
Forty Rod SASS 3935
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Now you've done it. About 1/3 of those will get tried and if I find new favorites my grocery budget is going to grow....significantly.
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24 minutes ago, MizPete said:
Sounds a lot like my Dad. He told me never to start it, and never to walk away from it.
Sounds very familiar. Sounds like my dad and now me.
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"Still", son. You're still confused.
I hope you never change, otherwise we couldn't recognize you at all. 😁
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Nice pomes, guys, but I drink coffee with a lot of sugar. Caffeine and sugar get me going in the wee hours of the day, keep me going through the day, and let me crash at bed time.
Part of my four basic food groups:
sugar
salt
starch
cholesterol
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I'm not a gun collector. I'm an accumulator.
I have representative lever action rifles of all 8 Winchesters from the 1860 Henry (New Haven Arms Co. was owned by Winchester) to a 1866, 1873, 1976 (all Toggle link Henry actions), 1886, 1892, 1994, 1898 (all Browning designs), a Winchester 9422M (gave it to my son), Whitney Burgess (stolen) and a Colt Burgess. I've owned Whitney-Kennedy, a few Marlins (1889, 1893, 1894, and 1895), but I sold them all to a Marlin collector in Anaheim, an 1887 Winchester 12 gauge (traded off), and a new model Evans carbine (traded off).
All these were lever action guns.
I have lots of other guns but none fit the "collector" title...although I'm suddenly coming across a lot of .32 acp pop-guns that just started showing up in trades.
They're cute, but not something I have a big liking for, except a 1903 Colt that is like one I had a history with.
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5 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:
Yeah, the more money than brains Category.
There 'tis...all in one short sentence.
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Driving too slowly and being in everyone's way could be damaging to you and your car
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Looks to me like they are making cartridges to simply to make something "newer and better" and to make money from suckers who want to be ahead of the trend.
As examples I give you the M-16 and 1911 offshoots being manufactured today. There are many others, but these will do for examples
M-16 variations are now in the catalog of dozens (or more) catalog of calibers, many of which are absolutely the same ballistics of others with no real improvement. I think I even saw one in a shot gun "caliber" / gauge.
1911 pistols have been available in several calibers since they were first made, but now there are 1911 derivatives in many calibers and virtually identical basic frame and sizes....some larger, some smaller.... plus the various guns based on the 1911 pattern with some truly cheesy variations. mostly simply cosmetic, that seem to have a lot of "I gotta have it regardless of cost or usefulness just because it's new and cool" fans.
Strangely (or not) these are often owned by the same people who add pounds and inches to their pieces in the form of sights, sighting gadgets, strange stocks or grips, lasers, lights, pickaninny rails, bipods, slings, holsters, range finders and anything else they think will make them "cool". This doesn't even address the ridiculous color schemes that I have seen in the last score of years.
Generally, IMHO, they simply make the guns larger, heavier, clumsier, impossible to carry in almost any civilian situation...and the owners often don't have a clue how to effectively use all this frippery.
In my cave man arsenal I have a few truly useable guns.
A 1911 nearly stock .45 acp. Enough stopping power for 99 44/100% of situations. Nicely tuned and prettier than it was originally.
A 1947 vintage Colt .38 special with 2" barrel for daily carry. Again, enough stopping power for me, especially if I load down the assailant with several holes in appropriate places.
A couple of 5 1/2" SAA revolvers in .45 LC. Same as a above. Not as practical, but a lot more fun and I seldom miss with them.
A Ithaca Model 37 pump gun, 24" inch 12 gauge barrel that will handle 7 -7 1'2 shot that will stop anything I'm apt to encounter in almost anyplace I will likely be.....if I remember to go for a head shot under 25 yards.
If I ever get cornered by a mastodon, a polar bear, or a huge dragon I'll use my 1886 Winchester .45-70 rifle. It's a modern repro and will handle loads that are strong enough to make me wonder if I'd be better off with a tomahawk than suffering the recoil.
I won't tell you how to spend your money (no matter how stupid I think you are for buying something) but don't try to convince me that you are better than I am for what I carry.
FWIW, I don't drive a Tesla either.
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Kirksite?
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I have three of my original teeth. The rest are all manufactured and mostly satisfactory.
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Sexist ba---ds.
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13 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
The WalMart I go to occasionally always has an attendant there ready to help. That’s their job. I guess I’m lucky and have a decently run store.
Wanna trade?
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12 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
It’s all well and good IF you know Morse Code!!
I usta did, but it's mostly gone now. I still know ...---... That's for my own self defense.
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On 6/17/2025 at 3:20 AM, Rye Miles #13621 said:
You actually can call for help and they will come to assist you. It’s happened to me a couple times.
Maybe. I've waited 15 minutes for someone to show up at all and had a bunch of idiots who aren't smart enough to pee a hole in a snow bank waste my time while they tried to get an answer on their computer gizmo. I'm too old to deal with that BS
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21 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
I normally mute the commercials but sometimes it’s unavoidable to listen. Why is they’re always background music? Sometimes is almost as loud as the person trying to sell something! It’s annoying as h#$&.
Rant over………..😡
I agree and have been beating that drum for decades. Music (so-called) is everydamn where, usually too loud, many times totally inappropriate (like any rowdy high speed crap at breakfast), and anything instrumental.
If I wanted to hear that I'd find it on my radio.
How often have you heard anyone ever say "Let's go to Sally's for breakfast. They have really loud (name your poison) music all day long."
I also hate being in traffic with some jackass with his windows open and blasting his garbage out into my world. I followed one jerk for two blocks with my horn blasting away.
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10 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
Butter and syrup, just like a pancake or waffle.
Did that once in Arkansas and got laughed out of town. I still prefer real butter with bit of salt and a tiny tad of garlic salt.
If you don't like it that way, don't eat it that way. You go to your church and I'll go to mine.
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10 hours ago, DeaconKC said:
@Caprock Kid's comment got me thinking [I know, I know...] But there is almost as much debate on grits as there is on sugar in corn bread or fried or boiled okra.
So...do you like your grits savory or sweet?
Either. Both.
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I hope you're right. I've been working on getting one for almost five years.
I haven't had more the a couple of dozen full nights' of sleep in close to 45 years and it's starting to wear on me. I'll sleep a few hours, get up and read for awhile, and doze through the day...maybe 5-6 1/2 hours out of every 24.
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...form about1990 with Ahnuld Whutzizname.
Lots of Calico .22 carbines and 9mm pistols. Stupid movie but I watch it every ten years or so.
I think the auto body designers at Tesla got a lot of ideas for their pickup from the movie.
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22 hours ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:
I have taken several deer with my 73 in .45 Colt. I was using smokeless powder instead of BP which I shoot in matches.
My '72 is .44-40 and has a 24" octagonal barrel, a gift from my wife for Christmas in 1982....my first dedicated SASS gun.
I've taken a Mule deer and a whitetail, two bobcats and a badger with it. (The badger was almost an accident. I wasn't really hunting anything that morning.) All of these were before 1991.
My SKB 220E 26" 12gauge has been used on several pheasant, four chukars, two huns, three or four California quail, and jackrabbits galore....all before 1984 Too long and heavy for much SASS work and my Rossi coach gun wasn't long enough for decent hunting, so I adapted.
I bought another Ithaca 12 gauge Model 34 Feather Light (one of several plus one 20 Gauge). Haven't hunted much of anything since 1999.
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And how long did it take you to get it out of your digestive tract?
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8 hours ago, ShadowCatcher said:
Ken Null makes a vertical muzzle up rig for some revolvers and semi-auto's. I find the plastic strapping a bit of a bother at times, but i might work for you.
https://klnullholsters.com/holsters/shoulder-holsters/
SC
His web site stinks.
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Why bother? BP is for muzzle stuffers and percussion revolvers
Fort Worth Police Recruitment
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What about airpower? Water craft? Pogo sticks?
Looks they are open to all manner of stuff.
If I were 60 years younger................I still wouldn't be interested.