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End of an era, beginning of a new one: I'm softening the blow of retiring from a very enjoyable career as a data center operator by buying myself the modern progeny of an old milsurp, a Power Wagon....

Thanks 5thBatt but I have a lifetime ban from Gunboards Forum so I can't access the link.

I feel your conflicting emotions as I am 104 days away from retirement, but who's counting. I've changed careers a few times over the decades but have really enjoyed my most recent - data center...

Danke schön!

I'll have to defer to the German speakers here. Other than knowing how to order beer and sausage and making our annual feuerzangenbowle at Christmas I know very little German.

I thought Teufeln was 'Devils' as in plural.

LOL! Good one! My favorite knife is a Potassium-Boron-Argon.

Der Schwarze Teufeln

Exactly.
Did a lot of rappelling near CFB Chilliwack and on the base in Ft. Lewis.

We salute all those who worked hard keeping the Home Front safe!

Kind of like facing a mandatory 12 years in prison for inadvertently bringing a few rounds of ammunition in your luggage?
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I was trained in the use of CAF 870 and shell crackers to scare birds away from runways. The few shotguns I saw were unmarked.
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I would be very interested in that.

Just a guess, but with ballistics from the Evan's cartridge virtually indistinguishable from a .45 ACP fired from a 1911 and an advertised accuracy out to 200 yards I would hazard a guess the sight...

Even at that range it still hit with authority! Great story but I figured after reading halfway I was sure you were going to tell us that the scope was looking over the door but the bore wasn't and...

Normally I'd say "No problem" but the current regime is so anti-Republican, anti-gun, and has so corrupted the Department of Justice that I'm not willing to risk a decade in prison. They'd tack on...

Meanwhile, in the Khyber pass a goatherder in a yurt is pounding out SMLEs with a forge, hacksaw, hammer and manually powered rifling machine made from bits and pieces of a GAZ-69.

When I left Canada in 2001 I had several 'Prohibited' weapons that I was not allowed to transport, i.e. remove from my property. There was no law forcing me to leave them in the safe and upon...

One of my older brothers carried a 444 Marlin for deer and black bear when he lived and worked on the Queen Charlotte Islands (now Haida Gwaii). It was the perfect rifle/cartridge combination for...

I don't think anyone considers Russia a push-over Cinders but many are surprised at how Russia, the 3rd most powerful military in the world has struggled with beating Ukraine who is ranked 15th. I...

We love our Governor, Greg Abbott who has kept his promise to "level the playing field" by taking away the advantage criminals have by passing several sensible new laws over the last few years such...

October of 2022 Wife and I took a long road trip from Texas to the Upper peninsula of Michigan. We had heard much of the natural beauty of the area and weren't disappointed. Michigan is a beautiful...

Exactly Jim. This more of a propaganda win than an Intel find. I expect to see it towed through Red Square on May Day with a sign on it saying, "Inferior tank of the Running Dog Imperialists...

As of last February it had been estimated that Russia had lost over 6,000 tanks and over 12,000 armored vehicles. Those numbers will be higher now, two months later "but we have a Leopard tovarich!

Sounds pretty normal to me. I believe Canada Customs had been ordered to purposely interfere, drag their feet, and delay as much as possible any order from the U.S. When I lived in Canada I joined...