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  1. Odds are, the letter was never seen by a human.  99% of letter mail is worked by machines that read the address and or bar code now.  Unless, you black out the bar codes front and back and black out the address you will keep getting it back. Sadly most carriers these days are poorly trained and are working 60+ hour weeks and just do not read.  When they pull up at your box, it is the first time they actually see the mail.  The USPS (in its infinite wisdom) trains carriers to pull the mail by looking at the first and flip to the last piece and deliver all that is in between. Cause the machines are perfect dont cha know. 

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  2. All the SCOTUS ruled was that the Feds could cut the wire.  They did not say that Texas could not put more up.  My solution is (and I submit it is a "Green solution") is scatter broken glass along the river bank about 100 yards wide and one inch deep. This instead of paving the bank with toxic asphalt.

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  3. My wife's brother was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer just before Christmas 21.  He went through chemo and radiation and treatments where they took his stem cells and made up a brew that was supposed to fight the cancer. He died in August 22. It was not pretty at the end. My wife and I both felt that the metastasized cancer was in his brain, because some very very bizarre behaviors.  It is a brutal cancer and one, there is no cure  for sadly.

    I like the idea of maybe contacting (I am presuming Cancer Treatment Center of America) and doing the Skype or Zoom thing, and let those doctors tell him the facts.

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  4.  CAB is given to soldiers of the U.S. Army of any rank and who are not members of an infantry, special forces, or medical MOS, for being "present and actively engaging or being engaged by the enemy and performing satisfactorily in accordance with prescribed rules of engagement" at any point in time after 18 September 2001.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Sedalia Dave said:

     

     

     

    For several years the mail that is sorted is stamped with a barcode along the bottom edge of the letter.  If you do not obliterate this barcode the machine will read this barcode and ignore the address written on the envelope,  redirecting the letter right back to you.  

     

    You need to obliterate the barcode to prevent this.

    ALSO  Flip the letter over and look at the backside. You will usually see a barcode there too. Kill the bar code with a Sharpie. You can usually force the machine (LOOK OUT SKYNET) to ignore the barcode if you strike off the  first 5 lines and the last three lines.

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  6. On 1/16/2024 at 8:25 AM, Warden Callaway said:

    Spring Creek Armory in Ten Sleep Wyoming can do it. He specializes in Colt SAA and great at metal work. He's repaired at least three hammers for me and has refinished three.  Give him a call.

     

    https://springcreekarmory.com/

     

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    I talked with Bill Fuchs yesterday and am going to send him the hammer. He believes he can fix it and send it back to me.  IF it can not be fixed, I am going to see what options i have. Maybe finding a Colt Gen 2 hammer or a Pietta hammer.  Thanks for the lead.

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  7. On 1/16/2024 at 8:26 AM, Capt Stephen D Hill, SASS #56151 said:

    AWA's===colt replacement should work

    Which Generation Colt would the AWA Longhorn be considered if I have to replace the hammer?

  8. Basically Sedalia Dave is correct. USPS is so automated now that it would be almost impossible to track a letter back to the sender. Mail processing centers get the raw mail from the area they serve beginning in early afternoon. The mail collected goes into large hampers with no segregation for area collected from. Then it goes to the separation belts to separate, letters from flats(magazine, large flat envelopes and the like) letters go that way flats another direction and as those videos show, the machines do the work. These days it is quite possible that once a letter is placed in a collection box, or picked up by a Carriers, it will not be touched by a human until the delivery Carrier is in front of your door or mailbox. Not at all like when I started as a Clerk-Carrier back in 78.

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  9. The previous owner tried to grind the cam down to drill it.The hammer may be toast, but maybe not.  I thought AWAs `were generally considered very close match to Colt original dimensions, just not sure which generation.

    Warden I will give him a call. Thanks

  10. Who would be a GOOD gunsmith to replace the cam in an AWA hammer?  It is one of the one piece hammers, so the cam would need drilled and replaced? OR is there a possible replacement hammer available? Thanks

  11. 3 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

    No I'm talking about only when it's really cold like 20 or lower or extremely hot like 90+

    90 degrees is not extremely hot (at least around these parts).  We see in the summer daily temperatures well over 105 most of the summer. If one considers that the way National Weather Service air temps are measured - in the shade 5 -6 feet off the ground over grass, not as we have here over concrete and in direct sun - most of this last summer the air temp over the driveway was 110 to 135 during the day.

    With that said- the engine oil is already warm enough to flow well. Our big issue is cooling the engine fluids. Summer here my oil runs about 15 degrees warmer than winter (50 degrees) at least according to Borg Warner.

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  12. 58 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

     

    A few years back one of the myxomycete (once I learn to spell that it may become my new favorite term for politician) in Sacramento introduced a bill to ban "ghost guns" and 80% lowers.  It was so poorly written (or perhaps so carefully written) that a shovel, or any sheet metal, or any block of aluminum would be considered a firearm because it was "readily convertible" into receivers.   Even his Big D coconspiritors wouldn't let it hit the floor of the Legislature. 

     

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    I followed that story as it broke.  There were several such attempts in some other states,even a couple cities. Here in Austin Texas one of the city council people even tried to get it as a city ordinance till he was disabused of that notion.

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  13. In spring of 1972, my band (we played a lot of Texas bayou and Mississippi delta blues) was playing in the UT commons beside the UT Student Union and we got done with our regular first set, and this skinny little kid wandered up and asked to sit in and play with us. We okd, he plugged into an amp and his first 6 notes.... I put my guitar down and just watched him play the next half hour. Stevie Ray Vaughn, whom we didnt know, but soon would all know..played like few ever did. Thanks Hardpan for that clip of him.. BB King played the Armadillo many times and while our group never opened for him, we did get to visit with him a lot when he was in town.

  14. It be the soul of the woyken man, the story ob de tales dey tellz 'bout how pain n joy lift us up and tear us down. Bluez, white boy, it be what de black menz vented, white boys loined and made inta a bidness. No Black manz eber got rich playing blues, white boys did. what matters is what your soul feels after playin de bluez. (told to me in 1970 by Mr. Hopkins at Liberty Hall in Houston)

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