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by DBW
Fri Dec 21, 2012 6:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The one thing Obama is good for....
Replies: 10
Views: 959

Re: The one thing Obama is good for....

Went down to my local gunstore, which usually has a large selection. Not an EBR to be found. I looked at a Ruger American in .308 and .30-06. Price for either was under $400. Spotted a Mossberg MVP Predator in .223 for under $600 which intrigued me in that although it's a bolt, it accepts AR-15 maga...
by DBW
Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: anybody have any good hobby ideas?
Replies: 58
Views: 3163

Re: anybody have any good hobby ideas?

This is still the best hobby I have by far. Taken today, my two fav waitresses, Kylie on my right, Ashley on my left. :D

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by DBW
Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: CCW reciprosity map
Replies: 11
Views: 1126

Re: CCW reciprosity map

Welcome to Oklahoma. :D
by DBW
Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: If this doesn't make you smile...you have no soul!
Replies: 16
Views: 783

Re: If this doesn't make you smile...you have no soul!

Loved it! Just took my wife to the airport as she's flying to Canada for the holiday to be with her family. Lineup at the ticket counter was long. Young woman with a newborn baby was behind us, struggling with her luggage and being a mom. Decided to help usher along her bag so she could give her att...
by DBW
Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:09 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: CCW permit
Replies: 22
Views: 2113

Re: CCW permit

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

We all have a duty to be armed...

I have CC'd since 2001. And now that Oklahoma has OC, that is how I carry.
by DBW
Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: anybody have any good hobby ideas?
Replies: 58
Views: 3163

Re: anybody have any good hobby ideas?

My other hobby...

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by DBW
Mon Dec 17, 2012 12:49 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: World War II documents
Replies: 15
Views: 1075

Re: World War II documents

Cool stuff. My cousin has the originals of the following documents awarded to my maternal grandfather. My grandparents lived in the small town of Ede, Holland which is near Arnhem, where the Allies fought for control of the bridge over the Rhine. My mother was a young girl when the Germans invaded h...
by DBW
Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Anyone shoot a 1911 45 ACP?
Replies: 90
Views: 10959

Re: Anyone shoot a 1911 45 ACP?

My primary OC and CC firearm: a Detonics MkVI Combat Master. I traded a Colt Series 70 Commander for it with my former FIL back in the late 80's. After he passed away last year I had hoped to see about getting the Colt back but it seems to had been sold by my former MIL. Oh well, even though my exwi...
by DBW
Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Enough of the Cold! I Want to Shoot My Leverguns!
Replies: 33
Views: 2585

Re: Enough of the Cold! I Want to Shoot My Leverguns!

Dwayne, LOL. You don't want me to come to Oklahoma? I'm one of the good guys! Hal I'm just trying to keep the population down. Actually the only counties that are growing in OK are those that contain Tulsa and Oklahoma City. The rest are barely holding their own or losing people. The reason I bough...
by DBW
Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:57 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT Books for Christmas
Replies: 6
Views: 812

Re: OT Books for Christmas

Books that I want: "How I Shot The Intruder in the Red Suit" "1001 Ways to Cook Reindeer" "Pimp My New Found Sleigh" "The Liberation of Elves from the North Pole Slave Master" "Obama Hitches a Ride to Kenya on Christmas Eve... and Doesn't Return" :lol:
by DBW
Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:47 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Time is runnin' out! 357 or 480 before it's too late?
Replies: 29
Views: 3657

Re: Time is runnin' out! 357 or 480 before it's too late?

.357 vote here. My Rossi has a Ruger SP101 and Uberti SA for companions that will be in my possession when everything falls to pieces.
by DBW
Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Enough of the Cold! I Want to Shoot My Leverguns!
Replies: 33
Views: 2585

Re: Enough of the Cold! I Want to Shoot My Leverguns!

I'm from New Jersey. Bad weather. Bad TAXES. and bad govmint. And REALLY bad gun laws. Surrounded by libtards. The worst of everything. I can't wait till retirement to move. Trying to figure out what is the best state to move to. Any suggestions? Texas. No income tax, lots of space, warmer weather ...
by DBW
Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Enough of the Cold! I Want to Shoot My Leverguns!
Replies: 33
Views: 2585

Re: Enough of the Cold! I Want to Shoot My Leverguns!

Yeah, cold and snow are four letter words. All of my family save myself and one brother still live in Canada. And that brother lives near Lake Placid, New York which sees plenty of cold and snow. :lol:
by DBW
Sat Dec 12, 2009 4:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Enough of the Cold! I Want to Shoot My Leverguns!
Replies: 33
Views: 2585

Re: Enough of the Cold! I Want to Shoot My Leverguns!

Dwayne, if you are ever passing near Elmira or Glen Allan, Ontario, swing by for a coffee to get some warmth back into your bones. I'm usually around 24-7. I sometimes stop in Cambridge to meet an older brother living there. You ever get down there? I usually stay on the 401 to reach the 400, but i...
by DBW
Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Enough of the Cold! I Want to Shoot My Leverguns!
Replies: 33
Views: 2585

Re: Enough of the Cold! I Want to Shoot My Leverguns!

I'd like to see a week of 30 below zero in the Copenhagen region during this big conference. 8) I'd like to see those Global Cooling Deniers get their buns froze off this week. Yesterday, I saw a Snowy Owl down in the snow-drifted flats by the river. You seldom see them this far south. The Old Time...
by DBW
Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:31 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Humor - "Tiger" in the news...
Replies: 16
Views: 1133

Re: Humor - "Tiger" in the news...

Congress, POTUS and SCOTUS are subverting the Constitution and our freedoms...

... and Americans are focusing on this? :(
by DBW
Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:13 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tactial light on lever action
Replies: 36
Views: 12983

Re: Tactial light on lever action

The pigs have moved in on me and I need to off as many as I can. The problem is they are nocturnal. I need to mount a tactical light with a pressure switch so as to shoot at night. I can't find a way to mount such a light at reasonable cost. It would seem simple to mount one on the magazine but I h...
by DBW
Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:06 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: newbie here......(NOW W/PICS!!)
Replies: 29
Views: 1960

Re: newbie here......

Welcome aboard Buxman. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. What caliber is it? By the way, you'll be buying more levers shortly, and then will come the desire to watch more westerns, then the single action revolver to match the lever, then the leather for both of 'em, and so on, and so on, and so...
by DBW
Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The year is almost over, What have you have done this year?
Replies: 72
Views: 7862

Re: The year is almost over, What have you have done this year?

Bought some guns
Got the wife's house sold
Safely drove the Beast about 125,000 miles
Sent in the paperwork for my wife to immigrate from Canada to the US
by DBW
Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:20 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Show Your Snubbie
Replies: 67
Views: 7918

Show Your Snubbie

Got snubbie? Show them...

My Ruger SP101 .357

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My wife's new Charter Arms Pink Lady .38Spl

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by DBW
Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: HUMOR Afraid of your wife?
Replies: 9
Views: 1085

Re: HUMOR Afraid of your wife?

He needs his man card revoked.
by DBW
Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .357 Magnum Hunting... Being Laughed At :(
Replies: 105
Views: 27284

Re: .357 Magnum Hunting... Being Laughed At :(

Time for a .357 fan group hug. :lol:
by DBW
Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Oklahoma's Ability to Regulate The Carrying of Weapons
Replies: 23
Views: 1936

Re: Oklahoma's Ability to Regulate The Carrying of Weapons

Morality can not be legislated. Only punishment can be legislated. I will not pay a protection fee, poll tax or kickback to the government. To keep things simple for now I simply don't carry. Taking a chance with the criminal element of course. And when the poop hits the fan having a CCW won't matte...
by DBW
Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - Be carefull out there!
Replies: 14
Views: 1474

Re: OT - Be carefull out there!

Hunting should be done on the ground. Even a child knows that to 'hunt' Easter eggs requires boots on the ground. :D

Glad you're okay otherwise. Hate to lose a fellow Okie from this forum.
by DBW
Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Oklahoma's Ability to Regulate The Carrying of Weapons
Replies: 23
Views: 1936

Re: Oklahoma's Ability to Regulate The Carrying of Weapons

Rosa Parks understood that the law she nullified was unjust and immoral. None of the states nor the central government have the right to 'regulate' (dictate controls or mandates) that violate Natural Law. Bearing arms is an unwritten right. One cannot nullify it with legislation. To do so does not m...
by DBW
Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:07 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .357 Magnum Hunting... Being Laughed At :(
Replies: 105
Views: 27284

Re: .357 Magnum Hunting... Being Laughed At :(

I'm not a hunter, but if the .357 will take out the most dangerous creature on this ball of mud it should work on most of the fury critters roaming the range.
by DBW
Tue Dec 01, 2009 10:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT-What's on your "short list"?
Replies: 39
Views: 3507

Re: OT-What's on your "short list"?

Don't want material stuff. Just looking forward to getting up to Sudbury and being with my wife again. By then we'll have been apart six weeks. Dragging her back out on the truck afterwards. :D
by DBW
Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Oklahoma's Ability to Regulate The Carrying of Weapons
Replies: 23
Views: 1936

Re: Oklahoma's Ability to Regulate The Carrying of Weapons

I've got a copy of Stephen Halbrook's That Every Man Be Armed . He lays out historical ideas and thoughts on this subject. Self preservation is a basic tenent of life for all living creatures. Man was gifted not with claw or fang, but reason. That anyone believes man has no personal right to defend ...
by DBW
Mon Nov 30, 2009 6:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Oklahoma's Ability to Regulate The Carrying of Weapons
Replies: 23
Views: 1936

Re: Oklahoma's Ability to Regulate The Carrying of Weapons

Define the word 'regulate' as used in 1787. As in the Article 1, Section 8, I believe 'regulate' means "to make uniform". Since there were many militia groups within most of the states, it made sense to have them all confirm to a uniform set of standards should the government need to call ...
by DBW
Sun Nov 29, 2009 12:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: dog
Replies: 16
Views: 932

Re: dog

Congrats on the new furkid.
by DBW
Sun Nov 29, 2009 12:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Oklahoma's Ability to Regulate The Carrying of Weapons
Replies: 23
Views: 1936

Re: Oklahoma's Ability to Regulate The Carrying of Weapons

The Oklahoma Self Defense Act (SDA) was the legislation that allows CC here. I've read it. Now, what of the estimated 14% of residents who are illiterate? The SDA requires an applicant to read and understand the act. Additionally, fees required preclude those of limited financial ability to pay for ...
by DBW
Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:13 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: My First Lever Action :D
Replies: 23
Views: 2443

Re: My First Lever Action :D

Welcome. Got pics? I bought my first lever just under a year ago, a Marlin thutty thutty. Since then I've added a second Marlin thutty thutty, a Marlin .44 mag, a Henry .22 and a Rossi .357. To make it more interesting I bought a Ruger .44 mag Vacquero and Uberti .357 revolvers to have rifle/revolv...
by DBW
Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:09 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Minimum battery?
Replies: 62
Views: 6345

Re: Minimum battery?

Most of mine and my kids stuff is handled by AA, but for a few applications the AAA is appropriate. So I'd have to say AAA as a minimum. I prefer Duracel on account of the Energizer bunny being pink. I'm not willing to go smaller than AA. A lot of my things use AA so I've got about a dozen recharge...
by DBW
Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Oklahoma's Ability to Regulate The Carrying of Weapons
Replies: 23
Views: 1936

Oklahoma's Ability to Regulate The Carrying of Weapons

Section II-26 of the Oklahoma state constitution "The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person, or property, or in aid of the civil power, when thereunto legally summoned, shall never be prohibited; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the Legislature from ...
by DBW
Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - Currently Reading...
Replies: 11
Views: 1114

OT - Currently Reading...

"A Son of Thunder" by Henry Mayer, a biography on Patrick Henry "Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention", a compilation of little known debates recorded by Robert Yates, Chief Justice of New York "Consitutional Chaos" by Judge Andrew Napolitano....
by DBW
Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT: THIN leather gloves?
Replies: 21
Views: 2756

Re: OT: THIN leather gloves?

Michael Jackson just had one... sold the other day for a miniscule $355,000. Downside is that it is white... like MJ. :lol:
by DBW
Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT: Santa Claus in South Dakota???
Replies: 8
Views: 803

Re: OT: Santa Claus in South Dakota???

Terry is yelling, so it must be true. :lol:
by DBW
Fri Nov 27, 2009 10:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Feel vs Actual Weight/Size of Lever Guns
Replies: 16
Views: 1439

Re: Feel vs Actual Weight/Size of Lever Guns

Guns are like women. Similar features, weights and use... but no two are ever alike. :D
by DBW
Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:25 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Musings from the Miller: The turkies cooking ..........
Replies: 10
Views: 622

Re: Musings from the Miller: The turkies cooking ..........

Joe, I know how you feel. I've got a brother in Plattsburg, NY... the rest of my family is scattered across Canada. Even my wife is up in Canada untilI head up there for Christmas. Because most of the family is north of the border the last time I celebrated T-Day here in the States was back in 1999 ...
by DBW
Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:11 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - What did y'all have for Thanksgiving?
Replies: 11
Views: 803

Re: OT - What did y'all have for Thanksgiving?

I tooled into OKC T-Day evening. My best friend picked me up at the truckstop and took me to Hooters. A plate if yardbird, fries and a Coors was consumed. The scenery wasn't bad either. :D
by DBW
Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:28 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: My First Lever Action :D
Replies: 23
Views: 2443

Re: My First Lever Action :D

Welcome. Got pics? I bought my first lever just under a year ago, a Marlin thutty thutty. Since then I've added a second Marlin thutty thutty, a Marlin .44 mag, a Henry .22 and a Rossi .357. To make it more interesting I bought a Ruger .44 mag Vacquero and Uberti .357 revolvers to have rifle/revolve...
by DBW
Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:45 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - Timing is Everything...!
Replies: 22
Views: 1501

Re: OT - Timing is Everything...!

:lol:
by DBW
Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:41 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .357 or .45 LC Marlin???
Replies: 21
Views: 3150

Re: .357 or .45 LC Marlin???

I have a .357 and .44mag revolver/pistol combo. The former is my preferred all around setup. The latter is for giggles. When poop hits the fan I'll be grabbing the .357s. :D
by DBW
Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:06 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT: Thanksgiving
Replies: 15
Views: 1498

Re: OT: Thanksgiving

Amen.

This holiday I'm out here only with the Lord and my dog Keylock. I am on my way to Erie, PA to pick up a load that I'm taking to Laredo. Good to have something to do this holiday. :)
by DBW
Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT- Hunters Robbed and Assaulted
Replies: 30
Views: 2339

Re: OT- Hunters Robbed and Assaulted

And stuff like that is why Mexico is off limits for Marines. That country was only stable when Gen. Winfield Scott was there in 1846-1848 I think it is time we refreshed their memory. Hatemonger that I am I think we should run parallel fences with landmines between the two. I came to the US legally...
by DBW
Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT- Hunters Robbed and Assaulted
Replies: 30
Views: 2339

Re: OT- Hunters Robbed and Assaulted

I went to Mexico 5 times in my college days. Once during white wing season. I had a blast the first four times. The last time I had to escape from the Matamoras jail and I wouldn't go back now for any reason. It is a long story but remember one thing, you don't take the Constitution with you outsid...
by DBW
Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Grip Styles
Replies: 17
Views: 1657

Re: Grip Styles

No personal preference since I've got levers with both. For looks I like the straight grip.
by DBW
Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT- Hunters Robbed and Assaulted
Replies: 30
Views: 2339

Re: OT- Hunters Robbed and Assaulted

kimwcook wrote:Until the country stabilizes it's going to be a mess for everyone. And with our economy taking a hit I'm sure their's really is.
When our dollar collapses we will be Mexico. I haven't lost anything down there, no desire to go.
by DBW
Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Best single gun a person could buy?
Replies: 76
Views: 7127

Re: Best single gun a person could buy?

For your caliber choice, one must consider availability of ammunition you can buy, beg, borrow or steal. 22's, 12 ga, 20 ga, 44 mag, 30-30, 30-06, .308, .223, 9MM, etc. 45 colt ? 45ACP ? 303 britt. ? .243 ? .270 ? Your choice :wink: True. Which caliber is one used by the military? As mentioned, a ....