Danger Rane

I completely disagree. The NRA is currently just as corrupt as most of the government. While we don’t have the option to withhold taxes until the government corrects itself, we do have the ability to financially starve out the NRA until they (at a minimum) oust LaPierre and some of the top brass. When you look at the NRA’s financial plummet, and the pending cases against them it becomes obvious that they are more concerned with maintaining access to their slush fund than they are about actually fighting for gun owners and protecting the 2A. If those in question actually cared then they would resign so that the flow of money would start back up, allowing the organization to regain legitimacy and get back into the fight. As to the OP’s question about the benefits, I’ve been a NRA life member for quite awhile (haven’t sent them a dime the last couple years) and I have never found their discounts particularly useful. It’s been awhile since I looked, but their rental car and moving truck discounts were usually the same or less than AAA or Military discounts. The range I go to used to require NRA membership to join, essentially to ensure its membership was doing their part to help the 2A cause, but they have since changed that to a GOA membership or one of a few other lesser known organizations that I can’t think of at the moment. I have also heard talk of trying to get away from the requirement that some ranges have of NRA certified instructors, as a way to further distance from and bleed out revenue for the organization. I haven’t heard what their alternative will be but it’s encouraging that all avenues are being looked at.

What does tik tok access on a users phone that Instagram, FB, and Snapchat don’t? Is the problem simply that the data on your phone is considered more accessible to a foreign government than the data on the other apps? If people are worried about Trojan backdoor entry from an app simply because it’s from China, they should probably look into where their phones are made (or the majority of their electronics and security systems for that matter). Do you truly believe there are not backdoors into any of it? I am not a blind Trump fanboy, I voted for him once and will again given the lack of options. That being said, if people can’t see the conflict of interest in Trump saying tiktok bad and threatening to ban it, which prompted the company to begin negotiations to sell to a US company (as American desperate housewives and their whorish daughters are the bulk users of the app) and then Trump swoops back in and says oh yeah, the treasury should get some of the money from this deal....really? I would think that before something gets “banned” by the government they would need to show some legitimate examples of how it is actually a threat to national security, particularly in comparison to other apps that the sheep use daily to give their personal information and intimate pictures to whomever wants to look.

Welcome to the group.

I like the Remington Golden Sabre.

He managed to find a reason to bring up his “combat” veteran status 6 times in less than 4 minutes, and he said he was a navy combat vet at that! He wasn’t a SEAL, because he damn sure would have been playing that card, and he sounds too young and scared to have been a Vietnam era navy guy, so about the only combat this jackass has probably seen is defending his booty hole from his fellow shipmates. I think if I was the guy with the trailer I would have shot the “combat vet” first on principle. This type of person is horribly embarrassing to other veterans, and I’m sure he was horrible to work with in the military, as these guys were always the look at me, brown nosing blue falcons. As to the OP, this is a topic that has been much on my mind as of late, and something I’ve discussed with my wife extensively. While I think our chances of this happening in our small town are very slim, we have been traveling through Nashville, Murfreesboro, and some decent sized cities more often lately for our boys’ baseball tournaments. I typically keep an extra handgun and several extra mags for my carry gun in a locking floorboard compartment in my truck, but we have been adding some addition tools to the toolbox on trips that take us out of our normal comfort zone. Additionally, we have been packing more water and snacks than normal, in the event that we get stuck waiting out a protest or something of the sort. While I absolutely don’t think that protestors should block roads, I don’t think I could bring myself to just drive through them if they are just standing there holding signs and chanting. If I found myself in that situation I would immediately ensure my doors were locked and have my wife call 911 and report our location while keeping my head on a swivel for threats. I would be looking for any possible “out” such as an embankment I could drive up or down or something like that. I would put the truck in 4x4 should I have to exit the road or go up and over someone. I’ve seen a few videos of cars going over people and getting high centered on the bodies, making you stuck, and possibly causing more injury to those under the vehicle. I want to get away to safety, not hurt anyone anymore than I have to, and getting stuck on someone means their friends are going to escalate their actions which won’t end well for anybody. One position I don’t want to be in is the vehicles up front, as me being stopped is preventing everyone behind me from moving. I would feel horrible if that put someone else in a greater position of danger because they were stuck behind me. The “trigger” for me to proceed forward would be if/when they actively are in and around the vehicles and making contact with them, at that point you can’t watch all directions at once, you have to get some space. I would start honking the horn and proceed slow and steady, giving them a legitimate opportunity to move and get clear of the vehicle. In most videos I’ve seen of this the vehicle gets swarmed at that point, resulting in people getting scared and flooring it, or having their windows broken out and beaten. My trigger to open fire would be a breach or definitive attempt to breach the vehicle, or the presentation of a weapon that could harm us within the vehicle. In the few actual videos I’ve seen where gunfire did erupt, the scene cleared pretty quickly, at least initially. I would take that opportunity to reload, assess for any life threatening injuries to us, and get out of the area. I would make every attempt to notify law enforcement and ask where i could safely meet them to report everything g that happened.

Who is this majority of people that think that? I’ve personally never heard a single person say that knives aren’t dangerous. Having attended multiple patients over the years with knife wounds, none of whom were cut by a “trained man” I’d say your methodology is flawed. The simple fact that our bodies really need to keep the red stuff inside, and most interactions with a knife involve it leaking out, sometimes rapidly, indicates that knives are dangerous.

100% agree. Unfortunately that is all the majority of our current military commanders know to be the norm, I’m not sure they have what it takes anymore to fight a real war. For that matter after seeing how most of our country reacted to the hiccup of COVID 19, I don’t think our country has the balls to fight a real war anymore.

It’s not necessarily a matter of the commanders not having the authority as much as it is the commanders being pussies and not wanting to risk anything jeopardizing their retirements. Now that POTUS has said it he’s hopefully set the tone for them to actually do it. They’ll only need to obliterate 1 or 2 to make the point. Can’t tell you how many FOBs I’ve been on downrange where the base or individual unit commanders were not letting their troops carry ammo, or if they did carry it, it was separate from the weapon system. I saw one entire infantry unit, that most here would recognize the name of because of their awesome history in wars past, that had their magazines 100mph taped to their butt-stocks. They could only put magazines in there weapons if/when they took a turn at perimeter security, and even then they could not chamber a round. They didn’t use the mag taped to their buttstock... the outgoing security element would hand a magazine marked “guard duty” to the oncoming security shift. It was incredibly demoralizing to the troops that had signed up for and trained to be badasses that their commanders would not even trust them to have their weapons loaded while in a combat zone. I felt pretty bad for them, and you can’t be surprised when most get out after one enlistment or try to make the jump to a SOF unit. It’s amazing that most civilians make it through their life without a DUI, or raping someone, or robbing a bank.... these are literally the topics that unit commanders feel the need to spend hours lecturing their troops about before every single weekend pass. The military does not subscribe to the theory of individual responsibility....so commanders will spend hours pontificating every week about almost anything you could possibly conceive of doing wrong so they can cover their ass. This mindset of treating every individual like the lowest common denominator has in turn resulted in weak leaders throughout the officer and enlisted corps...leaders that can’t make decisions for themselves about firing on enemy vessels getting danger close to our warships.

I helped a friend cut, load, and haul a car hauler full of nice straight oak (2-3’ around and 10-16’ long) to a saw mill over in Ethridge last year, and he only got $112 for the whole trailer full. We would have been better cutting and spitting it for firewood. I’m not sure the pricing on pine but I would call and ask first.

That’s a very specific question, for a topic with so many variables. The two most important questions that might help narrow it down is what area and what type of work specifically. There can be a big difference between cutting grass vs putting in mulch and planting trees.

I’m a Firefighter/EMS so thankfully it’s been business as usual. We were originally bracing for lots of overtime, but if anything we have been a lot slower than usual. Just goes to show how much non-emergency stuff we deal with on a regular basis. Now that everyone thinks we are all waist deep in the virus they aren’t calling us out to their homes for petty issues. It’s been great, and let’s us focus on the real emergencies and truly sick people. What has been interesting is keeping up with the constantly changing PPE and sanitation protocols. It’s been something different almost every shift for the past month. My wife is a Nurse that has been furloughed because the pre/post op section of the hospital she works in has been shut down for all but emergent surgeries. Which begs the question, why are the majority of the surgeries that normally go on there not emergent? The hospital told her she shouldn’t file for unemployment because there are other areas of the hospital she could work in, which is theoretically true if the waiting list for shifts wasn’t a mile long due to all the out of work nurses. The virus might be real somewhere, but it’s not very real here. I try not to be too much of a conspiracy theorist, but I think we’ve been had. I just don’t know by whom and for what purpose. Meanwhile we have been absolutely loving the extra time with our kids. With them out of school and baseball season cancelled we have been having a blast everyday after their homework gets done. Lots of fishing, hiking, shooting, and video games.

I just picked up a 10rnd box of the Federal Minis at Walmart for just under $5. They are somewhat expensive but I use them for easing new shooters into it. I’ve not had any issues with them in my KSG or my coach guns.

That’s quite a sexy pair!

I have two of the Gun Vault nightstand safes, one biometric and one with the finger keypad entry. From a security standpoint I don’t think that either one would slow down a determined/knowledgeable thief more than a minute. They would just be too easy to defeat with a well placed shim or screwdriver. I have them just to keep my kids from getting ahold of a couple guns that I want to have handy around the house. One goes on my nightstand, another at the other end of my house. I would absolutely buy the keypad entry model again, as I have had not a single issue. It runs off of one 9v battery that I change every January when I do the smoke detector batteries. I have had the safe for about 7 years. It is currently available on Amazon for $70ish. I would not buy the biometric version again. I’ve had mine about 5 years, and I think they currently go for $115ish. My issue was not so much the biometric not working properly, mine was that it was incredibly sensitive, which could make some think it is finicky. I’ve seen several videos on YouTube of the biometric being opened with random fingers and even a dog paw, leaving one to worry that their child would be able to gain access, which is of course what we are trying to prevent. The issue I ran into, is you have to slide your finger consistently every time, and if there is any variation/damage to your fingerprint it will not recognize it. Something as simple as a small paper cut deformation to your finger tip will make it not work. Slight moisture residue from washing your hands will make it not work. I can only imagine that blood on your hands would make it not work. Mine runs off of one 9v, though I have seen some that run off AAs. My buddy has an RFID version from another company that came with a bracelet and a keycard, neither of which does he keep on him much of the time so he regrets that purchase.

Its perplexing seeing people in some of my social media circles get so excited about getting $1000 of their own money back, and realizing that most of them have given little to no thought to how the Govt can keep on going after giving back all this money that was theoretically budgeted for something necessary. I would have just preferred to keep the $1000 to begin with.

While I am glad that there are more Americans joining the ranks of (hopefully) responsible gun ownership, I don’t feel a bit sorry for them struggling to find what they need because they waited until the last minute. Hopefully they will learn from the experience and be better prepared next time. And this whole global situation will only serve to help reinforce what all of us here know to be the truth about self reliance and not banking on the Govt to do everything for us. Clearly a lot of people think that or they would not be panic buying everything from .22 ammo to toilet paper. Already at my work there have been guys saying “never again will I get caught with my pants down in a situation like this”. I’m not suggesting that anyone is doing this, but I think for our group here it is important for us to make sure we don’t go the route of “I told you so” (even if we are thinking it ) and instead use this as an unprecedented opportunity to guide some of these folks down the path of self reliance and being reasonably prepared for whatever gets thrown at us next. Ive seen a lot more privately owned guns/ammo coming available in my area and I don’t see anything at all wrong with a guy capitalizing on the extra market demand to sell what wouldn’t move during the times of normalcy, but the straight up gouging being done by places like cheaper than dirt is just criminal. I haven’t spent a cent with them since last time they pulled this crap, and I try to warn everyone I can about places like that so we can stick it to them once things settle back down. My boys (15&8) and I are really excited about the month they have out of school. We have a small range out behind the house and we plan to focus on going over a different gun or technique ever day. I figure between that and doing a bunch more hiking than usual we can stave off the cabin fever.

@Capbyrd & @DaveTN my apologies, I took your use of MSR out of context and thought you were referring to Remington’s MSR rifle, which stands for Modular Sniper Rifle. Makes allot more sense now with the proper context, and I agree with you about the other MSR meaning. It is essentially elements of the gun industry trying to take a PC approach to a topic that we don’t need to church up and make it out to be something its not. Again, sorry for my confusion and thank you for your clarification.

I have yet to have an AR that I did not change/upgrade things on, even some that I have purpose built myself after lots of deliberation on each part. Thant’s just the evolving nature of it with there being so many options for one to easily customize for their individual needs/wants. That being said, you will never come close to selling a frankengun (even one of all high end components) for what you put into it. So the only ones I build from scratch are the ones I know I’m going to keep. As to them lasting longer and working better, I would say that the majority of AR owners won’t ever come close to the service life of their gun or having enough trigger time on it to notice the benefits that some of the higher end components provide. For a shooter that has let’s say a $2k-3k budget, instead of blowing their whole load on the high end/name recognition gun and having it sit in a safe most of its life, they could increase their lethality by getting a $1000 gun, a quality optic, a case of decent ammo, and attending some training or getting into local competitions.

I’m curious about this comment? I will admit that their price tag made them cost prohibitive for most civilians but the Remington MSR was one of the first of its kind....it was after select SOCOM units started fielding the Remington MSR (and more asking for it) that many more manufactures jumped on the train, resulting in the myriad of options we see today. The MSR was the result of senior snipers at a certain unit going directly to the product reps at Remington Defense (most of whom were former SOF guys themselves) and saying “here’s a list of what we want this gun to do, can you build it?” Remington engineers went to work and if I recall correctly delivered 12-15 guns in early 2008. It’s a shame to me that an iconic gun company like Remington has been torn apart by corporate greed, and exposed to further injury by lawsuits that would never have a chance if America still believed in holding people responsible for their own actions. I have had the pleasure of meeting a few Remington employees and engineers over the years and found them to be true craftsmen than really wanted to put out products that deserved the Remington stamp on the side...if only every level of that company felt the same.

Congratulations to you and your wife on the new baby! Our thoughts and prayers are with you all for your speedy recovery and for the surgery in the little one’s future.

Welcome!

I do handyman work on the side and end up in a lot of crawl spaces. The vast majority of homes that I go under, new and old, have no insulation in the crawl space, so I can’t imagine that it could be a code requirement to have it.

I’m just a regular joe and I got in at Strategic Edge after 8-10 months on the waiting list. He only allows a certain amount of members (I don’t know what that number is up to now), and each year as some people don’t renew, more get notified that they can join. It’s an amazing range and worth biding your time on the waiting list in my option. Membership is not needed for most of the competitions and classes out there. Charlie’s range is also quite good for short range work, though I long ago stopped going on the weekends as it can get crowded and uncomfortable quick.

Welcome to the group Keith.

I have a snake for just about every caliber I own, they are great. I keep them in my range bag and almost always run it down my bore twice before shooting. I used to carry them in the field, but after seeing a buddy struggle to clear mud that made its way into his bore after he slipped and fell, we have switched over to the Otis style for field use. Most of the bore snakes are too flexible (cloth essentially) to be able to push out an obstruction, while the Otis uses a Plastic coated cable, which when pushed through the confines of the barrel acts rigid like a rod and can push things out with a brush. I don’t recommend the boresnake or the Otis as the only means of cleaning, but do think they are valuable tools for your tool box.