Grayfox54

This weekend at the Fairgrounds. Anybody going? I'll be there for a while Saturday morning. Probably around 9:30-10:00. I'm already meeting a couple of friends, would be happy to meet TGOers as well. PM me if you're going and I'll give you my phone number.

I hate to say it, but I think the poor kid is toast. MSM and every liberal with a keyboard convicted him within hours of the shooting. This trail is just for show. His only chance is for a hung jury and the prosecutor deciding not to retry. As for me, I believe the kid is only guilty of poor judgement for going there in the first place.

All package people screw up from time to time. Years ago I bought a rifle from a guy in St. Louis. He shipped by DHL. It went from St. Louis to Memphis by way of Waco, TX. Should have been overnight. Took about a week. My FFL is semi-retired and works out of a local jewelry store. I had a gun sent to him from New York State and it was shipped USPS. It arrived on a Monday. The store is closed on Mondays. The mail man was a sub and didn't know a FFL was also there. (regular guy does know) So he finds a closed jewelry store at that address and sent the gun back to NY. I finally got it 22 days later. A few years ago good friend of mine bought a scarce Nambu pistol and had it shipped to his house on his C&R. Fed Ex again. Package required an adult signature. Tracking showed it was delivered while nobody was home. No signature. He never did find that one. My point is that just about everybody has at least one delivery company horror story and it just keeps getting worse. Covid issues, labor shortages, fuel problems.... People are tired, pissed off and fed up. God help those who shop on-line for Christmas. Better order now and hope it get to you.

I guess there isn't one. But It is amazing that it got from MS to Sacramento overnight by truck. This is Fed Ex GROUND that we're dealing with. Ain't no airplanes in Olive Branch.

Here's an interesting twist. I checked on my missing package. Tracking showed it still being in Olive Branch, MS as of yesterday. Tracking now shows that at 7:03am this morning it arrived in Sacramento, CA. The replacement order shows it left Chicago early this morning with delivery still scheduled for tomorrow. We shall see.

A couple of years ago during a routine exam a couple of things weren't looking right. An X-ray discovered a large marble sized stone had almost blocked one of the ducts into my bladder. I never even knew it was there. They had to do arthroscopic surgery and cut it up with a laser to take it out in pieces. They did the surgery by shoving a camera tube up my urethra. Not a good experience.

In my career of turning wrenches, I have some really odd looking homemade tools in my box. Ugly as sin, but they get the job done. Yep, as Grunt said, necessity is a mother.

Good advice so far. The internet is full of reloading date. BUT use reliable resources. Not just some load some guy posted on some forum somewhere. Sorry to tell ya, but now is not a good time to get into reloading. Just like ammo, there's very little out there as far as reloading supplies go. It may even be worse as manufacturers can get more for loaded ammo than components. Right now I'm hoarding what powder and primers I have to only make those calibers I run low on. The days of loading a ton of any caliber just to stock up are gone. And forget about working up a best load for any particular gun.

Update: Had a conversation with a very nice lady at Springfield Armory yesterday. They are shipping my order again at no charge. Got e-mail today with new tracking number and expected delivery on Friday. I've said it before, Springfield Armory has the best customer service in the business. Now if Fed Ex can manage not to lose this one.

I carry a Streamlight Microstream in my pocket every day. You'd be surprised at how useful it is and how often in gets used.

Tennessee Cartridge Company is well known here in the west end of the state. They've been around for many years and quite a few local places sell it. As stated, its remanufactuered ammo. Mixed cases are normal. But as Chuck said, it will be loaded to the specs of what is marked on the box. I've used some myself. I'm not a fan as its not the most accurate stuff and often burns kinda dirty. but I've never had any problems with it. Any falsehood would be on the guy who sold it to you, not TCC. Where did you buy it?

Howdy. Always good to see another 1911 fan. Nice guns. You obviously have more money than me.

Then don't buy one. Just leaves one more out there for the rest of us.

Happy Birthday!

It would depend entirely on what threats you may face. For two legged predators I'd go with the 1911. However, if you're worried about 4 legged critters capable of doing grievous bodily harm, go with the .357. If bears are possible, think 12 gauge slugs.

Best guess. The cartridge stop isn't engaging soon enough on the shorter Specials. Thus allowing the next round to follow it onto the lifter. Afraid I'm not familiar with the Marlin action and don't know how to correct this. My Winchester .44 and .357 Magnums both feed Specials just fine. I'm guessing you Marlin just needs a bit of adjustment.

Thankfully there's nothing in that package that I'm in a hurry to get. I can wait. Its just damned annoying.

I would, but I can't get a hold of anybody at the hub to ask. No phone number. For all I know it could still be buried in a trailer that hasn't been unloaded yet. I guess for now all I can do is wait.

Actually, the tracking states that it will be delivered by Fed Ex Ground and specifically says not USPS. I'm thinking maybe it would have been better if they had given it to the post office.

Ok, so I thought I was being smart and went ahead and ordered 3 15 round SA-35 magazines from Springfield Armory. I figured that once the guns get into circulation extra mags might get a bit tight for a while. I know that Mec-Gar is showing them out of stock as well as several other on-line dealers. Beside, I can use them in my other Hi-Powers until I can find a SA-35. I ordered on Friday Oct. 29. SA got them shipped that same evening. They arrived at the Fed Ex distribution center in Olive Branch, MS at around midnight on Saturday Oct 30. Scheduled delivery for Monday Nov.1. BTW: Olive Branch is right across the state line from Memphis and this distribution center is the main hub for Fed EX ground deliveries everywhere in the Memphis area. Monday comes and no package. I check tracking again and now it says "Scheduled Delivery: Pending". Ok, I'm generally a pretty patient guy, so I give it a couple more days. No package and no change in the status. Wednesday, I decided I might aughta check on this and decided to get in touch with Fed EX. I call the customer service number and get a computer. I input all the info asked for and simply get that it is in the system with delivery pending. Hell! I knew that already. Ok, time to speak to a real person. Guess what? The is no phone number for Fed Ex that lets you directly contact a human being. There is no national number, no number for the Olive Branch center or for that matter, not even a number for the local stores. Ok, so there's a Fed Ex store less than a mile from my house. I knew they probably couldn't do anything, but I hoped they could at least give me a number to call and speak to a human being. So I went there. Nope, all they have is the regular customer service number. But I did find out that if you want to speak to a person what you have to do is call the number, when the computer answers just keep repeating "representative" over and over until it finally connects you to an actual person. So I go back home and make the call. I say representative, representative, representative over and over and finally! A real human being answers! I get the expected BS. Over whelmed, short handed, yadda, yadda, yadda. I ask when can I expect my package? Well it turns out that SA shipped by Fed Ex Ground Economy class. I don't fault SA, they're just trying to watch their budget and I did get free shipping on my order. But it turns out that that class of shipping has no guaranteed delivery date. Simply put, it gets delivered when Fed Ex gets around to it. Welp, they've had it 6 days now and ain't got around to it yet. And it looks like all I can do is wait until they do.

Somehow, that doesn't surprise me one bit.

Yup, its happening everywhere and on everything you buy. Even Gunbroker is charging sales tax now. So be careful how much you bid. That gun may end up costing a lot more than you thought.

Many, many years ago when I was a much younger man, there was a stripper in the town near by. Absolutely beautiful woman and naturally very popular. When she danced you could hear the chairs slowly scooting closer to the stage. But then she'd reach into a box on stage and start dancing with a 8-10 ft snake. Suddenly all those chairs started scooting back in a big hurry!

Nope, I'll be at the gun show in Jackson. Memphis tried this a couple of times back in the 1990s I believe it was. The first one I took a RG-22 that I bought from a co-worker for $10. Traded it for $75 worth of grocery and gas gift certificates. And that was about the average of the junk they got that day. BTW: I had as much cash as I could scrape up in my pocket to work the line and buy up anything worth while. I didn't see one gun worth buying. The second buy back they got I believe something like 20 or 30 guns. All were total crap. meanwhile, the gun show on the other side of the fairgrounds drew over 5000 visitors. Just waiting to see how big a flop this next buy back will be. Of course if they get just one or two guns, the local news will call it a huge success.

In typical News Media fashion. the outraged citizen they interviewed is butt ugly and has the I.Q. of a crayon. I like it! I don't even like Glocks, but I may buy a ticket or two just because I think its a good thing.