Alpo
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I thought the Duelist just meant you shot with one hand. So you could draw your right gun and shoot it till it's empty and then holster it, and then draw your left gun and pass it over to your right hand and shoot it empty, then give it back to your left hand and reholster it. Duelist
But double duelist, again I thought, we should shoot the right gun with your right hand and then you holster it and draw your left gun and shoot it with your left hand.
But I thought the only category you were allowed to have two pistols out at the same time was gunfighter.
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I remember being at a monthly match up in Georgia one time, when after I finish shooting my first stage this guy comes up to me and tells me that if I learned to reload I can make the ammunition a whole lot lower powered so I could shoot faster and maybe have better times.
This is just a guess based on how young he looked, but I've been reloading longer than he had been alive.
I always followed Venturino's comment: the timer operator says STAND BY, and then the timer BEEP!, and just then a war party of screaming Comanches comes galloping over the berm. Would you be happy with the ammunition you have in your guns?
I would be. I am aware that this is a game of speed, and the wimpier you load your ammo the faster you can get back on target so the quicker you can finish. And I don't care. I don't load wimpy ammo. All my ammunition is full power. 158 grain 38s at 900, 210 grain 44 Russians at 800, 210 grain 44 Winchesters at 1100, 255 grain 45 Colts at 900.
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I don't think so. I don't shoot it, but I think gunfighter has both guns out, but you alternate them - shoot left gun, shoot right gun, shoot left gun, shoot right gun, etc.
What I was describing was shoot the right gun until it's empty and then start shooting the left gun.
I was thinking double duelist, but I believe double duelist you can only have one gun out at the time, so that would basically be a New York reload - shoot the right gun empty, holster it and draw the left gun.
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That would be a gun in both hands, wouldn't it?
New York reload is when I shoot my gun empty and stash it away and pull my spare gun.
Already having my spare gun out when my first gun runs dry seems like it would be a little quicker. A step up.
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The first one - the whistle
"Many backpacks have hidden whistles built into the strap"
HIDDEN whistles.
Now if they put the whistle into the buckle as an emergency thing so you can call for help --- why in the hell would they hide it? Why wouldn't they put a big notice on the backpack - EMERGENCY WHISTLE BUILT INTO STRAP BUCKLE
I have never seen a backpack buckle with a whistle built into it, but if such a thing exists, not telling people about it is really really dumb.
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2 hours ago, Sixgun Seamus said:
BTDT....not proud of it.
I didn't have to. Like sticking a fork in a wall plug - I watched my brother do it, and had no desire to do it myself.
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1 hour ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:
I remember a stand-up comic saying that he was not going to toilet train his daughter.
When she got to be a teenager and some guy got her in the backseat and she got excited and pooped her pants, the guy would just bring her home.
It's a good plan, but truthfully I think if some girl pooped her drawers in your normal teenager's car, he would put her out at the side of the road right there and let her figure out how to get home by herself.
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Somewhere out there on YouTube that video is posted and it's been dubbed. Because I've seen it before but they were speaking English.
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1 hour ago, Cypress Sun said:
Just make sure you don't do this!
And don't pay attention to the stupid title of the clip.
I loved that scene. I didn't even watch the clip. I can see it in my head.
"Time out! I brought the wrong bullets!!"
Yeah, I don't think it really works that way.
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There are some people that carry a gun all the time. Not just when they're not at the house - all the time. So if they were sitting down to supper, for example, and somebody kicked in their front door, they've got a gun to shoot the home invader.
There are other people who don't wish to carry a gun all the time, and instead they have guns stashed here and there throughout their house. So if they were cooking supper and someone kicked in the front door, there's a pistol over there next to the microwave. If they're taking a shower when the door is kicked in, there's a pistol in the medicine cabinet.
My question is for those people. Do you keep spare ammunition with the gun?
I thought of this one night while watching NCIS (oh god, not another damn NCIS question). This was the end of season 13 or 14 - Ziva came back. She was supposed to be dead, and Gibbs is down in the basement working on something, and she comes tripping lightly down the stairs. That's how the episode ended and that was the last episode in that year.
The next year it picks up there and we find out that someone is trying to kill her and they have decided to go after Gibbs. Because of his and her relationship. I think they wanted to kidnap him to use him as a hostage to get her. I think.
Regardless. While they are down in the basement the bad guys come in upstairs and start shooting. Ziva returns fire. Gibbs opens the secret drawer under the workbench and pulls out an automatic of some sort - he used to have a two and a half inch Model 66, but he has upgraded. And they both shoot like they've got all the ammunition in the world - bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang. Then Ziva asks if Gibbs has any spare ammo. He says no - didn't she have any? She said that she was traveling light, whatever that means. If you don't have very much ammunition don't act like your pistol is a machine gun. But I digress.
So there they are down in the basement. Two pistols, no ammo. Hmmm. That seems kind of dumb.
Now there is spare ammunition - 15 to 20 rounds average - next to every pistol I have stashed in the house. Except the one automatic but I only have one magazine for it so hopefully nobody breaks in while I'm in that bathroom because I've only got nine rounds.
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It's interesting how many people harp on that "the patent drawing shows it going over the top", so that must be the way it's supposed to go.
These are, mostly, the same people that will inform you that "that is not a pistol, it is a revolver", even though when Colonel Colt patented it, he called it a "revolving pistol".
The toilet paper patent is absolutely cannot be argued with, while the pistol patent is nonsense to be ignored.
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1 hour ago, Rooster Ron Wayne said:
Pops always called them Kit guns ?
I never really understood that nick name for them
The English used the term kit, or kit bag, for your knapsack or your haversack. There was a song, long about World War I. PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES IN YOUR OLD KIT BAG, AND SMILE SMILE SMILE.
Have an hour boys (ding dang it, otto, I said WHEN OUR BOYS. Quit changing my words) came home from "over there", that was a bit of British slang they brought with them.
So if they were going off into the woods fishing or hiking instead of getting their backpack or their knapsack, they would get their kit bag.
Smith & Wesson started making a pistol - a 22 long rifle on a 32 Smith & Wesson long frame. They called it the 22/32 kit gun. Because it was small and easy to stash in your kit bag.
In reality that is the only "kit gun" because they own the trade name. But lots of people refer to small easily carried, normally 22, revolvers as kit guns.
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When I was in elementary school you could wear anything basically. But the family that lived behind us - their kids were older and went to Junior high School. Where they had to wear slacks and white shirts and neckties. I was not looking forward to Junior high.
But here I started junior high they had changed the dress code. Now you could basically wear anything. Although Friday was dress up day, which required slacks, a white shirt, and a necktie.
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Interestingly, although it has the transfer bar like all the other New Model guns, you can't load it by just opening the loading gate. You have to put it on halfcock.
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Actually that is a "New Bearcat", as you can see if you blow the picture up. Plainly marked right there above the trigger.
Bearcat 2nd issue
The Bearcat 2nd issue was marketed in 1971 as an improved version of the original Bearcat, and renamed the Super Bearcat; it featured an all-steel frame rather than an alloy frame.
Bearcat 3rd issue
The Bearcat 3rd issue, also known as the New Bearcat, is Ruger's reintroduced model which came out in 1993. It features smooth rosewood grips with a Ruger medallion embedded. The New Bearcat also incorporated Ruger's new transfer bar safety system.
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