Forty Rod SASS 3935
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I don't have much...no tree, no lights, no doodads at all..
I have a 1950 era wind-up toy train with some small decorations in the cars on the mantle above where we would have a fireplace (if we had a fire place) and some cards against the wall behind that. There are a few other cards on the table below where the TV resides. I also have an antique Santa outside by the door on a rack of shelves where packages are supposed to be left and seldom are.
That's all.
Have a vert merry Christmas.
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Semper fi, Marine. You done good.
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I truly don't have an answer to that. I wish I did.
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I have never had either one but am considering them for my yard now. I have some questions:
1. Where is the best place to put either one? Under trees, in the sun, in shady places, etc.
2. Should they be near each other or, if not, how far apart is best?
3. I need to know how to clean them, how, and how often?
4. How do I keep unwanted critters away from them?
5. Will hanging feeders stand up the weather or should I find (or make) one that is on a post?
6. What is the best nectar for hummers?
7. What plants should I put out and where, for the bath and feeder?
8. What should I avoid in each case?
9. Any other help will be appreciated.
When my wife was still alive and we lived in SoCal we had humming birds, butterflies, and those big, black, lazy bees that just wander around all over the place. We had lantana (won't grow here), roses, floribunda, and a few other flowering plants, and a couple of mint bushes. We also had preying mantises (manti?) in the roses a lot, and I bought lady bugs every spring. Shawna took care of that, but I never paid much attention.....and here I am, looking to adopt some pretty critters for my yard.
I also bought a bat house and am looking for a place to put it. They will, I am told, keep almost all flying bugs out of the yard. Does that include butterflies, bees, and lady bugs?
BTW, I have arranged for a couple of tarantulas in the spring. They eat black widows, fiddle backs, and a plethora of other evil nasties in the yard. I had two that came with the house but they never came back for a third year. They are the only arachnids that I can tolerate, and I have even gotten to the point to where I can play with the pair at the local library.
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On 12/17/2025 at 10:35 AM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
20 seconds and thought he was a moron.
I stopped watching about that time, too. That jackass had no idea what muzzle control is all about. He kept on waving that piece around like it didn't matter. Guys like that give me a goosey feeling just watching them.
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20 hours ago, El Sobrante Kid said:
Have you checked on ebay?
Yeah. Nothing there that I could find.
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The laws need to be changed.
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18 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:
I have a good sized box of various buckles with my leatherworking gear - not the same maker, but if you show a picture, I may well have something like what you want.
Thanks, but it has to be one of Will's very unique buckles.
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12 gauge loaded with #4 shot would do it close in. Above that you get a chance to prove your rifle skills.
I still think that the officers of every company that makes drones and every one who uses them to
invade our privacy should have their home and business address published along with their home phone numbers. We could use their own products to annoy them out of the sky and out of business.
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Used to get those kinds of winds in the Pacific when I lived in there.
"Typhoon Condition 1. Surf's up!!!"
Ever seen a B-52 almost on it's side? Steel reinforced hangers looking like they had been bombed? Huge vehicles blown a hundred feet off the road?
.....and little Okinawan homes made of wood and paper with a ton of tile for roofs, patched and back in living condition in a day or less.
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On 12/7/2025 at 8:30 PM, Cactus Jack Calder said:
Dunn Rowvyn
Dunn Werken
Dunn Nutten
I had some inspiration from local places and 40 Rod’s “Dunn Tockin”. There is a local gift/junk store named Dunrovin, it took me many years to realize what the owner was saying when he named the store.
An unrelated local farm is named Dunwerkin, that is what finally kick my brain into gear.The Dunn Nutten was my idea after the inspiration.
CJ
Some friends of the family retired on Vashon Island up if the Puget Sound back in the 1950s or '60s. They named their retirement home Dunroven.
I hadn't thought of that for sixty years. Thanks.
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5 hours ago, Texas Joker said:
A full auto calico will eat a cinder block up.
I don't think the .22 came in select fire or full auto only, but the 9mm did and it was faster than you could imagine.
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
My alter ego!
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On 12/17/2025 at 4:06 PM, Chantry said:
If you don't have it, you may never need it again.
There are stories from Iraq of US soldiers taking hits from 7.62 x 39 rounds that was stopped by the body armor the US soldier was wearing. Rifle rated body armor is much more available and issued to troops.
There was also a battle in Afghanistan where US troops at an outpost were taken under fire by Taliban and could not return fire with individual weapons because the Taliban were out of range.
And I'm no fan the of the "latest & greatest" equipment race. I think we could have improved things significantly without the fancy new caliber and it's related weapons and all of the money it's going to cost.
Just my point!
What are the odds that the people of today will face body armor on the street.? And at the closer ranges a head shot will generally defeat body armor.
And the Taliban aren't going to be out of range in most neighborhoods, and if they are they will be met before they get far and met by entire neighborhoods all around the town that are armed with short range weapons, and in Arizona that's a death sentence to the bad guys.
Finally, I can walk into almost every shop around here that sells ammo will have something to fit the fit guns I already have, even a few that sell stuff like .45-60, .30-40 Krag, and other "bastard and lost" calibers.
Finally, this is a retirement community. Not everyone, but a large percentage of the population are veterans, and I will guess that about 15-20 % of the adults that you see every day are armed.
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I just went to buy a new round buckle from him and they are no longer available. I already have a pair of oval buckles, a rectangular one with clipped corners, and I believe there was a square one with clipped corners.
Any suggestions as to where I might find them?
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6 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
dial mechanisms are probably more expensive to manufacture
So what, they going to raise the cost of cars to new heights of impossible? A new car already costs a as much as I paid for my first house. They could lower the price if they would stop adding useless crap to every car they make. My 2018 Impala has at least fifty things included that I never use and likely never will.
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6 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:
I have one, but haven't really played with it much yet! Easy to carry a bunch of ammo!
I don't reckon it's for sale?
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As a veteran of both the Army and the Marine Corps with two all expense-paid visits to sunny southernl Vietnam, and 80 years as gun nut I have to ask seriously:
HOW MANY TIMES WILL ANY OF YOU FIND YOURSELF IN A SITUATION WHERE YOU NEED THE LONG RANGE ACCURACY, PENETRATION, AND ALL THE REST OF THESE VARIOUS CALIBERS?
Be honest. Target and recreational shooters may find a benefit, or believe it's a true benefit, but the average hunter, home defender, carry for self protection, and weekend can and paper target killer has no real need for these new properties. Most LEOS will never have a need for most of it, and a military gun lovers can get their rocks off a lot less expensively with a similar weapon in a standard caliber.
I've taken deer and elk with a .30-06, a .30-30.and a .35 Remington. The .35 also took a black bear, a pronghorn, three javelinas, and a mess of coyotes. The -06 did a good job on all those critters plus a moose. So did the Dirty Thirty (except no moose.) and it took down an angus bull who was looking for a fight.
It's your money and I won't spend yours if you don't spend mine, but I do get tired of having it stuck in my face at every turn...and stop putting down my 20th (and a few 19th) Century beauties which still do the job.
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17 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
Albatross is was I read. Could be any seabird though. Oh goony birds are Albatross, ahah.
Gooney birds are much larger, made of aluminum, and have two engines.
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I owned a Calico M-100 .22LR with 50 and 100 round wind up mags. Great gun to fiddle around with and modify.
There was a 9mm version, too.
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I has just occurred to me WHY I like this guy and the guns he shows us: these are from a time when people actually created new kinds of firearms and new ways to make them....not like today when I get sick and tired of 1911 and Glock copies or derivatives with "better" this and that features that are almost universally cosmetic. Seldom have I seen something really new offered and certainly not on nor in many arms publications. Materials change and improve, but designs rarely do.
Some progress has been made in gun weight and the performance of ammo, although there are hundreds of kinds of ammo that produce very little improvement over existing kinds proven in the field over the years at that.
Accessories are also abundant, and so many are performance duplicates of things that have been around for years that it simply bores me to tears.
Almost every gun I own is a design from the mid 19th century to about the mid 20th. Colt single actions, some Colt and S&W type DA revolvers that have survived, double barrel and pump action shotguns, lever action and some semi-auto rifles, and a few variations of J. M. Browning's semi-auto pistols (aka 1911s and derivatives), and a wonderful Colt Pre-Woodsman pistol that belonged to Dad.
I have owned a few rifles with scope, but no more...yet, Had one with a bipod, and one with a pickininny rail, a couple of red dot sights, and two semi-auto pistols with three dot Novak tritium sights. No one alive can convince me that I am under-gunned in any imaginable scenario. That I am coming up on 84 years old, alive and with few scars, is proof enough for me.
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Rye, that's a "sweetheart trade".
Merry Christmas old son. You done good.
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3 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
I meant your trains. I figure that you didn't have electricity back then.
Oh, hell no. I just pushed them around and made choo-choo sounds and had a tin whistle for the ones on the engines.
You probably remember those days. You know, before bicycles had wheels.
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8 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
They actually ran on steam back then didn't they?
The real ones mostly did. Some beautiful streamliners were diesel, but some passenger trains still ran on steam. Some of them were gorgeous trains too, but a lot were puling steel monsters.......that I still remember.
There were conversions where coal fired engine were changed over to burn oil.
A lot of freight trains ran on steam until the early 1990s. I love Big Boys, Challengers, Burlingtons, Paciifics, and almost all other steam locos, even little "tea kettle" switchers a yard goats. A lumber company in Oregon still had Climaxes and Shays running almost into the '70s
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Will Ghormley belt buckles
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Thanks, Mongo, but that isn't even close.