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- Thu May 09, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BTW...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 243
Re: BTW...
Kid, You get an A+ on parenting as most of the time peoples children turn out with the same basic values and smarts as their parents. My kids both have done well also but I just can’t get them to stop buying antique Winchesters & Colts….guns and guns, more guns and ammo, obnoxious towards colle...
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Victorinox Caves to the PC crowd...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 493
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: For Sale:New Nickel .30-30 Brass R-P SOLD PENDING FUNDS
- Replies: 3
- Views: 112
Re: For Sale:New Nickel .30-30 Brass R-P SOLD PENDING FUNDS
Will a bank check do? Same thing as a PO check, but doesn't cost me anything extra.
- Wed May 08, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BTW...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 243
Re: BTW...
That sounds interesting!gamekeeper wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 2:09 am I was busy moving house from the South of England to near the Scottish border.
- Wed May 08, 2024 7:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BTW...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 243
- Wed May 08, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: For Sale:New Nickel .30-30 Brass R-P SOLD PENDING FUNDS
- Replies: 3
- Views: 112
Re: For Sale:New Nickel .30-30 Brass R-P
I'll buy them.
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BTW...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 243
BTW...
... I know we don't mention birthdays as much lately, but "Happy Birthday" to my son, know here as "Y2K"! :D :D :D He turned 26 last Thursday. I was traveling on business that week, so didn't make it here. Really just wanted to keep my record going. I think I've wished him "...
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: HAPPY
- Replies: 6
- Views: 211
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Vintage .22LRs
- Replies: 20
- Views: 452
Re: Vintage .22LRs
Very nice Jason.
I'm with you; I love all .22's.
I'm with you; I love all .22's.
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Crossdraw for concealed carry?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 400
Re: Crossdraw for concealed carry?
Cross-draw is one of the most comfortable carry methods for me, though my "dad-bod" stomach is not helping. I won't carry appendix-style; for the safety reasons above, but also because it is just horrendously uncomfortable to me. Small of the back and shoulder holsters are not permitted wh...
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Victorinox Caves to the PC crowd...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 493
Re: Victorinox Caves to the PC crowd...
I don't think they are stopping making any of their knives... with knives, but just recognize in some idiotic jurisdictions and countries any blade frightens the cry-babies... and are now against the law. Simple matter of pivoting to continue to serve a market. Really makes their products less usefu...
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I am not much of a cook.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 194
Re: I am not much of a cook.
Walked right into that one...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Building a matchlock
- Replies: 15
- Views: 334
Re: Building a matchlock
DITTO!
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Gun and Knife Pictures
- Replies: 25
- Views: 820
Re: Gun and Knife Pictures
I think my sign-off qualifies!
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: can't make this stuff up
- Replies: 10
- Views: 432
Re: can't make this stuff up
I stop watching all forms of professional sports a long time ago. Watching a bunch of overpaid anti-Americans in leagues run by over-paid anti-Americans is not something I'll waste my time or money on.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pitchy (Lenn)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1274
Re: Pitchy (Lenn)
Hope you get to feeling better soon, Lenn!
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: So, I ask yet again...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 270
Re: So, I ask yet again...
1970. My baby sister, a whole 15 months younger than I, was hit by a kid that had been bused into our school. What happened as a result would get me incarcerated today. I didn't require any assistance, and those in attendance did nothing to intervene. I'm older and wiser now. Which means there woul...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Off Topic....Great Sheriff
- Replies: 3
- Views: 178
Re: Off Topic....Great Sheriff
I love stories with happy endings!
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Guy & family need help
- Replies: 4
- Views: 240
Re: Guy & family need help
I was at the Charlotte airport, sometime in the last year (don't remember exactly when because I spend half my life there :roll: ) and had just got through security and was waiting on my bag. I look over at one of the bins from someone who had gone through before me and lo and behold, there was a .2...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: atf ban on pistol braces overturned
- Replies: 5
- Views: 316
Re: atf ban on pistol braces overturned
It has been a long time coming. No doubt the ATF will file an appeal, its not like they have to pay for it I just don't see how an agency can make a "law" without congress voting on it. Because we lost our way as a country a very long time ago. Dumbing down public education for a few gene...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New Guy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 427
Re: New Guy
Welcome, Chaser! You've come to the right place!
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: So, I ask yet again...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 270
So, I ask yet again...
... do none of these young ladies have older brothers or fathers?!? From the Patriot Post today: Trans thuggery invisibility: For too many people, protecting the gender-bending ideology is more important than protecting kids. In Lansdale, Pennsylvania, at a middle school, a 12-year-old girl was blin...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Why Free Speech is bad..... (the BB)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 105
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I guess its my turn for pet loss and Christian thoughts
- Replies: 16
- Views: 640
Re: I guess its my turn for pet loss and Christian thoughts
I'm so sorry to hear this, Andy. It is unreal how sad one can be when we lose our faithful companions. And like you, I've had cats that were every bit as loving as dogs, and who wanted to be by my side 100% of the time.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New primers from Arkansas
- Replies: 13
- Views: 628
Re: New primers from Arkansas
I am actually surprised that more companies haven't jumped into the game. After all, when something is short, with demand far exceeding supply, there is an economic opportunity...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lost our pup this week
- Replies: 22
- Views: 655
Re: Lost our pup this week
Thank you fellas...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lost our pup this week
- Replies: 22
- Views: 655
Lost our pup this week
We lost one of our dogs this week. :cry: Ruger and Remington (Remi) were litter mates. We got them 7.5 years ago. Both were miniature long-haired dachshunds. Ruger, the male, was a black and tan, and the girl, Remi, copper-colored. They were the only two in the litter, and inseparable. The middle of...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Happy Birthday...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 143
Happy Birthday...
... to my daughter!
She turned 22 today. I have to call her ma'am now, as she outranks me. She started her career last week as an officer (O1/Ensign) nurse with the Navy at the hospital in Portsmouth, VA.
She turned 22 today. I have to call her ma'am now, as she outranks me. She started her career last week as an officer (O1/Ensign) nurse with the Navy at the hospital in Portsmouth, VA.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old Movies
- Replies: 27
- Views: 943
Re: Old Movies
I prefer the old movies too, I can even forgive the wrong firearms being used as the only alternative would be genuine antiques, nowadays replicas of all kinds exist so no excuses anymore. And yet, Hollywood seems to be obsessed with using brass-framed "Colt" percussion revolvers. :roll:
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old Movies
- Replies: 27
- Views: 943
Re: Old Movies
Agree 1000%Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:28 am I mostly love old movies because they told stories. Today, everything is so woke and laced with homosexuality that it just turns me off.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custom holster maker
- Replies: 7
- Views: 275
Re: Custom holster maker
Thanks fellas. As I said, "fantasy rig". The Walker and Dragoon series were indeed "horse pistols" (and marketed as such by Colt). The 1851 and 1860 were "belt pistols" and the 1849 was a "pocket pistol" (along with the 1862 Pocket Navy and Pocket Police). The...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custom holster maker
- Replies: 7
- Views: 275
Custom holster maker
Hi fellas - Do you have a custom holster maker, that doesn't charge a crazy amount, that you recommend? I'd like to have a fantasy gun belt and holster made - well, the rig worn by my nom de guerre, the Ysabel Kid, in the J.T. Edson western book series. It is a buscadero rig, like the ones used in 1...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Carry gun for an 89 year old man……good one
- Replies: 16
- Views: 779
Re: Carry gun for an 89 year old man……good one
A lot of wisdom with that amount of age. Excellent choice!
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Got the cabin in PA cleaned up for the season
- Replies: 17
- Views: 495
Re: Got the cabin in PA cleaned up for the season
Jason, I have a GSG, the knock-off of the H&K MP5 in .22LR, and it is a ton of fun. I can see why Quentin took to it.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 9mm Round Ball Sniper Weapon
- Replies: 6
- Views: 354
Re: 9mm Round Ball Sniper Weapon
Very cool!
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New member
- Replies: 19
- Views: 438
Re: New member
Welcome to the camp fire, John!
+1 on others comments about the suppressor. Just a civilized use of modern technology to reduce hearing damage to the shooter and anyone near by. If only the government understood this.
+1 on others comments about the suppressor. Just a civilized use of modern technology to reduce hearing damage to the shooter and anyone near by. If only the government understood this.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Oh Man - here comes ANOTHER Trump Indictment...!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 194
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New Navy Tactical Scope Mount
- Replies: 7
- Views: 306
Re: New Navy Tactical Scope Mount
As my Marine buddy commented... "the uber driver just screwed up again".
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the Parker lovers here
- Replies: 12
- Views: 340
Re: For the Parker lovers here
She's a beaut for sure!
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Just one Blackhawk
- Replies: 55
- Views: 2316
Re: Just one Blackhawk
Ooh... dragoon trigger guard too. Me likey!
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Photo of me in my black cowboy outfit during the eclipse.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1022
Re: Photo of me in my black cowboy outfit during the eclipse.
Last two posts!
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Before and after
- Replies: 11
- Views: 397
Re: Before and after
Thanks Bill!Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:46 am Horsesoldier, I might shoot it tomorrow. Winds should step back down out of the 20s and 30s to the teens.
Nice grips Jay!
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Blackrock still at it…
- Replies: 4
- Views: 199
Re: Blackrock still at it…
And, a couple years ago after my Mom died I got a little inheritance. My financial planner went to invest it, and my directive, then e-mailed me the paperwork to sign. I sent it back to him and told him I should have said up front that I don't want a dime of my money invested through Blackrock. He h...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:24 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Blackrock still at it…
- Replies: 4
- Views: 199
Re: Blackrock still at it…
Fink was a guest at a leadership meeting at the country I work for. Said the same thing, then complained that the left and right both hate him. Right... The only thing I can't stand more than a leftist is one that is too cowardly to admit it. You have to hand it to AOC - she may be bat-dung crazy an...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Howdy from Georgia!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 736
Re: Howdy from Georgia!
Welcome to the campfire!
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Before and after
- Replies: 11
- Views: 397
Re: Before and after
A nice improvement Bill I love a little bit of customizing, makes a gun more personal... 8) Me too. I think half of my handguns aren't wearing their factory grips. :D Bill - I really like the sets of Altamont grips I have. Yours look really sharps! This is probably my favorite set: https://i.ibb.co...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: NEW members
- Replies: 6
- Views: 273
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: NEW members
- Replies: 6
- Views: 273
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45 ACP SIXGUN
- Replies: 27
- Views: 806
Re: 45 ACP SIXGUN
At the risk of offending Sixgun, here is my Uberti Cattleman Sabre. A .45 Colt sixgun, and a couple years ago I scored a .45 ACP cylinder for it. Dropped it off at my gunsmith and he fitted it perfectly. It is a ton of fun and my go-to SAA carry gun. https://i.ibb.co/2dRpXmJ/052-Uberti-Cattleman-Sab...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I'd not survive the 'corporate' world...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 609
Re: I'd not survive the 'corporate' world...
I'm thankful - and sometimes worried - that Y2K is not.
Worried because I'm almost at the career finish line. He's still starting, and has a lot of years to suffer through dealing with this idiocy.