Jeb48

I thought it was interesting that in NY (top three anti states) you had to have a concealed carry permit to even own a handgun (or touch) but all you needed was time and money to get a permit. Took me 9 months and that was living in a very conservative county, some counties took two years and you might get turned down for not giving a good enough reason for needing the permit (no refund on fees). But no training at all, not even class room. I took to levels of NRA handgun courses even though I had used a handgun before moving to NY 40 years before, because I wanted to. Got my Utah permit and had 8 hours of classroom and took a couple of months. TN with training was about 10 days. In my class of 25 or so I think there were 2 that got in the 90s and the rest of us 100 on the live shooting. That included a couple of people that had never shot a handgun and the instructor took extra time with.

Not sure what is the story behind this one. Maybe a movie outtake. Revenuer and a moonshiner???

Two Romanian soldiers manning a ZB-53 heavy machine gun at Nalchik, Russia, 1942

Caption Time

Wyo Whiskers- George “Coyote” Smith

American teenager in the 1880s

How times have changed. Looks like a good solution.

Shooting practice???

Making a delivery.

Great story, gives me even more respect for the 4 Bore. I looked up the size of a 4 Bore slug and it was a touch over an inch.

Name the actors? Extra credit for the movie & gun ID. I don't know the answers but I figured somebody on TGO probably does.

Explorer & Hunter Frederick Courteney Selous with his 4 Bore Elephant Gun

Young recruit or Boy Scout?

Highway Patrol???

I had planned to do something similar with shot shells and never got around to it. I have used my S&W Governor with .410 shells to do Bee Skeet, a lot of fun but more misses than hits.

Just remembered one other rate increase event that y'all should watch for. A while back when Experian had the big security leak I put a lock on my credit reports. When my insurance policies came due I noticed one had increased a lot. I contact my agent and he said he would check and get back. A few days later he called and said that rates were partially based on my credit rating and the lock had sent back an error that they had interpreted as a big drop in credit rating. When they fixed that, the bill dropped back to about what it had been the year before. I then had him check my other policies and they had done the same thing and I just didn't notice so they send me a refund check.

Could be, 1944 was what the label on the photo said, I didn't check my history.

A different Easter hunt Easter - U.S. soldiers of 969th Field Artillery Battalion decorate shells they're delivering to the front line in Germany, 1944

Sorry, no idea.

Get out the big guns.

John Moses Browning