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- Fri Jan 17, 2025 7:16 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: I can't help wonder about 'woketards'...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7
I can't help wonder about 'woketards'...
. Hearing a friend trash the US, and virtue-signal about all the other 'superior' places he has visited, he made the comment that 'the US was founded by a bunch of slave-owners'. So I wonder - if Mr. Woketard had been around in the late 1700's, - would he have owned slaves? I think so, because he's ...
- Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Front Sights
- Replies: 18
- Views: 669
Re: Front Sights
For general levergun shooting I like a small brass bead front sight. For my longer range plinking with my target tang rear sight, I like a Lyman Globe front sight with Lee Shaver globe inserts. Me too. 16” leverguns get the Marbles Bullseye rear and a green Firesight (fiber - the orange is too brig...
- Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:21 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: This we all should Pray about this weekend…
- Replies: 1
- Views: 33
This we all should Pray about this weekend…
. … that Trump stay safe during the inauguration (and obviously there after as well). It is obvious that the Democrats would love nothing more than for him to not survive. And I specifically say DEMOCRATS because even if it’s not a card carrying Democrat that actually succeeds in harming or killing ...
- Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:15 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: This dude is afraid Trump will have the military 'fire on civilians'...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 47
Re: This dude is afraid Trump will have the military 'fire on civilians'...
I didn't know they revised posse comitatus. Yeah, I thought I posted about that here a few months ago but I think maybe some of the threads time out and disappear. At one time I think that’s the way the threads did in the political section. Anyway, I think the Armed Attorneys or one of those other ...
- Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:31 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires
- Replies: 23
- Views: 591
Re: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires
. The people I've known, including some relatives, who have lost their home to fire, say the loss is weird in that it may be years later and you realize yet ANOTHER thing you lost in the fire, some copy of a photo or diploma or clothing or whatever - maybe not much value, maybe huge value, but it ju...
- Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:29 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Wow - perhaps the most TRAGIC wildfire loss of all....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 70
- Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:22 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: There's RINOs and there's BAD RINOs...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 14
- Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:48 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: This dude is afraid Trump will have the military 'fire on civilians'...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 47
This dude is afraid Trump will have the military 'fire on civilians'...
. ...and that Hegseth would carry it out... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-m-a-marine-i-can-t-get-one-part-of-the-pete-hegseth-hearing-out-of-my-head/ar-AA1xic7z ...now this dude says he'a "a former Marine" so of course he's credible... :roll: Sorry - I've seen too many "military...
- Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ten Interesting World History Books...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 42
- Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ot in md generators.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 66
Re: ot in md generators.
. I'm trying to revive a never-yet-run auto-start standby 'whole house' generator, and I found out that: 1) like many things, the not many places are ready/willing to troubleshoot unless they get to do the install, or a maintenance contract. 2) but if you give up and just get a new one - they have g...
- Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:02 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Wow - perhaps the most TRAGIC wildfire loss of all....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 70
Wow - perhaps the most TRAGIC wildfire loss of all....
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....The Great Hunter Biden Art Collection - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/0 ... alifornia/
I had planned on saving up all the money I could, selling my home and car and tractor and guns, and buying at least one of the Masterpieces...
....The Great Hunter Biden Art Collection - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/0 ... alifornia/
I had planned on saving up all the money I could, selling my home and car and tractor and guns, and buying at least one of the Masterpieces...
- Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New Wildcat cartridge I think we need…
- Replies: 4
- Views: 149
New Wildcat cartridge I think we need…
. Of course the commemorative firearms companies released the 1911 “45” that commemorated trumps presidency. Well now that he’s also a “47”, I think we need a 45–47. The question is, whether it should be a rifle cartridge or a pistol cartridge, if the ‘dash’ should mean it’s defined like a black pow...
- Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Front Sights
- Replies: 18
- Views: 669
Re: Front Sights
Now THAT is a really cool front sight...!Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:17 am I have had the Beech combination front on a couple of rolling blocks and liked the combination of pinhead-in-globe or open blade. I'd choose just the globe option if limited to one.
https://montanavintagearms.com/product/ ... ont-sight/
- Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Getting old hurts.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 362
Re: Getting old hurts.
. Peter Attia has some good 'healthy aging' podcasts on his 'The Drive' podcast series. One key is the three points of Resistance exercise (not just 'cardio'), Adequate protein intake (3/4 your body weight in pounds, in grams per day - 200 lb dude 150 grams protein daily - NOT if you have kidney dis...
- Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I haven’t seen a box of .22 Hornet ammo on the shelves in years
- Replies: 19
- Views: 356
Re: I haven’t seen a box of .22 Hornet ammo on the shelves in years
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The local Rural King had about ten boxes of 38 SUPER the other day, and I'm betting it was an accidental order mistaken for 38 Special.
I've NEVER seen a box of 480 Ruger anywhere... Neat cartridge though - Kind of a 475 Linebaugh Special of sorts...
The local Rural King had about ten boxes of 38 SUPER the other day, and I'm betting it was an accidental order mistaken for 38 Special.
I've NEVER seen a box of 480 Ruger anywhere... Neat cartridge though - Kind of a 475 Linebaugh Special of sorts...
- Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Longmire fans
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2706
Re: Longmire fans
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I liked it enought I bought a CD set when I found one on sale. Pretty good series.
However I LOST my LONESOME DOVE set and am still looking for it. I have accused each of my kids of stealing it, just for good measure, but none confessed...
I liked it enought I bought a CD set when I found one on sale. Pretty good series.
However I LOST my LONESOME DOVE set and am still looking for it. I have accused each of my kids of stealing it, just for good measure, but none confessed...
- Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:10 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Layers of Sabotage
- Replies: 0
- Views: 32
Layers of Sabotage
. These are the people 'protecting' Trump - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/watch-okeefe-media-group-exposes-former-fbi-special/ These are the people 'reporting' on the Protectors - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/billy-bush-tells-tucker-carlson-abc-news-built/ These are the people...
- Tue Jan 14, 2025 12:53 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Hegseth 'trial'... SO partisan...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 73
Hegseth 'trial'... SO partisan...
. It is fascinating how the Republicans seem to ask pertinent questions but the Democrats all just do personal attacks and distort things. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/live-stream-video-pete-hegseth-confirmation-hearing-before/ If the RINOs are going to abandon Trump's nominees to the Du...
- Tue Jan 14, 2025 11:07 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires
- Replies: 23
- Views: 591
Re: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires
. the Will Rogers' home also burned... But THIS one survived… https://youtu.be/YQzJUsUO-5c Another thing that would occur to me in that environment would be to have 50,000 gallons or so of water in a cistern or even swimming pool and a built-in house sprinkler system. We have a sprinkler system buil...
- Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:18 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires
- Replies: 23
- Views: 591
Re: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires
. Here's a snippet of news on Zane Grey's historic home - evidently "Altadena's first fireproof home", so clearly some designs don't survive ...!!! I think the problem is (as others have noted) that for one thing, something doesn't have to burn in order for fire to destroy it - masonry can...
- Tue Jan 14, 2025 6:58 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Front Sights
- Replies: 18
- Views: 669
Re: Front Sights
. One of my favorite pistol sights is one I actually made using a roll-pin. I filed down the top of the Patridge sight on an AMT clone of a Ruger Target Pistol to make it concave and match the pin, which I'd drilled out the center of to make it larger, and smoother inside the hole. The rear sight I'...
- Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Getting old hurts.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 362
Re: Getting old hurts.
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The other problem is arthritis.
When you’re young, the phrase “morning stiffness” sounds like a pleasant thing, but not when you’re old… it starts to affect the wrong body parts…
The other problem is arthritis.
When you’re young, the phrase “morning stiffness” sounds like a pleasant thing, but not when you’re old… it starts to affect the wrong body parts…
- Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nice afternoon project… Unique Slingshot Rifle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 91
- Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:03 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Free to a good home
- Replies: 2
- Views: 352
Re: Free to a good home
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If I would have been the clerk at Cabela's, I would have thanked you for it and given the person who purchased it a call. You know they have those records.
If I would have been the clerk at Cabela's, I would have thanked you for it and given the person who purchased it a call. You know they have those records.
- Sun Jan 12, 2025 10:57 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Hopefully conditions will be applied
- Replies: 6
- Views: 172
Re: Hopefully conditions will be applied
. There are indeed gray areas, and some disasters are possible to prepare for and some aren't, but it is true that the Constitution doesn't really empower the federal government to charitably restore things when they go bad. That is a job for the insurance industry. Of course the government has inte...
- Sun Jan 12, 2025 7:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: On these 'repurposed' drugs used for cancer...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 224
On these 'repurposed' drugs used for cancer...
. Gotta admit, I'm impressed... Information on the new use of old drugs, added to enhance cancer treatment. This is information I think should be shared with patients who either have cancer, have had cancer, or are at high enough risk for a particular cancer to consider a prophylactic regimen. One o...
- Sun Jan 12, 2025 7:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old Dog (me) New Trick (hyperbaric oxygen)...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 196
Old Dog (me) New Trick (hyperbaric oxygen)...
. I don't use it, nor have I learned to prescribe it (it can be dangerous), but I never had heard that it has been shown to lengthen telomeres.... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7746357/ THAT is pretty significant - it basically is the telomere (thought to be the useless tag-end of the chr...
- Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Downtime
- Replies: 6
- Views: 398
Re: Downtime
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Cool.
So glad you keep this place up and running.
Cool.
So glad you keep this place up and running.
- Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:12 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The problem with the world today...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 271
Re: The problem with the world today...
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...and with Liberals, 'stupid' is sort of a way they virtue-signal, and when in control, they don't just fail to punish stupid - they reward it - so they help each other out...
...and with Liberals, 'stupid' is sort of a way they virtue-signal, and when in control, they don't just fail to punish stupid - they reward it - so they help each other out...
- Sun Jan 12, 2025 12:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I love modern electronics in my truck, but when they don’t work..
- Replies: 46
- Views: 872
Re: I love modern electronics in my truck, but when they don’t work..
. Same here. Sadly my truck is a 1983 that has so much cab-rust that the cab is 'sinking' and keeps moving the transmission linkage somehow (according to the guy who keeps it running), and that messes things up alot. But I'd rather not have anything 'power' other than the engine, defroster, and heat...
- Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Suddenly We Are Wealthy
- Replies: 9
- Views: 679
Re: Suddenly We Are Wealthy
Our commie governor got a 'cage free' chicken past the commie legislature here in Colorado that went into effect on Jan 1. So now 18 eggs are $9.69 instead of $5.49 the day before. Yep, they're looking out for all of us, aren't they!! Yeah, and if you read most of the rules, the 'cage free' stuff i...
- Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:50 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires
- Replies: 23
- Views: 591
Re: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires
Doc, With all respect, how in the world could one build a "fire safe" room in even a large home that would not turn out to be where everyone in the house would just go to die together? The ventilation problem alone would prevent any type of safe room solution during a massive, neighborhoo...
- Sat Jan 11, 2025 6:44 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: It does appear like an unprovoked attack (1-6-21)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 448
Re: It does appear like an unprovoked attack (1-6-21)
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I definitely believe the agent provocateurs were the problem.
I definitely believe the agent provocateurs were the problem.
- Sat Jan 11, 2025 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Dennis Pritchard Outdoors, Rifle rest
- Replies: 15
- Views: 481
Re: Dennis Pritchard Outdoors, Rifle rest
. Here's one I have used for a decade or so. Everything was either scrap wood or a few bits from the hardware store. http://www.levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?t=47960 Apologies for the non-paid-up Photobucket pics (that have the banner across them), but Photobucket just was too messed up at th...
- Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:41 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "Dissolving the myth" posted to Sixgunner.com
- Replies: 21
- Views: 593
- Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: S&W 1854 Lever Action ** YT Video Added
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2147
Re: S&W 1854 Lever Action ** YT Video Added
. I think if I just had one firearm for all around use it would be a lever action in a pistol caliber. Personally I would probably choose 45 Colt if I didn't have a bunch of 44 Magnums already, because I find the two almost interchangeable. However if I was picking a levergun for a family that inclu...
- Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:25 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: US vs UK words
- Replies: 12
- Views: 545
Re: US vs UK words
. At least to some in the United states, the very thought that police would have any authority whatsoever to decide who gets to have a firearm is enough to make our blood pressure rise. They only authority they would have is if a person is a true criminal (as in crime with a victim), the police shou...
- Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:19 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: This will be ironic...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 158
Re: This will be ironic...
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Yep
The weird thing about liberals is that whenever they mess something up, instead of learning from it, they double down and do the same thing harder, then they act surprised when the results are no better.
Yep
The weird thing about liberals is that whenever they mess something up, instead of learning from it, they double down and do the same thing harder, then they act surprised when the results are no better.
- Sat Jan 11, 2025 1:17 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires
- Replies: 23
- Views: 591
Re: Celebrities Burned Out of Homes in Fires
. Sad, but even more tragically ... predictable. And probably avoidable. I know part of the logistic issue is trying to build a house that is resistant to earthquake but also fires. Frame buildings can tolerate a little shaking whereas masonry ones will shatter, but masonry ones are required to be r...
- Fri Jan 10, 2025 1:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This is disturbing about USCCA…
- Replies: 9
- Views: 574
Re: This is disturbing about USCCA…
I think it’s a good idea to have some coverage but I’m not sure who does this right. Oh, I'd say... Browning Colt FN Glock H&K Kahr Ruger S&W SIG Springfield Taurus ...and a few others! :wink: Old No7 LOL you don't want me to have to go get Mr. Mossberg, now do you...??? and you REALLY don'...
- Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:45 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Off Topic....Life can be Short.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 485
Re: Off Topic....Life can be Short.
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Thanks for the reminder;
Prayers up for your family.
Thanks for the reminder;
Prayers up for your family.
- Tue Jan 07, 2025 10:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Jerking the Trigger....MAJORLY...!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 433
Jerking the Trigger....MAJORLY...!
. Hard to believe this little video - https://youtube.com/shorts/glRluO9k1ag - I might try this sometime with another shooter. Of course the targets were really close, but I've seen shooters do far more poorly at that close range and it get blamed on 'poor trigger pull'.... ...perhaps it's really ju...
- Tue Jan 07, 2025 9:44 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The REAL 'hush money' scandal...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 406
The REAL 'hush money' scandal...
. Trump paid his attorneys to arrange a Non-Disclosure Agreement with Stormy Daniels, which is evidently a fairly common - and legal - way wealthy and powerful Republicans deal with the hordes of false (or perhaps even true) allegations. Democrats call it 'hush money', because they are unfamiliar wi...
- Tue Jan 07, 2025 7:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This is disturbing about USCCA…
- Replies: 9
- Views: 574
This is disturbing about USCCA…
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Obviously, I am inclined to do some investigation on my own, but it sounds like maybe there’s some better options…
https://youtu.be/FmppJl3fBgM
The ‘Armed Scholar ‘ guy as usually pretty straightforward..
Obviously, I am inclined to do some investigation on my own, but it sounds like maybe there’s some better options…
https://youtu.be/FmppJl3fBgM
The ‘Armed Scholar ‘ guy as usually pretty straightforward..
- Tue Jan 07, 2025 9:55 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: It does appear like an unprovoked attack (1-6-21)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 448
It does appear like an unprovoked attack (1-6-21)
. Of course footage can be highly edited (or these days, completely synthesized)... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/here-is-only-video-january-6-you-need/ It is pretty strange how so many on the 'left' - who would be the first to accuse the government of planting violent agent provocateurs ...
- Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: heaviest big game bullets in 44mag
- Replies: 20
- Views: 694
Re: heaviest big game bullets in 44mag
. 300 grains here also, JSP's. Seem to work ok in my Marlin 1894's, and my Ruger 96/44 and 77/44. Theoretically they should stabilize better in the 1:20 twist of the Rugers, but I didn't see any difference (no obvious keyholing out to 100 yards, which is as far as I typically shoot). They made big h...
- Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:02 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OK did I miss something...?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 448
OK did I miss something...?
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Where did Sixgun go...???
Where did Sixgun go...???
- Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I got a new Wagon... and I like it...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 528
I got a new Wagon... and I like it...
. ....no, not a station wagon, nor a toy wagon, or a stage coach.... just a utility cart/wagon to replace my wheelbarrow and 'garden cart' that were getting worn out. I ordered this on-line because none of the local stores had anything other than over-priced flimsy wagons (that I've had before and t...
- Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Gun cleaning
- Replies: 18
- Views: 814
Re: Gun cleaning
. My biggest gun cleaning frustration is when I wind up making the mistake of taking a levergun (other than my ‘non-traditional’ ones) out to hunt or woods-walk in bad weather. It seems like rain, or even snow or light drizzle, inevitably finds its way under the forend, which is such a pain in the r...
- Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Gun cleaning
- Replies: 18
- Views: 814
Re: Gun cleaning
should a .22lr rifle be cleaned after each session, ive read both nay and yea on this subject I am not sure if I’ve ever cleaned the barrel on most of my 22 LR guns, but the actions certainly tend to get gummed up, especially with semiauto rifles and pistols. I clean out the gunk fairly regularly, ...