Will Carry

A plain blade. Serated knives are called "Steak Knives". I've been a blue collar worker for 30 years and I have always carried a pocket knife. I have carried serated edge knives but I always go back to straight edges. Serated edges will get you cut.

Aren't the South Korean's on OUR side? I know the ROK helped us in Nam. Tough little dudes!

What does EDC stand for? SOG Flash Tanto. No serations.

I carry a SOG Flash spring assist with a Tanto blade. The only serrated blades I own are kitchen steak knives.

The pistols you mentioned will do just fine. Buying a pistol is the easy part, learning how to use it in a self defense scenario is harder. What ever pistol you get, you will learn to shoot it well. I carry a Smith and Wesson Chief's Special. I practice (unloaded) drawing it and creating distance between me and the threat, in my back yard. Like on those U-tube videos. The bad guys are not all stupid thugs, some of them have had training and use practiced techniques that involve ambush, distraction and multiple attackers. When good guys train, they are only leveling the playing field. Good luck on your purchase!

I'll +1 the 180 gr Hornady XTP. I'm thinking about buying a lever action .357 16" barrel myself, for hunting the bush. I've been looking at Marlin, Rossi and Henry.....among others.

Spot on old boy!

Colt makes a fine pistol. I have heard some of the trash talk but my Colt 1911 is my most reliable handgun. It is a series 80 and I have shot hundreds of rounds through it of every kind of ammo and it has bever failed. I think the rash talk was started by Kimber lovers.

The southern colonies supported the revolutionary war because Britian was abolishing slavery in her colonies. Without the support of the slave owners (southern power brokers) Britain may have won he revolutionary war and we would be like Canada. The first US congress debated for weeks on whether or not to abolish slavery. It was a close vote. The problem was readdressed in 1861............

Diet Coke.

Tarawa was no cake walk. In many ways the lessones learned a Tarawa saved lives on Iwo Jima. Tarawa was a ClusterF#$@!. From the very begining it was a sh!# storm of a ClusterF#$@!. The Navy still had not learned how to shoot their guns. They were too far out to sea to really hit anything and their shooting was pathetic. If they hit any Jap bunkers it was just by luck. They got the tides wrong and the landing craft and amracs got stuck on reefs. Marines had to wade 700 yards fully exposed to Jap motors and machine guns. Then they had to fight against well dug in defensive positions, in tropical heat. You really should read a book about Tarawa before you go calling it a "cake walk", no offense intended. Iwo Jima was bad and so was Okinawa, but fighting the Japs anywhere was never a cake walk. Tarawa may have been the worst battle the Marines fought in WWII ......except for all the rest.

I was refering to California and other screwed up liberal states that have a 10 round limit on magazines. Tennessee and North Carolina have no such law. I have an XD-45 and an XDm 40 that have "full capacity" magazines.

Was is it about 10 rounds? You can have a ten round magazine and use it for self defense but "ELEVEN rounds! Oh no. You will just have to do with ten. We couldn't possibly let you have eleven. You would be a danger to the public with one extra round." That is BS. I can't understand why nobody has called them on that. There should be no limits on magazine capacity. That has nothing to do with it.

This story is a little long but it is true. If I'd done that today I would have been fired and maybe even arrested. Back in 1977 I was going to School at Nashville Tech in their Co-op program. They got me a job working at Nashville Electric Service one summer. My job was to hang pole tags. Every pole has a number that corresponds to a map grip and then a number to identify the specific pole. Whenever the line crews would find an untagged pole they called it in. It was a great job for a kid. They gave me an old station wagon, no AC, no power steering, with "NES" on the side and a yellow bubblegum machine on top. My motto was "Leave no pole untagged". I was all over Davidson County and the surrounding area. There was one rule that NES made me follow. I was not to put myself in any danger, particularly from BAD DOGS. When I came to a place that had bad dogs I would put the tag aside and it would be placed in the "BAD DOG" box back at the office. I came to a pasture with a Brahma bull in it: Bad Dog. I went out to Bill Monroe's (Father of Bluegrass) farm north of Ashland City and had 30-40 hounds surround my car: Bad Dog. By the end of the summer I had a box full of bad dog tags. These were real bad dog tags. I know dogs and I only included the really bad ones in the bad dog box. The summer came to and end and I had to go back to school for a quater and on my last day I had to train my replacement. He was a wide-eyed young African-American fellow named Sam Hatcher, a class mate and a friend of mine. I showed him how to get the tags, plan his route for the day and fill out the paperwork at the end of each day. As I opened that cabinet to get him his tags for his first day, the BAD DOG box was right there. I had no idea that Sam was afraid of dogs but the devil in me said to give him the BAD DOG tags. When he left the office for the day I told eveyone what I'd done and word soon spread throughout the building. When Sam came back that afternoon, he walked in the office and he was ashy, shakin' and all torn up, just shaking his head. People were laughing until they cried, rolling on the floor. People from other departments came in laughing and shaking Sam's hand. Everyone liked Sam after that and he did very well as a Pole Tag Hanger. Although on his first day, he didn't hang a single tag.

I have run across a gun safe that had been pryed open, I notified the park ranger. When ever I find an old chimney in the woods I like to look around. I look for the well and the outhouse, so I don't fall in. I have never found much more than so old bottles. I do like to wonder who lived there and when, then try to get an idea of how the homestead was layed out. Sometimes you find old rose bushes and other plants that they planted. The Tennessee countryside has lots of old chimneys.

I will take it back to the range and do some more testing. I don't think it was me since I shoot my XD-45, 1911 and .357 well. BUT. I'm no fancy pistol shooter. There is this kid that works at the range I go to. He's the best shot I've ever seen. He shots competitively. I'll let him shoot it and see what he says. IF it is the gun. What do I do?

It shoots great new out of the box. It's a hungry handgun and went through 100 rounds and wanted more. Just one problem. It is shooting to the left about 3 inches at 21 feet. They are fixed sights. How can I adjust these sights? Should I take it to an expert? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

When they come knocking at your door, it will be too late. You will already have your guns stashed in the ground out in the garden. They will not be able to confiscate your guns any more than th ey can get the gangster's guns. I don't recommend going down fighting with a SWAT team. "No one ever won a war by dying for their country." George C Scott in PATTON. When it comes to defending your freedom, you will not be alone.

I really like the Coosa WMA and Frozenhead State Park. Daddys Creek Canyon and the Obed River are spectacular. Smoky Mountain National Park is also a very cool place so is Reelfoot Lake and the land between the lakes.

I had a guy try to sell me a Kahr CC in 40 cailber. Nice gun but it jammed every single time I pulled the trigger. He said "You have to break it in with 400-500 rounds." Well I did the math and figured that I would save my money and bought a Glock 36. I Carry the Glock mostly but I do have a Taurus M85 that I also carry. There are a lot of Taurus haters repling to your post. I'm not a Taurus hater. They make a wide variety of handguns. They have the best warrenty in the business. I trust my M85 with my life. If you do buy a Taurus, test it extensively before you carry it.

I have said it before. Taurus has the most innovative new weapons. No other company that makes firearms has the nerve to make these things.

How did you come be a box of 45GAP? You could sell it on E-bay.

Excellent point Dave!

John Wayne "The Undefeated"

The second amendment does NOT say: For the purpose of hunting, the right to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed. The second amendment does NOT say: For the purpose of sport shooting, the right to keep and bare arms shall not be infringed. We cannot let the anti-constitution Liberals get away with statements like. "Since assault weapons are not designed for hunting or sport shooting, they should be banned." The 2nd amendment is not about hunting or target shooting. It's about freedom. If we loose the 2nd amendment like they did in Massachusetts, everything we have been fighting for for the last 230 years will be lost. As far as I'm concerned we need to cut a star off our flag. Massachusetts you are dead to me. (From "The Godfather")