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Well Boom, we could tell you, but then we would have to kill you. I will say we handled a rocket launcher and a couple of other goodies. Other than that and Mexican food all info is classified.

Great... Next you will tell us that there is no Easter Bunny.

Mars I would like to shoot that smokepole , bring it if it is not trouble. I will be bringing some of the cap and ball stuff. Don't need to use the Pyro now as I scored some fff BP yesterday up in Greenville. A place called Hearthstone. I wish I had time to spend looking around there a bit, all I had was enough time to run in and make my purchase and get back on the road again. I will try to not forget the pop-up canopy tomorrow. It almost always scares the rain away.

PM sent Dave. Anyone else from Knoxville going?

I'm in. 10-ish at Mark's.

I have never seen one in person but I know my other Ruger revolvers are top shelf stuff and I would have figured that the ROA was of the same kind of quality, fit and finish. Jamie I wish you would change your avitar, seeing that white steel '58 makes me want to strip mine down and I am not sure I want to do that. Your avatar taunts me, lol.

I use a few different chemicals for gun cleaning. Different guns get different chemicals. I like Break Free CLP for cleaning the cartridge revolvers. It works as good as anything for the fouling that packs up around the forcing cone. Break Free is good for removing leading too, both in the barrel and on the cylinder. I finish with one drop of Remoil on a part of the action. A little goes a long way of that stuff. Break Free would be just fine in the action instead fo Remoil. Semi autos pistols and rimfire rifles get Smith and Wesson Bore and Action Cleaner sprayed into wherever I am not completely disassembling the gun. The stuff flushes dirt out and you wipe it up. I use Hoppes to swab the barrels out. Remoil on the tupperware guns. Just a drop where there is metal on metal contact. Outers Gunoil used liberally on the RIA 1911. I have spray can of Remington Rem-Drilube. It sucks! I ought to throw it away as I never use it. I prefer to buy the Break Free in the small 4 oz. bottle. Using it with the dispensing straw, just one drop goes a long way. This bottle has lasted me a over 4 months. Another good way to get very bad lead fouling off of something is to soak it in a 50/50 mix of diesel fuel and Break Free. It is harsh on the hands but not on the metal gun parts. Really saves effort. The longer is soaks the easier the crud comes off. When I clean the Ruger I typically soak the cylinder in a small jelly jar of this stuff. 12 cents worth of diesel and $1 worth of Break Free last forever. Black Powder revolvers get cleaned by using scalding hot tap water and Dawn Dish detergent. Basically I disassemble the pistol as far as I feel I need to and put the parts in a bowl and scrub the parts up with soap and water. Never use Dino based lubes on these guns. Crisco and olive oil are what I use. Hot water is just to heat up the metal so the water will evaporate quicker. Cold water will work just as well in a pinch. Some people bake their gun parts in the oven at about 200 degrees to dry the moisture and heat the metal so it will suck up gun oil when you wipe it down. I have done this but I am not convinced it makes a difference.

no skwashdem where is Gray? Where do you get on the 40 or 81 eastbound at? Maybe we could meet on the way and you could follow. I know how to get there just not any street names.

Dave if you want to meet at 8:15 we can pick a spot you will drive by and meet there. like right at the Washington Pk exit off 640. that would put us at Mark's at about 10 am

It's in the rules, really. The permit is not actually valid until used at WalMart.

I think Austin's charges $115 but that includes the NRA basic pistol course. Knox County Sherrif Regional Training Center charged $85, and you shoot using their range out by the county jail. It is run by a Sgt. Lett who does gun training for newby county LEOs

I really could care less if I am printing or if the thing is exposed. Actually I hope people see it so they will think I am cool.

enjoy your trip to WalMart

and they are also claiming to have landed on the moon!! You heard that one yet?

Found evidence this morning of another covert rodent operation in the basement. I was sitting here on the computer and I would hear a noise every once in a while. I have heard them noises before. Sounded suspiciously like a chipmunk. Having his way in my garage. I put down two cage traps baited with peanut butter on a piece of bread, used the pb to work like an adhesive on the plate in the trap. About 15 minutes later I heard one of the traps spring. Sure enough a chipmunk is inside. Well I just got through with taking care of the little fellow. Needless to say is he will not be coming back tonight. the traps work pretty well, yesterday me and the grandson caught a squirrel in one. Put it in the yard with the same pb and bread hors d'oeuvre, bang about an hour later we had one. Of course he meant no harm so we just let the dog chase him up a tree.

The guy knew what he was doing. He would have been better to off to be honest about what was going on. You did not do anything wrong, sucks to not be able to trust people. I dunno but I bet you would have bought it anyway. Seems you know how to get it running and all. Did you contact him about it? I'd call him out on it with an email at the least.

A grenade is a "destructive device". I dunno but I am guessing they are fairly well regulated. So the short answer is no you cannot get a real live grenade.

Pokeys gun falling apart on him?

tell me a little more about the Remington

The problem with gunbroker is that people use it as a price guide. For example, a guy I work with has a Ruger single six he was wanting to sell. He brought it in to let me look at it. well it is pretty much a POS, early 70's model and never taken care of. Someone shellacked or eurathaned the grip and grip straps, it has rust and the action is not very smooth. Something is wrong with it basically. I guess its at about 60% condition. He asks me to look it up on the internet, and Gunbroker has similar model guns selling for near 400 bucks. Does not matter that they are NIB and his is a POS. I ask a friend to look up the gun in a blue book and there is a value of $110. That of course is if it has the magnum cylinder, which it doesn't. I offer to buy the thing for $75 and of course he gets made and says I am trying to rip him off thinking his POS is worth near $400. So gunbroker did not help me any, lol I wanted it as a project gun, it will still shoot but it needs work and who knows what fixing the action could cost. Funny if you hold it and cock it homeboy style it works fairly smooth, but with the sights up it is hard to cock.

I agree with everyonne that going CHEAP is not the route to take in this matter. You would have been better asking who was the best to take the class from. With that question you would have recieved a couple of good answers.

I find them entertaining. I think I get something for the ten bucks. It is like a cover charge in a bar, or even buying a ticket to the baseball game. Sometimes being entertained costs money.

I looked around the basement here earlier tonight. There were three:eek: guns lying around. Only ammo in one, my carry gun. The grandson does not even look twice at this stuff. He has been exposed since , forever. I do not and never will leave loaded guns laying around but it always eases my mind when he does not pay them any attention. I have a cabinet down here. It holds stuff like my Dale Earnhardt shrine, a few die cast cars, sports memorablia. The grandson knows he is not ever, ever ever allowed to mess with that stuff. It sits behind glass doors. All the little bugger wants to do is play with the stuff. Always asking me, and always hearing NO, LOL. Guns, who cares, the Boomer Esiason action figure he is all about it. Just shows that if it is commonplace and they can touch it they don't want to. Let them know you have it and don't allow them to touch it and they want it bad. Keeping kids safe with weapons involves training right out of the box.

got no answer for that, I wondered the same thing. I also do not believe it can be converted to a cartridge. Something to do with the shape of the hammer and the slot through the frame where it impacts the percussion caps.

on an Uberti 1873 .44 BP revolver. Never seen on of these before, it is not in Uberti's catalogue or website. Was not at Cabelas two weeks ago, last time I scowered their website. Pretty good price too. They even include a loading base for under $250 bucks. What a deal! Uberti 1873 Cattleman's 5.5" .44 Cal. Black Powder Pistol $239.99