10-Ring

Goes to show that you always check the chamber before pulling the trigger for breakdown.  Maybe he knew better and had a dumb moment, it happens to the best of us.  Maybe he just didn't know t always look first.  I don't want to armchair QB this I just want everyone who reads this to make it a practice to check the chamber before pulling the trigger for breakdown.

Dave S, this picture was shot from almost the same position we are just looking over a little to the left of the first picture. I'm not sure if you can zoom in on the picture and see it or not (I can on the origional image) but there are Union cannons lined up out in the feild.

I looked into it at one point in time when I had a lot more time and money.  I think tha falconry is more of a way of life than it is a hobby.  After great consideration I decided not to get into it as I didn't feel comfortable making the commitment required to take care of the birds.

It takes me about 2 minutes but I cheat.  I have what I call my skinning cable.  It's a 10 foot long cable with a loop in each end.  I hang the deer from its neck, then I make all the cuts you would normally make to skin a deer.  I then peel back a little bit of skin fom the back of the neck and wrap up a fist sized rock in the hide.  I then loop one end of the cable around the outside of the hide with the rock on the inside.  I loop the other end of the cable over the ball hitch on my truck and slowly drive forward, the skin will peel right off.  Saves a bunch of time.

Just read the video game thread and figured some people here ping, Mike .357, would be intrested. I took this picture at Pea Ridge National Park in Northwest Arkansas last week. That rock you see there is the top of a rock column about 30 feet across there were a few of them there. The Confederates hid behind them but were eventually run out or killed by artillery fire. I have a few more pictures if anyone is intrested.

Wait a minute.  You found kids in the year 2013 that were outside, and throwing rocks?  If this seems to be a problem go down to your local pawn shop, plop down $99 on an Xbox and give it to the kids.  Garuntee you will never see them again.

I updated yesterday and have not had issues posting today.  My Netflix isn't working right though, the video and audio are all out of synch.  I hate Windows 8 with a passion but my old lap top was about to bite the dust and I'm not shelling over the money for an Apple.  Still have a lot of problems with it though.  I usually have at least one crash a day while editing photos.

First thing I do in the evenings is walk into the bedroom and put my gun on top of the dresser.  I used to have guns scattered about the house but that doesn't fly now with a 4 year old, everything has to stay out of access to her.  I know I'm taking a chance but we live in a good neighboorhood with really good neighbors.  It's a chance I'm willing to take.

Just got a PM from Tanker he's out due to circumstances beyond his control.  If anyone else wants to do this ride or just do a ride in this area in general post up, I know all of the local roads and would be glad to guide a ride. 

I put my two week in at Walmart and they let me go 2 days later.  Looking back now I wouldn't have given them notice.  I always give notice when I leave a job though, I think it's the right thing to do.  Good luck with the new job.  Yet another great example that when a person loses a job you can in fact get another job, it just takes a little effort.

Honestly, the earlier the better for me, I have the gear for it and the wife will be happier the earlier I get home.  But, I do things quite often that leave others scrating their heads.

I don't think that the Cherohala is harder, the Cherohala has surprise decreasing radius turns that sneak up on people and kill them.  Pay attention to what you are doing and leave some in reserve and you will be fine.  At 7 am the high elevations of the Cherohala will likely be in the 20-30's.  I reccomend The Hub in Robbinsville for food and coffee.  Of the dates mentioned I can only do the 3rd.  I'm just about 30 miles from the Cherohala on the Tellico side.

I'm in, out on a trip to the Ozarks now but should be back before this happens.  In Gainsboro, TN today where I hooked up with a riding buddy last night,  We will be riding to Reelfoot lake today.

Haven't seen any around here but I went down to Hwy 72 in North Alabama a few weeks ago and they were all over the place.

That XR looks new, the paint isn't even rubbed off of the frame.  That bike was THE beast in its day.

A close friend that I grew up with, whose stupid moments are few and far between pulled a pretty good one one morning when we were in high school.  We were about 16 and my dad would let us take his fishing boat out pretty much whenever we wanted, which was about daily during the summer.  So we're running late and get to the boat ramp just after day break, we were running late because we had had problems with the boat motor.  He's in the boat and I back the boat into the water.  The boat was an old tiller stear.  My buddy starts the motor and clicks it into reverse to back off of the trailer.  Well he forgot to lock it down first.  We hadn't bothered putting the cowling back on.  Well the motor bucked up and the fly wheel bit into his hand real good.  he didn't say anyting at the time and I didn't see it happen.  I parked th truck and walked down to the dock, that's when I noticed that he had taken off his shirt and wrapped it around his hand, and the blood had already soaked though.  After I talked him out of fishing that day I loaded the boat back up and took him home, thank God he had no permanent damage, but there was tons of blood. 

Looks like I have some stiff competition when it comes to stupid but I still think I'm a contender!  Like many here I've had issues with electricity, mostly as a young child.  At about the age of 3 or 4 I repeatedly played with electrical sockets and got shocked, slow learner on that one.  At 17 a buddy and I decided to pick up a roadkill skunk one night and place in under another friends porch.  We pull into a driveway and take a shovel out of the back of the truck, toss skunk in truck bed then proceed to back out onto the road which which was on the side of a hill.  Very drunk guy comes speeding over the hill and T-bones my truck, it was obvious that the state trooper knew him, ultimatley I totaled my truck because I decided to pick up a dead skunk, guy that hit me was charged with nothing and the trooper said in his opinion the guy was not drunk enough to warrant any tests.  At age 19 I had cleared some brush and poured about 5 gallons of gasoline on it.  I lit a leaf with a Bic and the next thing I knew I landed about 25 feet away, my grandmother was in the house about 100 feet away and said that she heard an explosion and that the house shook.  I suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns over much of my body and have not used gasoline to start a fire since.  There are other, better stories, but like many others here I have concerns about the statute of limitations.

My car tends to stay full of trash but that's only because I refuse to throw it out the window.

Handed a fella a gun once and he immediatley looked down the barrel, I just took it back then and told him that he didn't have any business handling guns.

I have so many stories about hanging out at boat ramps.  Forgot drain plug, forgot to untie boat from trailer, didn't know how to back trailer, ran boat into back of truck, tried to take off full throttle with motor trimmed up, I could go on.  If you ever need something to do on a busy weekend just park at a busy boat ramp and watch the show.

I depend on tourism from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for my income.  Needless to say it is affecting me financially.  I do have to agree with Caster though.  I'll go wait tabes if I have to, it pisses me off that people, myself included, can no longer use the park but we do need to quit coddling this thing and let it die.  If this government were a human being on life support any person with a shred of compassion would have pulled the plug long ago.

Nice I wanted myself and my groomsmen to OC 1911s at my wedding along with my father and FIL since we all had 1911s.  Origionally the wedding was to take place on family property but then the venue was changed to a public park where that wouldn't fly :(  Congrats!

Hmm, my pet peeve concerning cops and flashlights is when the cop keeps shining the thing right in my eyes after he has determined that I'm not a threat to him. 

If I were using a cooler day in and day out I think the Yeti would be a good investment.  If I were using a cooler every single weekend I think that the Coleman would be fine.

Went out taking some pictures yesterday and stumbled across this, is this ginseng?