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- Tue Oct 08, 2024 1:29 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Sabotage of hurricane relief...???
- Replies: 2
- Views: 43
Sabotage of hurricane relief...???
. This is disturbing if true (and I think it probably really is)... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/disturbing-helicopter-pilots-wearing-military-headgear-sabotages-hurricane/ I just wonder who would have done that. If it weren't for the SUV's casing the area first I might just pass it off ...
- Tue Oct 08, 2024 6:58 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The fun part of living in the country.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 220
Re: The fun part of living in the country.
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Someday I really NEED to get a Browning Hi-Power....
Someday I really NEED to get a Browning Hi-Power....
- Tue Oct 08, 2024 6:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The push-in type QD sling swivels
- Replies: 5
- Views: 206
Re: The push-in type QD sling swivels
My Excalibur crossbow has QD cups so I tried a single point, its a bit ungainly with the limbs. The deathnell was the night I got home from hunting, uncased it in the dark, pointed it at my bow target to unload it and unbeknownst to me( in the dark) the sling was between the string and limb. I pull...
Re: Voting
. Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson - good listen... https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1843375397024485778 Lots mentioned on the election (and how this may be the LAST real election in the US). If Musk hires illegal aliens he violates ITAR laws (since SpaceX deals with defense contracts, missiles, etc.)...
Re: Voting
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...and it looks like the key state of Arizona is pretty much a lost cause...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/1 ... -attorney/
That's sad - I'd expect more of a western state like that.
...and it looks like the key state of Arizona is pretty much a lost cause...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/1 ... -attorney/
That's sad - I'd expect more of a western state like that.
- Mon Oct 07, 2024 7:20 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I always wanted an old style Vaquero that shot to the sights
- Replies: 24
- Views: 786
- Sat Oct 05, 2024 10:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The push-in type QD sling swivels
- Replies: 5
- Views: 206
The push-in type QD sling swivels
. I do like that type on firearms like AR's, and I have bought the Gucci brands as well as knock-offs, and either they fit or they don't, and either they are made well (you can tell by handling them) or they aren't. I see comments on websites about them that "these came loose and I dropped my $...
- Sat Oct 05, 2024 10:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Elk hunt
- Replies: 23
- Views: 447
Re: Elk hunt
. Pretty cool...! Those elk antlers are so huge - my son brought back a pair from out west, and I really wanted to take them back in our Indiana woods and situate them under lots of leaves so just one tip stuck out, then take one of my friends 'shed antler hunting'. I'd make sure he wound up seeing ...
- Sat Oct 05, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 585
Re: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
. Wow ... Go 16 minutes in to this podcast; the FEMA is telling people there "we don't go into the areas that aren't easily accessible", threatening those who try to clear roads or rescue others on their own, and imposing rules that are silly. https://youtu.be/NCHx9LfdPi8 Of course I doubt...
- Sat Oct 05, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Interesting on Democrat vs Republican 'defectors'...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 510
Re: Interesting on Democrat vs Republican 'defectors'...
. Tally up another one... https://x.com/mcarmystrong/status/1842187462321561861 I wonder how many are 'walking away' from the Dems that are just doing it quietly and not even telling anyone. Of course there are a bunch who are 'walking away' but still don't make the jump to actually vote FOR Trump, ...
- Sat Oct 05, 2024 8:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 585
Re: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
. Now we are told it's OUR fault the hurricane happened because we are not woke Prius-drivers, so 'climate change' is OUR fault - and on top of that, hurricanes are RACIST, because they impact people of color more than white ones. https://www.youtube.com/live/zZKO3jSlyf0 I did some math and we've gi...
- Sat Oct 05, 2024 12:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 585
Re: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
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This is sad…
https://youtu.be/lIBnT777TiA
and
https://youtu.be/J3jrnyNu3ZY
FEMA sounds like another incompetent and corrupt agency…
This is sad…
https://youtu.be/lIBnT777TiA
and
https://youtu.be/J3jrnyNu3ZY
FEMA sounds like another incompetent and corrupt agency…
- Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Books
- Replies: 4
- Views: 871
Re: Books
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It’s the reloading ones I was after…
It’s the reloading ones I was after…
- Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 585
Re: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
FEMA says they are out of money, wonder why after giving all they have for all those illegals coming up from south america! Then again, I've been hearing the feds are blocking emergency supplies and confiscating supplies already stockpiled in those areas. Not only that, if any private pilots with c...
- Fri Oct 04, 2024 8:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 585
Re: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
. A patient of mine told me that that area has one of the few large lithium deposits in the US, and they were speculating that certain large corporations and government types who are in bed with them, would probably like nothing better than for things to deteriorate so much there that most of the pe...
- Fri Oct 04, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: So…what would you do if THIS came knocking at your door…???
- Replies: 6
- Views: 299
So…what would you do if THIS came knocking at your door…???
. Creepiest thing I’ve seen in a long time. https://youtube.com/shorts/PkcyttKCy2g No good answer, really. It’s kind of like if the mafia shows up at your door to extort money, only worse. Of course, if it were a movie, at some point, Mel Gibson would be blowing up an automobile…. But in the real wo...
- Fri Oct 04, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 585
Re: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
. Since they are just rednecks and conservatives, it doesn't seem like the feds care much. Listen to this HORRIBLE experience from one who lives there....! https://youtu.be/wOJvrghIfZk Sounds like our 9" in 2-3 hours in Indiana back in 2012 or so was trifling vs this....! Prayers they receive h...
- Fri Oct 04, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Proper Winchester - Marlin comparisons
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4757
Re: Proper Winchester - Marlin comparisons
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You really need to have BOTH....
You really need to have BOTH....
- Fri Oct 04, 2024 7:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: In Columbia Falls, Montana (.327 levergun)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 685
Re: In Columbia Falls, Montana
It looks like.327 Federal with 100 gr factory ammo is the rough equivalent of the.30 Carbine in a levergun. https://youtu.be/0vZQ2jBG330?si=dB3z_84JOslwJjJY I wonder how the 327 compares to the 110 Gr 357 from a carbine? It's not .30 any more, but same or similar weight bullets . . . I thought that...
- Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: How "Black" is the Kamala?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 276
Re: How "Black" is the Kamala?
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Whatever 'race' she claims this week, she sure is STUPID. She can't put together a coherent sentence, and knows nothing of basic economics, or even cause-and-effect. In other words, she's a perfect and typical DEMOCRAT of today.
Whatever 'race' she claims this week, she sure is STUPID. She can't put together a coherent sentence, and knows nothing of basic economics, or even cause-and-effect. In other words, she's a perfect and typical DEMOCRAT of today.
- Fri Oct 04, 2024 9:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 585
Re: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
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Sad that this is could actually happen, even though it is just humor...
North Carolina Asks Zelensky For $100 Billion In U.S. Funding
https://babylonbee.com/news/north-carol ... us-funding
Sad that this is could actually happen, even though it is just humor...
North Carolina Asks Zelensky For $100 Billion In U.S. Funding
https://babylonbee.com/news/north-carol ... us-funding
- Thu Oct 03, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: time capsule found in levergun
- Replies: 15
- Views: 572
Re: time capsule found in levergun
I've heard about this practice and I have a Lefever 20 ga. Nitro special double my Dad gave to me around 1962 and which I hunted with all thru my younger years. A couple years ago I took the buttplate off and inserted a typed history of the gun and a couple early photos of me with game I had bagged...
- Thu Oct 03, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: In Columbia Falls, Montana (.327 levergun)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 685
Re: In Columbia Falls, Montana
I wonder about this cartridge in a carbine. I can get 1500 fps in a Single Seven, I’ll bet that load would cook in a 16 inch barrel! marlin made the model 1894 in 32 H&R. i have one and it is great. i checked and it will feed the 327 just perfectly., so all that is needed is to ream the chamber...
- Thu Oct 03, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The AK rifle - from truck gun to collectible...?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 233
The AK rifle - from truck gun to collectible...?
. It seems like 10 or 20 years ago you could get the guns really cheap for a couple hundred bucks or so and the ammunition of course was cheap as well. Then the surplus foreign stuff was cut off and you would think that because of that the cheap clunky guns would have become boat anchors, but I'm se...
- Thu Oct 03, 2024 7:17 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Young Doctors - their curriculum is SCARY...!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 136
Young Doctors - their curriculum is SCARY...!
. Treating patients who are overweight is now 'racist'... :roll: The syllabus for one of their courses - https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/srhe_course_guide.pdf Article on it - https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ucla-med-school-s-mandatory-structural-racism-and-health-equity-cour...
- Thu Oct 03, 2024 7:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'll just read Jack London while my son does the hunting...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 264
Re: I'll just read Jack London while my son does the hunting...
I re-read his "To Build a Fire" every cold winter (and Gingrich and Forstchen's "Valley Forge") to keep me humble.flightsimmer wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 6:07 am Aw yes. Jack London's "Call of the wild" I remember it well.
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Lots of gonads on this team ..
- Replies: 0
- Views: 135
Lots of gonads on this team ..
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...I'd have said 'balls' but the word just didn't fit...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/1 ... fuse-face/
But kudos to these young women for standing on principle.
...I'd have said 'balls' but the word just didn't fit...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/1 ... fuse-face/
But kudos to these young women for standing on principle.
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 5:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'm no physicist, but the universe-expansion thing is interesting...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 238
I'm no physicist, but the universe-expansion thing is interesting...
. The astronomers and physicists are saying things are not making sense in that the universe expansion gets measured and predicted and they get different results. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/james-webb-telescope-watches-ancient-supernova-replay-3-times-and-confirms-something-is-serious...
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Getting out the Vote - Democrat-style...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 124
Getting out the Vote - Democrat-style...
. Just fly or bus in a bunch of illegals and register them so they can vote Democrat for you in exchange for the debit cards and other benefits that your buddies in the NGO's give them so you can say "the government isn't giving them money" even though the government gives the NGO the mone...
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bamboo-dart gun - is this for real...?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 205
Re: Bamboo-dart gun - is this for real...?
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I renamed the thread accordingly. But I just wonder if it was REALLY used in that time and place.
Looks easy to make, but unsure if it would do much.
I renamed the thread accordingly. But I just wonder if it was REALLY used in that time and place.
Looks easy to make, but unsure if it would do much.
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Surely it won't be Carter's last presidential election vote...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 127
Surely it won't be Carter's last presidential election vote...
. Lots of people get registered in Democrat-run places, and vote, and they register as "D" - it may actually mean 'Deceased' instead of 'Democrat', but that doesn't seem to matter in those places. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/watch-jimmy-carter-wheeled-outside-shocking-conditio...
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Books
- Replies: 4
- Views: 871
Re: Books
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Well shucks - too slow on the draw...
If he bails, count me in 'next'...
Well shucks - too slow on the draw...
If he bails, count me in 'next'...
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 1:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bamboo-dart gun - is this for real...?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 205
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Bedroom Guns... (political idea)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 199
Re: Bedroom Guns... (political idea)
. Yep. Plus I like to use the Left's "logic" against them - - if the say "Only a small percentage of 'undocumented migrants' are criminals, and we shouldn't restrict the rights of the others" then I say "Only a small percentage of gun owners are criminals, and we shouldn't r...
- Tue Oct 01, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Please pardon.....
- Replies: 2
- Views: 194
Re: Please pardon.....
. They are Caring, Understanding, Nice, and Talented Spokespersons... Vance handled it well - way more diplomatically than I would have. I liked the way Vance kept prefacing his answers with some variant of "I grew up in a middle-class family..." - that will have to be acknowledged one way...
- Tue Oct 01, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Bedroom Guns... (political idea)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 199
Bedroom Guns... (political idea)
. Since the Democrats keep saying "keep the government out of the bedroom" ( although the implication that the Republicans somehow care to regulate that area is a bit silly ), but they keep wanting to seize pretty much any and all firearms.... .... what if we keep all our scary black guns ...
- Tue Oct 01, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: S&W Model 1
- Replies: 18
- Views: 501
Re: S&W Model 1
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Now THAT is really nice. Especially in that condition. Good it stayed with someone who will appreciate it...!
Now THAT is really nice. Especially in that condition. Good it stayed with someone who will appreciate it...!
- Tue Oct 01, 2024 7:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'll just read Jack London while my son does the hunting...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 124
I'll just read Jack London while my son does the hunting...
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He went in a sheep hunt (tag unfilled) and then bear (filled).
He went in a sheep hunt (tag unfilled) and then bear (filled).
- Tue Oct 01, 2024 7:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'll just read Jack London while my son does the hunting...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 264
I'll just read Jack London while my son does the hunting...
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He went in a sheep hunt (tag unfilled) and then bear (filled).
He went in a sheep hunt (tag unfilled) and then bear (filled).
- Tue Oct 01, 2024 6:58 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Creepy Gun-detecting AI stuff...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 150
Creepy Gun-detecting AI stuff...
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https://zeroeyes.com/request-a-demo/
I know the intent is good, and for PRIVATE PROPERTY I have no qualms, and even in the case of public property, IF not misused, it could save lives - but when has the government evern NOT misused a technology...
https://zeroeyes.com/request-a-demo/
I know the intent is good, and for PRIVATE PROPERTY I have no qualms, and even in the case of public property, IF not misused, it could save lives - but when has the government evern NOT misused a technology...
- Tue Oct 01, 2024 5:58 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Maybe THIS will be the October Surprise...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 197
Re: Maybe THIS will be the October Surprise...
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The slow demographic path is the 'backup' plan for the Democrats.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/0 ... what-will/
The slow demographic path is the 'backup' plan for the Democrats.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/0 ... what-will/
- Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Ask for a Mile, get an Inch; repeat 63,360 times ..
- Replies: 0
- Views: 164
Ask for a Mile, get an Inch; repeat 63,360 times ..
. That's the way the Democrats play it... https://youtu.be/zHvv6aNAehg ...and the REPUBLICANS think it's all ok, since each mile that is asked for they push back to "only an inch"... Unfortunately the ratio is NOT 63,360:1 but more like 3:2 - most of the time the Dems ask for ridiculous st...
- Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Truck Noises (made by humans...)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 323
Re: Truck Noises (made by humans...)
I remember when GI Joe's came out. Some kids would brag about having them. Those of use with better sense called them boys Barbies. It usually led to the owner crying to his mommy. A couple decades ago my now-30-year-old son and his fellow pre-teen friend had been playing 'war' all day with GI-Joes...
- Sun Sep 29, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Truck Noises (made by humans...)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 323
Truck Noises (made by humans...)
. I just realized that the childhood-habit of sometimes 'making truck noises' occasionally returns, if I'm starting uphill or upstairs with a heavy load to carry. At least as an adult it is a quieter and 'less enthusiastic' (or embarassing) manifestation. Reminds me of how our kids differed early on...
- Sun Sep 29, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I always thought that a New Model Ruger was pretty much indestructible
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1909
Re: I always thought that a New Model Ruger was pretty much indestructible
. I think the transfer bar is a nice concept, and undoubtedly may make the guns safer, but it is sure a part begging to be broken - "...Hey - I know - ...let's take a piece of steel and place it between hammer and firing pin, so it gets whacked every time the gun fires - it has to be thin enoug...
- Sun Sep 29, 2024 4:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 585
South Carolina Floods - Prayers up for the folks there...
. Looks awful. Of course a '100-year flood' happens every hundred years, and a '200-year' one every 200 years. We forget that, and build in picturesque and convenient places, and on top of that we pave roads and surfaces and so on that increases runoff, and our 'runoff mitigation' structures are typ...
- Sun Sep 29, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone know the IEEE or SAAMI standard for bluejeans...?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 605
Re: Anyone know the IEEE or SAAMI standard for bluejeans...?
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Maybe I need to go with Wrangler or other brand then...
It seems like whenever I get to liking a brand, they go all 'woke' though; even Ruger back in the day, supporting bans on over-15-round magazines...
Maybe I need to go with Wrangler or other brand then...
It seems like whenever I get to liking a brand, they go all 'woke' though; even Ruger back in the day, supporting bans on over-15-round magazines...
- Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone know the IEEE or SAAMI standard for bluejeans...?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 605
Anyone know the IEEE or SAAMI standard for bluejeans...?
. [rant mode] ... what - nobody knows...??? Well that must be because THERE IS NO STANDARD - it must just be whatever mood they are in that batch ... :roll: I pretty much buy all my clothes at either Rural King (jeans, underwear, socks) or Goodwill (shirts, sweaters), other than I spend the money sa...
- Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: This is why the 'judicial system' has become anti-Trump...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 220
This is why the 'judicial system' has become anti-Trump...
. ...because any of them who display any sort of 'MAGA' sympathies are eliminated. You can bet if they are a fervent frothing-at-the-mouth supporter of our drooling-at-the-mouth Democrat leader, they are not going to be sanctioned. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-york-judge-resigns-amid-...
- Sun Sep 29, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Why the explosive growth of 'Data Centers'....
- Replies: 0
- Views: 148
Why the explosive growth of 'Data Centers'....
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This is just one more thing that goes along with the 'Big Intel' concept - and one more reason NOT to let the Dumbascraps retain power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtKA0KRlr4
I like his final advice - "...plant a garden, and remember - it didn't have to be this way..."
This is just one more thing that goes along with the 'Big Intel' concept - and one more reason NOT to let the Dumbascraps retain power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtKA0KRlr4
I like his final advice - "...plant a garden, and remember - it didn't have to be this way..."