Trailrider #896

For the Rockies it's been over for about two-plus years!

Semper Fi, Marines! Happy Birthday!

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It is also important to hold the gun the same way you will when shooting in a match. Do not rest the gun or your hand(s) on a support. Rest your elbow(s) on the bench, but allow the recoil to kick the gun the same way it will due to recoil. If you would hold the gun with two hands, then do it that way; if one-handed, then shoot that way.

I guess he couldn't find any new or slightly used wheelsets on ebay. Fascinating!

When one of our dogs "went to Rainbow Bridge", we went to every shelter in and around the city. The problem was that almost all of the dogs, big, little and in between were strays off the street, and there was no way to tell their real personalities, or what hidden health problems may pop up. We wound up buying a cocker spaniel puppy from a well-known breeder, and other than being a bit nuts now and then, he is, at three years, a great dog.

What was it Nikita said about our grandchildren living under socialism?

Hey, Dan Roman, whistle up "The High and the Mighty"!

And then there is the Great Wall of China in the Kohler showroom in Milwaukee. They have all the different styles and decorations of their china toilet bowels hanging on the wall!

I'm not sure if this last game was the seventh one! That 18-inning game could almost count as two-in-one, making it an eight-game Series! I would have liked to see the Jays win, because the Dodgers always beat the dog out of the Rockies! Oh, well, wait 'til next year! Maybe the Rocks...NAW!

The main advantage of the Jug for low-level strafing was the air-cooled engine wasn't quite as vulnerable as the liquid-cooled engine in the P-51 to ground fire! That is not say that the -51 was never used in "rhubarb" work. At AFROTC summer camp, our commendant, LTC Vince Gordon showed us movies from his gun cameras in WWII, when he was going down between two rows of FW-190's on the ground. He was kicking right and left rudder to spray his .50's at both rows of FW's He told us, maybe just appochrafal that a buddy of his came back with a gopher in his air intake! If he had lowered his landing gear he'd have crashed! There is no question, however, that the P-47 had advantages in bomb and rocket loads and ruggedness. When the weather finally cleared during the Battle of the Bulge, "Ami Jabo's" clobbered the Germans good. The biggest problem with the P-51D was political. Gen. Hap Arnold objected to using the Mustang with that "not-invented-here" Merlin engine, which gave the pony its advantage against the Luftwaffe, especially at higher altitudes. The other change that allowed the -51 to really gain air superiority was when Gen. Acker, who insisted the fighters stick with the bombers, was replaced by Jimmy Doolittle, who released the fighters to go after the Luftwaffe fighters before they could get close to the bombers.

I can't say where I got them, but I have used a pair of skin-tight leather gloves that are flexible enough that I could manipulate the controls on Swiss-made theodolites for targeting Minuteman I missiles, also for shooting my Ruger OM Vaqueros, and a bunch of other stuff. Don't know about getting my keys out of my pants pocket. Those gloves will NOT give you much warmth, but will fit nicely inside of a pair of muskrat mittens I acquired years ago. The mittens have loops to which a lanyard are attached that goes behind my neck and over my shoulders. When I would get up to the firing line, I would tuck the mittens under my armpits to pull them off, leaving the leather gloves on my hands. The mittens then dangle from the lanyard. The leather gloves will protect your hands from windchill and cold metal. They are also good in hot weather to protect your hands from hot metal, such as car door handles or a hot stearing wheel.

Oh, NO! And Will Smith, the catcher no less! Jays need two or it's all over! Dem Bums did it again!

If this goes like that other game, I will quit after 15 innings! With Yamamoto pitching for the Dodgers, I doubt it will, though.

This is about as even a World Series that I can remember...and I'm 83.... One out in the bottom of the 10th... Right down to the elbows!