Forty Rod SASS 3935
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I would support a Purple Heart for each of them based on the fact that they were on active duty and shot by an aggressor for the simple reason that were under arms and in uniform for whatever reason.
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9 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
And your saber! A REAL horseman can control his faithful steed in battle with his feet and knees. (says the guy who's been on a horse twice in his life
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If I have two to four handguns and a repeating rifle I need a saber like I need the mumps.
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9 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Not when you’re on horseback, I need my right hand for the reins! 😂
Both you and your mount need more training.
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I remember my parents doing this with egg shells but they stopped drinking coffee well before I was old enough to use it. I never gave it another thought until now.
Guess it's time to try it again.
Thanks, Rye.
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Just checked out Scarecrow and Mrs. King (I'm going back over some old TV series to see if they are anything worth watching.) and remember loving Kate Jackson way back when she was Danko's woman in The Rookies.
Not startlingly beautiful, she had a "presence" about her that simply grabbed me and reeled me in. It still does.
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A man with two guns is bound to carry one in each hand. I do...sometimes.
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How about giving thanks every day to your God, family and friends and all who make our lives better, no matter who you or they are nor where you live.
I do, but "our" holiday is pretty much an American celebration. That doesn't mean that others can't use it as well...or create their own.
Be thankful for what you have, and if appropriate, for what you don't have, as well.
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23 hours ago, Trailrider #896 said:
RIP Sarah Bekstrom.
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(I don't know what would be appropriate, but t. She died in the defense of us all, and IMHO is a combat casualty! Sec of War Hegseth and CINC Trump, please consider this.)
Why should they be awarded anything but a Purple Heart?
Yes, it is a terrible thing to suffer, be they a victim, family, or friend, or simply an acquaintance, but being a victim is not necessarily a heroic act. The purple heart is to honor those who have been wounded or killed in a combat action. This is appropriate for sure but, not to belittle their sacrifice, they have been so honored and "deserve", nothing more.
To make them "special" demeans and dishonors those many who have suffered for our country in the two and a half centuries past, and received nothing for their injuries, many times they got no recognition whatsoever.
These two soldiers served their county men and women honorably and should certainly be recognized and respected for their sacrifice.
May God take them under his care and their families be proud of them, but please don't downplay the honors that so many others deserve as well...and may never be recognized nor honored except by unwritten histories and legends
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6 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Because we don't know that you have to sign in.
Because almost everyone else can see them.
Because we think people will enjoy it, but we can't also find it on YouTube, so post the Instagram link anyway.
I used to spend half an hour or more trying to find on YouTube something I had seen on FB. Finally decided that my attempts to placate the people who made the choice to ignore a source of both entertainment and information. So now, if I can't find it on YouTube in about 5 minutes, I go ahead and post the FB or Instagram. There's only so far I'll go to cater to someone else's irrational whims.
Irrational, my a$$!. Because I consider it a total disregard of my willingness to ignore it.
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9 hours ago, Windy City Kid said:
As god as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly
The funniest sentence ever on TV, but it had to be in context, so you have to watch the video for about a minute before it was said.
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My wife and I eloped. Her dad hated me but my folks loved her. We went to her place to pick up some of her things and he wouldn't let me in the house. In stead he called me all sorts of names and then threatened to get his gun a shoot me.
I told him to get the gun and I'd give him the first shot and then I'd shoot him dead.
He went back in the house and I waited for him with my pistol in my hand. He never came back out, but she did after a few minutes and we headed up to my parents' house a half hour away. They had been called by her dad and my folks took it well.
Dad helped me get some of my things and when I back in to get her, Mom told me that her dad had slapped her a couple of times.
I went to the phone and called him with my parents and my new wife listening. It told him I thought he was a coward for slapping a girl around and that he was free to do whatever he wanted to his daughter but that he ever laid a hand on my wife again I'd kill him. Dad looked at me and told me he'd stand with me if it came to that.
A couple of days later her dad called her when I was at work and apologized to her.
Ten months later I went to Okinawa and he went by every day to make sure she had food for herself and our new son and took care of her until she joined me. He also took care of her and our two kids while I was in Vietnam. He turned out to be a pretty decent father-in-law.
Years later he told me that he wanted to apologize to me and said that the only reason he didn't give a hard time was because no one had ever stood up to him before...and he believed me.
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Why do so many of you post things where I have to sign on to see them.
I won't add anything to my already annoying list of BS sites that will put my name on another site to avoid.
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On 11/26/2025 at 10:42 AM, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said:
I already do...about five or six times a day.
Now, if only they had OFF buttons in restaurants, cafes, grocery stores, most public areas in outside areas, gas stations, waiting rooms, and all other places where you have the music forced on you by people who have absolutely NO proof that anyone wants to hear that BS "entertainment", I would have one less thing to bitch about
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Haven't seen it in awhile. I'll see if my library has a DVD and check it out. This evening I'll be watching The Ghost Army and tomorrow is Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea, Second Season.
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14 minutes ago, DeaconKC said:
The Carcano is a fine rifle. Most models had excellent, easy to use sights. However, the bore diameter is a few thousandths larger then standard 6.5s, so you have to be picky on ammo. With good ammo, it will shoot with any other surplus, iron sighted rifle.
Mostly right. Like anything else there were exceptions.
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Uh...just out of curiosity, do these things require all of the State, Federal and other governments paper work, background checks, waiting periods, etc. or are the cops and other government pukes breaking all the laws that they are pretending to uphold to legally transfer ownership of these horribly deadly weapons.....or is there a handy loophole that regular citizens don't have the right to?
I'd like to see someone investigated over this and, if laws are being broken by the various agencies of individuals, someone goes to jail.
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165 guns (some I'd like for my meager collection) turned in, out of a city with how many million people? I'd venture a guess that the poorest street gang in NYC has many times more guns than that just laying around......and the politicians are telling an ignorant public what a big success it was.
What success I see here is the fact that the lefty anti-everything I believe in fools are so stupid as to believe this hogwash, and are actually bragging about it to the public.
This is a proof that this thing is now, always has been, and will always be a totally embarrassing failure.
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On 11/23/2025 at 12:18 PM, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:
Fighting Knives:
Confederate Bowie - upper left.
Fairbairn-Sykes - upper right
Kukri - middle bottom
Kabar USN MK2 - to the right of the Kukri
The rest are bayonets and a Colonial jack knife
Forty - I don't know if you remember Dakota Hipshot. This was his WWII knife when he was a landing craft operator in the Pacific. He knew I had a few bayonets and he gave this to me. It is next to the Kukri in the photo above.
I don't remember him. Sorry.
That's one of the better knives for rugged all around use. There were some that had longer blades and that just threw the balance off. Mine has a 7" that I have found to be perfect for me. It seems that 7" is right for a fixed blade knife and a 5" folder works best...again, for me. Your milage may vary.
I'm looking for a 5" lever lock (aka side lock) switchblade with stag scales to replace one that simply vanished about a year ago. I had carried that knife for close to 40 years and one day it was gone. I have a 2 1/2" Hubertus that is a pretty good knife but it just doesn't fit my needs.
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5 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
I’ll bet some of these same things were said of the automobile.
Automobiles are usually operating in two roughly horizontal dimensions. My Impala, like many other vehicles, has more blind spots than a WWII tank, and now we're talking about adding a roof and floor to block out seeing up and down. Add in the obvious capability to move back, forward, up and down, spin in very small areas and you have multiplied the hazards by many, many more. Un-enclosed passenger spaces with wind, rain, snow, hail, sleet, wind-propelled debris, birds, bird poop, and bugs up the wazoo will be added to sun, both direct and reflected, and will blind operators and passengers alike. Having a lot of experience in airborne vehicles of many kinds reminds me of the noise that most of them generate, blocking important sounds and damaging the ability to hear again ever! Consider, too, the near-impossibility of directional signage, warning lights, headlights, turn signals, and the addition of advertising, business identification, and decorative paint jobs. These vehicles will, of course, require many new and obtrusive instruments to interfere with your necessary attention
Imagine now, if you will, crowded roads and streets and highways with tourists, workers coming and going, people simply shopping in a "senior citizens day", or the days before any major holiday.....or a major sporting event.
There, my friends, is my view of HELL!
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3 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
Many fuel injected cars have a residual check valve in the fuel system that maintains pressure on the fuel line when the engine is shut off. This allows the injectors to instantly supply the proper fuel charge at startup.
The residual check valve on my ‘97 Chevy dually, (Ol’ Green) is bad. I know that it’s bad, so I turn the ignition on and wait a few seconds to allow the line pressure to build. So long as I do that, the truck starts almost instantly. If I forget and crank it right away, it sometimes takes a few seconds for it to start.
I would fix it, but it requires either dropping the fuel tank or lifting the bed off the truck to replace the fuel pump. When I get healthy, I’ll get it changed out, but in the meantime I’ll remember to wait a few seconds.
I'll take the front and you take the back and we can have the bed off in a short time, say two weeks.
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In a world where the majority of drivers don't drive all that well in two dimensions we want to add a third dimension?
Sounds like a recipe for a lot of deaths and injuries.....and a lot of lawyers making fortune upon fortune.
This rates right up there with self-driving cars. I have too much experience with computer failure to risk either one.
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I got a call about two hours ago from the wife of some friends who have invited me for dinner. I confirmed that I would be there and asked if I could bring anything. She said "just yourself."
I told her that would be easy because I never go anywhere without myself.
Her husband just called to ask what I had said to her. Seems that she is still laughing about that and he was called on to make his own supper.
I didn't think it was all that funny.
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My daughter and her husband never missed an episode of Dr. Who for a lot of years.
I watched about 1/2 of the first episode and have not seen another second of it since.
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Sounds like a pretty fair heirloom. Cherish it.
Two W. Va. National Guardsmen shot in DC
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True in both cases. I should have clarified my statement. I said "I would support" the medal but could have clarified that it doesn't qualify under the law as it now stands unless, as you pointed out, POTUS makes the decision to award them anyway.