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    Have you met any celebrities?

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    FYI, Axl Rose is still #1 on my Top 10 List of People I'd Like to Kick in the Nuts Before I Die.

     

    Ditto.

     

     

    I also met a real spy. Valerie Elise Plame Wilson, she was a CIA agent and spy before she was outed. Accidentally bumped into her while at college.

     

     

    I think if you check, she worked for the CIA, but wasn't a field agent at the time. The biggest problem with her being "outed" was that it put her former cover company and agents claiming to work for it in danger.

    Have you met any celebrities?

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    Hmmm... I'm trying to think. I haven't met too many celebrities that I can recall.

     

    I met Terry Cummings, who played for the San Antonio Spurs once when I was in San Antonio during Desert Storm. Seemed like a decent enough guy. Every inch of 6'9" though!

     

    Dizzy Gillespie and a band mate almost ran over my wife coming off of an elevator once. Very apologetic, but not wanting to wait around.

     

    Dave Chappelle held the door open at a deli in Yellow Springs, Ohio for my wife and I. He was sitting at a table outside, and got up and opened it, while continuing to talk to a friend. I thanked him, he nodded. It didn't dawn on me who it was until we were inside. Just as well, he evidently is a fairly private person, and likes that the people in the area respect that.

     

    I met several of the men from The Band of Brothers who toured with the USO. The original vets, not the actors, including Babe Heffron, Bill Guarnere, Don Malarkey, and others. Fascinating conversation.

     

    I do have a painting by Buck Taylor signed to me, that my wife got at the Quarter Horse Congress some years back. Sadly, I didn't get to meet him, and he wasn't there the following year, but she said he was a very nice guy.

    Famous people

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    Doc Savage was written for early teen-age boys in the thirties and forties.

     

    181 volumes. The first I read, in 1962, was Shadow of The Wolf and I eventually owned all 181 stories.

     

    They still crop up now and again but the last I saw were two storied to the book and were NOT in order.

     

    I don't recall the first I read, and I can't say how many, although it was nowhere near all of them. For the longest time, I wanted a sword cane like Ham had, though.

    1873 or 92 rossi,taylor,cimarron or uberti

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    Get the one you can afford and GO SHOOT!!!!

     

    I'm shooting an NKJ '92 that I got for a good price, two Taurus Gauchos that I got for a good price and a Stoeger SxS that I got through work. If I had waited for the guns I "wanted" and hope to someday have, I would've had to sell some other guns that I don't want to part with, make other sacrifices, or just not shoot. I prefer to shoot. I prefer to enjoy the company of other shooters. I compete against myself. Maybe one day I will find myself competitive with others. In the meanwhile, I shoot. Not as often as I would like, but I shoot.

    what if i won the big one

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    Sorry wasn't trying to copy just adding what i would do as an answer to your post about winning the big one.i havnt got the hang of this thing yet my apologies.

     

    No need to apologize. I, along with others, have been known to start new threads so as to avoid serious tangents on existing threads. Seems to make sense to me. If you look at the other thread, it was specifically about what firearms one would buy. It has had some tangential posts thrown in. Too many, and it gets hard to follow.

    So, if you hit the big one.......

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    A few years ago there was a man in a nearby town hit the lottery for just over 1 million bucks. About 2 years later I was in a gun store where he was purchasing a 9mm auto. The out the door price was a little under $350, the poor chap had to put it on lay-away and pay it out on a 90 day plan. Seems his hit didn't go far!

     

    Blackfoot

     

    He isn't the first. The FIRST thing I would do would be to pay off my existing debts. The SECOND thing I would do would be to put an amount into a trust, so that I couldn't be stupid and bankrupt myself. Then there would be the "play pile."

    So, if you hit the big one.......

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    fellow one time won the lottery and he got on tv and when asked what he would do with the money he said "pay my electric bill"

     

    A number of years back, a guy won the lottery. In Kentucky, if I remember correctly. When interviewed, he said the timing was perfect. His divorce was finalized the week earlier.

    So, if you hit the big one.......

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    Probably quite an eclectic collection.

     

    Start with a Krieghoff double rifle.

     

    An example of every official rifle and sidearm used by the U.S. Army that I can think of.

     

    A couple of nice bolt action rifles, maybe SAKO, to replace the ones I sold, or something along those lines. .243, .270. Nothing outrageous.

     

    Of course multiple sets of CAS firearms.

     

    A couple of Browning Hi-Powers.

     

    A couple of 1911s in different calibers (.45, .38 Super, 9mm)

     

    Several DA revolvers, various S&Ws, maybe a couple of Rugers.

     

    Sure some others, too

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