Pat Riot
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I’m guessing that photo was colorized. Love the blue leg khaki leg pants.
How cool would it be to have one of those today?! The trucks, not the pants.
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5 hours ago, Caprock Kid said:
I fully believe I reached maxed capacity in memory but continue to find fascinating information (like here on the wire!) ; therefore something must leave the memory to make room…like what ever my wife asked me to do yesterday…15 times
Hey, you and I have a lot in common.
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I have never worked in a gun store but have heard some doozies as well just as a customer.
Your last statement made me laugh. I have heard sh…uh, stuff like that myself in gun stores and at ranges.
One guy in particular stands out. I was in line at a gun store in CA during the California covid silliness and this guy behind told me he was part of the President’s Marine Guard and a Navy SEAL. He was about 5’6” and a buck ten in weight. He oozed Napoleonic Complex from every pore.
I think it was something I said starting with the words “Bull Sh**!” that caused him to get out of line and leave as he had apparently forgotten an appointment.
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I think I know that guy. He has been every where I have lived, now that I think about it.
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Simple solution:
If you don’t like something just hit the “Back” button and go do something else.
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40 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:
It'll let ya watch it, just X out of login page. Hit the speaker,top left for sound.
Careful! He might get cooties.
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Not enough photos in this thread.
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I do use FB, but I can see it. Once! If I want to see it again I exit then comeback.
The screen scrolled pretty quick, but is this new, moving sheep the old fashioned way?
Here in WV I got stuck behind a herd of cattle being moved from one field to another. I was on my bike on a country road. I thought it was pretty funny until the last cow out of the gate wasn’t a cow, it was a bull.
He didn’t like the appearance of my bike or probably me. Black bike, black jacket, black fac shield, bright lights. He saw me. His head went down as if to challenge and he started my way. As I was trying to figure out the quickest way to turn around and boogity this little lady with a long stick yelled something and the young bull turned and he went with the herd.
I followed them about a 1/4 mile where they were guided into a gated field and that was that. A man on a quad and a little lady with a big stick and about 50-60 head of cattle.
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When I was a kid we had a “party line”. What an annoying communication system. It seemed like every time I wanted to call my friends these 2 old ladies were on there just talking away about anything and everything. They would be in for hours. It turned out they were next door neighbors and they lived just up the street.
Sometimes you would be in the phone and hear a click. Someone had picked up their receiver. If I didn’t hear another click indicating they hung up I would start talking about the robbery we were going to commit at one of the local banks then after a couple of code words my friend and I would hang up. Somehow my parents found out and I got to hang out in my room sans food for a day. It was worth it!
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When I was 13 my friend and I built a still using a design we got from the Foxfire books. We used potatoes and corn and we made about a gallon of alcohol. We weren’t sure if what we made was safe to drink. My friend asked his uncle to test it. His uncle wanted to see the still. We took him up the hill and showed him. He tasted the hooch after he looked our still over then he picked up an axe and destroyed our still then poured out our booze and told us if we would have drank it we would have gone blind.
We both thought it was just fine and that his uncle didn’t want us to get in trouble. My buddy and I decided to err on the side of caution and our “moonshinin’ days” were over.
When I worked in NC one of my friends at work had an uncle that made ‘shine. It was peach flavored and boy, was it good. He didn’t sell it but a $20 donation to the high school football team got you a receipt attached to a pint mason jar full of “peach drink”. Whooooo-weee that was good peach drink.
In high school in PA ‘shine was available in the Fall and Winter months if you knew the right people. If was available from some of the wrong people if you didn’t care about your health and liked the taste of turpentine. I only knew the right people but the ‘shine wasn’t flavored. It was pure rocket juice. A pint of that in a quart of fruit juice and things got warm and comfy real quick on a cool evening.
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Glock magazines have a stainless steel frame with a polymer coating. They aren’t “plastic” and neither is a Glock. It’s a polymer framed gun with plenty of steel in the slide and internal components.
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I would definitely go with #1. It looks like an original.
#2 almost looks like brushed nickel. Regardless of what it is I wouldn’t want it. It may have been a parade rifle.
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5 hours ago, Yul Lose said:
Check out McFeeleys. They sell a large selection of square drive screws and quality bits and square drive drivers.
That is a cool website. Thank you. I saved it in my favorites folder. I didn’t look at shipping costs but their screws are reasonably priced.
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“Ya know it’s legal to build and operate a still as long as you don’t sell your product.” Per a guy at the hardware store buying copper tubing and plastic jugs.
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1 hour ago, Yul Lose said:
If you do go to square drive screws spend a little extra on the good bits, you’ll be glad you did.
Yeah, cheap bits give you cheap results. I verified that yesterday.
2 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:In my old trade, screw retention (keeping the screw on the bit unattended) was a BIG plus. Still is to me. The square tip holds even stainless screws securely. Maintaining good pressure, and a good tip, is the key for me.
Because you're not holding the screw with one hand and the driver with the other, the square tips avert the dreaded Phillips head or straight blade stab.
IMO, getting the screw to initially bite well is essential to fastening without cussing. I'll probably cuss anyway while working, regardless of success. Bad habits are hard to break.
It’s hard to get the Snap-On bits that I like without paying through the nose. I think it’s time to go square. I did try Torx, but I am not sold on those.
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21 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:
I'll take a square tip (Robertson) headed screw over any other type of screw every day, ten days a week.
15 hours ago, Yul Lose said:Square drive wood screws from McFeeleys is all I’ve used for the last 30 years. #4, #6, #8s.
I have seen these square drive screws in the hardware depts of Lowe’s, Home Depot & Menard’s. I am going to have to give these a try.
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3 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
I must have a weird WalMart because I never see anything really strange in the one I go to. I don’t go that often though so maybe I miss all the weird stuff!
Same here. I think it’s location oriented insanity and dumbassery. Probably the weirdest thing I have seen here at our 2 Walmarts is this dude with gray hair with a 70’s pompadour mullet with lamb chops and a handlebar mustache wearing a shirt proclaiming “Texan’s do it best” or some nonsense like that. He looked like a complete moron. He wasn’t from around here, I’m sure.
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I have never encountered wolves in the wild, only in zoos. The ones I saw were bigger than most big dogs.
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6 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:
Don't use a drill, use a 1/4" drive impact. Just make sure the #2 Phillips bit is in good shape.
Interesting. I may have to give this a try. Thank you. I actually use a Dewalt drill/driver, but it’s not an “impact driver”.
I have finally gone through my stash of Snap-On “grippy bits”, as I call them. I tried some Amazon knock-offs. They are okay for light jobs but the torque and force of sinking 3” screws is too much for them. 2-3 screws per bit then toss em.
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I was cursing Phillips head screws and driver bits just yesterday. Driving #8 3” screws into the hard cured pine (
) of my reloading bench to add support. I ruined 4 Phillips bits driving 16 screws after drilling pilots for the screws.
I passed on the Torx screws because the box of screws didn’t come with bits any more and I was not buying a pack of 12 bits to drive 15 or 20 screws. I should have bought them, though I did get more practice speaking “Sailor” so there was one benefit.
Oh, and all that screwing around only slightly improved my bench. Grrrrrrrr
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1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said:
Worse was his Milk of Magnesia.
Have you ever milked a magnesia?
It’s harder than milking an almond!
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I had Heinz ketchup in Canada. They have good taste in Canada.
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2 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:
I'll eat live fire ants before I'd eat beets of any kind.
Definitely an extremely high level of disdain.
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Yeah, well, Screw ‘Em!
….and Otto too!
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Safe As Houses
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The guy on the bottom wing looks like he’s wearing silent movie makeup.