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I, Daniel Harley Howett, did solemnly swear that I would support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I would bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I took this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I would well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I was about to enter. So help me God. And I still do. I know it's still early in the morning, but a toast to my Brothers and Sisters in Arms; past, present, and future.

I've always been into woodworking but several years ago, I got interested in woodturning. Then I went off down the segmented woodturning rabbit hole. That's where you cut exotic wood up into little pieces and glue them together, spin them up to 1000+ rpms and shape them with a razor sharp chisel. It's a great way to pass a pandemic.

Further to the obscure hobbies or interests thread which was thoroughly interesting to see what keeps some of you busy, does anyone have or had a toy/model steam as a boy? It would be interesting for this steam nut I collect them from all over the world, many now well over 100 years old, most come broken and are missing parts and its a challenge fabricating parts for them in my small metal shop. These were 'boys toys' from the early 1900's (huge in Germany and the U.K) up to losing favour in the 1960's when TV and and other entertainment took more of a hold. And its hard to imagine parents these days allowing their young sons to play with fire and live steam boilers on the loungeroom floor....how things have changed. Jensen model steam engines built (still) in Jeannette PA in the USA is of particular interest to me and I have collected a lot of them.

Got half a cow coming from a rancher friend. Have to work on the freezers. Grass fed, grain finished, no hormones or chemicals other than required vaccinations. Almost as good as :Enough: ammunition.

I have several hobbies/interests that keep me off the streets chasing wild women. Those are S&W double-action revolvers, reading military history, 15mm miniature historical wargaming, and for the last year I’ve taken up the hobby/interest of smoking a pipe. Miniature Wargaming Since 1982, I’ve been collecting, painting, and wargaming with 15mm miniature WW2 figures and predominantly 15mm Napoleonic figures. Also I do miniature wargaming with 1:1200 scale ships of the fighting sail period (circa 1750-1815). I have my little battles on either a 6x4 foot or an 8x6 foot table. Pipe Smoking Last May, 2021, I asked the wife, Sharon, if she would object too much if I started smoking a pipe again. I last smoked a pipe about 50 years ago. Sharon didn’t object but asked that I don’t smoke in the house. Now I have a dozen pipes and several blends of pipe tobacco that I enjoy out on the patio. I don’t inhale and figure at the age of 75, something other than pipe smoking will put me under. I again enjoy this hobby/interest. My wife gave me this Danish made Neerup pipe for Christmas, 2021.

In Ireland, the 99-year-old Mother Superior lay quietly. She was dying. The Nuns had gathered around her bed, laying garlands around her and trying to make her last journey comfortable. They wanted to give her warm milk to drink but she declined. One of the nuns took the glass back to the kitchen. Then, remembering a bottle of Irish Whiskey that had been received as a gift the previous Christmas, she opened it and poured a generous amount into the warm milk. Back at Mother Superior's bed, they lifted her head gently and held the glass to her lips. The very frail Nun drank a little, then a little more and before they knew it, she had finished the whole glass down to the last drop. As her eyes brightened, the nuns thought it would be a good opportunity to have one last talk with their spiritual leader. "Mother," the nuns asked earnestly, "Please give us some of your wisdom before you leave us". She raised herself up very slowly in the bed on one elbow, looked at them and said: "DON'T SELL THAT COW.

Me and the missus were walking across the yard when a lightning bolt struck her. In an instant, my entire wife flashed before my eyes.

Here's another:

In no way, shape or form. Folks are attempting to assign their own meanings to the words in the rule. Part of understanding the rule requires knowledge of WHEN the pistol was cocked AND how MANY hands were in contact with the pistol at THAT moment. IF the pistol was in sole control/ contact of a singular hand (hand 1) AND cocked WHILE in sole control/ contact of a singular hand (hand 1) This pistol may then be further supported by hand 2 - BUT cannot (while it remains cocked) be transferred to the sole control/ contact of hand 2. But a pistol cocked while in control/ contact of TWO hands - remains in hand even if one hand releases the pistol. Holding a cocked pistol with both hands does not require both hands to remain in contact.

I've had a life-long passion for collecting birthdays: ......... only one per year. ........ I'm getting #65 early next week.

This cart was commissioned by a new shooter last fall. I really wasn’t planning on building anymore but he approached me a few times at the Escondido Bandidos matches and talked me into it. One of the reasons that I was intrigued with the potential build was the theme involved, Tex Willer. I knew that, given the chance, Double Diamond would come up with the perfect leather art work to make this one special and he did. I’ve been told that his leather work artistry is like putting makeup on a pretty woman and I truly believe that that’s a fitting description. The bin in the bottom of the chest will hold 10 loading strips of the type that Double Diamond builds or 5 of the other types made by different makers. Pull one out and go to the loading table and when you come back after the unload table stick the strip back where it came from and pull the next one out when you’re ready. Works very well. The narrower chest tray has a SG shell well that accepts a box of shells, just fold the flaps back and drop it in and when it’s empty lift out the box and drop another one in. There is also a soft sided ice chest and room for more SG shells and other match essentials in the bottom of the chest. The cart is built out of black walnut with through dovetail and sliding dovetail joinery and mortise and tenon joinery where needed. There is a hinge pin at the bottom and back of the cabinet interior that when pulled allows the cabinet to be easily removed. I used two coats of Danish oil and 6 coats of lacquer for the finish. The seats, chest handle liners and barrel liner are leather. The locking bar in the cabinet is held in place by rare earth magnets in the up and down position. You’ll notice below the holsters on the door is a fixture to hold the SG brush and swab.

Hedy Lamarr was not only gorgeous, but a genius as well. She and a male friend came up with electronic frequency skipping that is the basis for all sorts of stuff, including jam-resistant guidance systems, secure communications, and a bunch more. She never got paid by the U.S. Government for any of it!

From cattle? Boy, I gotta tell you: Oz is a lot weirder than we've been led to believe.

Yep Plunger spring. When I put the new hammer in I used the plunger and pin from the old hammer...but the spring did not fall out so I did not know it was in there. Everything is working now AND the blued SBH hammer is ready to go with the plunger spring and plunger all set up! Of course things can never be easy. 4 of the 5 screws that hold the frame together on the blued 44-40 are stuck. The revolver was made in 1995 and does not look like it has ever been apart. Not surprising that they are stuck. That is a problem for tomorrow. I am going to enjoy my fixed gun tonight! Thanks everyone for your help. I knew it had to be something easy but I needed help working through the problem.

Midwest Hale doesn’t really go on the wire but I told her about the congratulations thread going and she really liked & appreciates the kind words. She shot a dang good match had one miss and a few bobbled shotgun shells, she could of actually shot better is the scarier thing. She won the lady’s shoot off then beat the mens shoot off winner, Quite the weekend for her for sure. AO

The revolver went from TWO hands to one, then back to TWO hands...NOT from ONE hand (singular) to another HAND (singular). It never left the left hand completely during the shooting string. There is no intent to change anything in the SHB.

I collect tons of stuff. Vinyl albums, (especially Classic Blue Note Jazz), knives, comics, movies, and guns. But, my "unusual" collection is my Lego Star Wars minifigures. I have been a Star Wars geek since when my mom took me to see the Original Star Wars on opening day 05-25-1977 for my B-day. It was my first indoor movie. I started collecting the Kenner Star Wars toys (which I still have) when they came out up until they stopped. Then I swithed to the Legos upon their initial release in 1999 and have been buying them ever since. They are getting more and more valuable everyday I used to collect the complete sets, but I started running out of room so I condensed most of those down to just the figures. JEL

Gun collecting, antique ammunition collecting, and monitoring my retirement calendar...

Have you thought about snake aversion Training for yourself?

Sophia Loren

Very pretty. Here’s Rhonda Fleming. Another beauty. The Queen of Technicolor.

Oh, I know you’re right. I had an interesting discussion with a couple of people a while back after they made comments about banning “fossil fuels”. In a nutshell; I asked them if they were going to give up their phones, tablets, computers, electric cars, clothing, furniture, etc. My question baffled them and I explained that everything about them screamed “fossil fuel user”! From their faux leather “vegan” shoes to their products - ALL made using petroleum of one fashion or another. I walked away as the stammering began. I couldn’t resist telling them as I walked away that electric cars could not be made without petroleum products. I don’t think they like me any more…

That works too. I just pushed the safety rod up all the way, put a new notch in it at that point and re-installed the pin. It works fine and all my original parts are still in the gun if I need to go back to stock, like if I sell it.

I need to take these images and put them back to back and laminate them in a wallet sized card to hand to people when they scoff at me, an omnivore, and then ask them “Are you going to stop using the products listed more?” Thanks for posting these, Gents. I had seen them before and forgot about them.

Cletus is passing by Billy Bob's hay barn one day when, through a gap In the door, he sees Billy Bob doing a slow and sensual striptease in front Of an old green John Deere. Buttocks clenched, he performs a slow pirouette, and gently slides Off first the right strap of his overalls, followed by the left. He then Hunches his shoulders forward and in a classic striptease move, lets his Overalls fall down to his hips, revealing a torn and frayed plaid shirt. Then, grabbing both sides of his shirt, he rips it apart to reveal his Stained T-shirt underneath. With a final flourish, he tears the T-shirt from His body, and hurls his baseball cap onto a pile of hay. Having seen enough, Cletus rushes in and says, "What the heck're ya Doing, Billy Bob?" "Good Lord, Cletus, ya scared the bejeezus out of me," says an Obviously embarrassed Billy Bob. "But me 'n the Ol' Lady been havin trouble lately in the bedroom D'partment, and the therapist suggested I do something sexy to A tractor." (Don't make me come 'splain this to you! Read the last line again, slowly.)

I understand your question but in reality the last thing we need now IMHO is another category. Shooting double duelist is faster than duelist in the transition time it saves so shooting double duelist in a duelist category should give you a little advantage.

..... while we're at it, .... I'd like to mention PORK CHOPS ......

SASS is still probably my most obscure hobby. Most of my other ones are pretty normal. I’ve had some passive interest in miniature wargaming over the years (Warhammer 40k, mostly, although Battletech has recently piqued my interest) but just started dipping my toe into a game called Gaslands, which is sort of Mad Max themed and uses modified Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars as game pieces. I haven’t even played a game yet- modifying the cars is too much fun. I’ve also been playing with 3D printing for the past 2 years, which has been fun, rewarding, and sometimes frustrating. My nieces and nephews all recently expressed an interest in trying Dungeons and Dragons. I played a few years ago with some friends, so now I’m the Dungeonmaster when the kids want to play. That’s been a riot so far.

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Evidently the old U S Marine Corps "Run To the Sound of Gunfire" philosophy and training has become an outdated concept. Forty minutes to an hour. The Texas Department of Public Safety Director said "... they did engage immediately. They did contain Ramos in the classroom." "Containing" is "engaging??" What a pile of road apples! The jackass barricaded himself in the classroom where he slaughtered the victims! This article, and others, read more like the "authorities" were otherwise occupied, stopping unarmed and untrained parents from storming the building themselves to attempt to save their children.

IMO... YES. He went back to using BOTH hands to hold/fire/control the revolver (i.e., shooting "Traditional-style") IF he had started shooting "DUELIST-style" after removing the empty hull, THAT would be a SDQ for: "A cocked revolver leaving the shooter's hand" SHB p.22

I collect molds, spores, and fungus.