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Figured I'd take a break on the deer hunting and take a fishing trip yesterday morning. The bite was slow dragging baits but still ended up with 7 fish in the boat by 1pm. Most the fish was eater size in the 8-12lb range but did put a 60lb and a 35lb in the boat. My buddy caught the 35lb drifting a couple rods a few feet off the bottom in the front of the boat and I was dragging two rods out the back with my dragging setup. The bait used was crappie heads and skipjack. Here's a couple pics of the 60, both the 60 and 35 was released to be caught another day. Took pics of the 35 my buddy caught but turns out the sun was right in his eyes and did not make for a good facial expression. Didn't catch it till going through the pics after we turned it back. Can't beat a big fish trip after a two month dry spell of no catfishing.

I used to hate Christmas, and holidays in general. Then I had kids. I love Christmas now. The amount of joy it brings me through them makes all of the headaches it brings as the most minor of annoyances.

$750.00*****For sale is a very nice very rare Valmet “Finnish Lion” target rifle 28 inch heavy barrel adjustable trigger comes with original peep sights and also has weaver mounts for optics extremely accurate and well built rifle $750.00 or best offer open to trades on firearms and guitars Shelbyville email is bhelton52909@gmail.com

Bergara B14 HMR 6.5 CM Leupold 30 MOA (I think) scope mount 225 total rnds downrange Currently has an Arken SH4 6-24x50 mounted on it. Can sell with or without the optic. Rifle w/ optic: $1400 Rifle only: $900

Well, little man rode the Suzuki as long as he could stand it. Tonight he joined the club.

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I have it from a reliable source that when you quit believing Santa stops coming

My older one gets the idea of the spirit of Santa, I think the younger one still believes. I think the spirit of Santa, the joy of giving, is important, but they both know that Jesus is the reason for the season. I'm also very frustrated by the extreme commercialization of Christmas. While we still give plenty of things (probably too many), we've tried to shift more to experiences rather than things.

Shoot the hell out of it!

Not qite what the OP suggested that he wanted, but a favorite of mine is the Model 19. S&W Perfection! But then there's a lot to be said for the 686 too!

So did some trading around and ended up with a bucket list rifle gor me. Winchester 1886 .45-70. 24" barrel, full length mag tube, unfired in the orginal box. I am not much on safe queens so Ive got to decide to either shoot it or sell it off and buy one used that I will shoot. Anyway, wanted to share.

A Colorado sheriff’s department caused a stir over the weekend for what many deemed an inappropriate photo: Santa applying for a concealed carry permit. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office posted the photo on its Twitter page. A white-haired bearded man decked out in Christmas attire can be seen sitting at a desk. https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-sheriffs-santa-photo-outrage-social-media-issues-apology

It came down Yesterday in Nashville. Why? The people that wanted it gone, still won't be happy. They'll never be satisfied and happy. If you're gonna take some down, take them all down. It's history, and history is not always flowers and butterflies.

I believe that would give my Anschutz a serious run for its money! Beautiful gun!!!!!

What little history American children are now taught is so ridiculously biased and obfuscated there’s no need to worry about what could be. Productive dialogue is done.

I remember the TV show and how it led to stardom. They did some really good music. One thing I always liked about them was their sense of humor. Probably the silliest rockers ever.

I don't know all of the facts. I didn't watch the "interview". I neither like nor dislike Alec Baldwin. BUT If ignorance is bliss Alec Baldwin thinks we are blissfully ignorant of the fact that he committed criminally negligent homicide.

Greg, as others have said, maybe a tad too long. Take some of your other loaded rounds and see if you can push the bullet further into the brass by pushing it into a wooden block by hand, possibly neck tension isn't enough.

I was born and raised in Memphis. It used to be a great city. It saddens me deeply to see how far its fallen.

Possibly just a fluke. I've noticed that when loading ammo that OAL can vary a thosandth or two from round to round. Could be that particular case, bullet, dies, the press or maybe you just accidentally short stroked the ram a hair when seating that one round . That one just came out a tad bit on the long side. Might not ever happen again.

I've eaten at the one on Charlotte Pike, but didn't realize there was more than one location until we ate at the one on Trinity LN yesterday. An internet search also show one downtown, near the Ryman I wasn't aware of. I don't know what you all think about it, but I really like it. If you like BBQ and haven't ate there, you might want to give it a try.

That's a nice idea, but it doesn't hold up to real scrutiny. First, if we're going to say that statues and monuments are about education then for every Columbus Square and statue we'd need something to show the devastation to the locals that European colonization brought to the New World. For every Washington and Jefferson, we need a Crown Loyalist to show we were NOT a united country at the time. For every symbol of westward expansion we'll need to reconcile the near-genocide that came along with it. For every Lee, NBF, and Stonewall statue we need Lincoln, Grant, Harriett Tubman, MLK, and enslaved people monuments. Then we go to meddling . . . for every Vietnam War memorial, we need a peace and anti-war sign and statues of protestors. But let's keep on meddling . . . For every 9/11 memorial we need a plaque saying that America deserved it for our oil-grabbing Imperialism policies, or because we're infidels, or whatever reason anyone might think. Or let's get some feathers REALLY ruffled . . . For every fallen officer memorial we need a Defund The Police/BLM marker. That's what it would mean to teach EVERY perspective through our statues and monuments. Not only is it not practical, it's not good public policy. Second, the statues aren't creating dialogue. All I hear is shouting and it's impossible to have dialogue when everyone's shouting. The folks who think the statues are about history and are filled with pride by the legacy they symbolize can't hear their neighbors who feel like second-class citizens every time they pass by those same statues. Likewise, the ones shouting that everyone who likes the statues are a bunch of white supremacists can't hear that many of the supporters see them as representative of less government not slavery. If the statues of the Confederacy need to remain so that dialogue will continue, maybe we need to think hard about exactly where those statues should be so the shouting can become dialogue. By its nature, our public spaces, particularly government buildings and their environs reflect who we are and the ideals we seek as a people. But all humans are flawed. We seek to showcase the finest qualities of humanity like courage, loyalty, and the desire for freedom even when it's a misguided vision of freedom framed by the times. Or in some cases like NBF, the people memorialized in our public spaces can represent our ability to grow and change to such an extreme that we can be unrecognizable as who we were before. We need to ask ourselves - When we see that the men and women we've held up as examples of those ideals are flawed in such ways that they no longer inspire us as a community to achieve those ideals for ourselves, do they still deserve a place of prominence in our public spaces? Are we better served by studying them in a more reflective and contemplative location like a museum or a battlefield instead of idealizing them? Having a divisive monument without proper context (like the NBF on I-65) doesn't create dialogue, it only deepens divides. Our unique-in-the-world 1st Amendment has allowed us to create a unique situation with these statues. Nowhere else in the world do they have a plethora of monuments to the losers of a war. Outside museums and memorials to the fallen soldiers (usually within cemeteries), you don't see Hirohito or Yamamoto statues in Japan or Mussolini statues in Italy or Batista in Cuba, especially not erected AFTER the war. That would be crazy, right? Italy actually took an interesting approach. Much of the fascist propaganda and statues/carvings were destroyed, but what's left now remains as a reminder. Not to support a fascist past, but to avoid a fascist future. Maybe we could learn from that. How can we as all Americans use our Civil War monuments from both the blue and the gray to help us remember the terrible cost of letting our divisions grow so much that we start shooting each other?

WOW, this thread went the wrong way.

Wow, that’s a FAT sucker! Very nice

I would consider anyone keeping the information about a leak out of the china lab a traitor to their country. And the way he has prevented people from using medications that have proven to at least help, out of the hands of Americans a traitorous act.

He wasnt a founder of the KKK. The Klan was founded in Pulaski TN not Memphis. The order wasnt ignored. There are three eras of the KKK. After the disbanding it mostly died away. Then a movie was made called Birth of a Nation that portrayed the klan in a different light and it was started again. Then it died back again after the 60s and has reemerged once more.

Big old catfish! Really nice fish.

Or smart.

My kids never missed out on anything. As I mentioned, we exchanged gifts, spent time with family and did decorations. We just made sure they knew that the gifts were symbolic and they were provided by their loving family and not Santa. We had a large family gathering for thanksgiving that I attended. Again, for me symbolic and a opportunity spend time with my family, but I don’t subscribe to the lie about the first thanksgiving either. We’ll all be together again to celebrate in a couple of weeks without one mention of Santa and I doubt there will be any resentment by anyone. It’s the time that’s invested more so than the sentiments of the warm of fuzzies gained from passing on generation after generations of lies. I invested lots of time in my kids, that’s why as adults they can laugh with me about the Santa fiasco as opposed to resenting me. People like to call millennials snowflakes, but never take the responsibility for creating those snowflakes. You fill a kid’s head with lies and half truths for eighteen years then expect them to go out and deal with reality. They are not like us or our ancestors, because they’ve never had to be. I think you can raise well adjusted human being without lying to them. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!

I feel like certain statements really should come with some sort of citation of sources. This one, for example. If true, these statistics should be available in some way that would corroborate the statement. Care to lay out your sources?

And did you then cycle the cartridge successfully? The only reason the bullet would remain behind is that it was pushed into the lands, and the tension of the lands was great enough to overcome the tension of the mouth of the case. The rule I follow is that the OAL of the cartridge should be no greater than the bullet just touching the lands, and usually a couple of thousands less. You can test this pretty easily by loading a dummy round (no powder or primer and no crimp) and "painting" a bullet with a felt pen. Leave it a bit long, chamber it into your rifle so that the bullet is pushed into the case. If the bullet is left behind then the case will have marked the deepest penetration of the bullet by scratching the felt pen marking you made. If the bullet comes out with the cartridge then you can measure directly. You just need to seat a couple thou deeper into the case and maybe crimp a little tighter. And case necks do become thinner over the course of many reloads. The hotter the load, the more the case may stretch. But it's been my experience that the neck will split when it becomes brittle from over-work. I don't think you'd ever reach a point where the neck became too thin to hold the bullet, more likely the brass would split at the neck first.

Sure you can. It's standard procedure for dictators. Make people forget or never be taught what happened, and it's like it never happened. Ask anyone in China under the age of 35 what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and they won't have a clue. The ChiComms didn't even have to remove a monument, just put a gag order on anyone talking about it and the next generation never knew a thing.

Was it a reload? If the OAL is a bit long the bolt can push the bullet into the lands hard enough to leave the bullet behind. Not common, but certainly not unheard of. If you've got reloads, then you probably didn't get the bullet seated quite deeply enough and perhaps had too little crimp. If they are factory loads, they you might consider complaining to the manufacturer.

Crescent buttplate and 45-70….not a combination for the timid.

Bubba’s garage.

Most people don't know that sildenafil (Viagra) originally started out to be a heart medication. But during development researchers discovered this strange side effect it had. It was quickly decided that there were already plenty of heart medicines.

I lost my Grandmother to Alzheimer's too. An awful situation to see someone slowly succumb to it.

I respectfully disagree (though we may be debating semantics).... Lying on the table, it is an inert chunk of metal. It will not spontaneously throw a bullet. Someone had to handle the inert metal object, insert at least one round into it, and hold/handle/manipulate said loaded metal chunk, thereby causing the above sequence of events with the hammer/sear. If it sat there on the table unmolested, I would be my life it will not spontaneously 'go off'. Human actions had to take place for that bullet to fire. That is the guilty party IMO. Basic gun safety rules were violated.

In addition to what has been said....be sure to get a set of reloading dies. Rolling your own is about the only way to go with .357 now a days.

Monkey lizard I give you credit for approaching the subject with logical thought and common sense. But sadly i must point out that logical thought and common sense don't fit in today's world. Now its all about emotion, feelings, not being offensive to just about anyone and building a fantasy perfect world. The average person fussing about all this is neither logical nor has common sense and simply won't listen to either. Sad ain't it?

I prefer my Santa's with an eastern European flair

…and the average IQ

Here's hoping this research stands up.

Little late!! lost both of my parents last month 3 weeks apart due to Alzheimer's/Dementia, F*** those diseases.

Sounds like it would make things hard to forget.

I have the Browning version. Absolutely wonderful rifle! Shoot It! You'll get a "kick" out of it.