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Great pistol!! Great mods!! It looks great. All these pistols are great shooters. Please let us know how it does. Thanks for takin the time to post the pictures. leroy

This is always a great show. Highly recommended. leroy

The embasy wuz sold out by the Lybian "Guards". That's why every "real" soverign nation (...except us...) uses their own military to protect their foreign embassy grounds. All that being said; our current crop of politicos are too "smart" and too "reasonable" to do what other nations do regularly. The blame for this killin lies squarely on the hands of Hillary and her buddies in the State Department. They evidently made the decision to use the Lybian "Guards". When the US Embassy in Iran was taken over by the Kohmeni-ites in the 70's; the urban legend is that the original demonstrators marched and intended to take over the Russian Embassy as well as the American Embassy. The Russian Soldiers evidently racked their AK's and told the demonstrators to "...Get off the Motherland...". They did. The crowd evidently believed the Russian embassy guards. The demonstrators then went down to the US Embassy. The rest is the Carter 444 day thing ended by Reagan. RE: The "selling out" by home country guards. This is goin on everywhere with disastrous consequences for our servicemen and servicewomen. Look at what's happening in Afganistan and Iraq. The most dangerous group of "intellectuals" in the middle east is the current crop of politicos and career diplomats running our middle east policy. That is exactly why we should bring everyone home and let these ancient world idiots finish eachother off. We will never make any headway with the ancient world radical muslum zealots until we kill them until they want peace more than they want to fight us. We need to make them bleed on a massive scale. We simply refuse shed that kind of blood. Anyone who believes that we can "democratize" the ancient world zealots who have no notion of democracy nor any disposition toward it is either unbelievably arrogant, Providentially blinded, or simply intellectually dishonest. leroy

Bring the troops home, let these idiots kill eachother. Smedley Butler was right; "....War is a Racket....". It's a bit dated, but i recommend that everyone who wonders what is goin on in the middle east (...or anywhere else we have a "strategic interest" [...what ever that is....]...) needs to read Butler's book. "War is a Racket". He wuz right. Link here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_15?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=war+is+a+racket+smedley+butler&sprefix=war+is+a+racket%2Cstripbooks%2C409 .. It took me a long time to come to this conclusion; but Butler was right. leroy

Thanks for posting this interestin story. leroy

This whole thing could have been avoided. If ya do a search here on TGO (...and on line...), ya should find out more opinions about this incident than ya ever wanted to know. The news media along with everyone else needs to leave Rocky and Leon Houston alone. We do know that two people are dead, and that these guys have been tried three times and found not guilty. We also know that the State of Tennessee decided not to try to retry them. That should be enough for all of us. These are dangerous men and everyone (...including the news media, who tired to railroad them...) would do well to avoid a conflict with them. I dont know that these guys are crazy. I do know they wont be put upon. I also know that they need to be left alone. leroy

Do we have any public evidence of these pronouncements made by this guy; or are they second-handed accounts? Remember, the Right Reverend Louis Farahakhan and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has said some pretty heinous things. I remember some sixties hippies (....now they are polititians...) that said some pretty bad stuff. Wonder if they will be "evaluated"? Think about it a bit. leroy

Spots:________________ The pictures remind me of when i wuz a boy; and that's been a long time ago. Used to help my grandad dig taters just the same way. What a wonderful window into the "old time ways" in a time when lots of folks think that taters come from the supermarket. Thanks for posting the great pictures. leroy

Z:_____________ My son has bured a ton of powder thru a set of 51 navy replicas he got several years ago. They are his (...and my...) favorite percussion revolver. They just look and feel right. We always ordered parts from these guys: http://www.buffaloarms.com/ . These guys are good to deal with and have everything. Take a look at their website as ya have the time. Here is another little tip on shootin the navies: We loaded black powder, a lubed felt wad (...we made em by the thousands by buying a thousand or so wads, melting some thompsons bore butter in a 3 pound coffee can, and dropping the wads in the melted bore butter ...[...you can do this all over low heat on the stove...]. The wads will soak the bore butter up and make a great lubed wad....), then a round ball, with no lube on the ball. This loading method is quick, safe, and "non-messy". The lubed wads are just the ticket for reasonably fast reloading, and they are easy to carry in your kit. Have fun shootin your navy. leroy

I suspect we are seeing pieces of the Patriot Act being dismantled a piece at a time. I dont expect that the real details of all this will come out; but it appears that the First Amendment won here. This one will be interesting to watch if it goes any further on either side. leroy

Triple is right on with this answer. I believe it was, in fact, an attempt at harassment and intimidation. Evidently the old man is squeaky clean, or they would have found something ala Scooter Libby. I also believe that some high ranking Demorat from Arizona or other points southwest where there is border trouble gave some good advice to the demorat political operatives. That advice is "....dont rock the boat....". Arizona is pretty much a republican state except for the usual demorat strongholds around the universities and the moonbat larger cities. I also suspect that there may be some quietly spoken "quid pro quo" talk between the feds and the governor regarding bringing charges against demorat political operatives at the federal level. Ya just never know how some of this works out. I believe that several of the Republican governors have sent pretty strong messages to the demorats about heavy handed investigating and enforcement by the U S Attorneys (...who are, in fact political operatives themselves...). Remember, all this "witch hunting" and "investigating" works two ways. leroy

Nice lookin 1911! I suspect ole JMB would approve. Enjoy and let us know how it shoots. leroy

Razz hit a homerun here. The Republicans are on trial. If they dont do what they have said they will do, there will be a another party in 2016. The Demorats have already committed suicide with real people in this country. The Republicans are on life support. If the Repubs dont straighten up (...and there is a good chance they wont. Watch the infighting now. ....), a new conservative party will rise and what's left of the demorats and the statist republicans with morph into a "New Demorat" party. leroy

Thanks for posting the pictures. I like the size/design of the Sig 290 myself. Please let us know how it shoots. Thanks again. leroy

Sorry im so far away. Would love to hear the presentation(s). leroy

Saw this on Drudge this mornin. I think it's great. These clowns are doomed. I believe they are Providentially blinded. I say: "....Let 'em keep on bein stupid and talkin loud!....". leroy

I think this one is interestin, and should be carefully watched to its conclusion (...if it's public, which im betting wont be public --- until after the november elections....). Could it be that the provisions of the patriot act were involked and this guy detained under the provisions by a sympathetic magistrate??. Could it be that those provisions were involked and secretly heard, and a federal judge struck em down? There have been a bunch of First Amendment cases over the last few months, all comming down on the side of "free political speach"... I find this very interesting, indeed. leroy

AMEN to QuietDan and Lester's posts above!!!! ^^^^^. Dan is right. I really like Lester's proposals on an anti-drone missle system and the "modest tactical nuke arsenal!! Keep up the good work!! leroy

I like 'em. Would love to have a CZ side by side. CZ has been building this stuff a long time. leroy

Interestin stuff. Thanks for posting it. leroy

AR's advice here is a good thing. We reload for a glock 27 (...40 s & w...) with no problems. We load a "factory duplication" load. One hundred eighty grain bullets at about 980 fps. Havin said all that, most all semiauto pistols have a bit of unsupported area around the cartridge head in the area just ahead of the case head. Ya can see this by removin the slide and barrel assembly, droppin a case into the barrel, lockin the barrel back into battery and takin a look at the bottom of the barrel where the barrel is relieved to allow the loaded round to travel up from the magazine into the breach. If ya see any brass, you have found an unsupported area; so the "unsupported area" thing aint just a glock thing. I just think folks have just "rediscovered" it with the glocks. RE: The "smile and blown round thing": We used to load the old 38 supers pretty hot when the only generally available barrels were colt barrels; and in true "country boy" fashion we would seat the rounds long to just contact the lands when the slide went into battery to fix the "headspace problem" with the old colt barrels (....dont try this at home....) and use heavy loads. This would result in an "unsupported area" of at least the rim thickness of the brass due to the country boy "headspace fix" (...the old 38 supers were originally designed to headspace on a small rim cut on the barrel hood that matched an equally tiny rim on the old 38 super brass (...they almost never did...). By the way, the new supers headspace on the case mouth ala 9mm and 45 acp; so there is no reason to do this silly trick anymore. We always used new brass, and generally on the initial firing we would either get a bulge (...we called 'em a "smile" -- ALA glock "smiles". ...) or a "small rupture". The first reload on the brass would almost invariably completely rupture; so we tossed the brass after it was used once. When ya got a rupture; you would generally get a face full of powder (...that's why ya always need shootin glasses....). I never saw a magazine hurt or a 1911 hurt; but the Hand of Providence was on us. I also think that another mitigating circumstance was that these "ruptures" tended to be right below the hood on the barrel and tended to blow out at 90 degrees to the side; not vertically down into an enclosed space in the magagine well. This prevented the shattering of grips and blowing up of magazines. Thankfully, all of us that were so nutty are a bit smarter now, thanks to Providence, and we no longer conduct nor condone such hairbrained practice. Havin said all that, the results from the reloads were great; great accuracy and flat trajectory over long distances, with spectacular terminal performance. Today, the ISPC and practical shooters do the same thing with the super usin a good barrel, fully supported (....evidently the super is short enough to fully support; so the new barrels work like a charm...) and headspaces on the case mouth. The new 38 super "hotrod shooters" do it the right way; safely and repeatably. We did it the wrong way with predictable results. I think the advice RE: rifled barrels with lead bullets is very wise if ya intend to shoot lead bullets. We buy whatever jacked 180 grain slugs we can find on sale and save the worry and bother of the "shootin lead bullet" thing. I like the 40 s & w. They accurate and powerful regardless of the "40 short and weak" name and the problems with unsupported barrel areas thing. If ya reload them to factory velocity levels; ya souldnt have any problems. Hope this helps. leroy

I happened to read this article this mornin myself before i logged on to TGO. Ya gotta hand it to this ole boy; he may be a real polititian because he is over the top with his comments and has a novel way of askin for the authority to raise taxes. He may be ethically bankrupt (....most all polititians are anymore....), but he has got real over the top style. I think his thinkin this up and tappin into local sentiment RE: this issue is great. I wouldnt make anymore out of this than a novel attempt at increasing tax rates. Always remember, Texas is a sister state to Tennessee. A while ago Tennesseeans walked a long way for the chance to shoot at the poor mexicans. Link here: http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/stories/volunteer_state ... This guy could be kin to some of us up here. Think about it!!! leroy

Do yall think it wuz the "Red October"? leroy

Thanks brother; im tryin to straighten up a bit. I find myself bein too dogmatic and crabby. Thanks for the kindness. leroy

JAB:_____________ Sorry i miss-spoke. I'll fix it for ya: "...To say a glock is ugly and utilitarian is a truth. To say a glock is not reliable, powerful, ergonomically correct (...for most folks.....), dangerous to potential evildooers (...in the right hands, of course....), or accurate is baloney.....". Hows that? leroy