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    Radio on the fritz ...

    Something that has not been mentioned on this thread is one thing I have seen old timers use to fire up vintage HF gear and minimize the risk of catastrophic electrolytic capacitor failure: A variac. This is a gadget that you plug an electric radio into that GRADUALLY increases the applied...
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    Show us your Guns!

    Last deer hunt of the 2014-15 season was with a late 1903. In a 1922 M2 stock with Lyman 48 rear sight and King "Reflector" front. Pics tonight.
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    The Fedora Lounge's own Matt Deckard on HONY

    Do my eyes deceive me, or do I see brand new Fawn ORs with unshaped crowns in one of them there display cases? In which case I say, there IS a God in Israel!
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My Papaw's first car was a 1930-odd Packard. His daddy took it in as a trade for a city house; this was about 1939-40. Things cost considerably less back then. A new Winchester rifle was @$50 (which almost nobody had, most hunters still used either 30-30s [$30-40 or so] or shotguns) and a new...
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    Show us your Guns!

    Given it's 12/12, what better Golden Age shootin' iron to present than a Model 12? The classic Remington Model 12, this one from 1911.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My experience with them was completely different. December 1990, my mother was killed by a drunk driver. The Navy/Marine Corps "Relief" Society refused to loan me even one cent for an airline ticket home from RTC Orlando as I was a Reservist. Red Cross took care of me. During the government...
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    Show us your Guns!

    I generally don't keep much ammo loaded. I keep goodly amounts of supplies about, though. Back to the topic, though, does anybody have an old Remington Model 12 or 14? John Pedersen made John Garand look normal. I have said before that John Pedersen was no part of a conventional firearms...
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    Correct Telephone Habits

    Military telephone etiquette works a little differently. You ALWAYS let the phone ring 2 times. ALWAYS. Whether you're busy or not has nothing to do with it. Answer: "Good (morning/afternoon/evening), (command name) (specific office/department). This is (rank/grade, name). This is a...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    .22s and pistol shells in the cardboard boxes with half of them with the case heads up and half of them with the bullets up. IRT dial phones, a good friend of mine had, near as we can tell, the last dial phone in the ENTIRE Highland Telephone Cooperative. Couple years ago, they started sending...
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    It's all about that (stand up) bass

    I LIKE Postmodern Jukebox. If ragtime's your thing, they have a LOT of ragtime covers of modern pop. Goodly number of Doo-Wop covers, too.
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    Was there a "Fox News" back in the day?

    Drew Pearson might have fit the bill....
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    Show us your Guns!

    This is the gun they won't let the police have. It'll shoot right through a man, son. C. 1925 vintage Smith and Wesson Military and Police .32-20. Nice bore, and the color case is still brilliant on the hammer behind the lockplate.
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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    I replied on this thread a while back, but wanted to "revise and extend" so to speak. Biplane fighter: Boeing F4B/ Curtiss F9C Early monoplane reciprocating engine fighter: Grumman F4F Late monoplane reciprocating engine fighter: Grumman F8F 1st gen jet: North American FJ-4 2d gen jet...
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    Show us your Guns!

    I don't know about that. The Finns killed trainloads of Russians in the Winter and Continuation Wars with Mosin-Nagants stocked in Finnish Birch or American Walnut. In 1932, they started making them out of 2 pieces to reduce warpage, so you occasionally see one with a front half of birch and a...
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    Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?

    Postmodern Jukebox. Modern tunes in all the vintage idioms the OP refers to. All About That Bass as a Swing era jazz standard has to be heard to be believed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyTTX6Wlf1Y
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    Show us your Guns!

    Speaking of 1921 long guns, how about the Fabulous Model 14? Remington, that is. I have a .30 Remington made in 1914. There's just something about cartridge guns from about 1870 to 1965. They just have... soul.
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    How'd You Get Where You Are?

    They say when you're poor, you really don't know how poor you really are. We lived with my Mamaw and Papaw til I was 14, and my mother didn't have a car til I graduated high school. With little other opportunity, I joined the Navy in 1990 and Desert Storm happened. One great regret I have in...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I am a CA-sette fan. Crown Vic has a cassette player and I keep finding cheap Marty Robbins CA-settes..
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    Show us your Guns!

    I like it, especially the T-grip. Very common late Golden Era mod. Will say this: At least for me, a T-Grip makes a DA revolver significantly less pleasant to shoot.
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    Show us your Guns!

    Before we had the current carry permit law, carrying WITHOUT a permit was called "carrying a weapon with the intent to go armed." Sounds like a similar concept to what you all have Across The Mountain.

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