Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

This is Ruth Malcolmson, the woman who won the 1924 Miss America pageant:

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Nevada Desert Rat does the Quigley Bucket Shot at 782 yards:



An additional fun fact about straight wall BPCR cases: .45-70 brass can be cut down to make .475 Linebaugh and .480 Ruger casings. Both of these modern revolver cartridges use .45-70 base dimensions as their parent case.

And last but not least, .454 Casull, .460 S&W, .475 LB, .480 Ruger, and .50 S&W can ALL be loaded with a full charge of black powder or BP substitute with a paper or cloth patched round ball or lubed conical hand pressed into it with or without crimping, and still deliver performance almost on par with their factory loadings. If Hodgdons Triple Se7en is used as a propellant, the material is compressable up to 30% of it's original volume and under tension it begins to behave like progressively burning smokeless, producing ballistic performance almost on par with smokeless, yet still generating chamber pressure far below the pressures that the smokeless equivalent would be producing.

ETA: During the legendary Creedmoor long range matches of 1872-1876, some of the American competitors were observed loading their Sharps or Remington Rolling Blocks in a peculiar fashion. Instead of inserting a loaded cartridge into the breech of their rifles, they would insert a primed and powder charged case, close the breech, and then load the bullet down the bore like a muzzleloader, using a ramrod to drive the projectile home before then taking position, cocking, and firing. It was later revealed that loading slightly oversized bullets in this fashion produced a bullet that already had the rifling imprinted on them and these produced even more accurate flight once shot.


He didn’t have Alan Rickman adding pressure.
 
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I recall similar in Dhahran. That place was a blast!

Was there for about five days in August 1990. The beef stew MRE was okay. Moved up close to the border and actually got hot chow once a day.

Went back to Dhahran in 96. Left just before our barracks was bombed. 12 KIA in my unit. Nuke the entire country and I won’t mind.
 
Was there for about five days in August 1990. The beef stew MRE was okay. Moved up close to the border and actually got hot chow once a day.

Went back to Dhahran in 96. Left just before our barracks was bombed. 12 KIA in my unit. Nuke the entire country and I won’t mind.
I left just a couple of weeks before the blast. Lost two from my base (Travis), but I didn't know them. I can still point out my room that I stayed in. Or what's left of it. Still have the Tshirt...
 
I recall similar in Dhahran. That place was a blast!
We were there in mid90’s. Aramco had just published a pamphlet on how to build a safe still that wouldn’t blow up in your villa. I believe they had blown up a couple of homes in ‘94 and it was getting embarrassing for Aramco.
more microbreweries per capita than any other place in the world.
 
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I hope which ever mod had to delete my post at least laughed at it.

Edit: Whoever reported that post has the same size dick as the guy in the picture.

True story: My F-I-L's idiot brother tried to die from not going to the doctor when he got pneumonia last year. When we found him he was essentially unresponsive.

I was called to help load him into a truck. As I was trying to lift him, his britches fell around his ankles and he had a little baby thumbtip just like that. I had to stop for a second and give him an "awwww" before I grabbed his trousers at his ankles and folded him into the back.

I don't think my in-laws have ever really forgiven me for that.

My guess is that you're correct on the reporter's winkie.
 
I left just a couple of weeks before the blast. Lost two from my base (Travis), but I didn't know them. I can still point out my room that I stayed in. Or what's left of it. Still have the Tshirt...

Guy who took my spot and room was on the other side of the building. Said a few minutes saved his life. I would have been in bed. We had swapped rotations. I was supposed to be there.
 
True story: My F-I-L's idiot brother tried to die from not going to the doctor when he got pneumonia last year. When we found him he was essentially unresponsive.

I was called to help load him into a truck. As I was trying to lift him, his britches fell around his ankles and he had a little baby thumbtip just like that. I had to stop for a second and give him an "awwww" before I grabbed his trousers at his ankles and folded him into the back.

I don't think my in-laws have ever really forgiven me for that.

My guess is that you're correct on the reporter's winkie.

On ramp to I-126 this AM. Up ahead looked like a girl in flesh colored yoga pants. Nope. Long-haired naked guy wearing a shirt on his head. Did not look in the rear view.