Prayers sent.
Rob
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- Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Prayer Request
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4669
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 6:50 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone shooting a Long barreled 1886
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1727
Re: Anyone shooting a Long barreled 1886
Miroku/Winchester 1886 TD, one of 500, in .45-90 with 26" bull barrel. http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m207/CRS0137/10-2-2006-02-1.jpg Since this rifle was intended for heavy African DG loads, the 26 inch bull barrel added weight and sight radius for off hand shooting. It has taken game fro...
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 11:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Does some brass taste better than others
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1767
Re: Does some brass taste better than others
I had a buddy give me 300 rds of new and once fired .44 special brass last night. I had a pretty good taste in my mouth after that happened.
rob
rob
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 11:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Clips and magazines.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1907
Re: Clips and magazines.
I read a post on MilSurps forum just yesterday about all the brouhaha about calling magazines clips and the distinction between the two. I found it quite interesting, especially the last several post. The final posters related as to how when they were in the military nothing was ever said to them ab...
- Sun May 31, 2015 6:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Moving Day
- Replies: 4
- Views: 388
Re: Moving Day
Good luck and prayers sent. I went thru that with my oldest son several years ago. And my present wife and I had to move her adult daughter and 3 y/o child in for what was supposed to be two weeks and turned into 7 months. Not knowing, or asking, the reasons for your daughter moving back in I'm assu...
- Sat May 30, 2015 7:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: YAHOO!!! I finally found 'em.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1518
YAHOO!!! I finally found 'em.
After almost a year of trying to find at least one Ruger New Vaquero in .44 special I had resigned myself to either settling for guns in .45 Colt, having a Sheriff's model rebarreled, having a couple of Blackhawks customized into Vaquero style, or having .357 Vaquero's reamed and rebored to .44 Spec...
- Wed May 27, 2015 11:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Car keyed & a soapbox
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1190
Re: Car keyed & a soapbox
Twenty years ago I had my kids for the weekend and we were driving on NW Expressway in OKC. Four guys on bikes got to harassing a young girl in a convertible, whipping around her and cutting her off, driving next to her and trying to lean in a touch her, she had hit the curb three times dodging them...
- Wed May 27, 2015 10:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .357 Max---41 mag lever
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1526
Re: .357 Max---41 mag lever
Marlin's in .41 mag are scarce. The rarest of all I think.
Rob
Rob
- Wed May 27, 2015 10:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How About A Custom SA Revolver ?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 5017
Re: How About A Custom SA Revolver ?
I haven't read the whole thread on the Ruger forum but I think: A) the grips are probably mesquite or burled mesquite B) the plum color must have been deliberate C) the front cylinder/barrel gap looks good and tight, can't tell about the rear and D) the Bisley hammer might not be a bad idea using t...
- Wed May 27, 2015 9:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "The Retrieval" got me jonesing for a 'hawk...
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5742
Re: "The Retrieval" got me jonesing for a 'hawk...
I enjoyed watching the movie, but if you really want to get you blood pumping about a 'hawk watch The Patriot or Last of the Mohicans. Lots of tomahawk work in both of those.
Rob
Rob
- Wed May 27, 2015 9:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Six seconds
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1648
Re: Six seconds
I have read this several times before, and this time was no different than the others. It became hard for me to see due to the tears and the tightness of my throat made swallowing an effort. These two young men stepped into the breech, into the fire, into harms way, to protect their brother Marines ...
- Wed May 27, 2015 8:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Prayers up for mod71alaska
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4485
Re: Prayers up for mod71alaska
Prayers sent.
Rob
Rob
- Sun May 24, 2015 12:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pappa's Rifle.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 674
Re: Pappa's Rifle.
Boy my allergies are sure acting up, can't see a thing. A fine story that brought back many memories.
Rob
Rob
- Fri May 22, 2015 7:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: No water guns for the Boy Scouts!!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1338
Re: No water guns for the Boy Scouts!!
Are they still allowed to have BSA knives? I was an eagle scout. One of the most effective confidence building exercises we had in the BSA was a deep- freeze campout. Live, cook, sleep, latrine outside in 3-4 degree weather for a whole weekend and never went indoors. Even the priest came out and he...
- Mon May 18, 2015 10:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What It's All About...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1484
Re: What It's All About...
It doesn't get any better than that. I wonder if that gun's for sale?
Rob
Rob
- Mon May 18, 2015 6:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Holster maker needed
- Replies: 13
- Views: 804
Re: Holster maker needed
I have 5 of this man's holsters and will probably never look any further for leather for a single action of any type. He makes most of his holsters in right, left, strong side or crossdraw configuration. I know of no other way to contact him. http://www.ebay.com/sch/dnegel231/m.html?item=26170969752...
- Wed May 13, 2015 5:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Need prayers and physical help if possible
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4065
Re: Need prayers and physical help if possible
Prayers sent up. This alone feels pitifully small but it's all I can offer right now.
Rob
Rob
- Fri May 08, 2015 1:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking for a good quality gunbelt for CC
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1987
Re: Looking for a good quality gunbelt for CC
Nate Kiowa Jones wrote:I like the Looper Reinforced Series Gun Belt.
It's leather but has a kydex stiffener sewn inside.
Reinforced Looper Series Gun Belt
Been using these for years with never a complaint.
Rob
- Wed May 06, 2015 7:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Say a prayer for us Okies tonight.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 835
Say a prayer for us Okies tonight.
So far everything is missing me and mine. But Bridge Creek just got hit again and I think part of Moore. I think we're going to be finding a lot of stuff in places it wasn't this morning tomorrow and a lot more stuff just gone.
Send one up for us please, fellas.
Rob
Send one up for us please, fellas.
Rob
- Tue May 05, 2015 6:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Texas cop pretty handy with a pistol!!!!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2788
Re: Texas cop pretty handy with a pistol!!!!
Good shootin' Tex.
Rob
Rob
- Tue May 05, 2015 6:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Y2K did it!!! (Another picture added)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3652
Re: Y2K did it!!!
Congrats on all your hard work.
Rob
Rob
- Mon May 04, 2015 5:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Went to the range yesterday
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1248
Re: Went to the range yesterday
I have a vessel leaking in the retina.mran1126 wrote:I guess I miss previous posts on your eye problem. I get injections too for a bleeding eye. What is your problem?
Rob
- Sun May 03, 2015 1:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Correcting an error
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1954
Re: Correcting an error
YK have you shot that rifle very much? My grandson, who already has a Henry .22, always wants to look at my M1 carbine and I was thinking about buying one. Product report?
Rob
Rob
- Sun May 03, 2015 7:23 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Went to the range yesterday
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1248
Went to the range yesterday
I went to the range yesterday to try and shoot some rifles, my first trip since the first treatment injection on my right eye. My eye has not responded as quickly to treatment as before, but I was warned before hand that due to severity of the swelling it might not respond a lot until the second or ...
- Fri May 01, 2015 7:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is it rudness, or am I too geezerly?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 4929
Re: Is it rudness, or am I too geezerly?
To come right out and ask a person what they paid for something is in poor taste, borderline rude....depending on how it's phrased. To ask "what are those going for now?" or "did you get 'er righteous?" is not near as offensive to me as the blunt question of what I paid for it. I...
- Fri May 01, 2015 6:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 40 Years Ago Today...Where Were You ?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 7553
Re: 40 Years Ago Today...Where Were You ?
Sixteen years old and having the time of my life riding rodeo's and chasing cowgirls. A much simpler, better world.
Rob
Rob
- Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: we've lost another WW2 Vet
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1377
Re: we've lost another WW2 Vet
I have one more WWII vet still living in my family, a great-uncle that lives in CA. I haven't seen him in over thirty years. Need to make a phone call.
Rob
Rob
- Fri Apr 24, 2015 7:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old dog question :edit - found- not good news
- Replies: 52
- Views: 5863
Re: Old dog question :edit - found- not good news
So very sorry for your loss.
Rob
Rob
- Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GI Joe is Long Gone....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1597
Re: GI Joe is Long Gone....
Can you imagine what General George Patton would be saying? I'm thinking along those same lines, but they certainly cannot be expressed within the boundaries of this forum.... :lol: :lol: Needless to say, Old George would slap some moron ROTC advisor until his ears fell off...... Or simply have sho...
- Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Police officer: brave, foolish or lucky?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4059
Re: Police officer: brave, foolish or lucky?
... BTW, I can see NO connection with this incident with RBKA, it's just not there. Rob The connection is simply: Do we shoot this mentally disturbed suspect on a presumption of guilt / possibility of a weapon or do we presume innocence and take a tactical decision based upon visible reality? It's ...
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Police officer: brave, foolish or lucky?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4059
Re: Police officer: brave, foolish or lucky?
I spent 31 years of my life either as a firefighter/EMT or LEO, several of those years doing both due to my schedule as a firefighter. I am a nationally certified instructor in both fields. I served as a field supervisor in both professions, 11 years in one and 16 in the other. OI, your comparison o...
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Police officer: brave, foolish or lucky?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4059
Re: Police officer: brave, foolish or lucky?
I have watched the video of this incident over and over and over. I usually try not to second guess LEO's decisions simply because I wasn't there. But with the vest cam we were basically seeing what he was and in my opinion both the LEO and the suspect are lucky the other LEO's arrived when on scene...
- Fri Apr 17, 2015 6:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What was the #1 song on your Birthday?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4980
Re: What was the #1 song on your Birthday?
Sheb Wooley's Puple People eater. LOL And yes, I've heard it.
Rob
Rob
- Fri Apr 17, 2015 6:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What evers handy
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4323
Re: What evers handy
I think the bad guys should thank their lucky stars it was an ornamental sword, not the real deal. If the victim had been using any of my Cheness or Cold Steel swords there would have been body parts lying everywhere and probably a couple of bodies. My bed knife is a Cold Steel Natchez Bowie, about ...
- Fri Apr 17, 2015 5:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: UP-DATE: Kel-Tec SUB-2000 in 9mm (Glock 17 mags)...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1448
Re: Kel-Tec SUB-2000 in 9mm (Glock 17 mags)...
IMHO, the Sub-2000 with a Glock mag well and a mag pouch with a half-dozen 33rd factory mags is the perfect ground-travel/get home gun there is.
Rob
Rob
- Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Standing up again. Prayer request.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1959
Standing up again. Prayer request.
Hi guys. Haven't been around much lately. I've been down with double pneumonia for the last almost 4 weeks and finally feel almost human again. The coughing got so bad I was almost passing out and it bruised my vocal cords to the point I've been whispering for the last 2 weeks. Thankfully modern med...
- Wed Apr 15, 2015 6:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Movie "Bandolero"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 680
Re: The Movie "Bandolero"
I was wondering if I was the only one that caught that.BlaineG wrote:What I was refering to was the Characters July Johnson, Roscoe, and Dee....."Lonesome Dove" had those guys, too....... I wondered if there there was a connection of some sort.
Rob
- Fri Mar 27, 2015 4:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Danl Boone
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2866
Re: Danl Boone
One of my favorites.piller wrote: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
- Sat Mar 14, 2015 8:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Musing over Home-Protection choices...
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4606
Re: Musing over Home-Protection choices...
(Mount soapbox) The gun(s) I/We will use for home defense would vary depending on what room I/We in when the problem starts. Located, and well hidden but easily accessible, throughout my house are 3 Glock 17's, 2 S&W .357 revolvers, 2 S&W .45 ACP revolvers, and 3 12ga shotguns. All are loade...
- Sat Mar 14, 2015 6:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: It would be interesting to compare 45 ACP, 40 S&W, 9mm...
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2251
Re: It would be interesting to compare 45 ACP, 40 S&W, 9mm..
Old Time Hunter wrote:SO...set up a fifty five gallon steel barrel at twenty-five YARDS. A 9 with HP's did not penetrate, neither did the .40 or 10. The 45ACP went through initial side...the .357 and .44's went right through both.
All I can say about this test is.....pretty good steel drums.
Rob
- Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:50 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Testing Vintage Military Rifles At 500 meters
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4565
Re: Testing Vintage Military Rifles At 500 meters
Well, firefuzz shamed me into it... I dug out that Remington 03-A3 this morning, put together some cast bullet loads, and headed to the local shooting area. Firing two 5-shot groups for each load at 50 meters from bench rest over the chronograph, best load was a .310" diameter hard cast 198 gr...
- Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Magazine Fed Pump 12 GA....
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1480
Re: Magazine Fed Pump 12 GA....
bet it's from these guys ... http://www.blackacestactical.com/ they were also looking into doing a mag feed 1100 .. yep want one :-) I think you're right. I've been looking at getting a Saiga to play with and one of the "problems" I've uncovered in my reading is that you can't store the r...
- Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 45-70 And Gophers Perfect Match
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3688
Re: 45-70 And Gophers Perfect Match
Shootin' gophers with a .45-70....unless youse shootin' thru a tree or the pond dam youse cheatin'.
rob
rob
- Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:42 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: FYI - it takes about 5-10 minutes to make yourself a 300 Blk
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1318
Re: FYI - it takes about 5-10 minutes to make yourself a 300
He wants to be able to have that in a semi auto platform....here we go with this "platform bs". ......6 Sixgun, believe it or not, I'm pretty much old school too. Probably my most hated word in firearms and gear is "tactical". Back in '81 I saw an ole workin' boy, who stopped of...
- Thu Mar 12, 2015 5:12 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Testing Vintage Military Rifles At 500 meters
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4565
Re: Testing Vintage Military Rifles At 500 meters
You guys shouldn't be putting ideas in my head! I've already got a nice Remington 03-A3 hiding in the safe that I haven't even shot yet SHASTA That's terrible. Drag that lazy beast out and put it to work. If you don't have time, send it to me....I'll hitch it up to a double tree with mine and make ...
- Sun Mar 08, 2015 6:12 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A B-17 came to visit
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2513
Re: A B-17 came to visit
About 22 years ago I took my first tour of a B17 at the big air show in OKC. I don't remember for sure, think I paid $15 for me and $10 a piece for my two kids and a friend's son that was with us to get to basically crawl all thru the bird. My first wife was an aircraft mech at Tinker working on the...
- Sun Mar 08, 2015 6:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Almost a disaster! (pictures added)
- Replies: 54
- Views: 6820
Re: Almost a disaster! (pictures added)
Nice old Remington 550. YK, make sure and keep the nut, receiver plug, on the end of the receiver tight or strange and wonderful things can happen. Ask me how I know....first full auto I ever shot.
Rob
Rob
- Sun Mar 08, 2015 5:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Glock recoil questions
- Replies: 23
- Views: 923
Re: Glock recoil questions
Having shot both 1911's in 45acp and 9mm, and Glocks in 45acp and 9mm, I think there is less recoil difference felt between the Glocks than the 1911's. My major issue with the Gen 1 and 2 Glock 21's is the frame is too large for me to properly grip. The Gen 3 SF frames took care of that. Now if some...
- Thu Mar 05, 2015 1:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: At the risk of heavily offending Sixgun...
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3788
Re: At the risk of heavily offending Sixgun...
I wanna label maker . And a vacuum sealer. LOL
Nice job.
Rob
Nice job.
Rob
- Wed Mar 04, 2015 7:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Stevens 35 Remington levergun
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9053
Re: Stevens 35 Remington levergun
Super nice find. That new wood is gorgeous. I think I'm gonna be jealous.
Rob
Rob