Forty Rod SASS 3935
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I was told today that I should stop calling a revolver a "pistol". Guy said only semi autos are pistols, and this puke is a clerk at a firearms counter in a local sporting goods store.
A quite politely told him that he was out of his pea-pickin' mind. He smugly wanted to know why. This is what I told him, and a half dozen other people at the counter who were listening in.
For a few hundred years men with hand guns were called pistoleros, or pistoleers. Single and double shot hand guns are still referred to as pistols.
I have been calling any single handed gun a pistol since about 1947 because my dad and every other adult person I knew...including hundreds of returning service man and woman I ever met, called them pistols.
Today we have indoor pistol ranges, aka gun ranges or shooting ranges, all over my part of central Arizona.
These are the same people who insist that a "gun" must be a smooth bore. Many early weapons of every description clear back to match locks were smooth bores and usually referred to as "guns".
Many of these idiots blow their own arguments out of the water by using the term "gun control" in their efforts to violate my Constitutional rights.
Today almost all mounted artillery are called guns from 16" rifled "guns" on battleships to field artillery, to machine guns, to some smooth bore rocket tubes, etc are still called guns.
Don't try to use your lack of information, political BS, to whatever you hear on TV or read on your computer, or bullheaded ignorance to convince me that you are some kind of "smarter than you are" expert on anything...EVER!
Unless, of course, that you want me to let everyone in hearing range know of your ignorance in such a way that I'll make you cry without ever lifting a hand toward you.
Sorry. I woke up to early, missed lunch, and ran into scores of idiotic, incompetent, inconsiderate, timid, and otherwise dangerous and infuriating people driving cars.
Rant time is over.
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8 hours ago, Nickle said:
Thank you for your service Forty Rod
About lever guns in combat
https://sogsite.com/sergeant-jerry-shriver/
Everyone probably heard of him but it's well worth re reading.
Anyway this guy carried a 444 marlin in Vietnam.
I worked with a Major who carried a Savage 99 in .30-30. I'm looking for one for my own, but they are almost as scarce as virginity among hookers.
I also knew a Colonel who picked up a 1908 Mannlicher-Schonauer (SP?) sporter carbine, a truly beautiful and elegant piece and one of the smoothest bolt action rifles ever made. It was very well aced for and had a Weaver 2.5x scope mounted in those "damned German claw mounts".
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13 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
The pics are a 1926 reproduction built for the Sesquicentennial Exposition. But you should know that Forty, weren't you there when Captain Nichols started recruiting Marines?
Yeah. I got there early. A guy a few minutes ahead of me was the first Marine recruited. They bought him a beer at the tavern's bar.
I showed up, heard their pitch and joined up. They told me I could get a beer, too and I stated I was hungry, so they bought me a sandwich.
I sat down next to the first guy and started to eat. He asked me where I got the sandwich and I told him i got it for joining the Marines. He grunted and growled, "By God, it wasn't like that in the Old Corps."
Semper fi.
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1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Canadian rather than Australian. But well worth watching.
I have this on my computer. The first time I heard it was in a mall in Montclair, Ca. It hit me like a runaway train. As I was standing there shaking an old man came up and put his arm over my shoulder. "Go ahead and let it go, Son. I've got your back." When it was over he left and I never saw him again, but I learned that sometimes it's okay for a man to cry.
I don't remember ever crying as a man before nor since.
1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:-
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On 11/10/2025 at 2:28 PM, Joe LaFives #5481 said:
What is not fair about that question? For you, it seems to be you would take your 73 into combat. Good luck. I'd like to know more about your experiences? Where and when? These would be interesting stories. Lastly, what would your role be, pistol caliber rifles can't penetrate Kevlar or provide suppressive fire for very long. My closest experience to something like this would be when I shot a PCC event with my 73 around 15 years ago down in Catalina. I brought 3 fast loaders for my 73 with pins and prestaged them around the course of fire so that I could reload reasonably quickly on the clock. While it was fun and I had a reasonable amount of hits on targets in the 75 yd range while moving and crawling, there is NO way I would assume that to be better than any of my semi autos.
I'm almost 84 years old, was an Army Captain and a Marine gunnery Sergeant, Vietnam twice. First time a 1911 and M-1 carbine. Second time AK47, SKS carbine, M3A3 grease gun, 1928A1 Thompson, M1A1 Thompson, a 1911, Browning High power, S&W model 60, Colt Police Positive (iirc) and a .45 Colt SAA....not all at once but usually had three or four guns on me or within reach.
I also carried, at various times, a Gerber MkII Commando, a 7" Bowie style knife, a British Fairbairn, and a German made lever lock switchblade.
I usually had access to shotguns, machine guns, grenade launchers, and M-14 rifles.
I bought my first gun, a SAA .45, when I was fourteen, and have been carrying a gun almost all my life. I am almost never without at least two knives.
I've been shot at (hit once), broken a bunch of bones, sprained and / or dislocated many things in many places and times, been bitten by two rattle snakes, and was a downhill skier, a sports car racer, a saddle bronc rider, a boxer (I wasn't very good) and a 200 yard free style swimmer.
I studied Defendu, a stupidly named and very deadly hand to hand martial art system, for two years on Okinawa.
I have shot deer, elk, one pronghorn, a pair of bobcats, a brown bear, and a cougar. I haven't hunted for over 35 years.
I have been a firearms instructor, a NRA Safety Officer / Instructor and a CAS shooter since about 1972 or so (badge number 3935.
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16 hours ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:
How about linking all the blue cities together so we can stop them from ruining it for the rest of us!
How about trading California for one of the Canadian Provinces?
OR......
Also simply cutting off ALL federal money and support from California. See how long they last if we stop supporting airports, shipping ports, federal parks and forests, military facilities, US highways and Interstates, rivers, dams, power plants, communications facilities, and the list goes on. Buy or tariff the bejabbers out of all California products. Refuse to sell anything to them. Throw all the California representatives of any nature out of our government's offices and facilities. Close down all US offices in the state except on US property. If we had the guts to do that we could shut California down and turn it into a pre-industrial joke.
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15 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
It is. 250 years ago.
And how did they get a photograph of anything 250 years ago?
The original tavern has been gone for a very looooooooooong time.
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The Air force didn't exist at the time of WWI and for about two decades later.
Also, I'm amazed that there aren't more badges.
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Thanks my friends. I have to say, though. that I don't feel 250 years old.
Semper fi to all of you. It's the Marine's motto, but it's a good thing to expect from and promise to everyone.
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34 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:
It's the only way to curb the behavior.
Yeah? If you believe that I have some ocean front property for sale right here in Central Arizona. It might slow it down but my bet would be on the gamblers moving on to a better venue.
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8 hours ago, Joe LaFives #5481 said:
So if you had a choice would you take the 73 or an AR into combat.
Not a fair question. Some of us, me included, wouldn't take an AR to a dog fight. I KNOW where my '73 shoots and at 100 yards it's a good choice. In my experience, there aren't many gunfights beyond that range.
And if I were in combat there would be a lot of supporting fire on my side. If it weren't enough it wouldn't matter much.
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2 minutes ago, Matthew Duncan said:
Stone Age spoke gruntish.
And Americans speak...........English
Amerenglish my dad called it...with regional dialects.
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14 hours ago, Nickle said:
You need infantry on the ground and all the support that they need can't be done with just submarines.
Iowas are gorgeous!
I suspect alot more would inlist in the navy if a Iowa was docked in their local harbor and giving tours to the public.
I never thought of that but it's a reasonable assumption. Thanks.
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Are you about ready?
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Wheeeee! I'm gonna go out there and find a decent wave to ride.
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Depends upon your definition of "dramatic".
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I will never have a diary. Why would I want all that incriminating crap, written in my own hand, to become available to anyone who might want to do me damage.
Imagine, too, the feelings that would be hurt.
Hell, son, what would happen if they ended up in court?
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4 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
I'm confident that it's no effort. If Uncle Forty is like me at all, and everything I've read says he is, it comes natural and it's a pleasure to boot.
That brings a smile to my face. Of course, some folks get the heebie-jeebies when I smile.
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I really miss that rig. Got great mileage and grass to make it go is cheap
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3 hours ago, Stump Water said:
With subs it's the fear of the unknown. You can't see it, which is the point. Look at all of the effort, technology, resources that go into "anti-submarine".
Okay, but the average person doesn't see them as a war ship, likely will never see one at all. Sailors are trained for that, but public opinion will win out.
Battleships are scary as hell.
Submarines look like huge lovable dolphins.
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14 hours ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said:
Tumble it.
That would be my first choice, or wipe them down with almost any good cleaner (Windex comes to mind. Spray it on a paper towel so it doesn't get inside the cartridge) and use nitrile gloves to keep from getting them printed again.
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Interesting, but I could have made breakfast during the slow motion parts.
When I was racing cars we thought two minutes was fast. And we did that with only four or five guys on our pit crew and nothing was motorized.
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4 minutes ago, Warden Callaway said:
We've been getting prepared for weeks. 32 this morning and not going to warm up any.
Old picture.
Those old stoves just ooze comfort in my mind. Something "homey" about them. Can't fit one into my house. I have two electric stoves that look the same....one even has a gadget that crackles like a real wood fire....but don't have to remodel my walls to have a chimney.
Fire places do the same thing but most of them are just BIG. My house wasn't built for a fire place...no place to put one.
I'll have to get by with what I have...and be ragingly jealous of you folks that can have one...or both. ;(
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I still think the Intimidation Factor is valid. Battleship is all muscle, bone and guts. Bristling with guns and gear should scare the hell out of adversaries. They are designed to look like brutes and bullies...and should be just that.
Submarines aren't usually SEEN, so they aren't intimidating to those who aren't around them. Kind of out of sight, out of mind. Let's get real: a sub has no visual weaponry and can't give the same aura as a gun boat of almost any kind.
Aircraft carriers are impressive, but are so pretty they just don't measure up.... and they don't LOOK deadly and intimidating. They look like an LAX that floats
Most of the remainder of our combat ships are are sleek and impressive but simply don't have the visual brute force intimidation factor. Some are almost cute, looking more like pleasure craft than killing machines.
As to the cost: if we would stop trying to buy loyalty from our "allies" and spending too much of our money on useless crap, we could afford it. Financially the USA is the super sucker of the entire planet. We give away the cost of a several battleships every year to countries that repay us by voting against us in the UN, supporting terrorist groups and out-and-out military enemies, building infrastructures for questionable countries, ignoring our borders and laws, and we give everyone who asks all of our military equipment and technology, and we allow them to buy up vital industries both on our soil and all over the world and then allow them to throw it all in our faces.
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Medicare for Vets that VA coverage already?
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I'll vouch for AMAC. They are very conservative, have much fewer ads , and seem to truly understand us older folks. I got tired of AARP giving (or selling) my contact info and then getting dozens of sales crap mail and emails as a result.