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by Ray
Thu Aug 31, 2023 7:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Medical opinions appreciated, gentlemen, but the case dates to the Civil War
Replies: 12
Views: 503

Re: Medical opinions appreciated, gentlemen, but the case dates to the Civil War

We were supporting General Cleburne's division. Our division (Cheatham's) was commanded by General John C. Brown. Cleburne's division advanced to the attack. I was marching by the side of a soldier by the name of James Galbreath, and a conscript from the Mt. Pleasant country. I never heard a man pra...
by Ray
Thu Aug 31, 2023 7:07 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Medical opinions appreciated, gentlemen, but the case dates to the Civil War
Replies: 12
Views: 503

Re: Medical opinions appreciated, gentlemen, but the case dates to the Civil War

But I cannot describe it as I would wish. I would be pleased to mention the name of every soldier, not only of Company H alone, but every man in the First and Twenty-seventh Tennessee Consolidated Regiments on this occasion, but I cannot now remember their names, and will not mention any one in part...
by Ray
Thu Aug 31, 2023 7:02 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Medical opinions appreciated, gentlemen, but the case dates to the Civil War
Replies: 12
Views: 503

Re: Medical opinions appreciated, gentlemen, but the case dates to the Civil War

For several nights they made attacks upon our lines, but in every attempt, they were driven back with great slaughter. They would ignite the tape of bomb shells, and throw them over in our lines, but, if the shell did not immediately explode, they were thrown back. They had a little shell called han...
by Ray
Thu Aug 31, 2023 6:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Medical opinions appreciated, gentlemen, but the case dates to the Civil War
Replies: 12
Views: 503

Re: Medical opinions appreciated, gentlemen, but the case dates to the Civil War

"DEAD ANGLE" The First and Twenty-seventh Tennessee Regiments will ever remember the battle of "Dead Angle," which was fought June 27th, on the Kennesaw line, near Marietta, Georgia. It was one of the hottest and longest days of the year, and one of the most desperate and determi...
by Ray
Thu Aug 31, 2023 5:56 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Backing tracks.....
Replies: 5
Views: 333

Re: Backing tracks.....

now that'll wet a glass eye !

Old short-eyed swaggart does it as well as any......

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rUj3nJaTGn0

Please excuse the time trip back to the 1980s.....
by Ray
Wed Aug 30, 2023 9:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Backing tracks.....
Replies: 5
Views: 333

Backing tracks.....

I recently brought an old cigar box guitar themed post back to the top with these links only to realize that they had nothing to do with cigar box guitars so I deleted the reply. What they are are karaoke versions of popular tunes recorded onto my cellphone then played and sang/narrative recited alo...
by Ray
Mon Aug 28, 2023 1:23 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Sort of a Muzzleloading 22...
Replies: 1
Views: 179

Re: Sort of a Muzzleloading 22...

These are what I use in revolvers and break-open arms, long and short. They throw skirted pellets and round balls and combinations thereof. They are scarce and hard to find but I buy a box or two whenever in stock. https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/77734 Nigh-on impossible to lo...
by Ray
Mon Aug 28, 2023 1:02 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Reloading for 38 special and 44 special Rossi Carbine
Replies: 17
Views: 851

Re: Reloading for 38 special and 44 special Rossi Carbine

https://shootersreference.com/reloadingdata/38-special/

https://shootersreference.com/reloading ... n-special/

HP-38/W-231 is where I'd start if I was starting over. The maximum special loads work just fine in magnum cases if you need the longer cases for proper cycling.
by Ray
Sun Aug 27, 2023 6:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Spending the afternoon indoors ......
Replies: 36
Views: 1072

Re: Spending the afternoon indoors ......

Since many revolver toters had had experiences with military arms and ammunition and were used to biting and pouring musket cartridges.....do you think they did this with colt's cartridges or at least somehow pricked/pierced the tails ? Never heard of anyone doing it. It does not help in any way in...
by Ray
Sun Aug 27, 2023 4:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: MAR 1894 CLASSIC 44M drilled and tapped
Replies: 9
Views: 425

Re: MAR 1894 CLASSIC 44M drilled and tapped

https://www.marlinfirearms.com/s/model_1894Classic/

On page eight of the manual/instructions link and illustration 1b you can vaguely see four plug screws on top receiver.
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by Ray
Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Spending the afternoon indoors ......
Replies: 36
Views: 1072

Re: Spending the afternoon indoors ......

Since many revolver toters had had experiences with military arms and ammunition and were used to biting and pouring musket cartridges.....do you think they did this with colt's cartridges or at least somehow pricked/pierced the tails ?
by Ray
Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 380 acp
Replies: 39
Views: 1456

Re: 380 acp

KelTec sent me the spring and guide rod when my son lost them. Taurus made a good one about the same size. Yep, tcp 738. The improved current offering is their "spectrum". In between those two models was the "curve" that shot around corners. https://www.sportsmansoutdoorsupersto...
by Ray
Sat Aug 26, 2023 4:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Spending the afternoon indoors ......
Replies: 36
Views: 1072

Re: Spending the afternoon indoors ......

I really wish I could get into cartridge making. I've got the complete red plastic kit from pocket to horse but finding it is the challenge. The contessa, my beloved bride of 12,054 days (yesterday was our 33rd.) likes to straighten up and store my just arrived parcels where they are never seen agai...
by Ray
Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Another .410 ?
Replies: 8
Views: 397

Re: Another .410 ?

The turkish guns mentioned in the o.p. meant nothing to me until I received this unsolicited email pitch........ https://www.classicfirearms.com/gforce-arms-gflvr410-lvr410-25-91-24/?trk_msg=9B69J913UQ1KB7LKG2NF5C7I0G&trk_contact=7KE7BSE4KOQSP4O7CAK55EI8SC&trk_sid=L11P8L6ASM898OR6BBRDS2FLCS&...
by Ray
Fri Aug 25, 2023 7:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 380 acp
Replies: 39
Views: 1456

Re: 380 acp

After rereading the o.p. I decided to research the ruger security .380. Now guess what gat I am saving-up pennies to buy ?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cUvX-d8Bf ... JpdHkgMzgw
by Ray
Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:17 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Another .410 ?
Replies: 8
Views: 397

Re: Another .410 ?

I hope this will be my next .410..... https://www.budsgunshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/411544790/stoeger+coach+gun+.410+20+blue The reviews complain of action being hard to open/close...... I did not see choke(s) in description but a reviewer mentions full & full so one or both will need...
by Ray
Thu Aug 24, 2023 7:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 380 acp
Replies: 39
Views: 1456

Re: 380 acp

Here's one not previously mentioned..... https://www.budsgunshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/723012904/altor+single+round+.380acp A brace of them should get you safely from the porch to the mailbox and back..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UvioSRqXW8w&pp=ygUQYWx0b3IgMzgwIHBpc3RvbA%3D%3D C...
by Ray
Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .410 Shockwave
Replies: 18
Views: 765

Re: .410 Shockwave

Birdshot (12ga.) vs. flesh of swine.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gq3RVvL9Z ... ZHNob3Q%3D

Fast forward to about 8:20 mark.....
by Ray
Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The new Henry revolver ...
Replies: 48
Views: 2182

Re: The new Henry revolver ...

b.t.t.

Video updated with actual article.....

https://www.gunblast.com/Henry-BigBoy357.htm
by Ray
Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A decent Drone...?
Replies: 9
Views: 366

Re: A decent Drone...?

When they were new to me antways, a four prop job about the size of a deli tray sauntered by betwixt my house and mom's and was hovering/lurking under the neighbour's open-sided tractor shed. It never left the shed alive. It ran into a cloud of #4s.
by Ray
Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:22 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 380 acp
Replies: 39
Views: 1456

Re: 380 acp

Yep .. I get that. I was just answering the question about what .380 to carry. If I carried a .380 it would be something like that. You could handload full wadcutters to decent velocity for instance. Run heavier bullets. And it is a cute little gun, especially if you cut the barrel to 3 1/2" o...
by Ray
Sun Aug 20, 2023 6:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44 Combo
Replies: 36
Views: 1090

Re: .44 Combo

I wonder if something as plain as a circa 1994 super blackhawk and as pedestrian as a 2011 cva break-open qualifies as a presentable "combo" ? That cva is a proven deerslayer and the blackhawk has educated a few with near misses. Why wouldn't it? :) Well there once was a fellow we all kne...
by Ray
Sun Aug 20, 2023 4:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .44 Combo
Replies: 36
Views: 1090

Re: .44 Combo

I wonder if something as plain as a circa 1994 super blackhawk and as pedestrian as a 2011 cva break-open qualifies as a presentable "combo" ? That cva is a proven deerslayer and the blackhawk has educated a few with near misses.
by Ray
Sun Aug 20, 2023 4:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: This Sunday’s sermon.
Replies: 11
Views: 354

Re: This Sunday’s sermon.

One generation copies the previous. Edwards & Wesley had Cotton Mathers' compilation of sermons. Spurgeon & Moody had Edwards and on and on until the present. In the bible belts of the deep south and lower midwest you have uneducated "rabbit chasers" who start out speaking slowly a...
by Ray
Sun Aug 20, 2023 2:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Brazilian Cavalry combo
Replies: 9
Views: 355

Re: Brazilian Cavalry combo

This made me remember the first centerfire bought with my own coin. It was a 1893 mauser that I bought for $30 in 1982 and cost me another $35 for the cut and recrown and sight drilling/tapping. Can't remember what the williams sights cost me but I recall ordering from numrich. I foolishly traded it...
by Ray
Sun Aug 20, 2023 12:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: range day, a couple decades ago . . .
Replies: 13
Views: 410

Re: range day, a couple decades ago . . .

Just saying, if by using gov. maddox's "one drop rule" to be considered "coloured" then I'm an albino freak whose hue would serve a vampire well. Three decades of working nights and seldom seeing sunshine don't help much in the melanin density and vitamin d absorption either.
by Ray
Sun Aug 20, 2023 12:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: range day, a couple decades ago . . .
Replies: 13
Views: 410

Re: range day, a couple decades ago . . .

"is that you Ray?" No. I'm "mixed" as they say but not no where near that "mixed". One of my great grandmothers was thought to be scot-irish corrupted with a caloosian & plantation child admixture.....but one of her grandmother's maiden name was rowe, thought to be ...
by Ray
Sun Aug 20, 2023 10:50 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Happy Birthday To KirkD
Replies: 4
Views: 204

Re: Happy Birthday To KirkD

by Ray
Sun Aug 20, 2023 10:40 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Short Blackhawks
Replies: 21
Views: 681

Re: Short Blackhawks

I have several n.m. and vaquero 4-5/8" and even a few shorter with shortened ejectors or no ejector at all. A pen-clipped tiny screwdriver proves useful for those but a knife blade point prying under the rim will suffice.
by Ray
Sun Aug 20, 2023 10:29 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: SAA and shoulder holsters
Replies: 12
Views: 356

Re: SAA and shoulder holsters

Jim, it was an X-15 I had for a while, too. What is your opinion of the spring-clip "skeleton" holster? Here are a few pages from Rattenbury's incomparable book "Packing Iron" that show the skeleton design as well as several others. I have not used the "skeleton" desig...
by Ray
Sun Aug 20, 2023 10:24 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: range day, a couple decades ago . . .
Replies: 13
Views: 410

Re: range day, a couple decades ago . . .

I'm assuming one is the tubaman and another grizz with the fairer one being one or the other's daughter or granddaughter.
To see if I could ken just who was who I did an image search for b----e g----r , s-----y wa. and this was the first result......
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which did not help at all.....
by Ray
Sun Aug 20, 2023 10:14 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: This Sunday’s sermon.
Replies: 11
Views: 354

Re: This Sunday’s sermon.

Proof that that is a real sermon.....by the fifth paragraph I was daydreaming of dapping a fly on/in tortuga creek. Three quarters down the page I was nodding-off and getting a crooked neck/pinched nerve. If a beam of sunshine, dappled by stained glass, had fallen on me, I'd have been snoring audibl...
by Ray
Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:22 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Locals
Replies: 6
Views: 317

Re: The Locals

I live where the deep south meets appalachia and there are tracts of hundreds of thousands of acres of uncle's forests that add up to well over a million acres......but, the state officials in both states involved insist there are no lions despite hundreds of roadside and road crossing sightings and...
by Ray
Fri Aug 18, 2023 3:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Something to Ponder?
Replies: 3
Views: 171

Re: Something to Ponder?

I've never lit-up myself but I was once trapped in a taxi cab in haifa circa spring of '87 on a shared ride with subjects who did. Wound up eating about a half a kilo of falafel pita sammies with fries afterwards and would have eaten a whole pizza all by myself if I had not run out of shekels. Sure ...
by Ray
Fri Aug 18, 2023 2:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Girding my loins
Replies: 16
Views: 740

Re: Girding my loins

Not sure exactly what you mean by the phrase but way back in the day in sunday school and vacation bible school at the little baptist church on 29th st. and moore ave. it meant the knotting-up of the skirt/hem of your robe preparatory to some exertions to keep from tripping on your own two left trot...
by Ray
Fri Aug 18, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Latest project
Replies: 16
Views: 651

Re: Latest project

Thanks for inspiring this purchase..... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pistol-Powder-Measure-Reloading-Kit-2cc-1-1cc-Custom-Powder-Measure-Dippers/125853204070?hash=item1d4d6f7e66:g:j~IAAOSwzYtkSkMQ&amdata=enc:AQAIAAAA0NsddwwjXLJoD7WJonQk8JBDC4BUU5sF+APRevTS+dRhktkG6vPUcKdzaeOFQSBwSDRDw0mbLPbKzWDKu0Jm...
by Ray
Fri Aug 18, 2023 1:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .69 combo
Replies: 9
Views: 298

Re: .69 combo

Do you ever fire fine shot out of those ? My experiments along those lines from my antique and replica smoothbores have been less than satisfactory. I thought the traditions .54 blunderbuss with the funnel removed and front bead added would be just the thing for controlling these brazen and mocking ...
by Ray
Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Leveraction revolvers
Replies: 14
Views: 526

Re: Leveraction revolvers

They're kind of homely if not downright ugly but that's just my opinion.....

I've got a series of novels set in the war between states where the protagonist carries a savage. I think they could be cornwell's "starbuck chronicles" but I'm not sure.
by Ray
Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Old No. 7's brother is a serious aficcionado
Replies: 6
Views: 229

Re: Old No. 7's brother is a serious aficcionado

I've said all along that them new sparkers are just a passing fad. Now where did I put that pot of coals so I can light my matches ?
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by Ray
Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Evolution of a Levergun
Replies: 18
Views: 1198

Re: Evolution of a Levergun

https://www.alloutdoor.com/2015/08/04/ithaca-m49-saddlegun-junk-treasure/ I remember a lot of kids in the '70s had the Ithaca model 49 saddle carbine. It looked externally like a conventional levergun but it was actually a diving-block single-shot similar to a martini. Otasco stores carried them and...
by Ray
Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:49 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Another combo
Replies: 5
Views: 182

Re: Another combo

.480 ruger porsupuesto......and nobody can tell just when brass and loaded ammo will be available again.....if ever :(
by Ray
Mon Aug 14, 2023 4:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Drive through window...
Replies: 6
Views: 322

Re: Drive through window...

You should not have any trouble selling the '65 for $5 to $6 and the '66 for $4. Not near as much silver there as you would think. Double those values for an average 1964.
by Ray
Sun Aug 13, 2023 6:34 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Latest project
Replies: 16
Views: 651

Re: Latest project

Folk who do not use dippers might think your collection to contain a bit of redundancy but there are so many tried and true book loads that fall between the dipper volumes. I found that custom 3D set on fleabay and have ordered it. Of the modern lee c.c. yellow dippers, I seem to reach for the .7 th...
by Ray
Sun Aug 13, 2023 6:23 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Unusual Brass You Say?
Replies: 8
Views: 370

Re: Unusual Brass You Say?

https://www.levergunscommunity.org/view ... hp?t=87915

The shotgun primered .45 colt cases are quite fun and hit demonstrably harder than my old .38 spl. loads with canning wax wadcutters. The two smaller grand-imps prefer them to BB guns. Louder than you'd think.....
by Ray
Fri Aug 11, 2023 3:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "This Ammo Won't Fire..."
Replies: 10
Views: 417

Re: "This Ammo Won't Fire..."

The forty and under toob/f.b. generation are all instant experts. Way back in 2016 when folk were stocking-up for the expected hilabitch win and 9mm luger was scarce, an online purveyor had many cases of 9x21. They went to great length to warn buyers that this would be too long for the parabellums b...
by Ray
Fri Aug 11, 2023 3:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Outdated Cultural Depiction
Replies: 9
Views: 387

Re: Outdated Cultural Depiction

I haven't bought a ticket to anything on a stage or on a cinema screen in a quarter century so let the goomers strike ! With the thousands of films in the public domain available for viewing online for free I'm ok. Even the ones that get zapped from the "toob" for copyright issues can ofte...
by Ray
Wed Aug 09, 2023 3:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Yearning.....
Replies: 1
Views: 198

The Yearning.....

Things were different that school year. First through fifth grades at the southside campus of patona city schools mustered a week early. This allowed the buzz to abate somewhat before the kindergarten scholars arrived. Then the second week, just the kindergarten boys attended class. Finally, the thi...
by Ray
Tue Aug 08, 2023 6:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "THEY"......
Replies: 14
Views: 613

Re: "THEY"......

I sincerely apologize to any oregonion who might have taken umbrage at my remarks. I meant nothing disparaging. I was/am simply ignorant of what daily life is like there in relation to fueling. There is an interstate exit truck stop some 30 miles south of here with 27 pumps that busy and impatient m...
by Ray
Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 35 Remington...!
Replies: 22
Views: 764

Re: 35 Remington...!

I have shot them but never owned one. It is a great cartridge. In reading some of the old books about settling in Canada and Alaska, the oldtimers considered the .35 Remington to be a better bear caliber than the .30-30. A number of stories of personal experiences were related in the books I've rea...
by Ray
Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:14 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "THEY"......
Replies: 14
Views: 613

"THEY"......

that is to say, the fake & corrupt news media are making much about oregonians learning how to pump their own petrol. Is this real news or flummery ? Boggles the mind if true that folk on the left side of the continent live....and apparently have lived for all of their lives in such quasi totali...