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The spacer is about the size of a washer and goes on the magazine time right under the cap AFTER the forearm had already been installed.

Scratching my head and banging it against the wall. I took this Winchester Ranger 140 (cheap version of the 1400) apart and refinished the wood. Apparently the forearm shrank up while it was off. I cleaned it good using citrus stripper and soaked it in hot water to get the old oils out. Then I refinished it with TruOil. I attempted to put it back together last night and the forearm is not even close to fitting. Sorry, the pictures don't do a great job of showing how it doesn't fit. The magazine ring on the barrel should slide right into the end of the forearm. It's not even close. Had I not taken it apart myself I would even think that it was the correct part. Gun had been apart for about 6 weeks. Anyone heard of wood shrinking up like that?

Coyote scat is pretty distinguishable. It will have lots of hair in it usually.

I still have the Knight that I got from you. It's a great gun, but it's long and heavy. The CVA is just easier to mess with.

I have a few different ones. My go to is a break action CVA. They are cheap, and just easy to mess with. They are also easy to clean. You want to make sure that you always get muzzle loaders really clean.

Not sure what the folks over at PBR are up to. A buddy sent me a picture from the local Walmart the other day of non-alcoholic PBR. I don't drink anymore but I enjoy a NA beer from time to time. Let's be real here, I never drank PBR for the taste, the idea alone of alcohol free PBR is enough to make me not want to try it (I image it taste like PBR, but worse). BTW if anyone is looking for a good NA beer try Wellbeing Brewing Company. (I like the Hellraiser) Closest thing to the taste of real beer that I've found. Their website can help you locate a distributor near you.

I recently went on a 10 hour charter out of Southwest, FL. While I'm down for catching just about any kind of fish at anytime, that will probably be the last charter on my dime. We got into some big Goliath grouper, but only managed to get one 250 pounder to the boat. Had a bunch of break offs that I blame on the tackle. Caught some red snapper that we took home that came out to about $200/pound. Honestly had more fun catching sharks and the Bonita that we cut up for bait than anything else. The seasons and size restrictions have made it to where you aren't going to be keeping much of anything. I'm at a point in life where I can manage to do some things that I've been wanting to do for a long time, and the money that is required for offshore fishing can go a long way towards other things.

LEO, first responders, and utility works are exempt.

I'll tell you what I think and it probably won't be popular. I spend a considerable amount of time in my car. A drive roughly 30k per year. I use my phone a lot in my car for both business and personal use. Now I'll knock on wood. I haven't had a speeding conviction in 13 years. I haven't been involved in an accident in 18 years. I drive in Nashville rush hour traffic several times per week. I have a perfect driving record. Do I talk on my phone while driving? Yes. Do I text while driving? Yes, but I do use voice to text. Do I look at my phone while driving? Yes. I also do these things judiciously so as not to endanger others. I actually don't mess with my phone at all when I am in rush hour traffic. Back roads with little traffic and stop lights are a different story, though I do pay attention to the light. I absolutely will not be that guy doesn't realize that the light turns green because I'm on my phone. I wonder just how many people who caused this law to come into effect drive the amount of miles without the violations and accidents that I do?

That's the saddest things I've read in months, just awful.

As a general rule of thumb in Tennessee, and generally any rural areas as well: the further you get from town the more likely you are to find thieves, drug addicts, etc. It's a trade off, but cities have rampant theft. Some suburbs are pretty void of that kind of thing, but I have no desire to live there. I take my chances in the country, lock my stuff up, use cameras as necessary, and attempt to have a reputation with that ilk of people that they are better off to mess around somewhere else.

$600 is high IMO. I'm paying less than that now to lease several thousands of acres. I could be wrong, but if be surprised if anyone is really interested in the deer. Fentress County holds deer in pockets, but the limits are so low in Fentress County that I wouldn't drive up there to hunt them for free. Pigs are going to be what people hunting that area are after. Please be judicious and careful when confronting trespassers, they tend to occasionally travel in large groups and will make your life miserable if they don't kill you. I would tell you to get to know others who live in the area, but that can go either way as well, there are a lot of people in that area who don't want anyone there who wasn't born there. Some of them don't have a lot of sense and don't have anything to lose.

If they are effectively keeping the riff raff run off I would keep them. The riff raff in that area is very riffy, or maybe raffy? Used to have a lease in that area, eventually left because of all of the undesirable people. A lot of people in that area that could care less about property lines and personal property. Think we were paying around $600/yr for 1500 acres up there.

Don't know, I liquated mine that I paid $70 for and bought a quality rifle.

Aaron's Outdoors. He's out of Old Hickory but I'm pretty sure he covers Clarksville. Top notch work and very competitive prices. 615-517-6830. My neighbor used Tennessee Landclearing to clear some growth a couple of years ago. They had a lot of difficulty understanding which trees to leave and which trees to take, even though the ones that they wanted to keep had flagging tape wrapped around the trunks. It sucks when they take down all of your oaks and leave you hackberries and cedars.

That last paragraph "90% of the guns that are associated with crime have been sold by 5% of the gun dealers". Yeah, I'm going to need a reliable citation on that. I'd say with her attitude one thing that she might accomplish if she takes office is kicking off that next civil war.

Update: HughD, if you look at that link that you posted from Midwest gun works, part number 6 is what I was inquiring about. That o-ring was going to cost me about $18 shipped. Not wanting to put that kind of money into a free gun that I really have not figured out what I'm going to use for, I made a gasket out of three layers of duct tape. It's working great now!

I moved away from Maryville back to middle Tennessee in 2015. I haven't been back since, but I could see that it was starting to get that way. The difference in middle and east Tennessee is that I'm 40 miles out from town now. And although I'm in a rural area, it's quickly growing. It will be a long time before anyone is desperate enough to develop mountainous areas like they have developed what idea to be farm land here. As much as I hate the thought of a state income tax, had we put it in like they attempted back in 2000, we likely wouldn't be having these problems.

I lived in Blount County for a few years and loved it. Spent a lot of time camping and fishing in the Citico area just down the road. Maryville has about everything that you need, yet you can be in some pretty remote areas within a 20 minute drive from town. We could still go over to highly commercialised Gatlinburg, Sevierville, Pigeon Forge area if my wife wanted to, but I preferred to stear clear. IMO the deer hunting is pretty terrible in that part of the state, as an avid outdoorsman it was a trade off to have a bunch of other outdoor opportunities.

Been on a Tyler Childers kick for a week or so now.

Do I not understand this correctly, or am I the only one bothered by the fact that the Knox County Sheriff's office is basically saying that they are disregarding the state law and making up their own rules.

I have a 642 circa 2006, the finish is awful. I did gently carry it daily for several years, but it looks like it's been drug behind a truck.

I had an inoperable Winchester Ranger 140 in 20ga given to me. I disassembled, cleaned, and reassembled it. The last person who assembled it failed to install the firing pin correctly, preventing the gun from going into battery. No secret that the 140s are junk guns, but the price was right and it would make a good boat, 4 wheeler, tractor, wife gun. To the point: The gun fails to eject the spent shell. I think that the ejector and the extractor are fine as they work like expected when manually operating the bolt. Looking at the schematic for the gun I see an "o ring forearm spacer" but can't figure out exactly where it should go. The best I can tell doing internet research there are no o rings on the piston cup, which doesn't really make sense to me. Does anyone happen to have a 1400 or 140 that they may be able to show me where this o ring is located exactly? Also measurements of the o ring would be awesome. At $18 for a new one in going to try to fit a generic to it.

The wordage of the statute reads: Any person using force intended or likely to cause death or serious bodily injury within a residence, business, dwelling or vehicle is presumed to have held a reasonable belief of imminent death or serious bodily injury to self, family, a member of the household or a person visiting as an invited guest, when that force is used against another person, who unlawfully and forcibly enters or has unlawfully and forcibly entered the residence, business, dwelling or vehicle, and the person using defensive force knew or had reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry occurred. As such, MY interpretation of the law is that it extends to any legal adult, hence the "any person" wordage as opposed to a specific reference of age. Additionally, with the castle doctorine considering a vehicle as an extension of one's home, again, MY interpretation is that an 18-20 year old caring a handgun in their car is perfectly within the law. Disclaimer: this post is in no way to be considered legal advice.

And 20 years down the road people will be saying "Ruger is a good gun, except for those Wranglers, they're kind of junky." The Heritage is what it is, I own one, and it's not a bad gun. But, I wouldn't put my Heritage up against a Single Six. Although I can appreciate nice guns, they sit in the safe, while my Heritage and SKS, get thrown on the four wheeler or tractor and actually used.