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by Ray
Fri May 26, 2023 8:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Sky Above and the Mud Below
Replies: 6
Views: 250

Re: The Sky Above and the Mud Below

The most pitiful fellow since Job in the O.T. is said to be an important influence on Russell. Townes' parents had him chemically lobotomized for behaviour unbecoming of a van zandt.....

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2829917E1888E88
by Ray
Wed May 24, 2023 9:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Climate Change?
Replies: 7
Views: 169

Re: Climate Change?

Just this a.m. on the spanish version of deutsche world news there was a report of a pseudo terrorist group dedicated to tracking down "climate change deniers" who post such denials on social media. Their goal is vehement ostracizing and shaming and "cancelling" to begin with wit...
by Ray
Fri May 19, 2023 9:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The new Henry revolver ...
Replies: 45
Views: 1003

Re: The new Henry revolver ...

With mister quinn's much respected endorsement I'll go as high as $500 including sales tax....or $454.44.....
by Ray
Tue May 16, 2023 7:13 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: would you pick a 357 pistol or a 45 colt for a gun fight
Replies: 48
Views: 1014

Re: would you pick a 357 pistol or a 45 colt for a gun fight

"I do not shop in Dallas anymore."

Bobby & Jerry singing an old folkie tune about the disreputable blocks of elm street.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hreN9fNQh ... IGVsdW0%3D
by Ray
Mon May 15, 2023 6:53 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The new Henry revolver ...
Replies: 45
Views: 1003

Re: The new Henry revolver ...

https://www.henryusa.com/handguns/big-boy-revolver/

Doomed to failure at that price. Could only compete with Charter so $400 would be too much.....
by Ray
Sun May 14, 2023 3:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ahhhhh, piggies!
Replies: 15
Views: 387

Re: Ahhhhh, piggies!

No resemblance. The Empress is much better dressed. According to whiffle in his most excellent tome re. swineherding, to render a pig as round as it can possibly be without bursting open requires a daily intake of 57,800 calories consisting of 4 pounds five ounces of proteins and 25 pounds of carbo...
by Ray
Sat May 13, 2023 8:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ahhhhh, piggies!
Replies: 15
Views: 387

Re: Ahhhhh, piggies!

piller wrote: Sat May 13, 2023 7:08 pm Miss Piggy is not that bad. Killary? YUCK!!!!
The porcine actress who portrayed the "empress of blandings" in the 2012 b.b.c. miniseries.....
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I see some resemblance with the former first lady turned candidate.....
by Ray
Sat May 13, 2023 12:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ahhhhh, piggies!
Replies: 15
Views: 387

Re: Ahhhhh, piggies!

When it was announced that kermit the frog had died of swine flu, a spokesman for miss piggie said that she had no comment on how he (kermit) could have contracted it.....
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by Ray
Fri May 12, 2023 9:47 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ahhhhh, piggies!
Replies: 15
Views: 387

Re: Ahhhhh, piggies!

Perhaps the wrong link ?

Every englisher or anglophile ought to read wodehouse's tales that feature pigs.....berkshires to be precise.....

Here's one.....

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id= ... up&seq=133
by Ray
Fri May 12, 2023 12:33 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: North Fork on Youtube
Replies: 4
Views: 149

Re: North Fork on Youtube

Way back in the day, it is said that when joyce hornady or john nosler or vernon speer would receive customer complaints of failed bullets they would ask, "where did this bullet come from ?" The irate customer would reply, "from a dead _____" All three said a variation on, "...
by Ray
Wed May 10, 2023 3:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A Chilling Thought
Replies: 26
Views: 759

Re: A Chilling Thought

My first thoughts were that colorado steve and the essay he cites is just "preaching to the choir" but there have been a few replies to recent posts re. the environment that infers that there are "co2 bad/global warming" folk here amongst us. One fellow mentioned his electric car...
by Ray
Tue May 09, 2023 1:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: would you pick a 357 pistol or a 45 colt for a gun fight
Replies: 48
Views: 1014

Re: would you pick a 357 pistol or a 45 colt for a gun fight

Hmmm... .357 or .45 Colt? My answer: Yes! Finally, the correct answer ! I have a few boxes of these..... https://www.sgammo.com/product/45-long-colt-ammo/50-round-box-45-colt-230-grain-jhp-hollow-point-ammo-made-sellier-bellot-s Though I'm not going to make any bets on expansion. Factory specificat...
by Ray
Tue May 09, 2023 10:24 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Minimum Fill
Replies: 24
Views: 449

Re: Minimum Fill

"postdate".....duh !.....that's a bidenish gaff that I cannot blame on autocorrect ! :oops:

Ray, shaking hands with empty space.....
by Ray
Tue May 09, 2023 5:41 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Minimum Fill
Replies: 24
Views: 449

Re: Minimum Fill

Earl, tell us more about this 244 powder. Back when powders of any name or number became scarce, I bought four pounds of 244 at a bargain price but it predates all of my manuals.
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An example of a 244 load for a .45 colt from a trustworthy online database.....
by Ray
Mon May 08, 2023 11:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Minimum Fill
Replies: 24
Views: 449

Re: Minimum Fill

I've never considered minimum fill with smokeless powders. It's different for every powder, and not something to contemplate. More important is minimum charge, not based on fill, but based on sealing the chamber from blowback. I used to be concerned about this until I realized that 70%+ of factory ...
by Ray
Mon May 08, 2023 11:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: would you pick a 357 pistol or a 45 colt for a gun fight
Replies: 48
Views: 1014

Re: would you pick a 357 pistol or a 45 colt for a gun fight

Way back in the days before there were grandsons climbing the curtains, I was never more than 20 ft. away from a heavy sixgun hanging on a dowel or coathook hidden behind an outergarment in our home. All of those .41, .44, and .45s were loaded with the then new "cowboy action" factory load...
by Ray
Mon May 08, 2023 11:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: All of You Who Live in California . . . Brace Yourself!
Replies: 18
Views: 593

Re: All of You Who Live in California . . . Brace Yourself!

Four of my eight g.g. grandfathers served the Confederacy. However, there was also a g.g. grandfather and a g.g.g. grandfather listed in the 1850 and 1830 censuses respectively as "free persons of colour". The tendency for most folk when they find surprising (embarassing?) anomalies in the...
by Ray
Fri May 05, 2023 6:06 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: HAPPY ..........................
Replies: 6
Views: 231

Re: HAPPY ..........................

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Count 'em.....

uno, dos, tres, quatro y cinco !
by Ray
Thu May 04, 2023 11:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Spermwhale oil
Replies: 14
Views: 538

Re: Spermwhale oil

Azorean whaling documentary.circa 1968..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K5yF13lPhUU&pp=ygUNQXpvcmUgd2hhbGluZw%3D%3D Mind, other than orson welles narration, the dialogue is in portuguese. Perhaps ambracol can translate. Scroll forward to 39:34 to see processing. Blubber is boiled to render tra...
by Ray
Thu May 04, 2023 6:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: On The Dark Side Of Things
Replies: 40
Views: 1360

Re: On The Dark Side Of Things

1:7 to 1:10 ballistol/water in a trigger pump spray bottle is all you need to care for blackpowder arms. The water both washes away and renders the fouling noncorrosive then readily evaporates leaving just the right amount of metal protection. If you start out with as weak a solution as 1:10 (or eve...
by Ray
Thu May 04, 2023 3:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Garage/Basement practice.....
Replies: 11
Views: 424

Re: Garage/Basement practice.....

I ordered a sample pack from the above linked quick draw folk. They worked flawlessly from a bond derringer, a ruger sixgun and a pietta fivegun and all hit the cardboard box at about 15 feet. There is no problem with the shotshell primer being loose in the case. The problem is the inherent design o...
by Ray
Thu May 04, 2023 12:03 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Spermwhale oil
Replies: 14
Views: 538

Re: Spermwhale oil

A little difficult to read due to being an actual scanned library book but quite interesting nonetheless. Much more followable to me than melville's "moby"..... https://archive.org/details/whaleandhiscapt00cheegoog/page/n2/mode/2up Why is it applicable here other than in relation to the o....
by Ray
Tue May 02, 2023 8:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Garage/Basement practice.....
Replies: 11
Views: 424

Re: Garage/Basement practice.....

Half inch diameter hot glue sticks are seldom as much as that..... 7/16" is more like it.....nigh-on .44 cal. If you can ever dope-out the arkansan elevation, they make for excellent gato dissuaders. Cut in 3/8" length (wadcutters) shoehorned into a case over a pinch or bullseye or reddot.
by Ray
Tue May 02, 2023 7:12 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Manhunt In Texas
Replies: 33
Views: 837

Re: Manhunt In Texas

There is the often repeated saying that undocs. are good, humble, hardworking folk who make great neighbors due to their penchant for "cruising under the radar" so to speak. I beg to differ. I ardently believe that there is great potential for violence from each and every illegal/undoc.Thi...
by Ray
Sun Apr 30, 2023 6:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: On the Other Climate Foot . . .
Replies: 8
Views: 402

Re: On the Other Climate Foot . . .

Some environmental activism fanatics know no logic/reason. The young special ed. wench in sweden comes to mind. A p.e.t.a. member bodes you ill if you eat meat or have pets or draft animals then they discover that the worldwide totality (trillions) of ungulates adds more methane to the atmosphere th...
by Ray
Sun Apr 30, 2023 7:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: On the Other Climate Foot . . .
Replies: 8
Views: 402

Re: On the Other Climate Foot . . .

carbon this, carbon that ! they're always harping on carbon. When you ask a youngster (-40) just what they mean, the majority think carbon = smutt.....that is to say, smog.....noxious, toxic particulate matter. When you explain that the climate change religious folk are simply referring to carbon d...
by Ray
Sat Apr 29, 2023 10:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .480 Ruger
Replies: 27
Views: 665

Re: .480 Ruger

The twenty or so I once made from .45-70 were crude but usable in a shoot five and immediately reload five fashion. Gently turn case between thumb and forefinger whilst applying edge of rim to belt sander until cylinder clearance is achieved. Mark case and rough trim with bandsaw using a shim betwee...
by Ray
Sat Apr 29, 2023 8:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For those interested.....
Replies: 2
Views: 241

Re: For those interested.....

Federal's American Eagle line is now considered "premium" and not "range" and is listed as such on websites so don't expect any future price decreases. I have emailed hornady and federal and cci and the re-started remington scores of times regarding e.t.a. availability of percuss...
by Ray
Sat Apr 29, 2023 7:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .480 Ruger
Replies: 27
Views: 665

Re: .480 Ruger

by Ray
Fri Apr 28, 2023 6:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: TIN CAN SHOOT
Replies: 19
Views: 601

Re: TIN CAN SHOOT

Every time I see the title of this thread I think of the nearly 2 years I spent in one of Uncle Sugar's Tin Cans off the coast of Viet Nam firing our 5" gun as artillery support for our land based troops... Guided Missile Destroyer. :D :D :D On the subject of tin cans there was the charles f. ...
by Ray
Fri Apr 28, 2023 6:16 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Case Cleaning
Replies: 27
Views: 583

Re: Case Cleaning

I know I have an old fashioned corn cob shaker somewhere but it hasn't been used in a quarter century. For my low-volume reloading rate, a few twists with a dollar store stainless steel pot scourer shines the outside and a brief scrapping with a small screwdriver cleans the primer pocket. Black powd...
by Ray
Fri Apr 28, 2023 2:35 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For those interested.....
Replies: 2
Views: 241

For those interested.....

I have noticed that, for the first time in over two years there are factory .327 magnum loads available online. I have been searching for them two or three times a week for quite awhile. Be ready for sticker shock ! The purveyors who have them sure are proud of them and also seem to have the highest...
by Ray
Sat Apr 15, 2023 6:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Autistic kid from.....
Replies: 5
Views: 205

Re: Autistic kid from.....

Certainly the politics & personal philosophies of folk greatly differ by region and race as the language in the obituary of the kid's mother plainly shows.....

https://www.lhodgesfs.com/obituary/Princess-Ingram

Big world out there with room for us all.
by Ray
Sat Apr 15, 2023 10:24 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Autistic kid from.....
Replies: 5
Views: 205

Autistic kid from.....

Clarkesdale Mississippi and cousin of Charley Pride......

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GaQ0IDLw6 ... ggaW5ncmFt

Amazing talent !
by Ray
Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Black And Dirty
Replies: 10
Views: 359

Re: Black And Dirty

Re. manhattan conversion.....I found this foto.
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The o.p. wrote that it is just sheet metal and jb weld.
by Ray
Thu Apr 13, 2023 8:33 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A Different Way To Load The .44 Special
Replies: 12
Views: 935

Re: A Different Way To Load The .44 Special

b.t.t. A slight variation on this theme is the following..... I have a 3" .45 colt/.410 2.5" bond derringer barrel that is primarily used with win. factory #9s for slaying summertime vipers. I wanted to have some real bullets to shoot if needed but I wanted to get them much closer to the 1...
by Ray
Sun Apr 09, 2023 6:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A few visitors . . .
Replies: 3
Views: 209

Re: A few visitors . . .

I think it was the apostle James who said to confess our sins to each other....

So here we go.....I confess an unreasonable and unhealthy phobia of mimes, clowns and 'roos.

This one is ok though.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=klYPNSM3edI
by Ray
Sun Apr 09, 2023 6:13 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Calvary.....
Replies: 5
Views: 205

Re: Calvary.....

LUKE 24 13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. 14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened. 15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near,...
by Ray
Sat Apr 08, 2023 8:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Seventy Three Years
Replies: 13
Views: 316

Re: Seventy Three Years

You missed one of your best fotos....
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by Ray
Fri Apr 07, 2023 8:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Calvary.....
Replies: 5
Views: 205

Calvary.....

by Ray
Thu Apr 06, 2023 10:42 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Some Gun Control Argument Resources
Replies: 5
Views: 238

Re: Some Gun Control Argument Resources

Suppose for just a moment, in light of all of these mass murder news reports blinking on the telly, that there is a gun problem hence a need for gun control. Now look at the sheer numbers (hundreds of millions) of guns floating about out there. What new law is gonna make one whit of difference ? Eve...
by Ray
Thu Apr 06, 2023 12:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: USPS disturbances in the force
Replies: 12
Views: 347

Re: USPS disturbances in the force

Wilhem, the cartera just left the upper on the porch. Thanks.
by Ray
Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:51 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Horse-poop disguised as 'science'
Replies: 4
Views: 197

Re: Horse-poop disguised as 'science'

There are monuments and surveying stones in and around manhattan island left by the dutch in the 1600s that are underwater today at mean sea level betwixt the tides. Just using that measure indicates a rise but then again, can land sink ? por supuesto . whole islands and coastal areas can and do sin...
by Ray
Sun Apr 02, 2023 4:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The 22-ish caliber pistols compared...
Replies: 7
Views: 342

Re: The 22-ish caliber pistols compared...

piller wrote: Sun Apr 02, 2023 4:34 pm I don't yet have one, but it is on the wish list. A few things must be done first.
Re. .22 wmr self-loader, what is the consensus on kel-tec versus walther ? Similar online prices though the kel-tec can be found for a few shekels less now that the "new" has worn off it.
by Ray
Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The 22-ish caliber pistols compared...
Replies: 7
Views: 342

Re: The 22-ish caliber pistols compared...

Did I hear someone say .22 t.c.m. (9r) ? IMG_20230401_225535176~2.jpg Whenever we go across the tracks....that is to say, beyond the figurative tugela river from the natal into bantuland......where the aging business district is located, we tend to carry something that has great capacity and will de...
by Ray
Sat Apr 01, 2023 1:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Testing Bullet Pull
Replies: 15
Views: 391

Re: Testing Bullet Pull

Lehigh .355" 65 gr. solid copper "phillips screwdriver" bit over an unsanctioned load of nitro100 extrapolated from kosher a.a.#2 and bullseye loads in .38 special cases seated below case mouth in fired unsized cases then run all the way into carbide sizer sans expander. Fired straigh...
by Ray
Thu Mar 30, 2023 8:26 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Trump indicted
Replies: 8
Views: 358

Re: Trump indicted

Sad day for the republic. Even the never trumpers who say "told you so" are concerned with the unprecedenceness of it all. If it does make it to the booking process without being prevented by an intervening judge, the whole thing could turn ugly. Secret Service are said to be absolute stra...