Jeb48

For all our imports from socialist states.

Wear masks when needed.

Didn't even know they made HP shorts. I too have a few boxes shorts stashed away. I have a Winchester 290 semi that will shoots S/L/LR. It is kind of fun to load it ups with shorts and have something like 21 rounds in the tube. It will cycle CCI Quiet .22s which are also fun since they are like shooting with a suppressor.

Really like the outrigger to steady everything.

Hunter with quail, New Zealand, 1920

Haven't done the experiment for 10+ years so I don't know how efficent ethanol is in the latest engines but back when I did my comparison the fuel economy went down almost exactly the same percentage as the amount of alcohol in the blend, so you used more. Then you figure the amount of diesel needed to plant, pick and haul the corn. Then it has to be distilled. Yep makes lots of sense. Even Al Gore says corn was only suppose to be a stop gap till they found something easier to grow and distill.

Most everyone on TGO has a good reason why they like their part of TN so not saying we are the best but this area checked all our boxes. Pretty much as you move from West to East to NE TN you get less humid and probably a little less hot in the Summer. Not sure if it follows we have colder Winters but definitely colder than the Southern part of TN. When we were looking we were primarily planning on from Knoxville and North and East. We did look a little over by Crossvillemand Oakridge. We had passed through the NE part once before on vacation and liked it and the Summer before we moved took another trip to look around TN in more detail and traveled all the way to Nashville. When we were done we decided we wanted to be tucked up close to the mountains in NE TN. We ended up buying 7.5 acres that the rear boundary is Cherokee National Forest. It had a very nice existing house at the end of 1200 foot drive. We have spent some money making it what we wanted but are happy with the decision. Internet is hit and miss. Up till this past Friday we were depending on very slow and not very reliable DSL. The local power company has gotten into the internet business big time and have large areas with fiber now and also have high speed wireless towers being dropped in as fast as they can arrange them. Not enough to get to me yet but I have hopes. One or two more towers along the valley will get to me. Verizon and T-Mobile are both promising 5g home-net but no dates. Friday my Starlink station arrived. I don't have it permanently mounted yet, just clamped to the back deck (better know as my shooting deck). I live in the middle of the woods so I didn't know if it would work at all but they have 30 day money back warranty so decided to try. Well I haven't tried it with Zoom yet and I don't do video games but for streaming and normal use it is great. I get lots of 2-15 second drops because of trees. That should get better when they get more satellites up and I think a little better if I can get it higher in the air. I'm afraid Zoom will be bad, I will be trying next week. Uploads and down all work around the minor outages on like the 2 min drops I get from DSL from time to time. All the streaming service buffer enough you don't see the drops. Speed varies all over but generally runs 20-200Mb down and 6-15Mb up. They claim faster for some locations. My DSL is 3Mb down and .6Mb up so you can see why I'm optimistic. A friend that lives almost as far in the sticks as we do got fiber about 6 months ago and get 200+Mb down and 50Mb up. All he could get before was cellular hotspot and satellite so he is in heaven now. I live about 300 feet up the side of a mountain from a state highway on a dead end road that my 1200' drive runs off. There is a 100' of rise from the bottom of my drive to the house to where the original owner made a flat spot for the house and then the mountain continues to slop up behind us. This gives me a nice spot for a small range that goes out about 35 yards with lots of steel targets. I shoot off an elevated deck most of the time and have all the steel setup to be safe at these close distances. I have targets color coded from .22 only up to most anything within reason. I can setup a portable shooting bench in my back driveway to get me out to about 60+ yards to the upper targets. I even added a retractable awning over the shooting deck last Spring so I can shoot in the rain or if the sun gets to hot. So that may be more than you wanted to know. Feel free to ask questions.

Loaded for action

1973 H&R Harrington & Richardson Inc Revolver Model 999

A friend, at least up till the world shut down, spent 6 weeks every Summer at the local Boy Scout camp teaching rifle and shotgun to scouts for their merit badge. Not sure if they will open up this year or not.

The photo does say it was posed, obviously it was colorized. Could be an out shoot from some movie, don't know.

Great War - 1914 - A French posing with his 8mm Lebel rifle

I have filed 3 complaints about FedEx deliveries over a 6 months period a year or so ago and lately they have been better. You have to jump through all kinds of hoops to file a complaint and I don't know if I have just been lucky the last year or the complains helped. They left a $1500 computer about 400' from the house on the edge of the drive, Another time they left a 90# package in roughly the same place and I had to figure out how to get it the rest of the way to the house, I only knew both deliveries had been made because I was tracking the delivery and it showed up as delivered to the house. The third time the package was left by the mailbox 1200' from the house half in the road. Have never had any problems with UPS, our regular mailman or Amazon deliveries.

Indian Territory US Marshalls

Breech of a Battleship 16" gun. Let's get the big guns out.