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A guy I work with, his little brother makes knives as a hobby. I've always wanted a Topps Tom Brown Tracker knife for a long time. So jokingly I told my friend to have his brother make me one. This is the progress so far. I'm extremely surprised by this and was even more happy to hear what he was going to charge me. Since he is still working on his skill he is only charging me cost of material. He is making some grips for me as well. Not too sure what they will be made of yet though, I guess that's a surprise for me as well.

You're going to need a bigger sponge...

That's pretty good looking, just don't get it around any thinner or brake cleaner. I've got a few camo jobs under my belt. I like using vinyl patterns and netting and what not. I do like the look you got with the sponge. don't know how or if it could even be feasible do pattern that with vinyl. You should try the "marbleizing" technique you get with saran wrap.

Well my parents were down visiting from Cincinnati this weekend and like always I took dad shooting. He doesn't get out much to do it unless I'm around. I took him to see the guys at D&T Arms, because I like stopping by there when I'm in the area. While I was there I picked up a Colt 1911-22. Story behind that is it's licensed by Walther and imported by Umarex...I think I got that right, David explained it to me. So thanks to the guys at D&T for another great experience and another nice weapon in the collection. Here it is: Dad and I added it to the batch of pistols we were taking to shoot at G&L in Hendersonville today. Right out of the box, no cleaning, a little RemOil and a box of mixed Federal, Remington and CCI's, it ran everything. It didn't like the CCI Stingers very much, they are for my 10/22, but it still ran them. It was fairly accurate as well, I was having a bit of an off day but at the 10 yard line (back of the G&L H range) it would hold a 3 inch group no problem. I'll get on my game and post some pictures of some good groupings later. On top of that, at the end of February I picked up a RIA 2011 Tactical 1911. I've been tinkering with it and it is still a work in progress. I just installed some new Novak sights on it last night that I had to try out. Since getting it it's been slightly polished so I could see how it looks, it's got a Wilson Combat extended slide release and oversized magazine release, a Smith & Alexander magazine well, an EFK Dragon compensator and some Raasco Dymondwood grips added to it. I still have some new springs to put into it, a new barrel, a nice cerakote graphite black finish on it and it should be good to go. It shoots great, still needs some sight adjustment and another trip to the range after that. Here is what I have so far, mind you it's not done yet:

Dad is coming down this weekend, if we don't end up going shooting we may stop by to have a look around. My "gun fund" is depleted thanks to the new safe, impending tile floors and now a new microwave. Grunt, PM me with that you are trying to sell, I'll see how deep dad's pockets are.

Well good on both Kittenger and Baumgarter, I hate heights. I have no problem climbing a mountain or jumping off a cliff for a rappel, but jumping out of planes still makes me nervous. It takes a special kind of guy to do that, there is a fine line that they must run on the verge of insanity.

That is always a bad call to get. I've gotten a couple like that from my wife. Thankfully she was always driving her Escape at the time. She was on the Western KY Parkway and hit a Turkey...shattered the windshield. She didn't know what to do. I was furious, but it happens and I was glad it wasn't my truck. I've also gotten the call that she backed into someone who was also backing out at the grocery store...again in the Escape and not my truck. She knows that if she ever crashes or dents either my truck or her new Highlander that she may as well not come home for a while. She knows the pecking order around here....My truck, my guns, my daughter, myself, her....now that's a joke, but it amuses me.

The most I've ever paid for a Sig was $350, and that was a P6, I'm about $200 into a P226. If you are thinking about moving back into the metal gun world you should look at Sarco, the have dirt cheap P226 and P228's, you'd just have to call them and see what they have in stock. Their prices on them are all under $450, granted these are going to be the older pistols, not the neat new tactical model.

Looks nice, I like the old school look. It looks like you would use a flash hider though.

I would like to see a video on the disassembly of this monstrosity. They can keep it.

I had to feed the machine today...I had a Giant #9 from Jersey Mikes. For those of you who have never treated yourself, its a sandwich that's about 15" long with roast beef, turkey, swiss, bacon and I get mine covered with lettuce, oil, vinegar, mayo and oregano. It was delicious, my wife gets mad at me all the time because I'm still only 187 lbs and 6'2".

Just remember, "drop-in" parts aren't always "drop-in" parts. It took me about 45 minutes of filing and polishing to fit a safety into my RIA. It was a Wilson Combat that was supposed to be a drop-in. I also spent another half hour working on the EFK compensator, it still needs work though. I'm still working on blending the S&A magwell, I'm about 30 minutes into that one. So far the only part that I have added, the only one I've called done is the mag release. It runs, but still needs work to be better. If you decide to do the work yourself, be patient, and a Dremel isn't always the answer.

I did a search on their website and they have a monkey joes in cool springs too. I guess I will have to give my wife the option of The Chop House or Stoney River for steaks that night, pending monkey joes being open for walk ins at that time. I guess the time thing I will have to call about, there's nothing on their website about it. Thanks for the info, if it's nice that day I'll give red caboose a shot and if it's rainy or cold I'll be at a monkey joes. Hopefully it eats up a little of her energy, and hopefully she doesn't mind napping between gun shops that day either.

I like the looks of the Red Caboose Park, it reminds me of the Tinkerbell Park in Franklin I've taken my daughter to while my wife is getting her hair done. I may have to check that one out, hopefully the weather is nice when we do venture out. My wife has taken my daughter to the Adventure Science Center in Nashville before, I forget how that went, I'll have to ask her next time I call. The museum and aquarium sound like we could make it a short weekend trip or something. I took my family to the Newport Aquarium in KY while we ere visiting last summer, I don't really think my daughter knew what she was looking at other than new critters she wanted to touch. Unfortunately for me I've got another day in purgatory, the Air Force has yet to get a flight right anytime that I've been involved. Thanks for the ideas, I'm always up for getting my daughter out and showing her new things and she loves playgrounds. We have a playground in the development we live in and I can bring a soccer ball out and she will be a the playground or the adjoining field chasing the soccer ball for hours, and you're right bubba, I'm ready to turn in long before she is.

I'll be home soon and I haven't seen my daughter in about 7 months. I promised her that once I got home I would take her out of day care and take her gun shopping with me (which she was really excited about). After that I planned on taking her and my wife to the Cool Springs area to go out to dinner. I have been warned by my wife my daughter has been a little ball of energy lately and I figured we would find some sort of playground or something for her to burn herself out a little bit first. When my sister was younger they had places like Leaps & Bounds and Discovery Zone, in Clarksville they have a place called Jump Zone. I was wondering if there was any kind of indoor play place with the tube mazes or the inflatable slides in Nashville? I searched for one and I got BounceU, which seems like Jump Zone but their website wasn't much help. Anyone know about any of these kinds of places? Thanks for your help.

I'm actually a few days out from being home, all I want when I get there is my wife and daughter and to be left alone for a few days. Again it depends on the person like TMF said. I'm the type of person that is more likely to tell you I'm a plumber (which I was in Ohio) than to mention the military much less what I do there. The only way you will see me in a uniform is if you work with or around me. I don't care much for making things a big deal, birthdays, holidays much less me coming home from my job. Best thing to do is to drop hints or ask how they would like it.

That AR will shoot just fine in the cold and any kind of precipitation. Just might steam up the optic if you breathe heavy. I had the same set up on my AR, went away with the magnifier, kept the EOTech. I'm still toying with the idea of getting a fixed power 4x or something though. Once you get it set it will be a fun gun to shoot at some distance. Nice thing is when you zero you can have it sit off to the side and use it like a spotting scope.

When I was 12, Dad wanted to get a project car for he and I. I wanted a GTO, he wanted an MGB. He won, he got a '79 MGB. No seat belts, rough interior, brakes were shot, fuel system needed to be redone. Needless to say I learned a lot about cars, unfortunately dad worked a bit too much to help out most of the time. I never got to drive it since he sold it about 3 years later, and I had grown about 8 inches in that time. Next was mom's '94 Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra, silver with a maroon rag top and interior. Absolute babe magnet. I worked my butt off saving to buy a truck. With a little bit of help from mom and dad I got what I like to call MY first car. A '92 Chevy Silverado regular cab with a 350 and 2500 series suspension. It had 145k on it when I got it, when I left home I sold it with 210k on it, 3 years later. I drove everywhere, especially since most of my friends didn't have cars or their license. It had a 34 gallon tank IIRC, and it got a whopping 11 mpg highway and 9 mpg city. I ran straight pipes out of the headers and my parents could always tell when I was on my way home. I would put the muffler in to pass the emissions check Ohio had at the time and then take it back off once I passed. It was a fun truck and I got it stuck a few times in some corn fields and construction sites. It was a great truck and other than the fuel consumption I only had to replace tires, a fuel pump and a starter on it. I miss it, but I'm glad I got my new Silverado, much better gas mileage.

Yea I got a few sitting around I can access. I sure he has a way to obtain one where he is as well. He's up in Washington state currently. I will email him letting him know his options: call the company or obtain a beretta barrel to try.

I'm looking to put the 7" competition Beretta barrel in a Taurus PT92 to assist in a build I'm going to take on for a friend of mine in Washington. He is wanting to recreate a pistol from the movie Romeo & Juliet. I've got a Beretta 92FS, but don't have access to a Taurus at the moment. He is wanting this question answered before he drops $300 on the competition barrel. I have seen that post on Taurusarmed, and I emailed it to him the other day along with the barrel from midway that goes to both. He is still telling me that what he is reading is that they are not. Without having the 2 in front of me I can't tell.

I'm looking for first hand information about the compatability og the barrels for a Taurus PT92 and a Beretta 92. Can they be swapped? I know MidwayUSA sells a barrel that is a drop-in for both, but it doesn't say much more than that. Thanks in advance for the help.

Welcome to the forum, good to have new folks around.

While the Winchester 1897 I had posted earlier would suffice, I think that any of these would fit the bill for a zombie gun: Picture was from my Blackberry so sorry for the quality. This was about as complete as my collection has been in one place at one time, still missing about 7 guns that I had at the shop or taken apart on my work bench. Dad and I were going out for one last day at the range before I left on my trip.

I don't remember what day to day breakfasts were for my sister and I growing up, I would assume cereal or oatmeal since it was quick and easy. Mom was only 22 by the time my sister came round and I was 5 then, so she looked for simple things. Now she's a chef and works as a flavor scientist in Cincinnati. on weekend when dad wasn't working he would make, my favorite still, biscuits and gravy. Homemade gravy and the cheap pilsberry blue can biscuits. Some days he would take the same biscuits and use a syrup lid to punch out the centers and fry them in a pan of oil, throw them in a brown paper bag filled with sugar or powdered sugar and we would have doughnuts. If I was at my grandparents house I would usually be out garage saleing with grandma so we would hit up a mcdonalds or something, if I went to work that weekend with my grandpa I would get something at wherever he was getting coffee that morning. If I was there and we stayed at the house grandma would make eggs and bacon or grandpa would make saltine crackers and milk. Now for my daughter I make scrambled eggs, some bacon, put that on a begal with cheese, throw it in the George Forman and have some breakfast sandwiches. My wife likes them a lot too, mainly because she doesn't have to cook or do dishes that morning.

My uncle has a Kimber Ten II, he seems to like it fairly well and at the mere cost of a snow blower and $150 cash it was his. I haven't shot it yet, I try not to shoot with him too much. He still has a thing or two to learn about gun safety, makes me nervous. I'll stick to my metal guns, in my younger days I went with a XD45, but have since grown up into revolvers and metal semi-autos.