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I actually did this in real life ,a while back now. Company I was working for transferred me a thousand miles away. Kept my house and most of my stuff where I’d been at, got an apartment in the new location. Got transferred back after 18 months. Here’s what I ended up with in the apartment, some of ...

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I had looked at one of those before but it reminds me an awful lot of a gun that came out maybe 25 years ago called the Grendel. Looked like an ok 'toolbox' or 'fishing box' gun at the time. I had ignored them for years because Kel Tec but it seems some thoughtful people (notably, noted trainer &qu...

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I am starting to think of the Kel Tec P32 as the High Standard Derringer of a new generation. Bigger BB's and more of them, a lot less muzzle blast, lighter...what's not to like?

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Praise the Lord!

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Dpowers wrote: ↑Thu Jan 22, 2026 4:12 pm Buy a IMI Timberwolf

What he said.

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Three words -- community education classes. My wife and I have been going to an herbal medicine class. There's usually about twelve people there. And it's either one other guy or just me. Other than that, women of all different ages, shapes and sizes, Some of them are kind of cute. :D I've noticed t...

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Guy I used to know would claim that the purpose of a handgun was to slow the other guy down for the knife fight you were going to have to have anyway. If you look at it that way...

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Sleeping with a pistol on body? Not to speak of. Maybe once in a blue moon when sleeping someplace Where The Wild Things Are. OTOH, I almost always have, at bare minimum, some kind of neck knife on body when sleeping. (And at any other time, for that matter.) Anyone else here in the habit of sleepin...

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One of my old EMS partners weighed just about one pound at birth. She was a great partner, sharper than a tack.

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Elderly woman up here takes a fall at home, breaks her hip. Well, good news is that docs can sometimes fix that now. So they send her home after a few days, cool. But rather than opiods they give her some kind of super-powerful scrip-only NSAID, I don't recall which one. And 72 hours later we get pa...

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I found the site first, while I was looking for reduced load data (and that's a great article!), which led me to the forum.

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I think big gun collections are like classic cars or show animals. They are great things for your buddy to have. Then every so often you can go over to his house and look at them for five minutes. Then you can say, "that's nice, man. Now what do you want to do?"

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Oldncrusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 1:21 pm Yep. Horrible stuff. Makes you want to tap your foot. Everyone knows that leads to dancing.

You guys know why the other church in town, down the road, forbids its parishioners to make whoopee standing up, right?

Might lead to dancing!

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Hemingway later used some of his experiences turning his boat a Q-ship in his novel "Islands in the Stream". In real life, there is some debate as to how serious he was about it, and he never actually found any Germans. Probably just as well. Imagine a bunch of drunks in a fishing boat, ar...

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For me, 1886 Lightweight in .33 Win.

I actually got to handle one once, although I didn't shoot. Man, that handles nice.

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The subject line of this thread is grammatically incorrect.

The proper way to conjugate that sentence is "I ain't never done et squirrel".

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Me, I always figure a new gun every year is a whole lot cheaper than a new woman every year.

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There must have been a long shortage (still is) of available 348 ammo...... I read citing where shops back in the day had barrels (like a whiskey barrel, not a rifle barrel) full of M71's on the extra cheap "nobody wanted". Only reason I see that would be is no ammo to be found. When I wa...

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Trump Effect. Not joking.

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A couple of things we haven't talked much about yet -- mobility and balance. I've seen a fair number of guys (*) who managed to retain a surprising level of strength and and muscularity well into their 80's or even 90's. You know what they didn't have? Mobility and balance. It doesn't really matter ...

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jeepnik wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2025 6:29 am Pretty much all of these features you fear can be turned off.

I'm not sure that "fear" is exactly the right term, but in any case that would give me a concern that The Party would turn them back on, remotely.

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I am searching for a good, systematic way to find out what "features" are present in any new vehicle I might consider. Over-the-air software updates are a non-starter. Geofencing is a non-starter -- if I wanted to live in a "15 minute city" (for which read "to be confined to...

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I'm old enough to remember when small-town diners would have liver and onions on the menu. Later, when I was in college, I worked in a fancy restaurant as a dishwasher. Liver was on the menu there, and it was *good*. The cooks told me that most people don't know how to cook liver. Wish I could remem...

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Lifted.

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No, wait, I have a better idea. We'll cut down a ,45-60 (or .45-70, .45-90, etc.).

Yes, that's right -- the .45-47!

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Ruger -Six's.

Probably all Ruger DA's, although the -Six's are the only ones I have personal experience with.

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Most agencies qualify quarterly so they get shot very little, unless they're SWAT weapons. Shotguns are even a better buy. I got a police trade-in 870 from gunjoker. Stiffest action I ever saw on a pump gun. Action bars were dinged up and twisted, etc. I like to think that some backwoods deputy ham...

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This'n here's mine.

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Hard no. I am old enough (barely) to remember the 5 mm Remington Magnum.

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Grizz wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 11:27 am The MEDICAL GENIUS INDUSTRY was the source of the suck-the-poison routine.

Punch line to an old dirty joke -- "Doctor says you gonna die".

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Oh, and .45 ACP, too.

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4t5 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 11:45 am Those of you who use this powder, what do you use it for?

Based on Ed Harris's article, I've used it, in various amounts, for .30 Short Russian, .30 Long Russian, and .30-30. I've also used it for .38 Special.

Had plans to do other things with it. This announcement bums me out,

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That's a really good idea.

Also consider carrying some kind of bottled water, no just for drinking, but also any water suitable for drinking can be used for wound irrigation, eye irrigation, etc...

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AJMD429 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 8:03 pm
No good answer, really.

How about "get a warrant"?

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I really believe these little rifles are the quintessential personal defense firearms. They're very simple to operate, even for the uninitiated, I took a young female, one of my EMS rookies, out to the range once. She'd never fired a long before. Let her put a couple of mags through a 10/22 for con...

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hfcable wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2024 6:48 pm i have an israeli made M1 carbine in 5.7 johnson. is it useful ? i dont know but it sure is a neat little rifle

I am going to stop hanging out here. You people make me Think Bad Thoughts.

Before I go, though, what kind of reloading data you using for the 5.7 Johnson?

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I have a Universal. Put a PSA red dot on it and even set myself up to reload, with a Lee Turret press. I have since stepped boldly into the 1960's and got me an AR, but I still sometimes daydream about going all-in on Carbines...SBR one, get one in 5.7 Johnson, and so on. Maybe when I retire. It's a...

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Still looks better than a levergun with an AR stock and a quad rail with a bunch of stuff bolted to it.

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Not sure it is what is happening to you, but I can confirm for a fact that it's possible to lock up a -Six by shooting primer-only wax bullet loads, even with the flash holes drilled out to 1/8th inch.

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Interesting find.

Could the slug be some kind of sintered metal? Would make sense given the application.

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The book-length version, complete with Hunter's usual meticulous research:

https://www.amazon.com/American-Gunfigh ... 0743260694

I imagine most here would enjoy...

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Also, for penetrating German overcoats. (7.62 Tokarev) Fairbairn thought the 7.63 Mauser (essentially a downloaded Tok, of course) was the deadliest pistol caliber. That was then, this is now, but, yeah, if you took a round from a Bolo Mauser to the torso in 1930's Shanghai, you were probably going...

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1894cfan wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 11:14 am If you go that route, might as well make it a 30 Carbine?

I would accept a pump action .30 Carbine.

But my original thought was a niche more like a modern day .32-20.

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I want to see the .30 Super Carry in some kind of light carbine. That would be a mighty fine woods-walking gun.

Extra points for a pump action. The Remington Model 25 of a new generation.

Sigh. I can dream...

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One of the most experienced guys I know did this. Decades of experience with EMS and Fire.

Anyone can space out and go on autopilot. Only takes one time.

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AJMD429 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:22 am Seems like a new shooter at the minimum would need a 22LR and 9 mm handgun

How about a 9 mil and a .22 conversion unit for same.

Then the same trick for an AR.

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No idea.

I was too busy playing with one of these.

https://www.guns.com/news/2011/08/19/th ... oy-cap-gun

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There's a old university urban legend... Supposedly, decades before DNA, some scientist was doing research on blood typing for some reason. And came to find out that, just based on blood type (i.e., ABO) alone, some shockingly high percentage of the people he studied could not possibly have been the...

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Also of note, these bad boys were the standard arm of the North Woods from 'bout when they started making them up until maybe the 1970's. And why not.

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I remember being a little kid and hanging around the country general store listening to the World War One vets (who were the same age as Vietnam vets are today). They'd say "oh, those dummies -- if we hadn't gone over there they'd still be fighting!" Some historians have lately validated t...

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