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Chantry

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  1. 10 gauge shotguns are fun! 120 grs of 1F, 1 1/2 ounces of shot and if the posse seems sleepy, pull both triggers!!
  2. The Norden bomb sight worked great in trials and I agree it was a major technological advance. Of course it was being operated by well trained people who weren't being shot at. During war time, accuracy went down significantly due to young, rapidly trained men, flak bursts and enemy fighters. US daylight "precision" bombing wasn't a whole lot better then the British nighttime area bombing.
  3. Everything I've strongly suggests that the Romanian Army did not want to be there and were usually assigned secondary assignments because the Germans had no faith in their ability to handle a major attack.
  4. I got to fire a 25 round belt of training rounds through the MK-19 for familiarization purposes during MP School, that was fun. It was always a bad sign when the drill sergeants mostly stopped yelling and were almost polite. They were that way for live grenade training. The sandbagged pit, pockmarked wall and flak vests. I did not enjoy grenade training
  5. I was lucky enough to see John Lee Hooker live when he was touring in the early 1990's
  6. Better that then the majority of Connecticut drivers who merge onto the highway at 30 mph.
  7. One of the unwritten rules of combat: "Do not piss off a battleship"
  8. I saw something that it was due to the refineries moving from the "winter" to "summer" blend
  9. The Coast Guard cutter USS Bear had a long and interesting life. Built in 1874, it was commissioned into the United States Revenue-Marine (which later became the US Coast Guard) in 1885. Bear's career lasted for 89 years. She spent a total of 47 years in commissioned service of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, Coast Guard and Navy. She was one of only a few ships to have served in both polar regions. She is also one of the very few ships to be on active service in the U.S. Armed Forces during the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bear#World_War_II
  10. The USS Arkansas BB-33 was the oldest battleship to see service in WWII. By WWII standards she was old and slow when the war started, but spent the war escorting convoys and providing gunfire support for the invasions of Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The USS Arkansas was decommissioned just months short of 34 years of service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arkansas_(BB-33)
  11. Beginning? I came to that conclusion years ago!
  12. The holding company for https://whiteriverenergetics.com/ is https://www.dmholding.com/news/ It looks legitimate. With the various small wars going on or possible in the near future there is going to be a bigger demand for the raw materials to make ammunition and a lot of lucrative government contracts for ammo around the world. American reloaders are probably at the bottom of the list of customers . As an aside, I was at a gun show today (it sucked), but I saw Winchester small pistol primers for $80/thousand and he had maybe 10 boxes of the WSP on the table.
  13. There are still musicians out there making great music, its just gotten harder to find
  14. Spyderco has some kitchen knives as well and I've been very happy with them, same with the Victorinox that I have. The one J.A. Henckels International knife I have was made in China and isn't very good.
  15. Are you using them for smokeless or black powder? For plastic: https://www.ballisticproducts.com/10-gauge-hulls/products/75/ and https://www.precisionreloading.com/cart.php#!c=13&ga=10 Gauge both are currently appear out of stock and given the current shortages will probably remain that way. I believe that the 10 gauge hulls are limited production runs. If you are going to use the 10 gauge with black powder on anything resembling a regular basis, then brass is a better choice. In addition to http://www.rockymountaincartridge.com/ which uses 209 primers and 10 gauge wads there is also http://www.trackofthewolf.com/ the hulls are similar to Magtech, take a large pistol primer and you'll need to use 9 gauge wads. You can also find "antique" brass 10 gauge hulls at gun shows or maybe ebay & auction sites that take large pistol primers which match the dimensions of the original primer used Plastic hulls last maybe 3 or 4 loadings before the plastic starts to melt. Remington hulls are good, Federal hulls don't last and I haven't tried the Cheddite hulls
  16. I own it. The troops, enlisted and officer alike, loved Slim, he was usually referred to by the troops as 'Uncle Bill'
  17. His insubordination and undermining of Eisenhower was outrageous and almost brought about his court martial. Instead, he was sacked for a period of time, which cut him deeply. Gen Marshal said to Eisenhower “That’s how you deal with George Patton.” If you are referring to the slapping incident, I don't condone what Patton did, but I understand why he did it. "Combat Fatigue" or what we know call PTSD was not a recognized medical condition. After visiting the hospital and seeing all the physically injured soldiers, seeing a private, who appeared uninjured and at best reluctant to go back to the front lines wasn't something Patton understood or would tolerate. It wasn't until after the fact that the private was discovered to be suffering from malaria. And let’s not forget Patton was the cavalry colonel who riding horseback and swinging his saber, slashed his way thru the “Bonus Army” on the Washington Mall in 1932. Patton was a major following the orders of President Hoover, who called out the military and MacArthur the Army Chief of Staff, who had as his aide Eisenhower: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bonus-army-attacked/
  18. We've read different books then, because everything I've read leads me to think that during WWII there wasn't a better army commander in the attack than Patton and he was second only to General (later Field Marshal) William Slim as an army commander.
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