Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

A few months ago I was at my favorite indoor rang, done shooting just shooting a couple bulls with the guys there, when a guy brings a S&W 500 in. We're looking at it and he asks if I'd like to try it. Well after much arm twisting, (yeah right), I did. I had never handled one before, and I'd seen more than a few youtube videos where people fired one and either fired a second round into the ceiling just from the recoil or had it recoil so far back that they were looking down the barrel.🤬 So I loaded one round, and BOOM!!! Not as bad as I thought it might be. I loaded another, and it wasn't too bad either, (BTW, the bullet hole in the target were TOUCHING!) I fired a third, different load, (lighter than the others), and THAT hole was about 3/4" to the right of the other two. That was enough for me, and I was more than happy to leave with THAT group on a target. I know when to take "Yes" for an answer. All that being said, having done it, I do NOT have the desire to have one. I'll stick to my Super Blackhawk.

Acetylene tanks have lead plugs in them so that if they're in a fire, the plugs melt letting the gas just escape instead of detonating the tank. That being said, if the fire is big and hot enough, the bottom of the tank CAN blow off, and they CAN be propelled into the air by it. When I first started driving for a welding supply company, (1991), we had a training video showing News footage from a Fill Plant that had gone up. The largest acetylene tanks most places have weigh about 200 lbs. The footage some of them flying maybe 100 feet into the air. But acetylene, propane, and natural gas are just about the only things that will burn. But in large quantities, they make a HEll of a fire.

Not that it helps here, but I save all my pics on my computer. The only pics I have on my phone are the ones to make sure I get the right product at Walmart.

Mythbusters tested this. Watch below:

Get an AdBlock extension on your computer. You won't get ads. That way when you look for something on Amazon, you'll BE on Amazon.

I think this warrants more of an eggsplaination.

Because he knew that some dumba$$ would buy it.

Which my flip phone can't do, so I'm good. Yes, I know, I'm being a jackass. This is good intel that any smartphone user should be aware of. It's just things like this that make me hate the things worse than I already do.

You need a smartphone to scan a QR Code, right? I'm good.

You all know that Mack uses the Bulldog as their emblem. There used to be another company that used a Husky for theirs. Brockway Motor Company, which began as Brockway Carriage Works in 1875, was a builder of custom heavy-duty trucks in Cortland, New York, from 1912 to 1977. They were a contemporary of Mack from about the same era and similar technologies. Mack Trucks acquired Brockway in 1956, and the Brockway brand was used until the company closed in 1977. My friend Tex, had a liking for Brockway, so when we started calling my Jeep The Muddog, and I said that I was going to get a Mack Bulldog to mount on the hood, (you could get them from J.C. Whitney), he declared that I would not. HE would get me as Brockway Husky. The only place you could get one was at a Brockway dealership. So that's what he did. He paid about $20, (this was 1976 money, and that was a lot for a 20 year old kid in those days) and we mounted it on the Jeep. He's gone now, but I still have the Husky. It's been on four Jeeps now, and will be there until one of us is no longer around.

I have the same question about the Nigerian Prince scam, the Car Warranty scam, the We want to buy your house, Social Security Benefits, IRS is going to arrest you, and all the other things I get in my email, on the phone, etc. To me they're SO obvious that it baffles me that anybody could possibly STILL be falling for these things, but if they weren't, they'd go away.

Because it's the latest "Tactical" upgrade.

Wild Bull Curry, and my favorite, (of the time), his son, Flying Fred Curry. I got to see them live in about 1972 or 3.

I keep thinking about studying the Classics. But I never seem to get done doing nothing to get around to it.

Well, I wasn't going to sit here all day looking for them, Not to mention the bandwidth it would take up here. Even Alpo would get bored looking at everybody we could think of. While I don't remember him specifically, everybody started out as the No Name Nobody to get beaten up by the Name Wrestler in matches. Well, except maybe Andre the Giant. Miss Elizabeth was gorgeous, but useless except to run and get Hulk Hogan when Randy Savage was getting his butt beat. I saw the Tag Team coming after about the second time she did that. At least she didn't do stuff like distract the ref, (She would have been GOOD at that) or hit the other guy with a chair like most "Managers".

I would refer to them as "Cosmetic".

Only because you get so much practice.

no, I'd bet that was their Final Exam for their Degree.

I haven't watched "wrasling" since Hulk Hogan left the WWF. However, at that time, yes, many of the more colorful characters would come down the ramp in some kind of fancy outfit to start their match, removing most of it to fight. Occasionally, the "bad guy" would attack the "good guy" WHILE he was doing so. That guy usually lost. Here's something to give you an idea how some of them appeared. After they got in the ring, most of them just fought in shorts.

I wholeheartedly agree. Although, there have been one or two occasions where working with such a gun can have positive results. Bigmouth, my EDC 1911 couldn't shoot for crap when I got him. I got so frustrated that I was ready to trade him off. On a whim, at an indoor range I frequent, I stepped out and got a box of WW White Box to try instead of the cheap gun show ammo I was shooting. Made a total difference. The Hungarian Hi Power I mentioned earlier was such a POS with the first shooting that I nearly returned it to the store. It wouldn't fire more than 2 shots without jamming. Again frustrated, I went into the "shop" side of the range and grabbed a couple USA magazines for it. I asked and they agreed that if they worked I'd buy them. HOLY COW they worked. I got a third and those magazines are still with the gun today.

Just a WAG, but I'd think that if they were in "combat", force vs. force, it would be considered a KIA. But if Hitler were shopping in the Market and a soldier walked up and shot him, it would be murder, however justified.

Looks like something Blackwater would do.

What about the cows? Are they dear too?🤠

G.I. style 1911s get me that way too. My EDC has a Commander style hammer so it doesn't. Most new Hi Power type pistols have a Commander style hammer too.

This is a "Just for askin'" , but why don't you like a Hi Power of CZ75? I've got a FEG, (Hungarian) Hi Power that's pretty good. Some years back, I decided for absolutely no good reason that I needed a "wonder 9". That should tell you how long ago THAT was. The 9mm wasn't THE cartridge yet, and Micro 9s hadn't even been invented. I handled every 9mm that my favorite LGS had in stock, and in doing so, decided that the Hi Power fitted me best. As I didn't have as much money as a "real" Hi Power cost, I wound up with the FEG. It does everything I ask it to, though the front sight is too short, and the rear dovetail is an oddball size so that nothing in my parts box fit it. If I were to get one today, I'd get one of the SA's or a Tisas's, and I think that Armscorps, (Rock Island) makes one too. but since it's just a plinker, I doubt if I'll bother unless I manage to come into Money somehow.