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    Waste trainers are more like Depends.
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    God dammit, I'm doomed. I thought of a couple of things, they were mentioned early in the thread. The list kept getting longer as the thread got longer and I realized that the only thing mentioned that I wouldn't binge was a soft drink. Hate that shit. I even like the Cope. I'll likely infarct any minute now.
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    That made me chuckle. Thanks. I don't think you really want to go there.
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    I'd vote yes. My cold cut containers have melty stretch marks from microwaving whatever is inside. I don't use much Tupperware.
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    I'm not sure which "Fuck Cancer" thread is correct but this one came up first using search. A good friend's wife called me today to tell me that George had passed yesterday. He had been undergoing chemo for a cancer that was somewhere in his abdomen, they never told any of use what the precise type was. I guess it really doesn't matter, it took him and I'm struggling with it now. I first met him when he was hired to do some programming for some industrial equipment we built. He had an EE degree from Wichita State so he and I bonded quickly. We spent a lot of time on the road doing installs and we got to know each others families. We met up at WSU basketball games and had beers together afterwards. Just a great guy. I was pretty composed until his wife told me that I should give her a call if I need to talk to someone. Fuck cancer, indeed.
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    Getting old sucks

    Shoxthemonkey replied to Hate's topic in Lulz

    As of today, I don't have to birdie a single fucking hole to shoot my age. Getting old still sucks.
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    Circus peanuts, Dude. Circus peanuts
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    I tried to find a mounting block for the Parker-Hale front sight that I am using on my Martini build. My smith is wanting to get the barreled action polished and any of the parts that need to be stuck to the barrel silver soldered in place. Rather than wait til I found the correct block, I whittled a couple of these this weekend and sent one of them out to Colorado this afternoon. Good thing that I made two because this one had one of the dovetail angles messed up. I left the riser tall so that he can cut it to the correct height after he gets the receiver peep mounted.
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    Nope. Double play
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    pro crow
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    If any of you are heading to western KS for pheasant season, I will recommend the Barn in Burrton, KS. Burrton is on US-50, pretty much where the transition from quail country to pheasant habitat begins. They have a chicken fried steak that's as good as any I have had in Texas. It isn't as big as the one at the Beehive in Albany but I struggle to eat all of that anyway. https://www.thebarnngrill.com/
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    Yeah, he even stacked the buns so they wouldn't fall over and ooze onto the plate. There is not enough disregard for drop and slop to fit this thread. I would eat all of that and lick the plate til I got a paper cut though.
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    Oh, hell yes.
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    I think @Horn Draoi is correct. That doesn't look like case hardened steel. I used to have a jar of bone fragments and such from Brownells for color case hardening small parts and it was pretty easy to do. Looks to me like Winchester should be asked to make it right. Make sure to tell them to be sure to keep the portrait of Jesus by the sideplate.
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    Bethel College in Newton, KS owns a lot of producing acres in the Panhandle because of some generous, dead Mennonites.
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    My Mom's kin raise cash crops and cash O&G checks. I go there to shoot prairie dogs.
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    better than going after the dikdik
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    I"ll give 1000 rep points to the first Surl that can name that tune.
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    This just showed up in the mail. I was referred to a guy in Scotland that referred me to a guy in... Jones, Oklahoma. http://www.baldwinsights.com/ It's a small world.
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    This is the easiest yet. I'm diabetic and haven't had a soda in years.
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    Update: After 15 minutes in a toilet and at least a week of drying in a '94 Mercury Grand Marquis, parked outside with the windows up, I am pleased to report that new batteries brought my beloved HP back to life. It is a tough SOB
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    When I worked for Wichita Arms, we had an Australian importer. He sold some of our guns but even more of our shooting accessories. The Aussies know their way around a firearm if that was any indication. I have found a sight at a gunshop in Newcastle, UK and staked a claim to it on their website. I'm still waiting to hear from them but they are closed for the day. Hopefully, tomorrow will bring good news.
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    Yeah, I'm active on a bunch of them. These sights are specific to the small Martinis and most folks that have them won't part with them, just in case they get another Martini. They are long out of production. I may end up making the contoured base and fitting something to it that is easier to find and more affordable. As long as I can produce something that looks elegant it will work. I'm not shooting for historical accuracy
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    I spent the weekend in Colorado at the stockmaker's shop and we hammered out the details for the rest of my Martini build. The biggest hurdle that I have left is to source the sights that I have decided to use. There were thousands of these guns built and I figured that a tang mounted aperture rear sight would be easy to find. Not so. I just missed one yesterday on Ebay but it went a lot higher than I was expecting. A few hours googling didn't yield much but I do have a few leads to chase down. I'm looking for either a BSA No.8 or a Parker-Hale No.7 or 7 1/2. Both are contoured to match the shape of a Martini Cadet tang. Because it is an Austrailian gun I figure that I might have better luck checking shops down there. I know we have several Austrailian posters here but I'll be damned if I can remember usernames. Can anybody help me with that or better yet, does anybody have any old tang sights they would like to trade or sell?
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    You know, I kinda like it. It's got a good beat, easy to dance to. I'll give it a 95.

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