BigPoppa

From one Poppa to another: A defensive carry handgun should be ready to be immediately deployed. With a pistol, that means a round should always be chambered. Get some snap caps or dummy rounds, load your gun and chamber a round. Carry it around for a while around the safety of your house. See if, at any time, it "goes off". This will develop your confidence in the gun, and your handling of it. If you're not comfortable with that, go back to your revolver. I would rather see you carry a revolver that you can immediately get running than a higher capacity pistol that you cannot. Murders, rapes, carjackings, and assaults do not occur in a vacuum of perfect circumstances that will allow you sufficient time to draw from concealment, run the slide to chamber a round, and then address your threat. Whichever route you go, remember what has already been mentioned in this regard....keep your finger off the trigger until you're ready to shoot and holster carefully. Doing these things consistently will all but eliminate any chance of a UD...even with a pistol that has a round in the pipe. Work it out.........and best wishes on the surgery.

Yes, when your driver's license is run, your HCP status come back along with it. Your DL # and your HCP # are the same. And yes, my recommendation is to always be up front and let the LEO know immediately that you have a Carry Permit and are armed (and let them know in that order !) In Tennessee, you are not legally obligated to volunteer this information, but when travelling (depending on the state), you may be.

What is the dumbest self-defense advice you have ever heard? To be fair, I totally ripped this idea off from a current thread over at THR. I just thought it was interesting, and might get some good answers here. My contribution is the old....."shoot 'em in the yard, then drag 'em into the house" . We STILL (unfortunately) hear this periodically in the HCP course, and always hasten to correct this misinformation.

I know, dude. My stock of camo sleeveless shirts and cowboy hats is NOT what it should be !!!

More awesome stuff from Tex Grebner, folks ! "I'm a Benelli man" YouTube - Tex shooting clinic part 2 Bart Shooting new Mossberg 500

Tex Grebner Outdoors........anybody seen this guy before ? I never had until tonight. This is a Tactical Shotgun Sling Operations training video. watch. discuss. I'll check back later.

Oh........too good for the local stuff now ?

Is this a situation or Chicken Little stuff ? Arctic ice cap to disappear in 20-30 years: study - Yahoo! News

That made BigPoppa LOL. yeah she wasn't bashful about it..........no shame in her game

Where you going ? Back to Mehico ?

In Smyrna, at the National Guard Training Center

That's awesome, man ! Congratulations ! Mommy and Deegan both doing well, I hope ?

Party pooper There's always a coming along to ruin it for everybody.

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/tactics-training/3048-front-sight-training.html http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/tactics-training/6981-anyone-ever-trained-front-sight.html

Moon Pie & Royal Crown Cola ? Ardent fan of **** ***** ? This sounds like a man whose hand I'd like to shake.

Nice photos, TJ. Looks like a relaxing day trip.

Oklahoma ? who vacations in Oklahoma ? ;)

A dreadful story. 18 years is far too light of a sentence for these people, but I suspect that on Judgment Day all will be made right. There is a special place in Hell for anyone who could do these things to a defenseless child. New Mexico law apparently needs an overhaul....if ever there was a case that cried out for the death penalty, this is it. These people should never again draw a breath as free people in society. Since no one would or could help her, it is a tragic irony that perhaps it is better that Brianna died at this young age rather than endure years more of this abuse and torture as she got older.

WOW. Hanging 45 on Georgia.......and where the heck has this Jonathan Crompton been all year ? A nice conference win. I'm very happy for Coach K and the team.

Stones River Hunter Education Center Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - Stones River Hunter Education Center You could go by the Opryland Hotel and walk thru the gardens and ride the flatboats. It's on Briley Parkway. Nashville Hotels - Nashville, TN Hotel Deals - Tennessee Hotels - Tennessee Hotel Packages Cock of the Walk has good catfish.......there's Opry Mills mall if your wife is a shopper. Centennial Park and the Parthenon for sight seeing and history type stuff. The Titans are in town this week, hosting the Colts . I'm sure there's plenty of good seats still available for that one.

This may help: rec.guns FAQ: III.E.4.b. Trap, Skeet, and Sporting Clays

People far more knowledgeable than me on this topic will be along shortly, but I think: trap, skeet and sporting clays all use the same clay targets - the difference is in how the targets are thrown, where they are thrown from, and the angle they are thrown from. and yes, AFAIK the same gun can be used in all 3 activities.

There you go......a translator right there near Dale Hollow. now..............go pahk the cah in the yahd.

I've never gotten anything like that......on any of the 3 different computers I use.

More of a reluctant hero, but still classic stuff.....Gary Cooper as Tennessee's own Alvin C. York YouTube - SERGEANT YORK TRAILER 1941 GARY COOPER