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Abilene Slim SASS 81783
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23 minutes ago, Sheriff Dill said:
Looking for a place to date my pistols. And trying to get some information about them. I cannot find anything online so hoping to get some help before calling Taylor on Tuesday. Is there a chart or website to look up serial numbers for Taylor pistols.
I have a pair of Runnin Irons in .357. Serial numbers start with TA.
Thanks in advance
SD
The RIs are made by Uberti. Taylor’s is a distributor. Do a search on Uberti serial numbers and proof marks. You’ll find a lot of threads on the topic.
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Last time (and only) time I tried welding, I had so many craters it looked like a moonscape.
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When I used to do home renovations with a partner, he & I would use the caveat “by my tape measure…” which would suffice for most everything. A 1/16” or so here and there wasn’t that critical. When it was, like cutting tile, we used a common measure.
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1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:
It's surprising how much 2 different tapes can be off. I've got a nice stainless 100' Lufkin that is off by 2" compared to my steel 100' Stanley at full measure.
If you have some yelling measurements to you, compare your tapes to determine error margin! A sixteenth to an eighth can matter!
I have a number of tape measures, but for that reason, I make sure to use the same one for the duration of a job.
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I don’t know the exact answer, but the arresting and launch systems have to occupy some of that space as they rise to penetrate the flight deck.
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There were a lot of fabricated stories like this about members of Easy Company in the wake of “Band of Brothers”. Shifty Powers was a favorite topic.
Regarding the photo above, has anyone noticed that all the children have nearly identical facial features and wear the same outfits?
Recently I watched my grandson use AI on his iPhone to populate a room with my image and his father (my oldest son) at a family gathering. My facial features and son were sort of merged so it wasn’t clear which one of us was which. It looked totally natural and was a bit frightening too.
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Yup, they do it in Leadville, CO too. Awesome!
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Adding on, this is from an internet search illustrating the Yamato has a similar nostalgic pull in modern culture as the Iowas.
“The battleship Yamato remains a potent cultural symbol in modern Japan, representing national pride, technological prowess, hubris, and tragic sacrifice, appearing in films (like Otoko-tachi no Yamato), anime (Space Battleship Yamato), manga, and museums, often as a metaphor for Japan's wartime experience, its idealized spirit (Yamato Damashii), and the human cost of war, embodying the Japanese cultural theme of "nobility in failure".-
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36 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
Sounds like the Japanese sci-fi tv series, “Space Battleship Yamato” 😊
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Burt Rutan also designed the Beech Starship which was supposed to compete with executive/business jets. While interesting, it was a dismal sales flop for a variety of reasons. One of them was it really noisy inside compared to bizjets due to the turboprop configuration. I watched one take off once and it sounded like a huge buzz saw.
Before it took off I got to crawl around inside it. Interesting bird.
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2 minutes ago, Rough 'N Ready Rob said:
I think there is a plane made like this that they call very easy, just for personal use. I have seen one flying, not up close.
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As I recall, that project cost Curtiss a lot of money, eating up a significant amount of their R&D budget.
The C-46 Commando and SB2C Helldiver were other maintenance and developmental nightmares that further damaged the company’s reputation.
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7 hours ago, Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L said:
Thanks for posting this video! I have had a Greene rifle since 2015 and had read how it worked but this is the first time I have seen one loaded and fired. Here are some photos of mine.
Bole open
Moving internal portion to seat a bullet
Bolt closed
The bayonet was unique to the Greene - standard 1855 bayonet on top Greene bayonet on bottom
Different mounting
The 1855 went on and then turned 90 degrees to slide over the front sight, the Greene just pushed on no turning
Once over the front sight they were both locked in place
The Greene Rifle was the first bolt action ordered by the US as he stated but the Krag was not the next. Others were tested by the Ordnace Department after the Civil War during the breech loading Black Powder Metallic Cartridge evolution. Springfield Armory made 1,000 model 1871 Ward Burton rifles and 300 carbines for field trails by the US Army. They were tested along with an 1870 Trapdoor, 1870 Sharps and 1870 Rolling Block all single shot in 50-70 and all made a Springfield. After field trials ended in 1872 the Trapdoor was chosen as the breech loading action and the 1873 Trapdoor in 45-70 became the offical US Army longarm. Here is my 1871 Ward Burton rifle.
Then in 1878 an Ordnace Board did testing of magazine fed actions and chose the Winchester-Hotchkiss rifle and carbine for field trials. But again after field trials that ended in 1881 the single shot trapdoor remained as the official US Army longarm. The W-H had a tubular magazine in the butt stock that loaded from the action and pushed back into the magazine. Here is my first model W-H rifle and first model carbine with 500 rifles and 500 carbines made in 1879 as a joint venture between Winchester and Springfield Armory.
Second model W-H Carbine made in 1880. Changed the right side safety and magzine cut off twist knob to a lever on each side of the action because of cracks in stocks due to the hole for the twist mechanism.
The military carbines had slots in the front of the stock to hold the cleaning rods. Civilian versions by Winchester of the carbine did not have this.
Not too long after the 1878 Ordnace Board chose to keep the single shot trapdoor there was another Ordnace Board tasked to test more magazine fed actions and they chose 3 bolt acton rifles with different magazine designs for field testing. The 1882 Chaffee-Resse rifle, the 1883 Remington-Lee rifle and the 1883 (third model) Winchester-Hotchkiss rifle. But again after the trials were completed the singe shot Trapdoor remained the US Army rifle and by 1886 all the bolt action trial rifles were out of service.
Chaffee-Reese rifle with tubular magazine in the butt stock that filled from a twist sliding cover in the butt similar to the way a Spencer loaded. Except the magazine had a stepped belt that kept the bullet nose from direct contact with the center of the brass head and primer. Although submitted by Colt, they wanted 10 times what Remington and Winchester wanted to produce the trial rifles so Springfield Armory made the 753 C-R trail rifles.
The Remington-Lee rifle with a detachable box magazine. Remington made 750 of the R-L trail rifles. This one has had the oringal rear sight changed to a Buffington sight.
Third Model Winchester-Hotchkiss rifle with a tubular magazine in the butt stock that filled from the action like 1st and 2nd models. This model now has a two part wood stock and the two levers are on the side of the action. Winchester was contracted to make 750 trail rifes but only 715 were delivered in late 1884 for field trails. This rifle is marshal marked and thus was part of the trails but the Third Model was also made and sold on the civilian market so those without the marshal markings are not trial rifles.
The US Navy actually adopted 5 different bolt action 45-70 black powder rifles between 1879 and 1885 which were in service until replaced by the 1895 Winchester-Lee Navy which used the 6mm smokless cartridge. I won't post photos of those rifles.
Then finally an Ordnace Magazine Board was convened in December 1890 to find a suitable bolt action rifle for US Army use and it was to use .30 caliber smokless ammunition instead of .45 caliber black powder. In 1892 after review of 53 submitted rifles, 24 of which were of foreign design, the Board chose the Danish designed Krag-Jorgensen Rifle for ue by the US Army.
Sorry for the long post with lots of photos. Hope some of you don't mind the history leason about some of the US Breech Loading Metallic Cartridge longarms.
Your post was fascinating. Thanks.
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Like Noll and Cowher, I hope Tomlin walks away from coaching and finds a less stressful way to fill his days. He deserves it.
And I hope Aaron Rogers fades into the sunset where he becomes invisible.
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Sporting events on TV, especially football, are best watched with the sound off. Only time I turn the sound on is when the ref announces a ruling on the field. All the pre game yammering, including some “artist” strangling the national anthem is best avoided to keep my blood pressure down.
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So many of those videos on YouTube now use that sensational click-bait crud “..secrets they don’t want you to know”, etc that I don’t bother to watch. I figure it’s likely the video is short on useful information. I look at the ones with the circles and arrows* on them the same way.
* “and a paragraph on the back of each one.” Some of you of a certain age will catch that reference! 🤣
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30 minutes ago, Tequila Shooter said:
Last year I had a pair of ROA’s refinished. I had them nickel plated and then had a hard chrome put over it. This is who I used Cogan The price were good and the turn around time was about 1 month. I called first and they were very helpful..
I know nothing about this sort of thing. Why nickel plate the gun and then cover it with chrome, thus hiding the color of nickel? Wouldn’t it have been easier and more cost effective to just chrome it?
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I’ll be overseas visiting my son then. Sorry to miss this one!
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Rye, your results look similar to mine. I need some practice too, but I’m satisfied that the bad guy would be deterred and in a world of hurt. I figure it’s a belly gun for encounters where distances are up close and personal. I’ve no illusions about being able to shoot the wings off flies, nor do I think there’s a need too.
I’ll leave that to James Coburn in The Magnificent Seven. “I was aiming for the horse.” 😊
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Cool!
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6 hours ago, watab kid said:
did not know roberts son james was in the movies , must not be getting first billing credits or adverts
He was only onscreen for a very short scene near the beginning of the film
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And then there are the new shooters who’ve never been to a match who start by spouting off about the changes that need to made to our game to make it more appealing to them. And they start arguing when they don’t get the response they’re looking for.
There are other newbies who ask advice on equipment and reloading and then argue with some of the most knowledgeable people in our game and more. There was a guy here from Western Canada who was briefly famous for that a couple of years ago.
Yeah, there are some who get run off when they announce they bought a Henry Big Boy and get slammed for it. Or someone who has questions about a newly bought RCBS press which is then followed by 4 pages of why they should have bought a Dillon. Sigh.
But overall, it seems that those who come here with a genuine quest for information are treated pretty well. Not always, but most of the time. A lot depends upon the attitude of the newbie.
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Sorry for your loss. 🙁
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Taylor & Co pistols
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I’ve had mine about ten years, shortly after Taylor’s began offering them. They were called “Taylor Tuned” at the time, meaning their gunsmith refined whatever short stroking had been done at the factory. I’ve been really happy with them and shoot both real BP and smokeless in them.