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No no no ..... that's part of the dining experience.....it's to show that it was grass fed

Cool engine noises, I'm far more a fan of the P47's R2800. And a reminder of just how big the P-47 really was.

I'd like you to cook it a bit more please ........ it just crapped on the table ......

Last night while digging through a box of stuff that has been in storage for many moons I came across my old Swiss straight razor. This morning I went through all the steps to hone and strop it to get an edge that will split a gnat's hair. I still use Col Ichabod Conk's shaving soap so I lathered up and gave it a try. I'm going back to my 5 blade Gillette cartridge razor and hoping my right ear heals back before too long. (Damn shaky old hands.)

Glock. Kathrin Glock. Yes, that Glock.

NCIS episode. The naval officer returns from jogging and finds a Glock laying on her table. And a message comes over her TV. Either you kill yourself or we will kill your daughter, so she shoots herself. So that happens to me, and I'm lying dead on the floor with a Glock in my hand. I wonder if people would say, "No, this ain't right. Alpo? A Glock!!???"

I’ve got the flag! COME AND TAKE IT!!

Is it though? Seems more like in-derwear than underwear.

2003 EZGO with 420 cc Honda motor, Rugged gear 4gun rifle rack. 35mph top speed... I might not shoot fast but I can get from one stage to the next quick! Doesn't matter how far the Port-a-John is! Much better than hobbling around on a broken down knee. ..

Ah..... the sound of seducing a round engine into running! I don't know who wrote this: Dedicated To All Who Flew Behind Round Engines We gotta get rid of those turbines, they’re ruining aviation and our hearing… A turbine is too simple-minded, it has no mystery. The air travels through it in a straight line and doesn’t pick up any of the pungent fragrance of engine oil or pilot sweat. Anybody can start a turbine. You just need to move a switch from “OFF” to “START” and then remember to move it back to “ON” after a while. My PC is harder to start. Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse, and style. You have to seduce it into starting. It’s like waking up a horny mistress. On some planes, the pilots aren’t even allowed to do it… Turbines start by whining for a while, then give a lady-like poof and start whining a little louder. Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click, BANG, more rattles, another BANG, a big macho fart or two, more clicks, a lot more smoke, and finally a serious low pitched roar. We like that. It’s a GUY thing… When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can concentrate on the flight ahead. Starting a turbine is like flicking on a ceiling fan: Useful, but, hardly exciting. When you have started his round engine successfully your crew chief looks up at you like he’d let you kiss his girl too! Turbines don’t break or catch fire often enough, leading to aircrew boredom, complacency, and inattention. A round engine at speed looks and sounds like it’s going to blow any minute. This helps concentrate the mind! Turbines don’t have enough control levers or gauges to keep a pilot’s attention. There’s nothing to fiddle with during long flights. Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman Lamps. Round engines smell like God intended machines to smell. Pass this on to an old WWII pilot (or his son who flew them in Vietnam) in remembrance of that “Greatest Generation.”

If it had been me personally, I would have been neck deep in legal action all right -- but probably the "you're allowed one phone call" kind.

A few pictures you might enjoy. I took another tour of the Ruger plant in Arizona when the 1911 came out. At that time the Ruger rep said the 1911 had the tightest tolerances of any handgun they produced. The slides are machined from round bar stock. The preliminary machining of the frame. The barrel is also machined from a piece of round bar stock. In an initial operation the part that will become the barrel bushing is parted off from the main bar. The bushing and barrel stay together for all subsequent machining operations. They are a matched set. Final machining of the barrel. The finished slides are selectively fitted to a frame and then proceed together for subsequent finishing and final assembly.

You have slow internet, it causes a glitch in the force (forum) and then you double-post. I figured this out a while back. You have slow internet, it causes a glitch in the force (forum) and then you double-post. I figured this out a while back. You have slow internet, it causes a glitch in the force (forum) and then you double-post. I figured this out a while back.

I actually knew kids that had these and boys that didn't that wanted them.

They get heavy after a while. Leaving them in your cart takes pressure off your back.

When you’re excused from responsibility because you’ve been “oppressed” or because you’re “underprivileged” or because your neighborhood or your family is “disadvantaged”, you don’t learn morality or accountability. You have always been given a free pass because “he doesn’t know any better” or “he hasn’t had the breaks”. So, when it comes down to the point where you have to “own it” and THE MAN calls you out on it, you aren’t prepared to answer for your actions and you just assume that “I ain’t gotta go by those rules”. When you take the “whoopin’ “ that you’re eventually going to get, either physical or otherwise, all your “family” and the press/media say what a”fine young individual” you are that “he didn’t/doesn’t deserve what he got” and the people who were put in the position of having to deal with your misdeeds are excoriated for doing their job! I’m not saying that this guy should have had the crap beaten out of him or that the officers in question are in any way right in what they did. But I AM saying that to run or fight in this kind of situation has repeatedly proven to end badly and even the stupidest individual should have noted that it could get you badly hurt or killed.

What? Are you talking about that bayonet thingie under the pistol barrel?

I’m with you, Abeline. Only 13 years, but yeah. When I’ve shot with Badlands Bob he was always working, not sitting. We have shooters who cannot stand all day and so need to have a seat, stool or other chair. Many of them work like troopers, spotting, keeping score, manning ULTs, etc. I added this because my post looked like a slam. It isn’t.

One work horse. One thoroughbred.

Bunches and bunches of them on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s?k=duckbill+platypus+stuffed+toy&crid=UOIDALBMDUKB&sprefix=duckbill+platypus+stuffed+toy%2Caps%2C417&ref=nb_sb_noss All kinds of prices

I built several guncarts before the design evolved into the photo below. This guncart is made of oak so it is very dent resistant. The box width is exactly the size of my butt so I have a place to sit down. The single front leg and the two wheels make a triangle so it always sits squarely on the ground. No rocking. The rifle goes on one side and SxS goes on the other. If I'm shooting Wild Bunch, the pump shotgun will go in the middle. The middle compartment (pump) is made to fit shotgun shell boxes exactly. The plow handles, upright and the box create a triangle, which is very strong and supported. The holsters attached to the plow handles store the pistols between stages. I've been using this gun cart for the past 16 years. I've refinished it twice because the finish gets kind of grungy. Lots of storage beneath the hinged lid. That's where are the ammo and other stuff goes. I've also got a Rugged Gear guncart but this one actually is easier to maneuver over rough terrain. I've also got a place to sit down if I get the chance.

That just makes me giggle

Just making an observation. There's a difference between crossing a line and being offended. It takes a whole lot more than that to offend me. I've been insulted far worse by better.

Yes, the shotgun must be open. Unless totally enclosed inside a closed box.