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Yep. Gladly. "Hey, wade out there and catch me some dinner, woman!" I am aquaphobic. That means I have a somewhat irrational fear of water. I have no desire to be in water higher than about my waist or so. I also have a quite rational fear of sticking my arm in places I can't see, when I have no idea what might be in there, in the HOPES that a really big fish will get pissed off and bite me.
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Being a 1911 in .45, though, I guess it stopped his ass with one shot, didn't it? Was his butt cheek completely vaporized? AGH! My eyes! Guess I'll be having nightmares tonight.
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Hey, I am a born southerner (and proud of it) and my stomach wouldn't hold enough beer to make me try that. Hell, even a quart of the best 'shine I've ever had wouldn't get me to do that.
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Gun "Task Force" created by Tennessee Republicans
JAB replied to Worriedman's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
So, why isn't there a task force to control the number of environmental bills that come out of committee? Tax-related bills? Education bills? Any other damned type of bills? -
Something I used to do a lot with my BB/pellet gun when I was younger and still try to do, occasionally, with a .22: If in an area where it can be safely done, choose a single leaf a good distance up in a tree and try to shoot the leaf out of the tree. Try not to hit the body of the leaf, itself and see how many shots it takes you to sever the leaf's stem and make it fall. At least I find that to be challenging (even more now that I am not as steady as I used to be.)
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Pretty much this. Were I on such a jury, I might be willing to find 'guilty' on a manslaughter charge. Maybe. Not sure, though. Murder 1 would have been a hung jury with me on it. When someone is in a place they shouldn't be, performing a violent crime that they shouldn't be performing, it is their own damned fault if they end up dead, period. I wouldn't do as this pharmacist did because, as DaveTN said, the state would send me to prison and I have no desire to go there. That said, I wouldn't have held the pharmacist criminally responsible for murder had I been on the jury.
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My understanding is that the fingerprinting currently isn't 'free' - it is simply part of what is supposed to be covered by that $115 fee that we pay for the 'privilege' of legally exercising a natural right. The fingerprint check, unless I am mistaken, is performed by the company that has the contract to do fingerprint checks for the TBI. Perhaps that company is raising it's rates or another company has gotten the contract?
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Unless, like this guy, you are grabbling for snapping turtles: I think I recall seeing something on local TV - maybe an episode of The Heartland Series, I'm not sure - where folks somewhere in Tennessee were grabbling for snapping turtles. I also recall seeing (maybe on YouTube) a clip about catfish grabblers. One guy said you need to have a partner you can trust to help you get a really big catfish into the boat, etc. or you just might end up getting drowned if you latch onto a big one. Me, I don't like catfish all that much to begin with and certainly not enough to literally risk life and limb to catch them.
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There is nothing to 'get'. It is simply that there are those of us who don't believe that we are taking any more of a chance with our personal safety in the majority of our daily lives by carrying a .38 or .380 than by carrying a .45. If others disagree and feel that they 'must' carry a full-sized handgun in a caliber starting with a number no smaller than '4' then more power to them. I just disagree. I'm sure we all have our minimum idea of what is 'enough'. For instance, you aren't going to catch me carrying a .22 as anything more than a BUG unless I have no other option but a .38, .380 or even a .32 like my wife carries will not leave me 'undergunned' for the places I go in regular, daily life. There are still some situations, however (like going to areas with higher crime rates), where the smaller guns will stay at home and I'll want nothing less than a high-cap 9mm while there are other situations (camping in potential bear territory) where I want a minimum of a .357 loaded with Buffalo Bore 180 grainers.
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alcohol...carry, but not on person
JAB replied to 93civEJ1's topic in Handgun Carry and Self Defense
Which goes back to the ignorant attitude regarding alcohol, in general, to which I was referring. That 'up to the officer's judgement' thing should not exist. Yes, someone who is driving (or carrying) while drunk should be punished. That said, either you are legally impaired or you are not and there must be some hard and fast, standard measure - such as the .08 BAL. What one person (cop or not) thinks or doesn't think shouldn't make a bit of difference - otherwise everyone isn't being judged by the same measure. I am not disagreeing that what you are suggesting is possible. I am simply saying that the possibility that one beer could get someone arrested because a cop arbitrarily decides to do so is asinine. However, because of lingering Prohibition-era attitudes, it is possible. Basically, I was also agreeing with Fallguy. Not because I think that having one beer (which is very different than having multiple drinks) and driving a car (or carrying a gun) is such a horrible thing but because I acknowledge the possible, legal ramifications, however ridiculous I believe them to be. -
Or, as I like to say, there may be crazed, male silverback gorillas on crack roaming the streets of Tennessee but I've never seen one of them. I agree with your estimation for the most part. Now, there may be exceptions to the rule and there probably are those who would keep coming after taking a couple of .380. .38 Special or even 9mm rounds but, to my mind, those same folks would probably keep coming after being shot with a .40, a .45 or basically anything short of a 12 gauge - and they might even keep coming after being shot with the 12 gauge. How many such 'gang-bangers' do you regularly encounter during the course of your daily life? That is not a rhetorical question as such things should be taken into consideration when deciding how much gun is 'enough'. Hell, as for me, for ten years I lived on East Fifth in Knoxville (right in the 'hood) where there was a crack house on the corner and drive-by shootings literally across the street from us. Sometimes it was hard to get home because the hookers would block the entry to the alley our garage was located on trying to make you stop so they could try and pick up a 'John'. Yet I walked down the street pretty often to go to the corner store, etc. and my lily-white self still didn't have daily or even frequent encounters with gang-bangers. In fact, I don't recall having ever had a run in with anyone I could confirm as being a gang member. I didn't even carry a gun, at all, back then so now that I live in a more rural/lower crime area anything I carry should put me ahead of the game. Of course, that was in the '90s and maybe the bangers have gotten worse, I don't know. I think there are probably more gangs in the area, now - including some of the Latin gangs. I do believe there are more meth-heads now but there were more crack-heads then. The world, in general, probably is a little more dangerous now. I have to say that I believe an honest citizen is more likely to be targeted randomly for a violent attack even if they mind their own business and avoid 'bad areas' than that same honest citizen would have been ten or fifteen years ago. Certainly things have become dangerous enough that I believe that carrying a firearm whenever legal/possible is a good precaution to take. Also, you have to take your location into account. I'm probably a lot less likely to encounter Crips, Bloods or MS13 in downtown Loudon than I would be if I lived in Memphis, etc. or even if I were back on East Fifth. When I go somewhere that such encounters might be more likely, sure, I'd want to be carrying a high-cap 9mm if possible but around where I live and even in most parts of Knoxville and the surrounding area and the majority of the parts of Chattanooga we sometimes visit, I am confident that a .380 or a five-shot J-frame are 'enough' to allow me to get out of the types of bad situations I might encounter.
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I have never practiced shooting from a rest/bench with either pistols or rifles and do the majority of my shooting from a standing position completely unsupported. I used to be able to hold either a handgun or a rifle rock-steady 100% of the time from that position but in the last five years or so that has begun to change. In the last, couple of years I have discovered that - as long as my arm is pretty 'steady' at the particular time - some of my best shooting is done one-handed (strong hand) standing sideways with the shooting arm outstretched straight, in something like the old 'bullseye' shooter stance. I think that this stance probably makes aiming the gun more like pointing a finger and I am also probably sort of increasing the sight radius by sighting along my arm as well as with the gun sights. It is fun for shooting paper but I'm not sure how good a stance it would be for a SD situation. That makes sense. Again, I guess that point-shooting a small gun, because everything stays pretty close to the hand, is more like pointing a finger. I have only had my S&W 642 for a few months but I am finding that I can point-shoot it pretty well, too - sometimes.
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This is why I carry..especailly at night
JAB replied to lock n' load's topic in Handgun Carry and Self Defense
Not to mention, as Joe Pesci's character said in one of the 'Lethal Weapon' movies, "They *eff* you at the drive through." Plus I will invariably get behind some moron who is ordering food for themselves and fifty of their closest friends but is too damned lazy to get out and go inside. Then, when they get their fifteen bags of Biggie McWhoppers, they have to go through each and every one to make sure that everything is right before moving out of the way. The drive-through is supposed to be so you can get your order fast and get out of the way, not so you can get food to cater a banquet. -
alcohol...carry, but not on person
JAB replied to 93civEJ1's topic in Handgun Carry and Self Defense
Because this is the friggin' Bible Belt where some believe Demon Alcohol will possess you body and soul if you allow even a sip past your lips, Prohibition would be alive and well if some folks had it their way and many people don't realize that some of us consider beer as simply a beverage to have with dinner and may have only one before switching to water or Diet Coke. Unfortunately, we have lawmakers who cater to folks who equate having one danged beer with being sloppy drunk. The guys here are simply pointing out that having even one beer could result in your being charged with something. Asinine, yes, but true. That said, I'm lucky in that my wife also has her HCP. If we go somewhere to eat and I decide that I might want to have a beer I'll simply hand my carry gun over to her - unless she is carrying hers in which case I will put mine in the secured lock box in the car. If I'm having even one, she carries and drives. If she is having a drink, I carry and drive. Works out pretty well. -
When I got my HCP, I had never heard of the 'Wally Walk'. Regardless, Walmart seemed like the logical first place to carry in 'public'. As others have said, I was familiar with the store, knew that there wouldn't be any no-carry postings and knew that there wouldn't be any pat-downs or metal detectors at the entrance. I also knew that it was a chance to be around a lot of people but that most of them would be pretty oblivious to whether or not I had a gun and probably wouldn't notice if I walked around with my arm clamped firmly to my side in order to hold my cover garment tightly in place. Carrying in Walmart, as others have said, was a good way to get comfortable with the idea. Later, when I found out that so many people feel the same that the term 'Wally Walk' exists among permit holders - and that someone even jokingly came up with a 'schematic' of how you have to do the walk and what areas of the store you have to visit in order for it to 'count' - I got a pretty good chuckle out of it.
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A couple of weeks ago I was shooting my P3AT at the range. I suck shooting it with my weak hand only but decided I wanted to compare my results shooting at about 21 feet from both a two-handed grip and a strong-hand only grip. What I found was odd. Shooting two-handed I was using the miniscule sights and aiming pretty carefully although still shooting pretty quickly (I guess it was sort of a 'flash-sight' picture.) Shooting one-handed, I did more of a rapid fire point shooting/front sight shooting thing (which I haven't done much and need to practice more.) The strange results? The one-handed, point-shooting, rapid fire 'group' mingled right in with the two-handed, somewhat aimed group - with shots from the latter falling right next to shots from the former. I was aiming more for heart/lung shots than for the X ring and all shots hit in the 'chest' and 'upper torso' area of a B27 with both groups being about 4-5 inches. In other words, with the P3AT and at fairly close range, I did just as well rapid-fire point-shooting as I did two handed and aiming with both the front and rear sights. Of course, this is probably more a sign that I shot poorly with a two-handed, aimed grip than that I did well one-handed with point-shooting. I also imagine my results would be different with some of my other handguns, as well.
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Unless you need to sell for some reason, why not keep the Glock? I, too, prefer revolvers and have never met a Glock that I liked (not to say that they aren't good guns, I just don't care for them and have never owned one.) I do have a few semiauto pistols, just not any Glocks. With that Glock kit, however, you have both a rimfire and centerfire pistol that could also be a good training tool for your boys. Sure, train them largely on revolvers but why not teach them to operate a semiauto, too? You never know, they may be the opposite of you and might like semiautos better than revolvers (BLASPHEMY!) If so, having a Glock with the .22 conversion and a couple of bulk packs of .22LR ammo for them to shoot might make a difference in how interested they get in shooting, in general.
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The purpose of terrorists, be they foreign (such as Al Queda) or domestic, is to instill such terror into a populace or particular group within that populace that said group's lives and behavior are changed in a lasting manner. If we, as a society, are so damned scared of our own shadow that a kid with a blow-up doll is charged as if he had tried to plant a bomb then those who wish to instill unreasonable terror in the American people can pat each other on the backs and declare 'mission accomplished'.
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Sort of depressing being so close to the 4th.
JAB replied to mav's topic in 2A Legislation and Politics
Yep. Because of these very issues, I view illegal immigrants as a threat to our nation and believe they should be viewed and treated as foreign invaders. Further, I believe that our military (National Guard, at least) should be brought home from fighting for other peoples' countries and used to repel these foreign invaders at the borders. Whether we like it or not, whether we want to admit it or not and whether it is PC or not, illegal immigration is as much an invasion and a threat to our country - a war, if you will - as anything we have faced. What sort of nation have we become when illegals protest that their 'rights' (rights which they do not have) are being violated simply by being asked for documentation while at the same time wheelchair bound, 95 year old cancer victims are made to remove their adult diapers to be searched before boarding a plane? I'll answer that, myself - a nation that will soon not exist as we have known it unless the path we are on changes and fast. -
I'm thinking along the same lines as you except we (or at least I) still don't know for sure that Paul pulled over to fight. Maybe he was stopping because he intended to go into the Mexican restaurant and Dickens followed him and punched him. If that is the case (and such could somehow be verified by witnesses, etc.), I'd convict in a heartbeat. If not then, yeah, I hardly think you can use the 'reasonable person' criteria to judge a guy who has just been shot unjustifiably and, for all he knows, is dying and is chasing his murderer to confront him (and put paid to him) before succumbing to his own injuries. Any way you look at it, though, this is a big cluster-eff all the way around. It doesn't sound like there was any good reason to start slinging fists, much less lead. This reflects poorly on HCP holders, in general, and gives anti-carry folks something to point at to say, "See, this is what happens when an HCP holder gets mad at someone over some trivial incident. Both parties get shot and one of them ends up dead."
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I only have two lever rifles but I don't own an AR, at all. Now, if I had the money to buy or build a nice AR - well, I'd use it to buy two more lever actions, instead. I guess I'm just the opposite of you when it comes to rifles as I have zero interest in owning an AR but would have a room full of lever guns if I could. Hey, those differences are what makes the world go 'round (and keeps different departments of the gun companies in business.) One of my levers is a Glenfield 30-30 (basically a Marlin 336 with a different kind of wood for the stock.) It belonged to my dad and is the gun that I more or less learned to shoot rifles on. I inherited it. It was made before Marlin started putting manual safeties on lever rifles. I don't have any pictures but it looks pretty much like any other blued/wood Glenfield lever 30-30. I've still got the scope that came with it (says 'Marlin' on the scope body.) The other is a basic Henry .22LR. I love shooting the old Glenfield but ammo isn't exactly cheap nor is there a good place for me just to plink with it even if I could afford to plink with a 30-30. A .22 is a different story and that Henry is great. I just got it a few months ago. Again, no pics at the moment but it looks pretty much like every other basic Henry wood/blued model on earth. A few months back I went looking for a Rossi lever in .357 Magnum but came home with a .44 Magnum Super Blackhawk, instead. I'd still like to have one of those Rossi levers in a handgun caliber - maybe a .357 or maybe a .44 as I want to match one of my revolver calibers. I like blued with wood rifles, especially in levers, but think that the Rossi lever guns that are stainless with wood are some of the prettiest rifles I have ever seen.
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I agree with you as far as ammo Wally has in stock. As far as ammo goes, the thing that I like getting from Academy is the Monarch 9mm Makarov ammo. I really enjoy shooting my CZ 82 - possibly more than I enjoy shooting any other semiauto handgun I own and almost as much as I enjoy shooting revolvers. The best price I can find on ammo around here, though, tends to be 18 to 20 bucks a box. Academy has their Monarch brand for about half that and (at least in 9X18) it is pretty good stuff for shooting paper. I don't shoot the CZ all that much, despite really liking it, due to local prices for ammo and the fact that I don't get to the Academy in Chattanooga very often. The place where I work is off Lovell Road so it will be maybe 10 minutes out of my way to swing by the new Knoxville Academy after work on the way home. Wally, for whatever reason, has also stopped stocking PDX1 in .38. The first place I bought that particular kind of ammo was at Wally then, after I decided it would be my carry ammo for the S&W 642, they quit stocking it. I don't recall having ever seen it at Gouger Mountain (although I haven't been in there for a few weeks.) I ended up driving up to Bass Pro to get more. IIRC, Academy had it in stock the last time I was there.
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Heh, don't be surprised if after the first year or so you find yourself carrying just the 642 (maybe with a speed strip) a lot of the time - particularly in the summer months. Now, I'm not saying that one can or can't, should or shouldn't carry the entire setup year round. I'm just saying don't be surprised if you don't.
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The following picture is the best testimony I can give for my Heritage Rough Rider. It was taken at the Spring Creek Shooting Range. My mom and nephew were plinking at the metal disks that hang at 50 yards with his old, falling block .22 rifle. Just for the heck of it, I started shooting at those disks, too (I had the .22 WMR cylinder in and was shooting Winchester Super X 40 grain WMR ammo.) I surprised myself by doing as well with the Heritage as they were doing with the rifle. Just as a lark - really more as a joke than anything - I decided to try and hit a target at 100 yards. Well, when I walked out after the first cylinder full I noticed that I had actually managed to hit paper twice out of six shots (didn't bring a set of binocs or anything with me that day so had to walk out and check the target each time - but we were the only people there so I didn't have to wait for a cold range to do so.) This made me think that maybe hitting the target from 100 yards with the Heritage wasn't such a silly idea, after all. I walked back, loaded up again fired another six. The second time, I got the windage better but overcompensated for elevation so I only put one on the paper. Walked out, saw the results, walked back, reloaded and tried it, again. Upon walking out to check the target the third time, I found that I had 'dialed in' enough to have put four of six on paper with three being within the target rings and one that was almost a bullseye. It was warm that day and there was no breeze (which is probably part of the reason I was able to get good results) so by this point I was tired of walking out to check the target and I called it quits. I do not generally shoot from a 'bench' position - I just don't enjoy it, have never practiced it and so am not good at it - so all of these shots were made offhand from a standing (Weaver-ish) position with a two-handed hold. I'm not all that great a shot so this is more a testimony to the gun's ability than mine. Also, as you can see by the comparison to my 6.5 inch barreled Heritage, this target was larger than the 8 inch targets I normally use for practice at closer range. Just for the heck of it, I'll post this pic of an 8 inch target that I shot from ten yards the same day with the Heritage using the .22LR cylinder and some bulk pack ammo (don't remember the brand.) This was also offhand from a standing (Weaver-ish) position with a two-handed grip and is more typical of my shooting (particularly the big, ol' flyer in the lower left.)
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A couple of weeks ago my wife called my cell to tell me she had just seen in the newspaper that Academy had bought land in Knoxville and I meant to post something here about it. Did I forget? I guess so. Dangit. Anyhow, it is great news. I have been to both of the ones in the Chattanooga area a couple of times each and like those stores a lot. I have a feeling that, once they are here, I will probably rarely darken the door at Gander Mountain any more. There is already no reason for me to go into Dick's since they got rid of firearms and fishing related things.