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- Sun May 12, 2024 5:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Street Awareness...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 483
Re: Street Awareness...
People who do things like that should be put down like rabid animals Now as a physician I realize that people who rape and murder just have a medical condition ; it’s actually caused by a mineral deficiency . If we just treat them by correcting that mineral deficiency, then they will no longer rape...
- Sat May 11, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This Aero Precision offering will upset some folks...
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1099
Re: This Aero Precision offering will upset some folks...
Hey Doc, good working guns there. Here's a tip about the stocks in wet weather business. All of my firearms were bedded in vaseline, the dollar-store cosmoline. The under sides of the guns look brand new. They were disassembled at the end of the hunting and logging activities, the vaseline cleaned ...
- Sat May 11, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What Are You Hunting with Your Levergun...
- Replies: 39
- Views: 998
Re: What Are You Hunting with Your Levergun...
I hunt deer and good times. I like that trio - one for each kind of weather or time of day. I use 44 Mag mostly, but switch between a scoped Ruger 96/44 for 'dawn/dusk', and a 'side-lever' Ruger 77/44 with a NEGS Aperture sight and synthetic stock and rubber sling for rain/snow use, and a Marlin 18...
- Sat May 11, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Childhood Gun Deaths and Injuries.... maybe we need more laws...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 96
Childhood Gun Deaths and Injuries.... maybe we need more laws...
. You can bet this poor little 13 year-old girl will be tallied up as a 'childhood gun injury' - or if she dies, a 'childhood gun death'. "...poor little child..." indeed..... https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/05/11/chicago-13-year-old-girl-shot-allegedly-stealing-car/ :roll: I'...
- Sat May 11, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Standard 22LR rifling twist rate?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 336
Re: Standard 22LR rifling twist rate?
. I've shot 22 LR through my Mini-14 via a Ceiner conversion kit, with decent accuracy - tennis ball sized targets at 25 yards easy at 50 yards a mild challenge. I've got one of those, but since the barrel change I can't use it. :( Original barrel was 1-7, swapped over to 1-9 bull barrel. That's we...
- Sat May 11, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Street Awareness...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 483
Re: Street Awareness...
. Truly the history of civilization has ALWAYS been somewhat like this. In fact in Biblical times you wouldn't travel far from home without a band of trusted co-travelers, and a woman would never go much of any place alone. Since Colt "made all men and women equal", we in the U.S., where t...
- Sat May 11, 2024 2:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BTW...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 453
Re: BTW...
. The young kids these days have a HUGE problem finding decent friends, and near-impossibility finding dating candidates for a serious life-long committment. Those fortunate enough to be raised within a good church environment have some decent folks to be around their age, but the ones who go off to...
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This Aero Precision offering will upset some folks...
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1099
Re: This Aero Precision offering will upset some folks...
. I guess I'll post a pic of my current go-to levergun, which may look funny, but does a few things I require sometimes that the 'normal' ones cannot do. Screenshot_20240510-220802-682.png Some things my normal leverguns just don't do all that well, and sometimes I need a gun that is: - able to do r...
- Fri May 10, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Standard 22LR rifling twist rate?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 336
Re: Standard 22LR rifling twist rate?
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I've shot 22 LR through my Mini-14 via a Ceiner conversion kit, with decent accuracy - tennis ball sized targets at 25 yards easy at 50 yards a mild challenge.
I've shot 22 LR through my Mini-14 via a Ceiner conversion kit, with decent accuracy - tennis ball sized targets at 25 yards easy at 50 yards a mild challenge.
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Street Awareness...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 483
Re: Street Awareness...
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I see lots of security camera videos from inside stores or wherever, that zoom and track once there is movement; I wonder if there are automatic-tracking ones ..???
I see lots of security camera videos from inside stores or wherever, that zoom and track once there is movement; I wonder if there are automatic-tracking ones ..???
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Victorinox Caves to the PC crowd...
- Replies: 30
- Views: 988
Re: Victorinox Caves to the PC crowd...
I love these work-arounds; the best of human ingenuity...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: In the Absence of Alliant Powders
- Replies: 12
- Views: 477
Re: In the Absence of Alliant Powders
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"...but I am in the fourth quarter not far from the two-minute warning..."
That's an interesting way to put it, but I can relate; "...not sure how many more times I'm going to have to fill the wood shed for the winter..." is the way I usually put it...
"...but I am in the fourth quarter not far from the two-minute warning..."
That's an interesting way to put it, but I can relate; "...not sure how many more times I'm going to have to fill the wood shed for the winter..." is the way I usually put it...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What Are You Hunting with Your Levergun...
- Replies: 39
- Views: 998
Re: What Are You Hunting with Your Levergun...
. My first levergun was a 44 Mag Marlin 1894, and the first kill was a chipmunk; bullet appeared to hit the thorax, with a through-and-through wound channel (difficult to tell since the torso exploded). A pretty humane kill. The second kill was the wheelbarrow that was behind the chipmunk; bullet hi...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:14 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Street Awareness...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 483
Street Awareness...
. Please stay alert, and especially motivate the women in your life to do so...! https://twitter.com/ppv_tahoe/status/1788601716465664097 If someone is walking down the street, I'd say they need to watch their back well enough that if someone is within ten yards they'd better be braced, or step asid...
- Fri May 10, 2024 6:14 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Gun control, Socialism, and rejection of Christianity...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 74
Gun control, Socialism, and rejection of Christianity...
. All you need is those three 'progressive' ideals, and you get "...children piled up and shot..." :evil: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/children-piled-up-and-shot-in-sudan-as-un-envoy-says-world-cannot-ignore-this-silent-war-and-famine/ar-BB1m6NRV Yet today's Democrats worship those...
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The CLASSIC Strawman Argument...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 120
The CLASSIC Strawman Argument...
. "... As discussions on gun control evolve, the delicate balance between personal freedoms and public safety remains a central point of contention in the ongoing dialogue on firearm regulations ..." There is no "balance" between personal freedoms and public safety - BOTH require...
- Thu May 09, 2024 7:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This Aero Precision offering will upset some folks...
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1099
Re: This Aero Precision offering will upset some folks...
. There's more and more of these now... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/tactical-lever-action-the-ultimate-truck-gun-or-an-abomination-of-a-classic-platform/ar-AA1nZrNF 'Tactical Leverguns' are certainly here to stay. Kind of like the 'Mattel Toy' AR-15 that came out in the 70's that most ...
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Eliminating Chronic Wasting Disease - maybe...???
- Replies: 5
- Views: 259
Eliminating Chronic Wasting Disease - maybe...???
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It would be nice if this works, but lots of questions remain...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lif ... r-BB1m3zdC
It would be nice if this works, but lots of questions remain...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lif ... r-BB1m3zdC
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: "Biden won't be on Ohio ballot in November"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 105
"Biden won't be on Ohio ballot in November"
. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ohio-lawmakers-sink-plan-to-get-biden-on-november-ballot-what-happens-now/ar-BB1m3Qpf First of all, there's no way the Democrats will keep him as candidate - they want him on as long as possible so they can bring in a dark-horse replacement with minimal time...
- Wed May 08, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Squatting and Unlawful Occupation
- Replies: 1
- Views: 97
Squatting and Unlawful Occupation
. It just dawned on me that the same 'liberal' politians and electorate who think it is ok for someone who is 'disadvantaged' to just burglarize and occupy a home owned by someone 'lucky' enough to be 'privileged' to own the home, and thereby take possession and NOT be evicted, are the SAME politici...
- Wed May 08, 2024 9:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Victorinox Caves to the PC crowd...
- Replies: 30
- Views: 988
Re: Victorinox Caves to the PC crowd...
. YK is right - it is similar to the neutered AR-15’s that are ‘California compliant’. I can’t really blame the company for wanting sales to happen for people who live in police-states, but it is still a capitulation. Perhaps if they countered it by putting something legal but offensive on the produ...
- Wed May 08, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: @#!&%# Grrrr
- Replies: 22
- Views: 767
Re: @#!&%# Grrrr
. That’s why within a hundred yards of me right now (house, barns, sheds, cars, random spots in yard) I’ll bet there are at least 30 pairs of vicegrips. Whenever I can’t find a pair, I’ll pick up another one next time I’m at the hardware store, and, of course, as soon as I get home with the new pair...
- Wed May 08, 2024 9:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BTW...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 453
Re: BTW...
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Wow time flies. My kids similar ages and they used to be toddling around the house and yard, making messes, catching snakes, and helping me lose my tools. Now they being over grandkids to do those things.
Good news is one now lives in the house next door.
Wow time flies. My kids similar ages and they used to be toddling around the house and yard, making messes, catching snakes, and helping me lose my tools. Now they being over grandkids to do those things.
Good news is one now lives in the house next door.
- Wed May 08, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 79 Years since Victory in Europe
- Replies: 8
- Views: 310
Re: 79 Years since Victory in Europe
. Those who don’t have a basic understanding of WW2 have a hard time contributing intelligently to public policy, but the youngest generations haven’t been taught anything substantial about that war. One of many reasons to either home school or to participate aggressively in your local school board ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 11:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Colt .357 modifications suggestions
- Replies: 10
- Views: 525
Re: Colt .357 modifications suggestions
. If you haven't tried an aperture site for the rear, try one before you make your decision. I have one that was just a drop in blade designed to fit Ruger revolver adjustable rear sights, and I have another one on my Glock that is a fixed rear with tritium inserts. Other than a red dot there isn't ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old Caliber Gets A New Look
- Replies: 12
- Views: 660
Re: Old Caliber Gets A New Look
. Looks fun but for only $700 I just got a 50 Beowulf upper and it is very potent and reliable. The 50 Beowulf fits the short AR-15 action and can use most metal 5.56 magazines (at 1/3 the capacity). They even make pistol-length uppers which would make one compact powerhouse for those wanting minim...
- Mon May 06, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Victorinox Caves to the PC crowd...
- Replies: 30
- Views: 988
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old Caliber Gets A New Look
- Replies: 12
- Views: 660
Re: Old Caliber Gets A New Look
. Looks fun but for only $700 I just got a 50 Beowulf upper and it is very potent and reliable. The 50 Beowulf fits the short AR-15 action and can use most metal 5.56 magazines (at 1/3 the capacity). They even make pistol-length uppers which would make one compact powerhouse for those wanting minima...
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Crossdraw for concealed carry?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 623
Re: Crossdraw for concealed carry?
. When working 24-hr retail pharmacies in bad neighborhoods, I carried a 1911 in a horizontal shoulder rig I guess I'd describe as 'cross-draw'. Creepy cuz it was pointing a chambered and cocked (condition one) gun at whoever was behind me, but where I worked from 11 pm to 7 am it was just me in bac...
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Yes, Google IS censoring conservatives...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 144
- Sat May 04, 2024 6:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Big Kitty in my driveway
- Replies: 12
- Views: 631
Re: Big Kitty in my driveway
. Photo looks convincing… Speaking of kitty footprints… IMG_2615.jpeg Saw a bobcat on the trail cam and this track 100 yards away. Bobcat…??? Only other critters here in Indiana would be house cats pet dogs and coyotes. I think feline, and too big for housecat…??? This webpage seemed informative: ht...
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Beware Fake 'pro-gun' groups...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 184
Beware Fake 'pro-gun' groups...
. There is one called the 'Indiana Firearms Coalition' that claims to be big and bold - I must say, their website looks convincing... They say: " The Indiana Firearms Coalition is Indiana's No-Compromise gun rights organization. We do not believe in trading one right in exchange for others to a...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Health in a nutshell….GOOD podcast…!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 170
Health in a nutshell….GOOD podcast…!
. Dr Peter Attia sums up in one long-format interview with Dr Rhonda Patrick, probably 80% of what a patient needs to know for their primary care in terms of optimizing health and aging in a good way. Although on a daily basis I go over different bits and pieces of this with patients, I’ve been reco...
- Sat May 04, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 177 cal air rifle for big game ..
- Replies: 6
- Views: 286
Re: 177 cal air rifle for big game ..
That would be poetic indeed.
- Sat May 04, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1886 Pressure Signs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 750
Re: 1886 Pressure Signs
. Sounds like crs here has figured a lot of this out for you already (that’s the kind of thing that makes this forum so much fun and so useful), and that cartridge should do what you need without even approaching dangerous territory. Regarding black powder pressure versus smokeless, there are severa...
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ruger/Marlin 1894 Classic 44 Magnum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 306
Re: Ruger/Marlin 1894 Classic 44 Magnum
. Hopefully mucking around with the forearm doesn't change pressures on the barrel and change accuracy. That' forend/magazine mounting stuff probably the only thing that I find frustrating with 'traditional' lever action rifles; it's difficult to keep the magazine tube and forend from impacting accu...
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:07 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 177 cal air rifle for big game ..
- Replies: 6
- Views: 286
177 cal air rifle for big game ..
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https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/deputi ... QQPIWY37Q/
....evidently it is effective even on the 2-legged kind...
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/deputi ... QQPIWY37Q/
....evidently it is effective even on the 2-legged kind...
- Fri May 03, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anybody got four rounds of hunting ammunition...?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 614
Re: Anybody got four rounds of hunting ammunition...?
. Scary though how draconian the laws are there. One reason I don't travel out of the U.S.... ...and wouldn't travel to Washington DC or Chicago or New Jersey or California unless I had a really good reason. When I was working retail pharmacy I think my every day carry would have got me a one year j...
- Fri May 03, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The streak has ended !
- Replies: 14
- Views: 730
Re: The streak has ended !
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.....how....do you BEND a stock....???
.....how....do you BEND a stock....???
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Update on the CoVid vaccine toxicity...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1500
Re: Update on the CoVid vaccine toxicity...
. I've got to admit, that when I first heard people saying that the vaccine would 'change your DNA', I thought it was impossible. Everything along that lines was written off as 'right wing conspiracy stuff'. https://youtu.be/2x2ZT92n06M?si=TJ3Q8FiFXlh_Tsur Looks like yet another 'conspiracy' becomes...
- Fri May 03, 2024 6:02 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This Aero Precision offering will upset some folks...
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1099
This Aero Precision offering will upset some folks...
. They have entered the levergun market - of course with a 'tactical' version (not exactly like anyone can come up with a 'better' version of the 'vintage' versions, which are pretty much perfect for their purposes)... https://www.offgridweb.com/gear/aero-precision-lever-action-rifle/ I do get annoy...
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Trump is a fool....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 218
Trump is a fool....
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...if he doesn't pick Tulsi Gabbard as running mate.
https://www.youtube.com/live/-vPjbJME3q ... esx5_kS3Gt
There are other good choices but I can't think of a better one if he wants to WIN...
...if he doesn't pick Tulsi Gabbard as running mate.
https://www.youtube.com/live/-vPjbJME3q ... esx5_kS3Gt
There are other good choices but I can't think of a better one if he wants to WIN...
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The riots at columbia…
- Replies: 26
- Views: 896
Re: The riots at columbia…
. One of my friends whose father was 101st Airborne world war II and he served special forces in vietnam, made this analogy. He said when the third Reich committed atrocities, (which also happened to be against the Jews), the U.S. became involved, although not until we were personally affected in Ha...
- Thu May 02, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The riots at columbia…
- Replies: 26
- Views: 896
Re: The riots at columbia…
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...imagine if the students were protesting against gun control, or protesting to support Trump...
...imagine if the students were protesting against gun control, or protesting to support Trump...
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:29 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Don't be a Whistleblower (unless you want to have an accident or illness...)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 232
Don't be a Whistleblower (unless you want to have an accident or illness...)
. You can't make this stuff up.... https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died/ Just amazing. But I like the story where the attorney who was suing Boeing had a piece of a Boeing aircraft fall out of the sky and happen to land in HIS y...
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:19 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Liberalism truly IS a Mental Disorder...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 229
Liberalism truly IS a Mental Disorder...
. The 'liberalism' of today is nothing like the 'classical liberal', as David Rubin has clarified, but is currently defined not by anything remotely 'liberal' such as freedom of ideas or individual liberty, but rather by a short-sighted, self-centered, group-think, which advocates the use of censors...
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:53 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Maybe some legal hope....
- Replies: 0
- Views: 245
Maybe some legal hope....
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https://youtu.be/z7Q6wqB2dhY?si=vbaEFupeZ2UnvpMd
The Armed Scholar website always has good updates on the legal status of federal court cases. The current situation actually looks a bit optimistic.
https://youtu.be/z7Q6wqB2dhY?si=vbaEFupeZ2UnvpMd
The Armed Scholar website always has good updates on the legal status of federal court cases. The current situation actually looks a bit optimistic.
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 480 Ruger
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1486
Re: 480 Ruger
. I've been a fan of the Ruger lever action since I bought a '96/22' many years ago. Some traditionalists roll their eyes but Marlin and Winchester and Savage I'll have similar looking firearms that became 'classics'. Ruger came out with that series in 22 long rifle, 22 Winchester rimfire magnum, 17...
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anybody got four rounds of hunting ammunition...?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 614
Anybody got four rounds of hunting ammunition...?
. ... Sounds like it's good for about 12 years in jail, if you are in one of these nations with "common sense gun control".... :roll: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/turks-and-caicos-ammunition-ryan-watson-american-tourist-...
- Wed May 01, 2024 1:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Great day for the Gun Shop (movie clip)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 348
Re: Great day for the Gun Shop (movie clip)
. Sort of a more classy version of the scene in The Terminator where he requests the "45 long side with laser sight". I remember seeing that movie and a few years later getting my first laser site which was very primitive and bulky, and probably cost more than whatever gun I put it on. Now...