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- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: I'd be more afraid of the domestic Democrats....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 216
Re: I'd be more afraid of the domestic Democrats....
. ...but even the hate-stream 'news' media admits that there is at least one assassin out to eliminate Trump and/or his supporters. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/assassin-targeting-trump-allies-is-on-the-loose-fbi-warns/ar-BB1jk9mP Odd that they don't cheer him on, since the 'news' media hat...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
For an in-depth look at the Portuguese dory fishermen off the Grand Banks, it is hard to beat Alan Villiers' "Quest of the Schooner Argus," and of course there is Rudyard Kipling's classic "Captains Courageous." By the way, the 1937 movie of the same name with Spencer Tracy and ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 592
Re: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
Thanks for sharing Darryl! My uncle was on the ground then, with the 29th ID, 116th IR, Company F. Served from D-Day (1st wave) all the way to the fall of Germany. I had an uncle in an engineer unit early in the landings. they had the pipe bombs that were supposed to cut the barb wire. They made it...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Back in the summer of 2002 I was making a maintenance inspection of Kaunakakai Harbor on the island of Molokaʻi, and I spotted a St. Pierre dory moored there, it was beautiful, in great condition, and best of all it was for sale! I took several photos and emailed them to my dad, and letting him kno...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New To Me Winchesters
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1217
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:50 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: White Rural Christians are the real threat to Democracy...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 337
Re: White Rural Christians are the real threat to Democracy...
yes, Christ's followers are a threat to demonracy, a hybrid term combining demonism with racism . . . Christ-believers have authority to rebuke and bind demons, if we will learn to .. .. ..
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
I think the St. Pierre has the most glorious sheerlines of all the dories. Thanks so much Ji ! I agree with you Bill, they are, to my eye, unbelievably beautiful. Proper dorys have no bad angles from which to paint them . . . Ji's photos bring to mind a gggdad sitting on a French Mediterranean beac...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 592
Re: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
That's a fantastic legacy and great tribute to your Dad and his buddies and their incredible achievements. Thanks for posting!
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 70-150 winchester video
- Replies: 9
- Views: 512
Re: 70-150 winchester video
Good video. Thots ->
gun is too unreliable for DG imo
bullet is wrong shape and wrong hardness for DG imo
a lion would have killed that guy imo
but I never hunted the DG that surrounded me when i was deer hunting and don't know what i am opinionated about, imo
LOL grizz
gun is too unreliable for DG imo
bullet is wrong shape and wrong hardness for DG imo
a lion would have killed that guy imo
but I never hunted the DG that surrounded me when i was deer hunting and don't know what i am opinionated about, imo
LOL grizz
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 70-150 winchester video
- Replies: 9
- Views: 512
Re: 70-150 winchester video
I know this was somewhat of a mythical round in the day but found this repro so to speak interesting. The fella claiming it gets better taylor knockout factor than 577 nitro is a bit miss-applied since that factor overly favors the fat 12ga. But still seems a lot of power. 4700ftlbs with a 900 grai...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
And a follow-up to the machinery sounds fork -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPf0lKx5UvA careful with the volume, enjoy !!
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pig Hunting In Texas With A 50-100-450
- Replies: 16
- Views: 941
Re: Pig Hunting In Texas With A 50-100-450
Beauty and the beast ! What a rifle !
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Most accurate Blackhawk caliber?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1937
Re: Most accurate Blackhawk caliber?
I think the 44s have inherent accuracy. but i think the 7mms are also inherently accurate. the 10inch sbh I hunted with seemed inherently accurate shooting plain base cast bullets at unknown velocity. the bullets hit the dot every time, when it was centered....... LOL made lots of venison, and daugh...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Ji, Grizz, I agree on getting lost on Youtube watching old iron at work and listening to those wonderful engine notes. Time just flows right on by ... 8) Speaking of machinery I stumbled on an aircraft site with some video of small plane grass field flights. The really great aircraft engines make r...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: All the 'conspiracies' keep turning out to be REAL...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1130
Re: All the 'conspiracies' keep turning out to be REAL...
I couldn't stay awake long enough to read it . . . is this an admission that SuddenAdultDeathSyndrome, [SADS], is IN FACT caused by the jabs and boost-jabs ?AJMD429 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:38 pm .
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ful ... ehf2.14680
The myocarditis keeps coming up.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Smokehouse Creek Fire
- Replies: 9
- Views: 979
Re: Smokehouse Creek Fire
A conflagration in real-time. Prayers UP for all involved, and for the fires to end now . . .
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Ji, Grizz, I agree on getting lost on Youtube watching old iron at work and listening to those wonderful engine notes. Time just flows right on by ... 8) That's a fact. About those engine sounds -> when we were drifting at night in bouncy seas and the sound of 2000 gallons of fuel sloshing around b...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: I thought they were almost all DEMOCRATS...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 684
Re: I thought they were almost all DEMOCRATS...
the word [ DEMOCRAT ] . is derived from two words: [demon] AND [rat] . the unappreciated dictionary says that the words were combined by replacing the letter [n] with the letter [c] to make a compound ai issue of [mis] AND [dis] information, from which they developed the Verb [dissed]. . been foolin...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 947
Re: crowd funding the gospel
The talking Bibles we gave out were searchable by Book, Chapter and Verse. They were complete Bibles .. Old and New Testaments. We got them from South Africa ... about $25 each. We gave out several hundred of them. A friend of mine brought in 500 by himself. Also had some friends who ran a radio st...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 947
Re: crowd funding the gospel
The Official State language is Portuguese. There are 26 or 27 tribal languages. The area where I was had 2 predominant ones. What we have written in the Bible was passed orally for a long time before it began being written down ... at least great parts of it were. The thing about oral cultures is t...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: We are NOT 'headed towards a Police-State'
- Replies: 1
- Views: 577
Re: We are NOT 'headed towards a Police-State'
. That time has passed, clearly... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/bereaved-j6-parent-ed-lang-protests-outside-dc/ SO jail without trial, and 'disappearing' dissenters is ok if they belong to the wrong party, but even those committing violence are ignored, if they belong to the right party...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
good link, thanks BillBill in Oregon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:38 am Good stuff on old iron and marine engines in particular right here:
https://www.smokstak.com/forum/forums/a ... motors.38/
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 947
Re: crowd funding the gospel
We used the audio Bibles a lot in Mozambique and my friends there still are giving them out. When I was there the government admitted at least 45% of the country was illiterate. I knew a lot of Mozambicans that could not read or write, including pastors and evangelists. They loved the audio Bibles....
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Córdoba Argentina 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1456
Re: Córdoba Argentina 2024
Dittos on all, it's epic for sure . . .Rimfire McNutjob wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:09 pm That looks like an amazing trip. Great pictures ... appreciate the post. Bummer that it's too risky to take your own guns.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:05 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Math is Hard
- Replies: 2
- Views: 673
Re: Math is Hard
Bogus or worse. I know someone who knows someone who proposes that the entire episode was completely different from the published narrative . . . I don't have a link yet, but will post something when I find it. Meanwhile I bet someone from around here knows something . . .
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: crowd funding the gospel
- Replies: 9
- Views: 947
crowd funding the gospel
https://jashow.org/the-john-ankerberg-show/ I have mentioned this before, but right now there is a very heart-warming feel-good video with one of the most amazing men in the world doing the most amazing thing in the world. I want you to see this video, because the results of the Good News everywhere...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "Where Does It Say...?"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 801
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: old shep
- Replies: 2
- Views: 609
Re: old shep
my old Shep is tottering along the edge of loneliness now .it's a long and short trail at the same timeole pizen slinger wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:27 am https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... NsM10,st:0
ole pizen slinger
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: "The Opposite of what Scientists Wanted to Happen .."
- Replies: 4
- Views: 712
Re: "The Opposite of what Scientists Wanted to Happen .."
. I see all these articles where scientists are surprised at some new finding, clearly indicating how little solid knowledge they have about things that affect 'climate'. Yet they insist on being given power and money to somehow control climate on our behalf and save us from ourselves. https://www....
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Colt Walker question ...
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2573
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...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Young lady dead because of democrat policy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 860
Re: Young lady dead because of democrat policy
This young lady is dead because all demoncrats are in lock step with biden and mayorkas, her blood is on the hands of every demoncrat. https://news.yahoo.com/laken-riley-murder-suspect-jose-143424772.html Well, yeah but, to put a finer point on it, the demoncraps HAVE MURDERED MULTIPLE MILLIONS and...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Beauties, are they both Aeolus dories? Would love to try and row from Puget Sound to Juneau. I was thinking of rowing my Pearson dory from Kailua Beach, Oʻahu to Haleʻolono Harbor, Molokaʻi, but my wife talked me out of it. About a 40 mile run across the Kaʻiwi channel in usually rough seas. Maybe ...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Thanks mucho Ji. great memories. great photos. great family. great boats. great times. . FNL_dory-boat.JPG this is the dory i rowed across San Francisco some number of times. night time was my favorite time to be in the island of darkness surrounded by millions of tons of lights. i towed it to Alask...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Grizz, it had not occurred to me that the pulsing of the boat speed would make for killer trolling! 8) That plus the rolling motion of the boat, the ones who tuned that out-produced the ones who didn't know. The underwater sounds make a difference in a boat that fish will follow, or won't. My last ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Grizz, here you go, bro. Not many places you can see SEVERAL Case steam tractors chugging along in a line. 8) https://www.antiquepowerland.com/steam-up Ji, you are calling up all sorts of memories! I bought a copy of John Gardner's classic "Dory Book" while in college -- and Acadia was st...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Back in my young teen years my dad a New England native, and a lover of fishing, and dories decided he wanted to get back into commercial fishing. This was around 1974 after his recent retirement from the Federal Government. Of course his dream commercial Fishing boat was a 26' Saint Pierre Dory. H...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 94P. What to do with it?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1568
Re: 94P. What to do with it?
I have a B-92 project gun that had a badly bulged barrel and shot 240s just fine before I sawed the barrel off . . . Assuming you rebuild your B-92 in 44 mag I’d be tempted to use a pistol spec barrel with a tighter bore and faster twist. Rifle chamber reamers in 44 mag also include a long throat, ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 94P. What to do with it?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1568
Re: 94P. What to do with it?
If you review the SAAMI spec for the 44 mag in a rifle and compare them to the SAAMI spec for the 44 mag in pistol you will find they are virtually two different cartridges. Different barrel and chamber dimensions. The pistols have a tighter barrel diameter and twist whereas the rifles have signifi...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Back home in dear old Oregon they have an entire "village" called Powerland in Brooks, a small town just off Interstate 5 north of Salem. On two back-to-back weekends in summer, they hold the annual "Steam Up" featuring steam power, one-lung power, and all sorts of wonderful old...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 94P. What to do with it?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1568
Re: 94P. What to do with it?
If it groups factory white box 240Gr JSP, Because if it does, then it's OK. If it groups 296Gr it's a gem. Ours would not group 300Gr jacketed. It's the twist rate issue. It was designed to shoot one load at one velocity. My pistol's 405Gr would not cycle, but single loaded it went sideways by the t...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:22 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Fox going the way of Drudge...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 915
Re: Fox going the way of Drudge...
Grizz, do you remember when Harris Faulkner was interviewing Newt Gingrich....Newt began talking about George Soros and the camera suddenly went to a gal who was apparently a manager, who told him they don't allow criticism of George Soros on Fox. There's little doubt that Soros holds a controlling...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Drones as a carcass-finding aid ...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 958
Re: Drones as a carcass-finding aid ...
a cadaver drone? seems to me they are primarily proficient at creating cadavers . . .
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Balloon was just a 'hobby' balloon.... But....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 666
Re: Balloon was just a 'hobby' balloon.... But....
this is complete unmitigated bs. that balloon was some kind of spy apparatus, documented as such IF IRC. . . HOWEVER , the one over the arctic or yukon was in fact an amateur experimental high altitude balloon. they are flown competitively scored by how high they go, how long they stay aloft, and di...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3657
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
I have had a couple of original hit-and-miss engines -- and miss them. This nicely machined little model goes together astonishingly well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hodz4Q3jefU&t=1s Way back Jerome, AZ had a living museum with a make-and-break engine running a sawmill. full torque was som...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Fox going the way of Drudge...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 915
Re: Fox going the way of Drudge...
. They are sliding to the left... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/moment-fox-news-takes-trump-off-air-to-fact-check-south-carolina-speech/ar-BB1iNekp The sad thing is that so many low-information voters think Fox is the 'balance' to MSNBC and CNN, and it's at this point just slightly less l...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bolt Cannon.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1524
Re: Bolt Cannon.
I would like to encourage a high level of caution in regards to attempting this type of thing. I own and fire several Black Powder Cannons. My cannons were designed and built following the very stringent safety rules and guidelines of the North-South Skirmish Association (N-SSA) and the American Ar...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Accidentally won another rolling Block
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2714
Re: Accidentally won another rolling Block
Grizz: you mentioned a 7mm carbine that you once had. Was that a 7mm Spanish Mauser? I have a 7mm Spanish Mauser infantry rifle that I never shot. Bought it to convert the action into a Black Powder cartridge rifle -- a .50-70 Govt. with a wiping rod. Never got around as the death of the Lone Star ...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bolt Cannon.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1524
Re: Bolt Cannon.
What I was getting at is class 3 destructive device due to the size of that big bolt cannon might get the attention of atf. Hand made firearms are one thing , this is a whole nuther realm in which the feds might get their skivvies in a wad over. I'm sure you are right. but people make mortars and s...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bolt Cannon.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1524
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bolt Cannon.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1524