Forty Rod SASS 3935

My mother had an uncle born and raised in Italy. He was about 30 when he came over here and became a citizen. He Americanized his name and carried his citizenship papers in an oil cloth wallet. At the drop of a hat he's carefully bring those out ans show them to whoever was there with the proud statement "My name is Joe C------. and I am an American citizen!" His English was almost as good as people who were born here and I never saw him without a coat, vest and necktie, and he always wore a hat to town. Dapper little old man. He was 96 when he died and he was buried with a 48 star flag on his chest. Uncle Joe was an American!

I have two little pocket pistols that I picked up in trades at two different times and places. They don't fit my collection but somehow I just can't let them go. Both are .32 S&W. The first is anH&R Young America Bulldog 5 shooter with a 2" barrel, nickel plated, tiny little POS. It can be fired SA or DA. I can only get 1-1/2 fingers on the grip and the trigger guard only allows the very tip of my finger inside. I have to remove the cylinder to load it or dump the empties. It's really accurate, too, reliably getting 9"-11" groups at 10 feet. The second gun is an Iver Johnson break top (S&W style with auto ejection and all that) "hammerless" DA only, blued piece. I can get two whole fingers on the grip and the trigger guard is larger, but so close to the grip that I have to get my trigger finger all the way in to the second knuckle. This is an honest 80% gun with only some "bedside stand" wear. If I can get a decent grip on it the little booger will keep all 5 shots in a three inch circle at 10 feet. They are both kind of fun to take to the range just to see the reactions of guys with 2 or 3 grand fully equipped shooting machines. I also have a Hammond Bulldog "derringer" as big as a school bus (and nearly as heavy) single shot monster that doesn't work, but it's unique, so I keep it.

Not even close.

Of course they are endangered. It's been years since a wild kangaroo was seen anywhere in California. Kind of like the ban on Ivory. ALL ivory: African, Indian, Vietnamese, Pakistani, etc....even on places where they detusk the animals that are domesticated and / or dangerous nuisances and burn it! Tyler (of T-Grip fame) used t sell something called Ivorex (Brand name before everyone else started using it). It was a GE insulation material (paper or linen micarta?) that aged like ivory, had grain like ivory, had the same texture as ivory. It came in 3 pieces per gun so you could custom fit it to your gun. I bought two sets and spent a lot of evenings in the barracks fitting them perfectly. I wore them to a gun show in Pomona (when it wasn't a capital offense to even know what a gun was) and was accosted by a state a---ho-- who was goin to confiscate them because '"ivory is illegal". After showing him the sales slip and instruction sheet, Polaroid pictures of the stages of fitting them, and a batch of other stuff I told him to get his supervisor over there. He called on the Pomona PD to arrest me. I worked in a local gun store and knew about one of every six of seven cops in a fifty mile radius. I lucked out and one of the five LEOs that showed up knew me. They talked to the puke and after a few minutes I was free. The next Monday I called this jerk's office and reported it along with a list of witnesses. I never heard back, but I never saw that guy again over the next 29 years. I'd love to be able to get that material again. I had some micarta grips made a few years ago, but it isn't the same stuff anymore.

When I worked in Yellowstone one summer they called us Pearl Divers.

Yeah, I don't like cilantro either...nor some other foreign foods that just don't work well with my taste buds.

They said rt he same thing about Whiskey Jacks in southern California.....but I have (had?) pictures of them in my yard in Ontario and in Curly Cole's yard in Rancho Cucamonga about 1995.

"Missed it by thaaaat much"! Maxwell Smart

That's a nce looking iron. I'll give you a hundred bucks for it.

I'd like to get four more to replace 35 years of clumsiness. They have to unchipped., unbroken, or stained. Let me know what you have and what it will cost me. Thanks. 4T

Alpo, I always figured you were full of it. Thanks for clarifying that for me.

I almost always go armed. Some places I have to leave my gun in the car: VA hospital, local police station (but I can carry in the sheriff's offices, polling places, schools if posted, etc.. I usually have three guns in my car, one on my side, one in the glove box and one in the "secret space" behind the info screen on the dash. Sometime a few more. I was stopped by a PVPD officer and got my license and CCW permit out (I don't want any surprises.) He asked if was carrying a gun in the car. I said "a few." He asked me if I was afraid of something and I told hem "only rust and left wing politicians." He grinned and said he was, too and wished me a nice day. I've run into him at various events since then and we are sort of friends now.

When I worked at McDonnell Douglas I met a dozen or so guys who were volunteering to restore that little darlin'. They had to make a lot of parts from scratch because much of the paperwork had vanished over the years and the actual parts had "departed" too.

Eat it. Eat it with Mexican food, Italian, hamburgers, steak, almost anything but ice cream and apple pie. Put it on the food before or after you cook it or use it as as side dish. Start our with a teaspoon full and go from there. Try different kinds as you go. It beats most other relishes hands down. Make your own or if you're lazy or timid Herdez brand is good. Now if I could just find some mellow Arkansas Chowchow and some Okinawan kimchi......!

So are F-4 Phantom II jets. Kerosene burners, but one of best combat planes of its era. They pulled my fat out of the fire twice in 'Nam. Also liked A-4s, LOCH choppers, Hueys of any configuration, and C-123 Providers too..

hoity toity Polaroid cameras "Number please" zone codes for mail, like Salt Lake City 314 Utah (My uncle Paul's zone or I wouldn't remember it.) party lines (and four or five digit phone numbers) Ice deliveries for the ice box in the basement.

I just watched War of the Worlds again and had forgotten that the yb-49 was a jet powered prototype version of a yb-39 prop driven wing. It's still a good movie after all these years.

Now we're cooking. Keep 'em coming.

Yep! Never could spell....and a dyslexic keyboard hasn't helped at all. Does "secede" fit your pistol better?

Goblins exist.....and cause all manner of problems. There's a bounty on them. Catch one and call the U. S. Army Air Force.

Who GABRA what California does or thinks. I lived there for almost 40 years and watched the entire state go insane....and now most of the rest of the nation caters to their every ridiculous idea. They keep threatening to succeed from theUSA. I wish they would stop babbling about it an go ahead and get on with it. NOOOO! Really?

I didn't know that ostriches could dumple.

Send in the Marines. With an island that small a Lance Corporal in a one man rubber life raft armed with a P-38 can opener should be sufficient. Make the landing, raise the flag, and wait for Japan to try and claim it. Send the U. S. S. Ronald Reagan along to shoo the Chinese away.

My dog (I'm told by a lady friend) is a Canis familiaris vericutis. Her dog is a Canis familiaris hirsutus . She.also has cat, a Filidae Felis cattus. My daughter has soft-shelled turtle called a Trionyx aquatius Californicis miniaturis. Whatchoo got? Imaginations, my children, imaginations.

"Cooling of period"! Like I'm going to spend a grand or so to buy a gun so I can shoot someone right away. That's one of the stupidest, of a myriad of stupid thing that have come up to infringe on our rights, I have ever heard. If I want someone dead (or just hurt badly), I have a house and work shop full of "deadly weapons".