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by Gaucho Gringo
Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: fanner 50
Replies: 16
Views: 2392

Re: fanner 50

I had a Hubbly that was a representation of an 1860 Colt cartridge conversion. It was full scale and had removable cartridges that were two part and looked real. They had full length bullet that a brass piece that fit over one end of the bullet piece. It had a cut-out in the end and a paper cap was ...
by Gaucho Gringo
Sat Feb 17, 2018 6:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 13 PROBLEMS WITH PORK
Replies: 47
Views: 10851

Re: 13 PROBLEMS WITH PORK

Up until the end of the Civil War the main meat was pork in the US. When the Europeans were colonizing someplace they always brought pigs with them.
by Gaucho Gringo
Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: THANKS DAD.
Replies: 15
Views: 1962

Re: THANKS DAD.

Lost my dad 39 years ago when he was 56 and yes you never quite get over it. He taught me well and I am thankful to him for that.
by Gaucho Gringo
Sat Dec 09, 2017 4:49 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pitchy strikes again!
Replies: 14
Views: 2052

Re: Pitchy strikes again!

I have seen these before many years ago. I was fascinated by it when I was a kid. It was at my great aunts house which looked like something out of the Victorian age. Formal garden, pond, greenhouse. Inside doily's under everything, cut crystal glass ashtrays with matching holders for wood matches, ...
by Gaucho Gringo
Mon Dec 04, 2017 2:42 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New to me Western.
Replies: 15
Views: 3222

Re: New to me Western.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zimeJ65qdXc

This just turned me off to even considering watching it. What a bunch of human trash as actors who know nothing of our history. No wonder I prefer John Wayne movies.
by Gaucho Gringo
Sat Jun 24, 2017 3:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: U.S. Navy Collision... How does THAT happen???
Replies: 39
Views: 6240

Re: U.S. Navy Collision... How does THAT happen???

At least it didn't get hit by the Queen Mary. In WW2 she cut a British cruiser in half with very minor damage to her. She didn't even stop until she got to England
by Gaucho Gringo
Sun Jun 11, 2017 10:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Nude chicks with guns (adult content)
Replies: 11
Views: 2335

Re: Nude chicks with guns (adult content)

No fool like an old fool. I guess since I am older now it applies to me.
by Gaucho Gringo
Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:37 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: LITTLE ASIAN GIRL, AFRAID OF GUNS
Replies: 20
Views: 4421

Re: LITTLE ASIAN GIRL, AFRAID OF GUNS

Congratulations to both of you. May she do well in future matches over the years to come. And you as her teacher & mentor must be proud(and rightly so)of her accomplishments knowing you are the one who guided her on this path. As a father and grandfather I realize it is not my accomplishments th...
by Gaucho Gringo
Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:18 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Understanding modern Royal Marines rations...
Replies: 7
Views: 2118

Re: Understanding modern Royal Marines rations...

Sounds like the officers are holding up the time honored British(and other European countries)traditions of we are gentlemen, the troops are pigs. Can't let a little thing like a war interfere with our privileges of rank, they(the troops)don't deserve any better than slop where we as officers and ge...
by Gaucho Gringo
Mon Jan 23, 2017 10:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Few of you old fanny burbs probably played with these.
Replies: 27
Views: 3790

Re: Few of you old fanny burbs probably played with these.

I remember these from when I was a kid. Too bad Pitchy couldn't get ahold of a DM&IR articulated. Now that would be fun.
by Gaucho Gringo
Mon Sep 12, 2016 12:34 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 61 years ago today
Replies: 23
Views: 2593

Re: 61 years ago today

I was born in 1951 and we didn't have a TV set until 1958. We inherited my grandmother's TV after she died. It was a Packard Bell cabinet model with doors, I still have the cabinet. In the late 50's Gunsmoke came on at 10pm on Saturday and my bedtime was 8pm. I would go to bed at 8 and my dad would ...
by Gaucho Gringo
Thu May 05, 2016 1:37 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "The Good The Bad The Ugly" music..How Made
Replies: 17
Views: 3206

Re: "The Good The Bad The Ugly" music..How Made

Thanks for the post, even 50 years later the music has a timeless quality. I saw all three of the movies when they came out - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, A Fistfull of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More. I never get tired of watching them even after all these years.
by Gaucho Gringo
Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Things you don't want to hear from your radiologist...
Replies: 29
Views: 2785

Re: Things you don't want to hear from your radiologist...

I have been on pain pills for 17 years now and SS disability. I don't really like them but they have allowed me to live a halfway normal life. I went through the physical therapy, anti depressant, and every other routine or pill for chronic pain in the book. Nothing worked as well as the pain medica...
by Gaucho Gringo
Thu Sep 03, 2015 12:32 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Elk on the desert
Replies: 14
Views: 2096

Re: Elk on the desert

Sorry, I got so off on my personal opinion of wolves that I forgot the thread was about a picture of a magnificent herd of elk that are part of the country's only remaining herd of desert-dwelling elk. An awesome picture of a near endangered elk specie. In coastal Oregon I have seen elk herds(10-25)...
by Gaucho Gringo
Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Elk on the desert
Replies: 14
Views: 2096

Re: Elk on the desert

Don't even get me started on the subject of wolves. There is a very good reason they have been demonized throughout history dating back 15,000 years ago. Basically 2 apex predators slugging it out for dominance. We had the war won until people got soft, let the wolf huggers spend a few nights in the...
by Gaucho Gringo
Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:05 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Navajo Code Talkers
Replies: 10
Views: 3535

Re: Navajo Code Talkers

My father a Marine who spent over two years overseas had nothing but good things to say about them. The performed gallantly for a nation that had no respect for them or cared whether they lived or died for over 150 years. Similar parallels can be drawn of the American born Japanese who served in Eur...
by Gaucho Gringo
Sun Aug 02, 2015 11:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Epic Missile Failure: USS Sullivans
Replies: 14
Views: 4700

Re: Epic Missile Failure: USS Sullivans

At Pearl Harbor there were 23 sets of brothers lost on the Arizona. http://www.history.com/news/5-facts-abo ... ss-arizona
by Gaucho Gringo
Sat Jul 18, 2015 12:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How to tell you have reached geezerhood
Replies: 46
Views: 5247

Re: How to tell you have reached geezerhood

Only 57 years here, but sometimes it's the miles not the years. I think my odometer is on it's 3rd trip around, at least. :P Rob You got that right. A doctor told me that my body age was 10 years ahead of my chronological age. I hate admit it but it is true due to medical circumstances beyond my co...
by Gaucho Gringo
Thu Jul 09, 2015 6:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A few Pics of Columbia River Gorge
Replies: 15
Views: 2925

Re: A few Pics of Columbia River Gorge

Until gold was discovered in California most of the western migration's destination was the Oregon Territory(Oregon, Washington and part of Idaho) My gggrandfather and his brother in law made an over two year journey to California and Oregon starting in 1849 from Iowa and back. They wrote only one l...
by Gaucho Gringo
Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Geography, I doubt they can spell it either.
Replies: 24
Views: 3598

Re: Geography, I doubt they can spell it either.

And we wonder why we are going downhill. They sprout off that we a country of immigrants(6 of my 8 GGrandparents were not born in the US) but at least in the old days they expected their children to go to school to learn something so they could better themselves. Unfortunately, it is no longer that ...
by Gaucho Gringo
Wed Jun 17, 2015 2:34 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Give me a break... A "Top Break", that is!
Replies: 22
Views: 3088

Re: Give me a break... A "Top Break", that is!

Very nice collection. I also enjoy breaktops and currently have 4. The .32 S&W Hopkins & Allen & Iver Johnson are black powder only. The newer .32 S&W Iver Johnson I have is smokeless as is the .38 S&W H&R concealed hammer I also own. All of them function well except the Hopk...
by Gaucho Gringo
Sun Jun 14, 2015 8:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT- Need help With 'Fridge
Replies: 5
Views: 1109

Re: OT- Need help With 'Fridge

This can also be a sign of low refrigerant level. It may sound odd but a guy I know who is in the repair business told me this. Sounds weird but it is true.
by Gaucho Gringo
Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:14 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Hard to believe it was 71 years ago Saturday...
Replies: 8
Views: 1562

Re: Hard to believe it was 71 years ago Saturday...

We owe not only those who were at D Day but all who served during WW2 a debt of gratitude and thanks that they stepped up to the plate and did what was needed to be done with honor and courage. Not to take anything away from the veterans of the D Day invasion.
by Gaucho Gringo
Mon Jun 08, 2015 12:57 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Just got back from vacation last weekend
Replies: 11
Views: 1266

Re: Just got back from vacation last weekend

Sorry, not my idea of a Caribbean cruise. Everyone is entitled to his own dreams and visions and I wouldn't want to deny or unjustly criticize someone's dream trip although it does look rather nice. My idea of one is a windjammer cruise on a sailing ship. I always wanted to go on one but now that I ...
by Gaucho Gringo
Tue Jun 02, 2015 8:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Big business and doctor visits
Replies: 14
Views: 1801

Re: Big business and doctor visits

It is all about big medical and pharmaceutical corporations making big money at the expense of everyone's health unless you are in the top 5% that owns them anyway and then you don't have worry.
by Gaucho Gringo
Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Moving (or turning) houses...
Replies: 13
Views: 1879

Re: Moving (or turning) houses...

Up in Saskatchewan where my sister has lived for over the last thirty five years, there is an inland lake that everyone calls the seashore. The cabins as they called are mostly abandoned farmhouses that they moved there. Instead of one farmhouse for every 640 acres like 60-70 years ago it is one hou...
by Gaucho Gringo
Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thinkig about a progressive
Replies: 29
Views: 3498

Re: Thinkig about a progressive

Not a very nice comment.
by Gaucho Gringo
Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Job security: cleaning up Verdun??
Replies: 20
Views: 2688

Re: Job security: cleaning up Verdun??

In another vein, you have millions of empty shell casings and millions of bored soldiers sitting around either waiting for an attack or going over the top. They take these discarded items and make them into what is called "Trench Art". I have a tray made out an artillery shell casing, a pa...
by Gaucho Gringo
Tue Jun 02, 2015 5:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Windows 10 FREE????
Replies: 99
Views: 16495

Re: Windows 10 FREE????

Heck, I am still running XP Pro that runs just fine for me.
by Gaucho Gringo
Wed May 20, 2015 10:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "The Retrieval" got me jonesing for a 'hawk...
Replies: 29
Views: 5573

Re: "The Retrieval" got me jonesing for a 'hawk...

I don't have any Estwing axes but I do have 2 of their hammers(32oz framing & 20oz finish)that I have had for over 30 years now and I can say there is no way to break the steel handle unless you actually try and break it and even then you would have a he** of time at that. I managed to bend the ...
by Gaucho Gringo
Sat Apr 25, 2015 3:31 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: BBQ Is Banned In Texas City....(Not a Joke)
Replies: 54
Views: 4415

Re: BBQ Is Banned In Texas City....(Not a Joke)

The great Republican governor of Oregon,Tom McCall had it right. He was a progressive Republican in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt. He said come visit Oregon but for god's sake don't move here. He fostered many common sense laws and regulations about environmental issues but these laws were later perve...
by Gaucho Gringo
Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Danl Boone
Replies: 34
Views: 2717

Re: Danl Boone

The Guns of Will Sonnet. Does anyone remember that series? It was a good one in my opinion. "No brag, just fact" was a great line from Walter Brennan's character. 1967 to 1969 He always ended each episode with a prayer..............can't do that anymore :( Duck Dynasty and Blue Bloods do ...
by Gaucho Gringo
Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Think I "need" one of these...
Replies: 11
Views: 1418

Re: Think I "need" one of these...

Those scuba tanks are used by some contractors for nail guns and drywall spraying. Handy when you don't have electricity to run your regular air compressor. There is one heck of a difference in the volume of air between a tank at 100psi and one of the same size at 4.5kpsi.
by Gaucho Gringo
Thu Mar 26, 2015 6:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Texas Hog Hunt
Replies: 8
Views: 1243

Re: Texas Hog Hunt

That guy must have pair of large ones and a death wish to boot. It kind of looks like fun but then I look at those tusks and think, no way. Even a small wild boar can do major damage to you. If I was 40 years younger I would just maybe give it a thought, although most people get to be old by avoidin...
by Gaucho Gringo
Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Danl Boone
Replies: 34
Views: 2717

Re: Danl Boone

Yes, Death Valley Days was the 20 mule team which was sponsored by the Borax Company which really did use mule teams and wagons to get borax out of Death Valley starting after the Civil War. Most of the programs on the list had a more embellished name, I just made them simpler. Here is a pretty accu...
by Gaucho Gringo
Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Danl Boone
Replies: 34
Views: 2717

Re: Danl Boone

Add a few more: Annie Oakley Death Valley Days Story Of The Century (starring Jim Davis of Dallas fame) Kit Carson Cheyenne Jim Bowie Sugarfoot Rin Tin Tin Have Gun Will Travel Wild Bill Hickok Maverick Colt .45 Zorro The Gene Autry Show Wanted Dead or Alive Gunsmoke Rawhide Wyatt Earp These are all...
by Gaucho Gringo
Wed Mar 11, 2015 5:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: ATF Has Shelved The Ban On Green Tip
Replies: 17
Views: 2043

Re: ATF Has Shelved The Ban On Green Tip

Why waste money on advertising your product. All you need to do is get the government to think about banning it and the demand for what you are selling skyrockets through the roof along with your profits.
by Gaucho Gringo
Wed Mar 11, 2015 5:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rabid racoons
Replies: 22
Views: 1414

Re: Rabid racoons

We have plenty of racoons in Portland, Oregon. Great big 30+ lb racoons. We have a 23 lb Siamese cat that looks small in comparison. But cannot do anything about them because it it is illegal to discharge a firearm within the city limits and all the PETA people around here. My wife thinks the babies...
by Gaucho Gringo
Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A B-17 came to visit
Replies: 17
Views: 2422

Re: A B-17 came to visit

When I worked in a door factory in the 1970-80's, there were a lot of WWII along with a few Korean and Vietnam vets working in the place. The Memorial Day poppy sales were a big deal and almost no one refused to buy one. My donation in the early days was $10.00 which was over double my hourly wage a...
by Gaucho Gringo
Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rawhide, Incident of the Roman Candles
Replies: 11
Views: 2064

Re: Rawhide, Incident of the Roman Candles

Joe S. wrote:That is right!

In this episode, it was Pete Nolan tho. Very enjoyable.
Sheb Wooly was a bigger star than Eastwood when the show began. Still to this day can't believe he sang the song "Purple People Eater' after seeing him in Rawhide in the day.
by Gaucho Gringo
Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Some interesting history for sale
Replies: 21
Views: 1740

Re: Some interesting history for sale

I'll take the Gatling gun. Perfect anti zombie defense weapon.
by Gaucho Gringo
Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:20 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: DNA lineages in the Cherokee
Replies: 38
Views: 5519

Re: DNA lineages in the Cherokee

My father told me years ago that any man can tell who his mother is but it takes a wise man to know who his father is. At the time when I was 9 or 10 it made no sense but as I got older it did.
by Gaucho Gringo
Mon Feb 09, 2015 7:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: DNA lineages in the Cherokee
Replies: 38
Views: 5519

Re: DNA lineages in the Cherokee

When I was growing up my maternal grandmother used to say we were related the English kings way back when. When I did go to trace my linage on Ancestry I found out my grandmother was right. Richard the Lionhearted, William the Conqueror, Elanor of Aquitaine, Viking kings and Celtic kings but so are ...
by Gaucho Gringo
Fri Feb 06, 2015 8:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .40-90 Sharps Bottle Neck & Shiloh 1874 just for Bill in OR
Replies: 61
Views: 9408

Re: .40-90 Sharps Bottle Neck & Shiloh 1874 just for Bill in

I have an Argentine Remington RB in .43 Spanish which is in remarkably good condition for a gun that is almost 140 years old. I have read that .43 Spanish is almost the same as .44-77. Is this true or just internet chatter? Thank you.
by Gaucho Gringo
Thu Jan 29, 2015 3:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Hog hunting in Fla
Replies: 5
Views: 1039

Re: Hog hunting in Fla

Sounds exactly the the way they used to do it before firearms were used. The History Channel had a reenacted boar hunt on program on Medieval History, they used the same tactics only they had two groups of dogs. One group for running down the boars and one group for close in work. It takes more than...
by Gaucho Gringo
Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:38 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What's up with Gunbroker sellers?
Replies: 43
Views: 4627

Re: What's up with Gunbroker sellers?

Just like the gun shops and pawnshops not accepting my C&R for C&R guns. I don't even bother setting foot in their shops for anything ever again. I can buy everything I want online with no hassle, so why bother with these brick and mortar idiots. If I want to buy something that requires a FF...
by Gaucho Gringo
Sat Jan 17, 2015 10:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The new Henry Original
Replies: 20
Views: 2697

Re: The new Henry Original

But none of the originals had a steel receiver.
by Gaucho Gringo
Sun Jan 11, 2015 10:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Maine GameCam Pix
Replies: 10
Views: 1641

Re: Maine GameCam Pix

So, buy the old model you were looking that suits your needs at a discounted price because it is not the latest and greatest.
by Gaucho Gringo
Fri Jan 02, 2015 8:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Unbroken
Replies: 25
Views: 3177

Re: Unbroken

In my fathers book on the Marines history in the Pacific war (he was there) was a photograph of a smiling native Solomon Islander holding the decapitated head of a Japanese soldier with half of his face blown away in one hand and his machete in the other hand. When I asked him about it he said it wa...
by Gaucho Gringo
Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Guys, pieced together or not? 38/55 336?
Replies: 7
Views: 1258

Re: Guys, pieced together or not? 38/55 336?

Or Frankenrifle.