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    Clark Customs 1911 help...

    I wouldn't buy it unless it was offered up at extreme fire-sale pricing. There are several things "wrong" with it to make it a quick-turnaround piece. It's not a Colt. I shouldn't step off the plank and say 'only' Colts keep high resale values, because you'll buy it "used" anyway, and the...
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    What's your claim to fame? Tales of holiday pissing contests.

    Pretty funny. Must be a *distant* relative-- even the unrelated know it's "Hurd". :) As for myself, I'm nobody. I try to remain that way... best I got is I taught a guy enough about defense to come out of a brawl untouched after he was jumped by 5 of the urban nagger species at a 'wilding'...
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    Kyoto must-see list

    I've been to Japan 10 or 12 times. The 6 most memorable and impressive sites I visited were the Imperial Palace and Tsukiji's fish market (Tokyo), Kinkaku-ji, Kiyomizu-dera, Ryoan-ji (all in Kyoto), and Todai-ji (Nara). I've been to the Imperial Palace 3 times, twice before 9/11. In those...
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    I really screwed up

    deaf as a post... A long time ago I was a range officer presiding as one of two of the civilian host RO's at a public range that was closed to the public for a military security team from Moffett Field/NASA. (Sunnyvale Rod & Gun used to rent the weekdays to LEO and Mil teams for qualifying.)...
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    Lets all have a pity party for Tom Cruise

    What a bunch of fuckin' sniveling whiners. I'm no Tom Cruise fan either, but I can parse the likelihood of the media's ability to distort the truth better than take headlines for gospel. Yeah, I know there's a metric shit-ton load of idiots on this forum now, and the old days when this was a...
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    How the Hide has changed

    Wow. LR how are you? It's been a while. Rob01... that's a name I haven't seen in a while, too. I don't come 'round here much anymore. As Switchblade said, if I may paraphrase, it's way too touchy feely, and a lot of the FNG's repost the same age-old questions. Mebbe I'm getting short-tempered...
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    Maggie’s What's your favorite food and how's it prepared?

    I'm all over the map with my tastes. Literally... in order of 'favorite' down to "eatin' for greed's sake": 1) tori sashi and a good cold sake (Japanese rice wine)--that's raw chicken to the uninitiated, with Hakusan sake (both are really hard to find in the States). 2) more tori...
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    Range berm

    What the Count said. NRA recommendation is that a berm be a minimum height of 15 feet assuming the firing position is ON LEVEL GROUND with the target. If I understand your situation, you're considering shooting up (no matter the minimum uphill angle) towards a berm planed in a manner that...
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    Need help figuring payload weight on SUV

    It's been a long time since I had to go through these calculations myself, but this is what I remember as correct-- the disparity in sums between your load capacity computations and the factory specs are because the OEM's lower numbers take into consideration such things as braking distance...
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    Hunting & Fishing I'm no hunter but I need advice on a scope for hunting

    I wanna buy a scope for a friend. It'll be used to hunt boar, deer, and bear (bear weights are <125 lb.) at a distance of no greater than 150 yards. No night hunting is allowed where he lives. The budget is $800. I've narrowed the scope choices down to these three: Nikon Monarch III 1-4x20...
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    Maggie’s You know you're getting old when.......

    Re: You know you're getting old when....... When changing motor oil... You hold a magnifying glass in the weak hand and a box wrench in the other to take off the oil pan plug because you can't see the damn thing with bifocals and your jewelers' binocular magnifiers can't get you close...
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    Maggie’s Sake anyone?

    Re: Sake anyone? Habu isn't something I'd get for someone who isn't a real sake fan. It's a specialty sake that could go over like a fart in a phone booth. (Also, it's not a true sake; it's Okinawan.) Some people really like it, some don't, and if you don't know your friend's tastes, it might...
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    Maggie’s So today, I forgot...

    Re: So today, I forgot... I once forgot to pack up ALL the guns and a tripod I brought to the range. I'd packed the guns in their tool box, and brought them out to the car, where I met a friend who was just going in to shoot. I'd backed into my parking space and he drove head in; we were...
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    My, how we have grown

    Re: My, how we have grown DANG, Cocadori-- we're damn near related. Before I lost my login and simultaneously changed my email address, thereby locking myself out permanently from my original user login, I was: gofish Gunnery Sergeant Member # 226 Missi'ppi ! no mo' PRK for me!!! |...
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    Stole my money!

    Re: Stole my money! Hopefully the phone number you've got for him is a land line. Put his number on speed dial. Figure out when it's 3am his time (or whatever's convenient for you). Call him once a night every 3rd to 5th night but never speak. He'll figure it out. Maybe he'll pay you back...
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    Cheap People

    Re: Cheap People Take a picture of the set of tires and wheels as they lay on the ground next to your Rover. Make your picture large enough to see enough detail and to allow you to write on the picture without obstructing the view of your take-offs and the two tires and wheels on one side of...
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    "Routine" Traffic Stop (Video)

    Re: "Routine" Traffic Stop (Video) I don't have any problem with the shooting or its' outcome or the judicial decision. I share the sentiment of most--this shouldn't have even had a hearing. But here's a hypothetical question: If that'd been me on the street as a private citizen (no LEO...
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    ? for the lawyers here...

    Re: ? for the lawyers here... I dunno the small claims procedures in NV, but the thread's consensus is you have a case that can be won.The trick is getting the roommate to pay. It can be forced out of him, though maybe not immediately. I did it to a “businessman” who'd declared bankruptcy...
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    usps m.o. question

    Re: usps m.o. question There is absolutely NO way for the buyer to provide security for themselves using a USPS MO. A MO is an excellent secure method for the seller, but accountability is extremely poor for the buyer. A fairly current 'lost/stolen' list is posted inside the PO for clerks to...
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    Movie Theater Whats your all time favorite Mafia/Gangster movie?

    Re: Whats your all time favorite Mafia/Gangster movie? Thief Heat Godfather 1 & 2 Does "Ronin" count? ex-CIA and foreign-intelligence mercenaries as "gangsters"!?
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