Garufa

Some would say that's what they look like anyway...

OK. I'm done DJ'ing for the night.

Very nice! If you ever want to let go of it...well, you know.

Welcome! Since you offered I do have a couple of questions: 1) Are Chinese allowed to own guns? What are the laws? and 2) What is the ancient Chinese secret?

Good Lord we're overrun with Maine people. What do you call yourselves? Mainers? Do ya'll know Stephen King?

Those are all 27's (maybe a couple of precursors?)! Or did you know that?

I usually just dip patches in the soap & water and run them through the barrel - from the breech end. If feeing especially retentive then I might just pour the whole cup down the barrel to flush it out. The only problem with that is water will always get somewhere you don't want it! No need to submerge the bolt, just clean the bolt-face with a patch soaked in soap & water or windex. After all that start in with the Hoppe's or whatever. You'll never get it completely clean, especially using suprlus ammo. They key is just to halt the corrosion.

You will need to clean it first with hot soap and water. Many use Windex (as I often do), but the only thing in there that's useful is the water, so you might as well go the soap/water method. The water flushes out the corrosive salts from the primers. Hoppe's and any other type cleaning solution will not. After you thoroughly clean with the soap/water or Windex, then clean normally with Hoppe's or your solvent of choice. Make you clean the bolt face too! A little bit of gas often comes back through the primer pocket and deposits the corrosives there. Oh, and have fun! For some reason those ugly things are a blast.

Don't know if I'd ever go there again, but take a look at this map w/o the aerials. memphis - Google Maps Yout can see that the old right-of-way still exists for the road. Where you see the stream cross is where a bridge once stood. For plinking it was OK. There definitely is no open space.

James Marshall Hendrix

I get all choked up when I see those pictures. Beautiful.

Now I'm goin way out on a limb here, but when I was a kid growing up in Memphis and could not shoot out at the family farm near Shelby forest we sometimes went to an old washed out bridge on an old abandoned road just of Highway 51 north of its intersection with Watkins. Here it is on the map... memphis - Google MapsIf you look where Millington Rd makes a 90 degree turn south and turns into Overton Crossing, imagine going straight on Millington for about a 1/4 mile. There is an old road there that goes to the bridge site. People have been shooting there for years, at least they were as of 1985!

Minigun..... Miniature gun.....

We already have that.

Other than the casual "chattiness" of the classifieds that continues even after management's rececent admonishements, I like it. It works and people get want they want, people sell what they need to sell. No problem.

Do you have a credit card?

Congrats on the .30-30! If it's new, might need to give it some time for the barrel to break in a little, then the accuracy should improve. That is unless you've found a way to defeat the Micro-Groove. I'm not sure myself how accurate that round is out to that distance. What model did you get? BTW, I might have sold you mine if you'd asked.

Welcome, Yankee.

The Norris range is only 20 miles north of town. Open all week. Rifle range out to 250 yards.

There a story in Today's excuse for a paper. This sounds like something I might need to see. Gun collectors mark 50th anniversary Knoxville News Sentinel Gun collectors mark 50th anniversary Show this weekend; group displays collectibles, classics By Jim Balloch Thursday, November 12, 2009 From humble beginnings a half-century ago, the Smoky Mountain Gun Collectors Association's semiannual show grew into one of the South's premiere events of its kind and a winner of national awards. The nonprofit club used the proceeds to support Boy Scout marksmanship programs and gun safety education and contribute to a variety of community charities. But by the mid-1990s, competition from a glut of for-profit gun shows was growing and eventually forced the club's show out of business for a few years. In 2006, a smaller version was re-established. The club's 50th anniversary show will be this weekend in Lenoir City, and it will be much more like the shows of yore, said club president Mike Waggoner. There will be no more than 100 tables, he said. "It's like we have come full circle and are getting back to our roots," he said. "This is a show exclusively about guns and gun-related items, not a flea market. We emphasize collectible and classic type guns." The first few shows were held in a building in Oak Ridge that housed a dance hall, recalls Marie Wiest of Oak Ridge. Her late husband, M.C. "Red" Wiest, was a founding member of the club and a driving force in establishing the show. In those days, firearm hobbyists were commonly called "gun cranks," not "gun nuts." Gun shows were rare, occurring only once or twice a year in a few communities. Marie Wiest recalls admission to the very first show was free. The next year it was 25 cents. The show soon moved to Kerbela Temple in Knoxville, where it remained through 1982. Aisles were usually packed. In 1983, it moved to the Convention Center at World's Fair Park and often featured several hundred tables of displays. Buying, selling and trading were always part of the attraction, but displays of themed collections remained the main focus of the show, recalls Ralph Simpson. "We prided ourselves on having as many displays of historical or collectible significance as we could," said Simpson, a longtime member and fixture at gun shows. "There were awards for best display. Displays like that make the difference between a true gun show and a gun sale. If there's a price tag on everything, it's not a show, it's just a sale. In my opinion, we have too many (shows like that), too close together." "It is virtually impossible for a small collectors association such as ours to compete with people who promote gun shows for a living," Waggoner said. So, for now, the club has no plans to expand. "We are quite comfortable with where we are," Waggoner said. The show is at National Guard Armory, at the intersection of Highways 321 and 70. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $6; children under 12 are free if accompanied by an adult.

This thread is killing me! I need an old Chief's Special just like that for my mom. She wants one badly. My father had one at one point, along with all this other toys, that was either my Grandfather's or he gave to Grandaddy. That thing is somewhere in the family, I hope. Need to do some "research" over the holidays and get some 'cuz to fess up.

Geek, we need a report as soon as you get out of the Principal's office (or whatever the day-care has). I often wear my Olive TGO hat. It is of the highest quality. However, I have yet to have some stranger come up and comment, admire, or say "Hey, I'm in TGO too!"