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by Dick Hosmer
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:55 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Interesting Florida Gun Shop
Replies: 4
Views: 159

Re: Interesting Florida Gun Shop

Thanks a lot for sharing, Chuck. I'm sure we can all remember when shops like that were all over, and the darker and mustier the better! Times have surely changed. There was always an air of mystery about what might be in the corner, or in the back room . . .
by Dick Hosmer
Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: U.S. Military Krags
Topic: Amoskeag Auction
Replies: 12
Views: 396

Re: Amoskeag Auction

1545 is not an 1898 (s/n 279xxx) - can't see some of the higher lot numbers?

126471 could be real. (126323, 126370, 126417, 126775 supposedly are)
by Dick Hosmer
Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:24 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Something You Can't Unsee
Replies: 10
Views: 478

Re: Something You Can't Unsee

Thank you, Whig! I'm not saying you have to LIKE the guy, just that at this critical point in time, we NEED him. Someone has to shovel out the stable, and there is NO ONE else who stands even a whisker of a chance against the stacked deck which is being shored up even as we speak. It has been said t...
by Dick Hosmer
Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:07 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Something You Can't Unsee
Replies: 10
Views: 478

Re: Something You Can't Unsee

RickyG wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:49 pm Betcha could pick up some downhill speed easy
Agreed, but what if you ran into something solid? Crushed like a bug!! That meme puts a whole new spin on the old (and sick) joke about the price of bicycle seats . . .
by Dick Hosmer
Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:58 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Something You Can't Unsee
Replies: 10
Views: 478

Re: Something You Can't Unsee

Waterman - WHO then do you propose as an ELECTABLE alternate to Biden (unless you are saying you're just going to vote blue, or not vote because you don't like Trump, and let the country go down the toilet like Germany)? While dire, I don't think things are quite as bad as you paint. Russia is not h...
by Dick Hosmer
Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Something You Can't Unsee
Replies: 10
Views: 478

Re: Something You Can't Unsee

The basket is OK, it's the fully-inflated rear tire (300psi?) that does it for me. :lol: :lol: As to the political comment - I don't $%$#^&* care it I offend anyone or not. Being offended is all the rage these days, anyhow, and I cannot sufficiently express my disgust for what has happenned to u...
by Dick Hosmer
Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:38 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Something You Can't Unsee
Replies: 10
Views: 478

Re: Something You Can't Unsee

There's aspects of that picture, which I guess (hope) is Photoshopped, that I don't want to even THINK about . . . There, now I've made YOU (don't deny it) think about them - if you hadn't already . . . I feel better already by sharing the burden. All that aside, it's a very accurate portrayal of wh...
by Dick Hosmer
Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:45 am
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: 50 round belt
Replies: 8
Views: 459

Re: 50 round belt

The TD scabbards with leather loops were made to go ON the M1874 leather waist belt, or the concealed tongue of the 100 RIA experimental belts. The M1885 brass-hook scabbards could be used on ANY belt of the period. There were also some single wire hook scabbards made for testing on the canvas Ft. L...
by Dick Hosmer
Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:52 am
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: 50 round belt
Replies: 8
Views: 459

Re: 50 round belt

Granted I'm looking at pictures, not the real item, the ONLY one which I could see as being "black" is the very first one - all the rest of KC's pics look blue to me, albeit a dark shade. I do not believe that the lettering thing is completely positive or uniform. To me, his passes the tes...
by Dick Hosmer
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:58 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: wise words
Replies: 5
Views: 227

Re: wise words

What Paul said. (Clint too)