watab kid
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yup , there was no tree too tall to climb , no ravine too steep or covered with trees too tough to sled , no stream that could prevent us from going where we wanted to go - without safety gear [we would have been laughed at] but we did carry first aid kits on our many excursions as good boy scouts did , so many things id never think of doing anymore and am glad my kids didnt try but ....it made us who we are today didnt it ?
what are our youngsters being made into today ?
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yes , most do it on their own , here at least , we know what they look like we still have some of them downtown in our small towns - a lot of them date to the exact era we are looking for ,
but if you check out some of the links to ranges posted here for various clubs you will find great ideas ,
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4 hours ago, Stump Water said:
Indeed. For a glimpse into the brutality read James Bradley's other book Flyboys.
ETA link... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyboys:_A_True_Story_of_Courage
i shall read it , but i grew up with it , my father never stopped praising the marines for their service and ive known a number of them that served in that capacity - most all dead now , but one particularly was an artist as well as fighter , he had sketches that he had done for yank and such , he shared some to view , he was on most of the well remembered invasion's including saipan [where my father ended up] and iwo jima , i knew him as an art professor at a local college but he was a marine first and a montanna cowboy before that ,
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21 hours ago, Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494 said:
Yep....Rebels without a clue.....
you are way too kind calling them rebels - in my mind the rebels [fy family in the south] had a very defined and understood basis for their thinking , right or wrong , these campus idiots are supporting terrorist groups that have that without even understanding what they are supporting , if on the other hand they do understand - i think we have rooms in Guantanamo that are unoccupied for exactly this kind of people , when the next strike occurs here - and its coming soon , i blame first the open boarder people - hang them from light poles - and secondly the idiots that think communism is a good thing ,
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some of these hollywood stories make me think of life in my chosen fields , they all deal this out and they all have their pecking order , you pay your dues before you get to rise to your highest level ,
what bugs me and i dont remember this of ford , is why these types think they are anointed to some position of telling the rest of us what we should think and how we need to vote , what is worth believing in ...............i knida like the constitution and what it gives us all the liberty to think , vote , say ,
oi get it when your employed you gotta respect the boss - ford was the boss , i read JWs auto and he did not badmouth ford , i suspect ford was looking for maximum performance and thought that was the motivation , it seemed to work his productions were a success , and most that worked for him wanted to work with him again , i know little to nothing of the movie buisness but i know id not have wanted to work with actors in my work life ,
yes i did get exposed and still am , my wife and BIL were actors locally , my neice just graduated and is hired by the black hills theater company , we will be attending some performances but im still skeptical of actors - too manny lived in my house back in the day when the wife and BIL were involved in a major local presentation , it was an interesting summer but id never do it again , those people are nuts
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for what its worth , in my youth my younger siblings always blamed me as my folks always held me , the eldest responsible for every indiscretion no matter the severity - even when i was not present , im only able to say that i know other families with other dynamics of those times that might have looked at things in the opposite way but those were more rare than mine ,
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my father had a lathe in our shop at home - i used it a few times , it was used to turn steel projectiles during the war , we ended up with it when the company he worked for sold off a lot of the outdated and undersized pieces of equipment they used in those years , it was a small turret lathe that was big in our garage shop , but wow was it nice equipment - far better than my high school shop had ,
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i remember a lot of old B&W cowboys using ropes and doing tricks with such , but ill be if i can remember all the names at this point in life ,
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ive read a lot of these , particularly as related to the pacific campaign , its not easy to know that the soldiers were feeling the same and thinking the same but following the other side , but ive read that of a lot of wars - the civil war in particular as we were all americans in that save those foreign entities trying to influence the outcome by rendering aid like france germany and england ,
but also our indian wars - i read a very interesting version of the battle of the little big horn from the indians point of view often we forget or just never heard the other side of arguments , sometimes it matters and sometimes its just educational ,
i think its always worth the listen or read to hear the other side of the story - agree or not , its worth hearing and considering , even if you reject it in the end ,
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this was a symbolic gesture to send a message we were coming - and hell was coming with us , we delivered later but im certain it planted the intended seed , sadly it was basically a suicide mission , they actually succeeded beyond expectations ,
we did rain hell on japan after that even tho it took a year and a half and the heavy losses of the islands campaign , tokyo paid a heavy price as did a lot of other targets in the next months , let alone Nagasaki and Hiroshima , but this raid made it clear we were coming ,
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there are always those that deny what is being done or has been done - much of it in the name of god these days - its never going to end and we , the few , that try to remind will always be shouted down by those that are supposedly well educated but actually are lost and looking for a cause without regard to what it really means ,
"...Not just revisionism, but denial. ..." that is the truely sad part of all this - then and now , our campuses are currently infested with maggots' , some imported and some lost souls led astray but that will result in more of the same in the future ,
in some ways i wish we had the intollerance of germany yet i know that our freedoms rest in their freedom to be the idiots they are ,
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could be but a lot of stuff was common once that we no longer think common ,
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the islands campaign was a brutal episode in history , i cant think of a single one that was easy to talker or without great cost , im glad there are those of us that still remember that cost , nothing in that war was easy , but a good many things came from it that made our lives better , sad so many of the generations that follow ours wont think as we do or remember , my father landed on saipan shortly after it was taken and the airfields were constructed , he talked extensively over my childhood of the costs to the marines to accomplish that , i was taught to respect every effort of every vet , but mostly learned of the pacific as a child
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On 4/17/2024 at 1:53 PM, Sedalia Dave said:
DO NOT DO IT!!!! Seating the bullet deeper will raise chamber pressures to dangerous levels. Doesn't matter if the load is compressed or not.
Buy different ammo that will cycle in your gun.
i agree - do not do it ,
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good to know - i shoot an 1866 regularly
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this is an interesting thread - learned a lot already ,
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side matches - yes indeed - ive got some id love to deploy in that
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your M1909 looks to be if fine condition , i love mine as well as my M1817 but these revolvers are DA/SA so they dont qualify at this point in time , both of my revolvers are very accurate and fun to shoot , which reminds me ive not opened that bunch up for range duty for a very long time - this is a great time to start thinking of my range trips and what i need to take with me - both need to be included , my M1905 deserves the same attention ,
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sounds like good stuff , ill file this away for future reference , in the meantime i gotta place an order with scarlett i have put it off first for her recovery and now due to imeadiate need that might become more critical in upcoming months ,
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21 hours ago, sassnetguy50 said:
Thank you, it should've been obvious. That is why you don't buy a car made at 5pm Friday.
@watab kid @Wild Eagle your brains are playing tricks on you. Those lenses are 80 years old and not clear, there is no reference scale in the picture, the goggles are upside down. Flip them over, imagine they are as wide as Ray-Bans, the straight perforated band on your forehead, the lenses more transparent, the frilly trimmed ^ cut seals against the bridge of your nose and your face. You look bugeyed like a horse with goggles.
yup , after reflection i remembered but the first impression is where i went , my father didnt have these to my knowledge but he had a flight suite that was thick sheep skin suposed to kep him from frost bilte at high altitude if they lost pressurization , im still pi$$ed he donated it to the local historical society and they sold it out the back door
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glad to know im not alone here
21 minutes ago, Wild Eagle said:We may be kin.
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i lock my car everywhere ..........often have guns in there
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9 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Did you get that on tape? You were there, weren't you?
WE NEED SOMEONE TO TAKE SUCH A STAND TODAY on oh so many fronts, but seems so many of our so-called leaders have been neutered that the odds are against it.
yes , i think the odds are against it as there seems to be an agenda not in the common mans interest afoot these days ,
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nifty looking reloader , it looks like 60s to me ,
Anzac Day 25th April 2024
in SASS Wire Saloon
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my hat is off , covering my heart in thanks for the sacrifices made