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Bowling pins are my son's favorite thing to shoot. I picked up 50 of them recently. I never imagined how difficult it would be to store 50 bowling pins.

I have one in particular that is troublesome to find the dot. But when they are working correctly I really like them.

My tomatoes are coming in faster than I can handle. I canned 5 quarts on Saturday and 7, almost 8 more today. Something I do that helps... I process my tomatoes, a couple of times a week if necessary, (I did all 7+ quarts today) and put them in the fridge in their canning jars until I have 7 quarts to run the canner. I've put up 21 quarts of tomatoes this month. Starting to wonder how many we really need?

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Probably a long shot, but you never know what a TGOer might have lying around. I'm putting together a little boat and I'm going to build a surface drive motor for it. I'm looking for a donor motor in the 20-22HP range. What I would love to find is a junk lawnmower with a good engine. I'm petty much open to any brand other than the lower end Kohlers. I'm in middle Tennessee and get to East Tennessee from time to time. If you have something that may fit the bill shoot me a message.

I do quite a bit of smoking myself. But I smoke butts to temp. Specifically 203 degrees. Sometimes it takes 10 hours, I've had it take as long as 26. I put 2 8 pounders on Monday night and they finished up right at 18 hours. I pretty much always do a pound or two of cream cheese if I start the smoker up, everybody loves it.

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I was a Taurus hater for a long time. Taurus has really upped their game in the past couple of years. I own a 15 year old Judge that is a piece of junk. Great for shooting rats at <12 feet. Puts down shotgun sized groups with 45LC at 20 yards. Clunky, bad finish, poor craftsmanship, etc. I picked up a 4" Taurus Tracker in 44mag a few months ago. I really like it. The timing is as it should be, the trigger is crisp, and the fit and finish are very good. And it's plenty accurate. They're right at half the price of a comparable Smith. I am 100% happy with it. Plus, I bought it to pig hunt with. It's going to get used and beat around. With the price that Smith's have gotten to, it kinda hurts when you add a character mark.

Check this out. I hate that they make it difficult to determine whether or not the barrels are threaded. For some reason it seems that CZ isn't big on threaded barrels. My 22WMR is threaded, but my 22LR isn't. I just didn't see much point in running 22WMR suppressed. https://shop.cz-usa.com/cz-products/rifles/457-barrel-sets.html

I'm keeping my eyes open for a 16" threaded in 22LR myself. They are reasonably priced on the CZ website, but haven't been available in some time. I'm in no hurry. I have a 457 Lux in 22LR, and a Synthetic in 22WMR. would like a 22LR barrel set for the synthetic to use as a suppressor host and to bang around the woods with. The Lux is a fine rifle, but it's a lot to lug around.

I've been through the motorcycle thing (ass was practically glued to a motorcycle seat for a decade, then one day I just decided I wanted to do something else and that was that.) Moved onto boats. After the lakes became impossibly crowded after COVID I didn't particularly find that enjoyable anymore. Moved onto ATVs. Started out for hunting purposes but with a young son in tow most weekends we migrated to more riding and less hunting. I also went to a SXS when he started tagging along. Still have my 4 wheelers, the Honda Rincon 650 gets mostly used around the yard these days and the Recon 250 is awaiting a top end rebuild, but still doesn't and won't get used much. It's mostly kept around as a back up for a back up. My 2012 Polaris RZR800 has been a love hate relationship and required a lot of wrenching. I built the bed for it as it came with a "bed delete" . Once squared away it's been a pretty good little machine and will go near anywhere you ask it to.

That one time when ATF MIGHT have been the answer.

This is one of my bucket list guns, and you are local. Killing me that the timing is all wrong for me. GLWS.

Got onto the shellcrackers today. They wouldn't hit a jig for anything, but they were gladly taking worms, until they weren't. Caught a few really nice size ones. If you look at the first picture, I tried to put my phone next to the fish for scale, but cut half of it off anyway.

Another nod to the TX22. I have several 22 pistols, including a couple of different Mark series Rugers. The TX gets shot more than all of the others combined.

Quik Kash Pawn Shop in Lebanon is $10 +10 NICS. If you pay cash. $25 if you put it on a card.

Legally you will be fine. That area is growing rapidly, but as long as you have a solid backstop and it isn't annexed by the city you can legally shoot. As many gun unfriendly transplants as we've had moving to the area your guess is as good as mine as to whether or not you may offend someone.

Went out again this afternoon for just a couple of hours. Tried my go to Trout Magnet jig with little success. I had caught maybe 25 cicadas before I left the house. I rigged up with 2lb SOS line, a Trout Magnet float about 2.5 feet above a #6 aberdeen hook, no weight. The float was mostly to get more casting distance. This rig allowed the cicada to stay on top of the water. The big blues absolutely tore them up. I fished until I ran out of cicadas and left, no pictures because I was catch and release today.

One of my favorite things to do. I really enjoy ultralight tackle. Currently running 2lb SOS line. Those bull bluegill will make that drag scream. I probably fought that 2lb channel cat for 10 minutes.

I've torn big bluegill up the last couple of days on a 1/64oz buffalo colored trout magnet, they have all been full of cicadas. I think the buffalo color scheme mimics a cicada.

I don't think any of them are great. I have an Optima Red in my truck now. If I run the radio for 5 minutes, or the dome light stays on for 30 minutes without the engine running, the truck won't start. The battery is 3 years old.

Chicken of the woods. Edible. *Proceed with caution and do your own research.

These are great boats. I've spent a good amount of time in a Nu Canoe. They are amazingly stable.

That place has the best prices I've seen anywhere lately. I've been using Grabagun, but Defense Depot seems to be 10-15% less than Grabagun, which makes the store prices seem outrageous.

I loved my first Affinity 3 so much I bought a second. Set out to buy a Benelli Super Black Eagle 3 and the guy at the store talked me into the Franchi. At $1,000 less I couldn't justify the express expense. I've had a fair amount of time behind a Super Black Eagle and don't feel that I'm giving anything up with the Franchi.