Forty Rod SASS 3935

"Sparked by tabloid reports". Imagine that! And people don't understand why I don'r have a TV link any more, don't subscribe to anything (since GUNS Magazine went digital - got the last copy today) except Consumer reports, the Hillsdale College news letter and American Rifleman.

I disagree. In my years in uniform I heard them called many things, mostly not to be used in polite company, but they were usually called Brownings or BARs...as if JMB never made anything else

When we bought this house the people had owned two antique stores in Prescott. When the man died the wife put everything in the shop out back....and a lot of stuff hung on nails in the house. One of his treasures was a complete belt driven machine shop. There was a book with it that told how to set it up and run it. I had seen a lot the belt machinery growing up but this book started by stating that these could be powered by electric motors, steam engines, internal combustion engines, wind mills, water wheels, and animal power. Anything that could take any power and run it through the right series of wheels, cogs, gears, etc.

Nice looking. My 150 square feet of peg board, 56 square feet of storage shelving, 600 square feet of converted "el-cheepo" book shelves, about a hundred square feet of stuff hanging on nails and wall hooks or stacked in corners, 30 surface square feet of hard top, two large drawers, 18 smaller drawers, and three 30" x20" cabinets, 21 square foot converted quilting table with five large folding tables alongside, will have to do...for the main room. There is an adjoining room the same size with bulk storage, an overhead storage area of 200 square feet (but only two feet high and eight feeet up the wall) three tables for power tools, and a twelve foot wide by 10 foot high wall for lumber storage. There is a 32 square foot :office" with small shelves and a roll away three shelf 6 foot high cargo cart, an adjoining bath room with a shower, water heater, wash basin, and a toilet. In an "alcove between the two large bays is a large shop sink. I'm working on a cooling system for summer, but the place came with a 240 volt wall heater for cooler days. If I took everything out of the two large bays and did some backing and filling I could get fourteen mid-size sedans in there. Not one tiny bit of it looks as a nice as the shop in the opening message, but it suits me just fine......if I could just remember where I put everything.....anything

Been there, Done that, ain't ever going back.

Such a a great big world and such tiny little legs.

I hate to break it to you like this Jack, but Finnegan isn't a Rhodesian name. Erin go Bragh

So very many "reporters" sadly don't "know any better" about anything. That makes it gratifying when some some do.

DOD - Department of Defense TV - television SMG- submachine gun VA - Veterans Administration VFW - Veterans of Foreign Wars SAA - Single Action Army NP - Nickel plated USA ACP MP - Military Police (Military Police but Shore Patrol is Shore Patrol S&W PX - Post Exchange KP - Kitchen Police TDY - Temporary Duty TAD _ Marine version of TDY FBI, CIA, DoD, DOJ and a thousand other money pits SOS - not the emergency "help me" code but the breakfast delight in all the mess halls I've ever visited SPAM - stands for SH-- POSING AS MEAT POS _ y'all know what the stands for Klicks - a unit of measurement DOT -Department of Transportation ADOT _ Arizona's DOT I'm partial to KMA ("keep me advised"...or so one 2LT was told). There are certainly more.

Rephrase the title": what movies was he killed in .

I know! And I have no idea how I ever found time for a job before I retired. I have about six or seven projects underway right now and at least that many in the bull pen.

1. The Cowboys 2. Sands of Iwo Jima 3. The Fighting Seabees 4. The Alamo What else?

careful. If we make too much of it someone will turn it into a holiday with paid time off.

A guy on TV explaining a crime kept referriing to a nine hundred eleven phone call....and he gets paid a lot to show his stupidity and the stupidity of whoever hires him.

See! There's another one. 'Taint nuthin' new.

I know a number of Marines who were still using M3A1 "grease guns" that were on board gear in AMTRACS as late as Vietnam. I personally had an M-1928 Thompson and an M-1A1 Tommy gun that went with me on choppers and trucks in 'Nam. I also carried M-1 and M-2 carbines from time to time. I have see two different pics (both of US tankers in North Africa WWII) with Tommy gus with 100round drums and some with 50 rounders were still common in 'Nam. "Second hand" submachine guns were common there, too: Russian (and Chinese, Romanian, East German, and Czech copies of) Russian PPSh 41 and 43 guns, AKs, Swedish Carl Gustav and French MAT-49s, and many others were, while not as common, were also found. Everybody wanted a "squirt gun" if they could get one and pistols of every kind and caliber were seen daily.

Atta boy, Smoky. They should donate more ice cream to you as payment for the endorsement. ;D

Get me an address and I'll send him a box or two of new pens so he can try again..

My favorite phrase anymore is "I want to see your supervisor. If that person doesn't satisfy me I tell them the same thing. If I get to the top of that ladder I ask for the corporate customer service rep's number. I'm way to hell and gone past the age where I take things without speaking out....and I have few other hobbies.

Yes I would. At 74 you're just a snot-nose kid and boys and girls your age need to be carded just to annoy you so you know what's coming in the next ten years. And wipe that smile of your face

They ended up in places like Japan and China, Scotland and so on, then they all teamed up and flew, then divided up the herd.

That's it. About a year before my wife passed I bought two complete services for eight. I bought one set each of 24 glass drinking glasses in two sizes. I have a few dozen mixed pieces of forks, spoons, etc, but haven't matched them up....yet. More to come. Teflon cookware is going next.

Too pricey.

Not hard to believe by people who still hunt with much older guns and shoot CAS for fun, or collect old guns just for fun. Almost all of my collection are shootable, a few are no longer functional mechanically, and ammo simply isn't available for some. I have no doubt that some of the CW and Indian War artillery would still do a lot of damage if handled properly.

I used real people and real names several times in each of my books, sometimes giving them totally different persons, personalities, and different ages, occupations, and skills. I created new and realistic people, animals, etc, but used a lot os actual things as well. I also used actual places, landmarks, and other actual items. I even, after careful research, threw in actual weather, engineering feats, and I learned a bunch of foreign words and dialects (written phonetically). I avoided too much in the way of non-essential details. For instance I might have noted a man carrying a certain weapon, but unless it moved the story along I didn't get into makes, models, calibers, decorations, clothing, etc. It usually doesn't add much to the story and can be distracting and even annoying. You can bet, though, that if I wrote that it rained heavily at noon on a certain date and in a certain place that it did rain then and there. And I spent a LOT OF TIMe on personalities, often based on real people that I knew of had known.....or been related to.