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Gary - That is just top notch, what you all do for the returning vets. God bless all of you folks. That is just fantastic. - DixieBoy

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Fred - You're doing better than anyone could have expected. Good on ya !

Keep the spirits high, and the nurse pictures coming !

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OS - Like Hobie said, good to see the evidence that you're on the mend. That was one heck of a hit. We're lucky to still have you with us. When she was in her early 80's my Mom got broadsided by a speeding driver. Looking at her car afterwards you'd wonder if someone was maybe killed in the crash. B...

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Larry - Glad you made it out of that mess intact and with not too much damage. Back in 2004 I had the roof ripped off of my apartment building while I was inside. That was Hurricane Jeanne. Alot of people still don't know this, but hurricanes often come with what they sometimes call "short dura...

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jeepnik - Excellent point. "Commonality" has its role, maybe. But sending our guys in with the absolute best equipment to do the job asked of them is - or should be - priority number one. - DixieBoy

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Nath - This all looks like a very satisfying endeavor (or endeavour for you Brits) from the start to the finish. Great pics too ! Thanks for posting this. - DixieBoy

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This is a great thread. Alot of questions I'd had for years have been answered here. Thanks to JimT and all of you guys who've offered your experience. This is great stuff ! - DixieBoy

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Blaine - Hope all goes smooth and you make your sale tomorrow. - DixieBoy

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Earl - Please check your PM's. - DixieBoy

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olyinaz - Interesting. Tell us what you like about the S&W M&P's. I'm curious as I really only decided between the Glocks, XD's, and the XDM's. Inquiring minds want to know ... DixieBoy

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Blaine - I'm glad you don't sound unprepared for this. That will make all the difference. Sounds like you've got your ducks pretty well in a row. I would definitely go shooting during your first week "off." Clear the head out, ya know ? - DixieBoy

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Since I'm feeling talkative I thought I'd add a little more about the XDM's. Except for the new 5.25 inch barreled XDM I think that most of them still come with 3 white dot sights. If you're over 40 like a lot of us (I'm 58 now) get a fiber optic front sight for your XDM. If you like full power load...

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I can vouch that the plastic pistol "thing" can not only be catchy, but if you give a good one half a chance you just might get hooked. For me, it was (is) the Springfield XDM. Back in October of 2010 I bought an XDM with 4 1/2 barrel in .45 acp chambering. Liked it so much that I bought a...

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Holy Cow ! I hope you mend up fast OS. Will say a prayer for you for quick healing. - DixieBoy

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Prayers sent for your nephew and all of the other victims of this insanity. God Bless. - DixieBoy

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Speaking of customer service, did you get the magazines I sent you ?

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I'm too ugly for a beauty sleep to do any good, so I'll wish you a happy birthday right now Earl.

How's that ? - DixieBoy

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Hillbilly - You are not alone in having troubles that might seem overwhelming now. I'm in a similar boat. Been out of work, trying to move, out of money, and had two jobs that seemed like a lock, vanish when I didn't need that to happen at all. Been selling things I wish I didn't have to just to kee...

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I agree with pretty much all of you guys but I've got one other gripe about the show. Like most of you all I could only watch it a couple times before it was obvious that this is a phony reality show. I mean, really, who is going to pay thousands and thousands of dollars for something that you could...

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Blaine's got a point. If this guy was possibly not a regular shooter, and not comfortable with a larger caliber, then he likely wouldn't have had any gun with him on this day. He very likely saved some people from ... who knows what ? I'm darn glad he had his piece. As for the little LCP's, an old f...

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This great old photograph is crying out for one of our forum's resident experts to help ID some of these firearms.

I can't ID most of these rifles, and here I thought I was reasonably well versed in "old rifles." - DixieBoy

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Jason - I am sending up a prayer for her too. - DixieBoy

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I used something that earlmck posted in one of the "How To" threads at the top of the General Discussion Board. Paul (AmbraCol) posted the How To thread, and it contains two links. At the bottom of the second one earlmck wrote out information that worked for me. I tried the photobucket met...

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If you guys knew how much cussing I did in getting things plugged in just to post a picture you'd all laugh out loud. - DixieBoy

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Grips are Hogue Black Micarta. Don't know if they still offer them. I've done a bunch of stuff to this Blackhawk to turn it into a reasonably repectable shooter: Reamed the cylinder throats; cut an 11-degree forcing cone; firelapped the barrel (it had a serious constriction at the barrel threads); p...

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I've been at this for a couple days, and as a very low tech guy with a computer possessed by satan, it has been wearying. But I think I just might have it now. We'll see ... Well, okay. It's a start. But I have to tell you guys. I don't have a clue what I'm doing. A little more help (as if you're ta...

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Kirk - I'm sorry for the loss which brought you back home, but glad you got to see your old pal and spend some time in the saddle. As always, your pics really make us feel like we were there too. In the REAL world. Thanks for taking the time to do this. - DixieBoy

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I agree that this doesn't look like any normal coyote I've ever seen. We've got enough coyotes that have moved in to central Florida over the past two decades to be pretty familiar with them. The face on this critter looks too full, and he stands taller than a coyote ought to. Mabye a hybrid as was ...

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Don - You've thrown a couple of low blows here. Almost every state has some cretins who've gone to DC as our "representatives" and done damage, or tried to. Wyoming may be one of the very few exceptions. Heck, the Dakotas sent that awful twit Tom Daschle to the senate for years. Even Monta...

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This whole microstamping deal is nothing more than not-so-stealthy gun control. It is exceedingly expensive for smaller manufacturers to incorporate into their processes, and so, by default, the government gets to ruin a few firearms manufacturers, all the while, claiming that "it's for the chi...

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Joe - Will do. It is so tough when a little kid has to face something like this. I'll pray for him coming through this thing. - DixieBoy

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madman - Holy Cow ! That is one serious hit. I hope your cousin comes out of this as best he can. I'll send a prayer up for him too. - DixieBoy

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Mohavesam - You're talking about the .270 WSM nickel brass if I understand correctly. I just sent you a PM. - DixieBoy

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Larry - It's so sad to hear of this. I will say a prayer for your friend and his family too. You said something here that I think we all need to be reminded of, especially when times are a little tough and it's easy to get "down." "Live life like you stole it." That's a good thou...

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Very cool and interesting thread. And Doc, you weren't rambling, that was a very informative post. I learned some things here tonight. Thanks ! - DixieBoy

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Savvy Jack - Not trying to start a war with ya, but you might want to think about what Don has told you. He's a good guy and I'd bet that he'd be happy if you're able to grow old. :D Well, as old Will Rogers said "Some men learn by reading, some men learn by listening, and some guys just have t...

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Well Jim T and the rest of you folks, I slung a little lead this morning (actually, 230g. JHP's) over at our range in Malabar. Even before noon it was scorching hot, so I shot only about 50 rounds .45acp's, at the steel plates. Funny thing, I had forgotten my eyeglasses at home. I'm nearsighted, and...

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Joe - That's a darn good question. I'll hazard a guess, but that's all it is. Maybe it's because the forests out west are subject to the idiocy of the Forest Service (Dept. of Interior) to a greater degree than the forests back east ? I really don't know, but it seems like everyone BUT the Forest Se...

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Jim - I will definitely fire a few shots for you and for our country this morning. Loaded some .45acp last night just for the occasion.

Happy Independence Day to you and to all the Leverguns crew ! God Bless America ! - DixieBoy

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Hello again - Along with the 6.8 Rem SPC brass I mentioned in the other Karma thread, I've got 16 pieces of once fired Winchester Nickel Plated 270 WSM brass. I watched the rounds being fired by a bolt gun shooter last year and when he didn't pick it up I asked if I could. It started life as a Winch...

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Howdy - Been cleaning up the mess I call my reloading bench, and I came across 19 pieces of once fired Hornady 6.8 Rem SPC brass that I picked up last year. The shooter fired 20 rounds and left his brass, just taking one empty home for whatever reason. I watched him fire these rounds and loading his...

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Blaine mentioned obsidian. Like the flint the Indians knapped into spear points, arrowheads, skinning and scraping tools, obsidian is indeed scary sharp. I used to be an arrowhead collector when I was a kid. Still have a few flint points from up in Ohio. But the arrows the Apaches made out of obsidi...

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Aw, come on OS. He had a mechanical failure. All of those hot-rod P-51's are maxed out racing machines. Had the rods securing that tail elevator (hope I've named that part correctly) broken while a younger man was flying the machine he couldn't have done anything different than Jimmy Leeward did. I ...

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That's all anybody can ask. I learned a few things - unquestionable facts - that I did not know about this crash. - DixieBoy

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BigBore - Well, there's no denying that you upped the velocities considerably over what you'd gotten out of IMR 4227 the other day. Are you getting the low extreme spreads you are after ? I have zero experience with this powder so I'm just asking. Seems like one of the internet criticisms of Lil' Gu...

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OS - I love ya buddy, but I have to say you're flat wrong here. Please watch the video. I'll bet you come
away from it agreeing with Bill Whittle. It is fact based, and draws logical conclusions from those facts. - DixieBoy

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Big Bore - Except that you didn't see a little more velocity out of your 7 1/2" bbl. Redhawk over the 5 1/2" bbl. I don't see that much else that's surprising. Your two Redhawks are giving you basically 1200 fps with that load, the 10" Contender is giving you close to 1300 fps and the...

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Judging by all the candles on the cake Blaine baked for him, I'd say John needs his rest !
The first round of cake cutting and blowing party favors tuckered him plumb out !!

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bigbore - Great little test. I like that you had identical barrel lengths to test with. I noticed right away that your differences in velocity seemed to vanish as you got closer to the speed of sound. Very interesting. And don't worry about those "fuzzy" sight at your age of 47. It gets mu...

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Old Time Hunter and earlmck - You guys are on to something. Something I've been researching as a side issue in my reading about the Indian Wars is this: how did the Indians get all those guns they were able to turn against the whites ? There are a couple of answers. First, traders. Even though tradi...

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