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I can help y'all with this... First a bit of background; about 60 years or so ago, dynamite was a normal staple for construction guys, farmers, loggers most everywhere. Ya could buy dynamite at the hardware store a long with fuses n caps. When I wuz a young boy and early teen, a friend of mine's dad regularly kept a case or two of dynamite around to break rocks and shoot stumps as needed in his small excavating business. One of my first jobs was drilling and helping to shoot rocky excavations for a small road building contractor. That was in the mid sixties. We had portable " magazines " not unlike the one described in the article. We kept the dynamite and caps separate, but the dynamite was almost always housed in a steel box magazine which sounds exactly like what the squalling is about. I've handled and played with dynamite lotsa times as both a boy and worked with it as a young man in the construction trade. I'ma thinkin someone found an old " magazine " and brought it to the recycle center. I'ma also guessin the " owners " are long since gone home to their reward and are resting from their earthly labors, abandoning their magazine. That said, dynamite is not particularly dangerous when not struck directly ( as with a sledge hammer ) or shocked with a blasting cap. I've dropped a many a stick of 3 1/2 inch diameter " powder " as we called it down 30 or 40 foot blast holes in rock and I'm still here. Dynamite will burn if split open like a hot dog( that's how we used ta get rid of old dynamite ). Dynamite generally deteriorates by " sweating " out droplets of nitroglycerin. If stored in a cool place, it never goes bad. The " sweating " makes the dynamite more sensitive because the nitro is separating from the filler materials. That can be dangerous, but is manageable. All the hand wringing about dynamite and prilled ( diesel fuel mixed ) ammonium nitrate and the " chain of custody and licensing of explosives " came, as I remember, from the Terrorist/ Kansas City bombing incident. Dynamite n prilled ammonium nitrate now can only be handled by " licensed " and certified blasting contractors with a requirement of 100 percent traceability for the explosives. It wasn't always that way though. blasting leroy.. One time " powder monkey "... Now retired... With all my digits n appendages.

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@leroy Do you have any good stories from back in the dyn-o-mite days like old Jimmy Ferris?

No way I grew up when they were in style. I look back at pictures I’m still a shamed lol it you didn’t. live in Miami it just didn’t fit in in TN and a pickup lol

Update on the pistola and a gunsmith recommendation. The little pistola came back with about a 3 lb crisp trigger pull in the timeframe promised. The gunsmith is Brother Eric Slater, proprietor of " Slater's In House Guns "... Excellent job, delightful to deal with. Highly recommended. Address n business details here: https://www.ffls.com/ffl/162009011e08281/slater-eric-e leroy.... Fully armed n dangerous with my baby 45 colt...

It really is. Even if it’s been posted before (by me at least once) it needs to be kept alive.

We had a live artillery shell on the ground once. Guy in the military wanted to take it home and got scared. Put it in the scrap bin for recycling. It ended up falling out. LOL

Things have progressed a little more. I fabbed my seat pan, contoured to the rear fender, & got it straight to the upholsterer. Also installed my remote front brake master cylinder. Another head scratcher... I also got the regulator/rectifier mounted under the frame & plumbed in the rear brake. Pretty much all that's left to do now is mount the battery tray & figure out a breaker panel (there's only 2), fabricate a license plate mount & then it can be stripped for powder coat & paint (hopefully) but that'll have to wait a few weeks until I'm back from Wyoming. Obviously, THAT'S the time when I figure it what I forgot, then go through the entire 'put it back together, fix it, strip it, DAMMIT, put it back together, fix it, re-strip it, $@**%!!!ing THING!, put it back together, fix it, re-re-strip it' cycle of torture occurs.

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Being involved in how this works this is an easy misconception. It’s harder than you think to target exact phones in a situation like this and it isn’t necessarily a representation of when the agency actually activated the notice to when you received it. That doesn’t even take into account hardwired phones and where and how to get that data.

Springfield model 56 .22 with two clips Original stock was broken so made the one now when I was a kid. See pics Meet near west knoxville

Mrs. 'lizard and I just returned from a few days at New River Gorge which is the newest to reach National Park status. It was a great trip. Highly recommend it for anyone looking for a few days away. The hiking trails vary for all skill levels and if you're into adventure, there's lots of rock climbing and of course river paddling. The Bridge Walk looks AMAZING but Mrs. 'lizard is afraid of heights and by the time she talked herself into doing it, it was booked up, so if you want to do it, book that ahead of time. There are plenty of scenic drives for the less adventurous types. 1 to 2 full days is probably plenty for most folks in the bridge area. Of course if you're doing the river paddling or other adventure tours stuff, that will take up more time so account for that. We didn't venture southwards to the rest of the park down around Beckley, WV. There's a mine tour/museum there and an old mining/rail ghost town that looked neat and would probably be worth a day to explore. Maybe for the next visit!

I'll take it. Pm sent

I’ve had this gun for years and never fired it. Needs a new home. Immaculate condition. .17 HMR Price without scope: Now $1050

I have the following for sale: M1896 Swedish Mauser - 6.5 Swede ($750) Nagoya Arsenal Type 99, ground mum - 7.7 Jap ($500) Wartime-date Izhevsk M91/30, I believe it is a post-war Ukrainian refurb- 7.62x54R ($350) Sporterized Egyptian contract FN-49 - 8mm ($1500) Gardone-Val Trompia M91/38 Moschetto - 7.5 Carcano ($400) Available for meet-up in Middle Tennessee, Saturday - Tuesday. Thanks for looking!

Made for only 2 years in very limited quantity, this Marlin 336LTS 30-30 is in great shape. It is carbine length. I know you can buy the full length cheaper. This is a great representation of this rare model. Action is tight, wood and bluing are really nice. Must be legal to own. Text is best 615-504-1491. $1150

Selling a 1898 Krag-Jorgensen rifle. Chambered in the venerable .30-40 Krag cartridge. Someone sporterized it at some point, but did a fine job of things. The rear leaf sight was removed and a Lyman peep sight was added at the rear of the receiver. The old sling swivel was also removed and patched quite nicely. The rifling is still strong and will be even stronger after a good cleaning (there's a fair amount of copper fouling in the grooves). Most importantly, though, is that the action has that smooth-as-butter feel that the Krags are well known for. The rifle is light weight and well balanced for what it is. This would make a heck of a deer gun Asking 450. Would consider trades for .32ACP pistols. I'd also consider SxS or O/U shotguns in 12ga. Show me what you got F2F meetup in Goodlettsville, Hendersonville, White House, Gallatin, or Portland. Any further out and y'all will have to come my way

Truly one of the greatest stories ever told.

Welcome back. You don't call, you don't write. We were worried. Suspicious timing on your part. You return the same time the dynamite is discovered....

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Some of those homes are pretty old could it be a left over of days when dynamite was used to get rid of stumps and clear fields. Put up then someone found it did not know how to get rid of it this is just a theory. As I don’t know

Wingmaster for sale - $600 Original case, two barrels (slug and modified choke) Very clean, has some age to it as shown in pics 12 gauge Exchange near west Knoxville

Update from KPD UPDATE: Earlier this morning, an explosive ordnance robot was deployed to get a sample of the suspected explosives found inside of a box at CMC Recycling on Thursday afternoon. The sample tested positive for ammonium nitrate, as confirmed by lab scientists at Quantico, which is consistent with dynamite. Currently, Bomb Squad technicians are actively working to remove the dynamite from the box and safely dispose of it. In order to dispose of dynamite, technicians will methodically remove it from the box, douse the dynamite in diesel fuel, and burn it. Those efforts are being supported by the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and Metro Nashville Police Department Bomb Squads, including advanced MNPD robotic equipment. It was initially reported that the box contained around 200 sticks of dynamite. Technicians have not yet verified how many pieces of dynamite are in the box. There is no evidence to suggest that the box was left on the site maliciously or with criminal intent. CMC Recycling is a metal recycling facility that purchases material to be salvaged. The box, which was locked and unmarked, was on the site for at least several days. On Thursday, CMC Recycling was using a torch to salvage the box when they unintentionally set the box on fire and discovered the dynamite. The box is no longer smoldering or emitting smoke. The evacuation zone will remain in place until Bomb Squad technicians have completely disposed of the contents of the box and it is deemed safe to return to the area. That work is expected to continue into tonight and potentially into tomorrow morning.

I was surprised to learn this was a guy. Geddy Lee was another shocker.

In college, on Friday night we'd pool our $ & get Drewrys returnable's for $2.19 a case & either Antique or Guckenheimer whiskey, every week one or the other was on sale. Thank you Lord for keeping me & my friends alive.

Let us know how that turns out. I wasn’t aware of a dinner train in Chattanooga.

Looks like a gorgeous place.

It's Halloween season, both are readily available.

I am the local reenactment group XD, been doing it for 15 years. Trying to find used muskets for loaners. New ones, when you can find them, are ridiculous right now...

My grandson and I just got back from vacation w/out my wife. We took our little camper to Edgar Evins State Park for the week. It was good to get away and even better to be outside all week in God's splendor. She gave camping a try and both times I spent almost all my time trying to keep her comfy/happy and didn't get to enjoy it. Likewise, if she'd dragged me with her to Boston last month, I'd have been a miserable old grump and she would have had less fun. This separate vacation thing is working out great!

Mossburg Model 640KD Chuckster $250 .22 magnum w. 1 clip Really clean. Meet near Knoxville

Oddly enough my Wife and I are talking my oldest Daughter to Chattanooga for the weekend. LOL Going to do the dinner train.

Friday bump..... Nashville trip coming up in a couple weeks so don't let distance hold you back

Last year the wind blew down a 24" pine tree in my backyard. It was $ 800 to cut it up and haul it all off including the stump being dug up with an excavator. There was another one still standing just like it, so I paid another $800 to get it taken down as well. I asked the electrical engineer at my local power company for advice and he told me to get a couple of estimates then contact this guy. Your electrical engineer at the local utilities dept has this type of work done all the time. He knows who is cheapest bang for the buck in your area. They do not like to refer you to someone in case it does not end well. Don't ask him who he recommends just ask him who he would call if he needed someone. Worked for me. Now all my neighbors use this guy for all our tree work. He stays busy and we may have to wait a month or two but he does good work for a fair price.

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Just bought the combat elite so that trade is excluded…$1375

Now he throwed down an awesome show. Way over the top but damn could he play the piano. Funny story, I saw Liberace, AC/DC and KISS all in a 2 week period.

REO Speedwagon rocks!

These idiots..... Peggy Sue..... BandyChacca Jed-Pig Happy. There's one more; Tremble, but she's the least photogenic dog in the world.

I use it for 357 Magnum and I've been happy with it. Loads and shoots consistently out of my lever guns and SAAs.

My generation learned to drink with Mad Dog, Colt, and MGD. This generation drinks White Claw. We are not the same.

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I can see a lot of you never played Air Supply on a date and it shows!

I totally get where you’re coming from. Luckily my neighbors are acres away, and like minded. Once one of us starts shooting on the weekend there’s usually a 15-30 minute lag before the Cumberland ridge starts to echo in various directions. I have an elderly neighbor that I pal around/handyman/garden for and shoot with every once in a while. He goes down for naps a lot, if I have an open window on a weekend off and I’m shooting some large caliber I’ll give him a shout to make sure he’s not napping. Not every time, but if I have an open 6-hour window I give him a quick buzz. If I've got the itch, or trying out a new gun and just want to run a quick 6-10 mags early evening, I won’t call. He’s also had some younger kids over and called me once while I was plinking and asked if I could refrain as they’re not used to hearing gunshots. Could argue that I should just let them get used to the fact that guns used responsibly aren’t scary, but at the same time I’m not gonna ruin their right to quiet enjoyment during a picnic just because I want to shoot off a dozen mags of higher caliber. Saw a new neighbor move in, introduced myself and gave my info saying if they needed help with anything around the house or if anything happens to give me a call. Mentioned that I shoot once every week or so and put it rather matter of factly. She responded with “yeah, my daughter heard and didn’t like the loud noises”. I replied with “well her uncle next door shoots too, I hear him sighting in his rifle before every deer season, and her uncle shoots a lot of handguns so I’m glad she’s used to it” and left it at that. But at the same time, if the kid has a birthday party I’m not going to invite a few friends over and have us all ringing steel midday. So while I understand that it’s a right and I’m doing nothing wrong, I still want to respect someone’s right to quiet enjoyment. Not the biggest inconvenience for me to be neighborly when I could in theory shoot most evenings before dusk after work.

Last year, my wife guilted me into taking one of those bus trips. I dreaded it. I knew it would be all elderly folks. It was going someplace I’d always wanted to see, so I agreed. We were some of the younger people on the trip, but we had a great time. Everybody on the trip were very nice and had a lot in common with us. I’d be happy to go on another one. You just never know until you give it a try. I gave cruise ships two tries. They still suck.

My wife and I do something similar. She’s really into beach vacations, and I can’t stand them—too much sun and sand for me. Meanwhile, she has no interest in my hunting trips or outdoor stuff, so we just take separate vacations. She goes with her friends or family, and I go on my own trips. It actually works out great for us. We still do a family trip here and there, but honestly, I think we both enjoy getting a break to do what we each like. And yeah, whenever I travel, I try to find good deals on Business Class Flights to make the trip more comfortable. It’s kind of become my routine now.

My wife loves to travel. I do not. I do enjoy spending time with her, though, so I go with her sometimes. We try to find things we both enjoy. She also has some friends she travels with. She really enjoys that, and I get to enjoy the peace and solitude of home. A little give and take really helps. She’ll sometimes do things with me she doesn’t really care about, and sometimes I’ll do the same.