Will Carry

If you are on a horse in the Tennessee back woods, I envy you! I would get a Ruger Vaquero in .357 magnum and a nice western leather rig from Old El Paso Saddlery and match it up with a Henry Rifle of the same caliber.  I don't know how the 22LR became synonymous with a trail gun. I think it must be to make it sound cool. I would go with the .357 and chamber it with .357 but you can always opt for 38 special.

I have a CZ-75 SP-01. It's a full size all steel 9mm and I love it!  It's my favorite range gun and nightstand pistol.  It would be a "go to" pistol in a SHTF scenario.  I have not carried it concealed yet but I do have a pancake holster that holds the pistol and an extra 18 round magazine.

I have owned one .40 caliber pistol. A fine XDm-40. I eventually traded it and decided to stick with the 9mm and 45acp. I got nothing against the 40 it's just a matter of logistics.

       It is a good question. I wish I could answer it.

I think that is Tony Montana's uncle.  I have worked with some Anti-Castro Cubans. They hate communism and love America......like all Americans used to.

If you have found a pistol that your wife likes, you must be a good and patient husband.  My hat is off to you! 

 I have noticed that Hollywood is rewriting old movies instead of doing new movies. Think of how many stories of the old west that have not been told. So what does Hollywood do? Remake True Grit. They have also started a 3D craze. I hate 3D!  Half of the picture is out of focus. I want to see everything in focus.  I know people are not going to theaters like they used to. If people stop going to theaters, Hollywood will stop making movies. It will be the end of the world. My fondest memories of growing up was the smell of popcorn, the cigarette smoke in the rest rooms and the big screen. I still like going to the movies but if I'm going to drop $50 bucks to see a movie, it better be a good one.

That kind of reminds me of the new Lehigh round for the Judge and Governor. Ammunition technology is going through a renaissance.

I saw the same photo on a post claiming it was shot in the Sierra Nevadas in California.  I think there is only one dead Big Foot and they are moving the body to different states. ;)

Good Karma will do you well. Bad Karma is a bitch.

   If an LEO starts tail gating me and I think he's being unsafe, If a deer runs out in front of me, or a child, I'm going to stop fast, then I will pull off the road at a safe place. If he pulls off too and wants to chat, that's fine. I'm a law abiding tax payer and if he asks why I pulled over, I'll tell him straight up.  I have a good report with cops. My family is full of them.

Wow! Took his weapon and dropped out the magazine, in the blink of an eye.  Imagine what he could do if it was a real threat. Instead of holding that magazine he'd be holding your family jewels.

I tied a muzzle loader to a tree once and tied a string to the trigger. It worked, no problems.

I bought a Single Six without the magnum cylinder. Ruger said that for a price, they would fit a magnum cylinder for me. I decided to just stick with the 22lr cylinder, this revolver had a 5 inch barrel and the 22 magnum didn't offer that much. I do have a Single Six with a 9.5 inch barrel. A 22 magnum works well with the longer barrel.  How does 2000fps sound? Smokin'!

If I could just get my Hi-Point carbine to jam or fail to fire, I could probably think of a good joke.

    That could be but what kind of wind could blow a rock the size of a donut?  I think you are on to something even though the wheels being independently controlled doesn't mean they won't slip. It could have fallen off the rover and may have fallen on to the rover at some time previously! That's it!  I knew the rover was the most likely culprit but maybe the wheels aren't the cause. I love a mystery!      At a speed of 0.5 mph, I know it wasn't designed by a redneck. That's jest too slow.

  The Mars Rover is a source of potential energy.  Wheels rolling over rock, even slow rolling wheels, can slip if all of the weight of the rover is on the other wheels.  I see no other sources of enough energy to move a rock on Mars.  I'm thinking they are playing this for the media, trying to promote interest in the Mars Expedition.   Robert of NASHVILLE. I am very interested in astronomy, ever since I was a kid.  I know all the constellations and where many of the galaxies and nebula are. With computers you don't even need a telescope any more.

Anyone who has ever driven on rocky ground knows that wheels will kick up rocks. The Mars Rover that took this picture kicked up this rock as it drove away. I picked that up right away. If those Eggheads can't figure that out then they need to hire a Redneck to work with them.

Nice rifle! The 30-30 is the rifle I grew up shooting. It will put the meat on the table.

I knew it was one of them Yankees!  Thanks for the correction.  I am not sure about Sherman. I was taught that he was a pyromaniac that burned a sixty mile wide path through Georgia and South Carolina. Burned Atlanta and Columbia!  He was a villain when I grew up in Georgia.  Yet, after reading about him I don't hate him so much.  Houses, barns and even cities can be rebuilt but you cannot give a man his life back. I don't think Joe Johnston or John Bell Hood could have put the Army of Tennessee in a position to beat Sherman.  Who knows what Forrest could have done.

General Sherman once said "I want that devil Forrest dead if it costs us 10,000 troops and breaks the federal bank!"   After the war General Robert E. Lee was asked by a reporter "General, in your opinion, who was the best general of the war, north or south" Marse Lee responded "It is a man I have never met. His name is Forrest."   I have read Wyeth's book on Forrest and a few others. I still don't know what Forrest was really like. His tactics were brilliant. He never read a book on military tactics but he seemed to follow many of Tsun Tsu's doctrines.  He personally killed over 30 men and had nearly that many horses shot out from under him.  That was because he led from the front, a custom adopted by Patton and Rommel. If you have never read a book about Forrest, it is amazing what he did.  To me, he was the greatest cavalry leader I have ever read about. No offense to JEB Stuart but Forrest was not hampered by a West Point education.

   It's really hard to judge people who lived 150 years ago, by today's, politically corrected, standards. Is it possible to study the past without forming some kind of opinions? Probably not.       One of the reason's the southern colonies rebelled against the king of England was that the king was on the verge of abolishing slavery in his colonies. The rich southern aristocracy had amassed tremendous wealth and power through King Cotton and they did not want their system threatened.       Had the south successfully seceded from the union, how long would slavery have lasted?  King Cotton was a flash in the pan. The south didn't have much topsoil to begin with and cotton was ruining what there was. Before the Civil War you could travel from Atlanta to Montgomery and it would be one great cotton field after another. Now that soil is so bad it will hardly grow pines, scrub maple and briars. Much of it has been converted to pasture land because nothing else will grow there.

It is a little known fact that the Union occupation forces in West Tennessee were wrought with corruption. They did great injustice to Tennesseans living in the area.  The union commander of Fort Pillow (Lionel Booth) was a known scoundrel involved in smuggling, extortion, thievery and barbaric acts against civilians.  He occupied Fort Pillow against Grant's orders and used it as a base of operations for his criminal gang. You never here this part of history because the winners get to write their version. Lionel Booth was not his real name, he changed it to keep his own family members from hunting him down. Booth died at the battle of Fort Pillow.     Forest tried to stop the massacre but it had gotten out of hand. A group of union soldiers who had surrendered decided they wanted to UNsurrender, in the confusion of battle and the burning hatred of Forrest's men, it was hence called a massacre. A union army investigation cleared Forrest and his men of any wrong doing, but history did not.    Forrest once said to General Steven Lee, after Lee had lost a battle, "Don't feel bad general. If I had me a West Point education, the Yankees would be whippin' me too."  Forrest's tactics were studied in detail by a young German officer named Erwin Rommel.....

I have a CZ-75 SP-01. It has been 100% reliable.  Which puts it ahead of my Glock and tied with my XD-45.

The 38 special is going to be a shorter round than the .357 so you well get some build up at the end of your cylinder. This sometimes makes the .357 rounds a little harder to load. I just make sure I clean the cylinder bores and look to see if there is any build up. I shoot 38 special in my .357 often but it's not as much fun as a full house .357 load.