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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Got the cabin in PA cleaned up for the season
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1133
Re: Got the cabin in PA cleaned up for the season
The photo of cleaning the roof brought back memories. My family had a cabin in Big Bear from 1951 until 1993. Now my dad didn’t like heights. So as soon as I was big enough anything above ground level became my job. That meant that cleaning the roof, replacing shakes, and making sure the chimney scr...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Got the cabin in PA cleaned up for the season
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1133
Re: Got the cabin in PA cleaned up for the season
H&R’s can be very accurate. The 999 sprang from a target revolver. Take a look at the sights and the trigger guard. My 4” 999 shoots very well with most stuff but phenomenally ( not from my hands anymore ) with target grade ammo. I bought it because as a lefty it was one of the few friendly revo...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ruger/Marlin 1894
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1473
Re: Ruger/Marlin 1894
Gunny has it. Especially evident on the left screw. Look at the distinctly different color and structure of the one on the left as opposed to the solid color of the one on the right. You should send that photo to Ruger.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ruger/Marlin 1894
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1473
Re: Ruger/Marlin 1894
Don’t know if Ruger makes their own fasteners but either way I don’t think it’s a design flaw. Just not that much stress to cause failures so fast.
I’d love to see what a metallurgist would have to say after testing the failed parts.
I’d love to see what a metallurgist would have to say after testing the failed parts.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: I wonder how iran can afford…
- Replies: 6
- Views: 861
Re: I wonder how iran can afford…
I wonder how much found it’s way into politicians pockets.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'd not survive the 'corporate' world...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1083
Re: I'd not survive the 'corporate' world...
The biggest problem for some is that they are spending some of the money set side for their retirement on their kids who either refuse to work or get married and bring their own kids and wife home to live off of their parents Only if the parents let them. After high school, my sisters had to either...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'd not survive the 'corporate' world...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1083
Re: I'd not survive the 'corporate' world...
I feel your pain. State government is even worse than the corporate world. Only 3 or 4 more years of "Day Prison" to endure. -Stretch Yea, but you'll have a nice lifelong pension and healthcare. And that ain't nothing to sneeze at. After all, it's called work. As in working toward a goal ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'd not survive the 'corporate' world...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1083
Re: I'd not survive the 'corporate' world...
I was blessed that during the final phase of my career, while I had to deal with corporations, I mostly dealt with old guys like myself. People with whom a handshake was better than any contract ever written.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 ACP SIXGUN
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1540
Re: 45 ACP SIXGUN
When I bought my Stainless .45 colt Blackhawk, .45 acp convertibles weren't available. But a good smith dealt with that. I have several Smith's in .45 acp, by far my most accurate turns out to be a 1917 from the Brazilian contract. Who'd have thought that. It really likes cast and is pretty forgivin...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:27 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Biden puppet
- Replies: 4
- Views: 698
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Mystery solved or I’m not that bright
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1322
Re: Mystery solved or I’m not that bright
Bonnie and Clydes car?Old No7 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:54 pmIt could be much worse...Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:46 pm Turns out that the residue is blue. From shooting my sixgun across the bed...
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- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Just one Blackhawk
- Replies: 55
- Views: 4130
Re: Just one Blackhawk
Stainless, 4 5/8”, 45 colt/45 acp. Stainless because I like the look but also my hands con corrode blued steel in a heartbeat. 4 5/8” because they feel better in my hand than longer barrels. In preferred cross draw holster it’s quick and easy to bring to bear on a target 45 colt / 45acp. Because wel...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Quake!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 830
Re: Quake!
How can folks think an earthquake is foreshadowing the end of the world. At best they are just a very localized disturbance. I have friends who have plans to dig in and "survive" if "the big one" happens here in SoCal. My plan is entirely different. I'm just going to load up my J...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I was talking with some friends about the S&W Model 10
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1794
Re: I was talking with some friends about the S&W Model 10
My first centerfire Revolver was a used, very, Model 10 4" pencil barrel. I got it from a relative that had worked as a security guard while she was in college. Actually used wasn't correct, neglected is more like it. I think it had got rained on and left in a leather holster. But stripping it ...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Quake!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 830
Re: Quake!
We don’t even wake up for anything less than a 5. And even then I often confuse it with the vibration of my bed.
A good reminder though to secure stuff that can fall.
A good reminder though to secure stuff that can fall.
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:42 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: I don't do 'Twitter', but..... This 'Green' takedown was worth it...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 404
Re: I don't do 'Twitter', but..... This 'Green' takedown was worth it...
Truth often shows the false narrative of the current global warming fantasy.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Best pickup truck toolbox ever ...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 651
Re: Best pickup truck toolbox ever ...
Windshield washer bottle full of tranny fluid. Line running back to tailpipe. Smoke screen.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Walking past the muzzle anyone....???
- Replies: 6
- Views: 501
Re: Walking past the muzzle anyone....???
I’d say the sear is fine. Woke pandering assigning a woman with insufficient upper body strength is the problem.
Note, all it took was one good tug by the “assistant gunner.
Note, all it took was one good tug by the “assistant gunner.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:48 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Best pickup truck toolbox ever ...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 651
Re: Best pickup truck toolbox ever ...
Needs remote operation. Maybe laser aiming via a HUD worn be the occupant of the vehicle.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is This Our Future?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 524
Re: Is This Our Future?
Right now L A has one. The dept brass aren’t talking and the press is mute. But, talking to a recently retired battalion chief it’s been a miserable failure.
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Walking past the muzzle anyone....???
- Replies: 6
- Views: 501
Re: Walking past the muzzle anyone....???
He did walk under the barrel not in front of it. Still could have rung his bell pretty good.
Mostly, I got the impression he was upset because they gave the honor of firing the gun to a woman too weak to pull the lanyard.
Mostly, I got the impression he was upset because they gave the honor of firing the gun to a woman too weak to pull the lanyard.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:56 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: First Amendment stuff in SCOTUS Murthy vs Missouri
- Replies: 2
- Views: 968
Re: First Amendment stuff in SCOTUS Murthy vs Missouri
It isn't a right if the government can restrict it. The Bill Of Rights is a pretty simple document. If only the government would abide by it things would be much better. The problem is, about two seconds after the elected and appointed officials swear to uphold and defend the Constitution they viola...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bridge Collapse (video shows how fast it happened)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1827
Re: Bridge Collapse (video shows how fast it happened)
"........you want a USN damage control specialists." Way back in the "old navy" there were the u.s. naval enlisted rates shipfitters and damage controlmen. The Navy kept outdated things like O.B.A.'s for years after just about every other fire department on the planet had change...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Guns of the Old West
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1856
Re: Guns of the Old West
Speaking of the decline in reading printed material, as I walk around my neighborhood I notice that newspapers are getting smaller and smaller, based on what I see rolled up in driveways. They are a mere shadow of what they were 20 years ago. It's a wonder that the local newspaper is even in busine...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bridge Collapse (video shows how fast it happened)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1827
Re: Bridge Collapse (video shows how fast it happened)
In 1978 the Atlantic Trader, well past its prime, lost it's steering in the main channel of L. A. Harbor. It hit the end of a floating drydock, which probably saved quite a few lives, they slammed into the bow of an FFG before tearing into the dock to which the FFG was tied. The amount of damage a s...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Guns of the Old West
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1856
Re: Guns of the Old West
Except for tabloid type magazines that seem to appeal mostly to women magazines, like much printed material is slowly dying off. My kids, who aren't exactly young anymore read what they want online. I suspect that in a couple of generations the printed media will be just about extinct.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Reloading Setups
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1830
Re: Reloading Setups
I'd say go with Dillion. A progressive makes a poor choice for someone just starting reloading. But you're experienced so buy what you will eventually end up with first.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:59 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Drugged as a kid
- Replies: 6
- Views: 912
Re: Drugged as a kid
Sadly, many of my kid’s peers were drugged as children. While some folks refer to folks born at different time as boomers, gen x, gen z, etc. prefer to those kids as generation R. The R stsnds for Ritilan. Too many kids were drugged just because they exhibited symptoms of childhood. You know, things...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: SPAMMERS
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2024
Re: SPAMMERS
Thanks for the hard work Gamekeeper.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A cappella perfection
- Replies: 6
- Views: 564
Re: A cappella perfection
Now there is living proof there is hope for this world.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Do Red Squirrels Like Pine Cones??? (Especially when served on boats...)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 690
Re: Do Red Squirrels Like Pine Cones??? (Especially when served on boats...)
Perhaps it looked/sounded funny, but to the critters involved it was a true fight for survival. Not necessarily at that moment but from starvation later.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Panic time. . . . an ECLIPSE…!!!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1334
Re: Panic time. . . . an ECLIPSE…!!!
Hmm, looks like we have a Texas judge in King Biden's court.
Sorry Bing.
Sorry Bing.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Missing my sixguns
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1803
Re: Missing my sixguns
Your photos seem to prove that DC is truly upside down.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Term "pistol" ....
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1325
Re: The Term "pistol" ....
Throw in terms like Hawgleg, Smokewagon, forty five, etc and the true use of any word becomes clear. That use is to convey thoughts and ideas in a manner that others can understand. So, whether you refer to a semi auto as a pistol and revolvers as a pistol, as long as the thought or idea is conveyed...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Missed it by that much!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 661
Re: Missed it by that much!
I’m an impulse buyer so only one ever got away. A Webly-Fosbery. I hesitate because at $7000 and with two kids…. It sat for some time in the shop then one day it was gone. I haven’t seen another in the wild since. And prices are stratospheric. But I have promised myself I will have one. It’s just no...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 ACP Loads
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1119
Re: 45 ACP Loads
I too started with the .45 acp. I have a load that functions in all of my pistols and revolvers. It’s more accurate than I am and has been used on everything from cans to coyotes, effectively. A 200 gr LSWC, 4.7 grains of Bullseye. Brand of primer and case doesn’t seem to matter. I’ve been using it ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cheapie AR….
- Replies: 4
- Views: 519
Re: Cheapie AR….
We constantly here that the term AR stands for Armalite Rifle. Yet so many use it to rifles obviously not from Armalite?
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bill Jordan video
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1001
Re: Bill Jordan video
The old gun writers, unlike most of today’s crop knew what was because they lived it.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cowboy Assault Rifle
- Replies: 61
- Views: 6161
Re: Cowboy Assault Rifle
We better, they vote.Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:37 amThis is part of the bigger problem of letting the fear of what people might think control what we might say.
I’m not sure I care what people like that think.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:45 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Weirdness with Altamont Grips
- Replies: 7
- Views: 852
Re: Weirdness with Altamont Grips
The problem is new, read younger, employees find out they actually have to produce instead of playing in the internet all day. So, they quit and draw benefits as long as they can. The last few years I was working we’d try to hire and applicants would apply and then tell us what they wanted to do not...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:18 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: First Guns for newbies
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2061
Re: First Guns for newbies
Over many decades I've been asked this question many times from new potential gun owners, and my answer is always the same. A revolver with a 2"-4" barrel, in .38 Special or .357 Magnum. The .357 can be loaded with .38's for someone smaller who doesn't like recoil, or until they get used ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1476
Re: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
Can't figure out why any fool ever put a pistol grip stock on a lever gun. Makes working the lever a pain in the butt. Then again, I can't count the number of folks I see taking a levergun from their shoulder to work the lever. I'll ask them if they do that with a bolt gun. The answer is inevitably ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: First Guns for newbies
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2061
Re: First Guns for newbies
See my comment in "what ever it takes" thread.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Whatever it takes.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1566
Re: Whatever it takes.
I am sure there are some out there, but I don't know that I have ever run into a "helpless" woman. I have run into helpless young ladies but all they needed was some real life experience. :D Amen. My wife, all 5' of her was sort of timid and shy when we met. One reason I liked her. One da...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Whatever it takes.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1566
Re: Whatever it takes.
Worms still get heir share, buried or not.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: First Guns for newbies
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2061
Re: First Guns for newbies
Due to a recent neighborhood home invasion I have been helping a number of neighbors navigate their entry into firearms. Since I grew up shooting I never realized just how much it costs to learn and remain proficient. I have had a few be surprised at the equipment costs. Range time isn’t too bad, bu...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lost a Good One (taught me how to shoot)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 953
Re: Lost a Good One (taught me how to shoot)
My condolences. And prayers up for him and all those whose lives he touched.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Colt 1872 Open Top
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1062
Re: Colt 1872 Open Top
I have never seen an 1871/1872 in person. But from the photos it looks like they retain the safety notches on the rear of the cylinder. Is this the case?
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 768
Re: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
Sadly many of us can no longer thank our fathers for the sacrifices they made. But I do believe we will get another chance eventually.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Excellent Service from Bravo Concealment Holsters...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 455
Re: Excellent Service from Bravo Concealment Holsters...
That is great service. But since thy sent four, I'd guess you weren't the first to have a screw loose. Er, come loose.