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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.

TN / GA / AL Training Group On Saturday February 27 we will hold our 1st meeting for the TN/GA/AL Training Group for 2021 ! Instructor: Randy Harris (http://harriscombative.com/about/) Location: The usual place- Phillips/Edwards Farm 763 County Rd 332 Pisgah AL 35765 Time: 9AM CENTRAL time - 3PM CENTRAL time Price: $80 - pay at class cash or check. What you need to bring: Pistol, pistol magazines and 150 rounds of ammo. Revolvers are welcome if you want to party like it is 1899. We will work on smoothing out our pistol skills and will shoot several new and challenging drills that we have not done before and work to be more competent and confident with the weapon we carry most...our pistol. The pistol is far more likely to be the weapon you will have at hand when trouble starts be it robbery, terrorism or whatever. This will give participants a chance to shoot some timed and scored drills and get a feel for where their skill level is and see where they can improve . Also I will be making some 9mm ammo available so you can replenish some of what you shoot. So bring some extra cash (or check or paypal or whatever) if you want some ammo. Looking forward to seeing you there! For those wondering what the TN/GA/AL Training Group is all about....., the TN/GA/AL training group was first started as a regular opportunity for alumni of both Suarez International classes and any other classes taught by Randy Harris to gather and practice the various skills they had learned in class . As time has gone on it is open to all interested even if you have never trained with Randy before. It is not as much a structured class as it is a casual, low stress, "semi private coaching session" where Randy devises drills to work the specific skills that are the subject of the day. It is a "One room schoolhouse" where all levels of skill are invited and welcome. Randy has the ability to challenge the more advanced student while not making the less experienced students feel overwhelmed and to help the less experienced students along without making things boring for the more advanced students. And it is also a chance to meet some really good people who share the same interests. It is open to all, so come on out and see what we are about !

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.

Love it! One of the most elegant pistols ever made!

Awesome!

Very nice!

That turned out to be very nice, congrats!!!

Nice

Looks Great

Why would you let complete stranger in the backseat of your car at night? Now, your drug dealer, that might happen

Nice.

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

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.

Damn shame

I can’t believe my luck. I will be offering some of this for people that I can meet FTF around Knoxville.

well if the unelected potus has his way, they will have to use suns rays instead of oil to make things. And seeing how that technology isn't here yet, may need to stock up on some running shoes and comfortable hiking boots!!

It's a planneddemic.

And then there is this: https://nationalfile.com/busted-cdc-inflated-covid-numbers-accused-of-violating-federal-law/ BUSTED: CDC Inflated COVID Numbers, Accused of Violating Federal Law by PATRICK HOWLEY February 1, 2021 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stands accused of violating federal law by inflating Coronavirus fatality numbers, according to stunning information obtained by NATIONAL FILE. CDC illegally inflated the COVID fatality number by at least 1,600 percent as the 2020 presidential election played out, according to a study published by the Public Health Initiative of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. The study, “COVID-19 Data Collection, Comorbidity & Federal Law: A Historical Retrospective,” was authored by Henry Ealy, Michael McEvoy, Daniel Chong, John Nowicki , Monica Sava, Sandeep Gupta, David White, James Jordan , Daniel Simon, and Paul Anderson. The CDC is now legally requiring red-blooded Americans to wear face masks on all public transportation as globalists try to push the concept of “double-masking” on the populace. Since the election, the World Health Organization admits that PCR tests are not totally reliable on the first try and a second test might be needed. This corresponds with CDC’s quiet admission that it blended viral and antibody test results for its case numbers and that people can test positive on an antibody test if they have antibodies from a family of viruses that cause the common cold. Hospitals in Florida had so many accuracy complications that Orlando Health had to admit that its 9.4 percent positivity rate got recorded at 98 percent. “The groundbreaking peer-reviewed research…asserts that the CDC willfully violated multiple federal laws including the Information Quality Act, Paperwork Reduction Act, and Administrative Procedures Act at minimum. (Publishing Journal – Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge / Public Health Policy Initiative) Most notably, the CDC illegally enacted new rules for data collection and reporting exclusively for COVID-19 that resulted in a 1,600% inflation of current COVID-19 fatality totals,” the watchdog group All Concerned Citizens declared in a statement provided to NATIONAL FILE, referring to the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge study. “The research demonstrates that the CDC failed to apply for mandatory federal oversight and failed to open a mandatory period for public scientific comment in both instances as is required by federal law before enacting new rules for data collection and reporting. The CDC is required to be in full compliance with all federal laws even during emergency situations. The research asserts that CDC willfully compromised the accuracy and integrity of all COVID-19 case and fatality data from the onset of this crisis in order to fraudulently inflate case and fatality data,” stated All Concerned Citizens. “On March 24th the CDC published the NVSS COVID-19 Alert No. 2 document instructing medical examiners, coroners and physicians to deemphasize underlying causes of death, also referred to as pre-existing conditions or comorbidities, by recording them in Part II rather than Part I of death certificates as “…the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID-19 being the underlying cause of death more often than not.” This was a major rule change for death certificate reporting from the CDC’s 2003 Coroners’ Handbook on Death Registration and Fetal Death Reporting and Physicians’ Handbook on Medical Certification of Death, which have instructed death reporting professionals nationwide to report underlying conditions in Part I for the previous 17 years. This single change resulted in a significant inflation of COVID-19 fatalities by instructing that COVID-19 be listed in Part I of death certificates as a definitive cause of death regardless of confirmatory evidence, rather than listed in Part II as a contributor to death in the presence of pre-existing conditions, as would have been done using the 2003 guidelines. The research draws attention to this key distinction as it has led to a significant inflation in COVID fatality totals. By the researcher’s estimates, COVID-19 recorded fatalities are inflated nationwide by as much as 1600% above what they would be had the CDC used the 2003 handbooks,” stated All Concerned Citizens. “Then on April 14th, the CDC adopted additional rules exclusive for COVID-19 in violation of federal law by outsourcing data collection rule development to the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), a non-profit entity, again without applying for oversight and opening opportunity for public scientific review. On April 5th the CSTE published a position paper Standardized surveillance case definition and national notification for 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) listing 5 CDC employees as subject matter experts. This key document created new rules for counting probable cases as actual cases without definitive proof of infection (section VII.A1 – pages 4 & 5), new rules for contact tracing allowing contact tracers to practice medicine without a license (section VII.A3 – page 5), and yet refused to define new rules for ensuring that the same person could not be counted multiple times as a new case (section VII.B – page 7),” stated All Concerned Citizens. “By enacting these new rules exclusively for COVID-19 in violation of federal law, the research alleges that the CDC significantly inflated data that has been used by elected officials and public health officials, in conjunction with unproven projection models from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), to justify extended closures for schools, places of worship, entertainment, and small businesses leading to unprecedented emotional and economic hardships nationwide. A formal petition has been sent to the Department of Justice as well as all US Attorneys seeking an immediate grand jury investigation into these allegations,” All Concerned Citizens stated. So…do you still trust the globalist oligarchs?

A lot of normal capacity guns were sold with 10 round mags. A couple of years ago I bought a Hi-Power clone NIB that was imported in the late 90s. It came with two factory 10 rounders because that was all that was allowed at the time. Or you could just switch to bigger bullets as in a single stack .45. BTW: if you want any normal capacity mags, now's the time to get 'em. When the assault weapon ban happened in 94, normal magazines were selling at the speed of light and prices got plumb crazy. I'm talking $100+ for one otherwise common pistol mag.

After better part of a year of being as responsible as possible and now that a vaccine is so close, if I needed to go inside a building, I'd wear a frigging space helmet if I had one! I'm actually gonna use curbside pickup from Kroger for first time in a few days. - OS

Here ya go. I’m working on tracking down a M1917 bayonet as well.

There is a wide range of behavior, and it does not generalize well. There is a marked difference between opportunists who seek out and buy up high demand items during a (perceived) crisis versus selling excess or items you planned to sell and you are afforded the rare opportunity to break even or profit instead of taking the usual loss due to market conditions. We are talking the differences between in timing, scale, and intent. Plus value judgements. Are you moral for selling home in a down market vs immoral for selling when the market is high? Closer to home. What about the guys who simply enjoy buying and selling characterized by going to auctions or prowl the classified for deals, and later selling them at a profit? The difference being a year and half ago they were just a gun enthusiast doing a classic buy low sell high without issue. Now they sell, and make a bigger margin due to increased demand we need to view them differently. Is the expectation they should take all items off market and wait until a republican is in office and there is a glut? Economics does not make someone evil. Not that there aren't those who you'd love to see hung by their junk. The guy last March who bought up the 18k bottles of hand sanitizer for example. The flip side of that seems to demand you never accept something discounted. Is that not the buyer taking advantage of market conditions? We all seek out to pay full price at all times, right? Whether its someone who is forced to sell on a timeline for cash versus or someone selling during a glut, anyone buying is therefore just as immoral. Some even "stack it deep" on speculation without that same value judgement. May be a touch hypocritical.

The truth of the matter is that people will always be people... Ya are simply findin out who the "opportunists" n "users" are. Choose your business deals n friends wisely... That us all... watchin n choosin leroy...

That is the one advantage perhaps in going with an auction. You can set a starting price that is a good deal. If it goes for more, that is not on you. I generally start an item here under market, no takers than I try auction. Id rather have it stay here, but we all know what cheapskates we all are I like to think it’s not rationalizing scalping. It cuts both ways, it’s not like someone is going to offer me a solid the other direction, right? Say, “hey,...whatever you want you get at historically low prices no matter what or when you buy it “ If I choose to buy today of my on volition, I don’t think I’m being taken advantage of. Buyers determine their own needs in a free market.

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