Subdeacon Joe

I'd prefer the onions fried, but the ajvar might make up for it. Thanks.

That's a twofer! You met an Olympic champion, and she got some public recognition out of the blue. And, Well Done! to be able to put it together 30 some years later.

Yogi! And picnic baskets!

One time at the range the guy to my right had a .50 BMG and to his right was someone with a M-N. It was louder than the. 50.

OHMYGAWD!!! The cheating Black Sox!!!

Darn it! Padres are up 4-1 in the 8th.

Only you, Alpo!

One of my brothers once made popcorn for his breakfast. Mom started yelling at him. He asked wwas the difference between that and cornflakes. She had no answer.

That Phillies v. Braves was a pretty good game. Hope Boston wins today Same for Padres.

Protein? Check. Fruit? Check. Dairy? Check. Grain? Check. And, it's cooked in pans, so it's a stack of pancakes.

That's students on the 2nd or 3rd day of class, not professionals who have been doing it for 20 years. Here's some students, probably self taught before they decided to step up their game. Good progress for just a couple of days.

That's .308. The .30-06 is 7 62 x 63.

Thanks, @Sedalia Dave I ran it through ChatGPT: Absolutely. This is a Soviet ammunition-can marking, and the lettering is much more informative than it first appears. The white-painted-over portion is unfortunate, because it probably hides one of the useful bits of the identification. The main marking reads: 7,62 ЛПС ГЖ and the rest appears to be: Л61-75-188 ВТ 63/75 С 440 ШТ. This is consistent with Soviet packaging conventions for 7.62-mm ammunition. � M1 Garand Rifle +1 Breaking it down Marking Meaning 7,62 7.62 mm caliber ЛПС Лёгкая Пуля со Стальным сердечником, literally "light bullet with a steel core" ГЖ гильза железная, an iron/steel case designation, specifically the older bimetallic, copper/gilding-metal-clad steel case Л61-75-188 Cartridge production lot, year, and factory designation ВТ 63/75 С Propellant identification, including propellant lot/year/manufacturer 440 шт. 440 cartridges So in plain English, the headline says: 7.62 mm LPS ball ammunition, bimetallic steel cases The ЛПС is the interesting part. It isn't armor-piercing ammunition in the Western sense. The bullet has a mild-steel core, rather than the traditional all-lead core. Soviet/Russian sources generally describe this as the standard/light ball type. � M1 Garand Rifle +1 And ГЖ is particularly useful for dating ammunition. It indicates the older bimetallic case construction. Later Soviet ammunition commonly used ГС (гильза стальная, steel case) for the lacquered steel cases. � Aferhm +1 The date is hiding in plain sight I'm reading the second line as: Л61-75-188 That strongly suggests: Л61 = ammunition lot number 75 = 1975, the year of manufacture 188 = Soviet factory identification number That's the same structure used on other Soviet ammunition cans. For example, documented Soviet markings such as Л54-77-188 are interpreted as lot Л54, year 1977, factory 188. � Gutierrez 3DN So your can appears to be 1975 production, not WWII or immediate postwar. And there's a nice little historical wrinkle here: factory 188 is associated with the Novosibirsk ammunition production complex in the Soviet system. The same factory number appears in documented 7.62-mm ammunition markings. � Gutierrez 3DN And the bottom line 440 ШТ. шт. is the abbreviation for штук, "pieces." So: 440 cartridges That number is characteristic of the later Soviet "spam-can" packaging. The can itself was the sealed inner container, generally packed two to a wooden ammunition crate. One thing I'd like to point out Your photo is particularly interesting because of the white rectangle. It has been deliberately painted over, and the surviving text on either side appears to be: Л61-75-188 [████████] ВТ 63/75 С That missing section may have contained additional packaging information rather than changing the basic identification. The visible 75 in the lot marking already gives us a very good indication that this particular batch dates from 1975. So, if we were putting a collector's label on the can, I'd call it: Soviet 7.62×39 mm M43 ammunition, ЛПС steel-core ball, ГЖ bimetallic case, lot Л61, manufactured 1975, factory 188, 440 rounds. In other words, this is AK/AKM-era 7.62×39, rather than 7.62×54R Mosin ammunition. The 440-round capacity is another good clue. The old Mosin cartridge cans have rather different markings and quantities. And yes, the Cyrillic ЛПС can look remarkably like ЛПС until you get used to it. Soviet ammunition stencils have a wonderful ability to turn perfectly ordinary Cyrillic into something resembling a typewriter having a nervous breakdown. 😄

Well, you have multitasking Then there's point of view, And feature comparisons

Thanks! I thought my phone wasn't scrolling with all that blank space!

It was Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS between the Red Sox and Yankees that got my wife hooked on baseball. A 14 inning, do or die game for Boston. I'd been listening on the radio on my way home from work and turned on the TV when I got home. She got home about 15 minutes later, reminded me of a show she wanted to watch at 6. It was the 8th and Boston was down. "It's the 8th, only one more inning." Then Boston tied it in the 9th. She really knew nothing about the game, and was a bit irked that it kept going. "Only 9 innings, huh?" has been a running gag ever since. In the 11th I started explaining things, making my guesses at what the pitcher would do, if the batter would swing, and why is thought that. In the 13th she started doing it. Next day I got home, was just setting my stuff down in the kitchen when she walked in. "Why isn't the game on?" Yep, she was hooked.