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I've been looking into a .22 suppressor.

By the way, in Tennessee it's called a HCP for Handgun Carry Permit. You are not required to carry concealed but most do.

I heard the government is allowing cars to be taken over the border into Mexico illegally. I think it's called Project Car Runner. Supposedly, some of those cars have have been used to commit crimes against some of our agents.

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Very, very dedicated customer...... I think we're past a dozen "recommendations" in a day.

I love my M&P 40. What's a Glock?

This ^^^^

Welcome from your neighbor in Hamblen County. Here's a good site for Handguns laws across the country. It's pretty helpful unless you plan to never travel out of the state of TN. Handgunlaw.us

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My wife's Bond Arms Snake Slayer likes any .410 you feed it. Just hang on.

Good Dad.

I'm almost in the same boat. I live about halfway between Knoxville and Tri Cities. It's about an hour and a half to any range, indoor or out. Heck, the cost of using the range isn't the problem for me, it's the minimum three hours driving to and from the range. My wife and I we're talking earlier this morning about trying to go shoot but after checking the forecast, it looks like a gamble. I hate to drive that far and arrive in pouring rain or such a crowd that you can't get much range time in. A little closer would reduce the risk a bit. I've asked around, looking for alternatives but haven't come up with anything. It'd be great to get a group together and lease some land just to shoot on. I'd be willing to spend a couple hundred a year to have somewhere nearby to shoot. A local gun shop was going to put in an indoor range last year but from what I hear, the county put a stop to it somehow. Too many lib antis around here I guess.

I think we have a winner!

OK, you got me. Someone finally overcame the dimmer issue. For the $23 it would cost for a new dimmer switch, I'll just stick to the incandescent for now. Incandescent bulbs contain a filament in inert gas. Fluorescent and CFL bulbs contain small amounts of mercury. Not sure where you got your "scientific fact". The interwebs are full of them. I used to work for a company that makes light bulbs. No mercury is used in an incandescent bulb. Although the chart was captivating, I wasn't referring to, or concerned about, mercury emissions from producing the power used to operate the light but I'll definitely take that into consideration when I start hugging trees and worrying about global warming. Here's what I was referring to: Cleaning Up a Broken Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb (CFL) | Cleanup and Safe Disposal of Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs | US EPA Remember, I'm a grumpy old guy. I won't be swayed but you made a valiant attempt.

Ha ha Hee Haw

I keep a supply. The new bulbs don't work in any light with a dimmer. They're either on or off. They apparently have a minimum voltage threshold. I like the control of a dimmer switch. I have, though, been replacing my non-dimmer bulbs with the new style through attrition. The new bulbs are supposed to last longer than the incandescent bulbs. I'm not sure, then, why I've had to replace three of the new style bulbs in the last couple of months while some of the incandescent bulbs in my home (non-dimming) are still burning strong and have been for years. The new bulbs are more expensive and I believe they contain mercury making them hazardous. If they last no longer than the incandescent bulbs, I don't believe the higher price offsets the savings in energy costs. Who comes up with this stuff and why? If I need to make light, I'll take an incandescent. It'll make light with a limited or unstable voltage supply. The new style will not. I wish we could go back to the technology level of the 1960s. I don't need cell phones, computers, GPS, ipods, fancy light bulbs, digital TV, or Glocks. My age is showing, isn't it? Yep, I'm a grumpy, old fashioned man. Give me a party line (Google it if it makes no sense), a map, AM radio, and a 1911 and I'm good to go.

Only in my dreams.

You're correct! In fact, it should be part of the US Constitution.....oh.....wait....

Check K-Var.

A friend emailed this to me and I thought it was hilarious. I did a search and couldn't find it posted yet. It's a little long but well worth it. Enjoy. (A letter Why we shoot deer in the wild from someone who wants to remain anonymous, who farms, writes well and actually tried this) I had this idea that I could rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home. I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up - 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it, it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope .., and then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer-- no Chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals. A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope. I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in. I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back. Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when ..... I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and slide off to then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head--almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts. The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp ... I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -like a horse - strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape. This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run. The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down. Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head. I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope......to sort of even the odds!! All these events are true so help me God... An Educated Farmer

Ever notice that in nearly every suspect description, a hoodie is mentioned. I always thought they were called hooded sweatshirts but I guess that was before they became evil. I didn't get that memo. I still have a few but I still call them sweatshirts and I never feel like committing a crime when I wear one. They must be too old. Perhaps there should be signs on doors that say "No Hoodies". That would be as effective in preventing crime as a "No Guns" sign. Perhaps more so. Hoodies are harder to conceal. I'm sure one of you creative geniuses can come up with that. Edit: Here we go...

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Even considering the difference in the value of a dollar 40 years ago and today, I think I'd take that deal.

A couple of former coworkers used to travel to northern California every summer on vacation to a claim they had there. They didn't get rich but they had a great time and covered all of their expenses and sometimes a little more. They did it year after year. They'd always bring back their gold to show what they got. It never looked like much and I never saw any nuggets but they always seemed pleased with the results. My dad used to take my kids into the mountains of western NC to pan for gold. They never found any but they had fun just being out there. That's kind of how I fish. I'll just tie on a sinker and throw it in, kick back and enjoy being on the lake. Catching a fish would just be an interruption.