Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967

Outstanding, and Congratulations! And be sure to thump the lad for takin' six months to share the news with Dad!

Hopscotch...?

Add a dash o' maple and OH Yum~!

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost. It might be a mite irreverent of me, but I'll always think of him as "Pope Bob."

'Specially if the twenty have submachineguns and the one dude has a pistol. Just watch almost any episode of NCIS....

The concept's not new...!

Half-Breed Pete's dad was Army. Fought in the Battle of Monticello Ridge. At his funeral the honor guard was Army; could have been of any branch, just happened to all be Army. The bugler was a Marine. The late Bear Paw had been career Navy. At his funeral an Army Special Forces sergeant stood at attention during the entire service. It all works - honors rendered.

Only one. On a Saturday evening sometime around Christmas, 1972, ol' Hank and I went to the movin' picture show to see a new Robert Redford movie, Jeremiah Johnson. The following Monday, I made my way to the San Francisco Gun Exchange. "Mister Posner, might you have a fifty caliber Hawken?" "Why yes, we do! It's a Thompson/Center, but just like the one in that new movie -" "I'll take it! And a bullet mold, pleeze...!" (I already had plenty of lead, fffg powder, and caps on hand for my revolvers) It was quite the novelty at ranges for a while ~ I still wonder at how most people back then were totally unfamiliar with black powder. But it was - and still is - a TON o' fun. It even won me a turkey! Nowadays there are some folk who will quickly criticize the piece, claiming it is not perfectly historically accurate (in design and construction, not shooting - as it shoots quite accurately!). However, back in '72, this was about the only game in town - Lyman wouldn't bring out their Plains Rifle for another eight years. I'm happy with it.

I seemed to recall having read and seen a number of demonstrations with black powder and static electricity... One theory is that being mostly carbon, black powder is actually a pretty decent conductor ~ little resistance, no ignition.

Now, if I was just a leeetle bit younger.... But I can for sure see @Pat Riot on one! https://volonaut.com/

From thirty three year ago....

Uh... do we even have a Wild Bunch anymore...? @Pat Riot's post brings back memories (shudder!) of my employer's annual Employee Satisfaction Survey. Presented as an important tool to allow management to help improve efficiencies and address employee concerns. And presented as being COMPLETELY anonymous. Yeah. Right. Included in the survey were queries about gender and ethnicity. We had a staff of around +- 350. Maybe thirty of us were men - spread out over four counties. And maybe a dozen of the total staff were "caucasian." And some questions made it pretty clear what division you worked in. About as anonymous as wearing a neon sign. I always politely declined to participate. And was always reprimanded for not participating. Too bad. Incidently, although the men comprised less than 10% of the staff, they received about 90% of the disciplinary actions - up to and including termination. "Anonymous" opinion surveys? Har!

So... whose head's gonna roll...?

And it clearly states "safe to fire conventional ammunition only..."

Brings to mind the 1978 movie "The Deer Hunter." That film was kinda disturbing....

Forty bucks on Amazin'~! Might have to git me one. And... Christmas presinks!

Kewl~! And, for forty bucks on Amazon...

Yul could do that~!

A bit slow for the first minute....

Like an Inside-Out Cobbler!