Will Carry

Sorry if you have seen this before.....but it speaks for itself.

Don't feel bad. We all got liberals in the family somewhere. They may even change as they get older..........

That is true and many good teachers quit after a few years to get good paying jobs. That's the way it has always been. For my wife, teaching was great in that whenever our children were off, she was off too. I think a lot of women stay in teaching for that reason. Throwing money at a problem never has worked but saying that teachers are overpaid and have lavish benefits is unfair. If we want our children to be able to compete in the world economy we must invest in getting them the best education possible. It will pay off in spades 20 years from now. If we fail to do so, I hate to think what will happen to our countries future.

Thanks guys. You are both correct. I was watching basketball while I was typing. I edited out the rabbit punch and curly neal.

While visiting kin folk in Stockton AL. My cousin Thelma, her boy friend "Big'un", my gay cousin Johnny and me went to the Colonial Inn in Bay Minette. Now I did know Johnny was gay but everybody else in the county did. Thelma was a farm girl with a great body but her boy friend "Big'un" looked like a big fat Curly Howard of the Three Stooges. Big'un helped my change a tire on my VW once. He lifted up the back end for me. So we were sitting at a table and the four guys next to us kept making comments like "****** and queer". Loud enough for us to hear. This 4 guys were big biker looking dudes and I knew they were looking for trouble. Thelma got up to get another pitcher and when she walked by those 4 biker looking dudes one of them stuck out his hand and grabbed Thelma's butt. Things happened fast after that. Thelma turned around and started cussin' this guy out like I ain't never heard. She has a gift for that. The guy made a big mistake. He stood up and started actin' all bad ass. Thelma punched him the stomach and I guess he wasn't expecting that. He double doubled over and Thelma continued to punch him like a punching bag. Big'un picked up our table! Picked it up, walked over to the other three guys, who were gaulkin' and dropped the table on them. Two guys got out from under the table but one guy didn't make it. Big'un jumped up on the upturned table and started jumpin' up and down. Thelma was still beating this guy. Big'un was crushing the guy under the table and I was squared off with the other two. Big'un stopped jumpin' up and down, reached in his pocket for his truck keys, threw them to Johnny and said "Git the truck!". As we were pulling out of the parking lot three police cars were pulling in. The good part is no one was seriously hurt. No guns or knives were used. Those were the good old days.

What ever happened to a good old fashioned fist fight?

That's true! He busted the air traffic controller union. I forgot about that. Wasn't he the head of the screne actors guild? I've never been in a union, being a southerner and all, but FOX got on my bad side when they started talking about teachers making $51K and getting lavish benefits and all. My mother was a school teacher and my wife is a retired school teacher. I'm a blue collar worker. Those FOX "news" talking heads are making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and they are totally out of touch with the working man (and women). They do not speak the Republican party I know. They say what ever it takes to keep their ratings up. They are payed to be conservative. I'm that way by nature.

Get one of them game cameras set up and take a picture of the perp. Give the picture to the local DA and have him arrested. I had a similar problem and hid a game camera. Some of the local kids were cutting my fence. It worked like a charm. I showed the film to the boys parents. It worked out well. Primos Truth Cam 46 Infrared Digital Game Camera 5.0 Megapixel Matrix Camo - MidwayUSA

This is my Republican party. Fox "news" has gone too far, they do not speak for me. Ronald Reagan: "Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. They remind us that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. You and I must protect and preserve freedom here or it will not be passed on to our children and it would disappear everywhere in the world. Today the workers in Poland are showing a new generation how high is the price of freedom but also how much it is worth that price." And… “Collective bargaining in the years since has played a major role in America’s economic miracle. Unions represent some of the freest institutions in this land. There are few finer examples of participatory democracy to be found anywhere. Too often, discussion about the labor movement concentrates on disputes, corruption, and strikes. But while these things are headlines, there are thousands of good agreements reached and put into practice every year without a hitch.â€

True! The M3, like the Bell P-39 Airacobra, were cool machines but they were out classed and flawed from the start.

Wasn't that a cool tank! It went toe to toe with Rommel before the Sherman arrived.

I can't possibly be the last one to learn this on TGO. Can I? Who else didn't know? Speak up, don't be shy. It doesn't make us stupid just unread in handgun history. Can you name my tank and give me the caliber of the hull gun and the turret gun?

The Nambu was one of the worst service pistol of World War Two. Bill Ruger had a small machine shop in Southport Conn. He redesigned it into the Standard .22 Automatic. It was so successful that..........it launched the entire company. We copied something from the Japanese, and made it better.

http://i.imgur.com/Tz0m3.png This is a funny reply from another forum on modifying an AK-47. Do to the language I can't copy and paste in on TGO.

I'm seeing the interchangable backstraps as the newest rage in handguns. I have'm on my XDm-40 and Glock 19 gen 4, I see Beretta is now offering them on their Storm. I tried them on my XDm and Glock and to tell you the truth, I couldn't tell one from another and can't say any of them make me a better shooter. I went back to the backstrap that came with the pistol. Am I missing something? Or do you have to be a compeditive class shooter to know the difference?

As you get older your eyeballs get harder, less ellastic. This means that you can no longer focus up close. It only gets worse and lasers can't cure it. What I do is a) learn to line up blurry sights,(In a self defense situation you won't have time to put on glasses) wear reading glasses. The bad part about wearing glasses is that the sights are in focus, but the target is blurry. (My vision is 20/20 beyond 3 feet.) I have found that 1.25 reading glasses work best for me. The sights are clear and the target is just a little blurry. Laser sights and red dot sights also work great.

WD-40 is great stuff. It does have limited lubrication properties but I wouldn't use it on a fire arm. I use it on work benches to prevent rust. Once the solvent evaporates it leaves a thin film of oil.

Man has survived because he is a social species. When the SHTF you social group will be very important. Probably more important that what arms you have. A lone wolf doesn't live for long. You must run with a pack, with a group of good, strong, morally upright people. I think you should have a flint lock and a bow and anything else that works. You'll have to learn how to fight with all weapons, with your bare hands. You'll have to learn to live off the land, to ignore pain, ignore weather, to eat things that would make a Billygoat puke.

"The best weapon you can carry is between your ears." I went 54 years before I started carrying. I sometimes wonder if carrying a handgun has dulled my instincts for survival. Of course I can't run any more (plantar faciitis), can fight anymore (facets disease) the only good thing is I still look tough. I'm 6'3" and 225lbs and I don't look like a victim.

That's a great turn around. They had my M85 for 6 months. That was a couple of years ago. I really liked my little M85 snubby. I always wanted the pimp version with the gold and pearl.... I traded my M85SSUL for an XDm-40. (plus cash). There's something about the snub nosed 38sp that appeals to me. I have a S&W model 36 now.

Hey Ya'll...watch this! My mother used to work at the emergency room in Bay Minette AL. One night they brought in a guy who had been run over by a VW Beetle. They were riding through a pasture with the guy standing on the running board. They were trying to get close enough to a deer so that he could jump on it and kill it with his knife. Alcohol was involved.

GLOCK "SAFE ACTION" PISTOL THE top product among the small arms of the world is without doubt the GLOCK "Safe Action" pistol. It employs innovative safety features which makes the pistol easy to operate. Glocks have three safeties, a trigger saferty, firing pin safety and a drop safety. They are called "double action only" pistols. They are double action not single action. 1911s are single action.

The 9mm is the cheapest pistol to shoot of all centerfire ammo. It's not a bad self defense round either. I know you didn't ask about that but I just thought, if you are new to shooting, you might not know. The 40 S&W round is like a 9mm on steriods. It has the stopping power of a 45acp, more or less. The .45acp is a big slow moving round. It has much less pressure than a 40 S&W. Before I bought a 40, I would get a 9mm and a 45acp. Although I love my Springfield XDm-40, I don't shoot it much. I shoot 9mm and 45acp mostly. Getting back to your original post.....If you pay the extra money for a Sig, you will get it back when you sell it. They retain value better than any pistol I know of besides H&K. I consider Sig and H&K the best polymer pistols on earth, but I own Glocks and Springfileds because they are more affordable, just as reliable and to really appreciate the difference you have to be a good shot and I'm not a good shot....yet.

It took me 6 months to get my M85 snubby back. The cylinder pin would get stuck and would not lock up with the frame, making the gun inoper...inoperab....a paper weight. Even after it got back it would still stick. I did learn how to remove it and clean it but I sold it asap. I really like the Taurus line of pistols and revolvers. I think they are very inovative and they are affordable. It's just a hassle to have to send it back, even if it is under warrenty. I wish they would get rid of the lifetime warrenty and make a better pistol.

I am planning a canoe trip down the French Broad River this spring to catch Smallmouth. I was thinkng late May or early June but I ain't a Smallmouth fisherman. What would be the best time to catch Smallmouth in the shallow waters of the French Broad up at the North Carolina line?