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  1. carebear

    A cool, classic knife

    That's a beautiful knife Jeep. Did he do the sheathe as well?
  2. carebear

    Guns and shooting advice?

    What was the course of fire? It looks sort of sporting clays-ey. Oh, and what O/U are you shooting?
  3. carebear

    Trench Coat - the 'Ultimate' Thread!

    Desert sky typically has no clouds, thus there is very little heat retention after sunset, clear is cold. Deserts almost always get chilly at night, especially ones, like Morocco, that are on the coast and get onshore moist winds after sunset. I've seen Marines start to go hypothermic in...
  4. carebear

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Edward, So what other movies have you been avoiding? Maybe we can convert you on those as well. Fantastic Blofeld BTW, you are FL's own man of a thousand faces.
  5. carebear

    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    Our leadership and representatives didn't stop to think through what they were doing with the stimulus bill. They got caught up in the "OMG the sky (economy) is falling" emotionalism and, rather than slowing down and thinking, just acted. When in doubt, the American big government solution...
  7. carebear

    What Are You Reading

    He's here all week folks... Be sure to try the veal. :eusa_clap
  8. carebear

    Show us your Guns!

    That's after they designed and had built a custom oversized mold to allow for the shrinkage. The standard-sized lead mold used first ended up with sub-caliber silver bullets.
  9. carebear

    Show us your Guns!

    If that's your thing. ;) I'm sure the guys stuck carrying the Lewis guns and BAR's were told the same story. Golden Era character. :D
  10. carebear

    Show us your Guns!

    That's not what I've read, it appears to be confirmed in the article above. [huh] I've read that if you use a lead bullet mold with molten silver, the bullets will come out consistently and (caliber-wise) significantly undersized. But I haven't done it myself so that's all I have to go...
  11. carebear

    Show us your Guns!

    Pure silver shrinks too much when it cools. For bullets, as opposed to balls, you can cast up a oversized rod and mill them to diam on a lathe. At least that's my plan if a plague of werewolves breaks out locally. For now most of my planning is for the inevitable Zombie Apocolypse. :D...
  13. carebear

    What Are You Reading

    Have you read Capstick's bio based mostly on Meinertzhagen's diaries? "Warrior: the Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Warrior-Legend-Colonel-Richard-Meinertzhagen/dp/0312182716 In Capstick's defense, it was written prior to much of the documentation (as...
  14. carebear

    Loungers' Pets

    Nice passive-aggressive response. :eusa_clap I give it an 8/10. Much easier and self-satisfying than simply answering an honest question about a claim of fact with actual evidence in support or just admitting that said claim of fact was, in truth, simply an unsupported opinion, isn't it...
  15. carebear

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Took me a bit to realize the guitarist was playing all Bowie songs, in French and acoustic.
  16. carebear

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Die! Die! Die! I... can't. It was sweeter than I was expecting.
  17. carebear

    girls in guy's garb

    Jane March in "The Lover" I think, same as in the third from left bottom photo.
  19. carebear

    Show us your Guns!

    From what I can find no one has run a batch of .25 rimfire (for the Stevens?) since 1941. I saw prices like $200 a round from collectors. I did find this though for the .22 Winchester auto. http://www.ammo-one.com/22WIN-AUTO.html I'll try to remember to post the Mexican pistol on some...
  20. carebear

    What Are You Reading

    Hit the bargain bin at Barnes and Noble and got the latest Jesse Stone and John Rain novels.
  21. carebear

    What Are You Reading

    Remember the ads for those? A guy would be reading a book on a plane or something. Someone would ask him what it was about, get told and tehn ask, "are UFO's really real?" The answer would be "Read the book."
  22. carebear

    Show us your Guns!

    The idea on the mag cutoff was to promote aimed single shots for most use but preserve the ability for a "mad minute" if necessary. The same reasoning behind offering semi and full (burst) fire on the newer rifles. If you keep the guys on semi until they "need" it, you prevent mag dumps at...
  23. carebear

    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    I rolled up the front of my (woodland) boonie to keep it out of my eyes, worked better with optics as well. I could "snap brim" it down if I needed the shade. The new issue ones have a brim that goes on forever. I got out shortly after they were issued but I think I'd have ended up trimming...
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