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  1. Save the dill pickle juice to make dill pickle chip dip.  Can't buy it since 1998 or so, so I make my own.  Just add one pureed pickle slice and juice to your taste to sour cream and let it sit for a day or two, then dive on in.

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  2. On 10/11/2024 at 3:21 PM, Seminole Sam said:

    You are still "Volunteer Indef".  When you retire your retired ID will be set to expire the day you turn 65.  This is because your medical category changes from "Tricare Prime/select" to "Tricare for life".  Basically because you have to start paying for Medicare.  My retired ID card now just says "Retired" and will not change again.

    ht boat sailed almost two decades ago.  :o

  3. Well, it looks like my good fortune is still working.  I got a message from the one of the medical staff at the VA (A shooter and wife of a shooter, and mother of three other shooters...and not a cowboy in the lot) and was sent to a jewelry shop three blocks from my home.

     

    Their engraver does laser work, hand engraving, three kinds of power engraving, and some inlay work.  Very reasonably priced and the work he's done that I got to see is wonderful.

     

    I'll take a test piece in this week and give you report.

     

    Thank for all the tips

     

    BTW, it's Afterglow Jewelers on Florentine jut around the corner north of Fry's.  Stop by and we can get a cup of coffee just down the road.

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  4. 7 hours ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said:

    My Tacoma is a sharp looking truck but I gotta admit that the style of Chevy you got 

    is as sharp as nails.

     

    And trucks are always one of the best threads for the Saloon.

    Congratulations on a beauty.

     

    ..........Widder

     

    The day I sold my Tacoma I went home, had lunch and started, to kick myself.  I miss that truck and now I cant' find an affordable one anywhere.  Been seven years and I have an Impala that's a great sedan but I can't haul anything but people and groceries and other light loads.

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  5. 8 hours ago, Dr. Zook said:

    that is true Sir:

     

    16-inch/50-caliber Mark 7
    The main gun of the Iowa-class battleships, this gun was 50 calibers long, with a barrel length of 66.7 ft (20.3 m). It weighed 239,000 lb (108 t) without the breech and 267,900 lb (121.5 t) with the breech. The gun fired projectiles weighing from 1,900 to 2,700 lb (860 to 1,220 kg). The muzzle velocity for armor-piercing projectiles was 2,500 ft/s (760 m/s) with a range of up to 24 mi (39 km).
     
    but did anyone know about these USN Main gun design prototype:
    18-inch/48-caliber Mark 1
    Designed in 1920, this gun was designed to fire a 2,900 lb (1,315 kg) AP shell at a muzzle velocity of 2,700 ft/s (823 m/s). However, the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 prohibited the development of guns larger than 16-inches, so the prototype was converted to a 16-inch gun.

    And if you think those are big just wait until you see loading dies and presses and such.

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  6. The Navy does better with guns that measure the bores in inches.  I had this discussion with a CPO at NWS Seal Beach in 1974.  He asked me to teach him how to shoot, but after a dozen sessions he still couldn't stick his pistol in a bucket of water and make a splash.

     

    We stayed in touch until he died about 15 years ago.  Nice feller.

  7. 1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

    Columbus made the world aware of a new continent. The stone age people that were here had no idea and couldn’t let the world know about it ! 
    Happy Columbus Day!

    Amerigo Vespucci was the first to identify TWO continents and made maps to prove it.

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  8. Christopher Columbus, Jewish gent who got turned down for funding a half dozen times, finally bought three tiny boats with other peoples' money, went looking for China and India, had no idea where he was, had a crew who nearly mutinied because of very crowded conditions and really lousy food, ran his flag ship aground and had to abandon her, finally got home again, came back two or three times, and eventually got a river and a few towns named after him.......and then a Dago came along later and got two whole continents named after him.....and Chris gets a holiday in his honor so all the drones get a day off. 

     

    Besides, Leif Eriksson was here five hundred years earlier, and likely Irish fishermen were making catches along the East Coast not long after that, too.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:

    It's called being human.

    I reckon most of us have done something at least vaguely similar.

    We were only just newlyweds when I left a gallon of milk in the trunk of the car.

    Wife still talks to me about that one.

    After 28 years.

    Wait another 28 years ans you'll say the same thing.  Wives NEVER forget!  NEVER!

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  10. I'd have it stripped and re-blued even for the extra cost.  Cerakote is probably a better finish but not for my guns.  I'm a blue or nickel, wood or ivory sort of guy.

  11. Everyone I can find uses lasers to engrace metal nowadays.  It isn't nearly as nice as hand done work.  It's not very deep and looks like it is scratched on very shallowly.  Also, they can't engrave the concave inner surfaces of a pocket watch lid.

     

    Does anyone do that sort of work any more?  Rachel Wells did, but she died.  I can't find Kelly Laster anymore.  Longline Charley Glackman did very nice work, too., but he also passed away.

     

    Are any of you talented in the trade?  I'd like to keep it in The Family, so to speak. 

     

  12. On 10/11/2024 at 10:10 AM, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:

    I'll sell this one for a lot less than $3500!

     

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    I bought one of CVA's like that when I worked at The Flintlock in Anaheim.  Mine was Union Army olive green.   It shot well but I sold it a couple of years later for the same as a I paid for.

     

    They also has a smaller .45 cannon.  I Think it was a CVA, too, but I'm not certain.

     

    Jackie Taylor...who owned the Flintlock with her husband Ray...had a 1/4 scale one and Tom Lay had a 1/2 scale one.  Those were a rip to watch when they fired blank loads for events.

  13. 6 hours ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:

    I know what you mean about rotten shrimp. Many, many years ago when I was a kid, my family was camping in northern California near Ft. Bragg . My Dad and I went salmon fishing and caught some really nice Kings. I went fishing on the rocks and caught some kelp fish and cabezon. I was using shrimp for bait. When I was done I guess I shoved the unused bait shrimp under the passenger seat of our truck. On the way home it got to stinking real bad and my Mother was going to make my Dad throw out the salmon which were frozen in an ice chest. We finally found the stinking shrimp and I caught hell. I took a week or more to get the smell out of the truck. Dad had to take out the seats and scrub the floor until it was gone.

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    That kid is smaller than any of those fish.

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  14.  About five days ago I started to smell something vile near my fridge.  It smelled like bad meat and it was just around the corner where my little dog sometimes has accidents.  (She's old and has trouble with her bladder sometimes.  I can't blame her nor punish her...I'm old, too.)

     

    The floor where she pees was dry and had no detectable odor, so I went back around the corner and opened the fridge.  It was stronger there but I couldn't put my finger on it.

     

    I began tossing everything that looked suspicious.. Two days later, still no joy!  The smell got measurably worse, so I began tossing stuff that didn't look bad but might have been.  When that failed I probed under the fridge and the stove a foot away.  Kept getting worse.

     

    This morning I pulled the fridge away from the wall and got up to unplug it (The outlet is above the fridge on the wall behind it.

     

    On top of the fridge and near the back I found a once-frozen, now spoiled and burst open 1/2 pound bag of uncooked, peeled, and deveined shrimp.

     

    I have spent about five out of the last eight hours cleaning it up.  It's better and I've used up 2 pounds of baking soda, a quart of white vinegar, a third of a bottle of Simple Green and a bout half that much Dawn, so far trying to get rid of  the stink. All the windows are open, I've apologized to my dog, and most of the smell is gone....but it looks like it will take a few more days.

     

    Somewhere up in the here after my wife and mother are laughing and laughing....an LAUGHING!

     

    See?  I've told you all again and again, "Pobody's nerfect!"

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    Aw, shut up.  It could happen to anybody!

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  15. On 10/3/2024 at 11:53 AM, Sedalia Dave said:

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    Semper fi Docs, and all you other corpsmen and women, medics, field doctors and nurses, and any others who have been there to chase that evil spook out of the place.  Even those who took the risk of getting us out of the field of fire when they went above and beyond.

     

    A lot a readers here have had your help in some really bad places and at unbelievable times.

     

    What we owe you can never be sufficiently repaid.

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