It should be noted that all "Sightings" have been in Military warning areas where the military planes go to play.
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Forum: Our Town
It should be noted that all "Sightings" have been in Military warning areas where the military planes go to play.
Forum: Military Rifles
If it sells at $1500, then it's a $1500 gun.
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
In the 60's my Mother got a DCM Carbine for $16 FIRC. My father was a high school teacher and was the JROTC instructor. Twice a year the high school where he taught would take all the junior ROTC...
Forum: Our Town
It's only going to get worse. Have you seen what Oregon is trying to promote in their schools? Math is racist. Stressing getting the correct answer is a sign of white supremacy. Don't have a link...
Forum: Our Town
SHMBO and I got ours the next day deposited into our checking account just like the first round.
Forum: Casting Equipment
Started casting with a plumbers ladle on the kitchen stove. My dad had a Manhattan Arms .36 cap and ball revolver. We dug up the shot boolits, cleaned off the sand/dirt and shot them again. I...
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
Hence the saying "mad as a hatter". Hat makers used mercury too. Also used in smelting gold.
Forum: Our Town
Yes! Semper Fi. I got out in '85 and my oldest son just retired after 23 years. Congrats!
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Excellent story! I remember being in some places saying "Lord please don't let me see a deer here, please not in here." Good job.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
The best way to filter is get some paint filters from an auto paint store for filtering the paint. Works wonders for filtering bees wax. The filters from a house paint store are too coarse.
Forum: Our Town
Wife and I deliver RVs for a living. Your brake controller should be set so that you don't lock up the trailer tires when you put on the truck brakes. Use enough brake so the trailer helps you stop...
Forum: Military Rifles
When I was in college ROTC our sergeant found a rack of '03s that had been listed as "destroyed for parts" yet there they were as complete rifles. They ended up as rebar!!!
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Tried it in Germany once..... Not so much here in the states. I'm sure some folks like it but it's not on the menu anywhere I know of.
Forum: Our Town
1972 BMW R/75, bored out to 900 by a BMW mechanic that traded it in and got the first year model of the R/90. Bought a 1973 to ride while I am restoring the '72. Like others, I'm older and a little...
Forum: Our Town
Fry a pan of Fried Chicken. One of the best ways to season it.
Gary
Forum: Cast Boolits
The best place for info on Yellowstone that I have found is the National Park webpage /www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/hours.htm
Good luck.
Gary
Forum: Our Town
"A Terrible Glory, Custer and the Little Bighorn, The Last Great Battle of the American West" by James Donovan. Great read best book about the Little Bighorn I've ever read.
Forum: Boolit Lube !
All these work. I used to have a business casting beeswax into decorative molds. The best thing to use is a paint filter that auto painters use. Very fine mesh. Use the double boiler and pour the...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I've been dabbling since my Dad let me help cast for his Manhattan Arms 5 shot cap and ball revolver in the '50s. I have a few more than the single cavity Lyman now.
Forum: Our Town
Well, grew up in California, family is from Texas (as is my wife) but live in New Hampshire now.???
I used to haunt McBrides when I was a student at UT in the early '70s. Great gunstore. Just didn't have much money then.
I also have a Marlin 1895 45-70 that I have been wanting to try cast in. ...
Forum: AirGuns
This thread is timely. I have been stalking a squirrel around my house the last week or so. Living in town and not wanting to make too much noise my wife said the 25-06 was a little much. So I got...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |