Scotty

What would happen if you used one in self defense? Instant felony charge and loss of all firearms I’d assume?

Glad to see a fellow ZH reader. Piggybacking on this, what do we think this means for the ATF braces ban everyone’s been waiting on, especially after the overturn of the Bruen decision?

Sportsman guide had these earlier today for $210 w/ shipping (not sure on tax to TN) for non members. That was pre-covid pricing, just checked but now they’re sold out and sportsman is notorious for taking orders without having stock. Came w/ three mags. I picked up a TX-22 mid covid, has seen a few rounds and probably went 800 or so without cleaning. After break-in and cleaning it eats my worst ammo like a wrangler/SA revolver would. I was able to snag a comp slide and added their cheap dot during Black Friday for 20% off, w a couple of mags and +5 extensions. If you were interested I’d create a shopping cart and add in email and play the wait a day or two game to receive an email w a coupon. https://shoptaurus.com/products/taurustx-22-competition-conversion-kit.html It appears the comp is in stock now, I had to join their email list as I was waiting for it for at least 4 months to restock. dot: https://shoptaurus.com/products/bushnell-rxs-100-reflex-sight.hthttps://shoptaurus.com/products/bushnell-rxs-100-reflex-sight.html I thought about buying the keltec, then remembered I had more .22 range guns than brain cells. And like ohell said the cp33 is a ton of fun for a plinker. TX-22 definitely gets taken out every time, no questions asked. Fun to shoot on the cheap and warmup. (They also just dropped a subcompact this morning for around $310, I know dealer pricing is $271, and suggested MSRP is $399). Hope this helps someone!

I am on the Davidson line in GSA. Drives me nuts that my property taxes don’t cover trash pickup, but I figure it’s a fair trade-off to shoot. I compost most everything to feed the gardens and live a minimalist lifestyle so hard to accumulate much trash but even still. I don’t make enough waste for $500 a year to pay someone for trash pickup, recycle the metal and plastic (just because I’m cheap, I think large scale recycling is a scam), shred the mail and cardboard and food waste goes to compost. Work or friends let me toss the occasional bag every now and then. Forgot to touch on the Davidson county exception in my long rambling post.

Just my $.02. How I found this forum was probably back in 2019 or so when I googled shooting from property in Tennessee and an old thread came up (feel like I reread it last couple weeks). Considering that’s how I found the forum I’ll share my admittedly lengthy experience. I’m fortunate enough to have a place that’s secluded, decent sized driveway and other than a neighbor at the bottom of the hill (who i shoot with) no neighbors for many acres. The house beside me is unoccupied, and 5-700 yards away. Maybe over a quarter mile down the street Is another older couple, and grandson who lives on the property, and in the other direction the nearest house is easily a quarter mile. The older couple a quarter mile away I typically hear him sighting in rifles at the start of deer season. Occasionally hear someone run a magazine or two. As I’m typing this now someone has been doing some small caliber and rifle shooting for 45 mins up on the holler behind my house. It is definitely not uncommon to hear people shooting. I try to explain it to people back home, that it’s somewhat reassuring to hear gun fire, and that on most holidays one person goes out to fire off a few rounds it sort of becomes a chain reaction throughout the surrounding area. I joke that back home when we heard gunfire, we’d try to find a block built load bearing wall to get behind. But now it actually puts me at ease knowing that the neighbors are proficient in firearm training. Cops are most definitely 10-12 minutes away, and the times neighbors have called the response time was lacking. It’s peaceful, just sitting and counting the rounds off in the distance. We also look out for each other, such as when a neighbor had some stuff stolen off of his porch, I would leave my truck down there or sit on his deck when he was out and still shaken up about it. After the criminal was released (far too early for his three page rap sheet) from jail, and went back for an easy score on the same porch, a sort of unofficial neighborhood watch email group was created (I stay out of it but appreciate them doing that). I saw the older couple in their driveway and pulled in to tell them another burglary had happened and they thanked me, and we all watch the unoccupied house as sometimes people trespass (kids, copper thieves, misfits). The other morning I was hunting and heard a metallic tumble from the abandon property. Figuring the deer were spooked, I checked it out for them, while being mindful not to trespass. So granted that’s a long backstory. Getting to the meat of it, I shoot on my property. I don’t with much frequently these days, maybe twice a month but in the past over COVID maybe 2x a week, even daily out of boredom for a week or so. I do shoot on nearly every holiday. I have a couple of friends come over and break in their guns once every couple of months. I let my neighbor and his friends shoot at my place when I’m not home. The advice I got from my elderly neighbor whose lived here all of his life was: Holidays are always fine, try to keep it to 30-45 minutes, don’t shoot after dark unless it’s pests. I have a natural berm, couple of plates and targets, and I know where all of my bullets are going to end up. There’s no chance of a stray going remotely close to anyone due to the landscape. With all that being said, 80% of my property shooting is .22. Run a couple practice mags of 9, and the lady will run her .380. Other than that we plink from the porch. If you come over, you’re not going to be obnoxiously mag dumping 30-rds of 5.56/7.62. Sure some quick fire here and there or a training drill but you can do the redneck trash pile mag dump at your place and bother your own neighbors. Typically I end a session with 5-10 shells varying between slug/buck/bird depending on the season. I do this to try to be respectful, even though I know that I can legally shoot however (i had my neighbor shoot buck while I was down the hill at his place and the sound of buckshot/HD rounds travels loudly) . Most of the time I try to call my neighbor to make sure he’s not taking a nap. Heck, I’ve only run a dozen slugs out of the tactical shotgun I bought so far because I didn’t want to be creating so much noise echoing in the holler. Same for 10mm/.40. I guess what I’m saying is maybe scout the neighborhood I agree with it’s how much your neighbors make, my neighborhood is pretty much all generational families and not poor but not wealthy successful blue collar types. Since finishing this post, two other people have started shooting, I thought I heard a deer rustling and saw a car instead parked at the abandoned house and walked down to see if it was my neighbors or not. When in doubt, buy some land from/near the guy whose got a feeder out on the yard and a pickup. Get to know your neighbors, try not to overdue it, and let’s all hope that a Karen doesn’t move into the abandoned house next door. I’ve always said, you can say whatever you’d like to about me and I’m far from perfect… but I’ve always been a good neighbor.

Appreciate the response! Had an unexpected gift delivery at 3:47 yesterday. Heard some movement and switched the safety off until the fed ex guy came halfway up the drive and then tossed a package and slammed the gate. Then reversed down with the safety system beeping. And then had some activity at 5:02, sunset was 4:57 and at 5:12 I made an attempt to stalk. I couldn’t see confidently more than 30 yards so sat and listened and does seem they’re moving more at dusk. No luck near the morning stream yet but going to give it another shot tomorrow. Thanks for the input.

50 rounds per box. Brick of .22lr = 500 rounds. Breaks down to less than $0.26 a round which is a steal for match.

Actual conversation with my ma. Sometimes I forget what a saint she is. Dad got a laugh.

Would like to try to get one more in the freezer before the season ends. Noticed tonight at dusk that there appeared to be more out and about roadside than normal while going to the corner store. Now I’m debating whether I want to spend the next few days of my vacation up early at the crack of dawn to get hunkered down and settled in half hour prior to sunrise. Was wondering if anyone else saw any movement post “arctic blast”. If it weren’t my only time off in nearly over a year it wouldn’t be an issue, but also have some work that I could do around the house/yard/life while the weather is decent. Either way I’m going to give it a shot tomorrow morning, but would love to hear if anyone else saw higher than normal movement post storm. Hoping that I can get out while it’s still mid-40’s and they move a bit when the sun is up and it warms. Also not sure if I missed the majority moving around today with the huge temperature fluctuations. Thanks for any replies! Scotty

I could lend a hand. After all the random internet strangers that have been more than kind to me here, I’ll pay it forward. Shoot me a PM and well make it work. Definitely like the idea of working smarter.

Merry Christmas all. Didn’t want to hijack the thread earlier, seems like open discussion now. Have an Austrian gen 3 19. Round count of less than a couple hundred probably. Most likely still not broken I’m enough. For whatever reason I get a ton of FTE w 115gr. I feel like it’s most likely an ammo problem, as it’s cheap “ZSR” Turk#### ammo I bought. Runs fine out of all PCCs. Ran a couple mags today and experienced probably a 15% FTE rate. Being concerned, ran some HD rounds and no issues. Should I probably chalk it up to the ammo? Does anyone have experience running 115gr? Internet says it can be a thing, as well as there being some extractor issues with this gen, but the internet is massive. Someone’s always going to have a problem somewhere, especially when millions of these are shot fairly regularly. Second comment, admittedly I’m not a glock guy. Mainly a .22/12 gauge plinker. But, everyone touts “glock reliability”. I’ve thought of getting a p80 lower to do a fun buildout for target shooting (if anyone has a p80 lower, may be interested). I’ve steered away from milling and upgrading my 19 because once again the internet says that once you tinker around the reliability/resale goes down. Is this just glock fan boy stuff? Have left it stock as I’ve never been huge on Glocks and although I don’t sell often, I could see in the future I may be part with it. Just hoping to pick some TNGO brains rather than some unknown on a forum out of nowhere. Sat on these questions since the thread went up. Thanks, Merry Xmas all.

This is an unbelievable deal.

I'll take it. PM sent.

I’m a simple man. I’ll take it. Pm incoming.

There was a thread not too long ago about how people keep their HD shotguns. Exactly this thought crossed my mind. Thanks for posting, I think I’ll finally get around to 3D printing an adjustable wall hanger/mount.

If that deal falls through would take seconds. In Dickson a couple days a week. GLWS.

Will also add a deal: https://www.brownells.com/aspx/store/giftcertificate.aspx Buy $100 get a $25 free gift card, comments online have stated you can stack gift cards with promo codes, I believe Black Friday they did 15% off. Cannot use codes on gift cards. You are allowed to enter (3) gift cards per on-line order or up to (16) gift cards per phone order.

Actually need to mount an optic and was putting off a trip. By any chance did the price just jump back up? Was it perhaps a Black Friday or cyber Monday only deal? Showing $5.48 for me. Not an avid Amazon purchaser so sorry if this is a stupid question. Thank you kindly.

For what it’s worth, I’ve had decent luck with “ZSR” 114gr. Want to say I scored I deal for .265 per round including shipping. Its originally Turkish ammo but comes in a weird repackaged box titled like Buffalo ammunition, includes some Christian printout, it’s not reman and it’s reloadable brass. Read online that some people have hard primer strikes, haven’t experienced but have had a couple FTE. Little dirty but as long as your not mag dumping and using it for plinking/training I’m a fan of the price. https://www.velocityammosales.com/products/9mm-zsr-115-grain-full-metal-jacket-1000-round-case Recommend velocity for bulk purchases. Free shipping over $200. Hope that helps. (Amy batches did not look like the picture, was repackaged in that Buffalo brand boxing).

Cummings is a good guy. Deal w confidence. Welcome bud.

PM sent with trade offer.

I’ll take it. Will drive to Hendersonville. Pm sent.

Pm sent

I was gonna post that this will be gone in 20 minutes. That was precisely 15 minutes ago. Thank you for buying as I was having trouble holding back. Very good deal.

Will take the 19 if not already spoken for.