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Giant Pith Helmet Thread of Doom
LOL When I hit twenty-nine the Army said, "Top, it's been a good ride but it's over. Bye!" I'd spent so much effort avoiding being in a command position until then that I never could have gotten in Sergeant Major Academy so they wouldn't let me hang around. Then came 9/11. I shaved off my... -
Giant Pith Helmet Thread of Doom
She actually said that? :D Man, with an invitation like that, how can you resist? Teach her to say there's anything wrong with white and grizzled. Just don't let her know the proper term is 'iron grey'! :cool: And I have positively got to build myself a Martini sporter like that... -
Giant Pith Helmet Thread of Doom
Exactly. Whenever I went to Africa I grew this. The Mrs. tolerated it because the understanding was that I would shave when I got home. Last winter I fell and split open my chin. Since shaving over sutures is impossible I just grew a sort of a sea captain/Amish-ish thing along the lower jaw... -
Show us your Guns!
Ooooooh . . . yes! *slurp . . . drool . . . *- Oldsarge
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
Damned good thing we don't have any industrial opponents on the horizon. The Chinese will never pick a fight with us because they've too much money tied up in U.S. bonds. Besides, why pick a fight with your biggest customer? Now if we could just get out of the habit of sticking our noses in...- Oldsarge
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
That's the trouble with Pentagon procurement. Everything has to be gold-plated. It's the main drawback of the F-35. "One plane to rule them all . . . " Horsefeathers! There's no one to use it on and it would be cheaper by far to just upgrade our current arsenal the way they have the B-52...- Oldsarge
- Post #3,966
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
You'd have to be a Space Marine to be strong enough to carry it in combat anyway. Another funny: A few years back DARPA was working on an all-purpose infantry rifle. It was to fire 5.56 ammo, single and burst, and be able to throw 40mm grenades. The piece de la resistance, though, was it was...- Oldsarge
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Show us your Guns!
'Sfunny. I used to know a guy who was an airborne Ranger, SF guy. Not much got to him. But one drill I told him about "The Ghost in the Darkness". Next month he told me he'd rented it for the family. He and his GF were on the couch and her kids were sprawled all over the floor . . . in the...- Oldsarge
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
Sorry, I frighten too easily to watch Aliens. My wife could only watch it once and she's a great fan of adrenaline. Maybe I'll check out some stills . . .- Oldsarge
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
:DLooks like something out of a Rambo movie!- Oldsarge
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Giant Pith Helmet Thread of Doom
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
Jorg says that GB 30'06 has been restocked and probably rebored and rechambered. That model was never made in 30'06 and at the time it would never have been made without a cheekpiece. The maker was a cousin of his grandfather or great-grandfather. It's still lovely . . .- Oldsarge
- Post #363
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
LOL! The original is wonderful but by the time I could accumulate the cash to buy it it will be gone. For a new one all I have to do is talk to Jorg, the grandson.- Oldsarge
- Post #360
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
Now that just goes to show . . . I like the top rifle better. In fact, I love it! I wonder if Schilling will still make them in that configuration . . .- Oldsarge
- Post #355
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Show us your Guns!
For someone with a commercial license, in those states where it is possible to fish commercially in fresh water, it can actually be good conservation. You only take the medium sized fish (the biggest ones are your prime breeders) and when you stop cranking the rest recover and swim away none...- Oldsarge
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
I won't publish my best load because it's 'way too hot for most, but my Whitworth just loves IMR 4350 at 2600+ ft. sec. behind a 300 gr. Nosler Partition. Thumbnail sized groups at 100 yards and things hit kind of 'boom-flop'. Great rifles! 'We be of one blood, you and I . . .'--The Jungle Book- Oldsarge
- Post #349
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
The only hunting you can do in Kenya is for birds. The government closed safari hunting to keep tourist hunters from seeing the ivory slaughter the mayor of Nairobi was backing. The result was a devaluation of wildlife and a general drop in game populations from poaching and conflict with...- Oldsarge
- Post #346
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
Sounds good to me. Those two calibers easily cover the world. The two after that should be some string-straight shooting plains rifle and a really BIG thumper if you're as nervy around things that bite back as I am. "When in elephant country, carry an elephant rifle."--Terry Wieland.- Oldsarge
- Post #343
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Safari Express rifle pic thread
From about 1960 on you could legitimately say that a push-feed action was cheaper to build. However, since CNC machinery has become universal and easily cuts tolerances of +/- nuttin', there really isn't any reason for building them except in the case where MOA accuracy makes sense. Since the...- Oldsarge
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- Forum: The Great Outdoors
