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6 hours ago, Alpo said:
Better that then the majority of Connecticut drivers who merge onto the highway at 30 mph.
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9 hours ago, Alpo said:
One of the unwritten rules of combat: "Do not piss off a battleship"
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I saw something that it was due to the refineries moving from the "winter" to "summer" blend
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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
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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.
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15 hours ago, Caprock Kid said:
Beginning? I came to that conclusion years ago!
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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.
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There are still musicians out there making great music, its just gotten harder to find
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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.
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8 minutes ago, ORNERY OAF said:
Ok Pards and Pardettes,
I need a good soure for 10g hulls. My Google fu is strong but everywhere I look is out of stock. I even called a couple of gun clubs that I know sell bags of shelf, no 10g....any leads? I would prefer to stay away from brass.
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
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16 hours ago, dannyd said:
I own it. The troops, enlisted and officer alike, loved Slim, he was usually referred to by the troops as 'Uncle Bill'
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10 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:
Didn’t say he wasn’t a talented and aggressive commander. I said he was often an ass. Those traits aren’t mutually exclusive.
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.”
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.
The leaders who impressed me are lesser known, such Lt. Col (later General) Felix Sparks, commander of 3rd Battalion, 157th Regiment; and General Maurice Rose, Commander of 3rd Armored Division. These men are part of the reason Patton achieved fame.
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/
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9 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:
Based on a lot of reading about him. I thought the movie was a caricature.
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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On 3/2/2024 at 10:41 PM, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:
Patton was often a total ass.
Based on what? The movie? Because as much as I like the movie Patton, it emphasizes Patton's flaws and doesn't show his strengths or always tell things accurately. General Omar Bradley, who despised Patton (and the feeling was apparently mutual), was the chief military advisor on the movie Patton.
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And as bad as sleeping and most other conditions might be aboard a USN warship, they are almost always better than comparable foreign ships.
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If a male had produced Caitlin Clarke's numbers would we even be having this conversation?
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2 hours ago, Texas Maverick said:
I agree, my only complaint is that Taylor hasn't finished either of these 2 series like it was first mentioned before he now is pushing 2 new series out. He was supposed to show season 2 of 1883 where they were actually starting their homestead for I believe 4 of the families. Then he still needs to do season 2 of 1923 showing the man getting his wife back and getting to America to help save the ranch. Not sure if he will every finish them.
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There is a season planned for 1923. The Actors strike and the Writers strike combined was about 10 months of nothing getting made AND they have to get most of the actors free at the same time to start production of season 2.
If wikipedia is correct, Paramount wanted more episodes, but Sheriden considered 1883 complete.
With the two most important (and most interesting) characters dying in 1883, I don't think the 3 remaining leads had enough "star power" to carry another "season" or mini series.
And making things even worse is he has other projects he is working on
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51 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Yeah, scary accurate. From a moving platform usually at a moving target.
Same for shore batteries....they weren't moving but the targets were.
Even though the USS New Jersey didn't score an actual hit, it was probably the best shooting of any battleship in history.
For actual hits, it can be considered a tie between the HMS Warspite and KMS Scharnhorst: http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-006.php
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8 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
I have not tried to verify this.
I've read this story from a couple of sources (books) and I believe it happened.
"Nowaki fled Truk on 17 February 1944 in the midst of the massive American air and surface attack known as Operation Hailstone and escaped pursuit by US Task Force 50.9 with minor splinter damage despite being straddled several times by 16 inch salvos from USS Iowa and USS New Jersey at extreme range."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Nowaki_(1940) The IJN Nowaki was just over 35 feet wide.
I think most of us, including myself, don't fully get just how accurate the 16" guns were and just how good US fire control equipment was.
IF I did the math correctly (please check it), a MOA at 35,000 yards is 350 (yards). For purposes of discussion we'll define a straddle as missing by a maximum of the width of the ship, so 35 feet (11.66 yards) from the port or starboard side. So the USS New Jersey was missing the IJN Nowaki by just 0.033 MOA (Yards) [11.66 yards divided by 350 yards = 0.033]
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I don't doubt that there were a lot of pilots with similar stories. Some of those stories include armed US fighters and some of those included conversations that were very stressful and perhaps even scary for the airliner pilot.
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