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Ive got enough standard trigger guards to choke a horse since I always put oversized ones on instead lol. So if you need a couple to make your parts bin look full holler at me But at least you have springs and pins, I know a lot of people that have an AR with zero parts. I was laughing the other day at myself because I have BCM Gunfighter charging handles in each one of my AR's. I thought damn, I have enough money in them alone to build another AR haha. I love those CH's though!

Honestly I haven't searched for any. I am pretty sure the next couple I build will be billet with high quality components. Would love to do a Round 2 of the CMT TGO billet sets. If I see any I'll post it here though.

I may have a few more I'd like to build someday but am in better shape than the average AR owner now. But outside of that, after the post-Newtown drought of spare parts I decided I'd never get caught with my pants down again. I have divider trays full of spare parts of almost anything I could need for a long time. I don't dip into it either. If I plan to build something, I'll order all the parts I need for the build. Plus I'll add some spare parts to the order for the trays. They spares aren't just for what I may need someday but for friends as well. I plan to continue stocking it along with mags and probably spare barrels, bcg's, and stripped lowers. Yeah, those droughts left a bad taste in my mouth so I'm gonna enjoy these cheap days and plentiful supplies.

I'm waiting on one too and that's my luck as well. But I hope it passes so I can add to the safe!

22Plinkster said BLACKHAWK! is a sister company to Savage. So I guess that makes sense business wise.

I know some of their products are probably okay but they are definitely budget items for the most part. I'm really surprised that this is the company they joined with. Maybe Savage didn't want to be just another Magpul tricked out AR company. Although maybe BLACKAWK! has stepped up their game/quality for the items Savage will use? Have to see I guess.

I'd love to get my hands on one. I wonder the same thing, but I'd hope with their name on it that accuracy won't be a problem.

I really like the new changes!!

So sorry to hear this. I'm still hurting from having to put our lab Buddy down a couple of years ago. He was 15 and extremely loyal as well. Miss him everyday and my heart aches for you.

That's awesome! Merry Christmas to you both

I hunted yesterday, 25 degrees when I got in the stand. Didn't see anything till 9, and it was 4 does walking behind me. Does are what I'm after but I couldn't tell if they were on my side of the property or on the park side. Figured I wouldn't risk it so came home empty handed. But stand by my decision as tickets and losing deer are definitely worse than not bringing home a deer. Gonna give it another shot Saturday and Sunday.

I don't see it as wrong, just dedicated. Lol

It allows them to hunt without having taken the Hunter safety course. In this case the person I'm taking wants to hunt but wasn't able to get into a class soon enough so that's one reason for the apprentice license. Another reason I can imagine is for people who may want to try and see if hunting is something they want to do? I guess I'll just be hunting and teaching tomorrow while they watch and learn instead of them being able to shoot their first deer. At least it will be a learning experience on a great weather day for deer hunting.

Never mind, I found it. They do have to have the other licenses as well. Anyway, maybe this can help someone else who may be trying to help a new hunter.

I'm wanting to make sure I'm right on something. I'm wanting to help someone get their first deer. They bought their apprentice license this year. Looking back through the regs it states "all other applicable licenses are required". I'm assuming that means to hunt with a rifle that they need to buy a fishing/small game plus the big game gun license to be legal. This apprentice license is new to me so I thought they were good to go. I'd really hate for their first deer to not be legal so thought I'd ask here in case y'all have done it before. But I'm leaning towards thinking that they definitely need to buy the other two licenses.

That was hilarious!!

Congratulations on your first deer and also on giving hunting another shot!

I'm wanting to buy a surround sound system for the living room. I browsed Amazon and found some decent looking setups but don't recognize many of the names. I don't mess with much electronics wise anymore so just because I don't recognize it doesn't mean it's junk these days. Any of you run decent prices systems? Of course I'd love Bose but not looking to spend Bose money. Recommendations appreciated.

Well fellas and gals, I'm tagged out for bucks this year. Hope y'all don't mind my short stories, I enjoy telling them even if it's one that makes me tell on myself for doing something stupid or give you something to laugh at (by the way, there is one of those stories I'll add at the end). So the big 12 that I've been waiting on....is NOT the one I got. Otherwise the first paragraph would not be legible. However, I've been letting every small buck walk that I've seen since I got the 6 a few weeks ago. Now he wasn't big by many people's standards but I'm dang thankful to have been able to harvest him. Everything I'd seen up to that point this year had been spikes, button bucks, or does with fawns. I was sitting in my blind yesterday at 5am thinking about how the 28 degree weather should be good for deer movement. It turned out it wasn't, at least where I was hunting. I didn't see a thing all morning. At about noon I'd decided I was going to head home and spend the rest of the day with my wife and daughter. I was staring across the sugar bowl I was hunting the ridge of and saw legs walking and that's all I could see. As this creature walked towards my side of the bowl, I was hoping it wasn't one of the big rottweiler's that the neighbor owns. They never bother me, bark and move on, but I was hoping it was a deer instead. I was looking everywhere for movement because the deer can walk down in the bottom and pop up right in front of you with no way to tell until they're looking at you. He ends up walking around to my left where I can see part of a rack sticking up. Well my heart stopped for a minute and thought "That's him, he's back!". As he's moving I can see part of the body through the brush but nothing else. I could have shot but I didn't and waited to see more as my heart raced. BAM! Out in a clearing steps a HUGE 1.5 year old basket rack 4 pointer LMAO Man I don't know which emotion was stronger, the thought of it being the biggin or the let down from seeing it wasn't him. I did have a little chuckle about it though as I watched him ease on across the property line. I then made the decision that I'd stay a while longer since deer may have been moving later. My buddy had also just sent me a text saying "Just had a spike come through the back yard, maybe this evening will be a good time to hunt. The 4 pointer and his text were enough to convince me to hang out. About 45 minutes later I was watching that far side where I'd noticed the legs earlier watching for any movement. All of a sudden from my right smaller window of the blind I see movement on my side of the bowl around 20 yards from me. I saw a nice rack easing down in to the bowl. I thought "Oh my gosh, he really did show up!!!" as I raised my .308 up and shouldered it. I put the cross hairs on him and then realized I didn't see the kickers on the back of his G2's. The next few seconds felt like years as I tried to decide what to do and scanned behind him to see if the 12 was around. While I'm deciding , he's steadily moving down and farther away and I decide that he's bigger than any buck I've killed and he looked pretty tall and wide. I shoot and he hunches up and stumbles forward but is still standing and looks back towards me from behind a tree. I thought what the heck is he doing? He eases forward in a non familiar fashion. I'd immediately chambered another round after firing so I decided to shoot again just to be sure. Never seen it happen and would have loved to had it on film but he did a forward flip and dropped straight to the ground and didn't even kick! Then my adrenaline went to 8 million miles per hour! I sat there for a few minutes thinking "Was that him and I just couldn't see the kickers? Oh well, if not I'm still extremely proud of him and thankful for the harvest". I text my wife while waiting and she got all tore up thinking it was the 12 also. I told her I wasn't sure but pretty sure it wasn't but that he was a very nice looking buck for sure. She was still excited for me and knew that I was sitting in my blind unable to make words sound correctly as usual. I waited for a while and eased out of my blind to look at him through the scope. He was still laying in the exact same position he was when I watched him do the flip. I walked slowly up to him and as I got closer said a prayer thanking God for this beautiful animal that I'd just harvested. My heart is racing like crazy as I walk up to him and check to make sure he's done even though I knew he was. He definitely was not the 12 but an 8 pointer I'd seen on camera a few times at night and thought he was a 10 from the pictures. I call my wife and let her know and of course she says "Don't do a thing until you send me a picture!". I love that she's excited for me. She answered "OH he's beautiful!" and I agreed. I struggled trying to get selfies with him so most of the pictures are of him by himself. It really is a new thought process to let the small bucks walk for me as I've just started trying to do that over the past couple years. It may be years before I kill a buck like I see on many of the Facebook TN deer hunting pages. But I'm working towards it and enjoying each buck that I get that is bigger than the last years harvest. Now it's gonna be letting my niece and my daughter's friends hunt with me to get their first deer. My daughter is still iffy about it and I don't want to push it and turn her away from it being fun so I'll wait patiently even though it's hard. I need to get a couple does for the freezer as well but hope to get these girls their first deer. Anyway here's the pictures, I hope you enjoy as I sure have enjoyed the season even though many hours were just watching nature and no deer. I love every minute of being in the woods! And now for the Paul Harvey rest of the story. The funny story that happened earlier that morning is as follows: The morning had been eerily quiet as the sun brought the the woods to life. I kept waiting for squirrels to start their morning ritual of sounding like deer. Then I saw a huge hawk barreling through the woods. It amazes me every time I see him that he moves so dang fast through even the thick part of the woods. It really is amazing to watch. I never heard a bark from a squirrel for an hour and attributed this to the fact that Mr Hawk made about one trip through ever 20 minutes or so. Then they started moving around though cautiously. Well here he comes again and the typical freak out barks began as he landed and sat in a tree 40 yards from me. I was staring at him and since I was tired I kind of fell into an dream mode although my eyes were open. I was imaging for some reason that the hawk had flown into the blind with me. I'd looked up as it began to attack me and I grabbed onto it and through it to the ground and had my foot on top of it as it screamed and flopped. I was trying to figure out my next move as I "came to" from this dream that I was having and immediately had a dang starling barrel right to the window of my blind landing on it sounding like a full grown man had slapped the top of the blind! I jumped back and hollered out loud! It scared the &#(@! out of me, I just knew that hawk was about to hammer my head! Instantly I busted out laughing at how bad I'd jumped. I imagine being half out of it had a lot to do with it, but it didn't matter because I knew my daughter was going to laugh her rear end off. She did and so did my wife Anyway, there's my funny story for y'all to enjoy. Also happy hunting to the rest of you and many congratulations to all who have been successful so far!

Archery license is good for use during the muzzleloader and gun season. Just have to wear orange, but no additional license needed. Although whether or not you want to kill does or hunt WMA, then you'll need a Type 94. Edit: sorry, I'm half asleep and the doe part is more complex. Depending on what Unit you hunt plays into it and if you want to hunt have the option for 3 does/day then where I'm at I am required to have a Type 94. I just bought the Sportsman's License this year so I wouldn't have to worry about it or remember to add it after archery season ended.

I saw two does this morning at one spot, then went to pay some bills and drove to my other location. Neighbors place was target practicing (not really, just rapid fire) from 1:15 till ten minutes after legal shooting light. Did see a spike though. Gonna go hunt my blind tomorrow where that big 12 I've been after came through. Crossing my fingers that he's still alive and comes by.

Wow, what a buck! Congratulations!!

I was just getting on here to say the same thing. Had twenty something deer come by today. Passed on a nice 9 pointer, well, nice character buck. Wasn't extremely tall or wide but had stickers all over and cool shaped rack. Very cool experience watching him. Doe comes in and I hear grunts coming from behind her while she's eating. I see rack sticking up and my heart skipped a beat thinking it was the big 12 from yesterday. As he walks in I see it's not him but another I've seen on my camera. He keeps grunting every 30 seconds to a minute then starts rubbing his head and rack on some branches. Keeps looking at her and she's looking at him but he kept his distance. Like he was romancing her lol. He eased in under 10 yards, I was looking at him through my scope and thinking dang he sure is cool looking and I can be back at the house to rest all day. But I think I did the right thing letting him walk because sure enough the big one will come right out first thing next Saturday if I tagged out haha. Great morning and still out here waiting on my number 1.

A coyote turns deer hunting to coyote hunting every time! Congratulations on the capture of Kemosabe!