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TN resident only. Prefer HCP holder. 1916 DWM Artillery Luger with wood base magazine. Numbers match. $2100

Selling my 1979 Colt Detective Special. 38 special, 2" blued. The gun is in great shape considering its age. The cylinder release has that purpleish tint that many blued guns get over time, the rest of the bluing is excellent. It has Colt rubber grips installed, and comes with a pair of wooden grips in the box. Also has 2 HKS speedloaders, and a really nice Bianchi #5 OWB thumb break leather holster. Price $900 Possible trade for a 1911 like Sig, Kimber, but no ATI, Tisas or Taurus. Or other hammer guns but not limited to Sig P226, 229 etc . 423 603 9696 located between Johnson City and Greeneville, travel to Knoxville occasionally

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I'm a big fan of dash cams as well. I run an AKASO DL12 that I picked up pretty cheap on Amazon. I did a lot of product testing for them over the years and one of the products they sent me to test was the previous generation of dash cams. It was so good that I upgraded on my dime when the next gen came out because it has gps and records my speed. Since I don't drive fast, I thought that'd be a bonus if I ever needed to prove I wasn't speeding. I have some decent offroad footage from the front-facing camera, but haven't needed it for a wreck thank God. It's setup to record 5 minute files until the card is full then overwrites the oldest. You can watch directly on the rearview screen too, which I like. It also has a rear-facing camera that I use as a video rearview mirror because my Jeep tire blocks my mirror. I'd buy this one again in second if anything happened to it.

Yep; I remember trading "Coke bottles - EVERYTHING was called a 'Coke bottle' no matter what came in it" for 3 cents a bottle

Prepping is a good idea for anyone, but in the long run it’s futile unless you’re going to take to the ocean. Long term, supplies and ammo will dwindle giving invaders more opportunity to overrun your compound and take what little you have left. There aren’t going to be any winners in a global collapse.

LNIB Beretta A400 Explor Action shotgun in 28 Gauge, 28" barrel. Not a mark on this fine shotgun. Great for clays or dove or quail. Comes in Beretta box with chokes and all paperwork as when new. I have only fired 125 shells (5 boxes) through this shotgun! See my other ad for a Caesar Guerini shotgun. I'm selling the shotguns I do not use! In Spring Hill near the GM plant. $1300

Winchester model 1907 .351 self loading semi automatic rifle with walnut wood and checkering.The Winchester database per the serial number has this gun manufactured in 1908 and it’s in good shape for its age , I have never fired the gun but appears to be in working order. $500.00 cash and I’m located in Shelbyville 931 619 7172 call or text

Isnt that how it always works out? LOL

Got a few more to take pics of and probably some handguns too.

Here is one of the wrecks I've captured with my Viofo. I'll eventually upgrade to one that has WiFi capability.

If it comes to all out nuclear war, I'm screwed. Memphis, along with all the bridges across the Mississippi river, has been on everybody's primary target list since the 1950s. We'll go in the first wave. I might be far enough away to survive the initial blast only to die slowly from radiation poisoning. I think I'd eat a bullet rather than go through that.

I grew up in the shadow of a nuclear power plant. Assuming that would be a prime target, we were comfortable with the idea of a bright light and nothing more. Humility is one of the things I think Eastern culture does far better than Western culture.

I used to work for the Navy in close proximity to warships, including ballistic missile subs, and special weapons. I always told my wife that in the event of a nuclear war, I hope we were both standing under the first burst. I'm fairly certain that I would not want to survive that kind of cataclysm. I noticed something interesting about the Japanese during the Fukajima disaster, though. There were a lot of victims of that situation, but unlike Americans would have been, they were very orderly. When relief supplies arrived the Japanese queued up and waited their turns. Perhaps their society has a better chance of surviving a huge disaster than does ours.

Well Crap! You guys sure bring a fella down! When all is read here, it's quite obvious that our literary aroused plans are not going to work but for a very short time. 200 years ago, people would have had the skills to survive. Today...not very likely that the 300 million plus individual can sustain themselves for long. Might just happen the the influx of non-citizens could be better prepared to survive than us. Poorly developed countries with a population of agriarians will have the best survival rates just because of a non-reliance on technology and food supply chains. Basically it's a grow it yourself or starve situation. This will definitely be a time when being a Luddite just might leave you better off. But for a very small percentage of us, the best hope just might be for a good last meal and few pills. Sort of like the ending scenes in Soylent Green. Go to sleep remembering the best times. As I've jokingly said before; the honest truth is that in a true EOTWAWKI scenerio...I might get a couple of mags off before the end. Or at least time enough to get off 2 rounds for us.

We had driveway pirates Christmas Eve night on our road and another road across Hwy 96 E. I had all my doors locked on my cars and they never got anything from us. I don't leave valuables in my cars of trucks. some of my neighbors were not as lucky. I purchased a driveway alarm afterwards, and we have really used it. Purchased it from Amazon and it and one transmitter cost 245.00. It will take multiple transmitters. Installed it myself. I have the sender hid in a shrub beside the driveway and it had a magnetic detector and 50' of cable that runs back to the transmitter. On the other end of the cable is a magnetic detector which is buried in the middle of the driveway, and it sends a signal to the receiver inside the house. It even picks up my lawnmower, on the 2nd round, when my granddaughter mows beside my drive (60" cut") in my yard. My drive is 300 feet long and I can see every car coming in from my Lazy Boy chair and it wakes us up at night. My drive is situated such that all the cars must pass over the sender unit in the drive. I put the transmitter 50' up the drive so people just turning around don't set it off. I would highly recommend one. As far as I know it has worked every time someone comes in. The transmitter runs on 4, 9 V batteries, and they have lasted 14 months. I am sure I run another porch pirate off a few months back because they come up my drive shortly after Amazon left a package on the porch. I took a few extra minutes to go outside to retrieve the package, and the dude seen me come out then backed 100' back down the drive and sped off. NO one comes that far up my drive and backs out to turn around. Like I said I recommend the alarm. It will let you know if your home. My neighbor has one and is a retired Policemen. His alerted him to a guy coming to kill him. He testified against the thug when the county sent the guy to the pen. He got out and came to neighbor's house to waste him. Thank God the Deputy got there in time to arrest the drunken convict before he got into neighbor's house. Neighbor was in wait just inside the door with his 40 caliber on his hip and shotgun on the couch beside him. He is the one who told me to get the alarm. Glad I did. Hope fully it will wake me or let me know when someone comes. A few extra secs/mins will allow one to get up and come to himself, hopefully, if asleep.

The plan that always bothers me is the city dweller who buys a small, isolated cabin in the woods somewhere with plans to bug out to there if the S ever does HTF. Odds are that by the time they get there, they'll find the place already occupied by people who have no intention of giving it up. Either that or the place will already have been robbed of everything. If you want that survival cabin deep in the woods, you need to make it your permanent home. As for myself, I'm old and not in the best of condition. I'll put up a fight and last as long as I can. But I realize that my odds of being a long term survivor ain't very good.

Had a minor fender bender this morning. Woman claiming she was distracted by her 4 y.o. as she attempted to change lanes ran her left rear quarter panel into my front right fender while we were both traveling in the same direction. She was apologetic and there was no dispute as to the cause of the accident. While waiting for the traffic officer, I tried to pull up the footage from the dash cam I currently have. I had no success. I read the owners manual and then found a better description of the required steps posted on-line. I was able to access video from days ago. I also have video of my hand removing the dash cam from the windshield after the accident. For the life of me I could not find footage of what had just transpired. Although the officer said the woman's story was the same as mine and he cited her for careless driving, it bothers me that I could not pull up the video while on-scene to share with the traffic officer. In many ways this completely defeated my reason for having the dash cam. Later this evening I will put the SD card from the camera into my computer to see if I can find the video, but that won't address the frustration of not being able to conveniently locate the footage while on the roadside. Any recommendations for a dash cam which is constantly recording every moment and allows for simple intuitive history viewing on the camera itself while in the vehicle?

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Dang

Well that would be disappointing 🛩 lol

I'll take it, consider it sold.

Everyone has an opinion about how the balloon situation was handled. That's fine, it's the American way. Anyway I stumbled across this story about an F-15 shooting down a Russian Satellite in 1985. I would have been in college at the time and if it was public information at that time I don't remember it. Does anybody else that was old enough remember it or read about it since? First Space Ace

Lol! It looks pregnant, but you know what? If they help you hit the target, they’re friggin beautiful!!!

I'll take them

Sorry guys, I'm going to eat the neighbors in the event of a total collapse. Those guys always seem to be doing well in every book I've read and move I've watched. LOL

This prepping subject always tickles me. You know who was a prepped? Your grandma and grandpa! They had tools. They had food preserved and stored. They had a spare bundle of roofing shingles and a ladder. They had gas for the chainsaw. They had basic first aid medicine in the cabinet. They had a well or spring. These folks could survive most anything they faced. All these folks who sit at a computer all day and think they are going to somehow wander out in the woods and survive a nuclear war or civil uprising are going to be quickly surprised when the lights go out.

We just got dash cams for both automobiles -- a growing number of incidents right here in our neighborhood -- and this thread reminds me to test and practice bringing up videos on the cams in case we need to show them to the police at the scene. We've been in the "sure, we can do that" camp without actually trying it out .

If you're near my age..that's when a nickel was big money for our families. So getting one was a big deal!

There has been cut backs

Please do. People not putting stuff where it belongs is a condition of some kind.

Early on Branca carried Sabre Red. Small, convenient and has multiple spray capability. I have canisters available at front door, autos, at work, and usually in pocket. According to stats, 5x more likely to need it rather than firearm… plus generally not a felony and mistakes easily rectified. Handy when walking dogs. From personal experience, works well on one bear I used it on.

I run Rexing dash cams in all my vehicles. Can wifi footage to my phone. I run a Garmin (syncs to my GPS and phone) and also a Kenwood (syncs to my flat panel radio) in my motorhome. Monitoring front and rear. All cameras have the largest, high quality, SD card they can run. Being in insurance I cannot stress how important it is to have some type of proof in accident situations. The number of innocent people left holding the bag just might startle you.

One step they could implement that would help reduce the number of firearms that would be left in vehicles is if they made it legal for people to carry their firearms and ammunition with them into stores, work, hotels, etc... Add that to any letter to your representatives. Their own rules are helping to exacerbate the problem, not that we don't see that everyday.

yet one more step to punish the law abiding and let criminals off the hook.

What brand and model camera do you have? I've been thinking about buying one just for the reasons you imply. I only drive a couple days a week, but it seems I encounter oncoming traffic in my lane about every other trip.

I hear you on not wanting to leave the fireplace, typical TN weather 70° one day next day 1°. Let us know how it feels when you get a chance to shoot it. Merry Christmas

I just read a science fiction novel in which something similar happened -- super-rich guy in NYC has built an underground fortress in Montana, he evacs family from NYC and has hard time getting to Montana due to societal collapse, riots, roving gangs of scum, etc. They finally make it Montana only to discover that the contractor who built most of the fortress has seized it for himself and his friends. That's probably the way it would play out.

Reminded of the show Doomsday Preppers. Like others commented, by the time you realize you need to evac your million dollar penthouse to your million dollar shelter, your odds of escaping the city are pretty slim.