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    Sixgun Shorty......

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    That  brings to mind how many of our brothers and sisters have simply vanished.

     

    Daniel Night Eyes

    Cherokee Cathouse Kate

    Quail Gun

    Bean Bandit

    Calamity Jane from up in Canada

    and dozens more. 

     

    So many....so many.   :(

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    My family's mantras:

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    A sign on my wall:  Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.

     

    It  was given to me almost ten years ago when my wife died, so it's not a real family saying yet.  It is one I live by now.....and have almost all my life without it  being written down.

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    My family's mantras:

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    5 hours ago, DeaconKC said:

    First time is experience, second time is education, third time is stupidity.

     

    Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.

     

    Always bet on stupidity.

    The use it up one was one of ours, too.  I remember my Grandma using it a lot.

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    Garand Reloaders, I Have Questions

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    21 hours ago, Trailrider #896 said:

    The chambers of most M-1 Garand Rifles are slightly oversized to ease extraction of the fired case. Therefore the cases tend to expand, particularly toward the rear of the case. I have seen reduced diameter full length resizers advertised, but never had a problem with cases full length resized while still in the shell holder in an RCBS Model B Jr. single-stage reloading press. The sizing die was also RCBS. I never had a problem with cases resized this way chambering in an M-1 with a November 1961 barrel.  Note that M-2 Ball and M-2AP brass is slightly thicker than commercial brass, and that may help with excessive expansion. I never had to resize the bases clear back to the base. Others may have had different experiences.  

     

    While you said no loading data was needed, for those who do reload, one similar to military M-2 Ball, was 48.5gr. H4895 behind a 152gr lead core FMJ bullet. I have had no problem loading 48.0 gr IMR3031 behind a 150 gr.JSP Sierra Flat Base bullet. Because the standard M-1 Rifle barrel has only a gas port sized for similar powder, near the muzzle, powders slower-burning than IMR 4064 should not be used.

     

    I can assume NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE USE OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION!  SHOOTERS RELOADING FOR THE M-1 RIFLE SHOULD CONSULT LOADING MANUALS OF RECENT PUBLICATION.  Always have an M-1 Rifle checked by a gunsmith experienced in handling thereof...if there are any still around! Headspace should be checked using gages including NO-GO and FIELD. Checking with a GO gage is also a good idea, especially if the rifle has been rebarrelled or suspected of being rebarrelled. Check the date on the barrel compared with the serial number,

     

    "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! PING! (my @ss!) If you are worried about the Ping! then FIX BAYONETS! :o:P

     

    Important (impertinent) question: Why did the infantry command "Fix bayonets!" in the middle of a battle? Were they issuing broken ones? How were the soldiers supposed to fix them without tools, a forge, etc.? :rolleyes: Sorry. Couldn't resist.

    I  think that "PING" legend was originally said by someone who had NEVER been in a fire fight.  Too noisy to hear a "PING" in the first place and you are too busy to mess with it if you did  hear it.

     

    It's right up there with calling out "RELOADING".  I can drop an empty magazine and replace it before most people even react to something they may and / or may not hear during a fire fight.   And I don't think it's smart to say "Hey, Charlie, Just wanted you to know I can't defend myself for a few seconds" to someone who will kill you if he (or she...I was shot by a woman) can.

    My family's mantras:

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    You will get over this sometime.  Why not now?

    You'll never know if you can if you don't try.

    If something needs done and you can do it, DO IT!  Face the results later.

    Life is full of adventures waiting for you. Pick one and enjoy it, If it doesn't suit you, pick a new one tomorrow.

    Never start a fight, but never walk way from one... unless you can postpone it  

    If  you are wrong, apologize.  It's nothing to be ashamed of but shows good sense and proper upbringing.

     

    There are more, but it's time to read yours.  Maybe someone else can adopt one.  I can find a new on every so often.

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    PLAGUE TAKE IT!

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    1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

    Yea we have to put up with the aches and pains, oh well as long as they’re not too bad we can handle it! There’s people in wheelchairs and bedridden so we should count our blessings! Hang in there I hear it gets worse! Yikes!😳 

    You can't imagine how much worse  it can get.  It sneaks up on you until you wake up one morning with something new that adds to your catalog of grief in some new and major way.  I'm at the point where almost everything that still works HURTS!  and I'm very careful that I don't wreck or damage anything on my body that I may need or want later on.

     

    You'll reach a point where you realize that people say "You're looking good" but no one ever says "you're good looking" any more.  Still, every  day is a new adventure.

     

    BTW, my blood  type is AB+.....almost a universal donor.  What's yours Linn?

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    Free alias

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    Dixie Cupp

    Bowie Nyff

    Cary Owen

    Carny  Barker

    Dewey  Wannah

    Howie Duzzet

    Rue  d'Day

    Holden Ahn

    Dustin Shelves

    Doris Open

    Stew Potts

    Holly  Hawk

    Howdy Poddner

    Terry  Cloth

    Clyde Stale

    Stubby Leggs

     

    Woke up way early and couldn't go back to sleep.

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    Tiger Woods

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    You all want him pilloried and punished WITHOUT A TRIAL OR CONVICTION!

     

    You don't like him (Neither do I) so he should be punished?  Come on folks.  Would you want to be  judged the same way?

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    Asking for Prayers

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    You folks have my prayers, too.  

     

    Now, about the MRI:  I have a totally implanted pace maker about the size of  a .22LR cartridge(Medtronic Micra) that I had put in about seven years ago. Two weeks ago I had an MRI on the VA's dime because the VA didn't have the right kind and sent me a local hospital for the procedure.  The civilian hospital had a new one that would NOT cause any problems....except it's very noisy.  Like I would imagine would equal putting my head in a jet engine.

     

    Go back to the in-house cardiologists at the VA and talk to them, ask for details, and if necessary ask to talk to someone else in the chain of command.  Crowd them for an answer.   Could be that  it still wouldn't work with the  defibrillator, but it can't hurt to ask and demand an answer that  you can understand.

     

    Good luck and may God bless you both.

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    Tiger Woods

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    Uh....I've read this over several times and don't see anywhere that he had a trial, much less a conviction in this  incident.

     

    I'm glad you all aren't judging me for ANYTHING.    I  don't look  good wearing a noose.

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    Lotsa guns

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    13 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:


    In this case, I’m pretty sure the speaker was referring to our own Forty Rod in one of those early episodes in his military career! 😜

     

    He’d have been in his early twenties!

    26, maybe 27.

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    Lotsa guns

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    My Mom and those two senior officers are the only people whoever called me Tommy.  Everyone  else called, or still calls me Tom, Mister, or by my ranks and titles.

     

    My Dad was Tommy all his life

     

    One or two still call me "sir".

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    Lotsa guns

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    I may have miscounted, but I think that was a baker's dozen.  What was your count?

     

    (And I thought I carried a lot in Vietnam: 1911A1, Browning High Power, S&W Model 60, S&W model 10, .45 Colt SAA....that's five.... and a  M1A1 Thompson. We had a Remington 12 gauge, sometimes an M-60 on a post for a third man, and a 40mm grenade launcher in the Jeep.  We packed a few hand grenades....frag and smoke.... just in case.)  

     

    The CO and XO came out while we were loading up one day.  My  driver had a 1911A1, an M-14, an M-3A1 "grease gun" and a 10 inch Bowie knife.)  The XO said "Colonel, did you know that Tommy  is planning on being a hero?"

     

    "How do you figure that?"

     

    "Well, Sir, I reckon he's too heavy to run away, so he'll just have to stand and fight."

     

    I didn't think that was all that funny, but it got a lot of laughs.

     

    I never told them about Gerber Mk 1 and  M2 knives or the Fairbairn-Sykes I had all the time.

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    I wish this was false - Ignorant Spring Breakers

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    15 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

    Maybe it's just the sceptic in me, but I can't imagine that EVERYBODY she spoke to was that dumb. I've never trusted any of those "man on the street" type conversations to be accurate. I've always figured that they take the answers that they want and just show those.

    Excuse me,  but you mean skeptic.  Sceptic refers to toiletry....and is spelled without the first 😄 septic.

     

    Okay, I'm being a smart ass, but I ain't had my morning coffee yet.  (I'm about to rectify that right now!)

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