Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
This note must be later than when I was a kid.
When I was in the 5th or 6th grade there was a convenience store down at the end of the road, about half a mile. And about halfway between my house and there lived a man in a wheelchair. And he would sit out at the edge of the road until a kid come by, and he would give him some money and send him to the store to bring him back a pack of cigarettes and a loaf of bread and a pack of Bologna. And for running this fair and (ERRAND, get the peanut butter out your ears otto) the man would give you a dime. Never heard of anybody taking his money and not coming back. Christmas that year I went down to the same convenience store where I had been buying cigarettes for this man all summer, and I bought a five pack of Tampa Nugget cigars for my father's Christmas present. I was 11 years old. They had no problem selling me cigarettes and cigars. I didn't need no note.
My mother used to give me notes like that. I also never had a problem getting her the smokes. Eventually though, I rebelled and told her that I wouldn't do it anymore. Mom didn't like that I wouldn't get them for her, but she respected my decision not to do so.
I hated the things then and I hate them even more now. They did eventually kill my Dad at only 69 years old.
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56 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
The Zombie Apocalypse is here.
Look at the number of people walking around with the hoods up, shuffling along with their cell phones in front of their expressionless faces, dead eyes, totally oblivious to their surroundings.
The walking dead.
And why do people even go out to eat anymore?
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2 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
Another Gym shirt:
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14 hours ago, Alpo said:
On the bus tour of the Tucson Bone Yard.
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52 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:
Leno's "Jay walking" was always a head shaker. What the heck happened to our school system since the 70s?
I'm going to say again: I'd bet he spent hours out talking to people to get 5 minutes of those responses.
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41 minutes ago, Alpo said:
Do you suppose it would be racist to point out that nobody was white? That everybody wearing a hood was black, and the one person who wasn't wearing one (although she also got all of the questions wrong) appear to be a mixture between black and Oriental.
Not around here. You are just making an observation. Of course, in the "right" company, it certainly would. There are too many people out there just looking for an excuse to be offended.
25 minutes ago, Texas Maverick said:I don't think so. There are a number of videos just like it from around the country showing how dumb our kids are now.
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15 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:No I’ve seen it many times with different people. I can’t stand the dude asking the questions he keeps saying YES! 🙄
I doubt that it's fake, but highly edited. The guy probably spent hours out and about, then edited it down to get the results HE wanted.
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23 minutes ago, Alpo said:
It seems like the simplest thing to do with your criminal is either physically punish him harshly - whip him - or kill him.
We should have stopped there. Somehow, sheltering them, clothing them, feeding them, and basically GIVING them everything they need isn't doing the job. Or is it just me?
Mods, if this goes too far please feel free to delete it.
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11 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:
Sounds like the 2nd Marine Division slogan.
I think the Second Marine slogan is Stand by to stand by for a definite tentative possible maybe with changes to follow. Or at least that was the result.
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56 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I thought the Duelist just meant you shot with one hand. So you could draw your right gun and shoot it till it's empty and then holster it, and then draw your left gun and pass it over to your right hand and shoot it empty, then give it back to your left hand and reholster it. Duelist
But double duelist, again I thought, we should shoot the right gun with your right hand and then you holster it and draw your left gun and shoot it with your left hand.
But I thought the only category you were allowed to have two pistols out at the same time was gunfighter.
You very well might be correct. Like I said, it's been a long time. Hopefully Pale Wolf Brunelle will chime in and correct me.
Upon reflection, I think that you're correct. The difference is that Duelists fire one handed, unlike the rest of us.
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13 minutes ago, Alpo said:
I was thinking double duelist, but I believe double duelist you can only have one gun out at the time, so that would basically be a New York reload - shoot the right gun empty, holster it and draw the left gun.
It's been a while, but I think that Duelist is one gun in one hand, fire it and holster. Then draw second gun with the other hand and fire. I think that Double Duelist is both guns out, fire first gun dry, then fire second without holstering the first.
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51 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
I can stand just fine!! I ran a few rounds last weekend from rifle, pistol, and shotgun and I was able to hit what I aimed at.
Matter of fact, I put five shots of hot .45 Colt in a six inch tree trunk, off hand at 15 yds.
That stuff nearly cut the tree in half! 🤪
OKAY, OKAY, I give!🤠
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1 minute ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
You might be okay on stairs or rough ground, but with eight years of experience on this damned knee scooter, you would be hard pressed to outrun me on flat ground!! 😜SET RAMMING SPEED!!
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14 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:
But, but, can you outrun his bullet?
I can if he's trying to shoot while standing on that bad foot.
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2 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
You just don’t know, do ya’??
My neighbors KNOW that I am armed and that I shoot pretty well. So does the sheriff and his deputies.
EVERYONE in my house is a much better than average shooter and they all know the rules of survival and engagement.
Not only do you not know, YOU DON’T WANT TO FIND OUT!!
Guys that I know are shooters, I just presume that they are prepared. And since I'm generally a decent, relatively law abiding citizen, I don't NEED to find out.
As for you, Blackwater, I don't need to out shoot you, with your foot, I can probably out RUN you.
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2 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
The ether is used to pop the tire onto the rim. You spray some ether past the bead into the tire. Then you throw a lit match at it from a few feet away. The ether flares violently and pops the bead onto the rim. The ether is totally consumed in the process!1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:And it works!!!!
5 minutes ago, J.D. Daily said:I have seen that hack used on Gold Rush.
When I first started driving a truck, that method of seating a tire on the rim was the standard. In many Trucking Companies, the fuel guy was also the tire guy and the Safety Guy, and that's how HE did it.
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2 hours ago, Alpo said:
These are, mostly, the same people that will inform you that "that is not a pistol, it is a revolver", even though when Colonel Colt patented it, he called it a "revolving pistol".
Back in those days, "pistol" was the common name for any handgun. In more modern terminology, a "pistol" is generally defined as a handgun with a single firing chamber. However I too still call revolvers a pistol.
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16 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:
Takes me back - there were some systems that played tunes as well as just making noise. There was also a point in the late '50's when Bermuda carriage bells were a thing on hotrods. Some states you I believe can't have sirens. Air horns, the big gun!
Back when I was considering being a Firefighter as a career, I met a Columbus Fire Dept. Captain who could play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on a Federal Interceptor.
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I don't. I have a couple Taurus 85s hidden near each door. They're only 5 shots, but my house is small enough that I SHOULD be able to get to my bedroom where my Mossberg 500 is if needed. IT has a 7 round magazine, 7 round side saddle, and an additional 5 rounds on the buttstock. And 3 of THEM are slugs.
I'm not that concerned with somebody suddenly kicking in my door for 2 reasons:
(1). I have a security camera system set up that watches 3 sides of the approach. The cameras are connected to my T.V., which is usually on even if we're not watching it, set to that input. If we're watching, a simple press of a button on the remote changes the input so that we can see them.
I'm not too concerned with the 4th side (south), because my backyard neighbor is not only a good neighbor, but a GREAT neighbor. He's erected an 8 FOOT block wall between our properties. If the Bad Guys come that way, first they have to get through his yard, protected by walls and steel gates, then they still have to get over the wall. The west side is also protected by an 8 ft block wall because the city and the Railroad have one there to try to keep the bums off their property on the other side of that. The backyard is protected by not only those, but a 6' fence with a secured gate. They could get through that, but first they have to get to it. One of the cameras is set so that it can see that side from the street all the way to that gate.
On the East side, where my other neighbor lives is a simple chain-link fence that goes all the way to the street. Wouldn't be worth the bother to jump that because they'd still have to transverse the yard to get to the door.
(2). I have driveway alarm sensors set up monitoring both entrances in the front, (street side) of the property. If anybody walks past either of those, I get an alarm inside giving me time to at least access my front door gun, one of the aforementioned Taurus 85s, or access the shotgun if I would think it appropriate. To get to my previously mentioned 6' fence, they first have to go past that sensor. Even if I'm dead asleep, that alarm wakes me up, and that shotgun is right by my bed if needed, as is my 1911. While I don't have spare ammo WITH the 1911, the spare mag pouch is on my dresser only a few feet away where I could access it if needed.
I suppose that if they were really determined, they could get to me, but I'm just not that important to make it worth the bother. I don't KNOW any Israeli assassins or spys.
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10 hours ago, Dr. Zook said:
Can you swap out or supplement your current horn with a Federal Q system from your work ride???
5 hours ago, Calamity Kris said:Boy wouldn't that be fun!!!!! Unfortunately, I haven't seen one of those since I was forced to retire many moons ago.
18 minutes ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:I'm not sure if it's practical on your buggy or not, but I mounted twin chrome International Harvester twin trumpet air horns on my pickup, years ago.
I also had a Federal model 28 coffee grinder siren, a Twin Sonic light bar and a Federal Interceptor electronic siren with the 100 watt chrome speaker.Air horns were the most effective in getting traffic the hell out of the way.
Drivers will ignore yelp, wail, hi-lo, the agonized Coffee Grinder's tortured-soul scream, but when they hear AIR HORNS, they think an eighteen is about to have them for breakfast, and the get out of the way, FAST!!!
I've been considering a set of these for the Muddog...
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2 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
I don’t think I have ever been called a racist to my face! I can’t testify to what’s been said about me in my absence, but I have never let my personal feelings about race effect the way I treated anyone!
Hence, the American Select Society Helping Others Less Enlightened! 🤣
I've certainly been called racist. While I AM a hard core dyed in the wool REDNECK, I'm certainly not racist.
I've said it here before: I learned as a young Marine, that if a man can and will do what needs to be done, his race, religion, national origin or sexual orientation doesn't matter.
If he can't or won't do what needs to be done, his race, religion, national origin or sexual orientation doesn't matter.
Any time I've given anybody a Ration of Cr*p about some failure on his part, it was ONLY because he failed in some way.
And of course, most of the time, he refused to accept the fact that he just plain failed. He blamed my criticism of him on some prejudice on MY part, not his failure.
I believe I qualify for membership in the American Select Society Helping Others Less Enlightened!
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53 minutes ago, Doc Shapiro said:
Underrated? By whom? I buy guns for a specific need. Competition, self defense, hunting, etc. I don't really care about other people's opinions of my choices.
That's kind of the purpose of this thread I think. to pass on information you have that others may not based on your experiences with guns that you've found to work well, despite what others may have heard about them.
Like my post with my Taurus revolvers. Some think that they are just cheap knock-offs. While they're certainly not S&Ws, they're far from junk.
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12 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
Sometimes I wonder why I ever gave up drinkin’. The same goes for marijuana…Actually I gave that up due to work, responsibilities, being dependable, you know, adult type stuff…and drug testing
The only reason I quit drinking was diabetes.🤬
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I have, and I think it's quite a read.
Back just before the War, I was just a green kid from Ohio, all of 15 years old. My dad ran a small newspaper there, and I was helping him while going to school. Dad always wanted me to get an education. He thought I should be a lawyer because I like to argue so much.
My sister was a couple years older, in college to be a teacher. She was smart, but naïve.
She met up with a drummer from down Florida who said all the right things, and made her feel special. She wound up pregnant and he left town.
I borrowed a pistol, an 1836 Colt Paterson, from the man that taught me how to shoot, an old Railroad man named Oscar Cordell, The Big O people called him, and chased after him. When I caught up to him, he took a shot at me, hitting me in the left arm. It left me with a nasty looking scar on the inside of my elbow.
I fired back, killing him. When I brought his body in, I was arrested for the killing. When he heard my story, a local Judge , threw the case out sighting self defense on my part.
But it didn’t end there. The drummer’s family sent a couple more of their kin to finish it with me.
I mentioned that The Big O was a Railroad man, what I didn't say was that he was a Railroad Detective, and A good one. He taught me a lot, and when the drummer's kin came after me they didn’t fare any better than he had.
The Judge got tired of seeing me in his courtroom, and advised that maybe I should make myself scarce in those parts. The War was just starting, so I enlisted in The Marines under an assumed name to make it harder to find me. I used a couple of names from cousins of mine, Cristian and Joshua. I kept my original last name of Rogers. I got myself stationed on the Naval Blockade off the South Carolina coast. I figured that that was far enough from Ohio that nobody would be hunting me there.
Since I'm called Sgt. Sabre, you might think that I could handle one, but the opposite is true. Any time I got a Sabre in my hand, I wound up the one bleeding. My fellow Marines, in typical Marine Corps fashion started calling me Sgt. Sabre because of it and I kept the monicker. That's how I became known as Sgt. C.J. Sabre.
On the other hand, I AM better than fair with my war souvenir, an 1861 Colt Navy. I took it from a Confederate Captain that I'd gotten into a scrape with, and when we were done, he didn't need it anymore. He didn't need his belt and holster either.
Towards the end of the War, I was sent to Fort Huachuca in southern Arizona to help the Army train The Buffalo soldiers how to shoot Marine Corps style.
While I was on the way to Arizona, I spotted a gun shop with something interesing In the front window. It was an 1860 Colt, but it had been converted to fire cartridge ammunition like a rifle. I had always wished that I could reload a pistol that way, so I went in to ask about it.
The gunsmith told me that it was something called a "Richards Conversion". He told me that, if I wanted it done, he would cut off the back of the cylinder to allow a cartridge to be inserted. He would replace the rammer with an ejector rod, mount a breech plate on the frame with a frame mounted firing pin, rear sight, and loading gate on it, and cut the hammer to fit. He had parts to do it in stock, and it could be ready by the next day. I thought that such a thing was the greatest idea he'd heard in a while. "What's next," I wondered aloud, "Sliced bread?"
"Actually, maybe something better." The gunsmith told me. With that, the 'smith brought out a newer Colt. It had everything the 'smith was going to add to my pistol and more. It had a topstrap on the frame, making it much stronger than the older open top pistols I was used to seeing.
"This", the 'smith said, "is a pre-production model of the next Colt Revolving Pistol, called the 1873 Peacemaker. Colt's making most of them in a new .45 caliber, but this one is the same .38 caliber that your 1861 will be in. Just think of it, two pistols, that use the same ammunition."
Now, by nature, I wasn't one to spend money on frivolous things, but this was too good to pass up. After test firing the new pistol out back of the gun shop, I decided I had to have it. But I needed something to carry it in. I'd still need my old holster for my '61.
"No problem", the 'smith told me. "The saddle maker next door can fix you up with a new holster, and a belt with cartridge loops for the ammunition like the Mills belts the Army soldiers wear."
I thanked him, and with the new pistol stuck in my belt, went next door the see the saddle maker. The saddle maker must have been in cahoots with the gunsmith, because he had a few holsters already made up for the new pistols like I had just bought. But since I was using the new .38 ammunition, he didn't have a belt with cartridge loops ready made.
"I have plain belts that I can add the loops to, and can have one made up in a hour or so," the saddle maker told me.
While I thought that that would be fine, I did have a request. The belt I was currently wearing was the one I'd taken, along with the pistol, off that Confederate Captain that no longer needed it. The belt was kind of worn and stretched out, but I liked the Officer's buckle that was on it. I asked that the buckle, be used on the new belt.
"Sure, I can do that," the saddle maker said. "Leave it with me and I'll see to it."
Next day, I went to the gun shop to see about my pistol.
“Got it right here,” the gunsmith offered. “Turned out nice, too."
The pistol was changed dramatically! The ’smith had done not only what he said he would do, but more. The most obvious was the new front sight on it. The old one was little more than a brass bump on the barrel. The new one was dovetailed into the barrel, and could be drifted as needed to adjust for windage. Further, the ’smith had re-blued the barrel so that it’s finish matched the new parts he’d installed.
At the 'smith’s instance, and after checking that the pistol was indeed not loaded, I cocked the hammer. The feel was MUCH smoother than it had been. Pulling the trigger was much the same. A short, light pull was all it took to fire the gun now.
Paying the 'Smith, I headed next door to the saddle maker’s shop for my new gunbelt and holster.
The saddle maker was as much an artist as was the gunsmith. He had done as he had been asked, mounting my old buckle on the new belt. The new holster was what the saddle maker called a “Half breed” holster. Where the back of the holster folded over to form the belt loop, it followed the contour of the body, dropping the pistol down a few inches from waist level, and was fastened to the holster's body with a separate loop. Since my old holster had been a cross draw, this one rode on my right hip.
Both belt and holster were stained a deep black, set off with a couple of nickled conchos on each end. The bullet loops, thirty of them, were centered on the belt. My old holster had been dyed to match, too. Altogether it was a handsome rig.
“Here’s something else I came up with for you,” the saddle maker said.
“What’s this for?”, I asked.
What I had been handed looked like a miniature of the gunbelt. Less than a foot long, and only as wide as the bullets it held were long, it was a strip of leather holding ten additional rounds of ammunition.
“Since the ammunition comes in boxes of fifty, I thought that this might come in handy to carry what was left over after loading both pistols and your belt. I call it a 'loading strip'."
When the War was over, the Marine Corps didn't need me as much as it had, so I mustered out. I stayed in Arizona and took to driving freight wagons. I occasionally worked for the Law, rode in a few possies, and eventually joined the Arizona Rangers.-
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14 hours ago, Alpo said:
I bought one for my granddaughter. And then I had a custom holster made.
I told the guy it was for a Bearcat - the smaller Ruger single action.
Apparently he was unaware that the Bearcat existed. He made it for a five and a half inch single six.
So I bought her a five and a half inch single six, and I kept the Bearcat.
That makes sense to everybody, doesn't it?
Coming from you, yeah.
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How many of you have read...really READ... the Declaration of Independence?
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I was a faithful follower of Rush Limbaugh until his death. I know that some here didn't like him, but that's not why I mention it. Every year for the Fourth of July, he would read an address written by his father on what the founders risked and lost. He called it, " The Americans Who Risked Everything". It's too long to post here in its entirety, but here is a link to it.
https://www.101bananas.com/library2/limbaugh.html