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Gray TN has a neat fossil museum and if the timing is right you can watch an active dig. Not worth the trip all by itself but added to other things it might be worth considering for an 11 year old. I think they may have some youth activities also,we had no youth with us so I didn't really pay much attention.

I bought both a semi and a snub nose in .22 (back when ammo was easier to get) so I could put a lot of rounds down range without backing the bank to decide which I liked best. I later bought a couple of large caliber semi's but didn't buy another snub till fairly recently. I bought the Ruger LCR in 9mm with moon clips (to go with my LCR .22). Figured it would be super reliable etc, and it is, accept I had 2 different lot numbers of Blazer Brass fail. The bullets actually came out of casing after the first 2 or 3 rounds were shot causing a jam. I contacted Blazer and sent them back and they replaced them after testing. They gave no excuses, just that they were a weak crimp. Replacement work fine. I have tried 6 different brands including defensive loads with no other problems but always question will it happen again.

My Wife and I both have iPhones we bought used off contract. We are not big users but use them when we need them including data when we are away from WiFi.   My wife uses Page Plus, a Verizon reseller. $100/year 10 cents/minute, 10 cents/MB. If you have money left over at the end of the year it rolls over.  You can add extra dollars when you get low.   I use H2O, an ATT reseller. $80/year 10 cents/minute, 10 cents/MB. If you have money left over at the end of the year it rolls over.  You can add extra dollars when you get low. I use mine so little I have a large surplus in my account so I have been using a cheaper plan, the $10 every three months, for over a year to spend down my surplus.

Welcome, we are moving from east of Rochester in a couple of weeks after 46 years, practically neighbors. We looked at some place in Oakridge this past summer but finally found our dream house in Jonesborough.

  I grew up free in NW Ohio but got lured to NY after college for employment. Now that isn't needed.....

  Yep, Counting the days, less than 3 weeks till we move

I really like my G4 19.  Got about 1400 rounds through it since I got it last year. Was looking for something that went bang every time I pulled the trigger no matter what the ammo. I have run 9 or 10 different kinds of ammo so far and the only failures I had was with TulAmmo MaxX crap, 5 failure to feed out of 200 rounds plus it is dirty.  

  I'll probably forget the date around day 689 so remind me when you get close  :D   Jim...

  :D   My son lives just west of Bmore and hopes to escape to TN someday but work gets in the way of life sometimes.

Congrats, we are escaping Western NY very soon.  We started looking in the Bristol/Kingsport area and found our perfect spot just South of Jonesborough.     Looks like a great gun club on the VA side of Bristol.

We locked down a move date of June 22nd, last Wednesday, and they said June was filling up fast.

Still in Western NY but will be moving to Jonesborough in June. As long as you obey all the Federal  laws and avoid the NYC area you should be fine.  Most of the state accepts the Federal law. But the other advice given about not drawing attention to yourself is not a bad idea.  You do want to pick a path that skips Maryland, they don't believe in the Federal law either, pretty much state wide.

Welcome, we are getting ready to move just outside Jonesborough in June and will be doing the same search as you. Our new place will have handgun and .22 plinking off the back deck. Have to do some more walking of the property to see if I can setup a longer range.

Had a guy in a Dodge roll coal going into St  Louis a few years back across multiple lanes of highway, I actually had to back off my speed because I couldn't see and he went by about 20mph faster than I was going so it wasn't like I was following. Not sure if he did it on my account because I was driving a Ford Powerstroke or just making a statement in general.

I put one of these console vaults http://www.autosafes.net/ in my pickup. There is room for a gun on top of the safe under the console cover and you put it in the safe if you need to leave it in the car. Not an ideal location for access while in the car, I'm still thinking that out and may mount a holster on the side of the seat.

When NY did away with the shell casing requirement a few years ago it was reported that no crime had been solved with the casings.  They kept cutting the budget of the department that was suppose to catalog the casing till they couldn't keep up and they were several barrels of cartridges behind in their work when closed down. 

Welcome, you have joined a friendly group of people with a similar affliction.

Oh and I forgot, in preparation for this they made it illegal to buy ammo mail order.

Small tax is a lot better than the database NY is trying to push out that will require a background check for every box of ammo you buy and backdoor registry because there are rumors that you will have to tell them what gun you will shoot the ammo in. Guess they never heard of more than one gun of the same caliber. No word how much this will add to the cost of ammo.

  Good idea, I can probably get more for  my 10 round Glock mags in NY than after the move.

We are down from NY house hunting in the Tri-City area this week.  Today was the crap or get off the pot day, we put in an offer on a house south of Jonesborough and it was accepted. We have a pre approval letter from the bank and sign the final contracts tomorrow. Closing end of May.  Now PANIC is setting in. I have 45 years of crap to get rid of or move 735 miles.   Great house but I will be looking for builders to build an out building for me for some of my overflow collection and some modifications to the house.  Anyone on here in the general area that know any good builders/remodelers?     I will start a proper thread in General later but wanted to bring this thread upto date on the progress.   Jim...

Found this link on place in Nashville that are posted or not.   http://crimepreventionresearchcenter.org/2015/03/with-the-nra-convention-coming-in-three-weeks-what-are-the-restaurants-in-nashville-where-permit-holders-are-welcome/

The president of our local gun club tried one out. The rules of the game was only two shells loaded at a time and you team shoot. You can shoot as many rounds as you want but if you get out of sync with your partner you can quickly fall behind. Said it was a lot of fun and the guns were so hot when they were done you couldn't touch the barrels. I think he said they did a hundred clays.

On the Armed American Radio podcast this week they were talking about the mixed bag of eating places on the main drag. Some have no gun signs some don't. They said if the 80,000 expected attendance boycotted any restaurant with a no gun sign it would send a message.  Not sure about the Bridgestone arena.

I also got two lanyards in the mail. I assume the folded up flyer that says "The 144th NRA Annual Meetings Exhibits" is the badge.  It fits nicely in the front of the badge holder and they sent two.