Forty Rod SASS 3935

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.

Amerenglish my dad called it...with regional dialects.

I never thought of that but it's a reasonable assumption. Thanks.

Are you about ready?

Wheeeee! I'm gonna go out there and find a decent wave to ride.

Depends upon your definition of "dramatic".

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?

That brings a smile to my face. Of course, some folks get the heebie-jeebies when I smile.

I really miss that rig. Got great mileage and grass to make it go is cheap

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.

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.

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.

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. ;(

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.

Sorry. I should have said "for third".

Thanks, Joe. I'm always grateful when someone recognizes my efforts.

Look around and you'll find lots of turret guns, mostly flintlock or percussion, and some cartridge "palm guns" come to mind.

Well, for once I agree with Alpo. This world is just crawling with weird people who don't do things I do the way I do. WEIRD!!!

That Henry is certifiably butt ugly. I would buy one in a minute if they were available and if they were affordable. 30 rounds of .44-40 would suit me just fine.

Oh, no! I couldn't do that. In a pig's a$$ I couldn't! Hell, I'm old enough I just don't give a damn if I offend someone. I've done before, will do it again. It doesn't embarrass me but I've had some other folks that were And I've been known to pay for someone's coffee or meal, or whatever "just because".

My kids are always worried about me having enough food, but when they drop in and check the fridges, cupboards and pantry they are always amazed that I'M NOT PREPARED TO STARVE.....OR EVEN MISS MEAL. I might run out of some perishables (milk, some fresh veggies, etc.) if to disaster goes on long enough. I'm more likely to run out of something stupid like face tissues or paper towels.

Of all my dogs, pedigreed and curs, only one was a failure. He was a three year old dachshund and we were his fifth family. He was an "Army dog" and when someone got transferred he went back to the shelter. He never bonded with anyone. We had a seven month old baby and the dog never hurt him but made a lot of trouble. The final straw was when we got up one morning a found he'd gotten into our son's playpen over night and crapped all over it. I took him down to the Canine Center and told them what happened. The OIC was a Captain who was a friend and I told him I really didn't want the dog put down. He took him back to the kennel where the guard dogs were kept and got him checked out by the vet and put in a training pen. A month or so later I ran into the man I had given him to and asked about the dog. He told me that the dog had "melded right in." He slept in his own area but had the run of the place during the day. When they went to care for the other dogs this little critter ran ahead, checked the other dogs out, then went to the next and the next pen. He spent the day in the office or the yard and became a "caretaker and guardian" of the entire K-9 facility. He was "one of the pack" and found a home.

That's exactly why I bought this one.

That was a rude and naughty thing to do to that last pan.......but it might be buffed out and saved. Hey, Alpo, give it a try.

The U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs did the same thing with Amerindian kids up until about 1975: took them out of their homes, put them in schools where they were forbidden from speaking their native tongue and couldn't even use their native cultural things because it wasn't "convenient" for the bureaucrats running it. It was, in my mind, a criminal a racial attack by our own government to destroy the American Indian cultures.