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    Mosin Nagant

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    Posted · Edited by Abilene Slim SASS 81783

    Does it kick more than a 1903 Springfield? Ammo is almost identical at 7.62x51 (.30-06) vs 7.62x54. and comparable bullet weights. Are they any louder than .30-06?
     

    I remember seeing racks of Nagants at Cabelas for $98 about 15 years ago. I didn’t know anything about them nor what constituted a good shooter, so I passed. 
     

    More USPS fun

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    Posted · Edited by Abilene Slim SASS 81783

    52 minutes ago, Lawdog said:

    Found the "Ah HA" moment in your USPS tracking.

     

    Kansas City, MO.

     

    Local USPS folks say that is one of the worst places for packages to go through.

     

    Apparently, there is a significant amount of employee turnover, calling in sick, etc.

     

    When you see that location come up on your tracking, seek Divine intervention.

     

    Good luck.

    I noticed that too. That facility has a twin just across the river in Kansas City, Kansas. I’ve had packages fall into that black hole where they just bounce back and forth between those 2 facilities for weeks at a time. My local PO says the same thing about KCK as yours does about KCMO. 


     

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    More USPS fun

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    12 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

    Even more ...............interesting to watch the machinations, loops and wifferdills  that occur when I order something from the US for delivery to Canada!

    Since no matter what delivery service is used, it takes a week; or two or three to cross the border, clear customs and get here.

    I try to get things sent USPS since it's cheaper and it doesn't get here any faster.

    Once it hits the Canadian side of the Medicine Line, I sometimes think I should just make a bowl of popcorn and watch Canada Post do one of their..........creative parcel deliveries.

    I've tracked things over to Heathrow, England, back to Montreal, Quebec, then to Vancouver, BC then to back to Montreal, finally to Ottawa, where the delivery monkey sneaks a door hanger notice on the door knob that I was out and I could pick up my parcel in a couple of days at some inconvenient post office.

    I'm retired and I'm here with Westminster music door bell chimes that sound in the basement, first floor and second floor.

    Rant over.

    Thank you.

    I feel better.

    Wifferdill. Until now, I had never heard of it and looked it up. What a wonderful, appropriate word for this topic. I’m gonna steal it. Did you hear that from your dad?

     

    I learn something new every day! 

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    Why Scammers Stay Silent for 3 Seconds When You Pick Up

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    33 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

    For years I've been answering "This is Joe." If a person asks "Is this  Joseph (surname)?" I answering "Speaking."

     

    I never say "Yes." to anything. "Speaking," "Right," "Correct" and so on.

    That confirms they have your name attached to that number, and that information has value to them.

     

    When asked that by the spammer, you should ask, “Who’s calling?”  Some will hang up, saving me the effort. Others may repeat the question, which results in me hanging up without saying another word. Others may identify themselves and are (rarely) someone I want to talk to. All of my unknown callers numbers are sent to spam and deleted. Rye has a good setup for automatically sending calls to voicemail. I can mark those as spam, but most don’t leave a message. Then I block the number. Works pretty well!

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    Lunar Eclipse (partial)

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    6 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

    10:25. 
     

    Moon rose full, now the earth's shadow is covering at least 2/3s, angling up from about 8 o'clock on the lunar disc.

     

    Remarkably clear tonight in Springfield. MO.  Beautiful!

    Agreed!

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    Catalina Cutaway Drawing

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    Posted · Edited by Abilene Slim SASS 81783

    1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

    A few years later I got to ride a Kaman Husky helicopter from one end of Iwakuni, Japan air base to the other to deliver some fire fighting gear and back again.  Drier that the Cat, but the noisiest thing I ever rode in.

    Santa visited MCAF Iwakuni via Kaman HH-43 in 1958. Didn’t need no stinking reindeer! I was a kid, so I had no frame of reference about noise. Everything was noisy. Loved it. 
     

     

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    the 1951 Bug had no fuel gauge

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    My parents had a ‘66 Beetle with the recently introduced gas gauge. As the gas sloshed around while driving, so did the needle. It was in constant motion. 
     

    The car also had windshield washers. There was no pump as it ran off the spare tire air pressure, from a hose connected to the tire valve. It was a great incentive to keep the spare filled with air.

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    Carrier landing question

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    3 hours ago, Howlin Mad Murdock SASS #4037 said:

    Also, Air Force aircraft all have hooks, but they are not rated for carrier landings, they are for catching wires at the run off end of the Air Force runways in case of brake failures.

    If they try an arrested landing on a carrier, the hook will be ripped off the airframe.

    AF planes landing gear would collapse before the tail hook grabbed a wire. A carrier landing is more like a controlled crash. 

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    Carrier landing question

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    There was a time in the early jet age when designers thought of other ways of egress. The early F-104s ejected the pilot downward. My dad’s Douglas A3D Skywarrior had a chute opened by a lever where he was supposed to slide out the bottom of the plane. Both systems depended on the planes being upright, which was a ridiculous assumption. 
     

    Dad also flew Lockheed TV2s and Grumman F9F Cougars which had standard ejection seats. He thought the A3D arrangement was pretty stupid. 

    Carrier landing question

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    1 hour ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

     

    Yup.   "Computer Generate Imagery."   Quite Faque.  But, to be clear, most all modern Jet combat aircraft are equipped with "Zero Zero" ejection seats.  Those ejection seats WILL get the crew out and up high enough for chute deployment from Zero altitude, with Zero air speed.

     

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    WTC - Hands on hat.

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    I give a demerit to the TO for allowing the shooter to leave the firing line and hold up the posse while he retrieved his hat to indulge himself in this foolishness, even if was a joke. All the TO had to do was say “Hands on head”.

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    Was/Is there a C5

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    2 hours ago, Chas B. Wolfson, SASS #11104 said:

    :FlagAm: Our C5;)

    I know not what you were asking about but couldn't resist.:ph34r:

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    NICE! I like the looks of yours much better than the current design. Current Vette reminds of the Matchbox cars my kids used to play with. 

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