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Seez... Great picture.... I love my old D80 too... The biggest advance i can see in the "newer generation' digitals is the low light performance... Outside, in the bright sun, the ole D80 cant be beat.... leroy PS--- I like the "prime" lenses too... A hold over from the film camera days... Primes are sharper, no matter what ya give for a zoom... I zoom with my feet and crop as needed...

Nikon D3100 ta see if ya like digital (...i predict ya will...)... It will have the same look, feel, and controls as a film 35... (...we're old F3HP shooters...)....We bought one used with a kit lens at Adorama for $349.00 refurbished... Same warranty as a new camera... Crop sensor, 24 megapixl... Shoots great nite shots and out of this world daylight shots...    Check this out: https://www.flickr.com/photos/125458538@N04/14838805233/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/125458538@N04/14632334718/in/photostream/   Here's a day shot with my beloved D80, that is now an "antique"... Ya can buy them a KEH camera for near nothin...   Hope this helps... leroy   https://www.flickr.com/photos/125458538@N04/16171697008/in/photostream/

I wouldn't worry too much... I've been to Dover and worked with folks from there... I think the natives can handle most any problem that crops up... Same with Shelbyville...  I ain't too worried about "terrorist training camps"... They can "train" all the want... It's the doin that will bring problems...   Folks, we can't say that we are Americans and say we believe in the Constitution and be for suspending and freedoms for some folks we are suspect of...     leroy

Check around here....   http://kershawguy.com/   Ya cant beat him... leroy

Tercel... Ive used lots of denatured alcohol (...methanol from the home depot or lowes paint department...)... jonathon's idea to use One Shot is a good one.....   leroy

Greg.... Think :  "Hi-Power".... Find an older one that was carefully used and lovingly cared for.... I didn't do that 40 or so years ago, and im sorry; i wuz in my anit-9 mm stage then...Thought a 9 mm wuz almost as good as a 38 special, so i bought Smiths instead,.. I got a buddy with two of them that would turn loose of his children before his hi-powers (...of course the children are grown now...)...     leroy

Looks good... i like the darkening on the tan leather that the neatsfoot gives...   leroy

Great little pistol....I'm with Gray on this... I would guess thinner checkered walnut grips were correct, but i dont know for sure...    Great find... leroy

  Don't take this personal bro; but if ya don't want folks to look at ya funny or to laugh don't look funny... I ain't stereotypin ya; i don't know ya other than by your posts in this community...   You can look any way ya want... I can laugh or be polite at first meeting... You have the same option...     You may be the best manager ever, and have success in your profession; but i can assure you that in some professions, how you look is important... I retired from a very responsible job in engineering and project management in 2006... None of the people i worked with or interacted with; be they engineering, construction management, operations, legal, or accounting folks; who had to interact with other folks looked like you have described yourself... Some of the men and women had tattoos im sure; but none of them looked like they had fallen into a barrel of fish hooks or had been hung from their ear lobes...    Ya can think and believe what ya want; but folks doin the hiring have eyes and they can see very well... Don't believe for a moment that lookin like Quequeg in "Moby Dick" is the mainstream... It ain't... Further than that, there is no "inalienable right" for people you don't know to refrain from making decisions concerning you based on how you look... They may be polite and not laugh, but they aint blind...   You may find this reply a bit offensive... It ain't meant to be... Ya can also be assured first impressions matter... Physical appearances are part of that "first impression"...     You have the right to look any way ya want, just as i do... I (...and others...) have the right to make judgments based on those looks; and many do... You put yourself at a disadvantage when you make certain appearance choices... If you are willing to accept that disadvantage; im ok with that...    I would suggest that ya think a bit about this little epistle... There, in fact, are those who you might term "appearance bigots" that may hold your personal appearance against you... I won't hold against ya on a personal basis because i've got a bit of a history with ya reading (...and agreeing with...) some of your posts here in this community... Others don't know you; and may not want to know you based on your appearance... It's sad, but true...   leroy 

  Oldogy... I like this one... Recently, i've changed my approach on the hog ring and piercing thing... I used to smile and act like it wasn't there...Now, i take a close look at it like it's a problem and is hurtin the wearer; then i politely ask if they need it removed... I always tell 'em that i have my pliers in my fishing tackle box and that i'll be glad to get the hook out... Strangely, i've had no takers, but plenty of polite "no's"... Its great to watch the reaction...   leroy, "...hook removal jhadist..." and old time fisherman...

The fact of the matter is that there is a battle raging in this country between those who do work and those who don't... We all know who is who... We've heard the baloney and demagoguery from both political parties about the "safety net" and "compassionate conservatism"; all to buy votes and to pander to various constituencies... For the first time in this nation's history, the "non working class" united with disgruntled folks and elected a president who was non-abashedly anti-american...   This is a serious problem and needs to be attended to... Even the great "Bubba" Clinton realized the welfare thing was out of hand... I say we need to take care of those who genuinely need help; but we need to put conditions on that help... We simply need to eliminate the "freeloaders" and "career welfare recipients"...period... The drug testing thing is a step in the right direction... Another step is the requirement to continuously look for a job while on assistance; along with appropriate job training... I predict ya will see more and more of these things...   The sixties hippies did this country a great dis-service (...along with the great god Roosevelt; and that greatest of vote buyers, LBJ; with his "war on poverty"...) when they made "the dole" acceptable and inculcated the "...im ok-your ok..." philosophy into pop culture... My grandparents and parents thought "bein on the dole" was a disgrace... I do too; but there are many who don't and will get militant when the subject is brought up...   I say it's high time to declare war on the dole, along with the social security dole (...those. who get it, but didn't pay into it; e.g the "disabled" who didn't work to begin with and are only "disabled" due to drinkin and druggin...); and to fix the problem of the "non tax paying" segment voting largesse for themselves... As the old timers would say "...those who vote for a livin instead of workin for a living..."... It's an idea whose time has come...  Here's hopin it will take off...   leroy the "anti-dole" zealot

Night.... " General George", indeed, said those things.... " lieutenant George" shot 3 Villa lieutenants dead with a colt 45 Colt Single Action Army as they were ridin down on him on horseback (... He was afoot...)... He evidently shot em dead with three shots and piled them on the fenders of a Dodge touring car and brought them back to camp... He was in his early to mid twenties then (...1916...), and wuz serving with General Pershing in the Punitive Expedition down on the US Mexican border.... The 357 came out in 1935, some 19 years later.... leroy Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

  Mike.... A helluva idea... The ultimate "mexican reload".... If i remember right; the great George Patton carried an engraved 45 colt SAA on his belt and a 1903 Colt Hammerless in his coat pocket... Ya just upgraded his hammerless...!!  Great idea...   Keep up the good work... leroy

Sounds like a case of "low priority/dont care" on the part of the local constabulary or a "brother-n-law" transaction at the scrapyard.... Some of the constabulary are doin their jobs and doin them very well --- some aint... Some scrapyards are honest and doin the right thing --- some aint...   Casual observation will reveal crime and "dont give a damn" are everywhere...  Sorry ya have to buy your own stuff back... It aint right...   leroy

GK... That is as nice a military as ive ever seen; no matter the manufacturer... It is a great piece of history...   Enjoy... leroy

I like it...!  I think that leavin the "Nicholson" mark and part of the file cross hatch would look good... Did ya grind the shape or burn it out...?  The knife and handle shape look great...   Keep up the good work, leroy

I like it.... It sends the right message...The second amendment and firearms ownership is key to every citizen's freedom... Everybody needs to understand that....   More than that; it will send the "weenies" (...think inner city rats here; like Joe Armstrong...) into a fit, and that will be great to watch... Way ta go, Frank...!   Keep up the good work....   leroy

maroon... I've got a 450 bushmaster sittin in the corner with iron sights (...with tritium inserts...)... It's for repelling borders and bad situations... Iron sights are meant for such things... No batteries, no ON-OFF switch, no nothin...   leroy

Interestin indeed... It has confirmed some suspicions of mine RE: Bushnell scopes... Thanks for takin the time to post it...   leroy

Low... I love these old percussion rifles too... Great shootin... When my son wuz younger, we used to go to the Alvin York "Over the Log" shoots at the home place in Pall Mall in late March ever year... I've seen these old rifles do some real shootin if the guys holdin them knew what they were doin....   Have fun and keep your powder dry, leroy

john... I'll take the time to echo what other posters above have said...  I would get a good reloading manual (...hornady, speer, lyman...) and do some reading... I would recommend a single stage press to start on so ya can see how the various steps of reloading work (... and to see how they can go wrong...)...   Spend the money on a good powder scale and a good powder measure... I like redding (...the best i think...) dies and a good, sturdy single stage press (...i have an old RCBS Rockchucker...)... We load for everything (...pistol and rifle...) and work up all our loads on a single stage press... I think ya always need one to load a few rounds...   One final note on presses, dies, and reloading equipment in general... Don't buy the cheapest thing out there... Buy the best ya can at a price ya can afford... Presses and dies need to be manufactured to close tolerances and they need to be made of good stuff... Buy the best ya can afford...   As ive said before; i like RCBS presses, Lyman, and Redding single stages... I like their dies as well... I use Lee stuff from time to time; factory roll crimp dies, hand priming tools and that sort of thing... I do not use Lee presses or powder measures, but that's just me... There are bunches of folks here and other places in the reloading world who do...   As to the progressive presses... There is nothin better than a Dillon (....and Dillon dies, as well...)... Any flavor of a Dillon 550 up will do a great job on anything ya want to reload; but ya need to get the recipe figured out before ya start usin a progressive reloader...Changing things up on a Dillon is a pain, even with the dies set up... I would recommend buying one of these a bit later, after ya get the feel of reloading and see that ya really like the reloading thing... More than that, they are pricey (...and worth the $$$'s in my opinion...)...I would take the dollars that would have to be spent on these tools to load ammo and get the feel of the reloading craft, and gain valuable experience...   Finally, and most importantly, the reloading thing depends on doing a bunch of common sense things right and in the right order... There is nothin hard about reloading... The problem is that ya can get hurt or tear up something ya wouldn't rather tear up if ya do the wrong thing... The thing that immediately comes to mind with me is the use of "fast powders" (...Bullseye, WW231, Unique, AA2, AA5...) to load pistol rounds...   When ya use low charge weights for target loads (...and lots of people do...), ya have to be doubly careful not to double charge a case with powder... If ya do, ya run the risk of blowing up a perfectly good firearm and loosin maybee an eye or a digit off your hand... I know this sounds severe, but it's true...   There is one sure way to prevent this sort of thing; its to physically double-check and look into each case after the powder is charged to verify for sure that the powder charge is right...That is the real beauty of the single stage press... I look in every single case before i seat a bullet on a powder charge... I simply cannot stress this enough... I will not load low charge weight reloads on a progressive reloader because of this very issue...   What im taking about now is, in fact, the main objection to the progressive loader... It's hard to see into the cases as the loads move around to the next station...  I always try to use powder that fills the case up enough so that a double charge of powder will spill out with my Dillon progressive... There are some other things that work very well, like powder checking dies that alert you to this problem, but it's very real....   Reloading is a great hobby and a real money saver... I've been reloading since the middle seventies and have reloaded for every imaginable cartridge; from the tiny 32ACP to the mighty 458 Winchester Mag... I still have both my eyes (...such as they are...), thank God, and all my digits on my little fat fingers as well... None of the guns in the safe are damaged from over-loads nor blown up; but ive seen several handguns that were...   I ain't the smartest feller that ever was, so i am a testament to the "it can be done" thing... I am also very slow and very thorough... It's a good habit to get into...   Have fun and be careful... leroy

Some of the newer radio systems, especially police and and fire, are operating on a "trunked" system... That means (... as i understand it...) that the radio system has a computer based interface that uses the first available channel to send and transmit on...In english, that means that ya cant follow the transmissions because the frequencies are always changing depending on the "first available" channel the computer picks for each transmission... It takes a special high dollar scanner to listen to these transmissions... Ya might want to check around and see if the radio stuff ya want to listen to is trunked or not before ya decide on a scanner...    leroy

Bersa... It's the ole "glass half empty or half full thing"...     On a personal note, i would rather enrich american or western oil concerns than middle east oil sheikdoms any day... Others may be content to let the oil sheikdoms slide and vilify the US (...and western...) oil interests... I won't do that.... I dont like the saudi's nor the other desert bandits that have been pickin mine and your pockets for decades...   The middle east oil business was built by the good ole USA (...ARAMCO... the Arabian American Oil Company...) in the nineteen thirties.... It was nationalized by the desert sheikdoms in the seventies... They have been holdin the world up since then...   Their only product is oil; they produce nothing else... Their subjects live in a pseudo-socialist society where the kingdom's "subjects" (...and they are "subjects, not citizens...) are given a stipend; and by and large do not work...     Militant islam is, by and large, a push back against both the desert seikdoms and the "imperialist" west (...particularly, the USA...)...   Don't thank the saudis for anything other than picking your pocket (...with the help of others, of course...) and exporting terror to the rest of the world....     We can quibble about individual personalities, but it is my belief that the saudi's saw the USA as nothing more than a mercenary force to protect the "kingdom", a source of technical expertise to keep their infrastructure running (...both oil and civil....), and a cash plum to pick on an as needed basis... That means that your sons and daughters fought and died for arab oil interests (...and american ones as well...).   On balance, about 15% of our oil supply has historically come from the middle east; the rest from the americas...   By contrast, all (...100%...) of saudi arabia's protection came via the blood and treasure of the USA... I dont think that was a very fair trade...   Others may see it thru a different lens; i dont... I welcome the day when these arabian bandits fade back into the desert from which they sprang, and they are remembered no more....   leroy

  Grand is right.... On a personal basis, i could care less...   Havin said all that; there are those who have said (...and are saying...) that the middle east oil shiekdoms are in trouble from a diminishing resources point of view....There are some learned ones who say that the middle east (...the Saudi's in particular...) has "over-pumped" their fields to keep the dollars rollin in and to try to compete with the rest of the world with regard to oil production... Oil is the only product these sons of satan have and is the only source of income to their sheikdoms...   We may well see the day when the worlds oil does not come from the middle east... It will (...and is...) flow from the Americas (...in spite of Obama and the dammed democrats and enviornmentalists...); specifically the good ole USA and Canada... Look for more to flow out... Last november (...2014...), the good ole USA wuz the number one producer of oil in the world...   HEHEHE... Take that, you oil sheik pirates...   leroy

This one will be interestin to watch... The middle east oil shiekdoms may, in fact, sink back into the bedouin nomadic sheikdoms from which they sprang...   Remember the quip by the great General George S. Patton regarding this territory... G. K. Chesterton said some sobering things as well... Remember, these men saw the beginnings of the "modern" middle east...   leroy