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  1. Donward
    For the price of barrel conversion kits, I don't know why you just wouldn't get two guns.
  2. Donward
    For modern popular music, I really, really dig Bruno Mars and his recent collaboration with Mark Ronson. I only began paying attention to Mars last year after I found that he was headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show (Go Hawks) and was suitably impressed with his retro sound and James Brown-like performance. I dig MoTown and Funk, having spent hours of my youth listening to used vinyls that my dad bought and resold in his junk business. I long for the days when African Americans artists produced innovative music with a big sound like the Temptations, Earth Wind and Fire or The Supremes. Now Mars and Crew haven't reached those lofty heights yet but I'm more than happy to support musicians who can actually play an instrument and lay down a funky beat without having to sample other musicians or bray into an Auto-Tune. If it takes a Puerto Rican/Filipino/Ashkenazi Jew and an Englishman who can lay down a slick tune like this when contemporary artists are producing lyrics like "eenie meenie, minie moe, I wreck da mic like a pimp pimps hoes" the so be it. I look forward to a future where rap is regarded as an embarrassing epoch in American culture.
  3. Donward
    I'll leave that for the more knowledgable. All I know is that it's remarkable what they're doing with bullet and powder design.
  4. Donward
    Bows are also effective if you're a pair of fun-loving good, ol' boys driving a Dodge Charger or a tortured, world-weary Vietnam War vet fighting Commies in Afghanistan. But yes, what makes something a good hunting round doesn't always make it a good military cartridge. For the former, you're wanting something that kills the critter in one shot, cleanly so you don't have to track it down through the brush while not ruining too much meat. Also deer rarely wear body armor.
  5. Donward
    Colli needs more culture. And I'm not talking yogurt.
  6. Donward
    Cross-dressing you say? A lot of old musicals had instances of cross-dressing. For "comedic" effect to be sure...
  7. Donward
    Welcome to the party pal!
  8. Donward
    Just junk-I-fy them and pretend they're the deteriorated remains of US armor museums.
  9. Donward
    Indeed. The appeal of John McClane is that he is the common, everyman put into an unusual situation who prevails and overcomes. Riggs is... well... Riggs is just Mel Gibson acting crazy.
  10. Donward
    Well, John McClane used his 92F to get a machine gun.
  11. Donward
    It depends on what you're trying to do with the cartridge. There's a place for good old-fashioned slow-moving school bus bullets. Although with the advent of newer and better bullet technology, that niche is getting smaller and smaller.
  12. Donward
    It's just an unrealistic expectation of what handguns are for and what they're meant to do and what they can do. In my mind, they're like wearing a Personal Flotation Device when working on a boat. They'll keep you afloat for a little while but you'll have to be either rescued at some point or swim to shore.
  13. Donward
    Zaloga talked about the cost of the Tiger versus its contemporaries in Reichsmarks (which we all have hashed over as being a very ineffective way to accurately measure the cost of the vehicle). I wish we'd all just agree to use man-hours as the accepted norm.
  14. Donward
    From my fairly limited experience and interaction with guys who went over and came back, my conclusion is that the majority of the problems was stuff they brought with them. It's just the unusual circumstances and pressures of combat that causes the problems to manifest more noticeably.
  15. Donward
    The natives up in Alaska who buy 45-70 rifles for bear hunting assured me that caliber's efficiency thermodynamics was their top choice for picking that cartridge...
  16. Donward
    As a pleasant surprise, the M9A3 Beretta thread at TFB is mostly populated by sane and rational comments; with the Cult of the 1911 and 45 ACP not arriving yet. http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/01/13/army-passes-berettas-proposed-m9a3/#disqus_thread Also, the M9A3 looks dead sexy...
  17. Donward
    When you care enough to send the very best. Ah screw it, tomorrow I'm going to rely on my .32 ACP loaded in 71 grain American Eagle FMJ. Shot placement, baby!
  18. Donward
    I've never really fired any Buffalo Bore products, although I know folks rave about them. I generally just go with Federal HydroShok for my carry piece although I have a hodgepodge of ammo for it for my "tactical" reloads. And by "tactical" I mean, it's basically whatever I have stashed in the various different places I hold or carry extra ammo.
  19. Donward
    Probably Tied. And any of our Russkie sympathizing friends. *Evil Grin*
  20. Donward
    Well what would the ancient Romans know about genocide, hmmm? Oh yeah. That whole bit with Carthage, the Gauls, Hebrews, the Thracians and... well... any other tribe that got in their way. For a group of people whom we owe so much of our culture, language and laws to, the Romans really were baddies.
  21. Donward
    Looks like the pornographic spam post showing practical "cave diving" got deleted As for the real thing, it looks like scientists sifting through cave sediment are proving that some sort of drought - possibly due to "climate change" - was responsible for the destabilization of the Mayan Empire. http://www.livescience.com/49255-drought-caused-maya-collapse.html
  22. Donward
    Glamour pics of your new computers and none of them have Sturgeon's House as default? The shame!
  23. Donward
    Well played sir. So whatcha like about it and have you taken to the range for some trigger time/fought off a platoon of ninjas?
  24. Donward
    Ewww. So much plastic...er... polymer.
  25. Donward
    Farm kitty cats have an outdoor purpose. Mine also helped herd chickens...
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