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by Grizz
Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:07 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: More stuff the 'moderates' fall for...
Replies: 2
Views: 334

Re: More stuff the 'moderates' fall for...

This is what Jesus said to the pharisees who were gaslighting Him -> . You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him . When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he ...
by Grizz
Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: are Rossis getting better?
Replies: 34
Views: 2351

Re: are Rossis getting better?

Every time this comes up I read up on Rossi and the 454 Casull, I think that it sounds like a great carbine hunting round. Finally I have to stretch, walk over to the stainless guide gun, says 45 on it, and I re-realize that I am all set in that category, again :!: :lol: I save lots of money failing...
by Grizz
Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Whatever it takes.
Replies: 18
Views: 1343

Re: Whatever it takes.

GunnyMack wrote: Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:54 pm I was being sarcastic Grizz, actors can't think for themselves, have to be directed on everything.
I know. But I don't know what I'd have done in Dillon's place. And I actually pray that I never have to cross that line.
by Grizz
Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:16 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Lost a Good One (taught me how to shoot)
Replies: 9
Views: 768

Re: Lost a Good One (taught me how to shoot)

A great friend Doc, sorry for your loss, happy for his new home . . .
by Grizz
Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Whatever it takes.
Replies: 18
Views: 1343

Re: Whatever it takes.

. Matt did good. Kind of disappointed in Kitty that she just stood there looking why the guy was crawling towards a gun; she should have either got in control of the gun and shot the guy or at least got the gun out of his reach. But Doc the script told Kitty to stand there like a helpless woman I'd...
by Grizz
Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
Replies: 17
Views: 1169

Re: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock

I just bought this JM 336W from a private owner in New Hampshire. He switched the pistol grip plain stock, to a Texan straight stock configuration along with a straight lower trigger tang and a straight finger lever. He also had installed a Beartooth safety delete. I install these in all my cross b...
by Grizz
Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: With all these illegal border-crossers...
Replies: 2
Views: 325

Re: With all these illegal border-crossers...

. ...and all these plane failures (un-riveted doors, wheels (several cases) falling off, and now landing gear failures.... https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/just-united-airlines-boeing-737-max-8-suffers/ It makes me wonder... Then all the factory fires and explosions... And it isn't exacly l...
by Grizz
Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ok so, lever actions in 50AE
Replies: 20
Views: 1402

Re: Ok so, lever actions in 50AE

I know its probably not in the category of rounds easy or sensible to fit in a lever action, but I bet someone out there has done or can do it. Or maybe it cant be with that rebated rim? case rim is the same as 44 mag if that helps. I know bighorn does the 500SW and 500 linebaugh but quite a bit bi...
by Grizz
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Aluminum receivers
Replies: 10
Views: 924

Re: Aluminum receivers

I have been seeing 1892 Browning pattern guns with aluminum receivers out of Turkey on YouTube. Given how the 92 locks via two steel lugs on either side the bolt rear and against the rear of the receiver, do you guys think the aluminum will hold up or give headspace issues eventually? Good question...
by Grizz
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I lost my willie
Replies: 19
Views: 1519

Re: I lost my willie

He was an abused horse. I took him to keep the owner from shooting him and we bonded. It took 2 years before he would let me ride him or catch him loose in the field. I am, literally, the only person who could handle him. My wife was terrified of him but we were buds and I darn sure am gonna miss h...
by Grizz
Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: went to a shooting range yesterday
Replies: 0
Views: 227

went to a shooting range yesterday

I mentioned this project somewhere, found a real gunsmith and took the American Classic to him with a box of parts. I got the barrel from Sarco, the sear spring somewhere else, he sourced the 24# recoil spring and the barrel bushing which he hand fitted, he machined out the clearance for the recoil ...
by Grizz
Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:03 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Replies: 49
Views: 3934

Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there

DORY_dory with kids.gif . DORY_OLO in Port Townsend-s.jpg This is a Colorado River Dory, a scaled down Briggs. It has run the river, and it is the sister of a famous dory now called Betty Boop. The owner invited me to row it at a boat show, naturally I was too polite to refuse. 8) This is the Boop'...
by Grizz
Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Replies: 49
Views: 3934

Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there

Bill in Oregon wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:21 pm Ji, you are moving along at a good clip in that short! Beautiful waters you are fishing there.
Dittos, Beautiful. The Pacific is lovely when he is pacific.
by Grizz
Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
Replies: 9
Views: 670

Re: If you love a Savage Model 99

Grizz, my grandparents started a ranch under the Mogollon Rim in the Tonto Basin near present Young before World War I. I visited once ten years ago, and it is very interesting country, with human history that goes back probably to the last Ice Age. That's very interesting. There must be a lot of a...
by Grizz
Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Guilty!
Replies: 27
Views: 1505

Re: Guilty!

Not sayin' anything about her guilt, she was the official armorer. But they got their sacrificial lamb now, throat cut and bleeding. Baldwin, who violated every one of the unofficial rules of gun safety will walk free. I'll be very surprised if he doesn't. yeah I agree. . . Baldwin has enough money...
by Grizz
Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Replies: 49
Views: 3934

Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there

DORY_dory with kids.gif . DORY_OLO in Port Townsend-s.jpg This is a Colorado River Dory, a scaled down Briggs. It has run the river, and it is the sister of a famous dory now called Betty Boop. The owner invited me to row it at a boat show, naturally I was too polite to refuse. 8) This is the Boop'...
by Grizz
Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
Replies: 9
Views: 670

Re: If you love a Savage Model 99

Bill in Oregon wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:37 am You'll love this one. Not trying to sell it for the guy, but wow what a beauty!

https://forums.accuratereloading.com/ev ... 9061064772
shot first deer and a wolf up on the Mogollon Rim in Zane Gray country. wolf was stalking me :shock:

Model 99 in .243
by Grizz
Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:49 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Soothing.....
Replies: 4
Views: 416

Re: Soothing.....

thanks for the links Ray, much appreciated
by Grizz
Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:35 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Nice to see JPFO still active
Replies: 1
Views: 211

Re: Nice to see JPFO still active

how about some smart congressional law-breaker drawing up a law to include ALL RESIDENTS in universal background checks Hmmm?
by Grizz
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:24 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: I'd be more afraid of the domestic Democrats....
Replies: 1
Views: 220

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...
by Grizz
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Replies: 49
Views: 3934

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 ...
by Grizz
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
Replies: 10
Views: 606

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...
by Grizz
Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:09 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Replies: 49
Views: 3934

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...
by Grizz
Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:55 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New To Me Winchesters
Replies: 18
Views: 1261

Re: New To Me Winchesters

ollogger wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:06 am Yes sir, them are a pair of awesome Winchesters! Id rather take on a gopher with a 32-40
than a charging 1 ton hacked off Angus bull with a S&W 642 :shock:



ollogger
Kudos! This is so funny it deserves extended applause :lol: :lol: :lol:
by Grizz
Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:50 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: White Rural Christians are the real threat to Democracy...
Replies: 2
Views: 340

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 .. .. ..
by Grizz
Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Replies: 49
Views: 3934

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...
by Grizz
Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
Replies: 10
Views: 606

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!
by Grizz
Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 70-150 winchester video
Replies: 9
Views: 527

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
by Grizz
Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:33 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 70-150 winchester video
Replies: 9
Views: 527

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...
by Grizz
Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Replies: 49
Views: 3934

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 !!
by Grizz
Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:47 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pig Hunting In Texas With A 50-100-450
Replies: 16
Views: 977

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

Beauty and the beast ! What a rifle !
by Grizz
Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Most accurate Blackhawk caliber?
Replies: 27
Views: 1978

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...
by Grizz
Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Replies: 49
Views: 3934

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...
by Grizz
Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:16 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: All the 'conspiracies' keep turning out to be REAL...
Replies: 5
Views: 1150

Re: All the 'conspiracies' keep turning out to be REAL...

AJMD429 wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:38 pm .
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ful ... ehf2.14680

The myocarditis keeps coming up.
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 ?
by Grizz
Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Smokehouse Creek Fire
Replies: 9
Views: 989

Re: Smokehouse Creek Fire

A conflagration in real-time. Prayers UP for all involved, and for the fires to end now . . .
by Grizz
Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Replies: 49
Views: 3934

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...
by Grizz
Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:47 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: I thought they were almost all DEMOCRATS...
Replies: 2
Views: 686

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...
by Grizz
Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: crowd funding the gospel
Replies: 9
Views: 954

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...
by Grizz
Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: crowd funding the gospel
Replies: 9
Views: 954

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...
by Grizz
Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:00 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: We are NOT 'headed towards a Police-State'
Replies: 1
Views: 580

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...
by Grizz
Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Replies: 49
Views: 3934

Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there

Bill 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/
good link, thanks Bill
by Grizz
Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: crowd funding the gospel
Replies: 9
Views: 954

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....
by Grizz
Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Córdoba Argentina 2024
Replies: 17
Views: 1494

Re: Córdoba Argentina 2024

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.
Dittos on all, it's epic for sure . . .
by Grizz
Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:05 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Math is Hard
Replies: 2
Views: 678

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 . . .
by Grizz
Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:15 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: crowd funding the gospel
Replies: 9
Views: 954

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...
by Grizz
Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "Where Does It Say...?"
Replies: 4
Views: 810

Re: "Where Does It Say...?"

Old No7 wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:47 am See this here, before it's moved to the Politics Forum...

Good question asked below.

Old No7


Where Does It Say....jpg
in the communist manifesto
by Grizz
Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: old shep
Replies: 2
Views: 617

Re: old shep

ole pizen slinger wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:27 am https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... NsM10,st:0

ole pizen slinger
my old Shep is tottering along the edge of loneliness now .it's a long and short trail at the same time
by Grizz
Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: "The Opposite of what Scientists Wanted to Happen .."
Replies: 8
Views: 825

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....
by Grizz
Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Colt Walker question ...
Replies: 34
Views: 2633

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 Grizz
Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:55 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Young lady dead because of democrat policy
Replies: 3
Views: 865

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...