monkeylizard

My dad was career USAF and one of our assignments was Bitburg, Germany during my high school years. I was in the Air Force Jr ROTC program and we got to go the Lorraine American Cemetery in Saint-Avold, France to participate in a parade. It's been a long time now so I don't recall if it was a V-E Day celebration, or a date specific to that town's or region's liberation, or something else, but it was amazing how many people turned out almost 50 years later. I didn't appreciate it at the time, but looking back it makes me very proud and honored to have been able to help commemorate the achievements and sacrifice of those men and women. We traded insignia and ribbons with a similar cadre of French troops. all were pretty young. I don't think they were as young as us, but I think it was some kind of reserve unit. I still have the beret I traded my flight cap to get.

Here it is straight from the horse's . . . well . . . you know . . . https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/minimum-age-gun-sales-and-transfers Summary: Private sale - Long guns at any age. Handguns at 18. Dealer sale - Long guns at 18, handguns at 21

Lots of pollen and other allergens in those cemeteries. . .

He likes to play classical, especially anything from Clawed Debussy or Ludwig von Bearthoven,

What did they expect? He's just a bearginner.

Texas Law Hawk is another great one. Talons of Justice!!!!

runco mentioned an auctioneer. That's a good bit of advice. If you're interested in that route, Gary Realty & Auction down in Columbia does several gun auctions each year. I've been a winning bidder at several of them and the whole staff is a class act or as we say 'round here: "them's good people". Mostly each auction is from one large collection, but he'll usually do one or two each year from several collections combined. The final bids are usually real solid, but I don't know what the auctioneer's cut is.

Same. I don't sell much, but when considering a purchase I always check iTrader if I don't know the seller. If I see positive feedback from the other regulars I recognize or have done deals with personally, it helps me know the seller is good to go. If I see very little or no iTrader feedback, or it's a bunch of feedback from names I don't know, it feels off and I just move on.

Why not post in the TGO Classifieds? You can list any stipulations you want. You can require a buyer to have been a TGO member for a minimum amount of time, must be a Benefactor, have X number of positive iTrader reviews from long time members, meet at your local police station for the deal, require an HCP and a bill of sale, must communicate via phone call instead of texts/messages, etc. Whatever you want to require. It might limit your buyer pool a bit, but my experience is that folks with a positive history on TGO are on the up and up.

Incorrect. 3 boxes at the bottom were left unchecked.

I checked my Monarch and it's all headstamped MON which I think is the rebadged Magtech

Hands down it's the best place for clays. Skeet, Trap, and Sporting Clays. $13/round for Skeet or Trap and $0.55/bird on the sporting clays courses. My 12 ga. works like a cost limiter . . . After about $30-40 worth of clays, my shoulder says it's quitin' time

I didn't know they ever had a skeet range. They have a neat little archery area beside the parking lot. Back in the day it had a multi-level tower to simulate different heights in a tree stand. Not sure if that's still there or not.

Like The mailman, I think they have too many cold range cycles. It seems like I'm just starting to get in a rhythm when they announce "COLD!". But it's usually a pretty good place to shoot 100. I don't know if they allow just anyone to shoot on the 200 yard lanes. It used to be that you had to join with an annual membership but I don't know if that's still the case. IMO, the handgun side is downright dangerous. Too many goobers who have no business being there sweeping the line or worse. The RSOs on that side used to be crazy strict (I assume they still are) but for good reason. Just look up and count the bullet holes in the roof. I don't plan to ever go back to that side. It's the busiest range in the state by a large margin so the RSOs have to be on top of everything.