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Bet y'all thought he was going to be tossing drums around didn't you?

Two thoughts. Number one - if you have to compress the powder that much to get the bullet in, it seems like you could possibly be crushing powder grains. Crushing the powder grains makes finer powder, and finer powder build more pressure. You shoot the same load with 2F powder and with 3F powder, and as I understand it the 3F will have more power and more recoil. So this won't feel like it did back then because it will have more recoil than it did back then. Number two - even if the compressing does not crush the granules, with the solid head case you have less room for gas expansion, which means you will, again, have more pressure. And thus it will not feel like they did back then. Just my opinion. Both times.

Yeah, I was wondering how he got 40 grains of powder in there. The 40 grains of powder was shoved into an old fashioned balloon head case. Modern solid head cases don't have that much room.

Based on any experience any of y'all might have. A group of soldiers go into the civilian town and commit a couple of crimes, and are arrested by the local civilian authority. Would they be tried in a civilian court because they committed the crime in civilian jurisdiction against civilians and were arrested by civilian law enforcement? Or would they face a military court because they're army? The crimes, if it matters, were petty theft and assault and battery. In the book where this came from, since it's 1867 in Texas, the Army is going to be Union and the civilians are going to be ex Confederate and of course it's going to be in an army court and of course they will be found not guilty. But I wondered about nowadays. Man is sitting at the table reading a book. Four soldiers inter. One snatches the book from his hands. When he and his friend go over to request the return of their property the other three soldiers attack them, and the four soldiers pretty much beat the hell out of the two civilians. So, to recap. Civilian town. Civilian business. Civilians. Petty theft and assault and battery on the civilians. Arrested by the local sheriff. Civil court or military court?

The author gave the characters the opinion that the saber was fairly useless in a fight. A couple of extra Colt's revolvers were much more useful. They laughed at Yankee cavalry that was carrying sabers. Another book I read one time - I think it was Texas Fever by Donald Hamilton but, don't hold me to it. It's maybe 5 years after the end of the war. They're driving a herd of longhorns to Kansas to sell them, and then Kansas farmers ain't going to let them in. Because of Spanish tick fever. Y'all heard of Spanish tick fever? So there's apparently going to be a fight, and is the Texas boys is getting ready, this one guy that had been a sergeant in the cavalry during the big fuss commented, "At a time like this something I really miss is that saber. Ain't really good for much, but when your gun's empty it gives you something to hang on to."

So that's the reason good little boys in the states get socks and underwear. Because Santa went to Oz first, and is drunk on cheap beer.

It is the war of 1861. You have captured six Yankees. You strip them of anything you need, take their parole, and send them back to their lines on foot. You have six Springfield rifles, six sabers, six Colt's revolvers. Since you are cavalry, you dislike the Springfield. It's too long for horseback. You got one shot and then you cannot reload while riding. So after one shot it becomes a clumsy club. You destroy the springfields the same way Tarzan used to do in the Johnny Weissmuller movies, swinging them against a handy tree until the stock busted. You also dislike the sabers so you break them. Of course you keep the pistols. What would you do with the rifle ammunition? You have paper cartridges for a 58 caliber rifle musket. Would you fetch them along, because eventually you will get back to your lines, and there are infantry using them Yankee rifles? Tear them apart for the powder, which could be used in any gun? Leave them with the busted rifles because you have no use for them? What would you do with it? I am reading Andre Norton's RIDE PROUD REBEL, and they have just done that. And it did not mention what they did with the ammo, so of course I wondered.

I'm pretty sure the roller skate wheels underneath the skateboard are trucks.

They make chicken McNuggets out of ducks now?

They can have mine.

I thought he was talking about these.

I got all of y'all beat. 2 minutes and 9 seconds before I stopped it.

I was wondering if they were conjoined twins linked at the tongue.

So I've been right all this time. My 81 bronco is a truck.

Berry's was what I was thinking of. Got an email from them today with a link to their website and their big sale, and I always go look. To see what they might have new. But I don't buy from them. It's cheaper from just about anywhere else. Starline, on the other hand, is about the same price each. But you can buy a package of 100 from Midway and the smallest amount you can buy directly from Starline is 500. So you have to decide if you want 200 pieces, and get them for 2x amount of money, and pay shipping. Or go ahead and get the 500 pieces, and pay 5x amount of money, but they ship free. You save a little bit per piece, but you had to spend more to begin with. Ehh.

When the idiotic term "sport utility vehicle" was dreamed up? I was thinking of the old kids show LAND OF THE LOST. Lost in space, the little boy's name was Will. Land of the Lost, the boy's name was Will. I wondered if that was an homage. So I started looking for pictures - wanted to see if the land Will was red-headed like the space Will. Searching I came across that they made a movie of it. I vaguely had heard of that. I also found that they made a television series again. The original was in the '70s, and they redid it in 1991. I look that up. The only thing I can find about it is on IMDb. Not even in wiki. Wow. But in the goofs somebody mentioned that the Porter family kept calling their vehicle a truck, and it was actually an SUV. My first thought was - so? I have two trucks. One of the Chevrolet pickup and the other is a Ford bronco. Now I have many people that insist that that bronco is an SUV. You can call it what the hell you want to but I call it a truck. So maybe that family thinks the same way. Then I started to wonder. Was this like someone complaining about a 1960 movie where "the character referred to Geronimo as an Indian, and he was actually a Native American"? But in 1960 that stupid term "Native American" did not exist. So I wonder if in 1991 that stupid term "sport utility vehicle" had not been invented yet. Anybody remember when that came out?