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If you don't know what this brick structure is and what that old burn barrel is for then you aren't from the south. I made this bbq pit and I swear it's the best thing I ever made. The burn barrel , I cut it to be able to shovel my wood when it falls through the rebar I have running through it. I'm cooking 3 shoulders today and it just seems like a lost southern thing. These newer and younger people use grills and such but you can't beat a good old pit and burn barrel. Shoveling wood coals as they fall through the rebar every hour for around 12 to 15 hours is a long haul but worth it. Just thought I'd share this. I'll post my cooked pork this afternoon.

My Glock 22 served me well and I ended up buying it when my workplace went to the Glock 17 . I used the Glock 22 from 1997 till we switched around 2018. It works and works ! never had a failure.

I agree with the vest all the way ! When I got my Honda 4 wheeler , I chose yellow since I would ride it a lot at Turkey bay in Land Between The Lakes. If you've ever been there you definitly want to be visible.

Good luck and be careful. I stopped riding bikes in 2001. I've worked a bunch of crashes with bikes to the point where I was looking more rearward than forward when I was riding to keep from getting rear-ended. Look out for cars , loose gravel from driveways , and animals.

One of the pictures I saw looked like Papas BBQ in Erin Tn got flooded badly. Does anyone know if that is true ? I know their BBQ pit shed burned down a year ago and they just got back on track. If so I hate it for them.

Yeah , I agree on letting the slide go slow forward on empty chamber. That's why I noticed the disconector. When loaded I always sling-shot the slide and I never use the slide-stop as a "release" , but that opens up another argument LOL .

I did not read the previous posts , but I cut wood all my life until I got married. We heated our hopuse with a wood stove. When we encountered stuff like that , we sprayed it with diesel and let it die. After around 2 weeks we would go back and cut it. But we'd wear long sleeves and long pants.

Thanks for the information guys. Like I said , it runs good but I was just messing with it and I had never let the slide go forward very slow before and that's when I felt that resistance.

I have an older Springfield 1911 , 18 years old. I haven't shot it much more than 100 rds and I bought it new. I was messing with it today and when hand cycling I noticed it would slightly hesitate when the slide contacted the disconnector. Now when I shoot it , it works great. I've read that others have did modifications to make this easier but I don't want to do that. Have you guys/gals noticed this ?

5 years , I can't wait to do that ! It seems so neat . Thanks for sharing all this with us .

The M&P in 45acp is very nice. Good supported chamber to shoot 45acp and it doesn't destroy the brass.

I wear a heavy duty belt at work with a radio, g17 , 3 loaded mags and lots of other tools so when I'm off and at home I ain't wearing squat except sweat pants lol.

That's strange about your Taurus not loading correctly by slingshot method. Usually most guns run better that way than using the slide-stop.

I haven't read the previous posts but I'll say this. COMFORT RULES !!!! My Ruger LCP holds 6+1 and I carry one in the chamber so that's 7 rds. This gun is thin and small. It fits in my front pocket with ease in a pocket holster by DeSantis. Lets be honest , when your wife or husband wants you to go to the store to grab something at an unexpected time like while you are working on something or mowing the yard , I don't want to put on my thick gun belt and load up a leather holster. I love big guns and carry them like a G21 , G17 , 1911 , and so on . But the ease of the small LCP at the last minute of the wife telling me to make a grocery store for ice cream is perfect. If in doubt carry a spare mag. It's like wearing body armor. If it ain't comfortable you ain't going to wear it. I wore the same POS vest for 5 years because I didn't want to complain and stand out as a complainer but after 5 years I said the hell with that and I got my new vest cut the way that it fits my body , my workplace sent it back to the company twice for cuts. Bottom line is that if a gun isn't comfortable carrying it then you more than likely wont carry it all the time. A gun with a small capacity is better than no gun .

Well after a 10% first responders discount and a $30 off clearance price I found a cheap but well known and well made pistol for $359 ! Pretty good score in my opinion. I have the same pistol in. 45acp and it's great. Enjoy the picture. I will give Taurus a chance later when problems seem to calm down and cease or level out. Until then check out my inexpensive but reliable $359 pistol. S.A. discontinued these but its new old stock .

THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO DO WHEN I RETIRE IN 5 YEARS !!!! I have always wanted to do that. I have 26 acres to put some hives/boxes on and man I can't wait ! It's so interesting ! I have read that the state and or local area will help you get started and such.

Thanks guys for the information. I got on to a few Taurus forums to look around . One forum even had a section in the forums purely for Taurus related problems. Kind of like having a section on here for handguns , they had one for Taurus related problems. That right there was enough to make me wait a few months longer before I decide to put some money down for a G3C . I have studied up on any gun I ever bought and all have been great except one. That one was a CZ P-07 DUTY. It had a trigger that would not always reset and the magazine would fall out prematurely. CZ sent me a whole new gun. It worked but I was always paranoid about it working right. Of course CZ realized this and the whole gun was redesigned a few years later and now I have the newer version. It runs better than a Glock. It's my "hammer fired Glock 19". But anyways , I'll wait on the Taurus. Ammo is too exspensive right now to try to test a new carry gun to see if it will work right.

Any problem areas in the Taurus ? I saw some guy that had an ejector break in the first few hundred rounds. Some others reported that the extractor wasn't grabbing the cartridge rim. Of course this is the internet so I understand that.

Who here has bought the Taurus G3C ? Is the "hype" really positive and true ? I keep seeing how it is so reliable and all . This is the first striker fired gun I have seen that has a double-action striker fired action. It seems that you can fire the gun then fire it again without the slide cycling. I am wondering how reliable this is ? The price is certainly nice. Anyone here that has any experience is apprieciated.

I was very close to getting one of those . I like hammer fired pistols.

A few months ago I got a used Springfield Armory XDS 45 subcompact . This thing is thin, I can carry it in my front pocket with a DeSantis pocket holster just like my Ruger LCP only a tad bigger. It is a .45ACP. It shoots great and is reliable. I liked it so much that I was on the hunt for another one since they are discontinued. You know , 1 is none and 2 is one. Last week I found a new one in the box at a store. It was new in the box but "old stock". I got it for $450. This one was the "long slide" 4 inch barrel. Man it is nice ! Still just as thin but just a 4 inch barrel instead of a 3.3 inch barrel. With the longer magazines it has I can make it a 5 rd , 6rd , and 7 +1 gun . I like Glock and have used Glock on my job for 24 years. The Glock 36 in .45ACP is so darn fat compared to this and it's only magazine is 6 rds. There is no other magazine for it , not even bigger magazines with magazine sleeves. The Glock 36 is the same size as the G19. If Glock would do something like this XDS 45 , they'd win a lot of customers in my opinion. This XDS has a grip-safety , which I don't like and has a few more parts too , but it is the best and thinnest .45ACP I know . As far as I know , Springfield Armory is making these in 9mm only now and they have the red dot cuts on the slide but no .45ACP. Enjoy the pictures.

Keep your 442. Don't get rid of it. Thats the perfect small revolver in my.opinion.

Yeah , on my .380 lcp I just use FMJ . I use the round nose to try to give it a little more easier way to make it up yhe feed ramp. But mine has ran a whole box of the flat nosed ones just fine.

When they first came out I thought the capacity was so low at 6rds but now that im older and fatter , I like its thinness and its ability to be carried in a front pocket or belt holster. I got mine used for $358. The slide and striker are a lot easier to take apart than regular XD pistols. When I got it I took out the striker and cleaned the striker channel in case it was gunked up with grime.

It's a great pocket gun in the summer when its hot and you have shorts on . And a great fishing gun.