Jump to content
SASS Wire Forum

Alpo

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    40,243

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    487

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Alpo

    if you were a firearms designer

    in SASS Wire Saloon

    Posted

    Would you make the gun and then come up with a cartridge to work in it?

     

    Or would you make a cartridge and then build a gun around it?

     

    There is a discussion on another board about parent cartridges, and someone mentioned that the 30-06 was a child of the 30-03 and the 30-01.

     

    30/01? So I look it up.

     

    After the war with Spain we were trying to find an improved cartridge - we were not happy with the 30 us.

     

    Eventually they came up with a rimless cartridge they called the 30/01.

     

    2 years later when they invented a rifle for it - the 1903 Springfield - they change the name of the cartridge from the 30/01 to the 30/03. That, apparently, is all they did to differentiate. They did not modify the cartridge in any way. They just changed the name.

     

    So they made a cartridge and then they built a rifle to work with it.

     

    Having never been in firearms design I just kind of assumed that it worked the other way - you build a gun and then design a cartridge.

    Utility Bill as Literature

    in SASS Wire Saloon

    Posted

    You ever read the novel The Cowboys?

     

    John Wayne gets a bunch of school boys to drive his cows to market.

     

    I do not recall if this was in the movie, but this was in the novel. The teacher would have the children read aloud from the monkey Ward catalog.

     

    She said that they used such correct language in writing that catalog. So that was their literature book.

     

    That's what immediately popped to mind, when I saw the title of this thread.

    • Like 1
    • Haha 1

    Would it be common in the old west

    in SASS Wire Saloon

    Posted · Edited by Alpo

    56 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

    I've always wondered, when they do that, why not just pull on the harness of the REAR horse? They are connected, right? If that rear horse slows up, the rest of them will have to, too. 

    AndIN the ones I've seen it's not they're trying to slow him down.

     

    Usually the driver gets shot, and drops the reins. So the shotgun guard jumps out on the horse and itTHEN goes to the next horse and finally goes to the front horse and gets the reins all caught up and then uses them to whip the horses to make them go faster.

     

    I saw a cartoon - Larson, probably - where the horses are runaways and the guy jumps on the back horse and then jumps to the middle horse and then jumps to the front horse and grabs the reins and pulls back to slow him down.

     

    Then it shows a better way. The horses are runaways, so the driver pulls his gun and shoots a couple of the horses. That would pretty much stop the coach.

    • Confused 1

    Would it be common in the old west

    in SASS Wire Saloon

    Posted

    I have wondered, on occasion. The stage driver - John Wayne - will jump down onto the back of the closest horse, and then stand up and jump onto the horse in front of it and then stand up and jump on to the front horse, gathering up the reins. And then he will ride the front horse, whipping it with the reins.

     

    Seems like them half broke stage horses that all they're used to is a six horse hitch would not be happy with somebody jumping on their back and then standing on them.

    • Like 1

    Winchester small pistol primers on sale

    in SASS Wire Saloon

    Posted

    On 6/15/2025 at 11:21 AM, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said:

    Has anyone actually received primers at these prices?  When no one locally has them anywhere near this price my suspicious nature kicks in.

    I was starting to wonder.

     

    I get a notice that FedEx will bring them Tuesday.

     

    Monday I get an email that they will not be here Tuesday. They will get here Thursday.

     

    After waiting all day long, because you got to sign for them, at 7:00 last night I get an email that they will not arrive until today.

     

    This morning I get another email and it says they will be here today, most likely between 11:30 and 1:30.

     

    At 5:20 p.m. the guy FINALLY shows up.

     

    IMG_20250620_171737411.thumb.jpg.a5895f5dc8bfe55dc3d44f460a8828a7.jpg

     

    But they did arrive.

    • Like 2

    On the subject of Buchanan Rides Alone -

    in SASS Wire Saloon

    Posted

    38 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

    There was another discussion of Buchanan Rides Alone?

    Sort of.

     

    I have a thread about whether a horse would normally be trained both for riding and for pulling a wagon. Because they had a saddle horse pulling a wagon in Buchanan Rides Alone. I know they can be trained to do both. I just wondered if they normally would be.

     

    Also the thread about where are them cactuses with the arms at is because of the movie Buchanan Rides Alone.

    I'm puzzled - can someone unpuzzle me

    in SASS Wire Saloon

    Posted · Edited by Alpo
    otto

    6 minutes ago, Smokin Gator SASS #29736 said:

    I get what you're saying but you still might not want to get additional soap, fabric softener, etc. into your septic tank. The laundry and dish water going into the septic is unavoidable. My daughter was having an issue with their septic. They use the thickest, softest, pillowy toilet paper they can find.  Also not the best idea.

    Back when I was on the septic system, you pooped in the toilet, but after you watchWIPED your butt you threw the paper in the garbage can.

     

    NOTHING got flushed unless it had first gone through your body.

    • Confused 1

    I'm puzzled - can someone unpuzzle me

    in SASS Wire Saloon

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

    Sort of hard to tell exactly what he means

    Really? I thought I was pretty plain. I will try again.

     

    I no longer live on a septic system. I used to. 35 years ago. The house I live in now I'm on city sewer.

     

    But back 35 years ago, when I had a septic tank, whether it went down the toilet or the bathtub drain or the kitchen sink drain or the washing machine it all went into the septic tank.

     

    So I'm just trying to figure out why it's okay to have laundry soap and fabric softener go into the septic tank from the washing machine, and why it's okay to have dish soap go into the septic tank from the kitchen sink, but it's bad to have it go into the septic tank from the toilet.

     

    Is that clearer, Joe?

    • Like 1
    • Haha 1
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.

  I accept