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A buddy from my Army days runs a gunsmithing shop in Central Texas and did his magic on my late Grandfather's ole Colt he use to slip in his pocket coon hunting. I think it turned out great.

With the exception of one member who I haven't seen post in years, I consider TGO members to be miles ahead of the general public, and welcome at my home anytime.

And there's the rub. The damn virus is real and it's deadly. The truth is it's not as bad as our worst fears but it's still a killer. I'm continually amazed at the jackasses that are in total denial. Real men are responsible to more than just themselves. Some of you guys ...never mind. I'm weary of the stupidity. Adios boys. I need a break.

We all know what's coming from Washington. Many Counties in TN have already passed 2A Sanctuary resolutions. However, I'd like to get a movement going to have the entire state of Tennessee declared a 2nd Amendment Sanctuary. I think that with a little nudging from the citizens that this could be done. It won't stop the feds, but it will send a message that we want no part of their BS. I sent e-mails to my State Senator and Representative today. I strongly urge everyone here to do so and encourage all your friends to join in too. The time to speak up is now.

I still think the gun deal is a red herring

I don't consider TGO members to be perfect strangers. But before I agree to meet anyone from TGO I look at their post counts to see if they are established or not. I red flag any for sale ads from new members. I only post guns that I want to sell on TGO.

Had all the makins to play out just like it did.

Top one is a reparkerized A1. Bottom one is an all original 1911.

Yeah, well I don't trust them either. Wingnuts to the left of me. Wingnuts to the right of me. Somewhere in the middle is the truth, but the Wingnuts wouldn't know the truth, if it ran over them with a Mack truck.

Try this one: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reuters/ Or this: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/newsnation/

This is why I only sell on TGO. I wouldn't hesitate to invite anyone who I've met from TGO into my house.

I can recommend this model. Just received it and had no problem whatsoever removing and replacing the rear sight on my M&P. Other M&P's sights that I've replaced have been really tight. It seems to be of good quality. I was surprised by how heavy and beefy it is. Instructions are easy to follow up and setup was quick. It's also currently about $143 on Amazon. I've replaced sights on around half a dozen M&P's just using a punch because I am cheap and didn't want to risk getting a crap pusher. Sure wish I had bought this to begin with.

What I thought weird about the story is that the dude shot the buyer but not the passenger. Makes me wonder if there's more to the story.

Sad story. You can do gun deals arranged online, but you need to exercise some selectivity (buyers from TGO are generally a trustworthy group). Don't do deals at night, and meet in a public place like a gun store parking lot or a police dept parking lot (several depts maintain places for Craig's List transactions and whatnot). I'm sorry for this guy and his family.

That $35 was the transfer fee. $25 for the transfer, $10 for the TICS fee. The amount of the transfer fee is set entirely by the FFL.

been at this game awhile now, I stacked it deep when it was cheap. Everyone knows that when the D's take control its always a mad run on firearms/ammo. Stay prepared guys!!

My wife got the first of two vaccinations yesterday. Cumberland county is using a drive-through system and she got the shot while sitting in the truck. The only side-effect, as of this morning, is a good deal of tenderness at the injection site, but no joint pain and no headache.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/national-file/

This seems like an appropriate time to repost this classic explanation from the Lawdog files on why there is no such thing as “compromise” with regards to gun rights. Never was, never will be. http://thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-repost.html And also in cartoon form for the crayon eaters.

Some of us here didnt.

Was going thru my stash the other day and discovered almost 4 bricks of 22 mag. I did the only sensible thing possible and purchased a new S&W 648. It will be here the end of the week

If I have something to sell I'm going to sell at market value, or possibly below if I'm just looking to get something out of the way. I don't recall ever selling any ammo, but if I were to sell ammo today I would price it based on it's market value, just like anything else. What I will not do is find ammo in stock, buy it out and sell it at a profit. Though during the last ammo shortage I was known to buy it up and resell to family, friends, and even some TGOers at the price I paid. Anything to keep it out of the scalper's hands.

I was watching the 1/21/21 edition of Shooting Gallery where Michael visited the Volquartsen factory. I had seen and heard about their guns for years, but never considered purchasing one. The information the show provided was very impressive.. Now I think I may want one of their rim fire rifles. If any of you own a Volquartsen would you mind posting a photo and giving your opinion on the rifle? Thanks!

If McMaster-Carr doesn’t have it, I’d stop looking and just spring for the one from Winchester.

Looks great. I worked with a guy years ago that had one. His looked like your Grandfather's before you had it refinished.

Very nice!

That looks great.

The post by Hozzie is excellent information. Having built a couple of custom 10/22 (mostly Kidd classic builds), I can state that chasing accuracy on a 10/22 can be an expensive hobby. As jpx2rk stated, the Fedderson barrels can be excellent. My avatar is my first 5 rounds shot through a Fedderson stainless barrel at 25 yards (note - 20 rounds were fired through it by another shooter before me). While the Brimstone triggers are great for the money, I'm a huge fan of the Kidd 2-stage triggers. I don't think there's a better trigger on the market for the 10/22. I agree with Hozzie that the Bergara B14-R is a fantastic rifle. After putting in a TriggerTech Diamond (adjusted down to 4 ounces) and trying some different ammo to see what it likes, it's easily a "one-hole" rifle at 40 yards. I haven't really had the opportunity to stretch it out at the local range yet due to health issues.

Nice.

Makes a better story than "my dealer shot me".

Sad story, but it can happen with any type of on-line FTF transaction. Many people have been robbed or killed when trying to purchase stuff off Craig's List or similar sites. On-line car deals are especially hot due to large amounts of cash. Food delivery drivers are common victims. Go armed, with another person if possible, daytime and highly visible public place. Stay very alert and if anything at all just feels wrong, no deal and get out quick.

Tire prices do fluctuate a bit with oil prices. I’ve seen it with the tire purchases I’ve made over the last several years for the semi. While not as fast as fuel prices, the impact is absolutely apparent when you buy tires like I do.

So I am head deep into 22's and every detail around them for precision and accuracy purposes so take my view with that in mind. I would ask what do you want to do with it? In general, the 10/22 platform is inherently less capable of accuracy than a comparable bolt gun. That doesn't mean they can't be accurate but when it comes down to the little details, those details do make a difference if the utmost accuracy is desired. If you just want a really nice high end 10/22 they are very nice rifles. I would say them and Kidd are interchangeable. If you just want a high end, very accurate 22 without going full blown custom, I would look at something like a Bergara B14-R. They are more used for NRL and PRS types of competitions but are also excellent all around rifles. What's nice about them is they use standard Remington 700 SA stocks so the options are basically limitless. You can use a traditional type of stock or go with a chassis of some sort. I guess I say all of this to say if you would be buying it for the idea that they are supposed to be very accurate, I would say be fully informed. They are, but they will always give up a little vs a bolt gun. Of course any one example of either can potentially outdue the other on a case by case basis. If you like the platform and that is the direction you want to go you will be hard pressed to find a better 10/22 variant outside of a custom 10/22 based BR gun.

Their toggle action that they acquired with the Summit acquisition is such a neat action.

I’d look again at the second one.

Just laid down $830ish for some Bridgestone ATs on my Taco yesterday, they said I saved over $100. Much cheaper than the Goodyears they replaced, but as with everything else related to the oil industry I too think they will go up, it's just how much that is the question.

agreed. every compromise is a loss.

What is the weight of a single 5.56 round? Man, if won that, I’d haul it down to the gun show with a scoop, grocery store scale, and a bunch of plastic baggies. Sell it by weight. Could probably make $20,000.

I agree that this shouldn't/doesn't have any legs. But, we are just one "mass" shooting away from legislation that will impact us all.

When oil/gas go up a lot of other things will also go up due to petroleum being used in their manufacture. Most folks do not know the amount of petroleum used in creating other things.

Actually, that's not correct. California did "grandfather in" possession of existing normal magazines when they passed the ban on sales of new ones, and when the ban was temporarily suspended by the courts, those Californians who wisely hastened to buy regular mags were allowed to keep them when the ban was reimposed. Outright bans and confiscation of guns or magazines, without any grandfathering, would unquestionably produce a flurry of lawsuits under the "takings clause" of the Fifth Amendment. Few governments want to incur the expense that would entail. But of course, tyrants wanna tyrannize, so you never know for sure.... Cheers, Whisper

You can also likely find what you want at Bailey's logging and arborist site. https://www.baileysonline.com/forestry-woodcutting/axes-mauls.html I like to shop the antiques stores and pawn shops. Surprising what good steel people throw away.

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.”

Well it looks like the next round of stupidity will be requiring two masks. It's not mandated yet, but give them a couple weeks... https://wreg.com/news/doctors-suggest-double-masking-once-covid-19-variants-arrive/

I have the XS big dot on my Shock Wave and I like it a lot. Just jumps on target and is more accurate than I thought it would be. Also, I don't think I would worry too much about the barrel thing. When you install you remove your threaded bead then install the threaded bead that comes with it with just a dot of blue loc-tite. Then you epoxy the XS big dot to the bead. Should you ever want to take it off I think the bead would come off pretty good with heat by turning the sight, but I could be wrong.

True enough if we're talking about non-essential items like ammo or components. Not so true if we're talking about essentials after a disaster. I'm thoroughly disgusted with the current market for ammo and components, and I'm trying not to participate. Another thread here on TGO linked to a GB ad in which a 525 box of .22 ammo was bid up to $250. That strikes me as insane, but it was an auction and no one was forced to bid. Honestly, I'm dismayed by the whole thing.

You obviously priced the tiller too low. "Fair" is a subjective term, make sure you're "fair" to yourself first ...

Well, when people have a lot of extra cash sitting around scarcity forces prices up.