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Excellent.
Rodney was in a class by himself. I always remember his joke ; "I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out"

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piller wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:41 am Have you ever looked at someone who is your age and thought that they look old?

ALL of the time ! It's gets worse when I see an old looking person in the obits......and they'r my age or close both ways

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I often wonder how anyone could marry someone who doesn't want firearms in the house, I've always been " love me love my gun" . I'm pleased that your stepson accepted the advice and offer.... 8) Talking about our love of guns... I was out in Western North Dakota and Eastern Montana last J...

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Yep, bigtime !!! Also, hope this country finally wakes up and brings manufacturing back here. China is leveraging their production of essential goods (medicine, etc) against us. It may work for awhile, but down the road it will bite them in the hind end. Also.......they import a lot of grain commodi...

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Anybody remember years ago when there was a toilet paper shortage tat seems was traced back to Johnny Carson. It seems that one night he came out to do his nightly monologue and he wasn't getting very many laughs so he made up something about the upcoming shortage then before you knew it there was a...

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Lets see.......Seargent York, Captains Courageous, Monte Walsh and more recently Grumpy Old Men, Lonesome Dove, Conagher, Open Range.....

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Emperor of the North with Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine (1973).

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Dang, those sxs's take up so much room you probably should get rid of a few, to a few of us here

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My only two connections to destroyers are that I worked on one in a shipyard after I got out of the service. USS Henderson. And a uncle, career Navy, who participated in a little dust up in Leyte gulf. Griff will know that story. My uncle rarely talked about his time aboard ship, and never about hi...

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Griff wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:03 pm As a destroyerman myself, I'm sure I'll find it interesting. Hopefully, it'll be well done.

Ditto....

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Called "The Greyhound", is based on true events - about a destroyer, its' captain (Tom Hanks), and escorting & protecting a convoy from a wolf pack of U-Boats through the North Atlantic in 1942.

The trailer looks pretty good.

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I was reflecting back on my experiences in SE Asia while participating in this thread. It has been some time since I viewed them, but I have hundreds of 35mm slides that I took overseas ; on the Gun Line, during unreps (I was on the midships high line during unreps), ports, etc. One of my best sunse...

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Excellent......glad you're back and looking forward to hearing about your projects.

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Griff, which can or can(s) were you on ?

For me......

First WESPAC ; USS John R Craig DD 885

Second WESPAC ; USS Hoel DDG 13

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Yeah, I wish Lenn would come back.

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Haven't seen Lenn around for awhile, did I miss something ?

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Spent the better part of two years in the waters off VN, and experienced a couple of typhoons. Good stuff... separated the old salts from simple sailors. I never got seasick, except for a short stint on the USS Kitty Hawk after an injury. I suspect it was a combination of the difference in roll rat...

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Rode out two typoons (hurricanes) at sea in the Pacific Ocean on Navy destroyers. It was like being on a horrific carnaval ride for three days (each). I would agree the Great Lakes storms are likely worse. My wife and I get up to the North Shore (Sourh Shore also) of Lake Superior as often as we ca...

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Rode out two typoons (hurricanes) at sea in the Pacific Ocean on Navy destroyers. It was like being on a horrific carnaval ride for three days (each).
I would agree the Great Lakes storms are likely worse. My wife and I get up to the North Shore (Sourh Shore also) of Lake Superior as often as we can.

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Not sure what you want to know about Weatherby rifles, I purchased a Weatherby Back Country rifle last year, 6.5 Creedmoor caliber.........so far I really like it.
Weatherby rifles are made by Howa in Japan.

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The Boy Scouts cowtowed to the LGBT crowd and pretty much ruined everything good they ever stood for. Is there an moral alternative out there ? Yes - it's quite similar to the former Boy Scouts of America and is called The Christian Service Brigade. My church, along with several others in my area sp...

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I served on destroyers back in the early 70's, first one was an old Fram1 DD, the second was a DDG. I've been tuned into anything new that's coming out in the fleet in recent years, although I don't always understand their designed capabilities. They appear to have less armaments then earlier escort...

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If it wasn't for the US War Machine supplying Russia during WW2 they would not have been so successful in pushing the Nazis back to Berlin. Good point Gamekeeper, the "Murmansk Run", as it was called, cost many lives in the Merchant Marine, getting those supplies to the Russians. The Nort...

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Excellent tune. Saw them in concert with 42,000 other people at Target Field, downtown Minneapolis, June, 2018.
Jimmy Buffet opened for them.

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This year my wife and I are planning a trip in our truck camper, around Lake Superior. I am a nautical history buff and will visit the various museums around Superior, including the shipwreck museum along the South Shore in the U.P. Lokking forward to it.. Sounds like a great trip. You get the chan...

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Regarding the 410 bore being choked "full", which is more often the case. Can't one just have a gunsmith open the choke to modified or even "light modified" ?

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This year my wife and I are planning a trip in our truck camper, around Lake Superior.
I am a nautical history buff and will visit the various museums around Superior, including the shipwreck museum along the South Shore in the U.P.
Lokking forward to it..

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I have a Sig Sauer P938, 9mm sub compact. It is not a "plastic or Melonite type, pistol. Some have referenced it as a mini 1911.
Anyway, I like it and I carry it all of the time.
Been also considering the CZ 75 Compact as another carry option.

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Sipping coffee now, just got off the tractor. Plowed snow from 7:00 to about 9:15 this morning. Our "driveway or road" from our buildings to the town road is about 1200' long. Even with snow fence and shelterbelts, we can get some awful drifts, but not much for drifts with this storm. We g...

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JNG wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 3:36 pm MY grandfather fought in WW1. He fought Italian troops. Had not a good thing to say about them.
At 65 folks we are the last generation for WW1.

Didn't the Italians fight Austria (mostly) in WWI ?

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Same down here Lenn. I have the timer set to start warming up my tractor (IH766) about 5:00. The storm is supposed to subside about midnight, am guessing about 10 - 12" of wet, heavy snow to plow.
Will certainly work the old diesel tomorrow.

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My grandfather was a Sgt with the 139th Field Artillery on the Western Front in France.
Probably a number of us old grandkids of the WWI vets.......now.

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I have the same Model 12, 20 gauge as you (the top gun). It was my father's, and before him, my grandfather's gun. Serial number says it was made in 1916, 25" factory barrel, full choke. I had the choke opened up a bit for grouse hunting about 30 years ago. Can carry this gun all day, any dista...

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My son bought a drone when they first came out. Had it here at my farm, pretty cool, but I'm no techy, so it's a waste of time with me. He's a structural engineer and found it useful to inspect the under side of bridges for bridge inspections. Well, apparently the FAA now requires a drone operator t...

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I would love to send you all some snow, have plenty here and winter has barely started. I was deer hunting up north in the big timber of Northern Wisconsin several weeks ago. We carried our muzzleloaders wearing snowshoes. The snow was crotch deep, and they've had 12" more since then. Merry Chr...

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I just had my laptop updated to Windows 10 (from Windows 7) since "7" will not be supported past 1/15/20.
Anyway, ALL of my bookmarks were lost in the changeover.
Have to get used to this new system (Windows 10).

Vic

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I have a 336 CB in 30-30. It is quite the shooter. On another forum, some years back, I read that Marlin produced around 3500 of the 30-30 CB rifles.

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Nice rifle for sure. Too bad Grampa Bubba used the side mount, but....
I've been looking for one of these waffle tops in 35 Rem, but if I found one in 30-30, it might come home as well.
Great find, glad to see it will get the TLC it deserves.

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Thanks fellers, shootin is like riding your motorcycle it is a stress reliever. :) Nath the load is a 405 gr. flat nose over 33.5 gr. of 4198 at around 1500 fps. Yep it has some kick to it. Never used 4198 for my 45/70. I load 49 gr H322 with Rem 405 SP. Planning to work up a softer load for my Mar...

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Happy Thanksgiving to all here, as we give thanks to our Creator for His blessings.

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Excellent !! Confirms what I've always suspected

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I've never seen one of these. Were they made in any other calibers ?

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From a rural, farm perspective, it woukdn't be very long before city boy would reach for something to eat and go hungry. People like him/ her think meat comes from a freezer, milk from a bottle , etc. I'm perfectly fine that they are in a city and not near me, here on my farm, or on a river or lake ...

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Very moving video. I had the opportunity to visit the USS Arizona Memorial and stand over the sunken hull. My ship, the U.S.S. Hoel, DDG-13, was on it's way to SE Asia. We were in Pearl for 2 1/2 days, which allowed me the time to visit the memorial. A very solemn and humbling experience for me.

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Was in the Tonkin Gulf on a destroyer. Did two tours to SE Asia on two different destroyers. Flew home on leave after I got back stateside, while walking through Twin Cities Intl in Minneapolis in my dress whites to catch a connector flight to LaCrosse, had some gal walk up to me and call me a baby ...

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Interesting historical event. First time I've ever heard of it. Thanks for sharing this.
Learn something new most every day.

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The key to preventing creasote is running a hot fire. Don't damper down much.

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So......what is a Wanamacher......and where is it ? :shock: :shock: Google Wanenmacher Tulsa Huge gun show. Not full of all new guns. http://www.tulsaarmsshow.com/homem.html If you go both days and want to see all the tables, dont spend more than 18 seconds at any of them. Oh manure, a real gun sho...

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So......what is a Wanamacher......and where is it ?

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The Cosmos remains a great mystery to Earthbound humanity and the night sky is still fascinating when away from population centers. I loved the night skies when in the bush in Africa! There is nothing like being where there is no man-made light pollution! Likewise, when I was out at sea in the Paci...

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