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:insert $5 footlong joke here:

I had a Chinese dirt bike. Same motor. They are exact replicas of Honda motors but the fit and finish is awful. Some are pretty good some are pretty bad. The good thing is parts are really cheap. If you are okay with tinkering on it from time to time then they are fine. Just don't expect them to be like a Honda where you will generally just have routine maintenance and rarely ever does something break.

Be careful about carrying on your person when riding. Guns hurt when you fall on them. I once broke 3 ribs when I fell off my motorcycle with a can of dip in my breast pocket.

Don't know what and how you ride.  I rode very actively for several years.  I carried in a variety of ways.  My favorite was in my full leathers with a Taurus TCP in a left hand paddle holster clipped into the outside of my left hand boot.   I've seen riding buddy carry other effective ways such as Appendix carry in an IWB, and using shoulder holsters.  When I was touring I often kept my gun where I couldn't immediately get to it but it was there if I had to do some walking and I had it for over night stays be it camping or hotels.  Usually on the touring bike it stayed in the right hand glove box while I was moving, right instead of left because I had to have a key to get into the left box. 

A few years ago I lived in a remote cabin in the mountains.  I had a garage full of motorcycles and a safe full of guns.  Now the motorcycles are gone and I live in the suburbs.  I have to drive to shoot my guns when I have time to. Proceed with caution my friend.

Where does the idea that Tennessee deer hunting is always done at close range come from?  I've hunted all over Tennessee and I have yet to experience any part of the state where I could not find a place to stretch it out to long distances.  I can even think of spots in the East Tennessee mountains where I could see a lot further than I could shoot with any rifle that I own.  I can get it if you stay in the woods and hunt thick terrain.  Out of the 12 deer that I killed this past season 1 was shot at a distance of less than 100 yards.  7 between 100-200 yards and 4 between 200-325 yards.  Given I almost exclusively hunt fields and that makes for the possibility of much longer shots.  It's just that I've heard people say all of my life "You don't need anything bigger than a 30-30 to hunt Tennessee deer because you won't have a chance to kill anything over 100 yards."  I've done it and lived it and if I carried a 30-30 (I do own one) I'd be passing up a lot of shots that put deer in the freezer.

Sounds like fun, I may show up and call in sick on Thursday.

I hope the cop gets cleared.  He went above and beyond to protect the public from danger.  I don't really care if some dummy had to die, if he hadn't been drinking and driving it would have never happened. 

I just wanted give a little bit of input.  My wife drives a 2010 Honda Civic that she bought new and it now has about 120K on it.  I drive a 2004 Toyota Tundra that I bought 2+ years ago with 125K on it.  The paint on the Civic looks just aweful, the clearcoat is flaking off.  We always kept the car washed and waxed.  Honda admitted there was a problem with the paint and extended the warranty but we lost the warranty on the car when we paid it off early.  In addition to the paint issue IMO the car is underpowered, poorly insulated to outside noise, and just feels like it is cheaply made.  The powertrain will probably last forever but I rate it 3 out of 5 stars on comfort, as I don't think that it is extremely comfortable.    The Tundra.  Even though it is 12 years old the paint is in relatively good shape.  The clearcoat is intact and it still looks good.  Interior wise the truck is in pretty good shape.  Only compliant is the trim pieces around the bottom of the seats keeps falling off.  Other than that the trim and whatnot has been durable.  I'm really thinking about just removing the trim pieces because most people would never notice that they were missing anyway.  Comfort wise the Tundra is pretty comfortable yet doesn't quite have that luxury car feeling.  Properly maintained I would expect the drivetrain to last a very long time.   To sum things up I think that Toyota makes a better product than Honda does.  I realize there is nothing fuel efficient about a Tundra but it was a specimen that I have experience owning by an automaker that is relevant to the conversation. 

I'll probably take a turkey or two because I really enjoy eating them.  I don't really have turkey fever though.

It sounds like the pilot secured it in the closet while he used the bathroom but the janitor had a key to the closet.  I'm guessing that the closet is a designated safe place for the pilot to store their gun, good forethought by who ever is in charge of this program but huge oversight for anyone but the pilot to have a key.

I don't have a fancy AR, it's a PSA build.  I had around $500 in it said and done.  The best thing that I did for it was to put a nice trigger in it.  Everyone who has shot that rifle has been impressed.  My $0.02 stay away from cheap steel cased ammo if you care about accuracy, it sucks.  It's battlefield accurate but I was getting 6" groups at 100 yards from a rest while I was making ragged holes with good ammo.  I am gearing up to load my own now.

I was a member of one forum that had a joke thread pinned in the general chat section.  It kept everything nice a tidy and didn't get in the way of those that didn't care to look at it.

Oh boy here comes the "I don't do Facebook" crowd...

My thoughts exactly.

If you know they are on your property but they havent seen you grab your favorite firearm and dump the mag in a safe direction. Speak in a language that the dumbest of rednecks can understand. There was a fella that lived down the road where I grew up. He owned a lot of land and had a lot of road frontage. He would do this and even the worst local poachers refused to shoot deer off of his property. It was one of the only local places that you would see deer from the road after the start of deer season.

I had a friend that had them coming up in his yard. He left a window open to get a shot. They wouldn't come in the yard when the window was open. How they knew it was open or not we never figured out. Noise and scent maybe?

As an IDPA newcomer this is something that I have tried to be very careful about.  I'm never in a hurry to reholster as time doesn't matter at that point.  When I start to go towards the holster I make sure that my trigger finger is straight along the side of the gun.  Of course at this point the chamber has been checked by the SO and dry fired, so it's pretty dang safe anyway.  I also pay special attention on the draw to make sure that the trigger finger is straight and off the trigger until I am on target.  I really don't want to be the guy that puts a bullet in his own foot, or the floor in front of me for that matter.

I'm out again.  Just have too much on my plate at the moment.  I'll be back in action round the last week of this month or the first week of next month.  I need a fix bad!

I recently shopped the used market for this phone they were going for around $150.  That was undamaged of course, but as long as it's working fine I'd say it should fetch $120-130.

How about just eating somewhere that isn't posted instead of supporting businesses that post.  My wife (she's new to Nashville) told me the other day that she had heard that the Loveless Cafe had good biscuits.  I told her that I would never know.

To each his own.  The difference between a manual safety on a 1911 and a gun without a safety such as a Glock is that I'm much more likely to hit what I'm shooting at with the 1911.  I can confidently say that I'm not on a target any faster at all with the Glock.  Plus I shoot a Glock embarrassingly bad.  There are other guns with manual safeties that I do not feel this confident about though.

I've never had an issue with it.  I've shot all of my guns quite a bit and feel comfortable with them all.  Any idiot can get used to a Glock.  1911's are carried l cocked and locked, it's second nature to me to throw the safety on the draw.  The 642 that I rarely carry anymore takes about as much skill as the Glock to operate.  The first carry gun I ever had was a Bersa Thunder.  I didn't like the safety on it, nor do I like any gun as a carry gun whose safety isn't really easy to operate.

I've got a handful that I rotate.  Just depends on where I'm going, the weather, what I'm wearing, etc.  Go to is a Taurus TCP, Glocks, 1911s, and J-frames occasionally make it as well. 

I use them for situations where I never have plans to use that particular tool again.  If It lasts through the job then great but I don't expect it to.  HF is the only place my employer will buy tools from.  They break constantly, I'm not sure why our mechanics are always grumpy???