Black Angus McPherson

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I saw a guy get his bumper pushed up into his rear seat when he "brake checked" the truck behind him. Tailgaters aren't worth risking my car over. And my car isn't anything to get excited about. It's not pretty, it's just transportation. Angus

Thanks. 1922-1938 makes a lot more sense. Fits GunHugger's description of the Model 39, too. Angus

Interesting. I just checked, and the serial number on my Model 39 starts with an "S". According to the list above that would make it 1958-59 manufacture. It belonged to one of my grandfathers and I thought he died in 1958. It couldn't have been much after. I need to do some more checking. In any case, it appears to have been well used, but not abused. It's obviously got some miles on it. When did the Model 39 become the Model 39-A?

In the middle ages castles might have an "oubliette"(sp?) I think that means "forgotten" or "forget". It was basically a hole they would throw someone down. Someone might occasionally throw some food down to them, or they might not. Angus

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We had 3 bison get loose out around here yesterday. "One of the owners" got herself gored trying to herd them back to where they belonged. The police shot them, on the owner's instruction, because they couldn't get them wrangled and were in a populated area. I got a kick out of it when the news folk said the locals started "harvesting" the bison almost immediately. The owners were ok with it because they didn't want to see all that meat go to waste. mmmmm, bison burger sounds pretty good right about now. Newsman on the scene said he heard 8 to 10 shots. I wonder what caliber rifle they were using. I'd have thought a .223 would take more than that to put down 3 bison. I say rifle because it didn't look like a shotgun the PD was carrying on the news feed. Angus

If a 39A is going for $600, what's the going price for a Model 39? I don't know the year, but the original owner was born in the 1890's and died in 1958. If somebody could point me to a website that shows years of manufacture by serial number I could probably figure it out. Angus

Just thrown in a tumbler for a few minutes then thrown in a plastic bag.

9mm Brass 1000 for $56 shipped. 2000 for $96 shipped 9mm Nickle 1000 for $56 shipped. 2000 for $96 shipped .40 S&W Brass 1000 for $56 shipped. 2000 for $96 shipped .40 S&W Nickle 1000 for $56 shipped. 2000 for $96 shipped (If I have 2000 nickle .40s) Shipping only included in CONUS Angus

No button I can find. There is no progress bar visible. I had my wife check. She says I'm not. If I click on the "Learn more" I get a Red circle/slash sign that says "support.google.com refused to connect" When I figure out how to clear my cache I'll try that. Oddly enough, if I click on one of the "More videos on YouTube" shown when I'm asked to sign in it will open a new window and take me to YouTube.com and run that selected video. But not the original video I wanted to see. Weird. Angus

Lots of you folks embed Youtube videos in your posts. Recently I've had a problem accessing those videos. I never used to, but I do now. When I click on a video to play I get a message saying I have to prove I'm not a bot and to log in. Oddly enough, there doesn't seem to be an option available to prove I'm not a bot or to log in. Therefore, I don't get to watch the videos. FWIW, I have never logged in to YouTube in my life. Does anyone else here have that problem? If you did, how did you fix it? For the most part I don't really care a whole lot, but some of the videos look really interesting and the comments by others often increase my interest in seeing them. Not enough to actually go to YouTube to search for and watch them, tho. Thanks, Angus

Way back in the day a couple detectives wired up a suspect to a xerox machine to question him. There was a page on the scanner that said "YOU'RE LYING". They'd ask the guy a question then hit the copy button and out popped a page that said "YOU"RE LYING". Freaked the guy out. It helps if they're drunk or high. I don't recall how effective the interrogation turned out to be, but it was funny as hell. Night shift guys could get by with a lot of "stuff" with no brass around. Angus

That's funny. I got two identical messages yesterday from two different numbers in the space of one hour. I deleted both. Of course mine were from the Missouri Highway Patrol. If I disappear for a while I may be in jail for a traffic ticket I never got. Angus

I think context is very important. If the two guys are breaking into the house, "shouldering" would mean putting the butt of the rifle up to his shoulder. If he's about to go for a stroll with the two guys thru the woods, then "shouldering" would mean leaning the rifle against his shoulder to carry it. In your example I would guess the third guy was coming out of the back room preparing to defend himself. When he recognized the other two subjects as friends and realized he did not need the rifle for defense, he raised it to carry it back to the back room. Context can change everything. Angus