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It looks like a bigger version of the Duck.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW

Love me some Harbor Freight. I have the U.S. General tool cart at work. Ball bearing slides with a shelf for cans, spray bottles. http://www.harborfreight.com/five-drawer-service-cart-95272.html You can often catch these things for $169.00 and It is just as good as the name brand truck items you find.   Put a case of oil on the bottom, and just roll it out to the aircraft. I did buy a side folding shelf from Snap-on and modified it for the other end as a "Desk" for paperwork or small work station. Bottom line, it is well built and a darn good deal.   Something else I love is if I need a special tool, (Modified), I'm not cutting/grinding a Snap-on wrench to get where I need to get. We have several modified tools for certain jobs in the shop and mostly they came from Harbor Freight.

  There was a football game last night?

I was not sure whether to put this in politics or 2A issues.....      http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/02/the-pro-gun-ad-too-controversial-for-the-super-bowl/

Once again, I could write a book, but to keep from getting kicked off of here, I will keep my thoughts to myself. I will say that I've had to deal with alot of TSA. Some cool, some just total F'n idiots. Good and bad in everything though. I do have a problem with the ones that come to inspect an aircraft that I have signed as airworthy. They have no business poking around when they can't even tell you what type of aircraft they are inspecting. That being the case, my name is on it and if something happens, the FAA comes to me, not some TSA person.  If someone has made it that far to do harm, then the TSA have already failed at the checkpoint.   http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/08/20/grounded.jets/

I can't help myself......I'm going to pickup a pair of these "eyeclops". I've been a good boy this month and I can have a toy.   Dolomite, great work on what you are doing. I will be following this closely. :)

I've got a Beretta. M1935 .32acp.  Top ejection and sometimes the casings will bounce off my forehead. (I don't shoot it very often).  I think I shall upgrade to a newer model from them when things are up and running.  :up:  As previously stated, I hope other manufactures follow their lead.

I got interested in it and picked up an enexpensive Garrett Ace 250 and a pin pointer several years ago.  I've found nothing but trash. Old cans, scrap metal ect. Not even one coin.  I know the possibilities of great historical things are out there and research of areas has to be done. I simply have no idea of where to go legally.

Reading through that list is an eye opener. I see the commercials with celebrities calling for support of our veterans, but I don't see any of them taking an oath.   Don Adams a drill instructor? Rod Serling was a paratrooper? I did not know a lot of these people ever served. Thank you for sharing.

I like how when you switched to the 12rd drum, the guy in back decided to put on his hearing protection after the first round.  :rofl:   Now give that woman a M1911. If that was her first time shooting, I bet with a little coaching and practice, she would be damn good with a pistol.

I agree cash for clunkers was a waste, not only of time, money, resources, but a good place for us common folks to get parts. I have a 2003 Hyundai Elantra.....wrecked it in the rain going down a hill.  I did not scrap the car as everyone told me to do. I stripped it down, all interior came out, fabricated new brake lines, new timing belt, water pump, clutch, front bumper cover  ect...found alot of parts in the scrap yard that I needed.....door weatherstripping and small stuff.   Had a fresh coat of paint put on and took my time putting it back together. It almost looked like it came straight from the factory when I was done.   I have a bunch of parts in my attic for this car, headlights, tail lights, windows, switches and just boxes of misc stuff. I will never sell this car as I know it means nothing to anyone except me. Its not a hot rod nor a show car, but I drive it everyday and have the resources to obtain parts and keep it as new running/looking as possible. I have a plethora of parts in the attic and I intend to drive this thing until I simply cannot find parts to maintain it.   Cash for clunkers took this away from many people.

Jeremiah 9:4

This was posted back in 2006. I cannot validate anything as truth or claim anything as false. Interesting to read though.   http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl?md=read;id=2052

Problem is someone will believe him  :shake:

I usually stop by the Dollar General store on the weekend. Whenever I have low self esteem, I wander around and magically start feeling better about my life.

I'll stick with my Sig P238. Same capacity, same round.

Bringing an old thread back to life....   To all drill instructors out there, how in hell did you do and say the things you did and keep a straight face? 

When you care for an animal, they become part of and are family. I'm sorry for your loss, but try to find some sort of comfort that he isn't in any pain. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh1zornUVv8&feature=player_embedded

Hopping the frame of the rail car, made me nervous just watching. Not a place to take a fall. These guys have skills and I'm sure they also have the the broken bones and cuts to in the past to show for it.

Things like this paints a dark picture for our future. Personal thought, being a kid, all that is out. This country is screwed.

Great work! I want to see pictures of it on the water. I know it takes time and winter is coming, but you know the standard. Pics or it didn't happen.

  That is just one of those things. No one on this earth knows what happens when we die. We all have our beliefs and religion that we follow, but faith is all it is. A belief. We could all be guardian angels when we move on, who knows?   Not a ghost story, but still strange. My grandparents owned a restaurant in Fairview, TN. (My mothers parents). My grandfather would drive to Nashville frequently on Highway 100. I was born in Aug of 1971 and he passed in Dec of the same year. Anyway and this is all told to me by my family. It was snowing and the roads were bad. He had to go to Nashville for one reason or another and it was a normal routine thing for him to do. This day he was very hesitant to leave. My mother tells me that he was damn near crying when he did leave as if he knew he would never be back. He ran off the road and flipped the car down a hill.   He did not die instantly, but was banged up bad. Being hard headed, he refused to be on a stretcher and walked up the hill to the ambulance. A broken rib punctured his heart and that is what killed him later on. My mother claims that a after he died, she seen him at the foot of her bed and he was crying and told her to "Take care of my boy". The day and time he died, my father claims that he heard my mother screaming. He was next door at his fathers house. He came running over to check on me and my mother barefoot with snow on the ground.   Another strange thing was when my grandmother died. Right after she passed electrical items in the house would just suddenly turn on by themselves. TV would change channels, and things like that. This lasted for about a month after she died. I'm not saying its proof of anything, but I like to think that it was her way of saying that she was still with us and she was ok.

  Also have a Bermuda triangle story, usually have to drink a bit before I tell that one.     Get to sipping then, I would love to hear this one.  I do believe in ghost, angels, demons or whatever they are. I've had more than a few things happen that I simply can't think of a logical explanation for. I too will have to have a few cold ones to open up about the things I've experienced.

I carry locked and cocked as well in a Uncle Mikes size 3 pocket holster. I use Promag magazines with two spares.