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yes i do - ive wanted a specific bearcat for a long time , i want the birdshead in a a shorter barrel , 3-4" would be nice , ive got a couple single sixes but this one has alluded me so far - ill admit i dont look hard but im always looking passively for a lot of things , this one ill sw9oop up when i find it ....so dont hesitate or it will be gone - just sayin

yes , it does , it was not my choice - it was a committee descension around a campfire in my backyard one summer night at the origins of our local club , a fair sized group of us were sitting in lawn chairs on the banks of the watab river - we had a good fire going and we all through things out , our local beaver made an appearance , disturbed a couple of the crowd and it stuck , the "KID" part was a jab at me as i was the eldest of our bunch [i was qualified as a 49er then tho] ive thought to change it or alter it but in the end it was a good time to be alive and i think ill keep some of those people still shoot with me - a lot dont , life has its demands , maybe before i have to quit the whole gang will get together again ,

bottom line is there are those that do and pay their dues , then there are those that feel entitled to live off of what you do - they seem to be the ones that are most concerned with political correctness and also some seem the least intelligent - their vocabulary is lacking , but if it works for them now hope they have a short and unprosperous life , life is short enjoy it well and my father used to say "dont let the b#$@%rds wear you down

mine is an old stevens 211 that weighs about what my modern hammerless stoeger does , ive had less trouble with it but i shoot it a fraction as much - older i get the less my arthritic hands want to deal with any small motor skills ,

if you say so , im in ill tip one to yall pn the other side of the globe - hope all the distant rellies get a hangover having a great time , , we passed the longest day here a couple weeks ago so we are moving toward that time of year when you get our sun , i hate winter more every year , i need to move , but currently too ensconsed with anchor grandbabies that will most likely mature after im dead and gone ................sorry not to be morbid simply stating reality as now appears enjoy your mid winter

is that the going price these days ? ive been out of the loop a long time on these , my two are a 1952 and a 1959 , both bought decades ago - for a lot less , in one case a whole lot less - a whole lot

i guess i see the desire for consecutive numbers , but ive always considered that important in collector version like the matched L&R sets marked to SASS , my NMVs dont have either L&R or consecutive - but they look alike ....i think thats good enough for tools of our trade - which is how i view all my cowboy guns , not that i care for them less nor neglect - i just "use" them , they are really not a collection - even tho these days there are enough to be a collection ,

im not sure exactly where this thread was meant to go - but in the very early 70s my wife and i were working multiple jobs to keep me in school and to survive , i was prone to taking on another job if need be to feed us , sometimes i had four part time jobs at once as well as going to school full time - you do what needs doing , im glad ill never see that again , mostly the need but equally the hours exerted , but when your young you do what you have to , so if i missed the context of this conversation im sorry but either way it needed saying , too many these days think you dont have to pay your dues , if you work a lot of part time to fit your schedule or get a full time out of school - you still will pay the dues of making your way , its good because you will always know you can and you dont need any charity to get it done

nice buy , congrats , i never seem to stumble into these things

i would agree , id not heard of refitting the M1917 with a 45 colt cylinder ...i have also an M1909 that was built with the 45 colt cylinder - ive never thoght to compare the two to see if they were interchangeable , i know mine are not as my M1917 is an S&W and my M1909 is a colt , i will admit i like them both a lot [equally ] i have an M1905 that is 38 LC and never have looked at the cylinders on that colt as compared to my 1942 S&W victory revolver either .....something i guess i should look at one day soon , thanks you have inspired qa bit of thought as well as some need to physically inspect ,

Canada Day 158th anniversary of Confederation.

I've kept my Wyatt Earp hammered SxS, even though I no longer shoot Classic Cowboy (Now El Patron). I just like the hammered girl. When she was giving me trouble with one barrel's firing pin, I used my Browning BSS (Sans ejector). Although it was faster, it just wasn't the same. No style points Heck, before my knees went, I even used the Open Hammer to hunt upland birds!

I've certainly been called racist. While I AM a hard core dyed in the wool REDNECK, I'm certainly not racist. I've said it here before: I learned as a young Marine, that if a man can and will do what needs to be done, his race, religion, national origin or sexual orientation doesn't matter. If he can't or won't do what needs to be done, his race, religion, national origin or sexual orientation doesn't matter. Any time I've given anybody a Ration of Cr*p about some failure on his part, it was ONLY because he failed in some way. And of course, most of the time, he refused to accept the fact that he just plain failed. He blamed my criticism of him on some prejudice on MY part, not his failure. I believe I qualify for membership in the American Select Society Helping Others Less Enlightened!

The Cold Lake Kid is a Metis. His Mother is Algonquin and Father is an Irish trapper, buffalo hunter and sometime employee of the Hudson Bay Company. His Father also made Poteen in the old country and still made the occasional batch. The Kid learned the skill and decided making whiskey was a lot easier than trapping or skinning buffalo. That's how the Kid got into trouble: selling his whiskey to relations and other band members in Rupert's Land. (Later called Alberta) While He made a pretty good product, he was cutting into the sales of the whiskey traders at Fort Whoop-Up (Later known as Calgary) and had to abandon his still and make a run for it following an unfortunate disagreement with representatives of the businessmen at Fort Whoop-Up. It turned out The Kid, while slow, was pretty accurate and accuracy counted more than speed in the ensuing discussions. Unfortunately, there were a lot of "representatives and distributors" at Fort Whoop-Up, who took exception to the Kid's accuracy. Thinking they would never look south of the Medicine Line, The Kid rode South East, finally ending up in Savannah, Georgia, in early 1863, after skirting some unpleasant, noisy activity along the way. Meeting a beautiful, smooth talking red head, named Melissa, and becoming convinced she only had eyes for men in uniform, the Kid marked his X on attestation papers., got sworn in by Major Hartridge, issued a nice uniform and was assigned to Company C, 27th Battalion, Georgia Infantry, as a Private. Unfortunately, Melissa's head was turned and her heart given to a dashing young officer and the Kid was left broken hearted. And in the Army. He discovered noisy battlefields were not the kind of place he liked to be, but an ornery Sergeant, always seemed to be close by, so taking French Leave was impossible. After the War of Northern Aggression ended, The Kid drifted back North, eventually reaching Upper Canada, just in time to learn it was no longer a colony, and had become a country, July 1, 1867

That's kind of the purpose of this thread I think. to pass on information you have that others may not based on your experiences with guns that you've found to work well, despite what others may have heard about them. Like my post with my Taurus revolvers. Some think that they are just cheap knock-offs. While they're certainly not S&Ws, they're far from junk.

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The English used the term kit, or kit bag, for your knapsack or your haversack. There was a song, long about World War I. PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES IN YOUR OLD KIT BAG, AND SMILE SMILE SMILE. Have an hour boys (ding dang it, otto, I said WHEN OUR BOYS. Quit changing my words) came home from "over there", that was a bit of British slang they brought with them. So if they were going off into the woods fishing or hiking instead of getting their backpack or their knapsack, they would get their kit bag. Smith & Wesson started making a pistol - a 22 long rifle on a 32 Smith & Wesson long frame. They called it the 22/32 kit gun. Because it was small and easy to stash in your kit bag. In reality that is the only "kit gun" because they own the trade name. But lots of people refer to small easily carried, normally 22, revolvers as kit guns.

When I first setup my 750 i tried several types of primers and with one of the European brands they seated fairly hard. This had the effect that sometimes the handle wasn’t fully forward and the shell was not completely in place entering the sizing die. The end result looked just like yours. Changing primers to federal made for easier seating and that change in technique made the problem go away. Mine was so infrequent that I didn’t make any adjustments. Though I am not sure what adjustments could be made. Regards Gateway Kid

Yes, butt it's all behind me. Horace

My school was a military school from Year 7 to Year 12. You could be in either the Army, Navy, Air Force or the Military Band. Sure wasn't a lot of fun wearing a kilt to and from school in public transport!

Uniforms are usually not required in public schools. Charter and private schools typically have a uniform or dress code. Exception in public schools - in bad areas where gangs are active, they do require a uniform in high school, so kids don't wear gang-affiliated attire and cause trouble - my son worked in such an area for a year. Now he has a job in one of the top 50 public schools in the US and no uniform there

My most overrated guns are the ones that need a bit of work Underrated? By whom? I buy guns for a specific need. Competition, self defense, hunting, etc. I don't really care about other people's opinions of my choices.

Yep. It's a wee bit warmish. 114 on the dashboard therm-o-meter when I pulled into work today.