Dirtshooter

Hey ML have you used the PRI before? I have heard some good things about it like 12+ years gas storage with treating each year. Good looking cans, I'm jealous.

Boys I woke up this morning and had a flashback to 1967 I thought I was in Michigan! We probably got 2 more inches on top of all the white stuff that hadn't melted. We went to store first time in 10 days yesterday. Oh well I guess we will all enjoy and appreciate spring and summer more this year. Ya'll be safe out there ya hear?

Sorry to hear that, pray for your full recovery. I broke my fibula and tibia in 1990 and it was a long process, but I can do all but run. 

Not getting any and don't need none either. What we need is some 50-60 degree days to get rid of this stuff. Isn't this an illegal immigration from the North??

It is ok, but T post and hog panels virtually same trap, put it in shape of a 9. Omega you probably already know but in case you don't it is against the law in Tn. to transport a live feral hog. I personally would poison all the feral hogs if it was legal. They can destroy a lot of acreage pretty fast. I don't recall the exact numbers but you can take 1 boar and 2 sows and in about 3 years could have thousands of these danged critters. You can't keep up by shooting them either, they are not like deer that you can sort of pattern, they just roam around too much.

Erik I hope you noticed what happened when you kicked sand in our eyes huh? Don't stir the pot, just go quietly and have some fun in the sun. I will admit I am ready for spring here, I have a sister in Tampa and she said it was 28 one day last week.

Thanks WCD for your act, you know true character is what a man does when nobody is watching. I have traded with buddies for 22 and the only 22 I have seen for sale at a reasonable price I bought and sold at same price to a bud. I have only found it that one time reasonably priced btw, and that was in south Alabama in 2012 and the clerk said it was the first that store had received since all the crap hit the fan.

Prayer lifted for your dad and family. 

From what I have seen lately I don't think many drivers are worth a crap. Most of them are fooling around with their Iphone or their droid or whatever device of the day is. Put the *&^% thing down and pay attention. Use the left lane for passing then get your butt over, use your turn signals for the way you have decided to go. Know the difference in yield and merge. I think most drivers got their license at wally world on sale!!! I'm thru for now.

Hey 10ring, I never said I felt sorry for them. I have worked in the cold, rain, hot, humid for a paycheck too.

All good points guys. We survived 12 days without power during Katrina and it was so danged hot I never got hungry. Ice may be a luxury to some, but ice water and iced tea are great. We bought a counter model  ice maker at Sam's that you pour water in and in 6-7 minutes you have ice, I have tried this in my truck using an inverter so no power I gonna have Iced tea! We lost our power this morning for about 2 hours and I had already made a plan to bring generator from barn for the fan on ashley wood heater, it will put out some heat without the fan but not like it does with it. We have had some portable battery powered lights like for camping for years and they work great, these have loops on top to hang on a shower curtain for bathroom duty,  candles are too danged dangerous. You need to get all you gear out and put it to the test a few times prior to needing them in the middle of the night. We have propane coleman stove for cooking plus plenty of propane, generator for freezer if in summer and for wood heater in winter. A good supply of firewood, of course food, water. A good thing for everyone to have is a life straw water filter 1 for each member of family. I take one when I kayak, you can get mighty sick drinking contaminated water and this doesn't require boiling. For toilet you can use a 5 gallon bucket with trash bag in emergency. We decided that if the power stayed off we would curtain off the staircase and just stay downstairs, my wife had bought several of the clear shower curtain liners for this purpose. Use these power outages as a test of your preparedness, make notes on what you need to change. Be safe in all this slick stuff.

I know this is from last year, but if all this danged snow melts I plan on being in the turkey woods and will try these out. I have to tell a story about several years ago a buddy and me went bass fishing and he never loads the boat back onto the trailer without a light and he had given me some skin so soft cause the skeeters were tearing us a new one. Well when I got home my wife smelled the sss and asked "well did you get any"? I said hey baby you need to get some of that from your Avon lady cause the skeeters won't touch you. It was our first experience with sss, danged suspicious women!!

Now according to those maps Fl is in the lead, but I certainly wouldn't live there. Way too many people from yankee land, there are more elderly people in FL from NY,NJ and Mass than in the states they left. I am happily content right here!! If I have to move it would be out west Idaho, Wyoming, Utah.

I would think your best bet is to got to an IPSC  shoot somewhere close to you and most guys use a fiber optic, that is what I have on my Para and you can interchange different colors for what best works for you. It draws my eye to the front sight, before I didn't know I had a front sight.

Great test. I know sometimes the gun greases/oils we use will get mighty stiff in cold temps. I have seen 1911's that you could literally watch the slide go back and forth. But you can always warm your hands on the barrel shroud!!

My water in walkout basement was froze up yesterday morning, I forgot to drip the faucets and the water line is on outside walls. If you can get to the store for parts I highly recommend using the new pex pipe with sharkbite fittings. I had a break under kitchen sink last year and it was so unbelievably easy to fix. A plumber friend said he had never seen it freeze and bust. We had an emergency eye wash/shower that was fed water with pex that I forgot to shut off, it broke 1.25" galvanized pipe and only swelled up the pex. It is so much easier that pvc it isn't funny. You can patch pvc, cpvc, copper and I think npt pipe.

I had a good friend back in Ms. that had a range for years that I was contemplating buying. 1 very possible issue is the EPA and lead. I have heard of several ranges being shut down for lead contamination and such. Just another issue to look at. Good luck, I am not all that crazy about the range set-up either. unless you have a whole lot of people shooting at once I would have a 100 yd rifle, 200 yd rifle if possible and 2-4 25 yd pistol bays maybe a 50 yd also. When I go to a range to shoot either for practice or competition my 1st and foremost concern is safety. My $0.02

Hey guys, sorry no pics but I don't have a photobucket account to say the least I am old school. My neighbor that lives about a 1/4 mile away killed two yotes yesterday morning off of his back porch. There is a hay field that is behind his house and he shot a big male that was dark and just looked wolfy and a female that was tan and weighed 30lbs or so. He is having the male hide tanned for?? he didn't say. Anyhow now is the time as love is in the coyote air. Btw we live in Pickett county on south end of the lake. 

Hey guys I just heard on the T.V. after we got power back that yesterday it was 10 today 32 tomorrow rain. I know those guys are miserable. Say a little prayer for their safety. I don't know why the classic is in Feb. that is poor judgement to me. I would choose May.

Well it sleeted/snowed last night.  Started raining this morning and I swear I was telling my wife we would probably lose power and it went off within 30 seconds. I later said I needed to talk about sex!! Power stayed off for about an hour, on radio they said Jamestown has about an inch of ice and Albany, Ky was without power. Ya'll be safe and stay put if you don't have to get out. Mailman came and road is a slushy, icy mess. Come on spring!!

Prayer lifted for baby and family. She is a living doll!! There isn't anything like grand babies.

Big K is right I think everyone at some point gets a little heads up. What would have been nice would have been to walked up to that employee and said I'll take 2 bricks also and said it loud enough for everyone to hear. I would get his name and first call the manager if he/she wasn't in the store at that time. Then a letter to corporate would be in order. But as Davetn said life isn't fair. I like Academy better than a bunch of the larger sporting goods stores and I would think their management would appreciate the information. My $0.02

You have probably heard about fair weather hunter and fishermen, well new term fair weather protesters.

Mike some people have No standards, I have a un-named relative that just has a grading system, he culls absolutely none. I have personally seen some really scary looking ones he had, I have been very, very, very drunk more than once, but not that drunk. Btw I am not bragging about getting drunk, in fact I don't drink anymore. Alcoholics go to AA meetings, drunks do not.