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I'm HAPPY, I just ate 4 fat mosquitos!

I just remembered something from years past. .50 BMG primers were used to make .exploding 45 Auto cartridges, by drilling a hole in the nose of flat nose FMJ bullets and using a small drop f JB weld to glue the primers atop a small amount of Black powder . I bought a box of 12 at a gun show. They worked to make a large hole in the trunk of a tree when fired from my 1911 at 20 yards.

We be real cowboys....."Little Boy, big hat riding with Dad after a day at school."

....AND jest like dat, textknowledge came to the farm.....

Okay, Now....Does anyone wonder why Sweetwater Texas was picked for this as the location for lengthy tale to take place? Sweetwater is the site of: Sweetwater Jaycees Rattlesnake Round-Up SweetwJaycees Rattlesnake Round-Up 2022 Mar 2022 Dates Unconfirmed | Sweetwater, TX

Garden Snakes also known as Garter Snakes can be dangerous Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here’s why. A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze. It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants. When it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa. She let out a very loud scream. garter on board. The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor. His wife thought he had had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance. The attendants rushed in, would not listen to his protests, loaded him on the stretcher, and started carrying him out. About that time, the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That’s when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital. The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor who volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch.. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief. But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa. The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her. The neighbor’s wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband’s mouth on the woman’s mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches. The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that the snake had bitten him. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man’s throat. By now, the police had arrived. Breathe here…They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all happened over a little garden snake! The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife. Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the sofa and one of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over, the lamp on it shattered and, as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes. The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car. Meanwhile, neighbors saw the burning drapes and called in the fire department. The firemen had started raising the fire ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires, put out the power, and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area (but they did get the house fire out).Time passed! Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car and all was right with their world. A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night. And that’s when he shot her. And now you know why all snakes can be deadly. Hope you enjoyed this joke enough to pass it on to somebody who will laugh as hard as you just did!

No extraction, maybe a rough chamber, I would use a borescope to take pics of the chamber, close the adjustable gas doditty about 1/2 way. do that right away, and like the man said lube up everything back of the chamber with Mobil one 10W40 motor oil dripping wet. I'm not sure that Frittz or JB bore paste will only clear the bad place in the chamber. I would probably contact the barrel builder for another barrel, what with the way too small gas port and the obviously flawed chamber. It just was not done right.

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Yep and there are a couple of old SOBs that are too old and crippled to run, so we will reach out and touch someone while shooting thru heavy lenses, then put-put back to another hide-hole , probably only a hundred rounds of .308 and six .357 and a couple of .45ACP extra mags will be enough to use before biting the dust, I am too old to worry about a life sentence. Maybe I can give the young and dangerous some extra time, to get hunkered down...Semper-Fi

A couple of my neighbors takin' a break....

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Any one here had the opportunity to buy a New Springfield Armory or EAA made in Turkey cloned Hi Power 9MM? Springfield Armory SA35

Once back in the 1970s I hand loaded up 50 rounds of 180gn Sierra FMJ at same powder load as I shoot in my Remington sporterized 03A3 for a long range match, loaded 50 rounds, shot three rounds and M1 didn't like it one bit! My shooting partner George Tubbs said "Damn Mack , didn't you know not to load them 180 grains that M1 we shoot in our model 70s?" I said "hell No! but I won't do that again", I was lucky I didn't mess up the operating rod. From then on it was 165 or 168 grains. The best accuracy I got with the M! was some black tip APs I got from a Marine Corps armory, That is all that they issued at the range at Camp Pendleton, back in 1962, The last year we were issued the M1, we went to the M 14 mid 1962 in the USMC reserve.

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I don't know , and really don't give a poop!

Actually, I didn't think that owl $hit was quite that slick, from an experience I had when I scared an owl outta it's nest once. Seemed more like a lot of stinking chicken $hit.🤗

Nice shirt. . . .

Hey Bozo! hold my banana,I am goin' to try sometin'

Last year when we had a week of single digit (o-6 degrees F) i couldn't find any heat tape cords so I put 75 watt incandescent bulbs in trouble lights and tied it to the above a ground faucet (galvanized iron) and put a small plastic barrel over one and another trouble light and a plastic trash can over the other faucet (PVC) and kept the lights on 24/7 never had a freeze up. This year I wrapped the faucets with heat tapes and also covered them with the plastic barrel and trash cans.

Any way you can put a propane blower heater under a tarp supported a couple feet above the holding tank and with the edges of the tarp anchored to the ground? Like this one? Flame King 60,000 BTU Portable Propane Gas Tank Forced Air Heater Outdoor Great for Jobsite,

"Well.......that is if you ever find it"

For those of you having trouble accessing the Link to Military sleep I copied it for easy access: Military Get to Sleep Process Justin says that to begin, take a few deep breaths and, from head to toe, consciously relax each part of your body. "Start by relaxing the muscles in your forehead," Justin said. "Relax your eyes, your cheeks, your jaw and focus on your breathing. Now go down to your neck and your shoulders. Justin says it's crucial to ensure your shoulders aren't "tensed up," and says to drop them as low as possible while keeping your arms loose, by your side — including your hands and fingers. As you do this, imagine a warmth going from your head to the tips of your fingers, and then going from your heart to your toes. "Now, take a deep breath and slowly exhale, relaxing your chest, your stomach, down to your thighs, knees, legs and feet," he said. He also emphasises that it's important to clear your mind of any thoughts or stress, which you can do by thinking of two scenarios. "One — you're lying in a canoe on a calm lake with nothing but a clear blue sky above you," Justin said, before adding the second: "Two — you're lying in a black velvet hammock in a pitch black room." If you find yourself getting distracted, he said to repeat the words, "don't think, don't think, don't think" for 10 seconds. "You're supposed to practice every night for six weeks," Justin concluded, saying that apparently, 96 per cent of people who master this technique are able to fall asleep within two minutes of closing their eyes. users were quick to comment their thoughts on the technique's effectiveness, with some claiming to have military ties. "I'm a military brat and was taught this," one user commented. "I also had a veteran as a psychology teacher in college who taught this. It definitely works." "My doctor taught me this technique with slight variations when I had insomnia due to PTSD," another wrote. "Trust me it works 100 per cent once you get it down."

I don't know where you live but If it was around my area (Central Texas). Most AR and LR gunsmithing shops could arrange a swap-out with you. for your upper, are you wanting to keep the original stock and lower receiver group?

Ain't that the dadgone truth, I never did figure out what a dangling participle was till I saw this example and that one before it: If "A" is for apple and "B" is for banana what is "C"for (Plastic explosive!"