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    A summer pome

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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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    Gun "Families"

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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.

    if you were a firearms designer

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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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    I HATE WALMART!

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    Posted · Edited by Forty Rod SASS 3935

    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

    Background music

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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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    "Kiss mah grits!"

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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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    Inspire Vs C-Pap Machine For Sleep Apnea

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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. 

    Watched Total Recall...

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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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    Have you ever taken your cowboy guns hunting?

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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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