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Originally Posted By stimpsonjcat: Would you be interested in me coming out to help "re-light the fires" at some point? View Quote I'm still a few years out from sparking any fires, but when the time comes, I'll gladly accept any wisdom you have to offer. I have a few interesting bits of knowledge, in other areas of interest, I can offer in return. -PF |
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--I am amassing a few more voices to compel (read: shame) me into the last convulsion of "writing" that will see quite literally the last...nine? Paragraphs suitably arranged. Just....FFFF me. --highstepper we know that timing on the interwebz is nigh impossible. Good call on barrel boring device. --PFunnk "obscure book"--we are going to have to fix that. --DesignatedM I could go on far to long about the thrill of these functional relics. I will keep my plastic fantastic but there is a profound urge to distill some combination of utility and history that could eventually see me with a long-bow, an ax, and a sword. Really. The idea that for some time ongoing any American can walk into a pawn shop or sporting goods store, spend 500.00, and walk out with two .44 caliber revolvers and 200 plus rounds of cap/ball/powder blows my mind. Short of "war" or organized assassins there is pretty much no social encounter that could not be decisively managed with 11/12 shots of .44 ball at 1000 fps. I have had a character in mind for many years that is so equipped. I carried these two pistols at left in the pic for three days in Utah/Colorado, under a huge stiff baggy kakhi shirt, no one was the wiser. The left side pistol (the brass framed Colt) carried cross-draw is snake tongue quick, the barrel(s) point with uncanny accuracy. I fired over 100 rounds in the Fishlake National Forest/Utah, knocking sizable chunks out of dead trees, not a single misfire. The difficulty of cleaning is massively over described--I don't wash/scrub/solvent anything, I just wipe all surfaces/bore/cylinders/arbor with Crisco reload and store. I shot one such pistol after storing loaded for over five years--it fired perfectly, the surfaces were slightly "browned" but the pistol was dimensionally unchanged. Just awesome. --cpaspr--"behind the door in the spare bedroom"--I know exactly the feeling--when I was small enough to fit in suitcase I remember distinctly a double barreled shotgun so situated in the home of extended family member--the first firearm I ever saw and intrinsically fascinating--not stored with any particular purpose that I understood at the time--I found out decades later that it was indeed loaded and defensive in nature. It is now with an extended family member, a pretty decent 12 gauge with a carved ebony trigger guard, barrel marked "Krupp Steel"--made in Austria--purchased in the 40/s for a family member at Abercombie and Fitch in New York. I have been told it is still entirely functional. "Repeating firearms" etc., yep the big bowie/cleavers/etc. .re StimpsonJ knife were absolutely essential--melee weapons for when a melee was not an abstraction but pretty much guaranteed. --zoe17 good to see and just.......do I need to finish this FFFFing thing. You had someone in mind for a copy and they are probably in college now. --Designated I think I have watched that/the Williamsburg gunsmith video...um....to many times. Insane. Start off with a pile of dirt and a plank and oh maybe two months later? A freaking flintlock rifle. Tripple tap--thank you. Now I am famous!!!! --Biere the brass framed colt Navy I paid reasonable market at 200.00 but the 1858 Navy in the holster, also 200.00 is the ramped front sight adjustable "Target" model--with the best trigger/lockup etc. of anything I own--also stunningly polished/blued--a Navy Arms--probably 20/30 years old but never fired? I think these are normally 350.00 plus. A true joy. The brass-framed Navy will be "back-up"/whatever, not very durable, but I own "more than a few" steel framed 1858/s and will shoot the hell out of them. --Coontrapper you are crushing it. Will be doing my version of the same, forever/rest of life, starting around November. And I have seen quite a few beaver dams and don't remember ever seeing sun dry stone/rocks like that. So cool. And whatever/wherever you are/and carry, wondering if you are perfect candidate for some retro-function .44 1858 revolver and a spare cylinder. --StimpsonJ--relight the fires, so cool...and maybe get some WW1 era tractors running...bet there is an old steam tractor somewherez... --StimpsonJ--yes, this thread. --DFarm--exactly. Can't be good enough. Maybe a Westley Richards .416 Rigby or Purdey double is "good enough"-- but I'll bet even the master smiths at Purdey dream about flaws, slipped chisels, contaminated bluing solutions... and on and on.... --biere just add that magazine to the stack... --Stimpson J, PFunkk has a whole library of his own cool stuff. |
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"Combat is the control of your adversary in the three dimensions of space. Across the fourth dimension of time." Kindle Single Injured Reserves. Thank you, Designated Marksman.
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Originally Posted By DCBourone:
--Stimpson J, PFunkk has a whole library of his own cool stuff. View Quote I mostly want to watch him make a point, an S-curve, and a twist. If we have a day. But maybe we will have longer. |
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Happiness=UPS+ORMD
See my youtube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvx8dT3bnLFUvuEQ-N3Z6rg |
Originally Posted By DCBourone:
--Coontrapper you are crushing it. Will be doing my version of the same, forever/rest of life, starting around November. And I have seen quite a few beaver dams and don't remember ever seeing sun dry stone/rocks like that. So cool. And whatever/wherever you are/and carry, wondering if you are perfect candidate for some retro-function .44 1858 revolver and a spare cylinder. View Quote |
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That’s really cool and in remarkable condition. One of my forbears was a Captain in the Confederacy (and a chaplain). I have some neat family heirlooms, but no arms that old.
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Originally Posted By PFunkk:
Originally Posted By Mounger: Those are amazing treasures! The terrain looks similar to mine. What part of the world is this place located? This thread, and the original SAP Q Thread are my favorite on ArfCom and I check them daily for updates. |
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Weekly bump.
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DCB: Thanky! Most kind.
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Still here, sorry for the issues you had but know that you have a following here adn we are all waiting patiently and rooting for you since you Sir really do have a way with words.
I do not post here(lurker) but what i did say in my previous posts still stands. I have bought and read the Injured Reserves and stopped reading this literary mastery before the last few chapters. And i must say i will wait as long as need be but rest assured as an avid reader I will be buying this book whenever is is published, sent by carrier pidgeon or shouted from the mountaintops. Keep on keeping on |
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Bump. DCB - are things looking up?
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Bump + 1 week and 1 day.
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New Mexico is awesome
Attached File I got to spend some time down south at a trapping class. I didn’t catch any coyotes, but I did pick up two badger. Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Must have just caught that Badger. Everything it can reach is not piled up in the middle.
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Anyone have recent news from DC?
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Crickets.
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I am more than late to the game; gobbled up the first bit - then found all the good parts were removed.
I understand why - so no fuss on my side - got money - will buy two Fine, fine intro - style worked for me. DC - sort of know some of that fun for lack of a civil word for it. I to just lost both of my folks not that long ago Things ya just knew were true ... just don't always look the same Schofield revolver would be my first choice of fun, that or a 1851 navy revolver |
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The last thing a tyrant wants is their ideas to be judged on the battle field of truth and justice.
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Family issues suck, and can take a lot of time to work out. Good luck DC...
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“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
- James Madison |
Middle of November bump to keep hope alive.
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“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
- James Madison |
RIP Bump.
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Happiness=UPS+ORMD
See my youtube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvx8dT3bnLFUvuEQ-N3Z6rg |
Originally Posted By stimpsonjcat:
Bait: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8iukn0scm14z31s/3x8canweight.jpg?raw=1 View Quote It looks to be a fat, stubby, vibranium suppressor for use on a specific cannon of some sort. -PF |
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Happiness=UPS+ORMD
See my youtube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvx8dT3bnLFUvuEQ-N3Z6rg |
No tube? That's cool.
What caliber? |
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"Freedom is a messy business." - LaRue_Tactical
I am a sack of blood, held together by only un-tanned leather. . |
Happiness=UPS+ORMD
See my youtube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvx8dT3bnLFUvuEQ-N3Z6rg |
That's awesome.
Is it going in an outer tube or just turning down the high spots and calling it good? I've been in working on knives too. These just got HT and one temper cycle done today. Attached File |
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"Freedom is a messy business." - LaRue_Tactical
I am a sack of blood, held together by only un-tanned leather. . |
Happiness=UPS+ORMD
See my youtube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvx8dT3bnLFUvuEQ-N3Z6rg |
Not on a FAL, color me surprised.
Getting a silencer mount on my 16" FAL is on my short list of things to figure out. |
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"Freedom is a messy business." - LaRue_Tactical
I am a sack of blood, held together by only un-tanned leather. . |
Happiness=UPS+ORMD
See my youtube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvx8dT3bnLFUvuEQ-N3Z6rg |
Annual post. Still here.
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To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of US (1743 - 1826) |
To the everlasting glory of the Infantry!
NC, USA
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Still here.
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"I'm like Jeffrey Dahmer with a corpse in his basement!"- Steven Crowder |
Aye! Still here also. Not planning on going anywhere DCB. If you would like this ugly, smelly, hobo-looking horde off of your doorstep, give us the Book!
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Still here, I got back home from Texas yesterday. Relocating down south for an otter trapping job in a month.
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Still hanging on as well.
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Originally Posted By GreenGiant:
Aye! Still here also. Not planning on going anywhere DCB. If you would like this ugly, smelly, hobo-looking horde off of your doorstep, give us the Book! View Quote Haha, perfect! My thoughts exactly... Merry Christmas to all you Soldier's Son fans far and wide! (and DCB too of course) |
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“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
- James Madison |
And to you.
Merry Christmas. |
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"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity" --- Sigmond Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
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To the everlasting glory of the Infantry!
NC, USA
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After Light, Darkness | Michael O'Fallon |
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"I'm like Jeffrey Dahmer with a corpse in his basement!"- Steven Crowder |
I’m still here, checking in occasionally, always in vain. Publish the friggin’ book already! I’d buy for myself and others.
@DCBourone, I don’t know you and have never met you but your work is top-shelf and you need to get it in front of people. You’re only a couple years or so behind schedule, let’s do it! The worst part about DCB’s throughput is if he ever publishes his first book it will be a decade or more until the second... |
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Happy New Year! DCB, I hope this trip around the Sun finds you well and eager (and Ready!) to publish this Great Tome. Some of us hangers on are getting dusty and perhaps a bit mossy waiting for Things To Happen. If the Good Lord is willing, this book will remain fiction and not Real Life / History (as far as it has stayed Fiction so far) this year, but I wouldn't bet on something "Sporty" not happening soonish.
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That's why the librarians do what they do.
Countries come and go but people, people don't change. |
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"Freedom is a messy business." - LaRue_Tactical
I am a sack of blood, held together by only un-tanned leather. . |
Originally Posted By DFARM:
That's why the librarians do what they do. Countries come and go but people, people don't change. View Quote |
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“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake..." - George Orwell, 1984
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Originally Posted By heron163: truth... part of me wants to go to chronicle the event because I believe this will be a historic event with wide ranging ramifications... part of me fears what may occur and what those ramifications might be... I fear that some those groups in attendance want to provoke violence to serve their own agenda/cloward-piven style... View Quote I feel like the state has backed people into a corner. Comply or be punished. Sun Tzu even said not to put your enemies into a position with no escape. I honestly believe that there's more than bun rights on the line in VA. |
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"Freedom is a messy business." - LaRue_Tactical
I am a sack of blood, held together by only un-tanned leather. . |
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A cowboy & indian & muslim
Indian: My people were many, now we are few. Muslim; Once my people were few, and now we are many. Cowboy;That's 'cause we ain't played Cowboys and Muslims yet |
--Holy FFFFFFFF....
Book is available for pre-order on the ffffing Big River. That means Big River has the file, cover, etc. It seems to be "populating"/appearing on Kindle phone apps first. I can't find it on Amz site/books/sci-fi yet, but the slow roll through platforms is common/expected with Amz. Pre-order means that it actually gets emailed/available/on your Kindle on -- JANUARY 17. Reason for pre-order is some brave souls can actually go check/confirm that this is not/has not been a collective hallucination. And allows alterations to cover art/etc. in the interim. I am very very grateful for everyone who has stuck around. I will read up on comments and post again when a few more people have confirmed that nobody is hallucinating. Attached File |
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"Combat is the control of your adversary in the three dimensions of space. Across the fourth dimension of time." Kindle Single Injured Reserves. Thank you, Designated Marksman.
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