THANK YOU for the welcome

Charles,

Glad to be here and welcomed too.

Thank you,

Adam

Thanks for the welcome Charles. Glad to be here.

1904 Worlds Fair?  That's awesome Charles, grrrreat keepsake.

Many thanks. It's nice to have found this group.

Thanks Charles. I don't have much due to the draconian fire arms laws in the UK.  I've got a couple of shotguns and a hunting air rifle but will gladly post some pics when I get them out of the gun safe. 

We'll see Charles if you still think it will be great to be friends with me. I just asked J.R.'s Southwest Bowie to marry me for crying out loud. I mean c'mon.....

I obviously need a Bowie fix....  :-)

Well Charles I once hunted quite a bit when my family owned our farm, it was sold in 1993 and my family and I moved to the city - Raleigh, NC. We're originally from eastern NC - around Tarboro. I don't hunt anymore but still have my old skinning knife. However, as far as my choice of rifle it was a Remington .270 bolt action... My philosophy on my choice was that a true scope, and faster to the target round couldn't be beat. It proved a good one for me at least.

Thanks Charles glad to be here, i live about 20 miles from SMKW, that can be bad if you know what i mean

Thanks Charles! I will get the hang of it soon I hope!?

Thank you very much sir.

Thank you for the welcome Charles

Thanks! :-)

Thanks for your welcome Charles.

Hope you have a fantastic birthday, Charles!

I wish for you today and always a day of Love and Joy my friend

Hope you have a great Birthday Charles .

Charles, Happy Birthday my friend !! Hope it is a great day for you and yours-- BTW

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLES!

Thanks for the birthday wishes everybody.  I appreciate it.

Thank you Charles.

Thank you.

Thanks for the greeting!

Thanks Charles.

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Thank you kindly, Charles!

Thanks for the birthday wishes Charles.  I hope all is well for you.

Thank you, Charles!

Charles,

Thanks for the warm welcome... I'm glad I found this site and am feeling a bit overwhelmed....

So, I'll lurk for a while and get oriented.

Thanks again for the warm welcome.

For Now,

Gib

Thanks for your support Charles. One thing I should mention about myself is that I'm not necessarily conservative politically, (kinda depends on the issue), but I do support our rights to own and use firearms, and I will fight for that right if necessary. I actually used to have a hard-to-get-in-CA CC permit years back when I worked as a locksmith, (carried a S&W Model 27...stolen with my other guns back in the early 90's, miss it). I'm a long haired, long bearded retired musician/musical instrument tech now, (among other things, including a proud grandpa), and I help run a small non profit & community center up in Big Sur as a volunteer, we directly support local school kids, their school, & other community organizations up there, (I'm on their Board of Directors). I'm not as ardent politically as Ted Nugent, but I could definitely hang with him onstage, and would absolutely love to go hunting with him. I think Duck Dynasty proves that hippies come in all shapes, sizes & political persuasions, and I would call myself an old hippie more than anything else.

I thought I should let you know who you just befriended, I'm definitely NOT your typical firearms advocate. Glad to know you, and hope to meet you one day.

BTW: I have a sister in Atlanta, and I spent most of the winter of '12-'13 there during the big freeze helping her during an illness. Love it down south, miss my sis, the people I met there who were fabulous, and most of all I miss the food! If I didn't have a kid & grand kid here I would be there right now.

Would love to meet you and the family. If I ever get back to Georgia again I'll definitely see if a side trip or two is feasible, I'd love to meet Jan Carter & her husband as well, (northern GA). I agree about the summers, I remember flying into ATL in Aug a few years back, landed at midnight, walked outside and it was still 95/95. Living a block from the Pacific as I do I thought I was gonna just die right there on the spot...thank God for air conditioning. I know that wild winter was unusual, but living through an arctic blizzard in Georgia is a strange thing to have gone through. I still can't believe they re-elected Deal after that fiasco.

I'm a cop's kid, Dad was a Captain, then a CA State investigator, retired & opened a locksmith business. He was raised by a gunsmith, and I was raised around guns, so we are more alike than we look I'm sure. The 60's hit me pretty hard though, and it just never wore off. BTW: I encouraged my daughter to look into law enforcement, I sold the idea by saying to her, "you get to carry a gun and tell people what to do", she laughed about that, but ended up taking the test anyway and passing. I think she will end up as a corrections officer though, she just went for her first interview with the State of CA; we'll see.

I got my CC because I had a couple of guns stuck in my face doing lock work, dad called the local sheriff, (an old friend), and he set it up. Funny though, after getting the CC I never once had that happen again doing that job. After dad retired & sold the shop they wouldn't renew my CC because I supposedly didn't "need" it anymore. When I moved here to SLO county in '99 one of the first things that happened to me was a 90 yr old guy with dementia, who lived in my building, thought I was "stealing" his tv signal out of the air, banged on my door and stuck a 20 ga in my face. I was able to snatch it out of his hands, slammed the door, called the cops & gave the gun to them when they arrived, (it was loaded). They put the old guy on a 72 hr psych hold, then promptly gave the gun back to him when he got out, (didn't even charge him due to his age). California can be a strange place sometimes, unfortunately they are relatively strict about carry laws most of the time. We have no open carry rights to speak of, and they are real strict about transportation, requiring gun & ammo to be carried in separate areas of a vehicle, and never ever concealed of course. No auto knives are allowed either, and assisted opening knives are being looked at as possibly being illegal in the near future. We have a 15 day waiting period for ANY firearm too, and of course a magazine capacity limit. Oh well, at least we CAN own a gun here, at least for the time being at least.

Hope to hear from you on Monday, good talking to you.

Charles

Just wanted to thank you again for the gift! Hopefully I will be able to do something for you!

Again.....Thank you

Thank you Charles

Thanks for the welcome

Charles Thanks for the nice comments about the Ambassador Tour Knife--will chat with you later

Thanks for the comment on the Elephant Toe   Charles

Charles,

Thankz for the invite. I am basically strictly a bowhunter. I have not had anything to do with firearms for quite a while even though I still own several.

after 20 years of military i've lost most of my interest in shooting i collected a bunch of bolt action military rifle from the 20's and 30's.  i liked the mechanics. and they were really cheap. not the ammo.  i competed in the military match's for much of my time but i'm still not that good a shot. i did get expert in rifle and pistol but some of the folks i served with were good.(olympic gold medal good)  i shoot more longbow cause it's quieter and cheaper. i'm a hole puncher at heart. besides i only like the taste of beef and they frown on me shooting cows. LOL

Thanks, I appreciate your welcome.  I have both Buck and Benchmade knives