Ray Z

Why don't you come join us at ORSA for practical pistol or IDPA? Lots of fun and you'll meet a lot of people that like handguns.

Used to, back when I was shooting 25000 - 30000 a year in trap. I looked at the price of a bag of shot a week ago at a gun store in Pigeon Forge. They wanted $54 for it. It's cheaper to shoot factory loads.

Another thing that this man told me was they're going to have to find quality personnel to run the plant. He was hinting toward having problems with applicants passing a drug screen.

Just got home about 6 this evening from Nashville. Yesterday was pretty crowded. Today not so bad. The exhibitors were great. One of the bits of information that I learned was that Para Ordnance is no more. The plant in South Carolina has been closed and all the equipment is in the process of being moved to a new location. When it opens Remington will be putting their name on the product that will be produced there. The little 9mm that cost them so much money either has been or will be out. They had some at the show for exhibit. Still looked like a piece of that brown smelly stuff and now it retails for $425. For $250 I might have been interested. For $425 I'll stick to my shield. Only people that I could get to talk to me about the 22 rim fire shortage was the people that import ely. He told me that nobody is fooling with them because their are too small for anybody to mess with.

I've had that same rifle for 7-8 years. 168gr Sierra BT match using Varget drives tacks at 100 yd.

Got to add my vote to the Ruger SR1911. Lot of gun for the buck.

I've heard of an assault spoon. That's what made Rose O'Donnell fat. 

Has anyone found a diagram of where the vendors and reps will be located on the floor?

Thanks for the heads up Wyldk2. It looks like everything they have has to be pulled behind a tractor. I'm selling mine.

Tellico Plains About an hour 'n some  South of Knoxville

I don't have the equipment to put that together.

My driveway has turned to that brown smelly stuff. Potholes, erosion, and just poor drainage have left it to a point where I can't ignore it anymore. I've got  about 3/8 of a mile from the street to the house. It's all gravel. I had 3 loads spread on it a couple of years ago but it needs grading before I can do that again. I've been getting a bunch of junk mail about a DR Power grader. Has anyone had any experience with that? Anything better?

The old 38 super used .356 diameter bullets. If I remember right, it was a 130gr bullet. Today's pistols us the same.355 bullets that 9mm luger cartridge uses. Those of us that shoot 38 super or 38 supercomp in an open gun [USPSA] can go up to .356 after their barrels start waring out. Say, 60-70 thousand rounds.

OOPS! Had to read the just mail that came with the badges. It's all that you need to get in the show

I have had 4 different paras in the past. Quality gun, good fit, good finish, well worth the money. Only complaint I had was the trigger needed smoothing out.

        Yep! SSDD

Yep! SSDD

If you don't wear a helmet when you ride, you don't have anything that needs protecting.

Anybody going to go to the Delta Queen send off? She is leaving for a complete refit points South. She has been on pilings because her engines were not coast guard approved for passenger travel. Today at 2pm she will be heading for points South for a fit and won't be back for a year.

To this day I would rather go hunting with them than any of the other people I have met. When the youngest one turned 21 I took them to Knob Creek. I bought them both pellet guns. A couple of weeks later I learned that one was shooting his neighborhood dogs and the other is shooting the neighborhood black kids "with the pellet guns"

As my two sons were growing up they were never allowed to have BB guns or pellet guns. Those things fit in a category somewhere in between a toy and a real gun. So they never get the respect they should.

I WAS WRONG In my earlier statement I said I didn't believe that there was anything we could do to change what the government did. Without saying a word you 'all have proven me wrong. You have proven that we still have a say in what happens in government. Thank you Ray

I believe that whatever you carry, you need to practice with. Putting rounds down range in the plinking range is one thing. But I really think if you are serious about protecting yourself and/or your people, you need to get involved in IDPA and or practical pistol shooting. Both use scenarios that are closed to real life.