We enjoyed our trip to St. Louis for Thanksgiving.  It is always nice to get out of town for a day for a break and being off work is an added bonus.  We got to visit some and eat plenty of food while there.  Jodi got to spend a couple extra days there while I came home to work the weekend and conduct a sales appointment.

On my way home, I stopped at a couple gun shops to see if there was anything I had to have.  At Black Rifle in Columbia, I saw a CZ Scorpion Evo 3 S1 carbine that was pretty cool.  It's a 9mm rifle and looks like it would be fun to own and shoot.  I now have a few on my watch list on Gunbroker.

Nearing Kansas City, I stopped in at Frontier Justice.  It's relatively new and it is absolutely huge.  Firing range, archery range, huge gun selection, clothing, accessories and more.  They have a lot of tactical weapons and there were many choices.  They have quite a few NFA items and I've decided that will be my next pursuit.  First, I'm going to establish a trust that will own the items so that they can be used by others and easily transferred to my heirs.

On Saturday, I bought my gun safe during a Black Friday sale.  I wound up purchasing a different one than I had intended because it was a better fit for the firearms I won.  Most are set up for long guns, which I don't own many of.  This one is has a better set up for the modern sporting rifles and handguns.  It's a 64 gun safe made by Liberty and weighs 1000 lbs.  It gets delivered in a couple weeks.

We also took advantage of the Black Friday weekend deals and ordered fenders, inner fenders, a skid plate and LED tail lights for the Jeep.  They arrive today and we will likely get the fenders powder coated in the next month or so and installed sometime this winter.  The tail lights I will likely install tomorrow as well as put the hard top back on.  Next up will be off road wheels and 37" tires.

It's Friday!  It actually means something this week because we don't have anything on our schedule until Monday, which kicks off three straight days of sales sessions for us. We are both looking forward to a few months where our schedule isn't very hectic and we can prepare for the Spring crush.

I will soon have some extra time to work on some things around the house.  Interior painting will be on the "To Do" list.  We also want to redecorate our bedroom and we are going to attempt to paint our existing bedroom furniture rather than purchase new.  Hopefully that project works out for us and we can save some money.  We really haven't seen any new furniture that we like better than what we have but the paint scheme we want to use won't work with the wood colored furniture.

I am hoping to go to the shooting range this weekend and shoot some with JD.  I won't be able to use my Smith AR with the Slidefire stock as that would give the range marshalls a coronary.  I still have to decide on some optics for the Daniel.  If I'm going to do some 3 Gun, I will likely want a scope.

It had been a bit since I added to the firearm collection.  Jodi's Jeep had taken over with my OCD and I had neglected my cache.  That all ended with the purchase of a couple new pieces.  I really wanted a nice and solid carbine to put my Slidefire stock on so I can burn through ammo at a high rate.  I didn't want to spend a fortune on a rifle that its sole purpose and setup would be for fast rates of fire.  The S&W Sport II was a good fit as it was moderately priced and comes with sights.  Nothing fancy needed when throwing up to 900 rounds per minute.

My second acquisition of the day was a Daniel Defense M4V11PRO.  These are extremely tough to find as demand is high.  I lucked out and got the last one on the shelf.  It's lightweight, has a full float barrel, Geissele Trigger, Cerakote finish and more.  This may wind up being what I use for some 3 Gun.  Now it just needs some accessories.  Looking forward to some range time with it.  

It had been a bit since I added to the firearm collection.  Jodi's Jeep had taken over with my OCD and I had neglected my cache.  That all ended with the purchase of a couple new pieces.  I really wanted a nice and solid carbine to put my Slidefire stock on so I can burn through ammo at a high rate.  I didn't want to spend a fortune on a rifle that its sole purpose and setup would be for fast rates of fire.  The S&W Sport II was a good fit as it was moderately priced and comes with sights.  Nothing fancy needed when throwing up to 900 rounds per minute.

My second acquisition of the day was a Daniel Defense M4V11PRO.  These are extremely tough to find as demand is high.  I lucked out and got the last one on the shelf.  It's lightweight, has a full float barrel, Geissele Trigger, Cerakote finish and more.  This may wind up being what I use for some 3 Gun.  Now it just needs some accessories.  Looking forward to some range time with it.  

Jodi and I received some pretty awesome news on Tuesday.  We learned that for the second year in a row, we had won the Hot 100 image competition and this year, we won in multiple categories and were awarded ICON status.  There were over 7000 entries this year and honestly, I didn't think we would win again this year, much less in multiple categories.  But we did and we were pretty surprised to say the least.  It's a great feeling and an honor to be ranked in the top of our field.

Our busy week has begun.  I have 5 photo sessions this week and I also have to work Saturday at my "day job".  Next week is going to be a better week for me because we have two holidays and I'm off that weekend.  I only have one photo shoot scheduled for next week as well right now as the season is drawing to a close and that will bring some much needed time to relax and work on other things I'd like to get finished.

Justin has been given clearance to play catch from his surgeon so that process has begun.  The season starts in 4 months and there are a lot of unknowns at the moment but the road back continues at this point. 

Last Friday, I sold my truck.  The guy showed up with cash and took it home.  I was a bit surprised but he said he had been looking for a clean truck for his business and he couldn't find one nicer than mine.  That made me feel good and we are now back down to 4 cars for three drivers.