Forty Rod SASS 3935

'S cool. I usually only see that many different "patches" on veterans' jackets, or sports cars and mobile travel housing.

😀 Thanks for the clarifcation.

Big, clumsy, and not suitable for military use. The BAR was better designed for that. The FBI had cars to carry theirs. The Army and Marines had to "muscle-buck" (my dad's phrase) them around.

I had a replica years ago (1980-1981?) but it was stolen. Very similar to the Whitney Navy .36 but with a brass frame. I don't recall the maker but it was a little rough when I got it. I cleaned it up, replaced the nipples and bolt spring. It shot very well and was a real attention-getter at some of our events.

That could explain a lot. Thanks.

1 and 2 done. Working on number 3 "as we speak". Adding a #4: see my last post above. I had one more already accomplished: I was part of a five man "tontine". (Look it up.) I had forgotten about it until the man who started it in Vietnam in 1978 died and his daughter got in touch with me. She found it in his safety deposit box. We didn't have a "fund" but I ended up with a $450.00 bottle of French wine. Not being a drinker anymore I sold it at a local auction and donated the money to the folks at an Alzheimer's center back in our home town in my Mom's name.

There is a coyote who frequents the VA Medical Center campus in Prescott. I didn't think he was a yodel dog at all the first time I saw him. Almost chubby rather than the lean and scrawny ones I'm used to seeing. He's so smooth-coated that it looks like he's been groomed. He eats well, probably behind one of the kitchens or cafeterias, and just strolls around here and there. I've seen him a few times atop a small "cliff" overlooking the front entrance to the facility, watchhing the cars coming and going. Regal is NOT the first word that comes to mind when talking about coyotes, but it fits this guy. Lots of coyotes a few miles north of here along AZ highway 89 and I've seen a couple over in the Dewey-Humbolt area and we can her then singing some nights. They add a sound to the nights that just cries out "Old West". I like it.

LA had / has bobcats, cougars, bears, coyotes, and other critters in the vicinity of LAX ( within a half mile of thr runway and 40 feet off the highway where the Goodyear blimps are parked) and several other places all the way east to San Bernardino, south as far as San Diego, and in some remote mountain areas northeast. Two women were killed, and one partially eaten, in the foothills just north of Pomona right after we moved up here.

Mighty short horse.

I'm 83 and the VA has me listed as wanting any tests they feel I need or that I can convince them I really want them, regardless of my age. I plan to live 19 more years to age 102. I want to be my own high school class reunion. (Over half of my class 0f 143 have already died and about half that number have simply vanished.)

I've been working with computers since 1966. I still down understand them, like the, nottrust them, and I HATE having then forced on me in some form and one way or another every where I go and every thing I have to use. I really hate the people who assume that I have spent over $1,000.00 to get a "smart phone" so I can receive texts from people who are too lazy to leave a voice mail message, and then blame me for missing their messages. I can't receive texts on my old flip phone. I do get a message that a text has been sent from a number I don't recognize and can't open.

It never would have occurred with my GPA. I was good but not that good. Even if I had been in such a situation, and I have spoken in public os hundreds of stages over my years, they could read my speech with the understanding that they could omit profanity or other offensive language but that I would still say what I wanted to without censor. Otherwise they could find someone else. I have been booed several times but never left the stage before I was ready, I have challenged people who tried to disrupt me to one stage debates (never accepted), and have had some standing applause where it went on for a couple of minutes.

I keep a half gallon pitcher of water and one of sweet tea plus a few cans ofV-7 and a jug each of orange juice and apple juice (for my 50-50 juice cocktail for breakfast. My spare fridge in the garage is home to coke, Dr. Pepper root beer, and 7 Up.....and sarsaparilla. Lots of sarsaparilla, I also have two cans of coffee (one with caffeine and one without) and a half dozen varieties of tea. Bottled water is a staple, too. NO ONE LEAVES MY HOUSE DEHYDRATED! NO ONE!!

My wife and daughter went to Ireland some years ago and loved the place. Their only negative comment were about narrow roads and big trucks. My wife wanted to buy a small castle (Bunratty?) there, but it wasn't for sale.

Now you're just showing off. Once upon a time I was an English teacher, but this sent me scrambling for my dictionary and thesaurus (a very large extinct reptilian animal that was noted for its extremely large vocabulary.)

That's one of the reasons I left Mars for Arizona. I just don't like cold weather.

It can also tell your opponent EXACTLY where you are. Of course, the guy might have already figured that out by where he saw your flashlight.

Welcome back...and you'll get tomatoes when you deserve them. This poem didn't qualify as a salad starter by a long shot.

My wife carried a Charter Arms Undercover for years. My daughter favors a five shot Taurus lightweight .38. I don't recall the model, but she's has it it since before the Rodney King mess. My daughter-in-law likes, but doesn't carry on her person, a Ruger that I gave my son a few years ago. When I worked at gun stores in California we sold about 50% / 50% revolvers and semi-autos to our lady customers.

Simple answer: It is purpose-built to be the meanest, nastiest, and most indestructable killing machine we have. flown by people who have been taught how t get the most out of it. They are supported by experts at making it work to perfection. Used to be that the SPAD could make a similar claim, but it has finally been moved back down the ladder somewhat.

Garth, old son, I grew up with and have been immersed in, guns all my life. I pride myself on knowing as much as I do about them, but seldom a day passes when I don't learn something new and useful right here on this site. I've dropped almost of the magazines I used to subscribe to and the places I used to go to on the internet and some of the clubs I have belonger to, but SASS and the NRA are always there when I need them. Cherish the good you can find here almost instantly and avoid the crap you have shoved at you almost everywhere else. I dropped almost every publication I used to go to regularly and (aside from the link to TV I get from Amazon and seldom use) I don't have a TV contact.My life is calmer than it was before I started flushing these things.

About three years back I found a shotgun I wanted for $600.00. I had $200.00 on me and the salesman said they could put it on lay away. I hadn't heard the term used in forty years. I put it on layaway and paid it off a month later. Model 37 Ithaca Feather light 12 gauge in solid 95% condition...exactly like the first shot gun I ever bought back in 1958.

I don't really like coffee. I just use it as a medium to get sugar.....LOTS OF SUGAR....into my system. (Not true at all, but it sounded good.)

I've been in a lot of armored vehicles. I NEVER saw any that spacious and that clean. 'Twasn't like that in the Old Corps...nor the Army, either.

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