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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    Those who carried flint and steel, Indians, Mountain Men and other frontiersmen, for starting fires, carried a whole kit, including charred cloth (if they could) and other tinder, in the same way we would carry more than one match even though we were only going to build one fire while we were...
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    Stars And Their Cars

    The shortest distance between two points is a straight eight.
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    An acquaintance of mine in college had a long wheelbase Land-Rover. But he gradually switched over to using a Dodge pickup, probably for more than one reason. When I had mine, though, I "explored the limits" of it's capabilities. True, it did not have a soft ride but that wasn't a requirement...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    I have sometimes thought that a lightweight, front-wheel drive car with a hatchback would be an ideal all-round vehicle, allowing for its small size and provided it had decent ground clearance. The idea was that it would be easy to get unstuck, especially if you had someone with you. I even had...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    Well, I haven't seen (the inside of) any "modern" 4x4, much less driven one, so I can comment on things like that. But everything is going to be new at some point and you usually appreciate whatever mechanical help you can get. After all, four-wheel drive is more than two-wheel drive and you...
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    Old gas stations

    Check the gas and fill up the oil.
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    Lost Cities!

    Wasn't Chariots of the Gods all about that kind of stuff? I think there is an urge in a lot of people to want to believe things like that, the same way many people are absolutely certain there are aliens from outer space visiting earth all the time. The basic theory supporting this is that if...
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    Show us your Guns!

    I have a .38 Super Government Model. I don't like calling them "1911s." I'm funny that way. I recall seeing a photo of some Western law enforcement types from sometime before WWI and for long guns, they all had Winchester lever actions, including Model 1895s. I had one of those for a while (not...
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    White RAF Roll Neck Sweaters

    I actually visited Silverman's when we were in the U.K. several years ago. Small shop but worth a visit. I took a taxi and the driver actually asked me why I, obviously an American, wanted to go up to that part of town. From the shop, I actually walked all the way back to the subway station near...
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    Show us your Guns!

    Could be. Elmer Keith, by the way, said the .357 magnum was good for people with weak hands.
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    Old gas stations

    Seems like they'd get more gas if they used beans.
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    Old gas stations

    Sometimes I think I remember things in black & white if it was a long time ago, especially things about Christmas after dark.
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    Corporations exist to make money and for no other reason. As far as off-road goes, there's no where I know of (meaning no where I've actually been) in the East where you can actually drive off-road, not counting strip mines. Now, there are miles of poor, unpaved roads where you changes of not...
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    Show us your Guns!

    Handcuffs? My fantasies don't include being a sheriff. That's all. As for the .38 ACP being good for big game, all I'm don't is repeating what Colt said, so it must be true. After all, Elmer Keith thought a .44 magnum was just about right for anything--used one handed. He used two hands for...
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    How did people 'hook up' in the Golden Era?

    That's interesting. Although many things may have been discussed before and about marriage, few things would have been written down and fewer things remembered or revealed to others. Morals change in unpredictable ways and never logically. First of all, it is from when people "courted," and that...
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    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    I understand that the French, Belgium and Dutch armies have details still kept busy disposing of unexploded munitions left over from World War One.
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    Scouting anyone?

    I was a scout for a while and enjoyed the hiking and camping very much. But none of my friends were scouts, so I lost interest after a while. I was already doing plenty of family camping and frankly, the scouts didn't offer that much more. Our son and daughter went through scouting, which I'm...
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    Show us your Guns!

    Ah, now that's more like it. But lose the handcuffs. Love the .38 ACP. Will kill any game animal in North America. At least that's what Colt used to say.
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    How did people 'hook up' in the Golden Era?

    Meeting someone else is a social thing and the internet is only a virtual reality. There used to be, I think (before my time), lonely hearts clubs where you exchanged letters and photos and hoped for the best. The alternative, if you were a stay-at-home type, was to let your aunt fix you up with...
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    Old gas stations

    In the army, you paint everything: trees, curbs, rocks, you name it. Whitewash. And that's true for every army in the world.

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