Dr.Hess

If'n we're gonna badmouth Arkies, then ya'll need to realize that half the people up here are from Texas and the other half are from California. There is a small "native" Arkie contingent, though. Look for the pseudophed packages littered out in their front yard. Dr.Hess <18 years in PRC, 18 years in Tejas>

My email account get so much spam, it is practically useless. I've had this email address since about 1995 and the worst happened after the 'bot sucked all the emails out of eBay. I think that list is still being sold around to the spammers. Dr.Hess

And you wonder how there could be someone dumb enough to be a suicide bomber. They should have told them, oh, we couldn't see you, but you missed a spot and we could see that. Dr.Hess

No problem, Tony. Just trying to help out a little. Don't want to see you selling your collection off. Dr.Hess

I like that "Give Peas a Chance." Reminds me of the bumper sticker "Visualize Whirled Peas." Dr.Hess (Vegetarian but not Vegan. I drink milk and eat cheese. Oh, and cap racoons.)

I have a Garand also. I think I paid about $300 for it (DCM) and it was handed to me by a uniformed member of Bill Clinton's government. Dr.Hess

This one is an interesting read. The SAS in action: http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtm.../20/nsas120.xml Snipers' head shots had to kill terrorists simultaneously to prevent explosions (Filed: 20/11/2005) Early on a warm summer morning, a few hours before traffic began to fill the streets, a 16-man SAS patrol took up ambush positions around a Baghdad house, writes Sean Rayment. The soldiers had been told that the house was a being used as a base by insurgents - and up to three suicide bombers were expected to leave it later that morning. Dressed in explosive vests, they were fully equipped to hit a number of locations around the city. The bombers' targets were thought to be cafes and restaurants frequented by members of the Iraqi security forces. The intelligence was regarded as "high grade" and came from an Iraqi agent who had been nurtured by members of the British Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, for several months. Expectation among the 16 soldiers, attached to Task Force Black (TFB), the secret American and British special forces unit based in the Iraqi capital, was high. Each member of the four four-man groups was a veteran of many missions where the intelligence promised much - only to deliver little. The plan for Operation Marlborough was simple: allow the three suspected bombers to leave the house and get into the street, then kill them with head shots from the four sniper teams. Each team was equipped with L115A .338 sniper rifles, capable of killing at up to 1,000 yards. The soldiers, liaising earlier with their commanders, had considered the option of entering the house and killing the terrorists - but that plan was regarded as too dangerous. The confines of the house would intensify the impact of any blast, killing everyone inside. The SAS soldiers were told that it was vital that the three bombers would have to be killed simultaneously. If one of them was allowed to detonate a device, scores of people could be killed or injured. In support of the covert sniper teams was a Quick Reaction Force (QRF), which would provide a dozen extra soldiers within a few minutes in an emergency. The QRF was based in a secure location nearby and a team of ammunition technical officers were on hand to defuse the bombs. A section of Iraqi police was also attached to the operation - although they were not briefed on the detail of the attack - to deal with any crowd trouble. Meanwhile, 2,000 feet above the city of five million inhabitants, a CIA-controlled Predator unmanned air vehicle was providing a real-time video feed back to the TFB headquarters deep inside the secure green zone. Shortly after 8am, Arabic translators, monitoring listening devices hidden inside the house, warned the operations centre inside the militarily controlled green zone that the three terrorist were on the move. The message "stand by, stand by" was dispatched to the four teams. As the terrorists entered the street, a volley of shots rang out and the three insurgents slumped to the ground. Each terrorist had been killed by a single head shot - the snipers having spent the past few days rehearsing the ambush in minute detail. The SAS troopers had been warned that only a direct head shot would guarantee that bombs would not be detonated. Only three of the four snipers fired, the fourth was to act as a back-up in case one of the weapons jammed or a sniper lost sight of his target. The message that the terrorists had been killed was sent back to the SAS headquarters and the troops moved forward to check the bodies for life. As they gingerly approached it became brutally apparent that the .338 calibre round - the biggest rifle bullet used by the Army - had done its job. Operation Marlborough was hailed as a complete success and one of the rare occasions on which the coalition has been able to deliver a decisive blow against suicide bombers.

That Adoptasniper site looks pretty interesting. How about we have a MFRC adoption? We can get on their links page which will be advertising for our site and do some good. I'd kick in a few bucks for it.

You mean you can send a woman to EAP for "THE LOOK"? Dr.Hess

Yeah, Karl, I believe you are right. The commies, err, dems, had power for a long time and they are doing everything they can to try to get it back. They only want us doing everything we do for their benefit. And in exchange, they will let us eat and have a roof which they own. The difference between today and 1000 years ago is getting less and less daily. Dr.Hess

The people running Google are extreme left wing commies. There is no doubt about it. They are all Gore wannabees. I forget the exact numbers, but in the last election the contributions were something like thousands to one dem/rep. It is not surprising to me at all that they have no problems with homosexual sex sites but won't let you advertise "Mauser." We need a new search engine. Dr.Hess

Don't piss on my boot and tell me its raining.

Speakin' o' hogs, in the burn unit when we ran out of human skin we would use pig skin on the patients. It is usually more or less rejected, but not always. Tends to scar more than human skin when it takes. We had a really good supply of used human skin at the time, so we didn't have to use pig often. I haven't seen any sign of wild hogs around here in NW AR. Given the local population, I don't think they would last very long. Around these parts, people think that Deer Season is something you buy at Wal*Mart to put on the meat. I don't know how we have any left at all. Dr.Hess

Yes, Fritz, what you describe is why I am living in Arkansas. I saw it coming and it has just been getting worse. They closed the last free park at Lake Somerville. Now you have to pay to sit at any picnic table. I noticed that every single interaction with the State was costing money, and costing more and more. "For the children" is how they always sell it. That's how that woman sold the lottery in. It would be "for the schools." Two years later she is all over the TV saying "I never said the money would go to the schools." Dr.Hess

Upgrading isn't worth it. A new case is $50 or much less. Once you upgrade the guts, throw in the extra 50 and you have a new machine. Yeah, a Green Machine at Wal*Mart is a very good way to go. Many of my friends (in the IT field) just by one of those. Also, word on the street (radio, actually) is that Wally World will have a HP laptop on sale for $399 on Black Friday. Dr.Hess

None. It is probably a good 5 minute walk up and down steep hills with no lights. Plus all the meth labs around, which typically don't like visitors. My wife bought some candy our first year here, but I knew there would be none. Dr.Hess

Do you have the right driver for it? What operating system are you trying to put on it? There are some boot disks available on the net, or make one from another computer with the same OS. Dr.Hess

Must be like whacking them racoons. The first few are easy. They sit there lookin' at ya while you take aim. Then they get smarter and you have to whack them in total darkness (IR & night vision). Takes about ten that way and the word gets around 'coon circles that you can see in the dark too and to split if they see movement in the house. I'll tell ya Fritz, you should hold guided hunts and sell hog leases to the city folk. I mean, not to start a flame war, but hunting is really just killing for sport, so why not let them kill your hogs and pay you for it? Run some ads in the hunting mags for "day leases" and guided hunts. Guaranteed kill or its free. Have someone available to dress the hogs out and pack them in ice (extra charge). They'd be lining up for it. Turn a negative into a positive. It's like that guy that had nothing but a big pile of rocks. So he puts a rock in a milk carton and calls it a "Pet Rock" and makes a bundle. Do the same thing with feral hogs.

Longshanks. Dr.Hess

Yeah, I did see some Husqvarna stuff, but I'm not up on those and I need a new caliber like.... Cleaned my Turk and did some research. It is a 1903 model, made in 1940. All the numbers match, milled trigger/mag housing. After a good scrubbing, the barrel looks new. The whole thing looks like it has never been issued. Cocks on closing, 93 style. I didn't know they had that many variations. I'm happy with it. My other Turk that I built a high power competition rifle from was stamped 1946 or 1947, I think, and has no thumb cut. Dr.Hess

Tulsa SitRep: I enjoyed the show. We stayed Friday night at the RipOff Inn, which was fortunately a nice room, but at the price, you just can't help but feeling screwed. At least we got breakfast out of it. Got to the show about 0800, left about 1700 and I think this was the first time I actually walked the whole show. There were some empty tables this year. Not a lot, but some. Saw Wiseguy and his TN gun parts and we talked a few minutes. I think the crowd was a bit thinner than previous shows. Some said it was because it was the first weekend of black powder deer season. I think it is the cost of gas, etc. Although gas was $2.19 in Tulsa and it is $2.55 100 miles away in Fayetteville. I think that the gun prices in general are coming down a bit, and the variety is up. I remember some shows where every single table is nothing but AR's, then others when every table is SAA's at $4K. This one had more variety and more reasonable prices, but there were still quite a few guns that I think they just added an extra digit to the price at one end or the other and figured that if someone was foolish enough to buy it, what the heck. I bought the second nicest Turk I saw. The nicest was 50% more and he wasn't coming down. Might have been worth it, as it looked brand new. There were no Helwans, which you guys know I am fond of. I'm looking for a new car, and with a new car goes a new Helwan.... Can't find either. Lots of parts guns, like the AK's. A recent SGN had a good article on how to legally make one from a kit and a receiver. It was good reading. And if you make it a pistol, you don't have to use the 10 US parts and you can use a short barrel. Passed on them as I really have enough projects now anyway. As a side note, the Arkansas concealed carry law states that a legal carry handgun is less than so much barrel length, so, near as I can tell (and I also asked the instructor this), it is not legal to carry something like a Super-14 Contender and I doubt an AK pistol would be technically a legal carry in AR. Probably pretty hard to conceal on your person too, especially with a 40 round mag in place. I need to renew in the next 6 months, so I may address this again. Saw some 7.62 Musers. One was an Israeli re-barrel that they wanted three bills for (dream on), one had no crest markings at all and I was worried might be one of those Spanish ones, and the other was a Spanish one. After all I have read, I don't trust the Spanish ones that aren't supposed to even be really 7.62, so I passed. The ATF had a booth and many agents standing behind it. They were giving out regulations reference guides for Fed and State, so I picked one of each up. Bought a couple of small accessories, and that was about it. Came home with most of my money. A good time, and I probably had my gunshow fix for another year or two. Dr.Hess

You wanna know why we pay more for drugs? Well, it is complicated, but it comes down to lawyers and corporate greed. In 1997, the wholesale price of a 800mg Ibuprofen was three cents per tab. Retail price at the cheapest pharmacist (Wal*Mart) for a patient with no insurance was $18/100, 18 cents ea. That's 600% markup. Insurance companies have it set up so that they get the “special” rate while everyone else gets screwed. And they have the laws set so that it is illegal for the pharmacist to give you the same deal that they get. So, this is what happens: Wal*Mart pays 3 cents for the pill. Your prescription is for 50 ea, or $1.50 wholesale. Not manufacturer’s cost, mind you, but wholesale. You pay a $5 or $10 “co-pay” for that $1.50 worth of medicine. The insurance company might kick Wal*Mart a couple bucks for paperwork and everyone makes money except you, who get screwed. If you don’t have insurance, you pay $13 for the 50. Keep in mind that the above example is 1997 prices. I don’t have a current wholesale med list handy. The insurance company takes $400/month from your paycheck to provide you with this “service.” Then there is the added costs from legal action against everyone in the entire food chain from the pharmacist to the doctor to the drug company. Everyone wants something for nothing, and those ads on late night TV from the lawyers looking for people to sue cost you as well. The drug companies make plenty. Sure, research is expensive, but it is pretty easy to shuffle paperwork around, buy some new lab equipment, back some extra studies and make it look like your research costs twice as much as it really does. Don’t think that doesn’t happen, too. Drugs are cheaper in Canada because they cut a deal eliminating some of the middle people, like the lawyers and some of the insurance companies. And no, we don’t get new drugs faster. Slower, actually. Oh,and wholesale drug prices have gone through the roof since 1997, too. Probably up 100%, maybe 2-300%. That three cent ibuprofen is probably six cents now. You still pay ten bucks for fifty, but Wal*Mart is paying six cents, and try to buy a non-generic. I believe that the drug companies deliberately raised the wholesale prices way up so that the elderly would complain to the congress critters that they can’t afford their medicines (which they really need, or they could die) and that the congress critters “have to do something” and that was why the Medicare prescription drug benefit was passed. With that in place, the drug companies and the insurance companies will certainly sell more drugs to the public, which is more profit for both of them. Well, you asked. Dr.Hess

If anyone hasn't been and is thinking about it, I would say it is the best show I have ever been to. Makes the big show in Houston look small. Here's a link: http://www.tulsaarmsshow.com/frames.html I went about 3 times in a row, and got burnt out on it. Really, after that one I don't even bother with other shows anymore. Anyway, I am thinking about a VZ-24 or other full length 98 type. Maybe a real nice Turk (if such a thing still exists) or maybe one of those Israeli 98 re-barrels. I dunno. Kinda want to keep it to 8mm or 30-06. I don't have anything in 308, but with ammo cheap, I might consider that too. And I'm keeping my eye out for an extra barrel for my wife's High Standard, but it is pretty rare (screw take down Supermatic Trophy). It's just fun to look, but just lookin' is how I wound up with a 1964 Model 70 last time I went to Tulsa. Dr.Hess

I got me a hankerin' fer a new milsurp. Tulsa is Oct 22, 23. Anyone planning on going? I haven't been for a year or two now and thought I might take a look. Dr.Hess

When I was 18, I moved from the PRC (Beer age=21) to the SwampLand (LA, which mostly isn't there any more) where the Beer age was 18. In the early 80's, my neighbors would always have a keg of Pearl on tap in a Kegerator. All you TX boys remember Pearl, don't ya? Wasn't bad at all on tap and we would get a keg for about $23. Longest one ever lasted was about a week. Shortest without a party was about a day. My neighbors would take a road trip to the Pearl Brewery in San Antone for the tour. They were a little nuts. One became a drill instructor and the other became a bum after getting a degree in Criminal Justice. Dr.Hess