Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life
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They way they "eat" then, not 1. Put a polish sausage in the bun, now your talking!
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On 6/22/2025 at 10:48 PM, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
A buddy of mine expressed that very concern when I did the same with my then new '84 Ford Ranger.
When I bought the truck, it came sans rear bumper. Hank scored a length of 4130 CrMo pipe, 70" long and 4 1/2" diameter, 3/8" walls. We welded 1/2" plugs into the ends, drilled and tapped for a Shraeder valve and an outlet valve. Nice bumper! Extended past the tailgate far enough to use as a step!
"You can't DO that, Hardpan!" ol' Stewballs exclaimed. "If you get hit that danged thing will be a BOMB!"
Doh! Well, lessee... in this case, we'd be looking at prob'ly a bit less than half a cubic foot of volume. At 150 psi, this bumper would hold mebbe a bit under five cubic feet of compressed air. One of the truck's tires would take approximately 3 cu ft of air at 32 psi. So, as a tank, it would be useful within limits. But! Did not do a Shraeder valve. Rather, used a brass fitting and plumbed in a small 12-volt compressor. Might take a while, but as long as the li'l truck had gas and a working generator, it was good to go. And worked well!
But back to the "bomb" issue: A standard oxygen tank, with 1/2" walls, is typically filled to 2,000+ psi; well within the design burst pressure strength of 6,750 psi. With a mere 1/8" less wall thickness, at 150 psi or less I surely was not a bit concerned about my bumper blowing up. IF I got hit hard enough to crack that bumper, I think I'd have more to worry about than a li'l "Hisssss...."
Now, perspective: The brackets were 3/8" flat stock, welded to the bumper and secured to the frame with 5/8" Grade 5 bolts and nuts. The frame had one round hole and one elongated hole on each side, to allow angle adjustment. So, one day coming off the Benicia Bridge, I was stopped for an accident. The woman in the Buick behind me was too busy looky-looing to see me and plowed right into that bumper. Her car was crushed to just for'd of the windscreen. If it wasn't totalled, it was damned expensive to repair. Me? Other than a lump on the back of my haid from the rear window, I effected major repairs with four replacement bolts and a rattlecan o' spray paint ~ it hit so hard that the bumper swung through the arc allowed by the elongated hole and sheared half through the original bolts.
That gal was PI$$ED~!
The same year, I had just parked in a parking structure near the Concord BART structure. Got out, reached inside for my coat and briefcase, and before I could close the door, the rear tires skidded as the truck moved sideways about four inches. I casually closed the door, and as I walked past the gentleman in the business suit who had just "parked" next to me staring aghast at the nice long and deep crease he'd just put in his new Mercedes with the end of my bumper.
And I don't remember for sure, but I honestly don't think that I even read that magazine!
Still have the ol' beast... but she's "in the weeds," now, retired about 25 years ago. Thinking of restoring her.
I had 2 of them on a 56 Ford PU that I had a hot rod Oldsmobile engine in it back about 1960 that I drag raced. Depending on the track and traction, I filled them with water for extra weight & traction......no air!
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Don't get rid of your wood stock.
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Never heard of them, but not unusual because we live in a small town with only 3 grocery stores ( WalMart, City Mkt & Safeway. When we retired here 25 years ago there was one City Mkt.
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It's spread to college sports now. NCAA now says college athletes can get paid! Absolutely the craziest thing I've heard. I was on a college football scholarship back in 1959. What we got in return for playing sports was a free education, books, room & board and other expenses. I know the major colleges make a lot of money today off sports, but it's really crazy to pay the athletes. It all started when professional athletes were allowed in the Olympics. The next thing is high school players are going to want to get paid.......CRAZY!
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Illegal in Colorado to any type of light at night for shooting. When I first moved here (25 years ago) my wife and I were out just after it got dark spotlighting deer and elk from our truck just to look at them. Someone reported us to the local game warden and he was hot on our tail! He stopped us and told us about the law and asked if we had any guns in the truck. If we did we would have got a ticket. I live pretty much in the country and if anyone sees anybody "spotlighting" at night, they call the game warden or the sheriff.
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Over the years I've had both. I have had 13 major surgeries, 5 replacement joints and a cancer survivor. I have had good and bad in both MD's & DO's. Like was mentioned, I think it was a matter of personality rather professional competence.
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5 hours ago, Alpo said:
I remember, from the TNT miniseries Rough riders. Roosevelt insisting that his volunteers would have to have the Krag carbine with the smokeless ammunition.
But they didn't get enough to arm everyone.
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9 hours ago, Alpo said:
You made a little error there Sage.
Just like the 30 carbine was always loaded with non corrosive primers, the 30 40 Krag was always loaded with smokeless powder. It was the first smokeless powder cartridge used by the US military.
All of the other volunteer units - excepting for Roosevelt's Rough Riders - were armed with trapdoor Springfields. So yes, there was much black powder smoke in the air. But none of it came from the Krags.
I checked in the book and they were using the trapdoor springfield and wanted to Krag. The Trapdoor was BP. I got them reversed....my 83 year old brain!!
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In the example that Alpo used, it was a cartridge first, then a rifle.
In the Spanish American War the Spanish Army was using smokeless German rifles and our rifle was the 30-40 Krag using BP. The smoke from the 30-40 gave away our positions and because the Spanish were using smokeless we couldn't see theirs. After the war we knew we had to have a smokeless cartridge. The rest is history.
Teddy Roosevelt complained a lot about our using black powder in his book about the Rough Riders in this war.
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17 hours ago, Stump Water said:
A lot of the book Skunk Works is about the development of the F-117. During trials they did fly-overs using every piece of radar equipment we had to determine what the radar cross-section looked like. The thing was pretty much invisible to radar.
One day the thing lit up on the radar like it never had before. Everyone was head scratching. Back on the ground they found a screw for one of the maintenance panels wasn't seated completely.
I am not an expert on radar, but I worked on the B-2, YF-23 and several classified programs having to do with "stealth". As I understand it, radars are changing as fast as stealth. 40 years ago (Damn it doesn't seem like that long ago!) our radar folks were worried about "phased array" radars. Radars that could change frequencies so fast that it could find a frequency that would defeat the stealth ability, even slightly, so the enemy radar was more effective. I retired in 2000, but my company kept my clearance active and I did some work on the F-35 and the B-21 for a few years. It's been about 10 years since I totally left the "Stealth" community and I am sure thing have changed a lot.
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Yup.
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I used a C-pap. I was a mouth breather and suffered from a really dry mouth when using C-pap even with the water supplement. I now breath normal and breath pretty much thru my nose when I sleep. Yes the Doctors who sell/install the Inspire make $$$ off them, but I really couldn't care less as I sleep normal without all that mask crap attached to my breathing. I feel great and don't wake up tired or need daily naps from having a bad nights sleep. OH....I will be 84 in a few months!
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I have an Inspire! I have had it turned on for over a year and I love it!
It took awhile to get "qualified" for it from a Medicare standpoint. I had an initial sleep test and the maximum score for Medicare coverage was 70 and my score was 71. My family doctor set up a plan for me that she thought would help. I lost weight (about 30#) and an excersize program. The next time it had a sleep test 8 months later my score was 50!.
Medicare approved the Inspire procedure and my secondary insurance picked what Medicare didn't pay. I had the procedure. Minor, same dat surgery. Implant the device under the skin on my chest (similar to a pacemaker) with a wire going to the base of my tongue. I had to wait until everything healed before they turned it on (3 to 4 months). Once it was activated, I had to get the setting to the correct power. With their coaching, it took a week or so.
Turn it on when I go to bed, off when I get up. No mask, easy peasy!.
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When I got drafted into the Army in 1963, I was sent to Ft. Polk, Louisiana for basic training. I was a California kid and had never been to the south. The first time I went off post on a pass, I went to a cafe for breakfast. The was a big black gal waiting on tables. I ordered breakfast and when it came out , there was this white looking stuff and I said to the waitress, I didn't order Cream of Wheat (thats what it looked like to me). She said thems grits boy, your a damn yankee!!! That was my introduction to grits.
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I have taken several deer with my 73 in .45 Colt. I was using smokeless powder instead of BP which I shoot in matches.
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Growing up in SoCal and a surfer when I was a teenager, I loved the Beach Boys. I still listen to them when I workout or walk. They will live forever thru their music.
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47 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Better scratch the baseball bat, you can definitely kill someone with that!😳
Take them mafia style....in both knees.
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1 hour ago, MizPete said:
Yeah. Petey says getting hit by a .22 would only make them mad. I don't necessarily want to kill somebody, but I for sure want to slow them down.
If you don't want to kill someone, don't buy a gun. Arm your self with a baseball bat or a Taser.
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If all you want to do is Piss somebody off, go ahead. If I am going to shoot somebody , I want to kill them!
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No antelope this year , just the cow elk. Next year we will hunt Colorado & Wyoming.
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In Colorado you get to enter up to 4 choices for hunting unit/tag type. If you don't draw choice 1, they automatically go to 2nd choice and so on.
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The drawing results are almost over here in Colorado.
Did not draw a deer tag, just a preference point. Did draw a cow elk tag as a 3rd choice as a freezer filler. Tomorrow will know about how lucky I am for antelope.
Pretty sure I will fill my freezer with the cow elk, it will be good protein.
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I don't shoot WB. First thing I wouldn't use a 3" Duck M12 because they are too heavy. I hunt and have shot trap with mine.
camping cowboy meals
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On successful big game hunting trips, we always celebrate with some fresh game backstrap. We also fry up some fresh game heart steaks. None of us are liver eaters, so it stays in the gut pile.
Fresh fried potatoes with onions goes along with it. Bacon wrapped backstrap that is still pink from the grill, nothing better. The breaded, fried heart is wonderful for sandwiches for a trail lunch when hunting.