hammerforged

Happy birthday and many Happy returns.

Starting to get my ducks in a row re: the SHOT Show and Safari Club Convention. Just wondering if I will get the chance to meet any fellow forumites at either of these.

I never knew that about goldfish, that's amazing! ;-) Congratulations Randy.

Welcome TomKat, good folks here.

Count me in. I will put a check in the mail to you tomorrow.

Outstanding Craftsmanship! Do you trade? Hit me with a PM.

Anywhere near Conway? Did you know Jerry Fisk while you were in Nashville? Taught me everything I know about making knives.

Just one more example of how out of touch with REALITY peta is. Did anyone see the interview with the young man who lost his arm to an alligator in the last week or so? He said that the alligators have really become a problem because peta has been buying up the hunting permits so they can't be hunted like they should. Don't know if what he said was true or not but it sure sounds like something peta would do.

Congratulations!

John; Where in Arkansas are you located? I am out there several times a year, have family down south in a little town called Lockesburg.

I agree with Steve, you must have one heck of a vertical move ;-). Looks great, as the father of 2 former marching band members, I know all of your efforts will be well worth it.

Happy birthday Lou, many happy returns.

Good Luck, good thoughts and prayers sent your way.

steve - Welcome aboard!

Prayers and thoughts on the way.

We don't have any K-Marts left in my part of the country and Walmart has discontinued everything but blackpowder here.

I've got a live fire demo for Nashville, TN PD on Saturday morning, then trout fishing Saturday afternoon on the way back home.

I run mine year round down here in South Carolina.

Sweeeeeet ride! I am torn between that one, the Kawi Nomad and the Honda VTX 1800.

So sorry to hear this our prayers and thoughts are with you.

Glad to hear everyone is alright. Had a shooting instructor load a 20 gauge with a 12 gauge behind into his brand new DT-10 3 years ago, he still has about 9 pellets in the fatty area at the base of his right thumb. He was busy talking with the student and grabbed a shell out of his pocket and dropped it in without looking at it and when he went to close the breech didn't see the shell because it had slid down the tube so he pulled another out of his pocket and loaded it. He took what was left of the gun and had it mounted and it is now hanging in his office.

Thanks to all for the great advice. Talked with the USPS and since my shotgun is an over/under, I can break it down and ship it in 2 seperate boxes to the my buddy's Lodge I will be staying at outside of Abilene. what i need to do is just buy another shotgun and leave it there, since I am there again in February for Quail. Again, Thanks for all the great advice.

Welcome Kyle, you will enjoy it here.

DMoss - take a look at www.drtammo.com, especially their 200 grain 300 WinMag. PM me for more information.

Went to South Dakota for Pheasant last October. Got in to Sioux Falls, my luggage was there, no gun case. Went to put in my claim and give local address to have them delivered to, while I was talking with the claim agent my buddy who was there to pick me up spied a case tucked under the counter that looked a lot like mine. Long story short it was mine and they had no explanation as to how it got under the counter. No connecting flight, straight flight from Charlotte, NC to Sioux Falls, SD. Air travel is crazy these days and I don't want to take another chance, especially since I have to connect through Dallas to Abilene which is just one more opportunity for something to go wrong. Had a business trip to San Diego to meet with San Diego PD early June this year. When I went to board the plane, the gate attendant says that my roly case for my laptop is too large for the overhead, OK fine, I check it gateside, get to San Diego and somehow my case disappeared from the plane in flight, still hasn't shown up. Still waiting on that claim. Sorry for the rant.