DraxTheDad

Hidy Ho!

A very warm welcome to you.

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To me, the answer would be, what other guns do you have? Do you have other 30-30 or 308 chambered guns? If so, that would push the edge that way. For me, I like to optimize my ammo supply, not having to buy tons of different types of ammo. Me, I’d go 30-30 as I already have a 30-30 lever action, and don’t have any 308 guns at all (yet). Does Henry make a 6.5CM lever? If so, that would be what I would want.

Agreed, the real question is, did he do anything to increase his wealth here. It doesn’t look like it, but I don’t know all of the details of his trades. I would guess he didn’t because that would be obvious and stupid. I did hear one theory from some democratic senator that it was done via various bit coins transfers and that if you purchased enough you could get direct access to the president. But there is no proof of this ever happening and it was really convoluted process that he was describing. I seriously doubt it was true. Here is another problem though, is that politicians and their families are ALLOWED to buy and sell stocks. So even if he did buy and sell and made money, you would have to prove he did it before any announcements. Just because they made money, doesn’t necessary mean anything was done improperly. Heck, I made money on these bounces (some stocks at least and I have zero knowledge of just about anything).

Update : Stocks retreating again. Nice big bump there.

Just looked at the 50+ stocks I am watching and everything is recovering nicely so far today. I think only 2 are down.

The DMV in TN is a walk in the park on a beautiful spring day; you want fun, try going to the SoCal DMV. It’s an absolute disaster. Even if you have an appointment that you need to get 6 months in advance, you still have to wait 4 to 6 hours and then you better not have any question or mistakes.

When I moved to TN a few years ago, we got our licenses in Dickson DMV, they told us that generally ALL new licenses are issued as RealIDs, and they are. We tend to fly a lot, so it is important for us to have them. But for those who say they “never” fly, the problem comes up when you HAVE to fly for something, now it is just a pain in the butt to fly (I guess as long as you carry your passport it doesn’t matter). But each their own, once you get it, you’ll always have it so it is pretty simple process. I do wonder if they are going to make RealID a requirement to vote; trying to eliminate some of the illegals from the voting process (not such a big deal in TN, but other states yes).

If you're trying to make money short term; then you're having a bad day. Look at it long term, you should be investing in stocks that have long term potential anyway. So you lost 10% in 2 days, big deal. As long as you're holding for years, they are going to recover at some point. Yeah, it sucks to watch them go down, but good, long term stable companies that make 5 to 10% year over year is what you should be looking for. In the end you'll be better off.

Buying more stocks today, had money waiting for a good dip.

In all honestly, I use generic cheap ammo in my AR Home Defense setup. Why? Well, in the range that I would engage in within about 50 yards, and at that range I can practice with the cheap ammo a lot and I do. Same ammo I practice with is the ammo in my HD AR. Yeah, I know there is better ammo to use that would probably work better; but I'm not 100% convinced it would be all that much better. That and I expect to use my handgun more in a HD situation, and for those, I do have better home defense rounds. My wife will handle the AR, I'll engage with the handgun.

I have a nice big barn but it sits on a slab that is about 6 to 8" above the ground, I need to build a run up to it. On the back side I'm going to need more, as it is about 16" above ground there.

My range on my land is 60 yards right now, I want to push it out to 100 yards, but I need to do some tree clearing to make that happen. I have 100+ acres of woods, so no real backstop. Love having It out there to go plink on. I do plan on building a good backstop with the trees I fell from pushing it out to 100 yards, in the mean time, going to just enjoy it for what it is. The sound of the metal targets is awesome, love having them out there.

I have my license, and as of yesterday passed my hunters safety course. Have never been hunting. But I do put out corn for the deer on my land; there aren't a lot of deer and I would like to have more on the land (have 100+ acres). Previous owner hunted them to near extinction. So just because there is corn in their bellies doesn't mean they are being hunted over the bait.

Hate to hear this, sorry man, Prayers out to you and your family.

How far out do they do their work? I have a house out in Waverly that needs some cement work.

I have a Baofang and was going to get my HAM license because I thought it necessary. I have a house just outside of Nashville and have yet to hear any one of the repeaters transmit anything. Not a lot going on as far as I can tell, so I'm not really excited about anything. In the time of strife, when SHTF, no one will care if you're licensed or not.

This is a bit ridiculous and not a good sign for our 2nd amendment rights. Building guns has been common since the founding of the country and now we are basically losing this. Fortunately I have many 80% receivers that need to be finished because I don't know if I'll be able to get more later. I have enough to build a new AR15 and AR10 for each member of my family, so I should be good for a while.

This is what I am thinking, I think that over time I would find more and more uses for it. I have a big barn that has to be finished; but should be a good storage location. I need to get the run up’s into and out of the barn done so that I can park it in there. Thanks for the suggestion, I do think that a little more is better than too little, plus it doesn’t add a whole lot more cost; the first big chunk is the expensive part.

Thanks for all of the advice, it is appreciated. I am looking for an older Kubota right now, but I'm not throwing anything out the window at this time as I want to make sure I get what I need. Thanks everyone!

I had every intention of going to check out the protest in Franklin yesterday, but I got stuck working on the house all day and Just didn’t get out that way. I really wanted to go see the big nothing burger, I would suspect it was less than a dozen people. I was reading that there is a much bigger group that is trying to protest nationwide next weekend, at EVERY Tesla dealership. I’m sure that in CA there were be some major carnage but I don’t know if there will be here in TN, I hope not. I agree with Trump that this is straight up terrorism.

We are not allowed to use it at my work, mostly because we do government work and some of it is secret / top secret and they don’t want us putting anything into any system where it could be a violation of our security clearances. That being said, I find it very useful for my daily life when writing letters and even posts. it does a decent job making things more engaging, or entertaining. When I write code for myself, I find it super useful. As someone else mentioned, writing excel formulas is great; or C++ code to position objects in 3D space at the end of a vector, or a JAVA script to record audio in Unix and process it to see if it matches a given audio sample. It just works phenomenally well for these things.

Not sure if you have heard about this, but there is a group going to “Protest” at Tesla Dealerships in TN, Bartlett, Franklin, Chattanooga, and Knoxville. I hope that the police will be there to make sure that they don’t get violent. I happen to have to be in Franklin tomorrow, so I may swing by to see what is going on, if anything. As long as they are protesting, that will be fine. But if they start to get violent I hope they are rounded up and arrested immedately. https://www.actionnews5.com/2025/03/21/tesla-takedown-demonstrations-taking-place-across-tenn-over-weekend-heres-what-you-need-know/

Lots of good information on these posts, yes, learn, practice, learn some more. And if you need too, go with some good index funds. Right now I have about ½ in an index fund, and the rest in various individual stocks across multiple industries. I think that the hardest part for a lot of people is to realize that you will loose some at times, you will win sometimes. You have to be patient and realize that as long as the companies are stable and growing, you should be good. One of the ones I have been looking into, and this is a bigger risk because it's relatively new but I like it, and that's Rumble (RUM). Not a lot of money in it, but I did pick up some shares of it.