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Abilene Slim SASS 81783
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8 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
I’m just wondering how well they work.
They work very well. But like any other wireless device, the distance and number of barriers (walls, floors etc) between you and it make a difference. I live in a two story house, so if I’m upstairs and my printer is in my basement office, it doesn’t work so well.
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Rye, can you narrow down your question? Right now it sounds like “what kind of gun should I buy for CAS?”
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24 minutes ago, Prairie Dawg, SASS #50329 said:
I use the Hornady # 546554 die set Adirondack Jack published about years ago.
Works a treat on my Dillon 550.^^This. Been using them exclusively for C45S for 15 years. They work great on my Hornady LNL press and any other press that accepts standard die sets.
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Substitute “airports” for “gun ranges” and you’ll see this bureaucratic drift as they call it, has been going on for many decades.
In our region, it’s encroaching residential development that bumps up against the existing range/airport or whatever. Residents who didn’t do their homework are astonished there are air operations occurring over their newly acquired homes, or that bullets are “flying” nearby.
One former local news station talking head actually planted a bullet in his yard claiming it came from a local range. The story was run without substantiation, and the claim eventually proved to be without merit, (after the talking head left town), but by then the public relations damage had been done. The range then had to restrict operations to shotgun only.
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14 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
The only news I trust is Fox News and they have their biases as well. As far as the news Brett Baier is the best. He’s non political, he also interviews people from both sides.
We’ve had this conversation before in another thread. I repeat, Fox News online is a different animal than you describe of FOX TV news. Clickbait headlines and articles reminiscent of the National Enquirer.
When it comes to media, pick your poison.
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1 hour ago, Texas Joker said:
Batman origin story in a nutshell:
As a young boy Bruce's parents took him to a show and when leaving were mugged and shot leaving Bruce an orphan steeped in VENGEANCE!
It's a great comic con gag.
To some maybe.
I know the story, which to my sensibilities is kinda sick that it’s now a joke. But that’s just my 2 cents, nothing more.
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49 minutes ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:
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42 minutes ago, Dapper Dave said:
The Yellow Kid
? Not familiar with that one.
You may already know this Dave.
Yellow journalism was coined because of the cheap yellow newspaper those stories were printed on. Kinda like the cheap pulp/dime novels (pulp fiction) - a reference to the low grade paper used for printing and the retail cost of the book.
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21 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
The myth of a unbiased press sprung up and quickly became entrenched as a universal truth. If it ever existed it was a short lived aberration in history.
Dig through archives of newspapers and broadsides from the 1800s and early 1900s. News stories are filled with political and racial bias.
Yup. When the term “yellow journalism” was coined.
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33 minutes ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:
They absolutely tasted like barely flavored chalk, didn’t they?
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You don’t need to read past the first paragraph, where it becomes evident the “reporting” style leaves itself wide open to personal narratives and inherent biases instead of objectivity.
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3 hours ago, Stump Water said:
Very common at the grocery store we frequent most. 99.999% of the time they are... hmm... lessee here... umm... well... not the same ethnicity that I am.
Saw that today at Costco. The gal was maybe mid 20-something and her 50-60ish “Duck Dynasty” companion were eating from virtually every food sampler kiosk in the store.
Anyways, she was dressed in a one-piece, zippered, Dr. Seuss Grinch motif flannel PJ set with hood and fuzzy slippers. At first glance, due to her shape and before she got close, I thought it was someone in a clown outfit. It was really weird.
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Define climate change. Is it too much heat or too much cold? I saw in the news recently that climate scientists are saying the data might be wrong, and we are in fact careening toward another ice age. Sound familiar?
Adding on, if you believe climate change is man made, you believe man can solve it. But if you can’t define what climate change is, what remedy do you apply?
But if climate change isn’t man made, then any remedy applied isn’t going to make a whit of difference. Just ask the ancient civilizations that are now under water or frozen in ice.
We don’t know squat, because man’s presence on this planet is a fraction of a blink in time. The “experts” are just making s*** up as they go along.
It wasn’t that long ago that the experts said the earth was flat and that Galileo was a heretic. We won’t know until all of us are long gone. And even then we won’t know.
In the meantime, I’m not getting my knickers in a knot over a bunch of alarmists. I just wish they’d shut the h••l up
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3 hours ago, Kid Rich said:
Had a pair of those in 44/40, they did not like BP at all.
kR
Yup, that’s because they lack the bushing on the front of the cylinder. Just like the 1858 cap & ball revolvers.
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Bob Dole? Or do you mean Al Gore?
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Had it done in 2021 to L4-L5. Excellent results. Hope yours goes as well as mine.
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Seems like an unnecessary addition to an already crowded market. I guess sales will tell.
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1 hour ago, Lucky R. K. said:
STP on any surface that contacts another surface.
Lucky 😁
Is that stuff still being made? I haven’t seen it on the shelf in decades.
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On 1/27/2026 at 5:59 AM, Subdeacon Joe said:
Taken from the escort carrier USS PCE-851, the photograph shows Laffey, heavily damaged, yet holding on to Radar Picket Station No. 1—the most vulnerable outpost that served as an early warning line against Japanese air attacks.
No one is counting rivets. The image has clearly been altered and a phony caption has been assigned to it. Why is noting that a problem? People look at that stuff and think it’s real. Reality is dramatic enough, so why embellish it for social media and pass it off as fact?
Thank you for the black and white pics. Fascinating!
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EDIT: There was never an escort carrier with the designation PCE-851. That belongs to the USS Rockville, a patrol craft escort. The carriers were designated CVE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Rockville
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There’s something weird about that photo. Yes, it’s the Laffey, but the land mass with buildings in the relatively close background is odd for a ship holding a picket station off Okinawa. I’m thinking the image was taken off the coast of Hawaii or California (on its way home for repairs) from a much smaller craft than an escort carrier, or even another destroyer.
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3 hours ago, DeaconKC said:
If you were on an island with Ginger and Mary Ann would you patch the boat?
I’ve a follow-up joke in mind, but it can’t top this one. I’ll just let it be…🤣
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He is best known as The Professor, but he had many roles in Cowboy movies &TV in the years before Gilligan, mostly as really bad guys. When I first saw those characters, I was shocked because I had only known him as the mild mannered Professor.
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3 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
I thought the HOF was for achievement's in football not what kind of human being you are. His coaching abilities are legendary.
It’s supposed to be in a perfect world. Unfortunately, it’s tough to keep them separated. Judging is after all, subjective.
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I vividly remember during the post explosion NBC coverage later that morning, a split-screen image of Tom Brokaw and the network’s NASA correspondent. Brokaw was talking endlessly about Christa McAuliffe when the correspondent interrupted him. He said, as best as I can recall, “Tom, I’m sorry to interrupt, but we need to remember there were 6 other astronauts aboard too. They were friends of mine.”
There was stunned silence for a moment before Brokaw stammered a weak acknowledgment of the point and then the network cut to something else. I wonder what happened to that correspondent, because I don’t recall ever seeing him again.
In no particular order, they were
Dick Scobee
Ron McNair
Judy Resnik
Greg Jarvis
Ellison Onizuka
Mike Smith
Christa McAuliffe
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Artillery Case ID Help?
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Need some help from you artillery experts in identifying this case? These pics are a cut down 2” case my mom was using as a pencil holder. What kind of round wound this be?
Thanks!
The large text below the primer is:
OM MK2
LC PV
Above the primer is:
A circle in front of 1915
L inside the triangle
and 4-45 below that
Surrounding the primer reads:
44NFR243
AMP MK22