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What is your favorite aircraft of all time?
Speaking as an old line doggy, there is nothing in the air I'd rather see when things go badly south than this! -
RIP Land Rover Defender
I was at the club a couple of nights ago and there, parked in the members' lot, was a MG sedan. I'd never seen such a beast before and it was immaculate. I complimented the owner and his wife and was told that if I wanted, he had another just like it he was looking to sell. I can't. Such a...- Oldsarge
- Post #61
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Show us your Guns!
The .338/06 is probably flatter shooting than the 9.3 but without either a chart or a range to try them on I refuse to comment. I also have a .318 Westley Richards which is the grandfather of the .338/06. I've taken a number of hog with it, both in N.America and Africa and the exit wounds are...- Oldsarge
- Post #6,958
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
Who, I found one online and since I have a CRFFL . . . Price is decent, too.- Oldsarge
- Post #6,956
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
Well, if you ever decide to sell it . . .- Oldsarge
- Post #6,955
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
I had an M96 once in 9.3x57 that I rechambered to 9.3x62. That thing was a pocket rocket! And whoever designed the stock on it must have apprenticed at a London gunmaker because it came to the shoulder and lined up like lightning. I sold it to a friend who wanted an elk/moose rifle but who...- Oldsarge
- Post #6,953
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
Dead right. Those Swedish Mausers in 6.5 are darlings. Not being a military collector I am inclined towards scavenging the barreled action and making a absolute killer of deer rifle out of it but if the thing is original military I will bow to the purists' desire to leave it in the original...- Oldsarge
- Post #6,951
- Forum: The Display Case
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Army may bring back "Pinks and Greens"
I was never fond of the Army Green, myself, even though I wore it for 29 years. Nor was I a great fan of the dress blues. The Mess Dress, on the other hand, I rocked. Didn't have much use for it, unfortunately, but was always glad to put it on. My favorite was the B uniform with the short... -
Show us your Guns!
Well put! Money (past the necessities of life) is either for getting stuff you like or going places you want to be. Both are worthy goals.- Oldsarge
- Post #6,949
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
The 6.5 is such an excellent caliber. I'm sure you will have fun. Given the large game in the Pacific Northwest and my lack of interest in shooting an elk (what do you do with that much meat when you live by yourself?) I'm seriously considering selling off the rest of my rifles and just...- Oldsarge
- Post #6,947
- Forum: The Display Case
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RIP Land Rover Defender
That was "Rosemary and Thyme" My late wife was quite taken with it. I believe I still have the DVD's around somewhere.- Oldsarge
- Post #42
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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RIP Land Rover Defender
I very vaguely recall seeing it mentioned in the media but doubt that I ever saw one in the metal. Sort of a German Quadrunner for farm work and the military, if I recall. I believe it's successor was the Pinzgauer.- Oldsarge
- Post #36
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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RIP Land Rover Defender
Yeah, I remember the original Land Cruisers. They were somethin' else! Then the bureaucrats got involved and the bean counters and so they went away. I encountered a more modern version in Africa, in diesel! Those are great. But not for sale here, either. As to the Unimog? It's a diesel...- Oldsarge
- Post #34
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Anyone into tent camping?
After 29 years in the Army 'tenting' in everything from a pup to a GP Medium that slept an entire platoon, not to mention tent camping in Africa without an armed guard awake at all hours of the night, I believe that in my seventh decade I no longer have anything to prove to anyone. 'Primitive'...- Oldsarge
- Post #28
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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RIP Land Rover Defender
Damn, if they import them into the US, I may get one!- Oldsarge
- Post #32
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Show us your Guns!
I, on the other hand, am downsizing the gunsafe. My son wants the heirloom handguns but the rest of the pistols are going on the block. I'm hanging onto the shotguns and probably hanging onto the rifles. Time will tell.- Oldsarge
- Post #6,929
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
Now those Pythons are my kind of BBQ gun!- Oldsarge
- Post #6,927
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
The engraving seems kind of baroque though that does go with the olive laminated grips, I suppose. Definitely not to my taste, but interesting.- Oldsarge
- Post #6,919
- Forum: The Display Case
