Hello from TN

**TNshooter** · 06-09-2013, 02:57 AM

Hello everyone. From the Smoky Mtns in TN. I love the outdoors, I'm a bit of a weapons nut, especially primitive weapons. I love to build things and often do. One of my favorite things is figuring out to make something dirt cheap, or preferrably, free : )

**crashdive123** · 06-09-2013, 05:52 AM

Hello and welcome. I'd like to pick your brain a bit on a subject - sending you a private message.

**Ken** · 06-09-2013, 06:56 AM

Welcome to the Forums!

**randyt** · 06-09-2013, 07:04 AM

welcome to the forums. My parents lived in Erwin for years.

**hunter63** · 06-09-2013, 11:50 AM

Hunter63, saying Hey and Welcome.

**Rick** · 06-09-2013, 03:34 PM

Welcome home.

**welderguy** · 06-09-2013, 03:41 PM

Howdy welcome aboard

**bacpacker** · 06-09-2013, 05:45 PM

Hello from a little west of you. Welcome in.

**Cast-Iron** · 06-09-2013, 05:46 PM

Howdy and Welcome!

**TNshooter** · 06-09-2013, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by randyt

welcome to the forums. My parents lived in Erwin for years.

I lived in Erwin for 30 some years. I've just been here a little over a year now.

**TNshooter** · 06-09-2013, 07:42 PM

Thanks everybody for the warm welcome!

**randyt** · 06-09-2013, 07:51 PM

My dad was a avid shooter. Do you know Buddy Johnson?

**TNshooter** · 06-09-2013, 08:13 PM

That name definitely rings a bell. We probably met somewhere along the way I'll bet.

**randyt** · 06-09-2013, 08:19 PM

He's a oldtime gunsmith/treasure hunter. He was always looking for garlands/swifts silver up in the unakas. he showed my dad a turtle that somebody had chipped into the top of the mountain. It was up by indian grave gap. Last I heard the feds nabbed him coming out of the woods with something he found by red fork falls, don't know if that's true though. Heck of a gunsmith too, he put together a colt lightning that I had in a million pieces in a cigar box. He charged me 20 dollars and the gun functions perfectly.

**TNshooter** · 06-09-2013, 08:30 PM

Oh yeah, I know of Buddy, though we never met. I know those places you're talking about. I've tramped many a mile through them myself. Is Buddy your dad?

**randyt** · 06-09-2013, 08:35 PM

No, Buddy was a friend of my dads. My parents had lived on zac whitson lane. Buddy lives over behind the courthouse a bit, can't remember the street name but could drive right to it. I haven't seen Buddy for 5 years or so. Southeast Tennessee is nice country.

**TNshooter** · 06-09-2013, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by randyt

No, Buddy was a friend of my dads. My parents had lived on zac whitson lane. Buddy lives over behind the courthouse a bit, can't remember the street name but could drive right to it. I haven't seen Buddy for 5 years or so. Southeast Tennessee is nice country.

Hey randyt, I sent you a PM.