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Personally I would be hesitant to walk around Shelby Park with bow in hand, yet I know of no statute that would prohibit you from doing so.  I could see a possible case of public endangerment though.  Wrong person and/or cop at the wrong time could make you have a bad day.

Centennial Park Lake has a bunch of carp doesn't it?(JK)  Do you have boat access or are you wanting to shoot from the bank?  Tons of good places on Old Hickory if you have boat access, just get as far back in the coves as you can.  If you are shooting from the bank, I haven't been in years but Cordell Hull was my favorite place, Defeated Creek specifically.  The entrance to the park area off of the highway was good.  If you can sneak into the camp ground you can walk the bank around the entire campground, that lake is full of carp.     

I call him Glock Man.  I don't really remember how Glock Man came about.  I do remember that I was fiddling with a Glock one evening, probably cleaning it, somehow I thought that if I had another I could disassemble it too and make a robotic looking figure out of the parts.  I grabbed another Glock, striped it down and sure enough, everything but the head.  What better to use on a Glock Man, assembled from a 23 and a 27 than some .40 ammo in the shape of the Glock "G" with a little twist for the eyes and it was perfect for a Pacmanesque face. I took a quick picture with my tablet and later thought that it would be a good avatar for a gun forum.    

I don't smoke and have no interest in vaping but I know a few people who are vaping the nicotine free vapors who have never smoked before.  With that set up it would be like putting a special tax on a candy bar or cold drink. 

Somebody call up the folks over at Sam Adams, I can't think of a better event to have a lesbian, gay and transgendered parade march right through the middle of. 

  Of all the businesses out there I think the one that most of us hate the most is pretty good at not taking a stance, and that is Wal-mart. 

Clean that carb if you even think that it is a possibility that it is gummed up.  That is a very easy carb to clean.  I've had trouble with a couple of small engines this year and draining the gas and/or cleaning the carb got them running like champs.  This ethanol fuel just will not sit for any length of time at all without gumming up.

Agreed I've had a truck since I've had a drivers license, with the exception of about the past two years.  See, my truck broke down and I was without a truck for those two years.  A person may be able to get by without a truck if they've never had one but once you have had one it's much harder to not have one, I hated it.  Funny how the people that say things like "Oh, you don't really need a truck" are always the first to call someone with a truck when they need something moved or hauled.  Used to not be a big deal but the last couple of times I've done a favor I haven't even been offered gas money.  That sucks after you burn $40 worth of gas running around town doing someone a favor because they don't want t buy their own truck.  I'm not bitter though...

I've carried in that particular location a number of times, you are good to pack and go.

  Studies show that people who are afraid to use Facebook are sexually immature and often carry large guns to counteract their inadequacies, I read that on the internet 

Kudos to Ares Armor for standing up and protecting their customers.

Quick search on gun broker looks like $210 is a good price.  Looks like they have gone up quite a bit in the past couple of years.  More importantly, if you have given your word to pay an agreed upon price then you should complete the transaction, regardless of what it is actually worth. 

  When you figure that diesel costs around 50 cents more per gallon the increased gas mileage mostly negates itself there.  Add to that $100 DIY oil changes, fuel filter replacements, a two battery system, injectors going bad, and all the other common diesel issues you will be hard pressed to ever come out ahead.  If you have a need to tow heavy loads on a regular basis, drive a whole lot of miles, or just want to drive a diesel just because then they can work out.  Full disclosure:  I drive a Tundra as my personal vehicle and a 7.3 F-250 as a company vehicle.  As for a personal vehicle I'd take the Tundra over the F-250 100 times so long as you aren't towing large loads often.  I also seem to get 16 MPG in the F-250 regardless of how it's driven (I drive it really easy) or what it's hauling.

I dipped for 13 years and smoked off and on in that time, giving up dip was way harder than cigarettes.  Finally decided to quit on December 18th, 2013.  I had a dentist appointment that didn't go too well so I thought that maybe I should give quitting another shot.  Up to this point I had made up my mind that I was done trying to quit, I just enjoyed it to much.  Well a few days into trying to quit I went to work and a hygienically challenged co-worker was helping me with something, we were in close quarters and he breathed into my face with a mouth full of Grizzly wintergreen, which was my chew of choice.  I just about tossed my cookies right there and heaved several times that shift just thinking about it.  I've not dipped since.  Funny how after all of those years that is what broke me.  I did chew once but decided to cut that out before I formed another habit.  I do smoke a pipe from time to time.  (Thanks to inspiration from that TGO pipe smoking thread, lol.)  But I probably do that once per week or so.  Best wishes on you staying quit Mav.  

I too have always been a Ford guy, but I had owned examples of all domestic trucks over the years.  A few months ago I bought an '04 Tundra crew cab.  Same reasons as you, family.  I don't ever see myself going back to a domestic truck.  Mine had a little less than 130K on it but it is tight.  Way tighter than any Ford I've seen with that mileage.  I love everything about my Tundra except the gas mileage leaves a little to be desired.  But it drives great and has plenty of power, tows good to and is comfortable even in the back seat.  There is something lacking though, it just doesn't have "truck character" to me, not like my old F-150 did.  It just seems more like a car with a bed, that has its good side too though.

  I'll share this since I'm somewhat tech savvy and didn't know about this until a few months ago.  You can right click any image, be it an an email, on a webpage anything else.  Save it in your downloads folder.  Then go to google images and you can do a web search on that image.  If that image has been posted elsewhere there is a good chance google will show you.    I've bought and sold a number of vehicles over the years, internet and otherwise, I've also walked away from a few "smoking deals."  Times are tough, people are not giving stuff away, if something doesn't seem right then it probably isn't, just walk away, more often times than not there is a legitimate listing for what you are looking for somewhere.  

I was glad that he was found not guilty even though I didn't agree 100% with everything that he did.  I see him in no way being a celebrity of any kind.  I believe the way that he has acted since his verdict tells a lot about his character.

I thought that this was a family friendly website?  :bowrofl:   It's been a while since I've visited it but I used to visit a site that had webcams on the Mexican border.  The idea was that you watched the cams and there was a button to alert if you saw border jumpers.  There are also some live game cams online that can be pretty cool to watch certain parts of the day. 

I'm going to make a slight thread jack.  I spend more time outdoors than in, I work in the woods and I'm often in nasty bug infested areas.  Because of the frequency that I have to use conventional bug spray I started trying other things last year because I was concerned about the long term effects of using Off on a daily basis, often several times per day.  With a little hesitation I tried Avon Skin so Soft, I wouldn't use it in social situations and I don't recommend it if you are hunting anything with a nose but as long as you don't mind the smell it works great against ticks, mosquitos, and biting gnats, I'm sure it works on other stuff too.    I also used to coon hunt with some guys that would take garlic pills and swore that a tick wouldn't bite a person with concentrations of garlic in their systems.  I haven't verified it myself but we used to run coons in the middle of the summer and those guys swore by it.  I know permethrin works well, but I'm always looking for a natural alternative to chemicals. 

I'm tired of atheism being shoved down my throat.  I consider myself a Christian and I believe that puts me in a very wide scope of people.  Yes, some of us are nuts, some of us are annoying.  Personally, I believe what I believe, and I believe that you can believe whatever you want, and I'm not preaching to anyone about my beliefs unless asked.  Maybe that makes me a bad Christian, if so then so be it.  I just wish the atheists could accept my Christianity as much as a accept their atheism.  I have friends who I've distanced myself from, not because they are atheists, but because they can't shut up about it.

In said groups I've been seeing phrases such as "BGC required per Facebook rules" basically that tells me that people are continuing to do FTF sales, most likely w/o background checks.  Facebook has no way of enforcing this rule. 

I'm a member of several local Facebook gun trading pages.  I don't know of a better outlet to catch a deal from time to time.  Of course there is plenty of over priced junk to wade through to find the deals.  I was late on the draw the other day and missed a 10/22 for $125.  These gun trading groups are private groups with moderators, anyone can join and the mods can delete users they see fit, not that it is a fool proof system, but neither is TGO or any other outlet for that matter.  Facebook is not evil if you don't do stupid things with it, it's a good tool.  The people that bad mouth Facebook are most often just like the people that bad mouth guns, they are unfamiliar with it and are ignorant about it so in their minds it must be bad.

Can't say that I've never heard of someone carrying a Desert Eagle, however I've never heard of anyone doing it for very long.

No thanks, I've been referred to as a redneck for most of my life and I consider it a derogatory term.  Just because I fish and hunt and work outside does not mean that I should be lumped into the same category as some welfare check grabbing, under educated, sister loving, toothless trailer dweller. 

Never wanted one until I shot one.  It's so far down on my list that I'll probably never own one but they are very good shooting guns.