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I do. And Doc Holliday in Tombstone with the music lover. And Wild Bill.

The plot on John Wick wasn’t bad, as action films go to me. But I grew up with Chuck Norris, Stallone and Schwarzenegger so I’m pretty warped in the head. I just think some of the gun handling and reloads are pretty cool. I watched a video of him training and he was pretty serious about getting it right. I’m not defending the movie, the writer, the studio or the director. I just like Keanu. Apparently a really good decent guy without ego. Rarer than an empty gun in any of the above mentioned actors films. As for Costner, I believe what you said because he’d know better but the editor might not. And anyone capable of directing Dances With Wolves, getting it funded and keeping three hours of screen time has skill. Plus he rode and shot pretty good in Silverado.

I just rewatched Open Range. A movie I dearly love. But before you all pick on Keanu, who reloads fast and with style each time he runs out and runs out after 15-17 shots firearm dependent and even looks at his magazines to see how many left, think of Kevin Costner. Costner has made enough westerns to know better but he fires about 20 rounds out of one Colt SAA and for just one cowboy. Movies are, as someone said, make believe.

I liked the first movie and for an action movie I was ok with it. His gun handling was pretty smooth and he actually reloads and runs out of ammo. The sequels always seem to go overboard and kill whatever credibility there might be. I am curious though: one coin gets rid of one dead body, or a night in a hotel, or a drink in the bar. The economics confused me more than the fighting. And Keanu is a real martial arts guy. For what that’s worth.

That’s no surprise. Good grab Willie!

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I came across these while cleaning up my gun area. I have no use so I’m thinking $30 shipped. Never been opened. Let me know.

Great shotgun and a good length for grouse. Lefties beware though, they come with a right hand cant in most cases. I spent $700 on a left hand stock for my 20 ga. having learned the hard way. I don’t think the right hand bias is true of older models as I shot one for some years-grouse pheasant etc. until I gave it to my uncle. Loaned, actually, but he had it on the roof of his car and drove away. Never seen again. I miss that gun.

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I pulled the ad, sold the SKB and now own my own 1903 Springfield w wood handle bayonet. Kept my wife, and still have a hog gun. Yeah for me!

That’s one heck of a deal. The 700 is about as fine a rifle as ever was. Been shooting mine since Carter was in office.

I think the Duke would agree that as Americans, that’s what we should do. So thank you for your comments. And on a side note, 44 years he’s been dead and no one can say anything negative about him except disagreeing with his opinions. He was exactly as he presented himself: a red blooded American who loved his country, a good drink or two, and was loyal to his friends.

The Duke was of a different time and hard to judge by todays standards fairly but he was wrong on many points such as the taking of native lands and the Vietnam war, EPA, the civil rights movement. On a separate note: the confederate statues are, in themselves, an attempt to rewrite history. Most of these statues were erected by the daughters of the confederacy in an attempt to rebrand the war as a states rights conflict and not one for and about slavery. And it was very successful judging by many Americans view of the war. The war, the state governments who seceded, the generals who led the armies all did so for the cause of slavery. That much is proven fact in the realm of historians.

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