bersaguy

John Wayne                  Shootest Clint Eastwood              Pale Rider Henry Fonda                Warlock Yul Brynner                  Magnificent Seven

Yep, I am the same way as I have everything I want and am content. I have plenty of ammo for each gun I own and can even go to the range and pop a few caps and not worry to stay in touch with the art of shooting and hitting the target. Some people never reached that point and have a different approach of what they want and goals they may never reach.............jmho

                   ("If I had known I was going to live so long, I would have taken better care of my self.")   You have no idea how many times I have made that exact statement. I think most all of us thought we were all men of steel when we were young and now I think most of us all are paying the price for not being Superman.................jmho

Glad I decided not to post in this thread. I could not say anything positive so I didn't say anything.................jmho

Regardless of how or where it started road rage is never a reason to shoot at another person unless that person is trying to run you over while outside your vehicle and your life is in danger. I always do my best to stay out of every ones way when driving so I don't get caught up in a road rage situation. i also am never in any kind of hurry to get anywhere that may cause a situation. I do think the young man was wrong for putting him car up on the side walk but not wrong enough to get shot at.............jmho

Yep , it does look like she was just capping off rounds but if I was a bad guy and I heard the kind of rounds she was capping off I don't think I would wait to see if she was able to hit me or not. They guy either had a death wish or was just plain stupid but either way he was a very lucky person.  I hope she does get some practice in and I would almost be willing to  send here a box or two of ammo to go to a range and get help with learning what she needs to know about doing a better job next time and killing the bad guys or at least making them bleed...............jmho 

Rusty or not all I can say is Momma had a big old gun and was sending hot lead down range for sure............ :up: :up: :up:

I have spent a small fortune buying all the HEPA air Filters and they are in every room. I use to shampoo all m carpets every week to two weeks I have purchased about 10 mattress covers since she developed this and they are washed weekly. I have a nice neighbor lady that comes and dusts my home at least once a week for a small fee. My house only had Blinds and no curtains which the little lady dusts and washes when she is here. She even had a mattress cover on her memory foam twin size mattress she sleeps on that gets washed weekly. I don't mind spending the money on things that will work but the options seem to be endless and most of them have not worked with her. My vet told me to allow her to remain out side as much as possible and I do but this winter has been extremely harsh so on nights when it is going to go below freezing I bring her in. Her quilt in her outside house is washed weekly and he house is washed out and cleaned weekly. I cook most of her meals for her and the vet has told me what spices I should cook in them when i prepare them in the crock pot. He said garlic is great for dogs so all of her Chicken breasts are cook with garlic along with other spices. She loves vegetables so when I make beef stew she eats that also. She loves Chicken and rice so we eat that often with garlic of course. I asked the vet if by not feeding her dog food is there a possibility she may not be getting some of the things dogs need and he said if I will feed her dog food twice  a week that would be sufficient to get her what she needs.  Thank you for your ideas as any and all are very much appreciated......... :up: :up:

Well you have no idea how smart this mutt is that I call the queen. She will not drink tap water and I ahve ti fill milk jugs with tap water and let them set for a couple days till the chlorine evaporates out of it or she won't drink it. But I am going to try the apple vinegar  idea and my sinuses quit working years ago so her farts won't be an issue. The oat meal bath is out unless I can get help because I cannot lift her into the tub as she weighs 77 lbs and when she knows it's bath time she becomes dead weight. I tried benedryl tablet in her food and she eats all but the pill and I tried meds the vet gave me, Predisone tablets and she eats around them also but she will eat the Zyrtec tablets just fine in her supper.

I was getting her shots for it every month and giving her Zyrtec 10 Mg which I still give her one of those each night but without my normal vet I need more advice. It normally cost me $40.00 for office visit and shot. I called another vet her in town and asked how much a shot would cost and he said $125.00 for office visit and shot. I will pay it if there is nothing else I can do till my vet comes back to work. It' hurts to watch her scratching all the time. I use a brush on her about 3 times a day but don't want to do it so much it makes her sore.

I always thought competition was good for business but evidently the guy running that show never heard that. I would not be going there anyway but then I quit going to gun shows back in 2008 when I went to one in Nashville and there was a huge picture of Obama in the entrance with the sign under it reading Gun Salesman of the year. I went on in knowing there would be nothing in the show I could afford and I was right. I only bought one item and sure glad I did. I bought 3 bricks of 22lr's and still have them because they were still at the almost normal prices. My buddy bought 4 bricks and we left. But I would not go to that show in Kingsport if I lived next door knowing what I know now..............jmho

I think we have a vet on the site and I sure would like to get some advice about my old dog. She has a dust mite allergy that is causing some severe itching and my local vet in out of commission with shoulder surgery and won't be back in his office till March 15th. Any advice would be greatly appreciated........Thanks

My question is pretty stupid but I need to ask anyway. How could they have the Opry Mills parking lot posted as Gun Free Zone and have a gun store on the property. I mean does Bass Pro Shop not sell guns and is it not located on Opry Mills property parking lot? How could you purchase a gun and some ammo to use in the gun and not break the law trying to get back to your vehicle in the marked parking lot?

I don't think it is getting any worse. It is just not getting any better...............jmho

I agree with most of this but it doesn't take all 12 people for it to fail. if even 1 juror says not guilty that hangs the jury but I don't think they could find 12 people that would find a person guilty of an unconstitutional law the state is trying to enforce...............jmho

  UPDATE:::  After they went out West to the plant there it never went union and never were automated and robots never replaced humans. Mr. L said it was hard for him to do what he did in Tennessee but he allowed the people to make a choice and he didn't question their decision but did question their motives because he gave them an across the board raise each year and benefits he could afford to give. The only thing he didn't give was Health Insurance and he thought that was strange that the Union never requested it either. I spoke with a guy last night that not only was one of the last ones to leave his employ here but Mr. L moved him and his family out west and he worked for him in the plant out there till his retirement and then he and his family moved back home to their roots in Tennessee. Mr. L       Passed away in 2003 and his son took over and from all indications nothing changed in company operation until 2008 when it went automated and robotic and as it did when a person lost their position they got a large severance check to help them get by until the could find work or retire and the company that bought the Tennessee location also bought the one out west. I guess you could say happy ending for all. I know  this for a fact. Mr. L  was a great man and a great person to work for and a very caring individual right up till the day he passed. He bought me my first pair of steel toed shoes back when I was 17......... :up: :up:

. :panic: :panic: :panic: ...............I was ready for this Spring in the middle of last October.................... :hyper: :hyper:

Back when I was just a kid I worked for a company after high school each day for a full shift and it was a family owned company. Right after I went to work there I learned there was a steel workers Union trying to get their foot in the door. They had been trying for about two years and had not made it yet. I had a guy that worked there ask my how I felt about the plant going union and I said I think it would suck and he walked away. When I got out of school I kept the job and I saw the man that owned that company help out a lot of people that fell on hard times. sickness, deaths in a family, even if the guys kids just needed shoes and clothes to begin school with he made sure they had the money. Every 4th of July he would pay to have an amusement Park come and set up for the entire weekend and it was all free. Even the food. Every Thanks giving every employee got a huge basket of food and a Turkey. At Christmas every employee got another basket full of food and a ham was in the basket. I mean this guy didn't have 10 or 15 employees. They ran 2 shifts and each shift has about 200 people working or more on it. Everyone got a 1 week paid vacation the first year and after 5 years you got 2 weeks paid. Paid time and a half for overtime. I mean the guy ran a great company. I was getting ready to enter the military so I had left the job but he told me when I returned I would have a job. Well I had made a few friends while there and we wrote back and forth and I learned that about a year later after I left all at once there was a walk out and people wanted to vote in a Union. And they did and that was in May of 1968 and the employees got a 2 year contract with the union and an across the board 80 cents an hour raise. And Union Dues which consumed about all of that 80 Cents raise they got which quite a few there was husbands and wives both working there paying double dues. The owner didn't say one word about them and their union. Even gave the guy from the union an office all of his own. About a week later a guy got hurt while at home and couldn't come to work and had a large family. When he was able to get up and out with the cast on his leg he came to the owner and asked him about a loan. All the owner did was tell the man to go ask your union man for a loan and pointed to his office. Needless to say the man didn't get no loan. Come 4th of July they didn't get an amusement park all free either which had been going on for about 20 years. Thanks giving came and went along with Christmas and there was no food baskets. You see unions don't give those or loans or amusement parks. All they do is collective bargaining for your contracts on raises and benefits and take money from you for dues. During the first year of the contract the owner because turning a lot of jobs into automated positions and began putting in robotic lines to do the work the humans were doing and the robots didn't have a union so he could work them 24/7 with out paying overtime. By the time the 2 year contract was up the plant was about 70% automated. Union guys office was empty. He had moved on about 5 months earlier. When the contract was up the union was gone but they got paid right up until the last day of that contract and dues were taken out for exactly 24 months but the Union was gone because the number of employees had dropped to make it not profitable for them to be their. The union could not force him to keep people employed when that persons position was taken by a robot. Once the plant went almost completely robotic the Owner and his family sold it, moved out west where they had another plant operated by people. Never heard any more about them after that but I did learn a lot about Unions and I wasn't even there. Got a lot of letters keeping me updated..................................jmho

:panic: :panic: FIRE FIRE!!    Is that a Hybrid Volt?  The Volts have been catching fire driving down the highways recently. The batteries are overheating and catching on fire...... :shrug: :shrug:

I use 71/2 also and I shot a Belgium Browning O/U 30 inch double modified barrels with select safety and I had high Brass 71/2 in lower barrel for those high flyers  and I could normally knock down a few with a little more reach with bottom barrel. Yep on with the clay birds but your heads on about the darting and weaving abilities Doves have and after a few days of shooting they seem to get better at it................ :rofl:  :rofl: 

  LOL........One thing every newby learns real fast is it ain't like trap and skeet. The doves by the 4 or 5th day have been shot at so many times if they are still flying they have learned to come in low and fast. I have seen birds come in slow low and so fast that no one could shoot because of hunters on the opposite side of the field being in the same line of fire as you are and the shooters that even had a chance to shoot was last two on the end of the field and they seldom got a bird going away. I use to have a farmer that grew 5 acres of Mullet right in the middle of a big corm field and the birds would come in over the corn tops making them easy shots but by mid season when he took the corn down except for just a row of two around the mullet for us to stand in it made for some very interesting shooting but a lot of fun and really challenging.............lol

I can agree with most of what you said on how you get them Dixie but you made it sound a lot easier than it is. You left out the part about after the birds have been shot at a few times their approach to the fields change some and when they come into the field with a good tail wind they are moving a lot faster then any trap or skeet bird does by about 15 to 20mph and you better lead the bird a little farther...........lol. Grew up hunting them and love them any way they can be cooked. And I have seen many a bird fly wide open with tail wind and go full length of a 3 acre field with 10 shooters and out the other side with all it's feathers intact and I'm talking about some really good shooters fired shot at the birds. One thing is for sure, on a good day in a good field you can really have some fun and really get so great food. I have not been able to go in a few years now because of my shoulders and can't swing fast enough any more.but last time I did go about 3 years ago I did manage to bag 11 but shoulders punished me about it for a couple weeks..................jmho   

Baby wipes. buy in bulk at Sam's Wholesale. They work great in Afghanistan. Fit in back pack great, moist for good cleaning and for bathing in the field so why not as toilet paper. Just make sure you get the unscented brands. You don't want the bad guys to be able to sniff you out..............jmho

Prayers sent for you situation to improve soon.................... :up:

I agree  that is was good that the officer got one of the bad guys and a shame he didn't get more but I don't think the bad guy was murdered by the police officer as mentioned above but I do think there is charges that can be brought against the other two for the death of their friend but don't think it is a murder charge but I could very well be wrong. I hope they catch the other two very fast.....................jmho