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I can't second the shotgun advice enough.  No need to get all tactical and get something you don't really need, one of the ones you have lying around may work.  A pump action in 20 or 12 gauge with a wooden stock and a 18-20" barrell is perfect.  Heavy enough to absorb recoil, but short enough to maneuver around tigt spaces.  I like shotguns because of their versatility.  You can load with birdshot, buckshot, or slugs.  I'll probably get laughed at but I like birdshot for in home defense, it is super deadly at 3-5 yards (come on how for are you really going to be shooting indoors?)  Yet at the same time it's not hardly going to penetrate walls and if it does the likelyhood of it having enough energy to seriously harm someone on the other side of the wall is slim.  

I did send a cashiers check as opposed to a personal check, it is my understanding that the state holds personal checks.  2+ months seens a little ridiculous though.

I'm missing opening day, I had the opportunity to photograph a wedding on Saturday, it sucks but I have to pay the bills.  Hopefully heading west and hunting middle and west TN some this season, also have a plan to go after big bucks on public land here in East TN, so secrets there just a lot of hard work.  I'd like to take a deer with my 1911 if I get the chance. 

http://www.trayvonsamendment.com/       I swear, if these people hate guns so much why don't they just move to Illinois where they have strict gun control laws.

Welcome to TGO.  Would like to see some pictures of your Webley.  If you are not familiar with how to post pictures you need to use a hosting site such as Photobucket.com use the "direct link" after uploading to photobucket.  Paste that link into your post under the "image" button, which is just below the happy face icon in the reply box, hope that isn't too complicated.  

Mine came yesterday so 16 days, could have been in the mailbox for a couple of days as well.  Impressive turn around time for the government.

Glad to hear that you are taking it on yourself.  The day that I pay someone to do yard chores is the day that I start wearing a skirt and putting cream and sugar in my coffee.

  As a photographer that has taken some questionable chances to get a shot, I wouldn't have helped him because his stupidity got him into that mess.  I feel bad that the elk had to die because of his stupidity.

I'm not sure which is worse Extreme Cheapskates or Porter Ridge.

I recently rented some equipment from Maryville Rental and they were good to deal with.  I've also heard good things about Anderson Rental.

Still trying to figure out why someone would live next to their ex by choice.

Perhaps too many years in retail left me jaded.  True, a persons financial status does not dictate their responsibility with a firearm.  Your run of the mill retail employee these days has a body temperature close to 98.6F and breathes, that is about as much function as you get out of most of these people.  I can understand why these policies are in place, I will stand by that.  I've also had jobs in the past where I carried, though I was forbidden because I felt that it was necessary and my $8 an hour job was not worth my life.  Basically I see both sides of the argument.  I would have done the same thing your cousin did, I don't blame him one bit.

I've bought 3 batteries from Batteries Plus in the past year or so.  All 3 motorcycle batteries.  One is a higher end battery and has been fine, the other two suck.  One was bought in April and replaced under warranty in July, I rode that bike the othe day and the battery sounded a little weak.  The other motorcycle battery I bought in May, took it back in August, they said that it was fine, yet it will not start the mower.  I'm done with that place, except to continue to return my crappy batteries when they get a dead cell every 3 months. 

I would be shocked to find ANY company that is not a mom and pop that allows employees to carry.  It's simply too much liability because if the employee uses the weapon on store premises they are acting as an agent of the company, which easily opens them up to lawsuits.  I've even worked for companies that allowed carry in their stores yet expressly prohibited employees from doing the same whether on or off of the clock.  I'm about as far from a gun control supporter as you will find but if it were my call as the head of a large company I would find that it would be a poor business decision to tell a bunch of $8/hr an hour employees that it is okay for them to carry guns while at work.  On the flip side of that coin I believe that in the setting of a large company, big box store, etc.  The safety of the employees becomes the responsibility of the company at the point when the employee has been told that they are not allowed to protect themselves.  

I've been around boats all of my life, worked in the boat business.  At first when I saw this project I just shook my head and wondered why you were taking it on.  You have done a fantastic job!  Looks like steller craftsmanship, you have rally brought the old girl into her prime!

The 24, especially in .410/22 is one of those guns I'm always keeping an eye out for.  Seems the current going rate on them is around $400 in decent shape.  I can't get intrested in the 42, just too dang ugly with an attempted dose of tacticool.  It's not a gun that I need or would likely use often but when I find one in the $200-300 range it's going home with me.

I just renewed by mail and didn't have to get a new picture.  I did get a new picture the last time I renewed.

I'm a .270 snob as well.  Mine is a Mauser M96.  Accurate, not expensive to hunt with anyway.  It kills deer very well but does not tear up meat bad.  Out of 2 dozen plus deer I've killed with this gun I've had maybe 5 that didn't fall in their tracks, all but one of them just ran a few yards.

PM sent BimmerFreak.

I have an idea that I'm wanting to patent.  I've done some preliminary research and it seems that I will need to contact a patent attorney.  Looks like the process it self isn't that difficult it just usually takes the patent office YEARS to issue the patent. 

Sent mine off 2 days ago, we'll see, I'm in good shape, doesn't expire until January.  I wish they would get the HCP synchd up with the DL to where it expires every 5 years and I could renew both at once.  I guess that would be asking too much of the state though.

I despise watches because I despise having to have to do anything at a certain time, which for the most part I do not.  However, could someone pease explain to me the benefit of a Bluetooth enabled watch?  I'm just curious as to what that does.

The fact that no one was injured makes me think even more that it was set up by an anti.  Think about it, they supposedly got the rifle past security, who would have checked it to see if it was loaded and/or chambered.  They then sold it to a vendor, any gun guy worth his salt would have checked to see if it was loaded before ever making an offer (checking the operation of the action and whatnot.)  Then someone simply walks up and pulls the trigger and the gun goes off, I'm sure I'm wrong but I would like to think that anyone at a gun show wouldn't do something that careless.   This just doesn't add up to me as a simple oversight.

They are kept on a stand, tetered by their jesses.  A raptor can leave at its own will during a hunt and never come back if it chooses.  Normally they will return to the falconer as soon as they get finished hunting.

Am I the only one that thinks this was a stunt pulled by some anti gunners?  That's the only ting that makes sense to me.