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- Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: fanner 50
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2472
Re: fanner 50
I had a Hubbly that was a representation of an 1860 Colt cartridge conversion. It was full scale and had removable cartridges that were two part and looked real. They had full length bullet that a brass piece that fit over one end of the bullet piece. It had a cut-out in the end and a paper cap was ...
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 6:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 13 PROBLEMS WITH PORK
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11460
Re: 13 PROBLEMS WITH PORK
Up until the end of the Civil War the main meat was pork in the US. When the Europeans were colonizing someplace they always brought pigs with them.
- Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: THANKS DAD.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2018
Re: THANKS DAD.
Lost my dad 39 years ago when he was 56 and yes you never quite get over it. He taught me well and I am thankful to him for that.
- Sat Dec 09, 2017 4:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pitchy strikes again!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2098
Re: Pitchy strikes again!
I have seen these before many years ago. I was fascinated by it when I was a kid. It was at my great aunts house which looked like something out of the Victorian age. Formal garden, pond, greenhouse. Inside doily's under everything, cut crystal glass ashtrays with matching holders for wood matches, ...
- Mon Dec 04, 2017 2:42 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New to me Western.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3274
Re: New to me Western.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zimeJ65qdXc
This just turned me off to even considering watching it. What a bunch of human trash as actors who know nothing of our history. No wonder I prefer John Wayne movies.
This just turned me off to even considering watching it. What a bunch of human trash as actors who know nothing of our history. No wonder I prefer John Wayne movies.
- Sat Jun 24, 2017 3:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: U.S. Navy Collision... How does THAT happen???
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6632
Re: U.S. Navy Collision... How does THAT happen???
At least it didn't get hit by the Queen Mary. In WW2 she cut a British cruiser in half with very minor damage to her. She didn't even stop until she got to England
- Sun Jun 11, 2017 10:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nude chicks with guns (adult content)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2404
Re: Nude chicks with guns (adult content)
No fool like an old fool. I guess since I am older now it applies to me.
- Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: LITTLE ASIAN GIRL, AFRAID OF GUNS
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4525
Re: LITTLE ASIAN GIRL, AFRAID OF GUNS
Congratulations to both of you. May she do well in future matches over the years to come. And you as her teacher & mentor must be proud(and rightly so)of her accomplishments knowing you are the one who guided her on this path. As a father and grandfather I realize it is not my accomplishments th...
- Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:18 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Understanding modern Royal Marines rations...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2139
Re: Understanding modern Royal Marines rations...
Sounds like the officers are holding up the time honored British(and other European countries)traditions of we are gentlemen, the troops are pigs. Can't let a little thing like a war interfere with our privileges of rank, they(the troops)don't deserve any better than slop where we as officers and ge...
- Mon Jan 23, 2017 10:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Few of you old fanny burbs probably played with these.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3853
Re: Few of you old fanny burbs probably played with these.
I remember these from when I was a kid. Too bad Pitchy couldn't get ahold of a DM&IR articulated. Now that would be fun.
- Mon Sep 12, 2016 12:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 61 years ago today
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2673
Re: 61 years ago today
I was born in 1951 and we didn't have a TV set until 1958. We inherited my grandmother's TV after she died. It was a Packard Bell cabinet model with doors, I still have the cabinet. In the late 50's Gunsmoke came on at 10pm on Saturday and my bedtime was 8pm. I would go to bed at 8 and my dad would ...
- Thu May 05, 2016 1:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "The Good The Bad The Ugly" music..How Made
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3308
Re: "The Good The Bad The Ugly" music..How Made
Thanks for the post, even 50 years later the music has a timeless quality. I saw all three of the movies when they came out - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, A Fistfull of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More. I never get tired of watching them even after all these years.
- Sun Feb 14, 2016 12:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Things you don't want to hear from your radiologist...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2875
Re: Things you don't want to hear from your radiologist...
I have been on pain pills for 17 years now and SS disability. I don't really like them but they have allowed me to live a halfway normal life. I went through the physical therapy, anti depressant, and every other routine or pill for chronic pain in the book. Nothing worked as well as the pain medica...
- Thu Sep 03, 2015 12:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Elk on the desert
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2173
Re: Elk on the desert
Sorry, I got so off on my personal opinion of wolves that I forgot the thread was about a picture of a magnificent herd of elk that are part of the country's only remaining herd of desert-dwelling elk. An awesome picture of a near endangered elk specie. In coastal Oregon I have seen elk herds(10-25)...
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Elk on the desert
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2173
Re: Elk on the desert
Don't even get me started on the subject of wolves. There is a very good reason they have been demonized throughout history dating back 15,000 years ago. Basically 2 apex predators slugging it out for dominance. We had the war won until people got soft, let the wolf huggers spend a few nights in the...
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Navajo Code Talkers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3581
Re: Navajo Code Talkers
My father a Marine who spent over two years overseas had nothing but good things to say about them. The performed gallantly for a nation that had no respect for them or cared whether they lived or died for over 150 years. Similar parallels can be drawn of the American born Japanese who served in Eur...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 11:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Epic Missile Failure: USS Sullivans
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4778
Re: Epic Missile Failure: USS Sullivans
At Pearl Harbor there were 23 sets of brothers lost on the Arizona. http://www.history.com/news/5-facts-abo ... ss-arizona
- Sat Jul 18, 2015 12:27 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How to tell you have reached geezerhood
- Replies: 46
- Views: 5441
Re: How to tell you have reached geezerhood
Only 57 years here, but sometimes it's the miles not the years. I think my odometer is on it's 3rd trip around, at least. :P Rob You got that right. A doctor told me that my body age was 10 years ahead of my chronological age. I hate admit it but it is true due to medical circumstances beyond my co...
- Thu Jul 09, 2015 6:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A few Pics of Columbia River Gorge
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2961
Re: A few Pics of Columbia River Gorge
Until gold was discovered in California most of the western migration's destination was the Oregon Territory(Oregon, Washington and part of Idaho) My gggrandfather and his brother in law made an over two year journey to California and Oregon starting in 1849 from Iowa and back. They wrote only one l...
- Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Geography, I doubt they can spell it either.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3685
Re: Geography, I doubt they can spell it either.
And we wonder why we are going downhill. They sprout off that we a country of immigrants(6 of my 8 GGrandparents were not born in the US) but at least in the old days they expected their children to go to school to learn something so they could better themselves. Unfortunately, it is no longer that ...
- Wed Jun 17, 2015 2:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Give me a break... A "Top Break", that is!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3222
Re: Give me a break... A "Top Break", that is!
Very nice collection. I also enjoy breaktops and currently have 4. The .32 S&W Hopkins & Allen & Iver Johnson are black powder only. The newer .32 S&W Iver Johnson I have is smokeless as is the .38 S&W H&R concealed hammer I also own. All of them function well except the Hopk...
- Sun Jun 14, 2015 8:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT- Need help With 'Fridge
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1130
Re: OT- Need help With 'Fridge
This can also be a sign of low refrigerant level. It may sound odd but a guy I know who is in the repair business told me this. Sounds weird but it is true.
- Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hard to believe it was 71 years ago Saturday...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1585
Re: Hard to believe it was 71 years ago Saturday...
We owe not only those who were at D Day but all who served during WW2 a debt of gratitude and thanks that they stepped up to the plate and did what was needed to be done with honor and courage. Not to take anything away from the veterans of the D Day invasion.
- Mon Jun 08, 2015 12:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Just got back from vacation last weekend
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1303
Re: Just got back from vacation last weekend
Sorry, not my idea of a Caribbean cruise. Everyone is entitled to his own dreams and visions and I wouldn't want to deny or unjustly criticize someone's dream trip although it does look rather nice. My idea of one is a windjammer cruise on a sailing ship. I always wanted to go on one but now that I ...
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 8:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Big business and doctor visits
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1851
Re: Big business and doctor visits
It is all about big medical and pharmaceutical corporations making big money at the expense of everyone's health unless you are in the top 5% that owns them anyway and then you don't have worry.
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Moving (or turning) houses...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1921
Re: Moving (or turning) houses...
Up in Saskatchewan where my sister has lived for over the last thirty five years, there is an inland lake that everyone calls the seashore. The cabins as they called are mostly abandoned farmhouses that they moved there. Instead of one farmhouse for every 640 acres like 60-70 years ago it is one hou...
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thinkig about a progressive
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3579
Re: Thinkig about a progressive
Not a very nice comment.
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Job security: cleaning up Verdun??
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2737
Re: Job security: cleaning up Verdun??
In another vein, you have millions of empty shell casings and millions of bored soldiers sitting around either waiting for an attack or going over the top. They take these discarded items and make them into what is called "Trench Art". I have a tray made out an artillery shell casing, a pa...
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Windows 10 FREE????
- Replies: 99
- Views: 16956
Re: Windows 10 FREE????
Heck, I am still running XP Pro that runs just fine for me.
- Wed May 20, 2015 10:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "The Retrieval" got me jonesing for a 'hawk...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5724
Re: "The Retrieval" got me jonesing for a 'hawk...
I don't have any Estwing axes but I do have 2 of their hammers(32oz framing & 20oz finish)that I have had for over 30 years now and I can say there is no way to break the steel handle unless you actually try and break it and even then you would have a he** of time at that. I managed to bend the ...
- Sat Apr 25, 2015 3:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BBQ Is Banned In Texas City....(Not a Joke)
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4543
Re: BBQ Is Banned In Texas City....(Not a Joke)
The great Republican governor of Oregon,Tom McCall had it right. He was a progressive Republican in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt. He said come visit Oregon but for god's sake don't move here. He fostered many common sense laws and regulations about environmental issues but these laws were later perve...
- Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Danl Boone
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2841
Re: Danl Boone
The Guns of Will Sonnet. Does anyone remember that series? It was a good one in my opinion. "No brag, just fact" was a great line from Walter Brennan's character. 1967 to 1969 He always ended each episode with a prayer..............can't do that anymore :( Duck Dynasty and Blue Bloods do ...
- Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Think I "need" one of these...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1455
Re: Think I "need" one of these...
Those scuba tanks are used by some contractors for nail guns and drywall spraying. Handy when you don't have electricity to run your regular air compressor. There is one heck of a difference in the volume of air between a tank at 100psi and one of the same size at 4.5kpsi.
- Thu Mar 26, 2015 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Texas Hog Hunt
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1276
Re: Texas Hog Hunt
That guy must have pair of large ones and a death wish to boot. It kind of looks like fun but then I look at those tusks and think, no way. Even a small wild boar can do major damage to you. If I was 40 years younger I would just maybe give it a thought, although most people get to be old by avoidin...
- Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Danl Boone
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2841
Re: Danl Boone
Yes, Death Valley Days was the 20 mule team which was sponsored by the Borax Company which really did use mule teams and wagons to get borax out of Death Valley starting after the Civil War. Most of the programs on the list had a more embellished name, I just made them simpler. Here is a pretty accu...
- Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Danl Boone
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2841
Re: Danl Boone
Add a few more: Annie Oakley Death Valley Days Story Of The Century (starring Jim Davis of Dallas fame) Kit Carson Cheyenne Jim Bowie Sugarfoot Rin Tin Tin Have Gun Will Travel Wild Bill Hickok Maverick Colt .45 Zorro The Gene Autry Show Wanted Dead or Alive Gunsmoke Rawhide Wyatt Earp These are all...
- Wed Mar 11, 2015 5:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ATF Has Shelved The Ban On Green Tip
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2089
Re: ATF Has Shelved The Ban On Green Tip
Why waste money on advertising your product. All you need to do is get the government to think about banning it and the demand for what you are selling skyrockets through the roof along with your profits.
- Wed Mar 11, 2015 5:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rabid racoons
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1439
Re: Rabid racoons
We have plenty of racoons in Portland, Oregon. Great big 30+ lb racoons. We have a 23 lb Siamese cat that looks small in comparison. But cannot do anything about them because it it is illegal to discharge a firearm within the city limits and all the PETA people around here. My wife thinks the babies...
- Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A B-17 came to visit
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2499
Re: A B-17 came to visit
When I worked in a door factory in the 1970-80's, there were a lot of WWII along with a few Korean and Vietnam vets working in the place. The Memorial Day poppy sales were a big deal and almost no one refused to buy one. My donation in the early days was $10.00 which was over double my hourly wage a...
- Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rawhide, Incident of the Roman Candles
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2099
Re: Rawhide, Incident of the Roman Candles
Sheb Wooly was a bigger star than Eastwood when the show began. Still to this day can't believe he sang the song "Purple People Eater' after seeing him in Rawhide in the day.Joe S. wrote:That is right!
In this episode, it was Pete Nolan tho. Very enjoyable.
- Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Some interesting history for sale
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1797
Re: Some interesting history for sale
I'll take the Gatling gun. Perfect anti zombie defense weapon.
- Wed Feb 11, 2015 12:20 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: DNA lineages in the Cherokee
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5676
Re: DNA lineages in the Cherokee
My father told me years ago that any man can tell who his mother is but it takes a wise man to know who his father is. At the time when I was 9 or 10 it made no sense but as I got older it did.
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 7:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: DNA lineages in the Cherokee
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5676
Re: DNA lineages in the Cherokee
When I was growing up my maternal grandmother used to say we were related the English kings way back when. When I did go to trace my linage on Ancestry I found out my grandmother was right. Richard the Lionhearted, William the Conqueror, Elanor of Aquitaine, Viking kings and Celtic kings but so are ...
- Fri Feb 06, 2015 8:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .40-90 Sharps Bottle Neck & Shiloh 1874 just for Bill in OR
- Replies: 61
- Views: 9721
Re: .40-90 Sharps Bottle Neck & Shiloh 1874 just for Bill in
I have an Argentine Remington RB in .43 Spanish which is in remarkably good condition for a gun that is almost 140 years old. I have read that .43 Spanish is almost the same as .44-77. Is this true or just internet chatter? Thank you.
- Thu Jan 29, 2015 3:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hog hunting in Fla
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1066
Re: Hog hunting in Fla
Sounds exactly the the way they used to do it before firearms were used. The History Channel had a reenacted boar hunt on program on Medieval History, they used the same tactics only they had two groups of dogs. One group for running down the boars and one group for close in work. It takes more than...
- Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's up with Gunbroker sellers?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4793
Re: What's up with Gunbroker sellers?
Just like the gun shops and pawnshops not accepting my C&R for C&R guns. I don't even bother setting foot in their shops for anything ever again. I can buy everything I want online with no hassle, so why bother with these brick and mortar idiots. If I want to buy something that requires a FF...
- Sat Jan 17, 2015 10:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The new Henry Original
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2762
Re: The new Henry Original
But none of the originals had a steel receiver.
- Sun Jan 11, 2015 10:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Maine GameCam Pix
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1675
Re: Maine GameCam Pix
So, buy the old model you were looking that suits your needs at a discounted price because it is not the latest and greatest.
- Fri Jan 02, 2015 8:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Unbroken
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3280
Re: Unbroken
In my fathers book on the Marines history in the Pacific war (he was there) was a photograph of a smiling native Solomon Islander holding the decapitated head of a Japanese soldier with half of his face blown away in one hand and his machete in the other hand. When I asked him about it he said it wa...
- Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Guys, pieced together or not? 38/55 336?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1288
Re: Guys, pieced together or not? 38/55 336?
Or Frankenrifle.