Fisher House is great!!!
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Doc Olive
Type: Posts; User: goodolejim
Forum: Our Town
Fisher House is great!!!
Semper Fi
Doc Olive
Forum: Our Town
fatelk you have your priorities right. When it is all said and done all we have is our loved ones. Three months ago I quit work to sit home holding my wife's hand and talking with her. Good times and...
Forum: Our Town
Linux Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu so the drivers are the same. I like Mint better but would not feel abused if I went back to Ubuntu.
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Doc Olive
Forum: Cookin' Recipe's
Great Marine Corps Saturday morning breakfast!
Doc Olive
Forum: Our Town
As a very young corpsman I was promoted to E5 while I was at Camp Pendleton. This moved me into the Staff NCO barracks> I was the only person in the barracks including the other corpsman who had not...
Forum: Our Town
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven’s scenes,
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.
Semper Fi
Doc Olive
Forum: Our Town
Had both knees done last September. Four days in hospital and three weeks in rehab. Had my 80th birthday while in rehab. went to the gym three times a day. Once with the PT and the others because I...
Don't blow the leaves away with a leaf blower as you might blow the trigger away with the leaves. Go to Home Depot or some similar store and get a wheeled 16 inch wide magnet for picking up hardware....
Forum: Muzzleloading.
Any of the mentioned small containers will work well. I use wheel bearing grease which withstands heat very well yet will wash away when I clean my Navy Arms 1858 Army revolver. A tub of WB grease...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Don't forget that some electric drills spark internally like a miniature arc welder. If you use an air drill you have no spark which is why they are used around airplanes! The bulk propane places...
Forum: Our Town
Another corpsman saying OHHRAA and Semper
Fi
Doc Olive
Forum: Muzzleloading.
I use wheel bearing grease from auto parts store. Fill cylinder full from ball to front of the cylinder and shoot 100 rounds with out cleaning. This is in a Navy Arms 1858 I bought in 1972. Yes its a...
Forum: Our Town
My Smoochie R(otten)Cat and I grieve with you!
Forum: Our Town
On this general subject a year or so ago I made a post which had a reply to which bent my nose way out joint. Wanting to respond I sat about thing all sides of the subject and came to the conclusion...
Forum: Factory Rifles
Crosman 1077, semiautomatic 12 shot co2 bb gun. I can get at least 4 of 8 or 10 bambi in the butt when they are in the orchard and not alarm neighbors.
Forum: Our Town
I had an older Nissan , bought a factory manual and a Haynes manual. The Haynes was an EXACT copy of the factory manual. Also don't over look a DVD manual from eBay. Today I use the DVD manuals and...
Forum: Our Town
"The little bastard shot me in the ***", The Waco Kid/Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles.
Forum: Helping Hands
What's wonderful to me is the number of members who have jumped in to help!
Forum: Our Town
As a Navy corpsman with 3 years with the Corps I believe the real value of Marines is not what they do on active duty but the values taught to all Marines, Honor Courage, Commitment. Sixty years...
Forum: Military Rifles
You didn't mention his middle name is Strange. Robert Strange McNamara, and yes he was strange!
Forum: Our Town
DON"T DO IT !!! A few years ago I decided to give my Datsun which used no oil between oil changes a treat at 175000 mile. Switched to full synthetic oil. It started smoking to the point ten days...
Forum: Our Town
Yes you can use just about any version of Linux on that computer. I use Linux Mint myself and Ubuntu manuals usually will walk you through how to do what you wish to do. I find Linux Mint somewhat...
Remington 1858 by Navy Arms. Wonderful gun, that .44 round ball puts a hole in a board I can stick my finger in. Only down side to me is worrying if a cap might fall off when carried for self...
Forum: Our Town
Happy Birthday Marines
Semper Fi
Doc Olive
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 |