All right all you Tennessee packers out there lets get this on the road and start posting, I would love to hear from anyone and get a good TN thread started.
Unfortunately, you need a permit to carry in TN, but if you have one, you can carry open or concealed as you see fit.
I carry open all the time, have only been asked for my permit once. It was a good encounter with LEO. Have been seen several times by LE not so much as a nod.
I carry frequently here in mid-TN, open or concealed depending on the weather and where I'm going... Lately, my workhorse has beena Bi-ToneXD-45 Tactical, in a Blackhawk SERPA or Don Hume 721OT... I have never been 'carded' by a LEO, since I haven't been pulled over in years, and most who see me out-and-about either know me, or are accustomed to armed citizens.
Unfortunately, there are always going to be some children who need discipline.My guess is John will not tolerate the nonsense that caused all the ruckus at PDO (assuming you are refering to that).
OCDO (I just penned a new acronym!) is small enough that he can moderate it if needed. If it becomes too large for one person to effectively moderate in his spare time, he will no doubt have to come up with a solution as well.
Thanks for everone's kind comments! I hope this board can be a place that will be fun for all gun activists / enthusiasts.
You are right though. It is small enough for me to moderate at this point and I plan to moderate only as little as necessary. I think the ratings system at PDO was a real mistake and any firearms/liberty related discussions are welcome here without complaint.
If it does become too much for one person, Mike will also take an active role in the moderation and there are also several users here who I know would make excellent moderators if we needed to ask for volunteers.
The whole ratings thing started at PDO because the site owner allowed some peopleto bemoderators who seemed to have their own agenda in mind.
I suspect he realized that some kind of moderation was needed and he could not do it himself, so decided to go with the ratings system.
In the end, it probably would have been better to just get new moderators and track what they moderated.
Yes, I was referring to the sad, current state of the PDO forum... Sad thing is, if the rating system would have at least been set up to only allow paying members to vote, it would have worked better... I doubt that a would-be trouble-maker would pay to excercise their voting/trolling. I wouldn't have minded a couple dollars a month, in the interest of intelligent discussion. And, perhaps,recieve a free t-shirt after a year, or something...
I see that several members from Virginia actually meet, at the VCDL meetings... I hope that eventually there will be someting similar, close enough to me to attend.
Hello everyone! This is PT-111 from the PDO boards. I am here now also and I too like the look and feel of this site / fourum. Thanks to the administrator for coming up with it.
I have lived in Tennessee for only about 7 months but I have my TN permit and I carry everyday. I have not as yet carried openly but I plan to as soon as I muster up the guts to do it. I am a little worried as to how it will be recieved here in the West end of the state as this seems to be where most of the anti types and liberals have settled.
If anyone out there has carried openly in the Memphis, Shelby-Fayette county area I'd like to hear from you.
I live in the No. West part of the State just below KY. I open carry all the time so far not even a flicker from LE, have had some staresat meand glances at my Kimber but nothing said.
A pleasure to see other "refugees" from PDO here!I still post there, but more for wicked amusement , really!This forum is a lot more like the real deal, and is conducted in a far more gentlemanly way than PDO. I feel bad for MR. Solomon. Welcome to our new comrades, and thanks to Mr Pierce.
I am new here but have been on PDO for quite a while. I am not currently carrying open but do so on my property. I do have my TN carry permit and also have one for FL. I live 60 miles west of Nashville and carry everyday.
I live about 40 miles west of you and was in McEwen just last Friday. As I said in an earlier post I open carry all the time, each day as you go out just open carry a little more and before you know it you will be doing it all the time as well.:P
Hey everybody. I have finally joined the bandwagon of packing.org members joining opencarry.org. (I guess it's about time considering the time I have spent lurking here). Anyways, I have not seen open carry other than by Law Enforcement and Armed Security Guards. Perhaps we can change that. (I am in Middle TN).
Ya, I decided to "swing" on over here as well. TrueBrit is right, this site is conducted in a much more gentlemanly way than PDO. However, I have been a member of PDO for so long and have had such great discussions and lively debates over the years, that I will have a hard time ever leaving it unless it dies.
I also agree with Molonlabetn that a small charge would have weeded out some zero-bandit lurkers but I always thought that if we all could see who voted what and for who, things would figure itself out eventually.
As far as open carry is concerned, I normally don't do it veryoften to date,but I am planning to change that in the coming months.
I did not see your amsoil trailer but I sure did pass your house I travel 70 often, maybe we can get together and meet, do some shoot'n.
By the way whiskeypapa does not mean I drink, I don't, it is the phonetic spelling of myinitials W. P.
There are all kinds of ways the situation at PDO could be resolved, but all of them would require action by the owner, who for someunknown reason does not do so. One poster speculated he is ill. He did post a couple times about 6 weeks ago out of the blue, responding to a post asking about one of the site graphics. previous to that he had advertised for help in updating the state maps, but it appears he never responded to any of those offering to help.
It may bethe zero bandit is more than one person because zeros hit for several reasons. One big component seems to be cop groupie/wannabe. Many of the zeros are attached to posts that point outLE misbehavior.
I am leaning towards some former admins as well. It is quite apparent that at least some of them had their own agendas in mind when they were moderating previously, rather than following the rules the owner had laid out, which is what led him to change the system in the first place.
Another common feature of zeros is posts that require some thought. ZB may not be well educated and so does not understand some of the posts so he zeros them.
So, I figure we look for a cop groupie/wannabe who is poorly educated and is a former admin, and there is ZB.
ilbob, your hypothesis may very well be right about the zero bandit. I hadn't thought of him being a former, bitter, admin. That is a definite possibility and as good as any idea we all have thrown around thus far.
I personally don't think Mark is sick or dead, (I think charmincarmens cameout withthat idea). I think he may either be too busy to tend to his "project", or is tired of the bickering and just doesn't care anymore. Either way, he should sell the site to someone who will devote the time, effort, and money to keep it going and from going off-line every two days. If not, then he should terminate it.
I will always be grateful for the creation of PDO as I think it has done more than people realize for CCW causes and 2nd amendment causes in general.I have personally learned a great deal over the years that I otherwise would not have without it.
This site appears to be something that is going to grow and become a fantastic forum for all 2nd amendment gurus to share knowledge and not be zeroed for it. That is a relief asI hope for this site to become the best one on the net in the near future!!
I was on PDO as wdpogy, but for the last 3 weeks or so every time I logged on it would freeze up and the page would stop responding. I thought that it was my system but it only did it with PDO not any other site, not glocktalk, open carry, no other site. So I do not even go their anymore.
I have come to suspect thatPDO is on ahost with some bandwidth limitation scheme. It may be thatit gets XXX amount of megabytes an hour (or day or whatever)and when that is used up, it shuts down access to that web site until the end of that time period.
It was just too frustrating for me, anyway I prefer OCDO to PDO and am making this forum my home forum. And I like the way jpierce is running this site it has come along way and I bet it will go a lot longer.