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by Ray
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Bridge Collapse (video shows how fast it happened)
Replies: 19
Views: 393

Re: Bridge Collapse (video shows how fast it happened)

"........you want a USN damage control specialists." Way back in the "old navy" there were the u.s. naval enlisted rates shipfitters and damage controlmen. The Navy kept outdated things like O.B.A.'s for years after just about every other fire department on the planet had change...
by Ray
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Bridge Collapse (video shows how fast it happened)
Replies: 19
Views: 393

Re: Bridge Collapse (video shows how fast it happened)

"........you want a USN damage control specialists." Way back in the "old navy" there were the u.s. naval enlisted rates shipfitters and damage controlmen. Then circa 1972 those rates were combined into hull maintenance technician (HT). Then in 1987 the rates were split with a ne...
by Ray
Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: IN THE PAST .......
Replies: 7
Views: 554

Re: IN THE PAST .......

Somehow reminds of when usually abstemious newt fancier, augustus fink-nottle needed courage to speak publicly and had a snifter of brandy before breakfast then bertram wooster spiked the morning's fresh squeezed with a pint of gin only to find out that reginald jeeves had already done the same with...
by Ray
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I wonder if it is like this
Replies: 5
Views: 646

Re: I wonder if it is like this

I have no idea what the by and by will be like but there was once an unimpeachable eye witness..... 4 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things ...
by Ray
Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:01 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Colt 1872 Open Top
Replies: 10
Views: 817

Re: Colt 1872 Open Top

Zooming in looks non-adjustable.....

https://americanhandgunner.com/our-expe ... -cimarron/
by Ray
Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Soothing.....
Replies: 4
Views: 374

Re: Soothing.....

Gentlemen, I am going through a serious emotional and health struggle and beg your prayers on my behalf especially tomorrow (fri. 8th.) The following song that is also one of the ones posted above has been a great comfort to me of late..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vuwBX3JN7wg&pp=ygURZGFuaW...
by Ray
Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Rossi Brawler anyone?
Replies: 17
Views: 2462

Re: Rossi Brawler anyone?

by Ray
Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pig Hunting In Texas With A 50-100-450
Replies: 16
Views: 843

Re: Pig Hunting In Texas With A 50-100-450

Thinking about the original post when we first saw this rifle and remembering that I thought then that that goes beyond a collector's piece into the realm of a museum exhibit.....
by Ray
Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New To Me Winchesters
Replies: 18
Views: 1107

Re: New To Me Winchesters

I remember the younger elmer keith story where he and his brother used a .25-35 and once had to track a long-range wounded coyote to near the state capitol grounds. On the other hand, folk would write to the editor a.r. harding about the winchester & savage 25-35 and he would say something like ...
by Ray
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Soothing.....
Replies: 4
Views: 374

Re: Soothing.....

Ray, she has a classic country voice. Was it this show? https://www.pbs.org/video/tate-emmons-danielle-hargrove-and-jimmy-reno-tlriry/ Yes, fast forward to 32:25 to the lady mentioned above..... B.T.W. several of the video links above have quadrupled the number of plays since I posted them here thi...
by Ray
Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:01 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: forced gun insurance
Replies: 6
Views: 329

Re: forced gun insurance

You can safely bet the farm that someone(s) in baltimore has a piece of the action in that sector & has gotten bribes to author/pitch the bill & will get kickbacks if that flummery is successful. Those insurance backers are languishing due the onerous monthly premiums..... one I saw was $40+...
by Ray
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:14 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Soothing.....
Replies: 4
Views: 374

Soothing.....

Words of life..... I saw this young lady perform on a local public television program and found these whilst looking about.... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ouN8uqgKu2g&pp=ygUiZGFuaWVsbGUgaGFyZ3JvdmUgaGUnbGwgbWFrZSBhIHdheQ%3D%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U1EMDn7uVYU&pp=ygURZGFuaWVsbGUgaG...
by Ray
Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The eldest grandson.....
Replies: 7
Views: 881

Re: The eldest grandson.....

You're helping to bring him up right, Ray. 8) And if we keep giving norville percussion revolvers then sooner or later one or more of them will be one of your hand-me-downs. B.T.W., norville is just a nickname.....for the past 4-5 years, every since his 3 to 4 chin whiskers have sprouted we have in...
by Ray
Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Colt Walker question ...
Replies: 34
Views: 2396

Re: Colt Walker question ...

The .45 colt was designed to shoot horses. War isn't pretty. The best way to unseat a cavalry troop is to shoot his horse. It's a very big target. In westerns you'll see bandits chasing a stage coach. In reality if one wanted to stop a coach you'd simply kill one of the horses. The remaining horses...
by Ray
Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The eldest grandson.....
Replies: 7
Views: 881

The eldest grandson.....

said he wanted a "cowboy gun" for his birthday (nov.) so we gave him a pietta 1858 then a howell .45 colt cylinder for Chistmas. Well the more I thought about it the more I missed that howell cylinder so...... A bit of digression first.... I have to work every other weekend and every holid...
by Ray
Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Colt Walker question ...
Replies: 34
Views: 2396

Re: Colt Walker question ...

the fragile & finicky paterson colts in action..... https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/walkers-creek-battle-of a37987328058bff3771965b2a4d9e941.jpg "powder burn them !" The guy popping that one next to the horses face probably took himself out of the chase. :lol: Obviously th...
by Ray
Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Colt Walker question ...
Replies: 34
Views: 2396

Re: Colt Walker question ...

the fragile & finicky paterson colts in action.....

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/ent ... -battle-of
a37987328058bff3771965b2a4d9e941.jpg
"powder burn them !"
by Ray
Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Colt Walker question ...
Replies: 34
Views: 2396

Re: Colt Walker question ...

The darned Walker repros are tempting, but every Youtube I have seen shows the ramrod dropping and some serious cap sucking with the attendant advancing the cylinder by hand. It just seems to be a system that works only part of the time. But Rube is right -- in its time even with issues it was a hu...
by Ray
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Anybody know Iver Johnson owl head 38's
Replies: 22
Views: 1529

Re: Anybody know Iver Johnson owl head 38's

. I wish they made something like that currently. I concur & likewise a 5-shot .32 single-action. N.A.A. former president/ceo sandy chisolm promised a mini-.32 for four and a half years only to lament that it couldn't be done. All the time people were posting photographic examples of period rev...
by Ray
Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Colt Walker question ...
Replies: 34
Views: 2396

Re: Colt Walker question ...

If I ever acquire an extra barrel I hope to do something like this.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=83RN5tm7I8E

With expectations of closer groups of course.....
by Ray
Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Colt Walker question ...
Replies: 34
Views: 2396

Re: Colt Walker question ...

by Ray
Tue Feb 20, 2024 11:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Colt Walker question ...
Replies: 34
Views: 2396

Re: Colt Walker question ...

A simple and easy wrap of electrical tape......
by Ray
Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: On 01 July last year.....
Replies: 2
Views: 269

On 01 July last year.....

The georgia arms ammunition manufactory burned and was a total lost. They were already having problems getting components, especially primers when the tragedy occured. Well, they're back and just filled a backorder..... 4927004091178299525.jpg Their "softball" 185 gr. fmj rn is a particula...
by Ray
Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .300 Blackout
Replies: 39
Views: 1968

Re: .300 Blackout

I am willing to try same but the deer have to cooperate which apparently they are loathe to do....I may have to go on one of those tennessee or florida canned hunts..... I watched a number of deer this year but didn’t kill one. No shortage of opportunity. I have a solitary forked spike maintaining ...
by Ray
Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: .300 Blackout
Replies: 39
Views: 1968

Re: .300 Blackout

Everyone who uses them are adamant that the barnes 110 gr. tsx at 1500 to 2300 fps. is instantly graveyard deadly on deer/swine..... I am willing to try same but the deer have to cooperate which apparently they are loathe to do....I may have to go on one of those tennessee or florida canned hunts.....
by Ray
Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Watch your backstop when shooting...
Replies: 10
Views: 663

Re: Watch your backstop when shooting...

Hiring honorably discharged veterans as gendarmes doesn't help apparently..... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/florida-deputy-mistakes-falling-acorn-for-gunshot-fires-into-patrol-car-with-black-man-inside/ar-BB1ikQoU We have a local goomer who has p.t.s.d. from serving in the national guard and...
by Ray
Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Bear Creek Supply coated bullets
Replies: 10
Views: 448

Re: Bear Creek Supply coated bullets

I have not tried them in a long-gun but in revolvers, self-loaders and single/double shots (t/c & bond) No egregious leading and the fouling is reminiscent of moly/graphite residue. The website instructions say a taper crimp or slight roll crimp directly through coating into bullet is recommende...
by Ray
Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Round Nose Lead Bullets
Replies: 35
Views: 1543

Re: Round Nose Lead Bullets

And other bullets offered by bear creek.....

https://www.bearcreeksupplybullets.com/bulletselection

The only negative I see is they're still not set-up for online ordering. You have to call.
by Ray
Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Round Nose Lead Bullets
Replies: 35
Views: 1543

Re: Round Nose Lead Bullets

Scott, that is the nasty old Remington dish-based that came lubed some kind of black goo and they shot very well for me, not to mention they looked like they came from the 19th century. These work the same and are much cleaner..... https://www.bearcreeksupplybullets.com/45hphb230 https://www.bearcr...
by Ray
Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: rossi 92 454
Replies: 20
Views: 1022

Re: rossi 92 454

I think when they are are referring to "bulged" cases, they mean, not the obvious feed-ramp bulge of self-loading pistols, but excessively expanded cases from an oversized chamber. You won't notice that until you go to resize the case. In years past, most of the .45 colt chambers and a goo...
by Ray
Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: gun free zone
Replies: 7
Views: 481

Re: gun free zone

Walt wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2024 1:49 pm Ray, I doubted myself when I wrote that "Ransom of Red Chief" was by Steven Crane so I looked it up before turning on the computer to join the forum.

You're absolutely correct, of course. Thanks!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wuONfQg-1 ... Y2hpZWY%3D
by Ray
Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: gun free zone
Replies: 7
Views: 481

Re: gun free zone

"Reminds me of Steven Crane's story, "The Ransom of Red Chief". Cool story....kidnapping ain't always as easy as it may sound."

O. Henry......William Sydney Porter.
by Ray
Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Go ahead and laugh
Replies: 21
Views: 1243

Re: Go ahead and laugh

Wilhelm, two different sks bullets.....one flat-nosed..... loaded in .32 acp cases to .30 s.c. o.a.l.
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by Ray
Mon Feb 05, 2024 4:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Go ahead and laugh
Replies: 21
Views: 1243

Re: Go ahead and laugh

No one laughing here....I have a 7.65x21mm s&w ez. The ez will feed and fire .32 acp and frenchy longues but will not self-cycle them. I briefly owned a 7.65x21mm s&w shield + 17 shooter. It would not feed or fire the shorter cartridges like the ez did/does. I was showing the shield + to my ...
by Ray
Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:57 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Dr. John Watson and his jezail bullet wound
Replies: 15
Views: 911

Re: Dr. John Watson and his jezail bullet wound

The casting for those bbc/granada/itn television series was excellent. As good as brett's holmes, porter's moriarty is/was the evil professor come alive from doyale's pages..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JsiE8ABiztU&pp=ygURSG9sbWVzICYgbW9yaWFydHk%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DoNwlBEXg5s ...
by Ray
Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:37 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Dr. John Watson and his jezail bullet wound
Replies: 15
Views: 911

Re: Dr. John Watson and his jezail bullet wound

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69?sort_order=downloads https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLon7SYjpj3O9m9B9CfmzngynafOUDgy9B And sir s.w. baker on the moorman and his musket..... "How these common guns stand the heavy charges of powder is a puzzle. A native thinks nothing of putting f...
by Ray
Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:26 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: REAL Info About Tinnitus Research
Replies: 14
Views: 1090

Re: REAL Info About Tinnitus Research

I don't suffer so much with the ringing varieties of tinnitus so much as the "diesel exhaust rumbling" rarities. As I type this I can hear what sounds to me like an idling piece of heavy equipment in the not too far distance. No one else but me can hear it. Open a door or go outside and th...
by Ray
Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:22 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: An expert on global warming.....
Replies: 1
Views: 331

An expert on global warming.....

woo all you want charlie brown with your icy hands.....
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but no loving till june !
by Ray
Sun Jan 14, 2024 3:35 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I had just enough shekels.....
Replies: 28
Views: 1949

Re: I had just enough shekels.....

Smithsonian file photo. Could it be the real bulldog used by Guiteau ? The govt. says the artifact is "lost". Can you imagine the number of pawn shop proprietors or their minions who have intimated that their example was/is indeed the guilty revolver. " we pulled the grip panels and l...
by Ray
Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Blue Norther
Replies: 32
Views: 1656

Re: Blue Norther

In the winter of '85-'86 it was often twenty below at boot in waukegan at uncle ronnie's yacht club. Evening duty invariably was either stripping and waxing floor tiles indoors or shoveling snow outside. I was to the navy what beetle bailey was to the army and was equally adept at disappearing eithe...
by Ray
Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I wonder how many of these were 'liberals'...???
Replies: 17
Views: 1127

Re: I wonder how many of these were 'liberals'...???

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by Ray
Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Blue Norther
Replies: 32
Views: 1656

Re: Blue Norther

That confounded global warming is acting out yet again ! Supposed to be +3 with a wind chill of -11 tuesday.
by Ray
Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I had just enough shekels.....
Replies: 28
Views: 1949

Re: I had just enough shekels.....

To save the trouble of taking fotos or producing a video just use your imaginations. Visualize a wonky-eyed short round man who is so hopelessly caucasian that only vampires & albinoes are paler firing the above antique revolver with an obvious and pronounced flinch.
by Ray
Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I had just enough shekels.....
Replies: 28
Views: 1949

Re: I had just enough shekels.....

B.T.T. The one tight chamber just needed that case to be sized. The other four were tried with new, unsized starline .44 colt brass. Just got around to firing 5 primer only wax bullets out of it and hit all five on/near mark at five paces. Now if I can only garner the courage to load and fire 5 with...