People who complained about my last trip to Hero Gear...

[TGO David]

I am going to go down there again this Saturday most likely. If anyone else from the greater Nashville area wants to caravan or ride along, speak now or forever hold your piece [sic]. And you know what piece I mean, you whiners.

There is no guarantee that there will be an after-visit shoot. There is also no guarantee that there won't be. Frankly, who knows!? There are several ranges on the way back from there!

Holler, yo.

[BimmerFreak]

we are closed on Saturday.

[TGO David]

But... but... I wanted to come in there and clear my Springfield XD while pointing it across the counter at you. That's what Saturdays are all about man!!!

[shaftbass]

Well I couldn't have gone anyways. I'm going camping/fishing Fri/Sat and to the NMRA race in Bowling Green on Sunday.

Thanks for the heads up though!

[Guest Hornet Handler]

we are closed on Saturday.

WTF. I was trying to get the wife to come down so we could pick out a high school locker.... I mean safe.

[molonlabetn]

What am I going to do?

(I guess I'll have to swing by today to pick up some ammo)

[TGO David]

Hmmm... so are we being toyed with or are they really closed on Saturday?

[BimmerFreak]

I WAS JOKING GUYS......

We ARE open Saturday, and there is a planned (informal) shoot after we close.

BYOA

[TGO David]

Joe's practicing his SF Ninja powers of misdirection and subterfuge. They're open on Saturday.

[BimmerFreak]

Joe's practicing his SF Ninja powers of misdirection and subterfuge. They're open on Saturday.

I was using the old Jedi mind trick

[TGO David]

I was using the old Jedi mind trick

That explains why my wallet was empty when I left your store last time...

[Guest dotsun]

we are closed on Saturday.

I nearly spit water all over my monitor when I read that after T's speech.

[Guest ETS_Inc]

Anybody know what timeframe we're talking here? I have to be back in the 'Boro by 7:30 Saturday, but I'd love to join y'all, along with some NFA toys.....(I've got a sexy new muzzle device on my 7.5" '-16 I want to show off. And, no, it's not a suppressor; quite the opposite, actually.)

[TGO David]

We'd have to stop shooting around 6pm to get back to M'boro by 7pm. I'd want to get back around then anyway.

[TGO David]

So who is planning on going tomorrow?

I've got a p.o.s. GMC truck that I've got really bust my hump and try to get squared away tonight before I can even think about heading down there. If I can't get that done, this trip may be a bust for me... so I'm trying to gauge interest and will adjust my work ethic tonight accordingly.

Hating the General right now and his whole Motors division,

--Tungsten

[molonlabetn]

I'll be there, and probably my wife as well.

[TGO David]

Cool. I just picked up parts from the parts store. I'm getting tired of giving them my money, so if this doesn't fix my truck I'm setting it on fire and pushing it off of a cliff.

Or we can just shoot it.

[Guest EasilyObsessed]

Cool. I just picked up parts from the parts store. I'm getting tired of giving them my money, so if this doesn't fix my truck I'm setting it on fire and pushing it off of a cliff.

Or we can just shoot it.

Full tank of gas + tracer rounds = fun

[TGO David]

POS still isn't fixed. I'm stuck here tomorrow, guys. Sorry.

[Guest ETS_Inc]

Tungsten,

Sorry to hear about your truck. As it turns out, I've got some stuff that needs doing around here too. I'd offer to pick you up, but I've got to be back here by 7:30, which means we'd have to leave there earlier, so that I could drop you off in time for me to be home. That wouldn't leave us much time for shooting after Joe and Dan close up shop. Maybe another day, brother.

[TGO David]

Frank I appreciate that sentiment. The truck either has a spun bearing somewhere in the rear end or (and I'm really hoping) it has a bad u-joint. I'm going to start with the most easily replaced items first and do the joints in the morning. If that doesn't remedy the problem, it's going to be a long day of completely tearing apart the rear end and replacing things that I really don't feel like having to replace.

Oh well. Such is life with machinery.

[Guest Disney]

I'm out. It's homecoming and I have to man a tent for my ASME section.

[TGO David]

Things I've replaced on my truck to try and isolate the source of a really loud, really annoying squeak...

1. Rear brake pads
   
2. Rear rotors
   
3. Rear drive shaft u-joints (front and back)
   
4. Rusty splash guards behind rotors

Things that I will have to replace to actually fix it now that we've figured out what is going on...

1. Right rear axle shaft
   
2. Right rear wheel bearing
   
3. Right rear wheel bearing oil seal

Turns out that somewhere over the past thousand miles or so, the rear axle got bent right where the passenger wheel hub is. Most likely right AT the wheel hub itself, and most likely because of the huge pot hole that the Smyrna utilities department dug in the middle of my street and that I found... with the truck... after dark while coming home one fateful night. They had filled it with gravel, but that never stays in place after a few cars start running across it.

I remember seeing it in the headlights, swerving to miss it, and hitting it with the rear wheel... and that's the ONLY thing that I remember hitting that could have done this.

Looks like my plans for next weekend just got made for me.

[BimmerFreak]

Well, you just missed Wes and his checkbook....

He is now the proud owner of a very cool firearm, but I wont steal his thunder be telling you what he got

[TGO David]

Well, you just missed Wes and his checkbook....

He is now the proud owner of a very cool firearm, but I wont steal his thunder be telling you what he got

HK P2000 LEM!!!