Jeb48

  Only one I see listed is in the Nashville area, bit far to go for pizza, from East TN. Will keep it in mind for our next trip that way though. After I re-read my note, I wanted to clarify, didn't mean I haven't found good pizza just not reasonably close and good. But still checking them out. My wife limits how often I eat pizza out since she makes the great pizza most every Saturday night. Also now BBQ joints are crowding out my eating out choices, so many to choose from and so many really good ones.

Like rmiddle we switched plates and license soon after we moved from Western NY in June. Wanted to get settled into a free life as soon as possible. The last plates I switched over were for my antique cars because one of those was shipped in after we moved and I wanted to do them all at once. It took less paperwork and time to register them in TN and apply for TN title than it did to turn in the plates after NY-DMV threatened me because they thought I droped insurance on them (company canceled and reissued the policy since we moved to a different state).   Miss some good friends back in NY and still looking for a new pizza joint that I like, but that is about all I miss from NY. I'm sure as Winter approaches there will be a lot less to miss. Unfortunately since our NY house hasn't sold yet we will still be paying the tax bill up there at least one more time. Yes the taxes seem to vary depending on where in the state and if you are in the country or town.   One thing to read up on to see if it affects you is the Hall tax. It is a tax on capital gains and dividends depending on where your money is stashed. There are exemptions and retirement and simple interest don't count. Just don't be surprised it can be lived with and minimized.   You will love life in TN.

Currently using Winchester PDX1 95g, bought a box of Hornady FTX Critical Defense 90g to try.

Happy owner of an LCR .22 for practice and LCR 9mm. The moon clips are expensive for what they are but they are nice minimalist fast loaders.

Glad I got more encouragement  :surrender:

I highly recommend "CCW Concealed Carry 50 State Guide" it is available for the iPhone and maybe Android. They are constantly updating it, the data can be updated from the app so you don't have to download a new version all the time. As I recall it cost a couple of bucks but has a wealth of information when you're traveling. It keeps track of multiple carry permits and resident and non resident. You can drill down and read the actual law. Don't leave the state without it.

We had been thinking of cutting the cable, but the biggest part of the bill was the internet, since we had a sub basic TV package that was only about $15/month, that was in NY. We moved to TN and the house we fell in love with is out to far for cable, so it was cut for us. Luckily CenturyLink has 6mb DSL on the road and dropping from 20mb we were not sure but it has been plenty for streaming Netflix and Hulu and no cap. I had set Netflix to their lowest quality before we left NY to test knowing our internet would be  limited and the quality was fine so we have left it there. For TV I bought this Channel Master antenna put it on an 8 foot pole and screwed it to a tree stump in the back yard next to where the previous owner had Dish TV cabled in and used one of the lines they put in. Works great and we get more channels than we use to in NY. I did add a mast amp and a distribution amp to keep all the signal I could. I use a Apple Mini Mac with EyeTV to record as much as I want. I have only two tuners set up right now, I have 6 tuners total and will hook up a few more when the fall season starts. There is a piece of software that does a fair job marking commercials and I can adjust and remove commercials with about 2 minutes work per hour of show so I store shows to watch commercial free.   CenturyLink is $35/month for the first year then it will go up, we will decide what to do next then.

I am considering Kettlefoot because of their Sport Clay course. I am not good at Sport Clays but enjoy the randomness of the clays and would like to get better. I figure Kettlefoot is at least an hour away so it would be a once in awhile trip. Might consider Cherokee but Unaka would be close enough to go more often if it has enough other things and it is cheap for old farts.

TAC 2 looks interesting but it is a bit further and not sure they have the kind of shooting I normally do. I will stop in when I'm down that way and check it out.

I moved from 20 miles East of Rochester in early June. East TN is great. We bought a place a little South of Jonesborough. Still getting settled so haven't had the time to do a lot of shooting yet but have converted one of my 10-22s to a thumbhole stock, officially a NY assault rifle now and bought a couple of standard magazines for my Glock. I have setup some steel behind the house so I can shoot off my deck, that needs some more work and more steel but it will come with time. Was just back in NY last week to move the last of my shop out of the state.   Have you narrowed down your area of interest yet?  I have a great realtor that works out of Kingsport that spent many days with us till we found the right house. He said I could recommend him to any of my conservative Yankee friends.   Jim...

Looking for a member of Unaka Rod & Gun Club in Johnson City that would be willing to give me a tour of the club. I plan to join but wanted to see the place first.    I'm new to the area and live South of Jonesborough.   Jim...

Here is my 10/22 Jeb...

Welcome, I'm just south of you a little in Jonesborough. Been thinking of joining the Unaka Gun club.

I plan to check out Unicol soon myself.  Was spoiled at our old place I had two gun clubs within 4 miles but just couldn't buy what I wanted to buy or afford the taxes and got tired of digging snow.

I picked up a application from a shop in Greenville yesterday that does 2 a month. I will shop around a little before I sign up. They get $72 for the course. White Sand's Gun and Ammo. There was a pile of flyers at the shop that did an oil change for me.

Welcome. We just moved to TN and are south of Jonesborough just off 107 on the other side of the mountain from Erwin.

Welcome, I'm in Jonesborough. Only been here a few weeks so I'm still learning the ropes myself.

I think I need one of those.

Thanks for all the encouragement. We actually moved in to our TN house on June 25th and stayed a whole week before we were off to Ohio for a pre planned trip (famiy/car show) that we do every year. We will be back to continue unpacking and settling in soon. We have met a couple of our neighbors and several business owners/employees and all have been great in helping us get settled in. Now if I could just get the rest of my shop moved down and sell the NY house I would be done with that place.

We just moved to Jonesborough and love it here. So far the heat and humidity has not been bad, the  locals say the mountains moderate both. Not many mosquitoes either but that apparently varies with time of year and location.   You have joined a great group here.   Welcome

The bottom was a piece of angle plastic that I had in the shop that was some edge packing from something we got at work and I thought it might be useful and brought it home. Probably could find something similar in the pieces they make for vinyl siding or make it out of wood. I understood the original poster as wanting something to temporarily rack long guns while sorting out the gun safe not for storing in the gun safe. I made it for my backyard range so when a couple of us were shooting and wanted to bring out more than one gun each we had a place to hold the extras rather than putting them on the ground on a case or leaning against a tree. It weights almost nothing and is easy to setup.

I shot Sport Clays before I moved from Western NY and really enjoy it but am not very good. I haven't found a good place to shoot since I moved. Nearest I have found with Sport Clays so far is up in Bristol VA and that is about an hour away. After the dust settles a bit more from the move I will have to look harder. An hour would not be to bad once in awhile.  May have to try skeet or trap.

They are not really tennis balls but you could use TBs. These were at a hardware store as dog toys and look like TBs but they are harder and were 3 to a package for like a dollar. I used a spade bit and drilled a hole through one side then used a short screw.

It's on my list. Wish I had time to run down to see if they have any left.

This what I made for a portable/temporary gun rack. Cost about $5 to make. Cheap plastic sawhorse from Harbor Freight and some dog throw tennis balls. Base is a piece of plastic I had from some old packing material but could be a piece of wood.