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and I was thinking Rodina was one of Godzilla's oponents

mine is 7 years old and still works like new. The telescoping has gotten sticky before and I needed another person to help get it free. I did not have enough strenght to twist it by myself. We got it free easily enough. I put is litte remoil on it and it has been fine ever since fine. I am guessing if I went out periodically and lowered the pole it would have never gotten sticky at all. Even if it sticks the pole is easily removed from the base and you can still change out the flag.

I had a Hi Point JCP .40 S&W and sold it for whatever reason a few years ago. After a little while i really regretted it. The last gun show here in Knox I bought another NIB one, 155 bucks plus tax and tics. Took it out the next day to shoot it. The gun shot awesome. Two failures to load( out of 100 rounds) but I blame operator error on it, loose grip. All other rounds shot well, the gun functioned great. It grouped well and shot right to point of aim with no sight adjustments. I have put more rounds through it since then and no failures at all. Fit and finish are as good as any gun I have handled. The safety is frame mounted and the slide stays open after the last shot Yes it is big and bulky, but I would rather shoot it if I needed too than throw it. And if I need to shoot it, I am very sure it will do the job. The gun is 100% American made with a warranty second to none. NO way to go wrong by owning one. As for the OP, I assume his post was a joke and taken that way by me.

my favorite was always " Gas, grass or ass, nobody rides for free"

while I never took a paid for class from Mike Crowe I have shot with him several times. He is very knowledgable. And I have no doubt whatsoever that he runs a great class. IIRC he also teaches at the Knox County Sheriffs Regional Training Center, that in itself proves his resume.

had to google that Rodina thing.

thanks for puting that up Dolomite. People are more concerned with Lady Gaga, hats at a royal wedding and a kid going to a prom than the real dangers to our way of life. Most of us here (TGO) do not fall into this catagory thankfully. But the vast majority of citizens do seem to fall into it. We all should be rightfully scared at what will happen if the course the country is on is not righted. The protection in this country from terrorism starts and ends with making our borders secure and this is where the effort should be placed, not with giving the president unlimited power to trample on our rights. Congress is a runaway train and I doubt much short of starting over can stop it.

Oh things happened alright, just nothing to do with boogymen or space creatures, LOL UFO's and aliens actually help explain the voodoo that is the bible.

you can buy some x54r ammo on the cheap alright. It is as cheap as any high powered round can be. I am with you, would rather have a few ammo cans full of nine MM now.

I just stick to 3X5 foot flags, we have a huge one that flew over the white house but I have never unfurled it.

while I hate it now I won't sell it. LOL

ahahahahaha

Erik have you shot the revolver yet? And I might be old but I am very handsome. Can't say that much for Garufa and Donald Sutherland.

never had anything paranormal happen while tripping

I hate them freaking guns. They have cost me near two grand, and I am not talking just about guns and ammo, but dental work. Can darn well attribute my 91-30 to two crowns and root canals. Rifle concussion crumbled one tooth, granted it was on the way south anyway but still. And the other I swear it killed the tooth, shot the gun fifty times or so that day, well maybe 150 times. Started the drive home and noticed a very distinct tooth ache. Both teeth were in the cheek side that sits on the stock. I am scared to shoot it anymore.

ixnay on the advertising of Orrisnay. ssshhhhhhhhhh.........

Another time, late 70's I was sharing a two family house with two guys and a married couple and their small child. We got to talking one night and someone mentioned how he had woke up at 3:20 the last two night feeling like something was wrong and had gone around checking the doors and windows to make sure nothing fishy had gone on. I was thinking to myself "WHAT!" The two nights prior to the two he mentioned I had woke up at 3:20 and did the same exact thing, went and checked the doors and windows. The other dude said "bullfeathers" ( or something like that ) he had woke up the two night previous to my two nights at 3:20 and did the same exact thing. Another night a bunch of us were hanging out in the living room doing what we did and the record came to an end, right then we heard keys jangling in the front door and saw the doorknob turn, we all heard it and saw it. No one other than the married guys Dad ( and he never came over unannounced) had a key to the house aside from us sitting right there, Jim jumped up and grabbed the door throwing it open, no one was there. I know darn well the door knob turned. Another night in that same living room, I was there with Jim and a couple of guys who did not live with us. All of the sudden we all smelled something real bad, some real foul odor, can't even explain what it was. And right then three of the four of us saw a beam of light shoot from the front door corner of the room and disappear into the middle of the living room floor. Really creepy just remembering this stuff. That house had issues. Several times previous to this stuff all happening the broom we kept in the kitchen corner would fall to the floor for no reason. I mean it would sit there for a week or longer. It's not like we spent a lot of time sweeping, LOL and all the sudden WHAM you would hear it fall and it was not like it slipped and fell, it was like someone flung it to the floor. We all got together one night and discussed what was going on. Oddly nothing ever happened on the second floor where the married couple lived, just on the first floor aside from my 3:20 wanderings from the third floor. We decided that the house was haunted and we needed to do something about it. So our decision was to have a big blow out Halloween Party to calm the spirits or run them off. Halloween was a couple months away so we planned out this big party. The party was epic, best Halloween party I have ever been at. After that party nothing ever happened again, no wake ups in the middle of the night, no more keys and doorknobs, no bolts of light, no more broom action. It was over.

looks like a S&W Sigma

We have had bad weather here often enough in the 7 years the pole has been in the ground and never a problem. I do buy inexpensive nylon flags that even sopping wet do not weigh much. I had a real nice stitched nylon flag, the stripes were all stitched and the stars were too, it did not hold up any better than the cheapo ones. Anyway I change out the flags about twice a year or maybe three times in two years, just depends. Lunar I neglected to mention the poles are telescoping, no ropes to break or keep tied down.

Harbor Freight sells flagpoles. mine is a 16 foot model, IIRC is was 30 bucks or so, even came with a genuine American flag. I think now that have a 20 foot model. I know according to flag flying rules that flags need to some down at night unless illuminated and should not be flown in stormy rainy weather. I fly mine 24-7-365. I carry patriotism only so far, LOL. When it gets dingy or tattered I do change it out for a new one. But I have never had any problems flying it in the weather we get, the pole is a straight as the day I set it.

I have had several experiences. There was a crew of us hanging out with a buddy of mine sometime around 1976. We were all in his third floor bedroom listening to music and just doing what normal teens did then. The bedroom has been his grandfathers and the bed Bob had was the actual bed his Grandad passed in. So Bob who was a musician was talking about some sheet music he had, a song titled Atlantis ( IIRC). He said he had it the previous night. He was looking around and noticed an edge of paper under a big ass PA speaker that was in the room. He rocked it up and pulled out the piece of sheet music, in it appearing to have been burned by a cigarette were the words " I live". Bob did not smoke, hated smoking, his grandfather died from cancer due to smoking. About the time he found the sheet music I saw a fog appear in his dresser mirror, like someone breathed on it, and right about then the beads hanging in the doorway swung open just like if someone walked though them, and right about then the lights went out as if someone hit the wall switch. Finding the sheet music, the breath in the mirror, the beads swinging and the lights going out all happened with a couple of seconds. Creepyness immediately filled the room, we all looked at each other and hauled ass out of the room and headed down the steps. Got to the door to the second floor and it would not open. Just like it was bolted shut. Well the door had no bolt at all, nothing ever held the door shut other than gravity and it being closed into the door frame. I had been upstairs in his room a hundred times. There was nothing connected to the door knob to latch. After a few good shoves by the guy nearest the door it opened and we got the hell out of there. Man, it gives me goose bumps thinking about it thirty five years later. Funny thing was Bob never ran out with us. We all got outside and he came down saying to come back, that it was his grandpa and it was cool. None of us went back up then. I don't recall where we went. I went back many times after that day and while creeeped out nothing else ever happened.

all of Aguila is top of the line ammo

why not the Great Smoky Mountains National Park? That is a no brainer if they have never been before.

Hey boy, I resemble that remark.

Noticing your piece is their problem.