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Reagan1k

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  1. A 1907-ish lever gun would have been a 45 colt (long colt) or 45-70 if it was a 45 caliber cambering. The 45 ACP wasn't developed by JM Browning until '04 and took some time to become commercially available. Rimless rounds like the 45 ACP and 9mm designed for semi-auto feeding are hard to run in an action like a lever gun. It technically could be done, but certainly wasn't back then.
  2. CFS and cream gravy (on side) Fried okra Mashed potatoes with cream gray Corn bread Roll Jalapeno Unsweet tea with lemon Louisiana vinegar/tabasco pepper sauce
  3. That's the thing that always held back my potential acting career....I just don't ever think I'd feel comfortable pointing a real weapon, even with blanks or empty, at a human unless it was necessary for self defense....
  4. Yeah - I think you're right. I can't remember the actor or the situation but that sounds correct. It wouldn't take penetration to kill you. The force of the gases would be enough even if there was only superficial or no visible trauma.
  5. IIRC, Bruce Lee was actually hit by a bullet that was found in the autopsy. Somehow a real round made it onto the set and into the weapon. There have been people killed by actual blanks - Years back an actor was joking around playing russian roulette and fired a blank into his temple and the blank killed him - presumably the gases and / or cap that holds the powder in the case went into his head. I saw the Baldwin story and at this point I don't think they know what happened yet. My first impression is that the fact that two people were reportedly hit indicates a live round may he been in the gun - perhaps a pass through that hit both victims.
  6. A few, mostly specific to electrical controls and hardware used in construction.
  7. I’m so tired of this. Seven month lead times on product that has shipped in seven days for the last 30 years…. And that’s with the manufacturer running 3 full shifts. It’s getting worse not better in my industry as customers are piling in with forward orders, trying to get their name in the hat for product and beat future increases, swelling backlogs and driving demand higher and higher. In turn, manufacturers feel compelled to raise prices faster so they aren’t holding the bag on a huge backlog if their costs continue rising. Reps are pulling samples out of the field and selling them. Had one equipment manufacturer roll out a trade in program for old broken/worn product offering credit or cash if they can salvage parts to put back into new builds. Customers are acting like junkies begging a dealer for a fix….calling me at home at night and on weekends asking if they can score product in “unconventional” ways. The Fed and politicians can call it whatever they want- I’m calling it a shit show.
  8. The Coinstar thing is interesting. Won’t be long before a retail bank offers a debit card that rounds purchases to the next dollar and puts the difference in a Bitcoin / Ether wallet. They already do it as passive savings into a traditional savings account, but that would be a gimmick that could drive young demographic business their way if it converted to Bitcoin or Ether.
  9. Reagan1k

    is it bad form...

    Voicemail or text - need to be one of three three things in a business setting- A) Ask a question that doesn't require further conversation to get an answer (get back to me text/email/call - responders choice) B) Provide an answer to a prior question - no further conversation needed C) Indicate the need for a conversation. Don't call me and tell me we need to talk about X, and then go on rambling in a one sided conversation about X. Drives me crazy. From a sales perspective - make calls or texts short and sweet - "Please call me about X when your time permits", or simply "please call me when time permits".....depending on the nature of the relationship. If you're rambling on a voicemail, I consciously or subconsciously expect you to ramble in conversation and view it as a waste of time. I follow the same rules. Name / Number - one or two sentences max - repeat Name / Number
  10. And now we pick up with the story line from Fletch.......Thank you for the idea Mr. Stanwyk. While this plays out I'll have a bloody mary, a steak sandwich and a steak sandwich.
  11. I'm so disappointed. I read that thread title as Massive Violent Clown Amphitheater.... Wasn't sure what I thought it meant but knew it was going to be great. I had to google Violet Crown and that's not nearly as much fun.
  12. My experience / my truth is that this is a myth for me. Once the line was crossed, I no longer had the ability to be a content, moderate drinker. Sure, I could moderate at times, but it wasn't fun and it was a struggle. Controlled drinking ceased to give me any pleasure or relief. It also served to compress the spring more so that when I did drink without thought of moderation, I was making up for lost time and lost drinks, offsetting any "gains" I rationalized had been made. Also, the definition of functionality became blurred and what I convinced myself was me being functional only looked that way to me through my diseased lens. As it was said, I could no longer distinguish the true from the false. Your truth could be different, but the pattern of my life and my drinking showed my truth to be that alcoholism always progresses over any considerable amount of time. Brief periods of abstinence or moderation are always followed by worse drinking. I've sometimes thought of it like a dead-cat bounce on the stock chart of a company headed to bankruptcy. The trendline is going down, and while there may be a few positive bounces back up along the way, which provide some false hope that this time is different, the next selloff is even worse. The destination is predetermined - Complete and total surrender. Admitting to my innermost self that I can never again control and enjoy my drinking. It's just not up for debate. Left with that void; being stripped of what had been my "solution", I had to find an alternative way to live.
  13. I hope Coopers uses this as a wakeup call.....as in someone says - Maybe we should taste what we've been serving? I don't get to TX often enough and when I do it's rare that I have the time to hit any of these spots (other than in Houston maybe / I've been to Truth a few times), but Coopers used to be a nice respite from what I get where I now call home. The brisket and ribs aren't edible and certainly not for the price. On my last trip to Llano, I picked up dinner from Dairy Queen down the street because I've finally decided that it's not just an "off day" that I've experienced over and over. Congrats to all the honorees.
  14. Ugggghhhhh - Facing that weird spot where you know the truth about alcoholism and our lack of power, but your heart screams that you have to "fix" something. Made a 12-step call on an old friend who just got out of the hospital. He identified with 100% of what I told him about me and my drinking. Said he's been battling it for a few years and finally quit for a month and felt great. Once he knew it was "out of his system and he'd dried out", he picked up and then it was off to the races for 45 days - ending up in ICU. Agrees he's an alcoholic like me,........ BUT......... the hospital experience will never leave his mind again - he's been scared straight and doesn't need any outside help. He's got it under control. He's proven to himself that he can stop and now that he knows he can't drink moderately, he never wants to pick up again. Well then, remind me why you picked up in the first place after a month of great sobriety??? No answer to that one. He just can't connect those last two dots. Doesn't need a book or a meeting. He'll be fine with the memory of almost dying etched into his brain to keep him sober. I had to wish him well, tell him I honestly pray it works for him, but made him promise that when his skin starts crawling and his brain itches, he'll call me before the 1st drink. Powerless - fuck!!! Keep having to remind myself that if I'm powerless over it in my own life, that I'm sure-as-shit powerless over alcohol in his life. My sponsor told me that I had planted a seed and that I need to pray that he calls someone - doesn't have to be me - when that time comes.
  15. Well, in this case they didn't give him access to it. He orchestrated the deal - acted like a nice guy and directed them to hire a buddy to represent them- then ran the whole process behind the scenes. They never knew the settlement had been paid, how much it was...anything...they were left in the dark until his other shit hit the fan and they hired another attorney to find out the status of their case.
  16. The lengths he went in order to arrange the settlement and then steal the money from his dead housekeeper's sons is amazing. What's also amazing is the number of people in the legal community that had to know he was up to something and looked the other way (at best). Other lawyers, financial fiduciaries, and even judges seemed at a minimum to be scared to question him and in some cases were working with him in that scam. I have to think that this wasn't his first rodeo with pocketing settlement money meant for victims, as he seemed to execute this "deal" so seamlessly. Lots of innocent people left harmed in his wake.
  17. I realize most people never have the opportunity, but if you ever get the chance to shoot or even just take the meat from a velvet or cactus buck, typically from Mason or Llano counites - Jump on it. I've mentioned them upthread or in the managing wildlife thread, but they get chemically castrated by vegetation native to the granite outcroppings so they basically are rendered steers as a fawn. Never pump testosterone and don't go through the hormone cycles that doe have in dropping fawns. Damn near venison veal. Fork tender, flavorful but no gamey taste, and since they are just eating machines they get huge relative to their peers of the same age. In my mind its a toss-up between them and axis doe as the best table fare on the hoof in TX. I try to shoot at least one every year and most of the time burn two tags on them.
  18. Was able to fly in for the bow opener. Didn't intend to hunt / didn't bring a bow. Did did some scouting and generally relaxed. Was nice to see the effects of those late week frog choker rains. One of the coolest things I've seen in a long time was that starting Saturday morning, the Hill Country Rain Lilies started coming up and by noon they were blooming. Fields of them literally popping up by the hour. At sunrise you wouldn't have seen a single one. By 7pm, there were thousands of white blooms. Amazing what mother nature can do out there in just 48-72 hours when given a little moisture after a dry spell.....transformational.
  19. @Anastasis What part of Texas? That's a huge deal for me as far as aging a buck. Regardless of horn size and structure, the body structure of a typical mature deer in one region of TX can vary from that in another. I like what TexasBuckRegistry has done in putting out some photo charts showing age range by region.
  20. So much this - Leave me at the altar. Don't marry me, knock me up, and then takeoff. Be upfront and open. Tell them the situation. You may be pleasantly surprised.
  21. That's not odd in my club!!!!!!!!!!! A stranger said something to me in a restaurant once (it was possibly tinged in sarcasm from my perception) in the late 90's and I didn't have a good comeback but thought of one 3 days later....after hours of spinning over it. I looked for her every time I went back there and fanaticized about when I would see her ........and I'd say this and she'd say that then I'd do this and she'd do tha................ Hours spent reliving / re-feeling something - only about 1% of which ever happened. She made my resentment list. My sponsor pointed out that had I actually run into her years later (hell, even minutes later), she'd have thought I was a mental ward escapee babbling incoherently.
  22. I never drank the way I really wanted to when in public. I would control my drinking (would control it but wouldn't enjoy it) until I got home and could drink the way I wanted to. Socially, many of my friends would drink more than I. The difference was they chose the amount they drank, enjoyed themselves, and when they went home, they went to bed. For me, the only thing the few drinks I had would accomplished was to make me more thirsty. Had I drank in public like I really wanted to, I always picture the scene to be like in a movie when the needle is drug across a record and the whole party turns and stares in shock and silence. Drinking vs. DRINKING - sort of like naked vs. nekkid.
  23. Seems to be some signs. They can compensate and make you question yourself and if you are over reacting but something is up. The docs will have some tests they can do which can show the deficiencies or compensation. Best to get a diagnosis now. It will only get worse- never better.
  24. I enjoy Forensic Files too, Side benefit - Keeps my wife on her toes.
  25. One of our guys used to shoot a couple every year and grind them to use as dog food. I always felt sorry for those poor dogs.
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