Forty Rod SASS 3935

Well, I never read such an opinionated thing in my life. I'll be in touch with David Fink at Gunsight Academy to see what it will cost. Probably needs new springs and maybe some internal fiddling. I'll order the grips early next week. Thanks, folks. It's good to find so many people who think like I do.

In a pig's a$$ it does. (The pun wasn't intended but I let it go after I read it.)

I agree whole heartedly.

Welcome to my world. Part of mine is partially due to PTSD. If I'm really lucky I can get 5 hours of sleep a night, but it's usually more like 4. I doze off in the afternoon but it's never good for more than 20-30 minutes. VA is setting me up for a new sleep apnia (sp?) test. I'll be watching this space for info, hints, and general advice. Thanks.

I have a break top S&W Second Model .38 single action, the one made right after the Baby Russian. It has about 15%- 20% nickel plate intact and is mechanically maybe 50%. I've had it for years and am in it about $40.00. Blue Book says it's worth $200.00-$250.00. I'm considering having it re-plated to match my 1st Model American and getting some new original-grips-looking from Dixie Gun Works or having some walnut ones made. I can't tell you why I'm thinking about this job because I have no clue myself why I want it done except it would look so good together with the American. What would you do in my place and why? Also, I have a man who can make it look like new (I haven't priced it yet, so that may kill the idea at the start).

Sounds about right, but we only had 180 musicians. The rest were rifle drill team members (with M-1 Garand rifles and fixed bayonets), majors and majorettes, twirlers, a color guard and often a convertible provided by Ben Redd Chevrolet or Wilson Ford with "dignitaries" aboard. My GOD that was along time ago.

That's EXACTLY what I mean. Our little town (at that time...it's grown significantly over the years) had one music teacher shared with the Junior High School and High School. He taught band, orchestra and parade music as well as tutoring some luck individuals. There was a choir group that some of his students belonged to and between the instrumental and vocal music we were taught to sing it just like that. We also said the Pledge of Allegiance as though we were "speaking" it in a sentence instead of the sing-song way it is done almost universally now. We were taught the words the wayit is done today, but as soon as the little kids learned the words we did it as if we were simpl yspeaking it. I like the old way better and still sing and recite them as I learned. It often annoys people when I do it and you know what? I just simply done give hoot what they think.

I miss California about like Custer would have missed all those Indians. It's refreshing to find out that not every politician in California is a left wing, power mad jackass. If mare...lots more...would stand up to the socio-commies they'd have a better state in almost every respect.

Still NOT my National Anthem. What is so difficult about doing it the way it is written?

Damn right. I need someone to talk to that isn't a flaming idiot. Put your supervisor on right now!

Oh Goody. Yet another site I can't open without "joining some BS site.

That Calico carbine in I described in another title.

I never thought to take any pictures of it. Quick rundown, not necessarily in the order I did them.: I cut off the phony muzzle cone and screwed on a nine inch tube that looked like silencer / flash hider. Had a friend make a skeleton rigid butt stock with sling swivels on top and bottom. Took a factory accessory bipod, cut the legs off and add a folding, telescoping bipod from another source. Put a top mounted sling swivel on the front hand guard. Put an aftermarket "Kelly" pistol grip on the front. Used one of their "rat catcher" scope mounts and added an early red dot sight with and enormous cylindrical sun shield on the front Bought two transparent and two solid black 100 round magazines and adjusted them so I had the original solid black one and four that were half transparent and half solid black. Added a wind-up handle on each magazine (the company later added those all new ones.) I put the whole thing in a black web Calico holster with a matching belt. I bought two Calico black web double magazine carriers for the belt Found a silver colored skull buckle for the belt and a half dozen matching skull ear rings that I got from a head shop. I used one of those on each pistol grip on the carbine. Bought a S&W 422 6"(?) .22 pistol. The barrel was under the spring so I drilled holes sideways above the barrel. S&W later added oval holes to the model. The muzzle was threaded, so I put 4" tube on it to make it match the carbine. Two more skulls went on the pistol grips. I found black web shoulder holster and put a skull on it, too. I bought a cheap knock off of the Gerber #1 boot knife that had a black web sheath, so it got the last skull and a place on the gun belt. All of the stocks, grips and handles were black...of course. I finally added a web sling. Black boots, black Wrangler jeans, a black four pocket long sleeve work shirt, a black ski mask and a black watch cap, and black driving gloves finished it off. I may have done some other things but that was 1980 and my memory isn't what it was. I'd take it up to Lytle Creek and it always drew a crowd. California changed so I sold it to a guy from Roswell for about 50% more than I had in it. It was fun for a summer but it wasn't anything I really wanted and after the novelty wore off and the "atmosphere" got bad I let it go. Sure could squirt through 500 rouns of .22 rounds with it. Load all five magazines and wind them up and let 'er rip.

1944 movie about a single aircraft carrier and the role it played in the days after Pearl Harbor and up to the battle of Midway. Lots of stars, good photography. good script, really good movie. overall. Brought up one question: Almost all of the crew, officers and enlisted, wore pajamas in several scenes. This is about a U. S. Navy combat ship on spur of the moment contact with the Japanese. I would think they would have dressed in a more ready condition.....but then, I wasn't there. It's worth watching, though.

I've been told that a lot of mountain men kept flintlocks "because percussion caps can't be found in nature, but flint and obsidian can be." Could be true, but growing up in the Rockies I found a lot of "facts" and legends that just didn't ring true.

Blame it on Trump.....everyone else seems to think he's behind everything.

We don't have a lot of gators or crocs in Arizona but I'll keep this in mind.....just in case.

Thanks, Bubba. the Cowsills were one of my favorite groups but it's been years since I've even thought about them.

I wonder why the various governments paid me to carry loaded firearms of almost every non-nuclear type plus explosives, sharp and / or blunt objects, and provided the training to use them and now they get all sweaty over a little pocket knife. They don't seem to realize that I AM A DEADLY WEAPON. I never go into a place without making sure I know where the potential weapons are. Simple things like coffee cups, glass sugar dispensers, table ware, furniture, Napkin holders, and even some rigid folding menus, salt and pepper shakers, back packs, scarves, bandanas, sweaters, beer mugs, hot coffee in cups, walkers, canes, crutches ("Excuse me Ma'am, I need to beat this jackass to death, but I'll give your weapon back in a moment or two.) and literally dozens or scores or more "deadly weapons". Panic, idiocy, and lack of reality reign across our country.

About 2/3 of the world spell it Rhum. When I was still drinking my favorite was Jamaican Black Flag Rhum. They stopped making it about 1970 when a bigger company bought them out. I also use a Bay Rhum after shave lotion, not often but I still keep some on hand.

I never saw the desert in a toilet paper roll, but all the rest are very familiar.....and I want my Corning Ware casserole dish and lid back right now!

Is there any chance that they go back as far as April, 2003?

Does it have to be a cowboy gun? I did a make-over of a Calico 100 semi-auto .22LR carbine. I added a S&W 422 pistol that I vastly modified, a Gerber boot knife, and some other items to make a very unique rig.

I'm old enough to remember when, not very often and only for the patient, they were more common, from the Great Lakes west to the borders in Montana and Idaho. I haven't seen any in the wild in almost 60 years. The common bobcats were , and still are, much more prevalent to the point of being dangerous nuisances, even in populated areas...such as the port for the Goodyear Blimps right up the interstate highway within a scant mile of LAX. and inside the Navy Weapons Station at Seal Beach. They are still very common in my own yard and the surrounding area.

I DO care about your opinion, no matter how much I disagree with it in this particular instance. However I really don't GAS about awards, academies, anything said, either pro or con, in any form of news media, very little said by more than a very tiny percentage of other movie or other entertainment people, or anything said about me except for folks like most of the writers on this wire.....so long as they also have the guts to say it to my face, and are prepared for my rebuttal in whatever form I choose to reply.