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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Missing my sixguns
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1203
Re: Missing my sixguns
nice photos. did you go up in the monument? hope it's still open . . .
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Term "pistol" ....
- Replies: 19
- Views: 850
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
- Replies: 11
- Views: 766
Re: For all you mule skinners.......
The few times the wife & I went we tent camped up in the mountains, frosty mornings and chilly evenings. It's some distance to drive into Bishop, but the nights were cold for us then Southern California residents. This year during the week scheduled the forecast shows daytime temps in the low 8...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: CDC released CoVid Vaccine Myocardis Report
- Replies: 4
- Views: 408
Re: CDC released CoVid Vaccine Myocardis Report
do you have a link to the actual website url for that document?AJMD429 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:56 am .
...and no - it isn't a Babylon Bee report - https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/ ... 4606726557
I guess the CDC and ATF are trying to see which agency can be the most blatant...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: First Guns for newbies
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1714
Re: First Guns for newbies
. Another interesting option for frail-handed people is the KelTec PMR-30 Pistol. Screenshot_20240313-095139-390.png Easy racking, very light weight, little recoil, and a bunch (30+1) of 22 WMR rounds. Not a CCW gun for most ( I'd do it, but then again I carried a Super Blackhawk for awhile :? ), b...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Term "pistol" ....
- Replies: 19
- Views: 850
Re: The Term "pistol" ....
There are varieties of people who've been described as a pistol-something, or a something-pistol, but I can't think of any. Can you?
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Why isnt there more variety?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1235
Re: Why isnt there more variety?
With the rising popularity of pistol caliber leverguns why hasnt there been a similar rise in the variety of "gummy tip" projectiles? Hornady only makes 140s for 357...why no 125, 115 or even 158? The better ballistic coefficient seems like a no brainer for tubular mags. Heck, a 165 grain...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
- Replies: 11
- Views: 766
Re: For all you mule skinners.......
Griff, if you had to pick one day, what would it be? Would love to make that one, but it may already be toooo hot for me. I've gone thru Owens Valley in the heat of summer and it is second only to D.V. for wildly oppressive heat. Gas up at the casino, and up over 8000' in about 40 minutes, where I c...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For all you mule skinners.......
- Replies: 11
- Views: 766
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Talk about being totally 'inclusive'...!!!!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 244
Re: Talk about being totally 'inclusive'...!!!!
. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/hohmann-another-country-announces-it-will-require-its/ Digital ID from birth for all citizens (not yet in the US, but I'm sure they want to bring it here too....) The main passage in the Bible that mentions the “mark of the beast” is Revelation 13:15-18. O...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Baseball fans here?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1043
Re: Baseball fans here?
BATTER UP.jpg Ah Bill, you posted the first interesting, decent, respectable, and accurate Times article in a hundred or so years!! The only disappointment was that the author neglected to post the Score of the game she attended. Thanks for posting this. My Dad exquisitely summed up my baseball ski...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Home defense without a firearm IS possible...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 488
Re: Home defense without a firearm IS possible...
the word "claymore" comes to mind. not a firearm, etc . . .
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Canada is going full-fascist...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 603
Re: Canada is going full-fascist...
Canada doesn't have citizens, Canada has subjects. We had citizens but now we too are subjects, apparently,
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: article ...... Marlin 1894 Classic receives 2023 Editor's Choice Award
- Replies: 7
- Views: 505
Re: article ...... Marlin 1894 Classic receives 2023 Editor's Choice Award
that ticks all the boxes a 44 Mag with a 1:20 barrel !!!!! !! !!new pig hunter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:27 am 2023 Editor’s Choice Award – Marlin 1894 Classic
https://www.ontargetmagazine.com/2024/0 ... 4-classic/
That's about all I'd need, unless I'd need a 454 Casull 1894.
A great rifle
grizz
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:06 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: My 'pronouns' are ...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 480
Re: My 'pronouns' are ...
My pronouns are the ones God gave us in the Bible, those are the ones I use. For me and for you you you . . .
grizz
grizz
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: That Adams percussion repro ...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 350
Re: That Adams percussion repro ...
The reproduction of this very interesting British .442 revolver from the 1850s by Arsa in Spain is slowly proceeding. Initial pricing of 1,000 € puts it out of my league, but I sure would love to see and handle one. More in this thread over at Britishmilitaria ... https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/br...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:04 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Canada is going full-fascist...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 603
Re: Canada is going full-fascist...
. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canadian-law-endorsed-by-trudeau-government-could-imprison-people-for-life-for-speech-crimes/ar-BB1jR5o2 (of course my Liberal friends think that means they are voting 'conservative'... :roll: ) what that codifies is assaulting Christ followers with hate crime...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cheapie AR….
- Replies: 4
- Views: 412
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:42 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Geez....do they have to water down EVERYTHING...???
- Replies: 1
- Views: 283
Re: Geez....do they have to water down EVERYTHING...???
they just made West Pointers into Traitors . . .AJMD429 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:42 am .
...now West Point...
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1767963985377210815
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:12 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Last Outlaw movie review
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1816
Re: The Last Outlaw movie review
you are Much More disciplined than I am although I don't go to movies. although i might make an exception for one last drive in flick . . .
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:20 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Weed vs Melanoma - could be interesting
- Replies: 4
- Views: 591
Re: Weed vs Melanoma - could be interesting
. Some (probably most) of my high school (and many of my pharmacy school, and who knows of my medical school) frients might be immune from melanoma... https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/cannabis-extract-found-to-have-deadly-effect-on-common-form-of-cancer/ar-BB1jGtUO and then, right over on the...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I wonder if it is like this
- Replies: 5
- Views: 719
Re: I wonder if it is like this
I'm guessing we will be speaking a new language, we'll have new names, but I think in a new language. where no disparaging word was ever heard... .Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:52 am I’m betting that being in the presence of our Lord would not easily be described with words.
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- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Weed vs Melanoma - could be interesting
- Replies: 4
- Views: 591
Re: Weed vs Melanoma - could be interesting
. Some (probably most) of my high school (and many of my pharmacy school, and who knows of my medical school) frients might be immune from melanoma... https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/cannabis-extract-found-to-have-deadly-effect-on-common-form-of-cancer/ar-BB1jGtUO and then, right over on the...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: are Rossis getting better?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2539
Re: are Rossis getting better?
Well, I've been thinking about a 357 carbine for a while, and would prefer a 16" barrel for sure. I was looking at the 16" henry's but they seem to be non-existant. They pop up on gunbroker sometime, but they go for $1200 - $1500. The new marlins are at least $1200 and don't come with a 1...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: More stuff the 'moderates' fall for...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 442
Re: More stuff the 'moderates' fall for...
This is what Jesus said to the pharisees who were gaslighting Him -> . You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him . When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: are Rossis getting better?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2539
Re: are Rossis getting better?
Every time this comes up I read up on Rossi and the 454 Casull, I think that it sounds like a great carbine hunting round. Finally I have to stretch, walk over to the stainless guide gun, says 45 on it, and I re-realize that I am all set in that category, again :!: :lol: I save lots of money failing...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Whatever it takes.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1412
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lost a Good One (taught me how to shoot)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 820
Re: Lost a Good One (taught me how to shoot)
A great friend Doc, sorry for your loss, happy for his new home . . .
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Whatever it takes.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1412
Re: Whatever it takes.
. Matt did good. Kind of disappointed in Kitty that she just stood there looking why the guy was crawling towards a gun; she should have either got in control of the gun and shot the guy or at least got the gun out of his reach. But Doc the script told Kitty to stand there like a helpless woman I'd...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1255
Re: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
I just bought this JM 336W from a private owner in New Hampshire. He switched the pistol grip plain stock, to a Texan straight stock configuration along with a straight lower trigger tang and a straight finger lever. He also had installed a Beartooth safety delete. I install these in all my cross b...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: With all these illegal border-crossers...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 418
Re: With all these illegal border-crossers...
. ...and all these plane failures (un-riveted doors, wheels (several cases) falling off, and now landing gear failures.... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/just-united-airlines-boeing-737-max-8-suffers/ It makes me wonder... Then all the factory fires and explosions... And it isn't exacly l...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ok so, lever actions in 50AE
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1482
Re: Ok so, lever actions in 50AE
I know its probably not in the category of rounds easy or sensible to fit in a lever action, but I bet someone out there has done or can do it. Or maybe it cant be with that rebated rim? case rim is the same as 44 mag if that helps. I know bighorn does the 500SW and 500 linebaugh but quite a bit bi...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Aluminum receivers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 956
Re: Aluminum receivers
I have been seeing 1892 Browning pattern guns with aluminum receivers out of Turkey on YouTube. Given how the 92 locks via two steel lugs on either side the bolt rear and against the rear of the receiver, do you guys think the aluminum will hold up or give headspace issues eventually? Good question...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I lost my willie
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1585
Re: I lost my willie
He was an abused horse. I took him to keep the owner from shooting him and we bonded. It took 2 years before he would let me ride him or catch him loose in the field. I am, literally, the only person who could handle him. My wife was terrified of him but we were buds and I darn sure am gonna miss h...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: went to a shooting range yesterday
- Replies: 0
- Views: 389
went to a shooting range yesterday
I mentioned this project somewhere, found a real gunsmith and took the American Classic to him with a box of parts. I got the barrel from Sarco, the sear spring somewhere else, he sourced the 24# recoil spring and the barrel bushing which he hand fitted, he machined out the clearance for the recoil ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4403
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
DORY_dory with kids.gif . DORY_OLO in Port Townsend-s.jpg This is a Colorado River Dory, a scaled down Briggs. It has run the river, and it is the sister of a famous dory now called Betty Boop. The owner invited me to row it at a boat show, naturally I was too polite to refuse. 8) This is the Boop'...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4403
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Dittos, Beautiful. The Pacific is lovely when he is pacific.Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:21 pm Ji, you are moving along at a good clip in that short! Beautiful waters you are fishing there.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
- Replies: 9
- Views: 696
Re: If you love a Savage Model 99
Grizz, my grandparents started a ranch under the Mogollon Rim in the Tonto Basin near present Young before World War I. I visited once ten years ago, and it is very interesting country, with human history that goes back probably to the last Ice Age. That's very interesting. There must be a lot of a...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Guilty!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1566
Re: Guilty!
Not sayin' anything about her guilt, she was the official armorer. But they got their sacrificial lamb now, throat cut and bleeding. Baldwin, who violated every one of the unofficial rules of gun safety will walk free. I'll be very surprised if he doesn't. yeah I agree. . . Baldwin has enough money...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4403
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
DORY_dory with kids.gif . DORY_OLO in Port Townsend-s.jpg This is a Colorado River Dory, a scaled down Briggs. It has run the river, and it is the sister of a famous dory now called Betty Boop. The owner invited me to row it at a boat show, naturally I was too polite to refuse. 8) This is the Boop'...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
- Replies: 9
- Views: 696
Re: If you love a Savage Model 99
shot first deer and a wolf up on the Mogollon Rim in Zane Gray country. wolf was stalking meBill in Oregon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:37 am You'll love this one. Not trying to sell it for the guy, but wow what a beauty!
https://forums.accuratereloading.com/ev ... 9061064772
Model 99 in .243
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Soothing.....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 440
Re: Soothing.....
thanks for the links Ray, much appreciated
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Nice to see JPFO still active
- Replies: 1
- Views: 313
Re: Nice to see JPFO still active
how about some smart congressional law-breaker drawing up a law to include ALL RESIDENTS in universal background checks Hmmm?
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: I'd be more afraid of the domestic Democrats....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 319
Re: I'd be more afraid of the domestic Democrats....
. ...but even the hate-stream 'news' media admits that there is at least one assassin out to eliminate Trump and/or his supporters. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/assassin-targeting-trump-allies-is-on-the-loose-fbi-warns/ar-BB1jk9mP Odd that they don't cheer him on, since the 'news' media hat...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4403
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
For an in-depth look at the Portuguese dory fishermen off the Grand Banks, it is hard to beat Alan Villiers' "Quest of the Schooner Argus," and of course there is Rudyard Kipling's classic "Captains Courageous." By the way, the 1937 movie of the same name with Spencer Tracy and ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 641
Re: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
Thanks for sharing Darryl! My uncle was on the ground then, with the 29th ID, 116th IR, Company F. Served from D-Day (1st wave) all the way to the fall of Germany. I had an uncle in an engineer unit early in the landings. they had the pipe bombs that were supposed to cut the barb wire. They made it...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4403
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Back in the summer of 2002 I was making a maintenance inspection of Kaunakakai Harbor on the island of Molokaʻi, and I spotted a St. Pierre dory moored there, it was beautiful, in great condition, and best of all it was for sale! I took several photos and emailed them to my dad, and letting him kno...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New To Me Winchesters
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1321
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4403
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
I think the St. Pierre has the most glorious sheerlines of all the dories. Thanks so much Ji ! I agree with you Bill, they are, to my eye, unbelievably beautiful. Proper dorys have no bad angles from which to paint them . . . Ji's photos bring to mind a gggdad sitting on a French Mediterranean beac...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 641
Re: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
That's a fantastic legacy and great tribute to your Dad and his buddies and their incredible achievements. Thanks for posting!