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Looking for a pre 1991 Ruger M77 Tang Safety rifle. Short Action in .243 or .308 preferably but will consider others as long as they are .473 +/- bolt face calibers. Beater gun, worn truck gun, an old woods deer rifle you are not sentimental about. Heck even a project gun that needs some work. Cheaper the better as this is for a project I am working on. If you have one within an hour or so of Middle Tennessee and will part with it you would make me a happy fellow. If you have a long action let me know as well, probably can't make it work for my project but I am a sucker for new projects so....

Costco has a few and state that delivery is to a ground floor access. In other words they will deliver but they are not going to take it up a flight of stairs. Probably a lift gate and a pallet jack. Tractor Supply says they will deliver to my area but oversized charges may apply. With you being up in Clarksville you should check on Rural King as well. They have a few if I am not mistaken. A quick look on their website shows they have Cannon with a Home Delivery option.

If you find a good deal on a mid range quality safe that you feel you cannot move yourself there are a number of places that will move a safe for $250~$300 dollars. With that said I have moved two of the "mid range" safes myself with just a pickup truck and an appliance dolly. A safe in the 400lb range (most of your small to mid size Cannon/Liberty/Winchester big box store safes) is fairly easy to move for one person. A second set of hands is nice though. A safe in the 600lb range is very manageable for one person but only from a trailer and into a ground floor with minimal steps or height changes. I would not do a 600lb safe from a truck bed by myself and likely would want at least 1 or 2 strong helpers. My truck bed is average height, F150 with OEM tires and no lift, but I do have a topper so I had to lay the last safe down. This actually made it easier to get out with some loading ramps I had. If you can beg, borrow, or rent a small trailer with a ramp gate moving a safe with an appliance dolly is easy. Side note: there is some risk laying a safe down on its side or back. Some lock mechanisms could be damaged by doing that but I have never had that issue. Just beware of that risk and don't jump any rail road tracks on your way home with it. I fall into the "cheap is better than nothing" camp. A big box store Black Friday safe is much better than a stack-on cabinet and worlds better than the back of a closet. If a motivated thief wants into your safe they are getting in. A safe is not single line of defense, it is one part of a good system. The real security is having that safe in a semi secure location behind locked doors preferably with a monitored alarm system, smoke detectors, and in a perfect world a sprinkler suppression system. A safe slows everything down. It will slow down fire damage and it will slow down a motivated thief, hopefully long enough for fire department and/or police to show up and handle things if I am not there. I consider my safe as primarily fire protection, secondarily as access protection from children or visitors, and third as theft prevention/deterrence.

That is exactly what it looks like. Fencersms, If you know; How many rounds on the firearm total? How many rounds fired that evening prior to the failure? How many rounds since the last clean, lube, and inspection?

Tennessee has a pretty good history with firearms manufacturing. As of 2021 there were apparently 82 firearms manufacturers in Tennessee and they made 185,720 according to the ATF. The largest being Beretta. That is according to this article https://tennesseeconservativenews.com/how-tennessee-ranks-in-gun-manufacturing/ I am not fully sure how that number of 82 was reached as there are 502 Type 07 (Manufacturer of Firearms Other Than Destructive Devices) License Holders according to the ATF as of Sep 2023. Probably the number of license holders that filed paperwork on a new firearm (serial number) created with the ATF. I know many of those 82 manufacturers were likely small business producing small numbers of custom rifles but they still have a type 07 license to manufacture. Some are gunsmiths that do repairs and produce replacement parts or custom guns so they carry the 07 license but do not produce new firearms. There are also probably some on the books as legacy companies, i.e. they are no longer producing but someone owns the name, intellectual property, and/or rights to business related items so they maintain the license. Finally there are a slew of suppliers and manufacturers that do not produce an actual firearm but they have on 07 license to be able to transfer firearms and firearm components through their facility to do business. Think a company that does anodizing of aluminum. A firearms manufacturer sends a raw aluminum receiver to them and they anodize it then return it to the customer. That is an ATF book transaction for the anodize shop. Ramo Manufacturing (Ramo Defense Systems) was operating back in the 1960's and 1970's I believe all the way up through 2002 when they were bought by Guy Savage creating Sabre Defense. Ramo had military contracts and were producing M2 50 cal machine guns. We all know what became of Sabre Defense. Barrett started in 1982, 40th anniversary was last year for them. Beretta moved to TN in April 2016 Some others I know of. Defiant Machine Works (Adams, TN) Troy Industries (Clarksville) Tennessee Arms Company (Dyersburg) they were doing and may still be doing polymer frame receivers and such. CMT Tactical (Cross Machine Tool) (Lexington, TN) one of many doing AR receivers (upper and lower) There are 1,989 total ATF licenses in TN (not including Type 03 Collector of Curios and Relics). Note: some of those License holders hold multiple license types. For instance Barrett holds Type 07, 08, and 10 Licenses while Beretta holds Type 07, 08, 10, and 11 licenses. Also interesting is according to the ATF there are currently (Sep 2023) 50 - Type 06 (Manufacturer of Ammunition for Firearms) licenses in Tennessee 47 - Type 08 (Importer of Firearms Other Than Destructive Devices) licenses 17 - Type 10 (Manufacturer of Destructive Devices) licenses

The current strain of Covid is actually on the uptick and hospitalizations are also increasing. This current strain seems to be a bit worse than the last two or three mutations/variations. I had it in July for the second time. Mostly flu like symptoms with body aches, a bit of a fever, some headache, fatigue, some upper respiratory issues, and sore throat. Honestly it was exactly like the first time I had Covid in late 2021 only is was half as bad. My symptoms in July were identical to 2021 but half as severe while lasting half as long. In 2021 I barely stayed out of the hospital, this july I was back to work and fairly well recovered in 5 or 6 days.

Never went to the Hermitage location and it has been years since I went to the Murfreesboro one. I was never impressed with them at all. Limited selection even before the supply chain issues of the last few years. Sky high prices on what they did stock. I was not impressed with the knowledge or attitude of the staff I interacted with. The range was a bit dated when compared to many other Middle Tennessee indoor ranges, it was just adequate. Honestly I think they survived as long as they did because they were the only indoor range in Murfreesboro for a long time. Now that there are other indoor range options in Murfreesboro I can't imagine why anyone would have gone into On Target.

I had 3 45-50 ft hackberry trees in poor condition two years ago. One dead, one growing nearly horizontally from about 20 feet up, and one living but half rotted in the trunk. All were in close proximity to each other as they were former tree line / wind break trees before the property was cleared and developed. I got three quotes but Smyrna Tree Service was the most responsive and seemed to be the most thorough in their process of quoting and scheduling. https://www.smyrnatreeservicetn.com/ It was $1800 to cut, remove, clean up and grind the stumps. They were in and out in a matter of a few hours and all their equipment was in good working order. They did not tear up my yard, driveway, or sidewalks with any of the equipment. even though the trees were in the back of the house over 150 feet from the road. If I had to pick anything negative at all I would say they could have ground the stumps down just a bit further but that would be nitpicking. I was very pleased with their work. I ended up tipping the crew and making at an even $2000 since I was so happy with their work.

I can only take so much shilling for his classes so I have only watched 75% of the video so far as I have had a spare 5 or 10 minutes. Branca is the king of turning a 15 minute video into a 1hr and 15 minute video. Branca himself states that a reasonable jury could have gone either way in this case based upon what he knew of it. If we follow his 5 key building blocks of self defense; Innocence, Immanence, Proportionality, Avoidance, and Reasonableness we can all likely come to slightly different legal conclusions. 1. Innocence - Not much ambiguity here. Colie was an innocent party in the situation. We see nothing in the video or his demeanor that would indicate he was a willing or actively engaged in the interaction. 2. Immanence - Again not much to argue over here by Branca's analysis. If you were to interpret the law to mean that immanence requires the threat be present and immediate you could easily argue there was not threat of deadly harm by Cook. 3. Proportionality - Branca seems to define this as the size difference between the parties involved and the number of individuals on both sides of the interaction. Clearly Cook is physically larger than Colie and with both is videographer and sidekick they outnumber Colie. So if you agree with Branca's definitions and principles than there is not much to argue over here. If you interpret proportionality as a proportional response things are less clear. 4. Avoidance - As Branca states Virginia also has a "no retreat" or more commonly know as a "stand your ground" law, which means you are not required to "retreat", in other words try to escape, prior to using self defense, under certain circumstances. He does state that their law is not as clear as some other states, such as Florida or Texas. Colie may not have had a legal requirement to retreat but he certainly could have and it could be argued he had a moral obligation to do so. Colie stops, turns, and at least partially faces Cook not once but twice in the video. He did have able opportunity to simply walk away. Cook does not appear to block or detain Colie, he only follows him. 5. Reasonableness - Here is where I think the holes in Branca's analysis lie. Would a reasonable person fear for their life in this encounter? Would a reasonable person see a threat of deadly or serious bodily harm in this encounter? Was Colie's response to the encounter reasonable? I do not see a threat of deadly or serious bodily harm in this video until Colie pulls his weapon and fires. Cook does not at any time verbally threaten Colie. Cook at no time presents a weapon, closed fist, or make threatening gestures. The sidekick is visibly distracted and looking down at his phone in half of the video. Again he makes no verbal threats or threating gestures. He does not present or appear to have a weapon. In fact Cook makes no effort to physically contact Colie at any time. When Colie actually reaches out to swipe Cook's phone away Cook attempts to avoid Colie's contact and promptly checks his phone again to manipulate the recording he is playing. I do understand that either Cook or his sidekick could have easily closed the distance to Colie at anytime and turned this into a physical altercation. At that time it clearly been self defense on Colie's part. I also understand that for a person of Colie's size his ability to defend himself would have been greatly reduced if it became a physical altercation. I still don't think it was reasonable for Colie to consider Cooks movements and actions as a threat of deadly or serious bodily harm. Where do we draw that "reasonable" line? Take YouTube and cell phones out of the equation. If Cook was a protester standing in your path waving a sign in your face and shouting something at you would you draw your weapon and shoot them? If you turn and walk away and they walk to follow you as Cook did would you then draw your weapon and shoot? If you physically tried to push the sign out of your face and they tried to hold the sign back in your field of vision would you shoot them then? I would argue that a sign on a wooden or metal pole/stake would be a much more effective weapon than say a cell phone or fist but I doubt anyone would be advocating for the shooting of protestors. What if it was a picket line worker? They are have been known to actually make threats or be verbally abusive to management or scabs crossing the line. They actually do stand in the way and attempt to impend others movements. They often outnumber the management and scabs by a significant margin. Would you advocate for a non union worker to shoot a picketer impeding their movement, shouting, and sticking a sign in their face? What if it was a "Karen" in a restaurant being verbally abusive to a member of the waitstaff? What if they were standing in their way sticking a cell phone in their face and video recoding the interaction? What if they started pursuing them all around the restaurant and continually tried to get the cell phone (camera) in the waitstaffs face while screaming about who they knew at corporate that would get them fired. Ok to shoot "Karen" when she comes by your table then? Sounds silly but Cook was not screaming, shouting, or verbally threatening Colie. He was not physically restraining Colie and he was not impleading Colie. He was sticking a cell pone in his face and repeatedly asking a nonsensical question.

The problem with ACH is that it is a false or short lived gain. ACH is in the same state as credit card transaction were several decades ago when their fees were "reasonable". Once they have a significant foot hold on the market and the number of transactions skyrocket they will simply raise or impose fees on vendors that rival CC transaction fees. Some are already doing that. They are not going to leave money on the table for long, there are beach houses in the Hamptons to buy afterall.

I am in the opposite camp as most here I guess. I seldom have cash, don't need it, and don't really want it. It is a bit of a hassle to go to the bank and get cash when I need to deal with someone face to face for a transaction in cash. I use a credit card for everything, I found one with great travel benefits when I was traveling 40+ weeks a year and have stuck with it. I have not paid for a hotel room, rental car, or flight in 5 years thanks to those points and benefits. I have also not had any identity theft or hacking issues since going to one single digital form of payment. I have had my card number skimmed, stolen, or otherwise hacked multiple times but my CC company caught it before I did, notified me in each case, shut the card down, reversed fraudulent charges, and overnighted me new cards immediately. In fact they once overnighted a new card to a hotel I had not even checked into yet that was 4 states away when my card got caught by a credit card skimmer on a gas pump. I use my bank account for exactly 4 transactions each month; my direct deposit, my spouses direct deposit, the payment to the CC company for that months charges, and a payment to the mortgage company since they will not take a CC as payment. I have never had fraud issues with it because I just do not use it and don't want it out there to be skimmed or stolen. Now for the sake of safety I do carry an ATM card to my checking account, a second CC that is used only in an emergency, and if I am traveling I do keep a bit of cash. I generally carry just enough cash to cover a meal and a tank of gas in those instances where I might encounter a business without a working CC reader which these days is very rare. I would also get local cash when traveling internationally since acceptance of foreign cards in other countries is not always guaranteed. I simply do not buy the precious metals argument. If S does actually HTF and there is true societal collapse gold is useless. It can not easily be traded for food, medicine or weapons. If I have food and no gold I can eat. If I have weapons and no gold I can either trade for food and medicine, or take it by force if I have collapsed to that level, but I am not likely to to find someone willing to give up their food and medicine for a bit of gold. If I have gold but no food, medicine, or weapons I am probably going to starve in fairly short order. Barter works for the trade of useful items or services for other useful items or services. Gold does not satisfy any basic human need. No one in their right mind would trade food for gold unless there was an existing market still existing which could convert it to some other currency or commodity. If there was such a market still in existence then S had not really HTF and society had not truly collapsed in my opinion.

Had not seen this one discussed here. Good guy with a gun or the worst example of a self defense shooting ever? What say you? As much as I think the YouTube influencer is a moron, as are most social media "influencers", and deserved a good punch in the face the shooter was in the wrong here. I don't think there is a good claim for fear of bodily harm or death here. The YouTuber had no visible weapon other than a cell phone screen and while you could consider his actions aggressively annoying they were not aggressive enough to warrant deadly force in my opinion. The video shows Colie (shooter) pause and face the Cook (YouTube moron) with the cell phone before they began to move and he swipes at the phone and Cook's hand. Colie then partially turns his back to Cook and begins to walk away. While Cook does continue to pursue Colie and hold out his phone he does not make any other moves that I would consider threatening. After four days of testimony and jury deliberations the jury returned its verdicts guilty of discharging a firearm within a building (Class 6 felony) and not guilty of the more serious charge of aggravated malicious wounding (Class 2 felony) and not guilty of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony (unclassified felony). Colie has been incarcerated since the time of the incident on April 2nd. I believe I read the sentence for the charge of discharging a firearm within an occupied building in Virginia is 2 to 10 years but I can not find that link now. Pending any changes during post verdict legal maneuverings and the actual sentencing I my gut reaction is he is getting off a bit light. Now if the Judge comes back with a full 10 year sentence and he serves 5+ before parole that might be about right. Do you think you would you have acquitted or found him guilty if you were on the jury? What do you think the acceptable sentence should be (if any) for Colie? I don't think either of these are behind a paywall. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/30/delivery-driver-youtube-prankster-shooting-not-guilty https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/video-shows-encounter-between-youtube-prankster-and-food-delivery-driver-who-shot-him/3433999/

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"The shutdown comes after Yellow failed to reorganize and refinance the roughly $1.5 billion dollars it had, as of March, in outstanding debt, a large portion of which came from the $700 million pandemic-era government loan." Too much debt and they could not manage to find any path to refinance it. A small amount of turmoil over the next few weeks as customers find alternate carriers. Trucking companies are dying for freight and drivers. They will quickly absorb both from YRC. Without getting into any political discussion or discussions of unions I will say that the Teamsters did not do YRC any favors. I worked for YRC years ago. I just picked up shifts in the busy season as a side gig but the influence of the union was readily apparent even to me, not in a good way either.

They buy blanks from the likes of Krieger, Rock Creek, Proof Research, and others depending on the product line. All chambering, exterior profiles, threading, and finishing is done in house at Barrett.

Barrett does not use them. They make their own barrels from blanks. The Barrett .50's all use a different chamber as well. One of the very original prototype designs may have used a modified M2 Barrel but production guns do not.

I still have my TSA Pre Check and Global Entry ID from when I used to travel for a living. I got the Real ID update the last time I had to renew something at the DMV though. Saves me from carrying the passport card or the passport itself. I can't remember the last time I spent more than 10 minutes in a line at an airport.

They still have members to represent?

Sportbike Track Time still does the events at Nashville Superspeedway although it looks like only one this year (a couple weeks ago). They also have lots of events at the Talladega Grand Prix. CMP is also and option, Carolina Motorsports Park, near Kershaw, SC. Fast Line Track Days does events at NCM Motorsports Park in Bowling Green KY. In fact they have and event there this weekend. Looks like Midwest Track Day used to as well but they may have closed up shop now.

Ended up with close to 25k miles on that bike in the last 12 months, about 4k on a different bike in the same time span. I have a short trip, 2000~2500 miles, planned with the wife this fall and a couple shorter solo trips planned for the rest of the year as well, ~1500 miles each or so. I was supposed to go to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland this year but that got delayed so I will probably try to fit that in next year. This trip to the Southwest was the replacement for that postponed trip. It is hard to get in all the trips I want to take in with only 3 weeks of vacation.

So I won't bore anyone with a really long ride report here but I just got back yesterday from nearly 3 weeks on the road. Left before Memorial Day headed west. Went through Arkansas, Oklahoma, the Panhandle of Texas and into New Mexico. From New Mexico I wandered north into the corner of Colorado and into southern Utah. Spent a few days in Canyonlands National Park, Arches National Park, and the Moab area. From there I went through Valley of the Gods and Monument Valley toward the Grand Canyon. Spent a couple days in Grand Canyon National park including one day off the bike to hike the South Rim and part of Bright Angel. Left GC NP and went south picking up old Route 66 and followed the mother road over toward Las Vegas to meet a friend for lunch at In-N-Out before moving on to Death Valley National Park. Spent 3 days in Death Valley riding Mustard Canyon, 20 mule team canyon and part of Titus Canyon. Unseasonably cool when I arrived at 103ºF but got closer to normal on my last day at 111ºF. Left DV NP and headed over to the Searles Valley and China Lake area to spend the night there. I then set out south toward Joshua Tree National Park and the Salton Sea area before ending up in San Diego for a night. Went to the beach before sunrise to start my coast to coast ride back east bound for the Atlantic ocean in Jacksonville Beach. I got into Jacksonville beach about 44 hours later completing my 50CC Quest (Ironbutt Association Coast to Coast run in 50 hours or less). After some rest in Jacksonville I wandered up toward North Carolina and eventually the Richmond Virginia area for the 50th annual BMW MOA National rally. After the rally I wandered back toward Tennessee getting home yesterday evening. I dumped the fully loaded bike in Canyonlands National park and dislocated by thumb which did make things a bit tougher with my throttle hand the rest of the trip especially considering I dislocated it 4 more times since it is really prone to repeat dislocations after the first one until it has a chance to heal. I did encounter some serious cross winds in New Mexico and West Texas which caused a couple of unplanned lane changes and one tangle with a tumble weed. Stats: 16 days and 15 nights on the road. Total distance; 7232 miles States visited/crossed; 17 Number of National Parks; 6 Number of State Parks; 2 Gas Used; 188.67 gallons Number of fuel Stops; 43 Max paid for gas; $6.069 / G (In Death Valley CA) Min paid for gas; $2.829 / G Avg payed for gas; $3.869 / G Total Spent on Fuel; $707.49 Camping Nights; 4 Cabin/Yurt/Bunkhouse Nights; 3 Hotel Nights; 8

"Farmington Police Chief Steve Hebbe said the gunman fired three weapons, including an AR-style rifle." So nothing definitive that I have seen other than 3 different weapons and and "AR-Style" rifle which could be anything from a .22LR rimfire to a 12 gauge shotgun.

Switch that mayo out for avocado on the BLT (BLAT) and it is a game changer. Potato Salad is now done with sour cream, ranch seasoning mix, bacon, and some green onion. I can no longer abide traditional mayo based tater salads. Don't eat canned tuna so Chicken salad is the only spot left for mayo in my life. I think the last jar in the house lasted 6+ months and it has not been replaced yet. In short for Mayo.

We might not like to think of it this way but a uniformed SRO being the first target could be considered a good thing. a) it takes time away from the shooter being able to find innocent children or teachers as their target. b) a trained SRO/LEO stands a much better chance of slowing or even stopping a shooter than a student or teacher. They might not always stop them but there is more of an opportunity to do so if the shooter is seeking the SRO out. c) any delay the SRO may be able to create gives that much more time for additional LEO to arrive on scene and react. d) I would hazard a guess that many SRO's would gladly risk their life as the first target if it meant fewer or better yet no innocent lives were lost that day.

Yep, been on that site and this one for many years. I think we even crossed paths on the old East Tennessee Riders page that was pretty popular in the early 2000's. I still have an East Tennessee Riders Ironbutt sticker on my VFR from 2007 or 2008 I think.