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  Oldogy... I like this one... Recently, i've changed my approach on the hog ring and piercing thing... I used to smile and act like it wasn't there...Now, i take a close look at it like it's a problem and is hurtin the wearer; then i politely ask if they need it removed... I always tell 'em that i have my pliers in my fishing tackle box and that i'll be glad to get the hook out... Strangely, i've had no takers, but plenty of polite "no's"... Its great to watch the reaction...   leroy, "...hook removal jhadist..." and old time fisherman...

The fact of the matter is that there is a battle raging in this country between those who do work and those who don't... We all know who is who... We've heard the baloney and demagoguery from both political parties about the "safety net" and "compassionate conservatism"; all to buy votes and to pander to various constituencies... For the first time in this nation's history, the "non working class" united with disgruntled folks and elected a president who was non-abashedly anti-american...   This is a serious problem and needs to be attended to... Even the great "Bubba" Clinton realized the welfare thing was out of hand... I say we need to take care of those who genuinely need help; but we need to put conditions on that help... We simply need to eliminate the "freeloaders" and "career welfare recipients"...period... The drug testing thing is a step in the right direction... Another step is the requirement to continuously look for a job while on assistance; along with appropriate job training... I predict ya will see more and more of these things...   The sixties hippies did this country a great dis-service (...along with the great god Roosevelt; and that greatest of vote buyers, LBJ; with his "war on poverty"...) when they made "the dole" acceptable and inculcated the "...im ok-your ok..." philosophy into pop culture... My grandparents and parents thought "bein on the dole" was a disgrace... I do too; but there are many who don't and will get militant when the subject is brought up...   I say it's high time to declare war on the dole, along with the social security dole (...those. who get it, but didn't pay into it; e.g the "disabled" who didn't work to begin with and are only "disabled" due to drinkin and druggin...); and to fix the problem of the "non tax paying" segment voting largesse for themselves... As the old timers would say "...those who vote for a livin instead of workin for a living..."... It's an idea whose time has come...  Here's hopin it will take off...   leroy the "anti-dole" zealot

Night.... " General George", indeed, said those things.... " lieutenant George" shot 3 Villa lieutenants dead with a colt 45 Colt Single Action Army as they were ridin down on him on horseback (... He was afoot...)... He evidently shot em dead with three shots and piled them on the fenders of a Dodge touring car and brought them back to camp... He was in his early to mid twenties then (...1916...), and wuz serving with General Pershing in the Punitive Expedition down on the US Mexican border.... The 357 came out in 1935, some 19 years later.... leroy Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

  Mike.... A helluva idea... The ultimate "mexican reload".... If i remember right; the great George Patton carried an engraved 45 colt SAA on his belt and a 1903 Colt Hammerless in his coat pocket... Ya just upgraded his hammerless...!!  Great idea...   Keep up the good work... leroy

Sounds like a case of "low priority/dont care" on the part of the local constabulary or a "brother-n-law" transaction at the scrapyard.... Some of the constabulary are doin their jobs and doin them very well --- some aint... Some scrapyards are honest and doin the right thing --- some aint...   Casual observation will reveal crime and "dont give a damn" are everywhere...  Sorry ya have to buy your own stuff back... It aint right...   leroy

GK... That is as nice a military as ive ever seen; no matter the manufacturer... It is a great piece of history...   Enjoy... leroy

I like it...!  I think that leavin the "Nicholson" mark and part of the file cross hatch would look good... Did ya grind the shape or burn it out...?  The knife and handle shape look great...   Keep up the good work, leroy

I like it.... It sends the right message...The second amendment and firearms ownership is key to every citizen's freedom... Everybody needs to understand that....   More than that; it will send the "weenies" (...think inner city rats here; like Joe Armstrong...) into a fit, and that will be great to watch... Way ta go, Frank...!   Keep up the good work....   leroy

maroon... I've got a 450 bushmaster sittin in the corner with iron sights (...with tritium inserts...)... It's for repelling borders and bad situations... Iron sights are meant for such things... No batteries, no ON-OFF switch, no nothin...   leroy

Interestin indeed... It has confirmed some suspicions of mine RE: Bushnell scopes... Thanks for takin the time to post it...   leroy

Low... I love these old percussion rifles too... Great shootin... When my son wuz younger, we used to go to the Alvin York "Over the Log" shoots at the home place in Pall Mall in late March ever year... I've seen these old rifles do some real shootin if the guys holdin them knew what they were doin....   Have fun and keep your powder dry, leroy

john... I'll take the time to echo what other posters above have said...  I would get a good reloading manual (...hornady, speer, lyman...) and do some reading... I would recommend a single stage press to start on so ya can see how the various steps of reloading work (... and to see how they can go wrong...)...   Spend the money on a good powder scale and a good powder measure... I like redding (...the best i think...) dies and a good, sturdy single stage press (...i have an old RCBS Rockchucker...)... We load for everything (...pistol and rifle...) and work up all our loads on a single stage press... I think ya always need one to load a few rounds...   One final note on presses, dies, and reloading equipment in general... Don't buy the cheapest thing out there... Buy the best ya can at a price ya can afford... Presses and dies need to be manufactured to close tolerances and they need to be made of good stuff... Buy the best ya can afford...   As ive said before; i like RCBS presses, Lyman, and Redding single stages... I like their dies as well... I use Lee stuff from time to time; factory roll crimp dies, hand priming tools and that sort of thing... I do not use Lee presses or powder measures, but that's just me... There are bunches of folks here and other places in the reloading world who do...   As to the progressive presses... There is nothin better than a Dillon (....and Dillon dies, as well...)... Any flavor of a Dillon 550 up will do a great job on anything ya want to reload; but ya need to get the recipe figured out before ya start usin a progressive reloader...Changing things up on a Dillon is a pain, even with the dies set up... I would recommend buying one of these a bit later, after ya get the feel of reloading and see that ya really like the reloading thing... More than that, they are pricey (...and worth the $$$'s in my opinion...)...I would take the dollars that would have to be spent on these tools to load ammo and get the feel of the reloading craft, and gain valuable experience...   Finally, and most importantly, the reloading thing depends on doing a bunch of common sense things right and in the right order... There is nothin hard about reloading... The problem is that ya can get hurt or tear up something ya wouldn't rather tear up if ya do the wrong thing... The thing that immediately comes to mind with me is the use of "fast powders" (...Bullseye, WW231, Unique, AA2, AA5...) to load pistol rounds...   When ya use low charge weights for target loads (...and lots of people do...), ya have to be doubly careful not to double charge a case with powder... If ya do, ya run the risk of blowing up a perfectly good firearm and loosin maybee an eye or a digit off your hand... I know this sounds severe, but it's true...   There is one sure way to prevent this sort of thing; its to physically double-check and look into each case after the powder is charged to verify for sure that the powder charge is right...That is the real beauty of the single stage press... I look in every single case before i seat a bullet on a powder charge... I simply cannot stress this enough... I will not load low charge weight reloads on a progressive reloader because of this very issue...   What im taking about now is, in fact, the main objection to the progressive loader... It's hard to see into the cases as the loads move around to the next station...  I always try to use powder that fills the case up enough so that a double charge of powder will spill out with my Dillon progressive... There are some other things that work very well, like powder checking dies that alert you to this problem, but it's very real....   Reloading is a great hobby and a real money saver... I've been reloading since the middle seventies and have reloaded for every imaginable cartridge; from the tiny 32ACP to the mighty 458 Winchester Mag... I still have both my eyes (...such as they are...), thank God, and all my digits on my little fat fingers as well... None of the guns in the safe are damaged from over-loads nor blown up; but ive seen several handguns that were...   I ain't the smartest feller that ever was, so i am a testament to the "it can be done" thing... I am also very slow and very thorough... It's a good habit to get into...   Have fun and be careful... leroy

Some of the newer radio systems, especially police and and fire, are operating on a "trunked" system... That means (... as i understand it...) that the radio system has a computer based interface that uses the first available channel to send and transmit on...In english, that means that ya cant follow the transmissions because the frequencies are always changing depending on the "first available" channel the computer picks for each transmission... It takes a special high dollar scanner to listen to these transmissions... Ya might want to check around and see if the radio stuff ya want to listen to is trunked or not before ya decide on a scanner...    leroy

Bersa... It's the ole "glass half empty or half full thing"...     On a personal note, i would rather enrich american or western oil concerns than middle east oil sheikdoms any day... Others may be content to let the oil sheikdoms slide and vilify the US (...and western...) oil interests... I won't do that.... I dont like the saudi's nor the other desert bandits that have been pickin mine and your pockets for decades...   The middle east oil business was built by the good ole USA (...ARAMCO... the Arabian American Oil Company...) in the nineteen thirties.... It was nationalized by the desert sheikdoms in the seventies... They have been holdin the world up since then...   Their only product is oil; they produce nothing else... Their subjects live in a pseudo-socialist society where the kingdom's "subjects" (...and they are "subjects, not citizens...) are given a stipend; and by and large do not work...     Militant islam is, by and large, a push back against both the desert seikdoms and the "imperialist" west (...particularly, the USA...)...   Don't thank the saudis for anything other than picking your pocket (...with the help of others, of course...) and exporting terror to the rest of the world....     We can quibble about individual personalities, but it is my belief that the saudi's saw the USA as nothing more than a mercenary force to protect the "kingdom", a source of technical expertise to keep their infrastructure running (...both oil and civil....), and a cash plum to pick on an as needed basis... That means that your sons and daughters fought and died for arab oil interests (...and american ones as well...).   On balance, about 15% of our oil supply has historically come from the middle east; the rest from the americas...   By contrast, all (...100%...) of saudi arabia's protection came via the blood and treasure of the USA... I dont think that was a very fair trade...   Others may see it thru a different lens; i dont... I welcome the day when these arabian bandits fade back into the desert from which they sprang, and they are remembered no more....   leroy

  Grand is right.... On a personal basis, i could care less...   Havin said all that; there are those who have said (...and are saying...) that the middle east oil shiekdoms are in trouble from a diminishing resources point of view....There are some learned ones who say that the middle east (...the Saudi's in particular...) has "over-pumped" their fields to keep the dollars rollin in and to try to compete with the rest of the world with regard to oil production... Oil is the only product these sons of satan have and is the only source of income to their sheikdoms...   We may well see the day when the worlds oil does not come from the middle east... It will (...and is...) flow from the Americas (...in spite of Obama and the dammed democrats and enviornmentalists...); specifically the good ole USA and Canada... Look for more to flow out... Last november (...2014...), the good ole USA wuz the number one producer of oil in the world...   HEHEHE... Take that, you oil sheik pirates...   leroy

This one will be interestin to watch... The middle east oil shiekdoms may, in fact, sink back into the bedouin nomadic sheikdoms from which they sprang...   Remember the quip by the great General George S. Patton regarding this territory... G. K. Chesterton said some sobering things as well... Remember, these men saw the beginnings of the "modern" middle east...   leroy

Great news...!!  Will be sendin up the prayers for ya...   leroy

They are the sons and daughters, and in some cases, the grandsons and grandaughters of the hippy trash i stepped over goin to school at UT in the middle and late sixties... I didn't think they would amount to anything or affect anything... They studied political science and pot chemistry; if they studied at all... I studied engineering; they studied causin trouble and changin the world... I didnt believe they could; but sadly they did... Come to think of it; i shoulda stomped a few of these sons and daughters of perdition on the way to class instead of stepping over them and laughing at them...   leroy

I've been shootin single actions since i wuz a boy (...a long time ago...), and i love them more than any other handguns we own.... I've burnt powder in the 10's of pounds (...if not hundreds...) with hard cast bullets in colts and rugers of ever flavor from 22 right up to 45 colt and 44 mag... There is no ruger or colt single action i dont like; no matter the barrel length or caliber... I USED to carry them in the woods all the time...   I'm old now and gimped up so i don't go in the woods as much as i used to....  If i did, i would carry my single action and my AR and/or Glock... Too many bad things in the woods today, and i'm a bit more cautious...   If i ride down the road in my jeep, i sometimes carry my single action as well as my Glock...   I feel well armed with my ruger sheriff(s) in 357 or 44 special; they, like all single actions, handle like a dream if you are used to them... Havin said that; i like the "New York" reload of the Glock...   On a "light day", it's just the Glock and my trusty SIG 238...   I say:..."keep them single actions and "New York" reload Glocks (...or one of their brothers...M&P, Sig, HK, 1911... you get the picture...) handy"... Ya never know when ya might run into a Boko Haram ambush or meet a meth cooker or pot farmer in the woods... He (... or they...) may be pretty dammed mean...   Watchin leroy

Bo... I've got his brother that has G10 scales; otherwise, it appears to be the same knife, only with the axis lock instead of a plunge lock... I like mine alot (...im a lefty...)... It's well built and works like a charm...   Congratulations, enjoy...!   leroy

  K19... Ya just described me and my carryin philosophy to a "Tee" brother; im a 68 year old gimped geezer... As a dear old friend used to say when i wuz a 20 year old snot nose:"...Im an old man, most anybody can push me around; they just aint goin to..."... He went armed all the time and no one pushed him around... I feel the same way... Your excellent analysis is dead on...!      Keep up the good work... carryin leroy

Who cares what this idiot thinks....   leroy

Good stuff here...  Remember, the quickest (...and best...) reload is a second weapon... Keep your tools handy...!!   leroy

Doug.... I'll echo what some of our other brother posters have said... Find another doctor... I'm a geezer myself and have had a few heart problems... Find a doctor that is frank, honest, and is there for something other than the money... Dont get too overheated, but remember this; you are in charge and you can pick your doctor... Pick one you like and utterly trust...    leroy

prag...   Ball C2 is Hogdon BL-C2...   Glad to help... leroy