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  1. JAB

    Tallahassee gun prices

    The only thing I can figure is that when a pawn shop takes in a firearm to resell they must immediately send it out to have the barrel lined in gold. That is just about the only thing I can think of that might remotely justify some of the sticker prices I have seen in pawn shops. Case in point, just last Saturday I saw an older 10/22 in a pawn shop. I would describe it as appearing quite used. It was blued (well, at one time, anyway) with a not very impressive looking wooden stock, had a dirty, fraying, fabric sling and a clear plastic extended magazine. The whole thing looked like it might have been dropped off the back of a pickup a couple of times. The sticker price? $189. Heck, you can buy a brand new 10/22 at Walmart for nine dollars more ($198) and it isn't like the worn-out sling and beat-up plastic mag added that much value. Around here, it has been my experience that some gun shops have better prices than others. Dick's and Gander Mountain tend to price their stuff high (at least as high as the most expensive gun shops) unless you can catch something on sale. Pawn shops seem to be completely outrageous in pricing, even higher than Dick's or Gander, and tend to want new gun prices for very used guns. Of course, it isn't just guns. I have seen other items for sale at pawnshops that I could literally get brand new at Walmart for less.
  2. I don't know how much you can/will spend but if this is to leave in one place for home defense, not for carry and the lady truly wants a .44 Mag (which, if she lacks the strength to operate a slide or DA trigger might be a bit much for to handle in handgun form) then what about the possibility of a lever action carbine chambered for .44 Mag? Or a lever carbine in .357 Mag (which would allow her to use .38 Specials if she wants?) A semiauto pistol caliber carbine might be worth considering, as well. She'd have to handle a couple to see if she can operate them, of course, but I would think that operating the lever on a lever gun or the charging handle on a semiauto long gun would be easier than operating a pistol slide.
  3. My wife and sister like Twilight. One day my sister had the newest movie on and my wife wanted to watch it. Luckily, I had brought some of my guns and can plink in my sister's back yard. That meant I only saw the last few minutes of the movie - mostly the fight scene - and you know what? It still blew. Although 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat' were okay books, I blame Anne Rice for the current trend of whiney-assed vampires. "Oh, even though I don't have to kill to feed, I just don't want to drink blood. Waah, I don't want to live forever. Boo hoo, I just want to see the sun, " (although that whole aversion to the sun thing seems to have been forgotten.) Maybe they annoy me so much because vampires are my favorite of all mythical/horror creatures and I hate seeing them castrated that way. I don't mind when a vampire is the protagonist of a story - in fact those are some of my favorite. I don't even mind if they want a cure for vampirism - just don't make them whiny. Jonathan Frid as Barnabus Collins - now there was a television/movie vampire. He was cursed by a scorned woman (witch) and ended up a vampire. Sure, he didn't want to be a vampire but his approach was, "This is a curse. I want a cure and I will kill whoever I have to in order to get it," not "I'm going to whine until the mean, old vampirism goes away." The best series of which I am aware in which a vamp is the protagonist? Fred Saberhagen's series with Dracula as the main character/protagonist. He enjoys being a vampire, uses it to help those he considers to be under his protection (and mercilessly destroy those who would harm them) with zero whining.
  4. JAB

    I had no idea.

    My sentiments on the subject (copied from my comment in the News-Sentinel comments section from an article about proposed new measures to limit law-abiding citizens' access to legitimate cold remedies - er, I mean, curb meth making, yeah, that's it, meth making.): I say give wide open, unrestricted access to pseudoephedrine. Forget it being simply an ingredient in medications, sell the pure stuff by the pound. Heck, pass it out free like candy and put recipes out there that tell how to make meth that is 10x stronger than what is already on the streets. Then maybe there will be enough meth that addicts don't have to commit other crimes to get it. Maybe there would even be the added bonus that all the meth heads would poison themselves much more quickly. All/most of the meth heads dead from using the junk = problem solved. Then perhaps the rest of us can get back to buying cold medicine occasionally without having to show I.D., being 'registered' and treated like pushers just because we have a cold.
  5. Again, I wonder if finding a House sponsor might have been easier had someone other than Campfield introduced these bills.
  6. Why is he risking a ban? The OP simply stated that: and further stated that: and ended by saying: I saw nowhere that he said whether or not he carried there nor did he encourage others to do so. Are TGOers getting banned simply for sharing information, now? After all, there is a whole subforum dedicated to posting our observances of whether or not a particular business, etc. is posted, whether or not the posting is a proper, legal posting and so on (which is probably where this thread should have gone.)
  7. JAB

    First Smith wheelgun

    I got it at Farnsworth Firearms in Vonore. That is my favorite LGS. They had the Smith I bought and another that was pretty much the same except that it had the shrouded hammer (I don't know the model # - it is the one that has a shroud over the hammer and, instead of a traditional-type hammer spur it has a little, squarish piece that is used to pull the hammer back if you want to fire single action.) Both were brand new and both were priced at $399 before tax and TICS. Rob (the store owner) told me that the prices on those revolvers are almost $100 less than they were just about a month ago. He said that Smith and Wesson is making an effort to be more competitive with other manufacturer's market prices on some of their models, hence the price reduction. That was a big part of my decision to trade. I went back and forth over which model I wanted. I liked the idea of having the option to fire a single-action shot if I wanted but ultimately decided that I would probably never have any need to do so on this type of revolver and that the channel in the shroud that the modified hammer rides in would probably just be a good place for lint, etc. to collect. I was in Gander Mountain (which I call 'Gouger Mountain' because their prices seem gouged so much) last night and noticed that they had the same two models and both were priced right at $450 before tax and TICS.
  8. JAB

    First Smith wheelgun

    Problem with that is, when I am carrying in a holster (no matter which gun I am carrying), I carry my NAA mini in my weak side front pocket as a weak hand BUG and I don't put anything else in that pocket. This means my cellphone, pocket knife, lighter (I don't smoke but habitually carry a lighter - never know when you will need a fire source), loose change and anything else I have to carry goes into my right hand front pocket. When I wear jeans that have a watch pocket and carry a revolver, I just slip a speedstrip into the watch pocket. I don't wear jeans all that often, though.
  9. Good tip. I have used a dab or two of dishwashing liquid to get a Hogue grip sleeve to go on a couple of guns on which they were a tight fit. The dishwashing liquid does pretty much the same thing - makes it slippery enough to slide onto the pistol's grip but then is a little sticky when it dries. I tried a bike tube grip sleeve on my P3AT for a while. It worked pretty well but I find that I actually prefer the 'finger groove' style grips. I did have one Hogue Handall, Jr. for my P3AT that was a little loose. My solution was to put a piece of bike tube over the grip of the pistol, put a little super glue on the outside of the bike tube then slip the Handall, Jr. over that. That way the Handall, Jr. was glued to the bike tube and not to the pistol, itself, and the bike tube was tight enough to hold the whole thing in place. I have since replaced the whole shebang with a new Handall, Jr. that, for whatever reason, is tight enough by itself without needing any help. I put a Pachmayr 'finger groove' type grip sleeve on the P95 that I sometimes carry. I like it but it does make a noticeable difference in the thickness of the grip (which is already pretty thick in its own right.) My hands are big enough that it still works but I would say that the bike tube would be a great solution for those who want a sleeve but don't want/can't work with a thicker grip.
  10. In a way, it is too bad that it had to be Campfield who introduced this. Even bills that would not normally be seen as 'controversial' would gather controversy simply by having him introduce them. Bills with any controversy innate to them, by virtue of being introduced by Campfield, will likely become a crap-storm of negative press. I can see that such bills would have difficulty gaining support even from other legislators who might normally support such measures, in spite of some controversy, if someone other than Campfield introduced them. On another note with the way that these bills are written, even if they had a snowball's chance in hell of passing, I can see the possibility that it would be legal for staff/faculty at a public college to carry but still illegal for staff/faculty at a private college to carry or even have a firearm in their vehicle. The legislation at the first link seems to address legality on private campuses but the second does not as far as I can tell and only makes carry/possession legal on public campuses. Yes, I realize that employer rules against having a firearm in a vehicle on private campuses would still apply regardless of the legality - unless some version of the parking lot bill should pass - but it would really make little sense for something to be legal (university policy or employer rules aside) on a public campus but still illegal on a private campus.
  11. JAB

    First Smith wheelgun

    Here are a couple of pics of the new Smith. In the first one, I decided to put a few 'accessories' in the pic, as well. I already had the speed strip. I also already had the five-round speedloader from a Rossi five-shot .38 that I used to have. The speedloader pouch is one I made to go with a holster that I made for the Rossi .357 that I traded for the Smith. That holster won't work for the little Smith but we actually have a stainless Rossi that belonged to my wife's late father that, other than being stainless, is just like the blued one I traded so the holster (not pictured) is not useless. The second pic just shows what it looks like from the grip end. I got to try it out a little bit yesterday evening. I wouldn't want to show the target, though, as it was getting dark by the time I got to try it and I couldn't see the front sight very well and was shooting high. Mostly, I just wanted to be familiar with how it felt to fire it, the trigger, etc. in case I need to use it. I only put fifteen rounds through it and will want to put it through its paces a little more, soon. The rounds I put through it were all +P WWB 125 grain JHP. The recoil surprised me a little bit on the first cylinder as I have never fired a .38 +P gun as light as this one and through my heavier revolvers I usually don't really even notice the recoil of .38 (or even .357) all that much. I was ready for it on the subsequent two cylinders, though (which is part of the reason I wanted to go ahead and fire it - so I would know what to expect from the recoil.) It surely would - that is a nice looking holster. I am turning over a design for a holster for it in my mind. I was getting ready to make a new holster for the Rossi that I traded (the one I have that I made for it has a thumb break strap for retention and I wanted to go to a strapless design) so I had already been thinking along the lines of what I want to do. I am not sure exactly what I will come up with but I know that I want the holster to come up pretty high and cover the revolver almost to the grips for maximum retention without a retention strap. Designing that isn't the challenging part, though - the challenging part is that I am trying to come up with a simple way to allow the holster to also carry at least one speed strip in a manner that will be securely retained yet easily accessible without compromising concealment of the whole package. I like the idea of a self-contained unit and don't like having to wear a lot of separate things on my belt when I can avoid it - especially if my mood/where I am going dictates that I carry something as small as this revolver in the first place. I have a couple of ideas so we will see what I can come up with. I already have a FOBUS that I had for the Rossi five shot .38 I used to have so I will not be without a belt holster for it until I can cook something up. Truthfully, though, I foresee it doing at least some ankle duty. I already have an ankle rig for a small revolver and, although I don't ankle carry very often, I have thought that I'd like to have a good ankle wheel gun for road trips where something that is easy to access from a sitting/driving position makes a lot of sense. Pocket carry is not my first preference but I also picked up a Blackhawk pocket holster for it and it works really well in my strong side front pocket, although it probably won't replace the P3AT for that - or at least not entirely.
  12. JAB

    First Smith wheelgun

    Yeah, it is a 642. Sorry, I was (and am) typing on my phone. Guess I got all the models mixed up, hit the wrong key or something.
  13. Well, I bought my first ever Smith & Wesson wheelgun today. I traded my blued Rossi 461 six shot .357 snub for a NIB hammerless 632 Airweight .38 Special (+P). The only other Smith I own or have owned is my 22A. The Rossi was actually a good gun and I liked it but wanted something lighter and less bulky for the times I want to carry a revolver. I really only carried .38 +P in it most of the time, anyway and I still have my 4 inch Taurus 66 in .357. I intended my next gun purchase to be a Henry .22 and had pretty much given up on finding a used one. As I walked in the shop, though, lo and behold a guy was trading one that he just bought about a month ago. I am not sure he ever even shot it and it looks like NIB. I didn't even give the store owner a chance to put it behind the counter. I guess because I deal with them a lot and was buying two, he sold me the Henry for less than he had allowed the other guy in trade. All told, trading the Rossi, I got out the door with a brand new Smith and basically brand new Henry for $405. Not too bad, I thought. I hope to shoot them tomorrow and will try to get pics up soon.
  14. I do not intend to join the ranks of TGO members with whom you seem to have an ongoing argument. That said, I have to point out a flaw in your argument. You say that you are an HCP holder but that you do not agree with bills that give special consideration only to HCP holders. However, you do realize, I am sure, that in Tennessee the ability to legally carry a loaded firearm 'in public' as it were is, by the very nature of the HCP system, a special privilege granted only to HCP holders. The fact that you have your HCP says to me that, while you might not think the law/system to be optimal, you agree with and support that law at least enough to participate by getting an HCP and, presumably, carrying a firearm even though other law-abiding gun owners who do not have a valid HCP can not enjoy that option- or at least not legally. That said, while I would not oppose this bill, I must admit that I am not all that fired up about it, either. As it stands, it would not help those of us who are HCP holders and who work for schools - even private colleges (as in my case) one iota (I still don't buy the idea that parking my car in the lot during my shift at work equates to the vehicle being 'operated by' me and certainly wouldn't want to try and make that argument to get my ass out of legal trouble.) Neither would it help HCP holders who work in other, "Yeah, you went through the process, paid your money and were checked by all the proper authorities but the dumbass state government still doesn't trust you to have a pistol in your glove compartment while you are at work" locations. Yes, my employers have rules against employees having firearms in their vehicles but that really doesn't matter either way as long as there is a state law prohibiting me from doing so - despite the fact that I HAVE gone through the necessary steps to obtain an HCP. Truthfully, the state's asinine stance on the subject concerns me a heck of a lot more than an employer's rule that isn't all that actively enforced, anyway (I've worked here for over five years and have yet to hear of a single vehicle being searched or even of such a request/demand having been made.) The decision to ignore an employer rule that probably is never going to matter, anyhow, is one thing (although I am not saying that I would, necessarily). The decision to violate state law is quite another. Therefore, I would much rather see a true 'castle doctrine' type bill that would protect a person's rights in their vehicle the same as in their home and removing the ridiculous 'unless your vehicle is parked here or here or over there' stupidity that exists in the current law.
  15. My first P95 - a wedding present from my grandfather in law - is just like yours, right down to being the 'DC' model and only coming with one, ten round magazine. I recently traded my KelTec P11 for a second one because I didn't want to carry the one that was a gift. The second one is blued and is a newer model with the small 'rail'. It is a decocker/safety model and it came with two, fifteen round magazines. I would really rather have had another DC only model but I am not sure if Ruger is making the newer version in DC only. Besides, I got it used so pretty much had to take it as it is. I basically use the safety as if it were just a decocker, though. The older one - the one that is just like yours - has eaten everything I have fed it from 115 grain ball up to 147 grain WWB JHPs. The only thing it ever 'balked' on was some no-name 115 grain ball that came in a white box with simply '9mm Parabellum' (or maybe it was '9mm Luger') printed on it in black. There was red around the primers so I suspect it might have been intended as SMG ammo with harder primers. A few of those failed to ignite. Luckily, being DA/SA means the Ruger has second strike capability and the few that didn't ignite the first time fired on second strike. I love that, unlike some pistols/manufacturers that warn against using one type of ammo or another, the P95 manual basically says that it can fire anything that meets industry pressure standards and that brass, aluminum or steel cased are all fine.
  16. I would like to see our HCPs be lifetime unless suspended/revoked with no need for renewal. However, it would mean the state wouldn't be getting those renewal fees so, depending on how much $$$ the state currently 'keeps' after doing the renewal background checks, etc. that might be the end of the bill, right there. I think there needs to be specific language as to what 'under the influence' means as in specific BAL, etc. I'm not so sure about the whole endorsement on the DL thing - there are some folks who don't want every clerk who checks their ID when they write a check, etc. to know that they have a carry permit. Since any TN resident who could legally buy could also legally carry I don't see that this would make it any easier on LEO to tell if someone they stop is carrying or not. What is the big deal about continuing to give HCP holders a separate card - especially if it would be a one-time, lifetime issuance?
  17. Leather - the type with a double row of holes and a buckle with two tines. Made by Dickies and costs about ten or twelve bucks at the Dickies outlet. I carry OWB and it does a good job of keeping even my P95 in place. With lighter/less bulky guns in my carry rotation (a .357 snub in a homemade leather holster or, in t-shirt and shorts weather, a P3AT in a FOBUS) it does even better. I have seen similar style belts elsewhere - and some might have even had the 'Dickies' brand on them - but those all seem flimsly and collapse/fold easily when pinched across the width of the belt between thumb and forefinger. The kind I get at the Dickies outlet are stiffer and, even after wearing it everyday for a year or so, mine still holds up pretty well. I'm not going to claim that it will last the rest of my life (at least I hope I live longer than that) but for the price I can stand to buy a new one every year or two.
  18. My only question is, why require only the female students to own a firearm or other means of self-protection and why open the shooting range only to the rifle/pistol shooting teams and all female students who want to use it? Yeah, I realize that the likelihood of a male student being raped is much lower (although it can still happen) but muggings, etc. can happen to either gender. It requires no more effort on the part of a criminal's trigger finger to shoot a male than it does to shoot a female and one gender is just as 'helpless' as the other when facing an armed attacker unarmed.
  19. I have two P95s. One was a gift (a 'wedding present' from my grandfather-in-law) and the other I got because I was so impressed with the first but didn't want to carry it because of it having been a gift. The former is an older, decocker only model while the latter is a newer model (with the small rail) and is a decocker/safety model but I only really use the safety as a decocker. As others have said, my experience with them indicates that they are uber-reliable. I have also found that the one I got to carry actually carries pretty easily in a leather belt-slide holster that holds them kind of high on the beltline with just an unbuttoned, untucked shirt as cover garment as long as the weather is cool enough to wear a cover shirt that is made of material that is thick enough - I usually use a denim shirt. It wouldn't be the easiest thing to carry in t-shirt and shorts weather, though. The one on the left is the older one and the one on the right is the newer one that I carry, sometimes:
  20. I love the color/tone of the wood on that shotgun.
  21. Or maybe how everything was 'extreme' back in the mid to late '90s. There were 'extreme sports' and so on. There was even a Knoxville radio station that called itself 'extreme radio'.
  22. I have to wonder what percentage of Americans are ever targeted for 'random' crimes (robbed at gunpoint, shot by an unprovoked/unknown assailant, etc.) in general. Also, I have to wonder how many Americans carry a firearm on any kind of regular basis. Being that both of those numbers would likely be a fairly small percentage of the population as a whole, I have to further wonder how many Americans who carry a firearm on any kind of regular basis, either concealed or openly, also happen to end up in the group of Americans who are targeted for 'random' crimes. I doubt that there are significant enough numbers of Americans who are 1. Targeted for random crimes who 2. carry a firearm on a regular basis and 3. who also carry openly to form any kind of statistically significant evidence in support of either side of the debate.. In other words, because of the relative unlikelihood that someone would meet all three of those criteria, in the first place, I doubt that there is enough data to prove or disprove such a claim. I could, of course, be wrong. In the interest of fairness, perhaps the OP can provide evidence to support his hypothesis that the idea that OC makes one a target is 'an old wives' tale.' In other words, is there evidence to support the claim that OC doesn't make one a target more than CC?
  23. This takes the theme of barewoolf's post even further. I found out about this guy while trying to find more info on an incident reported in another thread on TGO where a lone Gurkha soldier fought off 40 bandits with just his kukri. The gentleman in question, Lachhiman Gurung, was a Gurkha soldier who fought in WWII and ended up being awarded the Victoria Cross. In the incident in question, he was throwing Japanese hand grenades back at the enemy when one of them exploded in his right hand. His fingers were blown off and his hand and forearm shattered, he had shrapnel in the right side of his body and his right leg and his right eye was destroyed. However, not only did this badass survive, he picked up his rifle - operating it with only his left hand - and fought for four more hours, killing 31 Japanese soldiers and saving his comrades who were incapacitated by the grenade blast. Not only did this fellow live long enough to keep fighting and overcome the enemy, he stayed in the military and lived another 50+ years. Gurkha Lachhiman Gurung: Victoria Cross hero dies aged 93 | Mail Online I'd guess that a hand grenade exploding that close to you would deliver a heck of a lot more energy than a handgun bullet. Then, again, I'd also guess that having your right hand blown off would cause you to lose a lot more blood a lot more quickly than even a handgun bullet that penetrates to and destroys vital tissues. Honestly, my guess is that some people are just physically tougher than others (mental toughness probably plays a part, too.) In a fight, those folks are probably going to kill you even if you have a 12 gauge loaded with buckshot and blow a hole in their torso big enough to throw a cat through. If you end up facing one of them, unless you are also such a person, it probably isn't going to matter what you shoot them with, you are done for. However, I also believe that with the vast majority of the population - especially the type of opportunistic criminals we are likely to face (as opposed to death squads that have been specifically assigned to take us out) the other end of that spectrum also holds true - as in, no matter what you shoot them with they are not likely to continue attempts to victimize you and yours. That doesn't mean I plan to carry a .22LR (at least, not as long as I can handle a bigger caliber) but I also don't fear that my 9mm, ,357 (even loaded with .38s) or .380 are just going to make the assailant laugh as he strangles me with my own intestines. My suspicion is that there is a much broader array of firearms, calibers and ammo that will 'get the job done' with the majority of attackers than the proponents of either 'penetration and blood loss' or 'energy transfer/stopping power' will allow.
  24. The only Monarch I have shot is the steel cased 9X18 Makarov. In both my and my mom's CZ-82 it works great and is as accurate as any other ammo I have tried in them. At roughly 1/2 the price of what a box of Wolf goes for in my area, it is well worth the drive from Loudon to Chattanooga to hit the Academy pick up a few boxes (especially since my wife and I like to go that direction sometimes, anyway.)
  25. I don't know anything about the shop where he sent it. I just thought this, particular pistol looked great. I'm lucky in that the 82 I bought recently has a pretty nice finish on it - and I kind of prefer a black or blued finish in most cases, too - but that hard chromed look sure is tempting me. In fact, I am not looking for another CZ82 but if I just tripped across an uncommonly good deal and had the coin to spend, I might be tempted to buy one with a really bad finish just to have that done. I am also wondering where Think About It got the beautiful wood grips in the pic he posted on the first page of the thread.

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