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I did not follow this back to YouTube, but I was tempted.
I was curious as to how many people in the comments were raising hell about those people. The Billy Ray Cyrus wannabe on the end, drinking a beer. While handling guns!!!???? OH MY GAWD!!!!!
Then the guy next to him with that sturmgewagh casually pointed at his brother all through the video.
It did not upset me, because I assumed the gun to be empty, and even if it wasn't I wasn't going to get shot. But YouTube commenters - I figure they all lost their minds.
The same way with Dad there. If he cleared that Python I missed it.
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I was surprised to read, in that link, that in England they considered them guns.
I thought over there they were just considered - like a sling, or scope caps - an accessory.
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2 hours ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:
I checked in the book and they were using the trapdoor springfield and wanted to Krag. The Trapdoor was BP. I got them reversed....my 83 year old brain!!
I remember, from the TNT miniseries Rough riders. Roosevelt insisting that his volunteers would have to have the Krag carbine with the smokeless ammunition.
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They need to have a recall election, vote all those people out and elect a new city council.
Maybe the new council could also vote to change pi to 3.0. It would sure make math easier.
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This is interesting. 150-page pamphlet, published in 1899, on the history of slavery in Canada.
Since, as we all know, in the entire history of the world slavery only existed in the Southern United States, reading this was quite illuminating. (sarcasm mode disengaged)
Whenever I would read about slavery in the early and mid 1800s, they would always mention the underground railroad, and slaves running North for freedom, and usually headed for Canada. Because Canada did not have slaves.
It just sounded like Canada never had slaves. That the whole idea of slavery was appalling to Canadians.
It was nice to find out that they were just like the rest of us - and by the rest of us I mean everybody else in the world down through history. If they could get somebody to work for them and not have to pay them, they were all for it.
https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20250608/cover.jpg
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When I was in Little League - and that was 55 years ago - both the first base coach and the third base coach were members of the team. They were not adults. They were kids, just like the rest of us.
That's why I suspect this was the coach. If he had been a runner, picking up the ball would have made him out. And the other runner coming to him would have had two people on third base, so that would have made them both out.
Seems like if he was a base runner, the coach would have been standing outside the dugout waving his arm and screaming, "BILLY!! RUN FOR HOME!!!!"
At least if I was the coach I would have been.
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1 hour ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:
and our rifle was the 30-40 Krag using BP
You made a little error there Sage.
Just like the 30 carbine was always loaded with non corrosive primers, the 30 40 Krag was always loaded with smokeless powder. It was the first smokeless powder cartridge used by the US military.
All of the other volunteer units - excepting for Roosevelt's Rough Riders - were armed with trapdoor Springfields. So yes, there was much black powder smoke in the air. But none of it came from the Krags.
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There is an author. He has about seven or eight series of books. Eight or nine books in each series. So he's got some 75 or so books.
In these books he has people driving Jeeps, Mercedes, Chevrolets, Opals, Porsches, and Fords. He has people shooting Smith & Wesson revolvers, Colt revolvers, Winchester lever action rifles, Remington shotguns, M1 rifles, and Thompson submachine guns.
All of these things actually exist.
Then in one of his books he has this Mafiosi. The godfather is very rich. And he is a classically trained violinist. So in this book he is playing along, from memory, with a recording of some symphony orchestra.
Now I would expect that this guy would have a Stradivarius. But no. He plays a Strenelli, for which he had paid over $70,000 (this was in the early 1970s).
I had never heard of a Strenelli, so I looked it up. To see how it compared, monetarily, with a Stradivarius.
According to the search engine, the only mention of a Strenelli violin - in the history of the world - is in that book. Obviously the author made the brand up.
Now if he has the hero drive a Porsche 911 and occasionally a Volkswagen Beetle, and carry a Smith & Wesson revolver - all three of which things actually exist - why would he not use an actual real violin name in his story? It's not like he's going to have to pay a royalty to Mr Stradivari for using his name. The man's been dead over 300 years.
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1 hour ago, Whitey James said:
JMB designed the 45 ACP in conjunction with the 1911. I would guess you would want to design a cartridge that meets whatever goals you are trying to accomplish and then build the gun around it.
Actually he designed it in conjunction with the 1905.
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Kinda makes me think of the cowardly Lion. When he first shows up in the movie, and he's dancing around like a boxer - put 'em up, put 'em up - just showing that he's ready to beat the hell out of anybody that wants to fight.
And that cactus is talking to John Wayne - come on Big Boy, take a shot at me!!
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That was the third base coach, right?
I had to play atit three or four times to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was sayingseeing. First I see the guy in the other uniform pick up the ball, and I wondered why he wasn't immediately out. And then this other guy in the same color uniform comes running towards the base. So I'm guessing that was the third base coach that picked up the ball and threw it.
That what it looks like to anybody else?
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You could be correct. I do not know. Wiki could be correct. They get it right every once in awhile.
But the way this reads to me
https://www.cartridgecollector.net/cartridge/30-01-cal-30-ball-model-1901/
they just renamed the 30/01 when they came out with the 1903 rifle.
Of course, this guy could be wrong. Or I could be misinterpreting what I'm reading. Both of these have also happened before.
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Well I'm fairly certain they did not have photographs in the monkey Ward catalog, they had many pin and ain't growing (pin and ain't growing? Damn otto, you're an idiot. PEN AND INK DRAWINGS) of the items for sale. No photographs, but many pictures.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Montgomery+Ward+catalog+1890&t=fpas&ia=images&iax=images
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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.
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I like Elf.
But I like Jimmy Caan, and Temperance Brennan's little sister singing in the shower is lovely.
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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.
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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.
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Hope FedEx is more on the ball for you.
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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.
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Great Dad!
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"We do things we're not supposed to when you're not around."
I love it.