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by ccw9mm
Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:49 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Human Condition..............
Replies: 20
Views: 2416

Re: The Human Condition..............

I cannot fathom how society has come to the point where kids kill their parents and friends. What is missing today ? ... raised on a working farm ... 32 miles to town ... spent the summers building fence and chasing cattle ... canning the garden truck and butchering a hog and steer ... hunted with ...
by ccw9mm
Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT -- I probably shouldn't have done it, but I did.
Replies: 28
Views: 3247

Re: OT -- I probably shouldn't have done it, but I did.

It's not discrimination if their JOB is to communicate verbally in English but they are incompetent & or unintelligible. Exactly so. I made a call to Dell Computers, earlier today. Understood about five words of the ~100 spoken to me, before she realized that communication was impossible. Immed...
by ccw9mm
Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:11 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT: the Unimpeachable witness
Replies: 13
Views: 1789

Re: OT: the Unimpeachable witness

Actually, nothing really personal to you. I'm just tired of the goody-two-shoes of the world and their cameras. Be tired ... but also be careful about whether you're willing to commit assault, battery or robbery to enforce your opinions of privacy in public on others. They'll have every right to re...
by ccw9mm
Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:53 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Browning BLR: rebarrel to different caliber
Replies: 6
Views: 4317

Re: Browning BLR: rebarrel to different caliber

Thanks for the comments, all. Some platforms support caliber changes without much fuss.

Being a lefty, the BLR is one of a handful of firearms that "fits" well, is easy to handle, easy to manipulate. Too bad it doesn't come in a greater variety of calibers.
by ccw9mm
Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:45 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Browning BLR: rebarrel to different caliber
Replies: 6
Views: 4317

Browning BLR: rebarrel to different caliber

Am wondering about rebarreling and what the limits are, on a given gun. Many folks seem to create wildcat setups and things end up working reasonably well. Magazines, for example, are often sold to cover a range of "long" or "short" actions (ie, the BLR "short" magazine...
by ccw9mm
Sun May 04, 2008 12:41 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What kind of gas mileage do you guys get?
Replies: 68
Views: 9835

2001 VW Passat 4Motion sedan

My 2001 Volkswagen Passat 4Motion (AWD) sedan gets ~16mpg mixed, ~12.5mpg city and ~24mpg highway. That V6 is not the most efficient unit that VW/Audi ever made. By comparison, the 1.8T is far, far more fuel efficient. Just saw a 40mpg Smart trundling by, the other day, and I noticed an involuntary ...
by ccw9mm
Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Politics - Tim Robbins quote
Replies: 22
Views: 3853

Re: Politics - Tim Robbins quote

I read the quote below in today's edition of "The Federalist Chronicle". Reading the entire speech that Robbins delivered presents a somewhat different view. It was delivered in satire, pointing fingers at an industry (news/media) that seems infatuated with fatuous sound bytes, instead of...
by ccw9mm
Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:49 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT- too deep sight drill = blown thumb
Replies: 16
Views: 3500

Re: OT- too deep sight drill = blown thumb

Upon examining the rifle he found the drills for the rear sight where done too deep into the barrel, but no so much to blow on the first shots. The thin wall suffered repeated fathigue form each firing until it finally blowed. Good reminder that cutting into a barrel isn't child's play. Competent g...
by ccw9mm
Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - CCW? Yes or no and why?
Replies: 76
Views: 10829

I carry everywhere it is legal to do so. Why? All the obvious reasons.
by ccw9mm
Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:11 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS - ATF = "Always Think Forfeiture"
Replies: 20
Views: 3925

ATF = "Always Think Forfeiture". They are so arrogant they don't even worry about lying on their ENGRAVED handouts anymore. Seems to me that ATF is being truthful , if they're engraving that. Pitiful (and, for my money, criminal), but at least that's something. One would think it's hardly...
by ccw9mm
Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - !#^&#&@#! Car Dealers....
Replies: 27
Views: 5498

If you want to hunt down a car by fuel efficiency, check out: FuelEfficiency.gov . There are guides for each year of the past decade or so. On this site, you can also search for vehicles in a given model year by class of vehicle (ie, station wagons) or by fuel efficiency (MPG): click . The Cars.com ...
by ccw9mm
Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .357mag vs .44mag benefits / suggested guns
Replies: 24
Views: 4905

I've got both a Marlin 1894P .44mag, and a Marlin 1894CP .357mag. They are both 16" ported bbl, blued, straight checkered walnut stock. Each shoots well. The .357 is, of course, a lighter shooter. The .44 has a minor kick, but (IMO) the porting and balance of the rifle makes for a very manageab...
by ccw9mm
Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Gun Safeties? Liability?
Replies: 15
Views: 2807

JimT wrote:This is America. Anything is Possible. :roll:
And in southern Calif. it's almost assured, if anything goes wrong. I'm sure it would be taken as prima facie evidence you intended the bad things to have happened.
by ccw9mm
Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:56 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: HUMOR - Why did the chicken cross the road?
Replies: 14
Views: 3003

PATCH ADAMS:
You know, some people say chicken. Some people say fish. I say that now is the time for cow! By which it's meant that the chicken crossed the road to avoid a bad patch.


JEFF COOPER:
Hand me another box of .45's.
by ccw9mm
Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: POLITICS - Toronto Mayor Renews Call For Handgun Ban
Replies: 12
Views: 2375

Since a violent felon is risking incarceration for years, it's hard to believe how naive one must be to think that said felon is going to worry about a silly weapons charge getting tacked on to the arrest. It's only upstanding citizens that end up being disarmed ... and that cannot possibly be a goo...
by ccw9mm
Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Sako Levergun??
Replies: 9
Views: 2101

A .243 Finnwolf just went for $1K on Gunbroker. There's one listed now in .308 for $899 with no reserve, though the auction just opened.
by ccw9mm
Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:34 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: WWG Bear Proof Ejector
Replies: 27
Views: 5973

I also attempted one of these in my 1894P. Doesn't fit.
by ccw9mm
Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:33 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT (cuz they didn't have a lever) WOLF ATTACK link w/pics
Replies: 17
Views: 3330

120 lb rott, bested. Puts things in perspective.

That's a pretty scary account. Could easily have been worse. I'd say they were lucky that only two wolves were there. I'll bet they are glad to have had the rifle, even a little bitty one.
by ccw9mm
Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Gunbroker, I don't get it.
Replies: 26
Views: 4814

It's an open auction format. You see all kinds of prices. It's nothing more than that. You see instances of a fairly-priced item hanging for weeks, but then the next day youl'll see a fairly-priced item snapped up. Likewise, you'll see an item twice that cost hang for weeks or months, but at some po...
by ccw9mm
Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:24 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - The job I almost had. (Rated PG)
Replies: 22
Views: 4477

Homefront, that's just a terrible story. So painful. So tragic. So unbearably funny! Glad your wife got a kick out of it, too.

Reminds me of the old saying: if it sound too good to be true ... it probably is.
by ccw9mm
Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:29 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: most used levergun
Replies: 54
Views: 9560

Marlin 1894P .44mag lever, and CZ P01 9mm semi-auto pistol. The rest of the guns are nice for playing around, but these two get the most work.

Have an M1 Carbine and a Ruger PC9 being added to the stable, so likely those two will get quite a bit of use over the next year.
by ccw9mm
Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:24 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Anyone notice Gunbroker web site is down?
Replies: 5
Views: 1363

Same here. Has been that way since last night.
by ccw9mm
Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:34 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: When did your shooting interests start, got proof?
Replies: 26
Views: 6289

No pics, but ... I was introduced by cousins at age 10. They grabbed the double-barrel 10ga shotgun and we went out to the draw to "plink" at large Folger's coffee cans. I hit my target. I know I did, 'cause the last thing I saw between my feet as they flipped back up over my head was the ...
by ccw9mm
Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Wow! Sorry 'bout that...We're back...
Replies: 26
Views: 4850

Lack of attention to detail and having my finger on "the trigger" resulted in our outage. :oops: An ND? They just creep up on ya, don't they? To make mistakes is to be human, but to really foul up requires a computer. Ain't it the truth. Glad it's up and running, again. My condolences for...
by ccw9mm
Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: OT - Livin in CA
Replies: 94
Views: 15220

Re: ot Livin in CA

She brought up northern CA, I could like it up there. Whats the gun laws like? Carried in Calif. for years. The far northern counties can be quite gun friendly. "Oppressive" and "restrictive" certainly covers some of the state, but really only in two areas: the mere granting of ...