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Nice try, but no.

I guess the title says it all. This came crawling up out of memory. I know where it comes from. I just wondered if anyone else did?

Thought about putting this in the Aussie humor, but it is a cartoon.

Don't forget. Valentine's Day is coming.

This is a true story, but the story about the cow reminded me of it. And it is sort of funny. We were third in line at a red light. Light turns green, and a couple of seconds later the Lincoln that's first in line pulls into the intersection. Then this pickup truck come charging down the road, blew through the red light and smashed into the front left of the Lincoln, turning the Lincoln sideways, and continuing down the road 50 or 60 yards before coming to a stop and making 180°, so now he's pointed back the way he came. Car number two pulled around the wreck and went off down the street. My business partner called the cops. We were in his truck. He suggested they send out at least two cops and an ambulance might not be a bad idea. The old man did not appear to be hurt but he was shook up, which was why he hadn't gotten out of the Lincoln. One of the cops went down to the pickup truck and after talking to the driver a while, he got cuffed and stuffed. While this was going on, car number two returned. He told the cop that he had been on his way to take his girlfriend to work. And she had to get to work on time. But he was a witness and after dropping her off he had come back. Couple days later I get a phone call. Some insurance company. Said that his understanding was that I had been a witness to a traffic accident at the intersection of this and that, couple days before. And I asked him, "Who's your client? The old man in the Lincoln? Or the drunk in the pickup truck that ran the light and smashed into the Lincoln?" There was a few seconds of silence, and then he said, "Is that what happened?" I told him it was, and he thanked me for my time. Then just before he hung up he said, "Our client is the drunk in the pickup truck".

Doing a quick web search, the 19 holds 15, while a 17 holds 17, giving you two extra rounds and it sticks out a little bit below the grip? 40, I've been meaning to ask you about that rig. You've been using it for a while. How is it to draw from, and more importantly, how do you reholster? I've got a standard half breed holster, and I drop the muzzle in down the top until the cylinder hits, and then spread the spring and let it drop in the rest of the way. Takes two hands. I've got a Miami classic, and I hold it still with my left hand while I holster and snap the strap with my right. Again, two hands. And then I've got a military M3. I just drop it in the pouch and snap it shut. Only takes one. But since that upside down holster is not attached to your body, so it won't wiggle around, and stays in place by gravity so if you push at the bottom of it it's going to go up into your armpit, it just looks like you'd have to take it completely off to reholster. ?????

This isn't really something that should fit with this but I feel the need to tell the story. Couple years ago I was on another board and I saw this post. Guy said he had a PPK 380 magazine that he had no need for and if anybody wanted it PM him. And I immediately PMed him. Then I noticed that he had posted like 14 hours earlier. So I sent him another pm, saying that I suppose someone had already laid claim to it - that I just noticed how long that offer had been up there. And he replied. Said that nobody seemed to want it. He said he had bought it thinking it was for the PK380, but it would not fit. And if I could use it I was welcome to it what was my address. Four or five days later I get a box. And I sent him another PM saying thank you, and including this picture. So I have a blue magazine for my stainless gun, but it tickled me all to hell. Like a man told me once, it was like I had a feather up my butt. Tickled the poop out of me.

When you buy a spare magazines for compact pistols, do you buy the magazines made for that pistol? Or do you buy magazines made for a larger pistol, as long as they work? The Colt Officer's Model. It is a chopped version of a standard 1911. Instead of a standard seven round magazines it takes a six round. But the seven round magazines will lock in and work. I have the one six round magazine that came with gun. All my spares, including the extra ammunition I carry when I'm carrying that gun, are eight round shooting stars. The magazine extends slightly from the bottom of the grip, but that does not detract from the shootability. I have a PPK. I have the magazines that came with it. But all of the spares I have bought are for a PP, or for PPK/S, which is the same mag. A PPK holds six, while a PP holds seven. Having the longer magazine in a magazine pouch does not make the gun take up more room. I just wonder occasionally if I'm the only one that does this. Oh, one more thing. The Officer's Model magazine - I took a paint stick and wrote SHORT on the side of it. I did this after accidentally putting the short magazine in a full size gun at the range. Doing that at the range was just a funny oops. Doing it in real life could get you killed.

I wonder what the heck a parabellum machine gun is? Parabellum was the cable address for Georg Luger Gewehrfabrik. But somehow I cannot see a heavy bomber being armed with 9x19 mm machine guns.