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!

A nice double-play ball would be great here! Two out with the bases still full! Whew!

Lt. Fred Beecher's M1860 Henry or his actual Savage Figure-8 trigger revolver that would go with the holster for it that I happen to own! His nephews sold the revolver sometime during WWII, and no one knows where it is, nor how to identify it.

Cause they are always a problem for the Rockies (but then who isn't?). Yeah, the Admiral's great-grand-nephew will start game 6 in Toronto! Dante's boy, Bo, needs to figure out Yamato's pitching! (Dante Bichette was an outstanding player for the Rockies when they could play baseball.)

I think it might depend on what brand of "Spanish" we are talking about. There is the version spoken in Spain, which is Castillian. There is the version spoken in Cuba, and then Puerto Rican, and the version spoken south of the U.S. Mexico border. Mostly, each can understand the other, but there is probably the same difficulty with someone from South Mississippi understanding someone from Maine (not counting the American English spoken by most TV reporters nowadays). As Prof. 'Enry 'Iggins said, "In America they haven't spoken it (English) for years!" (Over there if you want to ride from the ground to the next floor, you don't take the elevator...you take the lift. Don't know if a British guy still tells his girl friend, "I'll knock you up tomorrow night," instead of I'll stop bye. ) Do you drink pop or soda, or soda pop?

Thanks! That's what I figured, but wanted to be sure. Same with Bombay, India, I suppose. Now Moonbye or somesuch.

President Trump and Chinese Chairman Xi are meeting at Busan, Korea. Is that the same place that used to be called Pusan? During the Korean War, U.S. troops initially held territory called the Pusan Perimeter. Is that the same place, and if so why the change in the spelling/name? Is it a matter of we have been mispronouncing it all this time? If it is not the same place, where is it?

Does that 18 inning game the other night count as one or two games? Didn't know they played double-headers in the World Series. Good game last night.

I quit at Midnight, as they were going into the top of the 16th! Can't imagine what time they actually quit! Ohtani will not get to bat again in this series. The Jays will IW him every time he is up! Problem for the Jays is you can't walk the guys following him. And they are actually going to play again tonight? I'm exhausted just thinking about it. Wonder how many position players on each team can pitch...just in case they run out of bullpen.

Wow! 26.69 inches of Hg! 29.92 is standard at sea level = 1000 mb. Wonder if altimeters can be set that low?

Don't really need to worry about extra-terrestrial aliens. (Got enough illegal ones down here already.) First of all, they probably have their own version of the Prime Directive, and we don't qualify as intelligent enough to be assimilated or allied with. "Beam me up! There is no intelligent life on this planet!" And how do we know that the alleged security info just released is legit?