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What year and model? But as mentioned likely a short of some sort, but if you have dash mounted switches that are hooked to a printed circut board type dash, it could get ugly.

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I have to agree with Blaine. All of my uncles, except one who was turned down for medical reasons, served in the UNS during WWII. All but one are gone. The one still living spent a, blessedly short, time as a prisoner of the Japanese. He will not forget what he was subjected to. He will not forget t...

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On appearance alone, this thing is a looser. When there were, at the time, a number of high capacity 1911's out there, that were easily modified, the military in its infinite wisdom, decided to reinvent the wheel. I watched the "trials" unfold in the various gun rags, all the while wonderi...

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pugsly just looks ornry, but thats what I want. I cant hunt anymore thanks to bad knees, but to my redneck eyes, that short mag tube as ugly as a wort on young Ann Margerts face. who's Anne Margert..? Wait a minute. It looks like your avatar is Jack Webb, and you don't know who Ann Margert is? Okay...

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Hey Murph, It's not just Air Force cadets (or newly minted officers too), pretty much all young men and women seems to go thru a bit of that. The military does a darned good job of instilling "esprit de corps" in the troops. So, the big head and puffed out chest just come with the package....

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Oly, not a thing wrong with the new ones. They look a lot better than Fords attempt at resurrecting the early T-birds. Speaking of the T-bird redo, when they were first announced, I seriously considered buying one. Then I saw one :cry: Had Ford recreated the body exactly, without the "updating&...

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Anything is possible, and as mentioned quite a few have done it. But, one of the Guide Guns benefits over say the Cowboy model is that it weighs less. Before you do it (and this is how I decided not to do it) tape the extra rounds under the barrel. Then with the rifle fully loaded, see how it handle...

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I didn't see the poll yesterday. Is it me, or wasn't it there? Anyway, the why I have what is traditionally thought of as an EBR is that my kids decided I needed one. I hadn't handled an AR since the early 70's. Those were M-16's. That's right, the original, without the chromed chamber and bolt assi...

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If by EBR you mean something on the AR platform, and it's going to be your only one, skip the 5.56 and move up to the 7.62. At least you can hunt something other than varmits with it (yes, I know the 5.56 is legal for deer somplaces). And since you're going to the 7.62, skip the AR platform and go t...

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Oh no, not another airedale. Tell your son congrats from one old airedale to one young airedale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHOq6Sl9u38

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Whether you enlist or were drafted, you wrote that blank check that is often mentioned. Those who are currently serving, while their pay is better than what my generation received, are not properly compensated. How do you compensate a family subjected to long separations? Separations that have the v...

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Prayers up.

If I might add one bit of advice with the estate, make use of professionals, be they lawyers, accountants and so on. It's a complicated business and since most of us do it on very rare ocassions, the pros come in handy.

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Actually, the volume of water on the earth has changed. When we take hydrocarbon, and combine it with an oxygen and add heat, the resulting combustion results in a net increase in water. So, while it might be argued that the amount of hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms may have stayed the same (not re...

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In my dreams :) Anyone got a spare $750k or so? http://www.blogcdn.com/www.luxist.com/media/2009/07/73ferrari365gtbytonaspyder.jpg Actually got to drive one of these once. Forty-eight valves doing their thing and that scream at 6-7000 or so a sound to behold! Kinda hard to fit 31" AT's under t...

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Actually, the volume of water on the earth has changed. When we take hydrocarbon, and combine it with an oxygen and add heat, the resulting combustion results in a net increase in water. So, while it might be argued that the amount of hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms may have stayed the same (not rea...

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Pitchy my friend, sometimes you scare me. Really, that is just plain cool.

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Griff wrote:This appears to be a less populated version of this topic: How do you get around?

I knew I'd responded... and wondered, "...where'd my post go?"

Gee, and I thought I was loosing it.

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Well, it puts me in the Indian Ocean. I guess I don't have a doppleganger living on the opposite side of the world.

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Jeep & Feet.

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sore shoulder wrote:Awesome Blaine! 1911's are what you show your friends. Rock out with your Glock out!

Or in my case carry freqently. The 30 may be smaller and hold more rounds, but it doesn't have the style and grace that a 1911 has.

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You could have Lever make you one http://www.levergunleather.com/p_scabbards.htm I really like the buckskin with fringe toward the bottom of the page.

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I don't figure to buy anything new, except work vehicles from here on out. Jeep and Ford are both over thirty years old. I can fix anything on them without a bunch of OBD stuff. And, while getting some parts for the Ford is getting difficult (mostly interior parts), you can still build a CJ from the...

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I have the laser grip on my 30. Good thing, cuz the sights on that thing are hard for my old eyes. Recoils is actually better than the 36, especially the first rounds Ten 230gr rounds does weigh a bit. I had a TLR 1 on it, but it recently broke. I need to contact the manfac. to see what they can do.

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Watched a show on SciFi, I think, about an engineer that designs a "bird" like that to enforce peace. Yea, it went all sorts of wrong. Mother nature doesn't like being one upped.

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Sometimes, a good ole JHP will do the trick, even if you miss a bit. Got this one with a hunk of rock, sorta like barking a squirrel. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f271/Jeepnik/KANNANPCH8-13-10-4.jpg It did buzz, but not till I was just about to take a step backwards and onto it. I sat down for ...

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Okay, am I the only one who noticed the OP wrote "adjustable spanner". So, it's got to be british or one of the commonwealth countries where the joke originated. Though, I did like the "oklahoma socket set" comment. Of course, between irishmen and blondes, it's a toss up. :mrgreen:

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I must be a bit different. I don't "collect", I accumulate. Also, it's very unusual for met to want a particular gun, though I am waiting for Kel-tec to make enough KSGs to go around. No, I'm mostly an impulse buyer. It doesn't matter if I have any sort of preconcieved "need". It...

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Chris83716 wrote:Pretty sure the life has been sucked out of me a few times at work. Does that count?

Chris

Only if it's been done by an ex-wife.

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Speaking of states that folks get confused about, New Mexico magazine used to have a section of anectdotes call "One of our fifty is missing". They were stories about how uninformed folks thought New Mexico was either a country in it's own right, or part of Mexico.

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harry wrote:And dinner table

Yea, as long as it is them on your's and not the other way around.

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Jeep week? Ha who da thunk it? :o Yea, why a piddly week? In my house it's Jeep Day everyday. The pictured Jeep looks good, but since it was built for a "reality" show, it may be "all show and no go". I'll stick with my Scrambler. Thirty years old and still better than what's ma...

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I've had a few yotes come in the backdoor unbeknownst to me a couple of times while calling them. But, they always went wide. Though I do use a remote electronic call, so there attention was focused elsewhere. There may well have been more but they either saw or scented me and hightailed it without ...

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Jeepnik, you did time at george AFB huh? Thats just about a ghost town now. Yea, after they closed it, the City of Victorville took it over and was operating as a "freight" airport. Not sure how well that's worked out. A few years ago, I did some work on the new prison complex that is on ...

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Jeepnik, Yeah, Thunderbird Phantoms. I saw them back in the early seventies flying those Phantoms. Those were big, bad a**ed birds. :D Here is another shot of that Bicentennial Phantom. Click on it to open. Yeah, those Phantoms were big and easy to see. During the fuel crunch, they transitioned to ...

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Hey Steve, are you driving from Spain to Gibraltar? If so, let me know if they still have the "intersection" where you transition from driving on the righthand side to the lefthand side. When I was stationed in Spain, we drove from Spain into Gibraltar and then took the ferry to Morroco. T...

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I always wondered what happened to all of those Phantoms.

The AFB I was stationed at in Victorville, Ca, is now a graveyard for commericial aircraft.

There were quite a few more just after 9-11, when the airlines cut way back on flights.

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Hey Pete knock that kinda stuff off, it ain't healthy for you. I've been close, but never quite all the way there, I'm saving that for later, much, much later.

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Dang Pitchy, what did I miss.

And Pete, was it that other levergun board that banned you? They banned a lot of us who wouldn't goose step to the net nazi's idea of correctness.

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The Rugers are very good. Lots of options, the 22/45 seems pretty popular, but I prefer the more "traditional" regular Mark 3.

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Heck, these guys have always flown aircraft in red, white and blue.

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UncleBuck wrote:Another oldie but goodie.
click it to enlarge.

Hmm. I wonder if every squadron had a special paint job on at least one Phantom in '76. I was stationed at Torrejon AFB in Spain at the time. We had one with a Bicentennial paint job, though not as good as that one.

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Prayers up for your mom, you and your family.

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Prayers up.

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Hey OI, what type of school is it? Ever been to Dodd/Beals in Reno?

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Hey Oly, Re the SST being on the taxiway. While it's been a long time and I only saw a few, I seem to remember that the nose remained dropped during taxi, I think it has something to do with ground visibility. Also, you mentioned the Victorville Boneyard, I was stationed there when it was George AFB...

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I'm likely a bit better with SA autos than anything else. But, I prefer to carry revolvers. When it get's to short barreled handguns, I look that them as self-defense firearms. At the "expected" range (whatever that mythical number is) I'm likely as good with a wheel gun as I am with an au...

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Re the B-17 cockpit. Our dads were likely smaller than we are, so it might not have been quite so bad for them. I had an uncle that was a baombadier/navigator on Flying Fortress'. He was only about 5'6", yet he always seemed so tall to me, even when I was taller. How men like him could climb in...

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The serape is one of my wife's family heirlooms. Oh, did I ever mention my wife is of Mexican descent. Seems her people immigrated here before a bunch of Americans immigrated illegally to California. But that's okay, she doesn't hold it against me.

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I've had some work done at Hoag. Danged good work. Darned long wait time.

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On that Singapore SST, shouldn't the nose be dropped during takeoff and landing? Back when they were new, the plan was to have them land at Barajas airport outside of Madrid. Torrejon AB was to be a secondary/emergency field. I guess the spanish didn't want to clog up the commercial strip should one...

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