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  1. Let us know how ya are...Missed ya

    The Guys are starting to worry

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  2. AzRednek

    FBI

    If the FBI found documents regarding Hunter. Chances are good they’ve been shredded. My gut feeling, if they found anything significant it will be released to the media when the next presidential election warms up. The FBI along with a ham sandwich will get Trump indicted on some made-up BS. I’m not sure if a law prevents a candidate with either an indictment or criminal charges for running for an election, if there is the FBI will use it as they did with the Russian hoax.
  3. Mom just freaked out thought it was against the law for some reason. She may have been correct that a 13 year old buying a gun via mail order violated a law. I don’t recall but chances are good I lied if there was any questions about age on the order blank. I do know she raised hell at the Post Office and wrote then Senator Goldwater. Mom was type that was uncomfortable around guns but after my parents split she kept a S&W 38 under her bed.
  4. Several years ago I bought a stack of 50 and 60s gun magazines at a yard sale. I wanted to cry seeing all those pre GCA/68 mail order ads. When I was 15 about 1965-66. I ordered a mil surp rifle with 100 rds of ammo for 19.99. I have no recollection of what kind it was. I tore a sheet out of a magazine in my school library. I think the magazine was Sports Afiield. Long story short. My mother flipped out, brought it back to the Post Office while I was in school and I never got to see it. A few months later I got a partial refund.
  5. We will have trouble scaring the Red Chinese with numbers. China has a much larger population of young men. Even North Korea with its mandatory military conscription of nearly all young men. I was in the first draft after Nixon enacted the lottery system. My number was 193 and my draft board went up to 195. After my draft physical I was classified 1-Y not fit for combat but could still be drafted. There were rumors back in 68-69 of 1-Y being drafted into other federal jobs such as prison guards, Forest Service, defense factories and even the Peace Corps. The idea was to eliminate the draft exemptions for young men holding those positions. Before my lower classification I applied for a job with TRW that had a hand grenade factory south of Phoenix. I never showed up for my interview after reading in the paper about an accident killing one and the loss of limbs for a few more. Nixon eventually did away with the 1-Y and I was reclassified as 4-F due to poor hearing.
  6. I saw it to often as a union rep. Numerous times I had to get into somebody’s personal space and let them know their job was to move or deliver mail. Many had the attitude the Post Office was only there to provide them a job and paycheck. Sick leave abuse, tardiness and young girls believing they could and often did get away with a lot using their good looks. Plenty thought the union would save their ass no matter what kind of trouble. I saw a few leaving in handcuffs usually for theft and occasionally workers comp or time card fraud. A prime example was a young guy with a wealthy family. His family allowance was matching his wages. He cried like a child when he couldn’t get an afternoon off with pay to get a haircut. He couldn’t understand getting paid by the hour. He chewed my ass for getting his 7-suspension reduced to, two days. He wanted a week off believing the union would get him reimbursed. He was in his late 20s but never mentally matured. He lost his cush job with his family’s tool manufacturing business due to a hostile corporate take over eventually merging with another tool co. I could write several paragraphs about young women believing the path to a successful career was on their backs or even parking lot bjs. I had one attractive blonde show up at my front door demanding the union get her the promotion she was promised. She fell on her knees on my front porch and cried when I told her the union couldn’t get her the promotion she was promised. She was being passed around by three supervisors and possibly a fourth, a bull dyke. She was to embarrassed to file sexual harassment having to admit the conduct. She wised up after a suspension for sick leave abuse and her supervisors couldn’t save her. On the other hand I knew of a clerk/typist go to upper level mgmt in her first 18 months. There are just way to many young people believing the world owes them a living, hard work is for the other guy. The Demoncrats play along and get voters with promises of canceling college debt. Let the hard working guy living on low wages in an apprenticeship program foot the tax burden. o
  7. AzRednek

    FBI

    I very seriously doubt the FBI will get more than a gentle wrist slap. It’s like fork with me and I’ll fork you even better. I imagine as it was done when Hoover was running the agency. The FBI likely has career killing dirt on every politician in DC. Once upon a time I had great respect for the FBI. As a kid there was Jimmy Stewart and Efrem Zimbalist Jr on TV setting fine examples. My 7 and 8 th grade Catechism teacher was an FBI agent. Outside of the Catholic books he taught us a lot about morals, honesty, patriotism and encouraged every one of us to speak privately with him if we had a problem, any problem. He gave us his home phone number and encouraged us to call him even if it was in the middle of the night. My self and two others got a long lecture after class about male sexuality and not having guilt feelings after he caught us passing a Playboy fold-out under the table.
  8. I too prefer the pump up stoves and lanterns. They do work well with unleaded gasoline. Coleman or generic brands of fuel has additives that gives long term storage of the fuel fresh. It also has some rust preventive qualities that are not found in unleaded gasoline. Where one runs into trouble with unleaded gasoline is its tendency to go stale, invite rust and not burning as well or clean until the generator gets really hot. When I used unleaded in my Coleman appliances I dumped all the unleaded out of the tanks before storing away until the next camping event. in reverse, Coleman fuel can be used in a car. Back in the 80s my friends picked me up at the LA airport in a renal car. We ran out of gas and there were not any gas stations we could see. A five minute walk to a 24 hour grocery store we bought thee gallons of Coleman fuel, plastic funnel emptied the fuel into the car’s gas tank the car ran fine.
  9. My uncle that lived through several Los Angeles earthquakes swore by his Coleman stove and lanterns. He made the mistake of buying a cheapie low output generator to keep his refrigerator and freezer running. It died after a few hours. He warned the noise from a generator invites thieves and neighbors with extension cords. He later invested into a quiet RV generator. If he didn’t lose city water he vigorously boiled drinking water fearing sewage getting into the city’s water supply. My uncle was a hard core Democrat and wanted nothing to do with guns for protection. He had the give them what they want attitude saying there isn’t anything I have worth killing for.
  10. I’m seeing and hearing enough that I have a renewed interest in hoarding food. I have twin sons, one is taking it seriously the other is not. About 5-6 weeks ago I spent some bucks buying them canned goods and I’m placing another order soon. I’ve mentioned in the past when I was an outside salesman selling auto parts. I saw numerous tempers flare and fights break out in the 1970s gas lines. The bloodiest fight I saw was over a buyer after getting his 10 gallons then with the pump turned off drained the hose into his gas tank. Leaving it to the next guy to pay to fill up the hose up. About two years ago I watched a fight start in a dollar store between a black and Mexican family. There was a sale on Banquet frozen pot pies. The black family took them all. When a Mexican woman objected the black woman screamed at her. Next thing other family members joined in and fists started flying. I’ll admit I was a big chicken and left asap as soon as I saw a Mexican teenager grab what I thought was a gun. I found out a few days later it was just a knife. According to the dollar store cashier police took all of them to jail. If there is ever a serious food shortage TSWHTF. The privileged and wealthy will never go hungry but us peons will have to fight or go hungry. I’ll admit to being paranoid I started hoarding prior to the Y2K fiasco.
  11. I feel it’s an attempt to control the so called unwashed masses. Control food and people become dependent on the government for their daily bread. Food is only part of the control and take over by the government and the ultra wealthy. Food is only part, health care, education, housing and now it’s transportation. Makes me wonder what is coming next, why is Bill Gates attempting to screw with the meat supply. Apparently our leaders are failing to recall history. Food riots have caused have caused governments to be over thrown. The Russian Revolution is a prime example. I’m certain it’s coming soon to Venezuela. Was Michelle Obama taking care of or better said destroying school lunches and even breakfast meals in poor communities an attempt to control? How many kids would tolerate and eat a dessert of celery sticks and cottage cheese, salt free pretzels and chips or honey glazed cornbread to name a few. Don’t know if it’s true or an exaggeration. A member of my gun club claimed his grandkid’s got a school dessert that was a concoction of stewed tomatoes, raisins and cinnamon.
  12. During that time the worse TV villain was Eddy Haskell.
  13. My two cents says no, especially at the cost. I know everything has gone up in cost but $250?? Your prewar FN built before war time pressure or possible war time sabotage utilizing slave labor, I’d pass. In the early 70s I had a early 50s Spanish manufactured receiver go bad. According to a gunsmith it had what he described as receiver set back, the steel is to soft. With my slipping memory not sure if it was a 308 or 06 barrel we stuck in it. I recall my friend asking the smith about heat treating. The gunsmith exhaled loudly almost laughing through his nose, shook his head then telling us no the quality of the Spanish receivers of that era were inconsistent, the next one might be to brittle.
  14. About 20 years ago on New Year’s eve. During the noise and fireworks starting at midnight. I had some WW2 dated 12 gauge flares. I foolishly shot a flare in an old Stevens 12 ga single shot shotgun with a full choke. When I shot I heard a primer pop and a small amount of paper debris shot out the barrel .I very mistakenly assumed it was a just dud and headed back inside to get another flare. Just as I headed back inside about 30 seconds later. The moment I touched the door knob.I heard a load phoomp as the flare ignited but was stopped by the full choke. As the flare burned inside the barrel near the muzzle. The heat from the flare caused the barrel to turn cherry red near the muzzle. Fearing the wood forend might burn up from the heat. I struggled but finally managed to remove the forend stock using a baker’s mitt. I leaned the shotgun outside against a barbecue to let it cool off as the entire barrel was way to hot to handle. The following morning everything was still intact.. The area where the barrel turned red from the heat. The bluing was gone and it was down to bare metal. I was pleasantly surprised as the burned paper crud and unburned powder flakes were easily removed. Several months later on opening day of Dove season. I removed the choke tube from my O/U, coated the threads with high temp wheel bearing grease then shot a flare. The parachute failed to open and it descended near some tumble weeds. My friend and I ran to it before a desert wildfire started and stomped out a burning tumbleweed. To avoid the temptation to shoot anymore flares. I gave away the remainder of the flares to a gun show acquaintance that was into collecting WW2 militaria and re-enactments.
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