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Charles

Well that is a great story and the rifle is a great treasure. That the fight took place with the recorded outcome is beyond dispute. It sounds to me, like the rifle could very well have been used. The very early 73s. had to go somewhere and Texans were quick to grab them up. In Gillett's book, "...

Charles

I have been wearing progressives for ten years. They work just fine for pistol shooting where I can move my head to find the right spot. However, they don't work so well for rifle shooting where you can't or shouldn't be moving your head off the stock.

Charles

Jeeze... You guys are such a bunch of negative scared folks. This is what we have been waiting for. I thought SCOTUS would find some procedural issue to dodge this bullet, but they didn't. I have been following gun related law since I was in Law School back in the mid-60s. All of the indicators are ...

Charles

To establish, build and maintain a nation, it requires every citizen to play a part and do his or her duty. This thread could hardly contain a list of the things that people do that serve this nation in one way or another. Each requires some kind of sacrifice and each has some sort of benefit. Noone...

Charles

Lots of memories here. Mitch and I made these for the years he was in Cub Scouts. I also used bullets to add weight. I drilled a couple of holes in the rear underside and expoxied in a couple of Keith 45s. We didn't win but we did have fun.

Charles

Jim... There is not a font big enough for me to give you a proper AMEN. I can probably match you mistake for mistake. Thank God, His grace is bigger than our capacity to screw up.

Charles

OK Jim... That makes sense, but if a Pastor writes in his "blog" that he won't vote for "evil", I would suspect many would take it in a religious context.

Charles

I will admit to never having looked up the word "evil". In my mind, evil is the opposite of good in terms of origin. God is the source of all good and the reverse of that means Satan is the source of all evil. Good and evil are polar opposite. Lots of room between those two poles for folks...

Charles

I think we need a glossary. I would like to know what "evil" means in th context of this thread. There are some politicans in this race, that I think my be stupid, ignorant, petty, wrong headed, have destructive political and social views and a host of other negative adjectives. I am havin...

Charles

Rexter.... Most Texans in 1861 were in favor of sucession. However many leaders including Sam Houston were not in favor of joining the Confederacy. Unlike the other states, Texas had a right to leave the Union by virtue of the Treaty by which they were annexed to the U.S. The others states relied on...

Charles

Caco... My son is in his first year with this company and doesn't make or particpate in any kind of policy making or employment issues. This is a MAJOR oil company, but I don't want to mention the name as both he and his wife works for them. No.. it is not Citgo!! The two rigs he works on are locate...

Charles

I can't speak for other Preachers, but in my 37 years as a United Methodist Preacher, I have never preached a single political sermon or a sermon on current social issues. I don't do such things in the church newsletter, web site or other forums where I represent Christ by viture of my office. I hav...

Charles

Then men in my family have been Mason back to before the Revolutionary War. I became a Master Mason in 1964 and was very active in my Lodge for a number of years. I droped out, but it had nothing to do with the stuff you read and hear about Masons. The Masons are as benign as the Rotary , Kiwanis or...

Charles

C Cash.... Well Grant signed off on Wallace's secret mission to Texas and it did not require or consume resources. It just took the time of a worthless General and his staff. They were not doing anything to aid the war effort anyway. It was a long shot, but had it worked out, the pay off for the Uni...

Charles

Just a couple of follow up foot notes. 1) IN 1847 the Army build an earthworks fort on the banks of the Rio Grande when Texas was annexed. At that time, there was a dispute between Texas and Mexico as to which river formed the border between the two. Texas claimed the Rio Grande and Mexico said it w...

Charles

The University of Texas at Brownsville backed by he UT Board of Regents in Austin has filed a law suit to block the wall. The proposed wall would slice off about 1/3 of it's campus and put class room buildings , lab building and and faculty offices on the wrong side of fence. The Feds said they woud...

Charles

El Paso is one of my favorite places on earth. I lived there full time for 6 years and withing 100 miles of there for another 5 years. I also traveled there several times a year of 20 years. For great Mexican food try Forte's Mexican Elder. El Paso Saddlery is still there although Bob McNellis is de...

Charles

klhill... The Model 1960 Light Cavalry Sabre is pretty common and Ames was the most prolific maker. I would hazard a guess, your saber would fetch somewhere between $500 and $1,000 depending who, when, where and the phase of the moon.

Charles

Terry... The whole idea Wallace cooked up to split Texas off from the Union was an attempt to give him a better place in history that he currently occupied. It was a fools errand motivated by self importance.

Charles

A Dr. Graves and his black servant saw the Twin Sisters at a railroad station getting ready to go north. This was in 1865. They stold them at night, burned the wood carriages and rolled the barrels into Buffalo Bayou. Efforts to locate them still have not proved sucessful.

Charles

Addendum: When the war was fully over, the Federal Commander of the Brazos Island forces was Court Martialed for his actions at Palmitto Ranch. Ford testified on his behalf and he was aquitted.

Charles

Yesterday I gave a speech to the United Daughters of the Confederacy about Gen. Lew Wallace's secret mission to Texas. I thought you boys might like a short hand version. Lew Wallace, who was a Union General from Indiana. He was a lawyer, soldier, U.S. Senator, Governor of New Mexico Territory and U...

Charles

US Military swords and sabres are fun things to collect. I have a small collection. I have just donated a Civil War US Non-Commissioned Officers sword to the Sons of the American Revolution. We have a raffle and the money goes to provide college scholarships for outstanding Jr. R.O.T.C. graduates. T...

Charles

You have a Model 1860 Light Cavalry Saber. It replaced the heavier Model 1840 Cavalry Saber, known as "Wristbreaker" The Model 1860 Light Cavalry Saber remained as standard issue until replaced by the Cavalry Sword Model 1913 designed by George Patton. The difference between a sword and a ...

Charles

Correction made... There IS a difference between historical correctness and a fumble fingered typo.

Charles

Yankee Rangers? Lordy say it ain't so!!!

Charles

Well the Comanche under Buffalo Hump did raid in 1840 as far as Linville on the coast with a stop in Victoria. This is still well to the south of Austin. On the way back the Texan caught them on Plumb Creek, near present day Lockhart and fought a running battle for several miles. Cut the Comanch up ...

Charles

Good question lads..What did I expect? Well I expected believable characters, a story line that is plausable and an attempt to set the characters and story line in a historical setting that bear some resemblance to fact. I am OK with fiction. I am OK with fictionalization of history. I am not OK wit...

Charles

I missed the first episode, so I thought I would watch the second. I am not twenty minutes into it and will turn and watch Law and Order. It is the most historicaly inaccurate, over acted, cartoonish piece of nonsense I have ever watched. My GGGGrandfather was Adjudent General of Texas in 1858 and l...

Charles

A couple of more throught on the Marlin MG in 30-30 1) I don't buy cast bullets and don't have any notion of which ones, if any, would do well in the MG barrels 2) Redding-SAECO makes a mold (No. 306 I think) for the .303 British. It is nothing more than a fatten version of their 30-30 mold. While a...

Charles

Dan... It has been circulated around the shooting community for years that MG barrels don't do well with cast bullets and it a commonly held belief. You will even find some loading books that say, cast bullets don't do well in MG barrels past about 1.6K fps. This widly held belief was one of thep pr...

Charles

I don't have the fact, but I would bet this mega-deer was a breed from genetic controled stock. He would be captured on somebody's high fence ranch and now he is going to be put in a breeding pen and his semen is going to be sold for really big bucks. That is where the million dollar figure comes fr...

Charles

Sometimes gun folks just want to do it their way and come up with some notions of cartridges and actions, that were never designed to be wedded together. With enough time, energy, money and a top notch gunsmith many of the projects can be brought to life. But, when you are finished you will have spe...

Charles

My culture is pretty much the way I like it....in my country. I disdain invaders forcing their culture on me.

It occured to me that is pretty much the way, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Chief Joseph, Chochise and Geronimo saw it.

Charles

Pharmseller... I was a young man 18 or 19 years old. I was as dumb as a box of rocks. I was full of testastaron, adventure and energy. I would take any kind of dare, I lived on the edge and was in general just a kid without sound judgment. I wanted to see how close I could get to the stove without g...

Charles

Mescalero.. You post reminde me of a guy who works for me. His name is Ysidro Longoria and was raised on a ranch near Victoria Texas. He grew up speaking no Spanish. He joined the Marine Corp right out of highschool in 1969. He was not much of a student of current events and didn't even know there w...

Charles

Old Time Hunter... Don't spend any time trying to ponder it. It is just a matter of personal experience. I feel no kinship to the folks in Canada as I have very little experience with them. We have quite a few spending the winter in our part of the world and they seem like fine folks, but still I do...

Charles

Old Time Hunter... I suspect the pronoun "our" is rather broad. I was refering to those of us along the border. Our history, present and future are locked together with "our sister republic" to the South. The American Eagle and the Mexican Eagle, make overlaping circle in the sky...

Charles

Griff... I have noticed that racial attitudes differ along the border. I have spent much time in El Paso and on the New Mexico/Mexico border. The resentment toward "gavachos" in those places are very high and I got lots of hard looks and cold shoulders. The attitude in the "Valley&quo...

Charles

Charles, I dont know how close you are to the border there, but stay safe. I am currently about 140 miles away due to work. But my home and my wife are three miles from the Rio Grande as the crow flys. If the crow has to drive a car, it is about 6 miles. I will be back down there for good when I re...

Charles

Well, there really is no black market as I would understand that term. US folks go to Mexico for cheap booze, pharmacuticals and sex. It is bought there and brought back here. Yep, that includes STDs. The illegal stuff that goes South by smugglers are consumer good, guns and ammo. There are also lot...

Charles

Things are heating up on the Border with major battles between the Mexican Goverment and the various drug cartels and between the cartels themselves. Two days ago, at 6:00 pm, there was a major battle in down town Reynosa (across the river from McAllen, Texas) between the Zetas of the Gulf Cartel an...

Charles

The most important thing is prayer for the fellow"s recovery and it is being done and will continue. Back in the mid-70's, a fellow was sitting in a a tree watching for deer on the breaks of the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle, near Borger. Some idiot shot him out the tree from a range of...

Charles

Jason... Things differ from state to state, but a ernest money deposit in excess of $1,000,00 is totaly out of bounds, half of that is more like it. I also would question who a realtor is working for. I suspect what will happen is, the owner will want to apply that amount to the price of the house. ...

Charles

It isn't a "pepperbox". A pepperbox has a number of barrels that rotate under a single hammer/firing pin. The Sharps is a multi barrel Derringer. The barrels don't rotate, the firing pin moves.

Sorry to be pedantic..but words do matter.

Charles

Those Brownings are fine 22 RF autoloading rifles. The only glich is the bottom ejection. I once ejected a very hot empty case down my shirt sleeve and that was not fun..got a nasty burn.

Charles

Oh Lord... what a mess! I just intended to post something that struck me funny. I am not for torture, but it still is funny.

YOu guys need to lighten up a mite. Jeeze..get a life!

Charles

A Texan's opinion T. B. Bechtel, a part-time City Councilman from Midland, TX , was asked on a local live radio talk show, just what he thought of the allegations of torture of the Iraqi prisoners. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience. "I...

Charles

Mike-in-WV You dad taught you right!

Charles

When I was a kid in 1949, Uncle John and I were talking between the corrals and house at the ranch in Trickham Texas. The toe of my boot scuffed up a length of rusty bailing wire from the loose red soil. I picked it up and asked Uncle John what it was? He said... "Charlie, that is a part for a ...

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