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    Hillbilly, all the best wishes for your father...

    Hillbilly, all the best wishes for your father and prayers are forthcoming. Many times the mix of meds can cause that very thing and causes some very strange behavior which defies understanding. My...
  2. Thread: Red Shellac

    by Tarheel
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    Rivets, if you want it to have that old world...

    Rivets, if you want it to have that old world look, try to locate some "alkanet root powder", comes in a variety of shades of red almost to purple. Good luck!
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    VH, I don't recognize it but there is a well...

    VH, I don't recognize it but there is a well known gunsmith in Greenwood, SC on the Mauser Central forum who goes by the moniker of "Clemson" who might be able to help. If you want I can flash the...
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    A couple of questions: is that an original sling,...

    A couple of questions: is that an original sling, and what ammo do you find works best in the 45? I have one with a different sling which has never been fired as far as I can tell, and I purchased...
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    Where I grew up the collards were chopped up...

    Where I grew up the collards were chopped up before cooking and then removed from the water afterward. Just before serving they were put into a skillet with a little bit of lard and stirred as they...
  6. Thread: Tet 1968

    by Tarheel
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    How about the fruit cake? We'd take an empty...

    How about the fruit cake? We'd take an empty cracker tin and punch holes around the side with a "church key", cut out the bottom with a P-38 to be used as a spacer, melt candles in another empty tin,...
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    When he flew up to the house in the foothills...

    When he flew up to the house in the foothills which sits on a pedestal, it reminded me of stories which circulated around Denver for years that the original owner of that house who had it built did...
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    I'm now thunderless as well. I refer to that...

    I'm now thunderless as well. I refer to that format as "no reality" shows. The pawn star, gold seekers, repo, bike building, wild man, animal catching BS shows which leave me on the verge of...
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    They even threw in a Persian front sight for...

    They even threw in a Persian front sight for style.
  10. Thread: Tet 1968

    by Tarheel
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    Salt tablets, quinine pills, red clay dust, the...

    Salt tablets, quinine pills, red clay dust, the smells, waiting for rotation. Now the effects of aging are beginning to exact another toll.
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    The guns I can live without; it's the women I...

    The guns I can live without; it's the women I could have had and didn't which plague my mind still!
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    A friend of mine's mother worked in a shell plant...

    A friend of mine's mother worked in a shell plant near Charlotte, NC and she and the other ladies wrote their names and messages on the shell boxes to the guys on the other end. His dad at the same...
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    Xerox Corp. used to sell a high speed copier with...

    Xerox Corp. used to sell a high speed copier with an automatic stapler which measured the thickness of the set, fed the appropriate length of wire from a spool, cut and formed the wire into a staple...
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    Your single shot .22 is most likely a DSM34;...

    Your single shot .22 is most likely a DSM34; smaller and lighter than, but closely resembling a K98. It was made by a number of manufacturers to pretty exacting standards, and the condition and maker...
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    Last I heard the Belle was on Mud Island in...

    Last I heard the Belle was on Mud Island in Memphis.
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    When you said it was sheared off, were you...

    When you said it was sheared off, were you referring to the pin which holds the windage wheel to the threaded shaft, and if so, I just finished repairing mine and have a wheel and pin left over. If...
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    A little help on a Mod 1 MarkIII please

    I picked up an old SMLE a few years ago; just now getting around to making it whole and have run into a couple of mysteries. Firstly, there is a stamp atop the Knox form comprised of a capitalized MA...
  18. Shuttle Discovery and International Space Station

    I scurried outside at dusk hoping to get a look at the shuttle and ISS passing by only to find the sky occluded just enough to block any chance. For those of you in the northernmost states and...
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