
Cypress Sun
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5 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:
So what did folks do before snap caps, just leave the gun cocked? I've always been careful about dry firing 22s, but my Model 60 always dry fires after the magazine is empty. After shooting it for forty years, it is still reliable and no indent from the firing pins. Not debating,just curious, is it better to just put a gun away cocked rather than drop the hammer?
I use an orange plastic type "snap cap" with .22 semi's/bolts... insert it in the chamber, manually close the slide/bolt, pull the trigger and leave it in until the next use.
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Get ready for sticker shock Rudy. When I went looking for .22's in either S & W or Ruger, I found that prices have gone up....way up, even for used guns. Good luck in your search. BTW, S & W's definitely have the better actions.
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Nothing like breakfast at Waffle House to start the day, or end the night. From the four pack a day waitresses "Hey Hon, what'll it be?" to the "Ya'll come back now", it's truly an American experience. I can honestly say that I've never heard anyone play the jukebox regardless of what time I've visited one.
BTW - There really is a Waffle House weather index. If the Waffle House is closed, you really shouldn't be out in the catastrophe that is occurring in the area!
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1 hour ago, Abilene, SASS # 27489 said:
Yes it can hurt centerfires, so use snap caps. Buy them or easy to make your own. On a levergun filing the rim off of one side will let the dummy stay in the chamber.
Don't forget to take the dummy out BEFORE the match!
Seen that more than a few times as a TO.
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Can't get excited about the Rays this year.
The owner is a complete ******e.
The entire Rays situation in Pinellas Co. has become a convoluted, money grubbing mess.
Stuart Steinberg can kiss my ***. As long as he owns the team, I'll never support them.
Go Baltimore or Toronto!
Glad baseball is almost back though!
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Boy, I haven't heard the name Dristan in 35 - 40 years.
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Monday 1/6
10:45am, 70 degrees
Supposed to rain and get cold, cold for Florida anyway.
Figures, I have to be outdoors tomorrow from 8am until 2pm.
Tuesday 2/7
6am, 45 degrees
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A US senator has called for a government investigation into the impact on national security of garlic imports from China.
Republican Senator Rick Scott has written to the commerce secretary, claiming Chinese garlic is unsafe, citing unsanitary production methods.
China is the world's biggest exporter of fresh and chilled garlic and the US is a major consumer.
But the trade has been controversial for many years.
The US has accused China of "dumping" garlic on to the market at below-cost price.
Since the mid-1990s it has levied heavy tariffs or taxes on Chinese imports in order to prevent US producers from being priced out of the market.
In 2019, during the Trump administration, these tariffs were increased.
In his letter Senator Scott refers to these existing concerns. But he goes on to highlight "a severe public health concern over the quality and safety of garlic grown in foreign countries - most notably, garlic grown in Communist China".
He refers to practices which, he says, have been "well documented" in online videos, cooking blogs and documentaries, including growing garlic in sewage.
He has called for the Department of Commerce to take action, under a law which allows investigations into the impact of specific imports on the security of the US.
Senator Scott also goes into much detail about the different types of garlic that should be looked into: "All grades of garlic, whole or separated into cloves, whether or not peeled, chilled, fresh, frozen, provisionally preserved or packed in water or other neutral substance."
He argues: "Food safety and security is an existential emergency that poses grave threats to our national security, public health, and economic prosperity."
The Office for Science and Society at McGill University in Quebec, which attempts to popularise and explain scientific issues, says there is "no evidence" that sewage is used as a fertiliser for growing garlic in China.
"In any case, there is no problem with this," an article published by the university in 2017 says.
"Human waste is as effective a fertilizer as is animal waste. Spreading human sewage on fields that grow crops doesn't sound appealing, but it is safer than you might think."
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Only if you have the stomach for it!
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Well, I hope you at least got a hat out of the deal!
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Bullet casting on a winter's day.
Reminds me of a song....
All the slag is gone
And the lead is grey
All turned to liquid
On such a winter's day.
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47 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
An active volcano!
Yet!
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53 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
A train leaves Chicago heading east and Farmer Jones can plough 13.7 acres in an hour, how many pancakes does it take to shingle the roof of a Trident submarine?
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30 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
Have some more:
The Savage 1912 is interesting enough to look for at shows, the others not so much.
What I'm really looking for is a Marlin Model 62 Levermatic in .30 Carbine.
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Chain Blue
Are you crazy? Delete that post!
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Damn it Joe, now there are two more rifles I'm looking for!
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When FDR died, Harry Truman had no idea that the US had almost finished producing a viable atomic bomb.
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Brown Leathers was exposed as a scammer on Monday 12/30. No one in Florida had heard of him, the SASS number he used was someone else's and SASS headquarters had no record of his alias. He joined the wire forums in 2022. He was playing the long game and almost got a few people. I checked on him because several folks asked me if I'd heard of him as I've been shooting Florida matches since 1997 and the alias he used was issued in approximately 1999 or 2000.
Scammers like him are starting to use the SASS Forum accounts they created several years ago just for the purpose of scamming. People look at when they joined and see a several year old account. They look at his SASS # and see an old, established number. Then they don't check any further.
Guys, before dealing with someone that you don't know...do a little research. Call the SASS office to see if he's legit. Check with the supposed clubs he has listed. Check with a moderator to see if his IP address is actually located in the city/area he professes to be from. Hidden locations/VPN's, cash type electronic payments, no verifiable addresses and the like are all warnings.
Heed the warnings, do just a little due diligence and you won't get ripped off.
BTW - I think Brown Leathers came back under another fake alias, SASS number and older SASS Forum account number the same day he was found out.
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Keep in mind that surveys mean absolutely nothing. I could only read a portion of the so-called survey as they required membership to continue.
They surveyed 1,099 people. There are well past 300,000,000 people in the US. That's .00000037%. Sorry guys, this survey, like all other surveys, means nothing.
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If you use Minute Rice, does it cut the tumble time by much?
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Strange people
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I tried to stop myself, couldn't.