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01 Dec 2021, 5:09 am

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My present to myself was a fireable replica of a US Army revolver of a 1870s vintage, the type carried by calvary. I got my wife some expensive things too.


Awesome. I used to spend time drooling on the Uberti website. The closest I came to it was having an EAA SAA .45 in my collection.



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01 Dec 2021, 5:22 am

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Awesome. I used to spend time drooling on the Uberti website. The closest I came to it was having an EAA SAA .45 in my collection.


I'm mostly a modern firearms guy, but I have to admit, there's something about the cowboy era stuff that really calls to me, I've been fighting the urge to pick up a threaded levergun to suppress to scratch both itches at the same time, they're just unobtanium right now along with all the ammo.


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01 Dec 2021, 8:49 am

Dox47 wrote:
Matrix Glitch wrote:
Awesome. I used to spend time drooling on the Uberti website. The closest I came to it was having an EAA SAA .45 in my collection.


I'm mostly a modern firearms guy, but I have to admit, there's something about the cowboy era stuff that really calls to me, I've been fighting the urge to pick up a threaded levergun to suppress to scratch both itches at the same time, they're just unobtanium right now along with all the ammo.


Those type of handguns are expensive even in the states that used to be the Wild West. I know of a few local collectors in Kansas who will not part with them for any amount of money. And I mean any amount of money. Guns from the Wild West days were often passed down the bloodline. These collectors were lucky to get their guns that way. I know of one particular old farmer who still carries his openly on his gun belt. It was his great grandfather’s gun originally. It is still in working/firing condition even though it has heavy wear on it. He uses it in moving cattle out on his farm and occasionally shooting rattlesnakes.



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01 Dec 2021, 11:11 am

QuantumChemist wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
Matrix Glitch wrote:
Awesome. I used to spend time drooling on the Uberti website. The closest I came to it was having an EAA SAA .45 in my collection.


I'm mostly a modern firearms guy, but I have to admit, there's something about the cowboy era stuff that really calls to me, I've been fighting the urge to pick up a threaded levergun to suppress to scratch both itches at the same time, they're just unobtanium right now along with all the ammo.


Those type of handguns are expensive even in the states that used to be the Wild West. I know of a few local collectors in Kansas who will not part with them for any amount of money. And I mean any amount of money. Guns from the Wild West days were often passed down the bloodline. These collectors were lucky to get their guns that way. I know of one particular old farmer who still carries his openly on his gun belt. It was his great grandfather’s gun originally. It is still in working/firing condition even though it has heavy wear on it. He uses it in moving cattle out on his farm and occasionally shooting rattlesnakes.


This is a modern replica not a gun made in 1870 lol.



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01 Dec 2021, 11:14 am

Dox47 wrote:
Matrix Glitch wrote:
Awesome. I used to spend time drooling on the Uberti website. The closest I came to it was having an EAA SAA .45 in my collection.


I'm mostly a modern firearms guy, but I have to admit, there's something about the cowboy era stuff that really calls to me, I've been fighting the urge to pick up a threaded levergun to suppress to scratch both itches at the same time, they're just unobtanium right now along with all the ammo.


Next gun I want is a Henry rifle. I always like shooting guns I've never shot before.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_rifle

This beauty right here.



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01 Dec 2021, 11:28 am

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Cyber Monday online sales drop 1.4% from last year to $10.7 billion, falling for the first time ever

It's enough to be noticed, but not enough to be sure of the cause. I doubt it's entirely due to people choose to not spend, but it may turn out to be optimistic that it's entirely due to people spreading out their spending.


I'm betting you want a bad economy so people think they "need" socialism. Your strikes and etc are like the abolitionists whose activisim did nothing to end slavery. What do you a actually do to help those you claim to advocate for? Would you take in a homeless drug addict off the street? I very much doubt it.



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01 Dec 2021, 11:30 am

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The sh!t is getting quite deep and smells worse than an amorous polecat

Can a moderator please lock this thread?


Hey I would never post a picture of my almost naked wife online so.idk what's up with muscle head myself.



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01 Dec 2021, 12:21 pm

Axeman wrote:
MuddRM wrote:
The sh!t is getting quite deep and smells worse than an amorous polecat

Can a moderator please lock this thread?


Hey I would never post a picture of my almost naked wife online so.idk what's up with muscle head myself.




On The Other Hand, i Would Never Intimate

Someone's Style of Writing Indicates They
Are Strapped in An Institution for the Mentally

Ill; Or Would Starve to Death if they Were A Poet For

Pay; And Trust me or Not, What Comes Around Does Goes Around

On Every Day, Including BLack Friday; i'm A Naturist And Mostly Forehead hehe...

Perhaps That Comes Along With A Package of Not Only Retiring Early AFter 33 Years
of Work; Yet Also A Triple Major and Three Degrees That Comes With 19 Years of School too...

'Sorry', If The Human Body Offends You; No, Not Really Sorry (It Gets Even Better) At All i'm Just

Part of ALL oF Nature (Real Naked God) too...

My Wife Approves of Art With me Wearing Much Less than That Barely Meeting Community
Standards NoW on Facebook' As i Surely SHaRE ALL of My Art And Most of me there; True i

Won't Show my A88 That Much HeaR as i Really Don't Want to Offend anyone too Prude;

As It's True, Folks Signed UP to be my FRiEnD on Facebook And Blogs HAha...

Dude in Florida,

This is Normal

Bikini Attire; i Have no
Idea NoW Where You Live,

Yet Trust me it's Very Nice Down

Here; if You Could Have Just Left

off the Personal Attacks, You Wouldn't

Have had to Hear or SEE Anything Else from me...

Yet You Wanted

to Play,

So i Joined in...

Now Please Let's

Get Back On Topic

of the Most Disgusting

Day i Can Imagine in All
of the World's HiStory; A Day
Dedicated to Over-Consuming the

Resources of Nature;

YucK,

BLack
Friday,

Carry on Again

as You Were Please...

And Please this time
See If You can Leave
me out of the ToPiC
With the Personal Attacks
or As Usual i Will Return
Just for the Opportunity of DarK Muse...

And No i Won't Tattle Tale on You as That's Not my Style...

And No i Won't Personally Attack You as i Am Already 'Old Enough'

not to do that...

Yet Give me
Some DarK
Muse And i HeaR i Go/CoMe AGAiN..;)


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01 Dec 2021, 12:36 pm

aghogday wrote:
Axeman wrote:
MuddRM wrote:
The sh!t is getting quite deep and smells worse than an amorous polecat

Can a moderator please lock this thread?


Hey I would never post a picture of my almost naked wife online so.idk what's up with muscle head myself.




On The Other Hand, i Would Never Intimate

Someone's Style of Writing Indicates They
Are Strapped in An Institution for the Mentally

Ill; Or Would Starve to Death if they Were A Poet For

Pay; And Trust me or Not, What Comes Around Does Goes Around

On Every Day, Including BLack Friday; i'm A Naturist And Mostly Forehead hehe...

Perhaps That Comes Along With A Package of Not Only Retiring Early AFter 33 Years
of Work; Yet Also A Triple Major and Three Degrees That Comes With 19 Years of School too...

'Sorry', If The Human Body Offends You; No, Not Really Sorry (It Gets Even Better) At All i'm Just

Part of ALL oF Nature (Real Naked God) too...

My Wife Approves of Art With me Wearing Much Less than That Barely Meeting Community
Standards NoW on Facebook' As i Surely SHaRE ALL of My Art And Most of me there; True i

Won't Show my A88 That Much HeaR as i Really Don't Want to Offend anyone too Prude;

As It's True, Folks Signed UP to be my FRiEnD on Facebook And Blogs HAha...

Dude in Florida,

This is Normal

Bikini Attire; i Have no
Idea NoW Where You Live,

Yet Trust me it's Very Nice Down

Here; if You Could Have Just Left

off the Personal Attacks, You Wouldn't

Have had to Hear or SEE Anything Else from me...

Yet You Wanted

to Play,

So i Joined in...

Now Please Let's

Get Back On Topic

of the Most Disgusting

Day i Can Imagine in All
of the World's HiStory; A Day
Dedicated to Over-Consuming the

Resources of Nature;

YucK,

BLack
Friday,

Carry on Again

as You Were Please...

And Please this time
See If You can Leave
me out of the ToPiC
With the Personal Attacks
or As Usual i Will Return
Just for the Opportunity of DarK Muse...

And No i Won't Tattle Tale on You as That's Not my Style...

And No i Won't Personally Attack You as i Am Already 'Old Enough'

not to do that...

Yet Give me
Some DarK
Muse And i HeaR i Go/CoMe AGAiN..;)


Matrix glitch and I are not the same person. I'm sure the mods have means to check this. IP address and etc.



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01 Dec 2021, 1:04 pm

Axeman wrote:
Matrix glitch and I are not the same person. I'm sure the mods have means to check this. IP address and etc.







i'm Not Suggesting The Two of You Are the Same Person;
And There Was Also A Third And Fourth Person Who
Made It Personal Instead of

Addressing the Topic

of this Thread;

And Yes, Calling Me
A Muscle Head Is Another

Personal Attack; Yet HAha,

i Was Called Four Eyes in
School And Computer Brain

At Work For Years too; So,

No These Silly Attacks Don't
Really Break my Bones; Yet

Honestly i'm Just Using

This For DarK Muse

For Creativity;

Doesn't Make
Any Difference

to me if You Are
Naughty or Nice;

However, Most Folks

In 'Real Life', Suggest
i'm too Nice to Be True;

As do the Women in the
Poetry World as Well; I'm

More of A Lover Than A Fighter;

Yet Believe it or Not Ripley and
Horatio, i Do Excel in Martial Arts
As Bruce Lee Used Strength Training

to Enhance His Skills too; i Just Do it

As A Real Martial Art Free Style too in A Class of my Own As Usual; Yes,

Mostly For Mind And Body Balance, Not Many Folks Mess With me these

Days IN THE FLESH AND BLOOD WORLD; Yet i Wasn't Always Literally

Strong as an Orangutan; As it's True

i can Show You Photos of me, At Almost 6 Feet Tall in Middle School
At 120 Pounds Assessed As too Strange And Weak to Exist by Peers...

As Many of the Folks on This 'Wrong Planet' Have Experienced Similar too...

Everyone Here is Unique and Different; There is no Need to Get 'Butthurt'
Over any of it really; i Used to Be Entranced By Big Sells on BLacK Friday too,

If i wanted to
Buy A New

Big Ticket

Item that
Would Last
Years of Use;

There is Nothing
Else i want to Buy
Now So that Plays

A Big Part
of my Current
Philosophy too;

i Understand

The Struggle

From the Other

Side of Paycheck
to Paycheck as well;

Fortunately,
Escaping from
That Way of Life
Relatively Early;

i Changed...

That Happens too...

Seriously Though This
Isn't Really Worth Your
Effort to Entertain me it Seems

So Please Let's Leave it behind...

And No of Course i'm not Trying to
Get You in Any Trouble, Lord Knows,
We Barely Have Anyone actually Interacting on this Internet Site Now...

i Don't See Your Input As Any Less Valuable Than Anyone Else here...

And It's True, i Appreciate All Views Different From me; That's How Ya May

Learn the most

From
What

Ya
Disagree
With; Yet if
You Attempt to
Shut-em Down

Everyone Really Loses...


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01 Dec 2021, 1:06 pm

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Please return to what's left of the topic, Ok?


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01 Dec 2021, 1:11 pm

My wife and her sisters always go "shopping" on Black Friday, although they usually just see a movie and have lunch at their favorite seafood restaurant.



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01 Dec 2021, 1:14 pm

I have never gone out shopping on Black Friday. Hell Yeah


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01 Dec 2021, 1:27 pm

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I have never gone out shopping on Black Friday. Hell Yeah


I suffered it once to get a killer deal on a computer that's completely obsolete now.



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01 Dec 2021, 6:36 pm

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Those type of handguns are expensive even in the states that used to be the Wild West. I know of a few local collectors in Kansas who will not part with them for any amount of money. And I mean any amount of money. Guns from the Wild West days were often passed down the bloodline. These collectors were lucky to get their guns that way. I know of one particular old farmer who still carries his openly on his gun belt. It was his great grandfather’s gun originally. It is still in working/firing condition even though it has heavy wear on it. He uses it in moving cattle out on his farm and occasionally shooting rattlesnakes.


When I was in gunsmithing school we'd sometimes get weird cases kind of like that, it would usually be a younger guy who had inherited a family gun and wanted some kind of work done to it to "modernize" it, and we'd try to explain that while we could do what he wanted, it would destroy the value of the gun and ruin a piece of history. It could be a beautiful vintage side by side shotgun that some kid wanted cut down to stash under his bed, a rare 1911 variant that someone wanted cut for modern sights and refinished so he could carry it, a mint condition military surplus rifle that someone wanted "sporterized" to hunt with, we'd always try to convince them to just get another gun for the purpose rather than destroying valuable collectable guns, but the answer was almost always something like "this was my pappy's gun and I'm going to use it how I want, don't tell me what to do!", so we'd shrug and destroy the value of their guns just like they wanted. I think one particular instructor might have refused a few jobs on principle, but generally we'd do it.


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01 Dec 2021, 6:39 pm

Dox47 wrote:
QuantumChemist wrote:
Those type of handguns are expensive even in the states that used to be the Wild West. I know of a few local collectors in Kansas who will not part with them for any amount of money. And I mean any amount of money. Guns from the Wild West days were often passed down the bloodline. These collectors were lucky to get their guns that way. I know of one particular old farmer who still carries his openly on his gun belt. It was his great grandfather’s gun originally. It is still in working/firing condition even though it has heavy wear on it. He uses it in moving cattle out on his farm and occasionally shooting rattlesnakes.


When I was in gunsmithing school we'd sometimes get weird cases kind of like that, it would usually be a younger guy who had inherited a family gun and wanted some kind of work done to it to "modernize" it, and we'd try to explain that while we could do what he wanted, it would destroy the value of the gun and ruin a piece of history. It could be a beautiful vintage side by side shotgun that some kid wanted cut down to stash under his bed, a rare 1911 variant that someone wanted cut for modern sights and refinished so he could carry it, a mint condition military surplus rifle that someone wanted "sporterized" to hunt with, we'd always try to convince them to just get another gun for the purpose rather than destroying valuable collectable guns, but the answer was almost always something like "this was my pappy's gun and I'm going to use it how I want, don't tell me what to do!", so we'd shrug and destroy the value of their guns just like they wanted. I think one particular instructor might have refused a few jobs on principle, but generally we'd do it.


My god it's like throwing paint on the Mona Lisa to "modernize" it.