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My old Sako Finnbear Full Stock in 30'06. Most fun lately my M&P 15's in 5.45 and .22.

Thanks for the laugh. You owe me a key board.

Whaaaaaa!! thats priceless.

I am serving on active duty now. There has been a survey going on at DOD for months on this subject that just ended. It seems the majority wants to keep the don't ask don't tell policy.

+20 It took a hour or better going in or out.

I was there this past weekend. They were paving twice eastbound coming out of Lebanon. After the Kingston exit it was fine. Check TDOT.

I also use Blue Bunny and have fired the 9/357/38/45/10 with excellent results. The old school 158gr lead bullet .38spl is a favorite. Hard to beat the price at 11. 00 a box.

What great news. I know how you feel. I went through this in May this year. You have been blessed.

I looked at a SR9c and really liked the feel of it. I am waiting awhile to see if there are any issues with gun.

I tried a beef dish off the Old Tyme menu and my wife had a steak. We ate with Magiccarpetrides and his lady at the Pottery House at Old Mill in Pigeon Forge last night. It was great.

Blue label Glocks are LEO pistols. If you are LEO/Emergency Svs or Military you can buy one from Craigs. According to Glock, Craig's is the only LEO Distributor/Dealer in TN. There prices were cheap. They have a Sub Distributor program, but the prices are higher if you buy through this. At Craig's the G19 is 398.00 and at a Sub is 425. You must still meet the criteria for purchase. http://www.amchar.com/all.pdf

The only authorized dealer in TN is Craigs in Knoxville. They are the official Glock LEO Dealer. Craig's Firearm Supply, Inc. Police Distributors

We're in G'burg right now and we went to Howards last night and it was a big miss. The kid's meals were good according to them.

Glad to have you back.

FR8 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Great copy and paste from the site but not completely true " According to Souces" stated but not listed at the Surplusrifles.com site . FR7 was a small ring and it was not recommend using the Nato Round. The C model CETME also used the CETME round. That site has good info but is not the Bible. The CETME round is 7.62X51 but reduced loading to help control automatic firing. The Mausers were rechambered due to shortages of the CETME in the 50's to issue. I have purchase bulk surplus CETME 7.62X51 in the past made by Santa Barbara. I have owned both a FR7 & 8. I don't miss the FR7 but wish I could find another FR 8 in good shape I think what Westwindmike is getting at is that it's best to use a lighter load in such rifle which is sound advice. For you reading pleasure: I've finally dug out my reference materials and, I will try to make some sense of the 7.62x51mm vice 7.62mm NATO vice .308 Winchester vice 7.62x51mm CETME story. In December, 1953, the US T65 .30 caliber cartridge was adopted by NATO as its standard cartridge. What this actually meant was that the five key members of the alliance agreed to adopt the final version of the T65E3 (soft lead core) as their standard service round. Nominally, the round adopted by the NATO countries had the following characteristics: jacketed spitzer bullet of 147 grains (9.45 g) weight, a brass case (conforming to the US Copper Alloy 260, Annealed, MIL-C-50 standard) of 187 grains (12 g), for a muzzle velocity of 2750 +/- 50 fps (840 mps) measured 78 feet from the muzzle. The round had a variety of names. For example, in the US, the above round is known as, Cartridge 7.62mm Ball M80 (or M59). In Germany, it is Patrone 7,62x51mm, DM41A1. In Spain it is the Cartucho Ordinario, 7,62x51mm OTAN. Note that of the above nomenclature, there is no mention of a "NATO" designation for the US or German cartridges. This is because there were no other 7.62mm rifle cartridges made for and issued to either of the respective armies. More importantly it is an eloquent statement of the fact that only the cartridge itself was standardized and adopted. There was and is no common nomenclature required by the 1954 NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG) which codified the adoption of the cartridge. Spain however, was a different matter. Spain did not join NATO until 1982, and was therefore under no constraints to adopt the common cartridge. Spain was also the only western European power to successfully adopt an actual assault rifle (the CETME Model 58) instead of the "battle rifles" (M14, L1A1, FAL, C1A1, BM59, G3) adopted by the NATO powers. Comcomitant with the assault rifle, Spain adopted a true intermediate catridge, the 7.62x51mm CETME. The intent was a cartridge that would allow ballistic and accuracy performance from the Model 58 akin to that attained by the 7.9x33mm (7.9 Kurz) fired from the StG44. The performance and specifications of the 7.62x51mm CETME are indicative of this intent. Nominal characteristics: jacketed spitzer bullet of 112.5 grains (7.25 g) weight, a brass or steel case of 151 grains (9.7 g), for a muzzle velocity of 2493 fps (760 mps). The construction of the bullet is particularly noteworthy. The CETME bullet has a 90/10 brass alloy (gilding metal) jacket, with a plastic nose filler for the first third of the bullet, and a lead antimony core. That is to say, the bullet jacket is not filled with the lead core, but has what might be considered a lightweight ballistic tip (not unlike the kapok tip in the .303 British service round). This cartridge, adopted in 1957, remained the standard Spanish service round for the next twenty-five years. Hardly a "diversion" or a flash in the pan! Confusing the issue, however, were the facts that the external dimensions of the cartridge were so similar to the NATO round, and the fact that the Spanish themselves produced a round to NATO specifications for use, I understand, in the MG42/58 machine gun. This round was adopted in 1964. Its specifications were identical to the NATO round mentioned above. The designation was 7,62x51mm OTAN. Of particular note is the augmentation to the case necessary to safely fire the NATO load. In 1961, an attempt was made by the National Factory of Toledo (a Spanish arsenal) to achieve NATO-esque ballistics by employing a 147 grain bullet at 2,625 fps (800 mps) using the standard CETME case. The attempt failed due to the light CETME case being too weak to handle the pressures generated by the loading used. A loading of notably less power than the NATO standard loading. "This cartridge became standard with the Spanish Army after Spain's entry into NATO in 1982, supplanting the 7.62x51mm CETME". The CETME rifles in service at that time were modified with new bolt carriers to enable them to safely use the more powerful NATO load. Which brings us back to the original issue of .308 Winchester vice 7.62x51mm NATO. As previously stated, the specifications which have to be met in order for a round to be a NATO standard 7.62mm are very stringent, and apply to case, bullet, pressure, performance, etc. The composition and thicknesses of the case are, therefore rigidly controlled. There are no such specifications for commercial cases. Something to keep in mind when selecting cartridges for firearms chambered for the NATO 7.62mm round. Non-NATO spec cases are the failures experienced by the Spaniards in 1961 when attempting to use lightweight 7.62x51mm cases to emulate NATO loadings. Sources: "Cartucheria Espanola (Spanish Ammunition)," Angel Molina Lopez and Alfonso Orea Maestro, Merino Publishers, Palencia, Spain, 1995

It was rechambered to shoot the 7.62 CETME round. Some models are called the FR7 or FR8 rifles depending on what size ring the Mauser was. It is identical to the 7.62X51 NATO but loaded to lower pressures and a lighter bullet to aid in automatic fire in the CETME rifle. Once H&K bought the licencse for the CETME and changed the name to the G3 they built the platform for the stronger NATO round. EDIT: Sorry didn't see the link above. That has always been a great site for C&R firearms.

My name is Wayne. The children and I at St Simons's Island on vacation.

Going to Stones River to shoot after church.

I'm in also. same as last year.

HA HA lol. Got Pictures?

What the hell are you guarding, Tosten? Fire up then expresso machine with some Lavazza Italian Coffee.

Welcome to TGO

I have two and getting ready to sell one. Both of mine have had zero issues. Shoots anything.

I got this the other weekend and thought it was a great movie.

Congrats, I know your proud of him. I'm standing up a Reserve MP BDE in Nashville if he want to do weekends!!! lol