Dapper Dave

Wow. Some of those cars looked to be in pretty good shape...before launch, of course. The one that took out that big pine tree, looks like the occupants would have survived! The Jeep roll cage...didn't exactly work too well, though.

It's the heat, caused the fractionalizer whompageezer to defrogmify, threw the whole thing out of kilter.

Wow, I can respond again...and I've got an update! Not really a good one. See, I dropped the shotgun off at my FFL last Friday, not yesterday, as I didn't want to mail it through USPS, which is legal to do so with long guns. I figured an FFL to FFL transfer was safest with this unfired beauty, right? Oh, foolish me. When I first went there last Friday, they said the girl who does the UPS stuff was out sick. Mind you, this is a pawn shop, because very few FFLs around this place will send guns OUT, but very happy to charge to get guns IN. C.A.L. Ranch, looking at you... Probably @Kid Rich would be able to tell me where I should have gone, quite frankly I should have asked him first! But then we wouldn't have this rant to read! So, the girl is sick, but I have been doing business with the family that owns this shop for literally decades, including two shops they had before, one down in Marana, so I trust them. I left it with them with the appropriate instructions, and said I'll call you tomorrow, Saturday. I had no qualms at all about leaving the gun there. So...I call Sat, and the girl is in, can't get to UPS until Tuesday. Ok...fine, but I need to let Mr. Griner know, only the right thing to do. So I told him what was going on and he said thank you. So, Tuesday comes around and I am like Wimpy, waiting to give out money! OK, not like Wimpy, but still, it's Tuesday...and the girl is out sick again. Only one person in the whole store can do this? I have to work Graveyard 12-hour shifts, and I have other things to do in my life, including HAND surgery, so I finally get ahold of them on Thursday, more than slightly irritated and lo and behold, the girl who does UPS answers! I am taking it down today, come pay us tomorrow! Hallelujah, not like it's been almost a WEEK or anything! I called them Friday morning after I had my traditional Friday brunch at Hong Kong Kitchen, (best Chinese place in Casa Grande, bar none, good food, good people, have to go Fridays while the wife is sleeping for her Graveyard shift because she doesn't like Chinese food), and I am told, hey, it went out today...via USPS. Say what? Oh, yeah, UPS wouldn't take it because it's a firearm. FFL to FFL, and UPS refused it? Yeah, so I had to take it to the Post Office. I could have mailed it out myself a week ago. No, you can't without a FFL firearms declaration. Hmm, that seems odd, because I've personally already done it, admittedly about 7 years ago, mailed a Ruger 10/22 from here to Texas via USPS, completely legally. Well, you can't and you owe us $70. I am questioning several of my life choices at this point, practicing my breathing control and remembering the Lord wants us to turn the other cheek. I went down to the store, explained myself, managed to leave on good terms, even bantered with the owner's wife for a little bit...but it will be a cold day in Hades before I trust them again. So, my precious cargo is in the tender mercies of the United States Postal System...without even insurance. We pray it makes it intact.

That is really neat. I had a vz-58 way back in the day; As much as I think this is the neatest LMG setups I've seen in a long time, it really isn't hard to see WHY it failed - you have to have both a box magazine AND a belt to run it. That's two feeding devices to buy and maintain as well as carry for the individual soldier, or were they supposed to carry belts to load into one mag, hope it doesn't break, ALA the old SMLE? If it was either/or/both type setup, it probably would have gone farther. I wonder how durable that interesting roller delay system really is, and I wish they'd done some more development on it, as that is just plain nifty...but I'm kinda sweet on Czech made firearms.

My favorite BOLO...that would have to be a Mark XXIII, Unit NKE specifically...oh, wait, you meant TIES...whoops. Sorry. Actually, I have never worn a bolo tie, even though I grew up with a lot of people down here in the Desert Southwest wearing them.

320 is a dangerous firearm to own. I don't like Glocks, but I've qualified Expert or Distinguished Expert for 23 years with one...when I have to carry an issued one I don't feel bad about it. The only SiGs I would be happy with are P-225/226/220, any of those.

Great, it's my day off, figures...

I sent that to the wife, said we need to try it.

I don't know anything about cornbread recipes - this is the only one I've ever made, came out real nice. My mother in law even liked them, so neener. OTOH, I never ever considered dipping anything IN the batter, might be worth trying, if I can find the rest of this box.

I thought that was M*A*S*H, "Oh, I love to go swimmin' with bowlegged women and swim between their legs!" Col. Potter

Y'all reminded me of when we went to Flagstaff for a quick get away, (I highly recommend the night tour of Lowell Observatory), and there was this eatery down the street from our AirBNB that boasted the best biscuits and gravy. My wife loves that, so we stopped in. The "biscuits" were dinner rolls. Big, fluffy, dinner rolls. It was terrible. She was quite irked.

That was the cool thing about Gunner's Mate "A" School, having all the systems inside the giant greenhouse. I wasn't there, but I heard about the dud eject mishap that led to a Standard Missile dummy being flung on to the Admiral's car... Only armored vehicle heat story I have is many years after I left the military I was doing armored transport, cash trucks, with Wells Fargo Armored Service Corp, and I was driving a 1966 International...yes, this in the 90s, with a steel truck, uninsulated, antique, painted dark red, in July, in Tucson, and the goofy little center AC device died. There were two vents that opened in the roof, each about the size of a slice of bread, (to prevent grenade attacks), and two 4 inch fans. Fortunately not being in an actual combat zone, we could let one person out to go into the stores for deliveries and cool off in their AC. We went through a LOT of water in the two weeks before we could convince Wells Fargo to fix the dadgum thing. Almost quit over that, another thing you can't do in a combat zone. I salute the guys who were in the Hot Zone in the steel beasts, thanks for being there.

I've ridden some coasters in the past, but I think my day for that is passed.

Lesfe for the win. That and fattigman...leave the lutefisk for the nuts.

I'd try one but I'd probably have a heart attack.