Ronald_55

Welcome from another East TN member

Proof that we have become far too well fed and ill advised as a nation. I remember seeing a guy catch a 2 foot long shark when we were deep sea fishing. He pulled it up to the deck, cut off its fins and threw it and fins back in the water. Even as a kid I just thought how stupid that was. He made some comment about it not eating up all the fish he wanted to catch. Idiot. I hear shark is decent eating, though I have never had a chance to try it. We never had Gar anywhere we fished. Even if we caught something like knotties or carp that we were not after, we just tossed them back. We only did catch and release or catch and eat in my family. Then again, we come from a poor background and wasting anything was frowned upon.

When you get to be a girl scout they move you up to center fire calibers

My Dad let me know that one of my Mom's cousins passed today from it. Like playing Russian roulette if you aren't protecting yourself. I am too adverse to risk to take it lightly.

Saw this morning that Widener’s Reloading/Shooting Supply had a fire here in Johnson City.. Looks pretty bad. Guessing between fire and water it is a complete loss but not said yet. https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/jcpd-crews-on-scene-of-fire-at-ammunition-building-on-west-market-street-traffic-being-diverted/

Duct tape, string and a post... I would need those to test fire that...

Didn't seem to matter in these cases.

I remember making aluminum foil boats with a friend and filling them with lighter fluid. We would stick a wood match in and light it so it would catch the fluid on fire that soaked into the stick. THEN we decided that was lame since it was so hard to get it to light. We proceeded to borrow his dad's gas can and use that instead. When we scurried away there was a skim of burning gas floating down the creek for a long ways. lol My Dad tells the story of using a pound of black powder in some old car part to make a bomb. Said it made a crater in the pasture field. Knowing Dad's childhood adventures, my Mom was always keeping an eye out to stop me. Problem with now is if some 12 year old makes an explosive of any type, they are libel to be shipped off as a terrorist.

"What happened?" "Someone just double tapped our drone camera , sir."

I think some game cameras watching entry points would be a good idea if anyone worries about this. Then if TWRA stole or damaged those, they would be committing a crime despite open fields. I wonder if in either of those cases TWRA cut or circumvented locks on gates to get into the land. Would be a shame if someone camped out below where the camera was placed after a limb fell over to cover their view. Maybe placed a camera of their own as backup documentation. The article is right about technology our running the laws. If the only cameras they had access to required them to go collect the SD card each time they wanted the pictures, it would be much harder to get away with. Cell enabled cameras means even if you damage the camera any pictures up until the last seconds will be transmitted. Of course in both cases there was an issue with breaking the law on the owner's (or family) part. First the son and friends had baited does in the past and been charged. Second was charged with dove baiting based on the camera footage it seems. That takes a lot away from their case in my eyes. TWRA should not be on their property, but if, at least in the second case, he had not baited dove, there would have been little TWRA could have stuck him with. I feel the theft of property charge would have been dismissed easily if it took them months to come storm your house to get it. One lesson leaned though. When removing trail cameras you did not put up, do it from out of line of sight of the lens. Preferably when you have not be filmed close to it recently.

Found out several other members of my wife's extended family tested positive. One is a School Resource Officer but I don't think she had been to the schools yet. One is still in ICU I think, The others are all mild cases...so far.

Not sure on Brownells backorder, but I placed a small parts order last week that shipped in a few days. So they must be caught up on things they have in stock. I say this because Numrich showed they were just getting to 7/18/20 orders on the same day (8-7-20). And my order with them is on hold until they catch up even though they show everything in stock. Not sure on Optics Planet. Kind of off topic, but I thought it might be good info for you.

Sounds like they need some civil or structural engineers to look at that alley.

Nah, I have enough. I was pretty much just seeing the lay of the land as I killed some time on both trips. If I can pick up some at a decent price, I go ahead. That way I can pass some to family and friends if they get in a tight spot without tapping into my cache. Same thing I did back in the .22lr drought. If I could find it decent, I always knew someone asking about it. Just doing my civic duty to help citizens stay armed. I had been seriously looking at picking up a reloading set up, but that has been tabled. I will wait until supplies and gear get back to where I can choose how I want to do it, not just take what I can get.

Home Defense at its best...

I was in Academy early last week and I heard an employee on the phone telling them some was possibly in the next morning, but to be there at 9 to have any chance. I was in Basspro the Saturday before and picked up my 5 box limit of 9mm. A good bit was still on the shelf and this was the afternoon.

I could have picked out at least 10 cars and trucks in the high school parking lot that had at least a single shot shotgun in them. Especially during deer season. Some guys hunted before or after school. Heck I never even saw anyone pull a knife in a fight even if it was way lopsided. If you couldn't settle it with fists you got beat or ran away.

Very different, just not in buying the gun. Sounds like Mr. Curry enjoyed seeing someone your age take responsibility and follow through. Very possibly why he tossed in the bird-shot. Today most people are too worried about letting their kids "be kids" or just too busy to pay attention to them that most kids think loading the dishwasher is hard work. They also do not understand the value of the house they live in, food they eat, or electricity that lights and heats/cools the house, Money is just something they "have" without knowing how to get it beyond a hand out. It is hard to break through all the fake Instagram and Facebook images to teach my kids this. I try though because my parents never let us go hungry or know how tight things were, but we were expected to work when asked and rewarded for good work. I remember helping my Dad on some side job. Maybe it was hanging a ceiling fan in some guy's garage. I was more the age for "hand me a tool" than "climb up on the ladder and do that", but I remember the candy bar, RC Cola, and comic book we picked up at the gas station on the way home. It was a big deal to me. That meant when Dad got me a temp job for a few day with a neighbor that built houses just after I graduated high school, I worked my butt off unload trucks, cleaning up scrap, and whatever I was asked to do. No way was I reflecting bad on Dad.

So not be following this closely, but have they said what they think set it off? IIRC, the Oklahoma City bomb also used diesel and blasting caps. Normally ammonium nitrate just doesn't blow up sitting there or no farms would store it for fertilizer.

When it comes down to it. it will shoot the same. I base my opinion on pricing. I have several UGLY guns that were bought cheap and all work as intended.

Is no one gonna ask why @xsubsailor added a link to poetry below the ammo???? lol Any tax stamp on them?

Reminds me of the tiger stripe G.I. Joe camo. Or if Aquaman had an AR. Might think in reverse and see how much it would be to cover it up. Just depends on how thick that coating is.

Cameras, tracking devices, listening devices, e-books, and Candy Crush...... Some days I wonder if we are better off. I used to carry a book around all the time. Now I catch myself on the internet if I am waiting around. I hate reading on my phone.