irish ike, SASS #43615
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1914 Ford offered $5/day for workers. That was unheard of. They brought out the local Guard/Army to help control the crowds wanting to work.
1968 I went to work at a gas station while still in HS Senior year. $1.5/hr min. wage. Within a few weeks he hands me the keys and says your now night manager. Shift was 4 to 10pm. I got bumped to $1.65/hr. Sure helped buying parts for my 55 Chevy .
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I don't think I've ever seen a steel hull sailing ship!
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No one mentioned "gun" friendly laws. That will eliminate Washington, Oregon, maybe Colorado.
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3 hours ago, Black Bart Sr said:
any problems after adjusting the internal passive safety (thingy)?
The Smith changed out the internals to match the originals. No adjustment of the existing parts.
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I have a pair I shoot off and on. As a dualist the trigger block thingy was a PITA. I had the guy that did, change the internals to allow the trigger to be touched and hammer pulled. If you shoot two handed I don't know if you can slip hammer them.
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As Hardpan shows there are a lot of the old Blues singers on YouTube. Nice to hear the ,music, but also nice to see them perform. I have software that downloads from Youtube and converts the video into an MP4 music file. That way I can create a library of tunes that are not available for purchase.
Ike
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Interesting how Cowboys think they need to know how the SASS business is run, how its organized, and what type of corporation they are.. But when you join the NRA as a "member" no one wonders how they're organized, how much people are getting paid, who owns what property.
We are paying a 'fee' to be part of SASS. Nothing more, nothing less.
And again for those of you who think Non-profit means they will be under the scrutiny of the people who pay for membership there is nothing requiring them to do so. The IRS is the only organization that has the ability to "look" into their business operations.
Ike
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The zipper thing has been banged around as in beating a dead horse. Someone, I think Allie Mo, researched it and found that zippers were patented some where in the 1870ish time frame. So zippers were around, along with button fly, laced, and loin cloth frontal coverage enclosures.
Ike
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yup load BP on mine. I made an aluminum cylinder for the powder tube. And use Dillon's powder drop system.
And yes Dillon is the best. Either at sending free replacement parts or talking with you on the phone to solve a problem.
Ike
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I just went to Buffalo Arms to check on the Baldwin Front site. All three say they are discontinued?????
Ike
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I have the MVA Soule long range site. It's their tallest. I then purchased bases for each rifle I would use the site on.
I have the hooded front site with a spirit level and the inserts can be changed out to whatever type you want. Post aperature etc..
They make top quality sites. Get a soule, the windage readings are much better and easier to see.
Ike
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Sears used to also have a lifetime warranties on their batteries. They banked on most people selling their cars in lieu of keeping them My dad and brother hang onto vehicles forever. Kept the receipt and would go back and get a new one about every 3 years. Finally Sears dropped the warranty for life on batteries.
25 years ago I bought a Sears/Craftsman air compressor for my garage. It finally wore out. I went back to Sears to buy another. As they were ringing it upI mentioned I was replacing one I had for 25 years. The sales clerk looked at me and said, 'this won't even come close to that'.
Ike
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45-70 offers the most bullet combinations and the most number of vendors who cast and sell them. Unless you cast your own then it may not matter. You have brass, dies, bullets now so why add another caliber?
Sights, sights , sights, you'll spend good money for good sights. I always recommend to buy the longest, long range site you can. The cost isn't much more. The if you go past 500 yards you're OK.
Montana Vintage Arms, Buffalo Arms carry good sites. I also recommend a Soule Site. For me its better when dialing in windage corrections.
Ike
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I attended the SASS convention when it was in San Antonio and toured what is left of the Alamo. It gives you a different perspective on what happened.
Phil Collins did own a bunch of certified Alamo relics. He has since donated them to the historical society.
There also was a thing about Crocket being captured and taken to Mexico. It was based on some obscure sentence in a letter.
G.I. Tarpicker is right. Who knows what was said or what actions actually happened. We do know the Texan's stood their ground and sacrificed their lives for the cause they believed in.
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I was reading an article on Ar15's in 5.56 testing around 20 flash suppressors. They did it in an indoor range with controlled lighting and a high speed camera.
There were 3 that had almost no flash. Some looked worse than a barrel without one.
Ike
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Same here, I shoot a .452 160 grain bullet with the same amount of BP as my C&B loads. Set in a Cowboy brass case.
Ike
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Utah Bob hit it. You say suppressor, I say silencer. Looks like legally they are the same.
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Wild Ass Guess
I see Cowboy from 1865 to 1940. The big cattle drives were over before 1900 but ranches kept using cowboys to do cow work.
Ike
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I see posts like this all the time on Facebook. I always ask, 'can someone define what a living wage is and what it pays for'? Never get an answer.