Jamie Jackson

I'm in the marker crowd. I shot IPSC way back when, and we collectively policed our brass between stages. I used a green marker and recovered 90+% of my brass and that's with 30+ shooters. Other folks did similar. The color actually lasted for a couple of reloadings.

Very nice! What barrel did you choose?

This is gonna be an excellent class folks! Randy knows this material and can get you up and running in short order. If you've never taken a class like this you need to. It will be a paradigm shift for most...sometimes we "don't know what we don't know". Randy will enlighten you!

I like the new format as well David. Thank you for the obvious hard work you put into keeping this ship afloat.

The investigation will look into finding out what circumstances surrounded the weapon discharge. It is unknown if he was touching the weapon at the time it went off. What you wanna bet he was touching the weapon when it went off. I wish the officer a speedy recovery, but this type of statement simply feeds into the anti-gun narrative that "guns just go off killing people"...ie it's the evil tool that's dangerous, not the tool fiddling with the gun... 14 years as an officer...Sometimes it's a matter of familiarity breeding complacency...

Good find Erik! Thanks. Just ordered a couple and will send the link to some friends. Much obliged.

Thanks for the AAR Glock26.   It's good to hear first hand feedback on training offered in our area.   I'm glad you guys enjoyed yourselves and learned something useful.   Training with your boys? How awesome is that?! :up:

Welcome aboard and to the Knoxville area. I'm 10 years a transplant and I'm happy to call TN Home.

I am very sorry to hear this. I've never had the opportunity to train with Pat, but he was always kind and helpful with my interweb communications with him.   What a loss.   God Bless Pat. RIP.

My primary background is medical...RN for a 34 yrs, former Corpsman for 9 years before that...I'm an old fart and can't run & gun like I used to be able to do. :mad:  But if you're ill or injured I can be of benefit...I promise...   like many here I shoot, handload, can cast, and do basic forearms maintenance, But I've learned to garden, water bath and pressure can, dehydrate and preserve foods. I was raised in working in my father's meat market and have the tools and knowledge to process meats. I continue to learn and develop knowledge and skills and pray that process never ends. Most important though is that I've learned to develop "community" with like minded individuals with a broad range of skills, knowledge, and capabilities that I know and can trust.   A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein  

Welcome to the TGO community and TN.  :hat:

    It's behind Biker Rags on Kingston Pike, near Lovell Road. You enter between Biker Rags and Christmas Lumber.   Here's a link: http://www.proneshooter.com/index.php?   Phil is a precision rifle shooter, but has a decent selection of powder and primers. Good Guy imho.

HI David;   I too use gmail and have before today never had any issue receiving updates to threads I follow etc...but as of this morning I am no longer being notified. I checked my spam folder and nothing there...   Any thoughts or suggestions?   John C, yours still working OK?

I would, of course, recommend giving any and all of your business to Mr.David.   But I see you list as "Knoxville".   I've had a lot of luck purchasing from Proneshooter in West Knoxville. He is not a vendor here (wish he was), but Phil and Lori have a nice little shop, decent supply of components, reasonable pricing and have treated me well. Just in case... :pleased:

I think having the armor is sound thinking Tim.   Dolomite made some very good points. The majority of incoming rounds we may take during "normal times" would most likely be handgun rounds...but those other times? Rifle rated plates would be high on my list to have.   Unless it's a truly bad situation, grid down and SHTF scenario, it's not highly likely we would have the time to access our kit before the dust settles...but "what if?". And it's the "what if?" we need to be prepared for imho. btw...a ballistic helmet makes a lot of sense as well.   I have a set of steel plates in a Condor carrier (Thank for Dolo's recommendation on the Condor) that you can try out and see what you think as far as the weight goes. We picked them up from Maingun at a great deal back in '14. There is a thread on here about the PIA Linex of Knoxville was in getting them coated...so I would purchase coated steel and save yourself the hassle if you can.   Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it...and if politics continue down the path we're heading we may have a challenge in even purchasing armor.   If I had the extra bucks I would look into one of these: http://www.ar500armor.com/ar500-armor-micro-plate-carrier-w-armor-and-pouches.html#.VyHkMXqncpU

  I thin you might well be describing more than 1/2 the population at any given moment angler...unfortunately.   Happy to hear all went well. :up:       It's really a crying shame m16ty. It definitely reflects the perils of the times and conditions we find ourselves in. Church should be one of the safest places a person could be. But you speak the truth Sir.

Erik, PM me and I will get you contact info and directions. I am currently out of town. Be back tomorrow. Look forward to seeing you there.

+1 Dolo...very fishy indeed.   And Yes JohnC..."we" can be our own worst enemies at times.   While I am not advocating "hoarding" nor inciting "panic buying", now might just well be a good time to consider what "you" will need in terms of shooting for the foreseeable future.   Change, and not the good kind, seems inevitable.

I know some people hate 'em...but in my experience they don't understand them and therefore wear them wrong. I'm talking about a bellyband holster.   They suck as far as reholstering as they require 2 hands to do so safely. And they should be worn at, or below, the beltline...not way above it as so many interweb photos demonstrate.   I am on my 3rd or 4th bellyband and wear one in nonpermissive environments daily, have for years.   Just a suggestion for your consideration.   Congratulations and Best wishes to your son!       Here's a vid with Lenny Magill...he's quite the salesman, but at about 3:00 you can see a decent demo of correct placement. I carry appendix as well, but they work fine of strong side carry.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf-59UbMOC8

While I hate to see another "Panic buying frenzy", it will probably be inevitable. That said, it may well be prudent to pick up some of those items you have been waiting to purchase...   I saw the below linked off Drudge this morning. Thanks Kevin for kicking off the conversation. I know I'm looking to up my handloading components...we'll use them no matter what and they won't get any less expensive over the next few years.   http://www.atr.org/1000-gun-tax-pushed-role-model-states   While it is a fact that Hilary initially started speaking of the increased tax issue in 1993, the article sites 2016 examples and you can believe the Left is considering [u][b]any[/b][/u] measure to weaken our 2nd Amendment protected Rights...   from the linked article: “The Second Amendment makes it difficult to legally ban guns, but Hillary has led the way to explaining you can achieve the same thing with high taxes.”

Sorry to hear this, but thank you for sharing your experiences vontar.   We've been using the Big Berkey for about 8 years now...daily, constantly and it still works as good as it did when we first purged the ceramic filters. We added the PF-4 unit after the first year and wish we had done so initially.   I clean the white ceramic filters quarterly by using a green "scruffy" pad under running water and that's all the maintenance it's required.   PF-4 link in case anyone is interested: http://www.directive21.com/products/berkey-pf-4-fluoride-and-arsenic-reduction-elements/   Jeff Gleason that runs Directive 21 is a great guy and easily reached by phone or e-mail if you have any questions. Jeff's a "Prepper", whatever that is LOL, and a regular guy just like us.I have no financial interest in his company, just a satisfied customer.

Enlightening article barewoolf, thanks for posting this.   I too read this article before and there are some lessons to be learned indeed. Primarily... as Randy has previously said "handguns suck" as defensive tools (I agree 100%)...but they are very likely to be "the" tool we have when things go down.   With quality modern handgun ammunition the caliber question isn't as significant as it once was. Having seen the wounds from most handgun calibers I can honestly say it's nearly impossible to tell what caliber someone was hit with...skin is very elastic and the majority of entrance wounds are very tiny holes...The terminal effect is dependent on the structure damaged and the persons response to it. Unless it's a CNS hit (the "brainbox"), people take a loooong time to bleed out enough to affect their level of consciousness.   From the article"In this free-for-all, the assailant had, in fact, been struck 14 times. Any one of six of these wounds — in the heart, right lung, left lung, liver, diaphragm, and right kidney — could have produced fatal consequences…“in time,” Gramins emphasizes."   Statistically "average gunfights" are close range and end in 3-5 rounds from what I read...I couldn't imagine any gunfight being "average" nor would I count on any statistical data. While I could never envision myself carry 145 rounds of ammo, I can certainly understand why this officer would want to consider having more rounds available in his future! fwiw...I don't think it's totally a "spray & pray" scenario in this case, the officer was getting some good hits...the BG just didn't choose to stop his attack...there are some determined evil people out there...and from FOF training I've learned to appreciate that a moving twisting "target", under pressure, is a challenge to get good solid hits on...and that's only with SIMS rounds coming at me.   This is another good point: "Gramins, also empty, escaped his squad — “a coffin,” he calls it — and reloaded on his run to cover behind the passenger-side rear of the Bonneville.   Mobility and good cover. Not that an auto body is "good cover", but it would beat the heck out of sitting still and taking incoming rounds.   Just a few thoughts/observations and opinions ...    

That's pretty clever! Thanks for the pics as well.   Good job!

Prayers out for you, Tommy and family Sir. God Bless.

  LOL   I wish I hadn't seen it myself!   I guess I need to buy a lottery ticket...it could happen!? :drool: