certainly no expert on this, never tried it, etc. From what I see, hear, read, it is well oversaturated. Seems to be a stand on every corner, roadside, store, online. Just my $.02

States need sanctuary laws to protect us from the feds

If you think it will not pass then you are fooling yourself, it will probably go. Things are not the same they were 4 years ago.

I hope we are not underestimating what these people are capable of.

These are my first suppressors. I had a total of seven suppressors in jail. I purchased these at the end of August and they were approved in December. It took them an additional month to mail the stamps. Hopefully the other four will be here soon. I’m a little giddy right now. SiCo Osprey9, Dead Air Mask .22 and Surefire Socom SPS 300

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/127/text?r=17&s=1 Federally mandated insurance, expensive, and managed by the FedGov (some $800 per year). Psychological evaluations by state-approved psychologists for approval to purchase firearms. Those evaluations are extended to family members (including former spouses). Prohibition of person-to-person transfers. Prohibition of standard capacity magazines. From the FPC.

That’s kind of what I was getting at. Of course, at the time the robber probably doesn’t know you are a law abiding citizen, all the knows it somebody is pointing a gun at him and may shoot. That’s really they only thing that is keeping him from running off. Just seems like a lot of things could go wrong. Probably your best bet is to pull your firearm, the robber backs down where you are no longer in fear for your life, and you just tell him to get out of there. I’ll admit, I’d probably have a hard time doing that, but I’ll also admit I have problems doing what is best sometimes, especially right after I thought somebody was trying to do me harm. It’s really easy to talk about what you should do on a Internet forum, and we should know what to do and try our best to follow those rules. It all gets fuzzy though when things are happening fast, and you get into that “fight or flight” mode. Sometimes we start fighting when we should be flighting.

That’s different if the threat is still there. But what I was saying was that even after having the gun on you, if the intruder has turned and left, if you then grabbed your gun and shot him, possibly in the back, you might have a hard time defending the action. You might still be scared, and still feel threatened, but in actuality the threat has at that point likely ended in the eyes of the law.

Who says the .45 ACP can't bring down big game?

Rep.Sheila Jackson Lee-has tried this one every year for at least 10 years now-she just rinse and repeats.

Went to the Knoxville area gun show yesterday. Huge turnout, a lot of people. Several thousand during the times I was there. The area was poorly managed. It was well worth the extra couple bucks to buy the VIP passes online to allow you to skip the ticket line. Their website was crashing as people in line were trying to buy tickets online to get out of the ticket line. The lines were not labeled or marked. It was a mob at the front of the venue. You had to ask around and hope you got in the right line. There were 3 (off-duty?) Knoxville PD guys there checking in firearms for people bringing them into the venue (for private sale). Some of the people were walking around the masses in the aisle to sell stuff without renting a vendor table. There were another couple watching the back door and monitoring that only vendors were entering/exiting through there. There was one guy at the entrance feeding people into the hall. If you had the pre-bought ticket online and only had a QR code to show on your phone, the guy had no reader. He just looked briefly to see if it looked legit then waved you in. No one cared to check when you left (for air, bathroom, smoke, etc). No one cared if you had the stamp on your hand when you walked back in. The large hall was curtained off in half. The other side had a lot of hot tubs out for some type of show, but was not operating on this day. The gun show side of the hall was the approximate size of large grocery store. The aisles were crammed with people doing the slow shuffle to get around. Wider aisles between tables would have allowed people to view more vendors' wares. The busiest tables were the ammo sellers. Prices were higher than expected - on everything. Just inside the door was the best priced item I saw all day- a no-dash model 63 Chief's Special S/W in fair condition for $600. I Saw a box of 50 9mm rounds (American Eagle IIRC) was $75! There was one vendor with pallets of ammo - large quantities only, but no takers. No one was dropping a G or more on bulk ammo. Not much in the way of reloading gear. Some AR vendors, some Glock type vendors, a lot of knife and accessory vendors, some swap meet type vendors (bins of well used mags, sort through yourself), and very few "new product" retailer vendors. There were plenty of older guns, which I prefer. I skip over the AR stuff, not really my thing. I did see one pre-ban looking Colt H-Bar Match Sporter but they wanted $2,500 without the box. I was surprised by the number of times I was lazed by people picking up guns on the tables. If I counted the number of times a barrel was inadvertently pointed in my direction, It'd almost match the large number attending the event. Lots of assumptions that guns were empty. There were a few announcements about mandatory mask wearing, but I would say less than half were wearing either masks or neck gaiters, with little concern from anyone about those not wearing any type of PPE. There were plenty of guys with tables that I was interested in, mostly older SW revolvers or standard wood stocked rifles (Winchesters, Remington, etc.). I really enjoyed checking out some of those Model 88s and Model 70's. I left after picking up a couple P-Mags. I did see one thing that was kinda sketchy when I was leaving. In the parking lot I was parked near a Williamson County plated Tesla. Three people came up to it with their hands full of plastic grocery bags. One was a female, one was a guy wearing his sister's jeans (flashy chick-like decorations on rear pockets) and one was an Asian male. It was easy to see they had 6-7 Glock cases in the bags. They loaded up the pistol cases (which I would assume had pistols in them) in the trunk. The woman got in the Tesla's backseat while the two men headed back into the venue. Kinda seemed like Nashville area liberals buying up guns. Probably making the second trip in to buy ammo. Later I heard a story from someone that they approached a vendor and bought a pistol with no paperwork, ID, or background - just a cash for gat trade. Don't know if that is legal in TN, but I suspect not. All in all, I enjoyed the event. I was impressed with the number of people that showed up, even though the exterior of the venue looked older, run down, and nearly abandoned. Anyone else make it there?

Yep, and seriously injured her bank account as well. Will in all likely hood have plenty of time to think about it sitting in a cell.

I was finding them on ebay and occasionally on gun forums for spot price or below. That’s dried up for now. About a month ago, I bought a roll of 2020 Silver Eagles for $500 shipped off another gun forum. Sometimes I’ll run a bunch of junk silver dollars up to 18-20 apiece. Many times I’ll get outbid, but sometimes I get the coins. I’ve found you get a better deal buying a roll at a time than buying individual coins. We have a local thrift store that is for all intents and purposes a pawn shop. Sometimes I can buy gold and silver from him at spot. He buys below spot and just wants to turn a quick buck. You just have to watch.

@monkeylizard

I love it!

Shouldn't/are not allowed to legally shoot someone who is stealing property, here in TN, and not presenting a deadly threat. She is in serious trouble. Has ruined her future, any way you slice it.

That woman needs education on "shoot, don't shoot" decision making. I hate a thief, but don't think they should be shot

Jeez, Louise! Those stinking Texans! I wonder if there's an ounce of seriousness in proposing this bill, or if it's entirely a show to get a few of those Bloomberg dollars. Either way, it's an abomination that such a bill could even be introduced. I see there are no co-sponsors, which means it has no chance of getting any consideration, but it goes to show ya what some in our government would do to us.

I Drove up about 10AM Saturday with my friend. Saw the line around the building and went to Harvey's instead. Bought a Springfield TRP Operator. Good day.

On the 10/22s it really depends on how they are customized as to their value. A base synthetic stock rifle is inexpensive, where full custom rifle can be a couple of grand. Just the Kidd 2-stage triggers in my 10/22 rifles cost more than a basic 10/22. That's one of the great things about Ruger 10/22s. There is a plethora of options and accessories available.

Arrived Saturday morning at around 8:20. Line was around the building. Sat there for an hour, line got longer. Left. Came back at 8:30 Sunday, parked and was about 50th in line. Ammo prices were for the rich or uninformed. Found a couple of Ruger 10-22's that I was interested in. I really liked the one till I looked closer at the tag, $1100. Next one had about the same upgrades but $650. the others were stock ranging from $400 to $500. Went back to find the one for $650 and it was gone. Oh well. Found a couple of mags for brothers S&W, another mag for the UZI, Sight Mark reflex sight, ultra light bipod and 12 gauge buck shot at $2 a round. One guy asking $25 for 5 rounds . Went looking for 6.5 bullets for reloading but not a one. got crowded around 11 am. Prices seemed to be anywhere from 20% to 50% above what I was able to order online 6 months ago. Primers from $100 to $130 a thousand. Still have some money in my pocket, lol. I drive a pickup truck

You know what they say about judging a book... I know a couple of TGO members that have Tesla’s and others that wear jeans like that. It seems to me to be more a age and profession indicator than conservative/liberal. That’s my opinion and you know what they say about opinions...

I was a teenager in the 1960s and a young soldier in a drug infested Army from 72-75. Believe it or not, I went through all that and never once have used any form of recreational pharmaceuticals, including marijuana. Nope, I was a drunk instead. I've got nothing against anybody who has an occasional toke now and then. And I fully understand the benefits of medical marijuana. But I never have understood the whole CBD thing. Ok, so its marijuana but you took the good stuff out? What's the point in that? Nothing but snake oil to me. I won't waste money on it. And yeah, the stuff is everywhere.

I’ve been renting cabins at various state parks and hitting the “trails” in the various state forests. Some are decent. Most are pretty tame but lots of nice scenery and very little traffic. Here’s my rig but dang those FJ40s are sweet.

Personally I find it helps me sleep. Now keep in mind that I'm A man of a certain age who came up in the 70's and enjoyed that decade immensely. But....I have found that a CBD gummy or 2 at bedtime does work for me. YMMV

I like it. I saw one at the Sparta gun show a few years ago. It was not an original though but, had been built by a guy that definitely knew what he was doing. It had a bayonet too.

Alvin York achieved fame by using an M1917 rifle.

We were informed in n uncertain terms that CBD use did not guarantee a failed random drug test, but could do so, and f t did, we have no recurse. That’ll keep me away from it.

There sometimes seems to be an abundance of complacency on this site.

Yep that one got me to. The govt will never want to give public access to that database. This also makes it become a privacy issue, not just a gun registration issue. Also the part that every one has to have a psych evaluation.

In honor of my most recent acquisition.

I won't share the site here. But the file is out there. You should familiarize yourself with deterrence distributed.

You can defend yourself and your loved ones from risk of overwhelming and imminent bodily harm. You're not obligated to retreat. You're not permitted to prevent theft of property with deadly force. IANAL.

Armoured Machine Gun Carriers 1914

500 round magazine, wow.

@Erik88I have been here longer than you so I am well aware of how things work. Facts are a lot like statistics now. One can make them fit about any narrative they want. I can decide for myself what “facts” to believe or not. Facts nowadays aren’t “the sun is hot”. We are at a crossroads in our country about what is free speech and transparency. Before someone says this is a private site, I understand that. It would seem that if we want to limit discussion on a gun forum to a narrative only a few decide are worthy of discussion we have already lost. Prove them wrong. You can say they won’t listen. You can’t change that. Simply shutting down their opinion isn’t the right way to go about it in my opinion. My opinion doesn’t really matter I suppose but I don’t think I am being out of line.

Going to a gunsmithing school like i did is the best way aside from being an apprentice in a full service shop with a established gunsmith. When I went to the Pennsyvainia Gunsmith school (18 months full time) back in 1979 the first section of schooling was learning machine operations by making a precision machinist square and a wide variety of various smithing tools and fixtures. Some guys simply didnt have the ability to form metal into the specs of the blue prints we were given. They were quietly asked to cancel their schooling so another person waiting for an opening could attend. I find it difficult to think I could learn from books the fine points of gunsmithing. A hands on instructor will cut to the chase if your screwing up a lathe threading operation or cutting into wood grain in the wrong direction. Thats not to say books And vids are worthless but would take a much longer time to understand the right & wrong way. I remember a friend of mine got some books like you want to do and he asked me where do I put my thread cutting tool when I go to put threads on a barrel shank. I told him what they told us in school, Just below the center point of the barrel or live center point. He snapped back, wrong... the book says dead center. What the book didnted tell him is, its far more accurate below the center line because you never run the risk of setting the cutting tool too high above the center line. If even a tiny bit above, you run the risk of the barrel force pinching the tool into a chatter cut. And that will destroy a clean barrel thread. Back then there was only one Gunsmithing book we were required to buy and that was GUNSMITHING by Roy F. Dunlap. The book cover all the gunsmithing opperations needed to build custom sporting/target rifles in the traditional sense of wood and blued steel. Also an extensive how to on National Matching the M1 Garand. In its day, it was the most comprehensive & meticulous Gunsmithing book available by an acclaimed master gunsmith. Whay ever you do, be skeptical of Youtube gunsmithing. Some of those guys on there should stay in the basements. Moving foward, be ready to probably screw up some of your own guns before you practice on others. Tools and machines is another issue all together. I'd be utterly lost without them. Good Luck