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The .45 colt was designed to shoot horses. War isn't pretty. The best way to unseat a cavalry troop is to shoot his horse. It's a very big target. In westerns you'll see bandits chasing a stage coach. In reality if one wanted to stop a coach you'd simply kill one of the horses. The remaining horses ...

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I imagine that if cell phones went down for a day a great number of people would begin to suffer physical withdrawal. Might be fun to watch.

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So I was blissfully unaware that I had lost service. Apparently it happened while most of the west coast was sleeping. In fact, had AT&T not sent me a text yesterday I would never have known. However, I wouldn’t have really seen any ill effects. As I was home, and my phone is set to roll over to...

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One thing my wife always insists upon is that I be in the room when she sees either a doctor or dentist. Even if they are female. The only time we had a problem was when she suffered a minor concussion. The doctor wanted her alone to ask if she had been struck. I would dearly have loved to have seen...

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First the patient needs to file criminal charges for the purse and gun antics. Then she needs to contact a lawyer for possible civil suit. Third contact the state licensing board and file a complaint. How far the various agencies and attorneys can take this remains to be seen. But it will be documen...

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Strategically it was a mistake. While the Australians already had skin in the game, a direct attack on their homeland created a resolve equal to that of the US. In effect they insured their eventual defeat. But then had the Japanese thought it through from the start, even with the destruction if the...

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I realized this is a spoof. But it might give a few idiots the wrong idea.

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Wife must be blonde.

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Sounds great. But when a religion has a tenet that non believers should be killed what can you do.

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The advertisers. Think of all the weak willed individuals they will convince to buy their products.

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There are a few slug loads for personal defense. Not sure how they would work on deer sized critters. I can say a good old fashioned slug will do pretty severe damage to jacks.

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Perhaps you all have wives that can easily handle a 12 with 3" buckshot loads. Mine can't do it comfortably. So we have a 20 ga Mossberg for the house.

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Been carrying a Mossberg .410 as “ The Perfect Jeep Gun” since my AR-7 seemed a bit small for some years now. Short of bears I think it would handle the functions of a “survival” long gun very well. I liked it so well I converted a 20ga Franchi 48 into “The Perfect Pickup Gun”. Some might say a 12 w...

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Here it’s a boat and cinder blocks. There’s a trench just off shore that’s pretty deep. Too deep for recreational divers. Apparently it was often used by fishermen during prohibition to dispose of “old equipment”.

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Not a Stevens but the Winchester equivalent was also my first rifle. Ten seems to have been the magic age. Dad had won it in some sort of competition a few years earlier and kept it in itybox until my birthday.

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I happen to have very good responses from LASD. But the Pasadena police, in my experience, show up in time to call the coroner.

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Sort of off topic, but I wonder why no really smart smith hasn't figured out a way to put a detachable mag on a Marlin or Winchester.

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Make it in .308 and I’m in.

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Firearms and ammunition is like many other pursuits. Folks are always reinventing the wheel and praising its attributes. But, it’s still round and doesn’t roll any better.

Newer ammunition and firearms don’t kill one bit better because dead is dead.

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At 62 running was not a option :lol: yes most of the time when after a bull I took a 12 gauge but never had no trouble Jack said it right when you get older you may get complacent, I knew better than that!! the bull just brushed me enough to leave behind the blood & hair on my jacket, with a 5 ...

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Most of my holsters, even those from true custom makers are tight when new. I’d bet that, with use, your clones will settle nicely and no longer be proud.

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Some one mentioned the failure of modern books to stimulate one's imagination. The reason is simple, modern writers just don't have the ability to paint a "word picture". Even musicians can't seem to do it today. Take a song like "Year of the Cat". Pay attention to the lyrics, or...

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There are a number of ultrasonic cleaning solutions that aren't water based. But they do indeed remove lubrication. However, some systems advertise that they also lubricate. From time to time I do remove the grips and ultrasonically clean, then lubricate myself. Just as a side note, I have an old di...

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A perfect example of why many city folks should not be allowed out of their condos. Sort of on the same track. Many years ago a reporter Coleen Williams, now an anchor, was sent out to do a story on a little girl who was almost drug off by a lion. As she stood in front of the water hole where the at...

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A shootable Webley-Fosbery is my grail gun. I came close once. But the $7000 was out of reach with two kids.

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I'm pretty fickle on what I carry. It might be a single action auto, double action only auto, whatever you call a glock action, a single action revolver or a double action revolver. I prefer calibers that start with four, .45 acp, .45 colt, .44 S&W magnum, .44 spl or .41 S&W magnum (no, I do...

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My concealed carrier spent about a half hour eating lawn bugs the other night. We'd had a little shower during the day. He/she eats well after the rain.

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Had to go out and buy tamales from the tamale guy. Needed a sweatshirt. It's a frigid 60°F. Looking forward to the spring thaw.

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I wonder how many of these folks realize that people have killed folks, in their name, for not much more than minimum wage.

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Ray wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:23 pm That confounded global warming is acting out yet again ! Supposed to be +3 with a wind chill of -11 tuesday.

Yea, that evil global warning that's been causing blue northers for as long as man has lived on this continent, and likely before.

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I’d have to dig out the manual that came with my Scout Squad but I think there is a warning about not plugging the vent. However, there are so many warnings it’s not hard to miss one.

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You mean Jesse and Frank weren't choir boys as depicted in quite a few movies?

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It's kind of amazing what you find out from old papers. My maternal grandfather was a China Sailor. We knew that but didn't know he was decorated there. We thought he just went to Pearl after that, but as it turned out he ended up in Nicaragua during the 1928 banana war. Turned out sailors had books...

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Looks like the rescue boat school at Cape Disappointment, Washington. Those boats are designed to roll over and self right. Then just keep on going. We’ve got at least one stationed here. Pretty impressive boats.

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I question the wisdom of calling any weapon an “assault” type. Better to call them all self defense weapons. agree with this. I have food harvest tools that can provide self-defense if necessary . . . my weapons tend toward the edged variety I still keep up with Kali. Even for a somewhat gimpy old ...

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I question the wisdom of calling any weapon an “assault” type. Better to call them all self defense weapons.

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It also says factory ammo only somewhere. It’s all lawyers.

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So, Colt said it’s okay to load six. The United States Army said it’s okay. But the current “wisdom” is it’s not okay. Sort of reminds me of the old saying “if you tell a lie long enough and loud enough it becomes the truth”. Even Colt changed their minds over 50 years ago on this subject .1972 man...

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I was flipping channels and found a show on bear. In one segment the narrator is talking about a woman that has studied brown bears and knows many on site. She considers them friends and claims to have never had a moment when she felt endangered. As the fool was blathering on and the video was of th...

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So, Colt said it’s okay to load six. The United States Army said it’s okay. But the current “wisdom” is it’s not okay.

Sort of reminds me of the old saying “if you tell a lie long enough and loud enough it becomes the truth”.

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But, the original manufacturer of the Colt SAA didn’t say that.

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kaschi wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2023 12:43 am It's mysterious (to me at least) that the Colt SA 1873 revolver in 44-40 was referred to as "Frontier Six Shooter" and not "Frontier Five Shooter".

Perhaps because folks who knew how to use them carried them with six.

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One of the great things about being an armed civilian is the freedom of choice I have in the handguns I carry. I actually feel sorry for law enforcement as they are required to carry less effective handguns based solely on the determination of lawyers.

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Remember, company lawyers have to protect the company from suits resulting not just from accidents but manufactured accidents. Note, not manufacturing accidents but those created for the purpose of filing suits.

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I'm surprised the decendants of the ships owners haven't sued the US government wanting reparations.

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I’m no historian. But I would imagine that any soldier facing an enemy loaded all six chambers. I suspect a law enforcement official facing possible multiple miscreants would as well. Perhaps a working cowboy or recreational outdoorsman might feel comfortable loading down a revolver cylinder. From p...

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Sorry, but one quote pretty much explains the entire situation. That being the one about the “anticipated” powder shortage. Manufacturers have been using anticipated shortages to create shortages for decades. Then they raise prices which never return to pre-anticipated levels. Remember the run on pa...

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Real men are confident enough in their masculinity that holding the wire’s purse doesn’t intimidate them.

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Reading this I couldn’t help but think of the song “She can’t find her keys”.

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So my takeaway is that he wasn’t using military grade munitions and the manufacturer got it wrong. All of us who reload understand the importance of proper loading procedures. Apparently rhe manufacturer didn’t fire the hundreds of rounds munitions manufacturers do before allowing a human anywhere n...

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