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I always thought the biggest boobs were in Washington DC...or is that the biggest asses...or both?

Over 1/2 of the names in my phone list are SASS aliases or nicknames. They'll have fun with those for about two minutes until they cross-reference them.

The least of the reasons I don't have or carry a cell phone. Don't forget the tracking.

Same here. I don't even have any pics on mine. I think that I have maybe 25 numbers in it. If they check my call log, (they'll have to go through Verizon because I clear it regularly) they'll find that sometimes my wife calls me, or I call home. I don't text. Anybody I want to talk to I give my home number because the cell is usually on my dresser turned off.

Yeah they're cute and probably harmless. Except for that poison spine.

Son Chris has become more interested in old guns. He worked on me for months to sell him one of my 10 gauge hammer doubles. He wanted it to hunt pheasant, ducks, etc. Last time he was down, we looked through my collection. Of course, he picked the oldest and best one I had. Remington Whitmore Lifter. Then weaseled me out of 10 brass hulls.

Easy to break in to. https://youtu.be/gAH6tm0LqpU?si=KLcIYxBamB-hZ1sv

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Did your calibrated "thumb gauge" feel any difference in effort to thumb cock the hammer with the 2 different springs?

I have about 40 one pound bottles of APP . It's about as good as it gets for a Sub BP. I just landed my 45 Russian #3 . Now I have two #3's

Nope, not a peep from them.

They will need a warrant first. Fingerprint recognition is turned off on my phone and I’m old and forgetful specially when armed folks are pressuring me to do something against my will.

Not a "speed loader", but the Mrs has pushed many-a-round into her 73's using this. Get the round started into the gate with one hand push it in with the pusher. She can load ten faster than I can w/o it. It's a wood finial drilled to accept the dowel. 45C round for size reference. Might have $1 invested.

I got a used 66 in .44-40. It had clearly been worked on by someone. The hammer spring had been so lightened that you could see the hammer falling noticeably slower than on a stock Henry I have in the same caliber. Also, it had had it's lever safety removed. (The very early 66's imported by Navy Arms had a 73 style lever safety on them for some reason. Anyway, I took the gun to Happy Trails of The Smith Shop and asked him if he could return it to more or less factory specs. He was able to reinstall the lever safety, and the hammer now falls much faster and never fails to make the gun go bang. Based on how HEAVY a stock 66 hammer spring was when I got an unmodified one a few years later, I'll say that some changes are likely in order. If/when you want to get an action job done, just don't go "too far" with it. Buy the same token, you mentioned that yours is a .45. I will say that you get some blowback in that caliber, and once I went too long without cleaning, and it caused failure to fire like you described in my Lightning. After a good cleaning, and flushing out the firing pin with Gunscrubber solved that problem. So all I say in that regard is, with a .45, keep your rifle clean.

The triggers are shown above. I did the put calipers on it but they look completely identical other than the old one has the blueing worn off. The metal doesn't appear to have any wear at all. As an update, one of my friends clamped the hammer in a vice and took a diamond file to it to make the notch a little deeper. I reinstalled the old hammer, old trigger and old trigger spring and took it shooting. It shot just fine other than I think the pull might be a hair heavier than before. It's way better than whole new setup though. I meant to put my trigger gage on it but I wouldn't be surprised it if was a 30lb pull. It was so heavy it was almost hard to believe.

I don't even want to tell you what I paid for my Uberti S&W American 8" 44 Special . More the double this one !

RIP Mike Pinder, your contributions to the Moody Blues will live on in their music.

Shotgun boogies "66-style " loading gate for the '73 makes it easier to load also.

Idiot convention.

According to most frozen food portions, I seem to be a family of four!

While I have never really been a SxS guy, per se, I have to admit that over the years, a lot of people made a lot of interesting ones, from very simple to very fancy. On the "collector" side of things, and I use the term in the sense of just acquiring things that you find interesting, not for investment, there are a lot of fascinating things out there. I have come to learn that there are just as many variations on the basic theme of double barreled shotgun as there are on lever action rifle. If not more. And what is even more enjoyable is that even things that were "high grade" guns back in the day can be obtained for a reasonable price if they are not all that pretty anymore, but still in shootable condition.

Less powder more shot