Barbie and her M-4

[Just Duke]

We got all the way out to test some .45 loads and they were left of the shop floor. My fault she remembered all her stuff though.


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[Just Duke]

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[Just Duke]

Luckily for me the were lot's of rocks out there for me to throw seeing I had a senior moment and left all my test ammo at home. :(
Good thing is though she shot my 1911 will factory ball ammo and really like it.

[Just Duke]

A pic from back in our tactical days..........

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[Three-Fifty-Seven]

ables!

[shooter2]

With a beautiful woman like that along why waste your time shooting?

[Hardcast416taylor]

I sorta think you have stock in Levi Straus jeans, awful lot of pics of her in those jeans?Robert

[Just Duke]

I sorta think you have stock in Levi Straus jeans, awful lot of pics of her in those jeans?Robert


The manufacture patch on the back of the jeans says "Wrangler" as in YEE HAW!!! Wrangler. ;)
Anyway it's just not all about me in this world.
Seriously, I'm am know where close to being photogenic. Would you rather see pics of my ugly mug? lol

[freebullet]

Sheesh, Better be careful leaving the ammo at home could catch you a buttstock up side yer head round here. I prefer the levi's vs. tactical.

I would raise the optic, throw away the fore grip, and bring the ammo. Sounds like you were hoping she would punish you though, lol.

[Just Duke]

Sheesh, Better be careful leaving the ammo at home could catch you a buttstock up side yer head round here. I prefer the levi's vs. tactical.

I would raise the optic, throw away the fore grip, and bring the ammo. Sounds like you were hoping she would punish you though, lol.


No worries. I had my Alley Cleaning Rig on from the time I left the house until the time I arrived home.

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[waynem34]

Me likey.Looks like a nice day of fun.I like the rig you have for the 1911.Nice pick up too.Peace out

[MBTcustom]

Well, she may have long fingernails and stuff, but looks like she knows her way around an AR.
Way to go Barbie!

Soooooooo, just plinking? I figured she'd want to post up some groups to make all the boys look bad.
Oh well, you gotta draw the line somewhere eh?
Hey to y'all from Arkansas.

[JeffinNZ]

I like the contrast of the red nails and camo rifle.

I take it no one bothers to pick up their hulls? That's a shame.

[M-Tecs]

Would you rather see pics of my ugly mug? lol

Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

[montana_charlie]

No worries. I had my Alley Cleaning Rig on from the time I left the house until the time I arrived home.
You actually wear that get-up whenever you're out of the house?
CM

[Murphy]

Great pictures Duke, thanks for sharing them.

Murphy

[btroj]

You actually wear that get-up whenever you're out of the house?
CM

Why not? Gecko45 always does.

[Just Duke]

Great pictures Duke, thanks for sharing them.

Murphy

Thanks Murph : )

[Just Duke]

Well, she may have long fingernails and stuff, but looks like she knows her way around an AR.
Way to go Barbie!

Soooooooo, just plinking? I figured she'd want to post up some groups to make all the boys look bad.
Oh well, you gotta draw the line somewhere eh?
Hey to y'all from Arkansas.

She was shooting junk that the lowlifes left behind. Refrigerators, computers, TV's etc...... We left 2 .45 casings that we could not locate.........

[Just Duke]

Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

There you go then guys.....

[Blammer]

Looks like great fun! Nice paint job on the rifle and mags. :)

[montana_charlie]

Why not? Gecko45 always does.
Well ... in that case we all probably should, too.

[Artful]

Nice pic's - do the iron sights on that pop up high enough to see thru the EOtech?

[smokeywolf]

She was shooting what? You mean there was a gun in those photos?

Real cowboys (and cowgirls) wear Pro-Rodeos.

Great pics of Miss Barbie.

Your rig, "cocked & Locked", best way to carry a 1911 or clone.

smokeywolf

[Just Duke]

Nice pic's - do the iron sights on that pop up high enough to see thru the EOtech?

They co-witness through the scope no problem. She/we built that gun 11 years ago.

[Just Duke]

She told me she was hungry and started following this guy around the desert like some kind of vulture.
Then a fight broke out between the two of them and Barbie quickly took him to the ground and ended up with both of his Snickers bars and 5 french fries. Once face down I could faintly here him screaming he could not get up and requested we remove his plate carrier.

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[Love Life]

Looks like a fun day of shooting. How much does that nefarious rifle weigh?

[Just Duke]

She was shooting what? You mean there was a gun in those photos?

Real cowboys (and cowgirls) wear Pro-Rodeos.

Great pics of Miss Barbie.

Your rig, "cocked & Locked", best way to carry a 1911 or clone.

smokeywolf

You must be talking about Rodeo cowboys and not Ranch Cowboys then. The real cowboys and including those in the Old West wore britches with a pants tightener on the back and suspender with no belt. I can post an example pic per your request if you like.
Wah Maker makes a reproduction of the correct pant for the era and we just coincidentally are dealer for them. ;)

[Just Duke]

Looks like a fun day of shooting. How much does that nefarious rifle weigh?

Thanks LL. We don't have a scale. It's not much though. She couldn't assume the correct shooting position because when I asked her why, she said to much watching youtube.
She is correcting the lack of required strength a we speak. She's will be 56 here in a week or so.............

[Love Life]

That's not why I was asking at all. I was just wondering.

As for shooting positions.........there are SO many and so many reasons to use whichever one somebody wants to use. However; the targets down range always tell the tale. I bet she shoots quite well.

There are devil pups who shoot in a very similar position as pictured here, and they do fine, but we tend to break them of that!!

[Just Duke]

That's not why I was asking at all. I was just wondering.

As for shooting positions.........there are SO many and so many reasons to use whichever one somebody wants to use. However; the targets down range always tell the tale. I bet she shoots quite well.

There are devil pups who shoot in a very similar position as pictured here, and they do fine, but we tend to break them of that!!

She does at that. I bought her a Colt H-Bar when we first met and set a spray glue canister on a stump at my cabin in Vernonia OR and she hammered it with open sights while sitting on a stump 225 yards away. She has been sailing, shooting, hunting, fishing since she was 5. Have you seen pics of her mother? She is quite the fisherman also.

We have since skinnied her plate carrier down from 18 magazines to what's shown here.

[WILCO]

Great pictures Duke, thanks for sharing them.

Murphy

Yep. I always appreciate a "Barbie" update now and then.

[WILCO]

She will be 56 here in a week or so.............

Clearly, she has found the fountain of youth. :happy dance:

[Just Duke]

Clearly, she has found the fountain of youth. :happy dance:

Yep it's called a mountain bike and a 10 mile ride every night weather permitting whether she likes it or not. Correct diet also. ;)

[Just Duke]

A couple of guys PM'ed me about the paint job. Here's her rifle before it was sent to us by the nice fella that painted a couple rifles for us.
http://www.larsontactical.com/id20.html

[smokeywolf]

You must be talking about Rodeo cowboys and not Ranch Cowboys then. The real cowboys and including those in the Old West wore britches with a pants tightener on the back and suspender with no belt. I can post an example pic per your request if you like.
Wah Maker makes a reproduction of the correct pant for the era and we just coincidentally are dealer for them. ;)

Yep, I was talking rodeo cowboys.

Back in the day you're talking about, cowboys usually didn't have the money for store bought clothes and mostly wore homespun, patched up, hand-me-downs that were made of whatever dressgoods their mother, sister, girlfriend or the rancher's wife had laying around.
Even in the 1860s, for 60 and 70 hrs. a week, thirty bucks a month and found, wasn't all that much.

smokeywolf

[Just Duke]

Yep, I was talking rodeo cowboys.

Back in the day you're talking about, cowboys usually didn't have the money for store bought clothes and mostly wore homespun, patched up, hand-me-downs that were made of whatever dressgoods their mother, sister, girlfriend or the rancher's wife had laying around.
Even in the 1860s, for 60 and 70 hrs. a week, thirty bucks a month and found, wasn't all that much.

smokeywolf

Back in the day they had these machines most of the younger women about aren't familiar with what's called sewing machines. The owner of these sewing machines would purchase patterns mail order or at the local dry goods. Also at the dry goods one would find a plethora of patterns to make most any article of clothing. Women having better proximal senses than men, would fabricate clothing for their families on these sewing machines.
Most these days prefer instant gratification and would rather eat donuts and watch the idiot box than actually making something that has some purpose in life or would provide someone else other than themselves a satisfactory article of clothing. Life observations have displayed farmers and ranchers fairly affluent as far as fiances go now and as well as back then. Seriously at the present I don't own 3/4 million dollars of farm or ranch equipment as I have seen in my real estate searches. Few wore rags back then but most didn't.
Proper clothing meant the difference between life or death as far as the elements of nature and adverse weather are concerned.

Also note that a that a Rodeo is a sporting event that simulates ranch/open range life and can be started or stopped at anytime and under controlled conditions.
My 7 year stint in the AZ desert brought me to the conclusion that the desert is biologically engineered to kill bipeds. So no on-off switch as the rodeo has.

Respectfully I know that your aware of the historical facts I posted. I just wanted to make a point. I don't do make believe very well nor gaming.
Also note that the ones you see competing in the tournaments are the ones that didn't cripple themselves in training. Just saying.....

[Just Duke]

Your rig, "cocked & Locked", best way to carry a 1911 or clone.

smokeywolf

I used to walk into Walmart once a week in AJ AZ with this rig on Cocked and Locked. Just about any place else too might I add.
All the rednecks on horse back would meet at Burger King. Heeled! ;)

[smokeywolf]

Duke, you're right about rodeo being a vague representation of cowboying.

As a child, after having seen the pics (daguerreotypes) of cowboys on the range back in the 1870s-80s, the fashionable, nicely tailored clothes of the TV and movie cowboys always made me laugh.
Because of your interest in all things western, check out the book "Before Barbed Wire". Great read and wonderful photographs.

smokeywolf

[Just Duke]

Duke, you're right about rodeo being a vague representation of cowboying.

As a child, after having seen the pics (daguerreotypes) of cowboys on the range back in the 1870s-80s, the fashionable, nicely tailored clothes of the TV and movie cowboys always made me laugh.
Because of your interest in all things western, check out the book "Before Barbed Wire". Great read and wonderful photographs.

smokeywolf

I'm also aware that you did some real cowboying in your younger days as we discussed on the phone. I still have all the pics you sent me saved on Photobucket of all the saddlery and boots your dad made. I will never obtain his skill level in my lifetime but I use the pics as inspiration for my builds.
Thank again.

[Bad Water Bill]

Sewing machines = Singer when I grew up.

Mom had one for more years than I can remember. I did not know what store bought underwear was till I joined the Navy at age 20.

Mom had so many miles on that Singer she WORE off the chrome and all other finishes on it.

When she passed away there was a drawer full of patterns for all ages.

Yes I can still darn my own socks without an egg.:bigsmyl2:

[Pb2au]

My grandmother used a treadle Singer until she was laid low with Alzheimer's. So, about 70 years of use.
She taught us how to hand stitch and repair clothes. My wife nearly had a stroke right after we got married. One saturday morning I was drinking coffee and stitching up a rip in a pair of my work pants and she walked into the living room and saw me.
"I didn't know you knew how to do that....."

My mom's dad worked at Singer. He set up and ran screw machines that made all those tiny screws.

[pretzelxx]

My wife has a $3000 sewing/embroidery machine. Im 23 and can fix my own clothes up. However, I don't start from a pattern cause I'm not quite that good haha. So far from pattern, I've 90% completed an apron made from the woodland digital camo the marines use instead of the desert pattern and a 80% completed chefs hat made from the same fabric. Its pretty fun, I just got side tracked a few months ago and everything got tossed in a bag and it's stuffed in the corner waiting for me to finish.

[Bulldogger]

Since we're on a tangent talking about sewing machines, I'll admit I bought myself a Singer Fashion Mate for my 41st back in August. I had an old White from the 70's, weighs about 30 pounds, but it didn't stitch well. Probably because I fished it out of a dumpster.

The new sewing machine has as many stitching options as I figured I could afford (and maybe one day use) and it has an automatic button holer. I like that.

I've made lots of repairs to clothes with both machines over the years. Last project on the new machine was a tonneau cover for my truck. It didn't appreciate the heavy boat canvas vinyl material, and I had to feed it manually most of the time, but it got the job done and I'm getting 1.5 MPG better now!

I'd love to learn how to make shirts, I hate store-bought dress shirts, but it looks pretty involved.

Bulldogger

[Just Duke]

Here is the style of pant that would have been made at home or purchased at the dry goods 125 years ago.
Just above my gun belt is the hip/waist cincher I was referring to.
Please note the gun belt and holsters are not made by myself and not period correct.
Actually it was the worst piece of junk I have ever purchased and sold mine and Barbies not long after purchasing them.
I am also not period correct as I would have been pushing up daisies before the age off 36 as most back then hardly ever made it to 40.
I'm like 52 in the pic........

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[Just Duke]

I find it amazing what we can make out of.
Burnt rock = guns
Dead Cow skins = gunbelts, holsters, boots
Prairie weed aka.cotton = pants and shirts
Scalped Sheep = wool coats
Baked beaver butt = hats
petrified Uranium = lead for bullets
Sulfur, burnt Willow trees, chicken poop, and chick urine = Black powder
Walnut tree stumps = gun stocks

[Just Duke]

Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

To late the damage is done! Overt your eyes.