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Posts: 2178 (02/26/09 08:00 AM) Mad Scientist |
I guess the early bird gets to open for the day. Good mornin' people!
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degrees in beautiful OKC with very little wind for once.
Gonna try to complete the mold inventory today. Where did all this stuff come from? Next on the agenda is powder inventory.
Terry in OKC
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Posts: 1756 (02/26/09 08:45 AM) Icon of Geezerhood |
What's with the "AD"?
I remember all of the cast 45/70 bullets you sent me before.I loaded them and they did well.Some of them were sho nuff "Honkers"!465 grains.The 45/70 now wears glasses.I had a chance to buy a pristine ElPaso Weaver 3X20 with German reticle. It looks good on there. It is a bit overcast here today.Maybe it will clear up later. Stan
The more I listen,the more I hear....and vice versa.
The LT-2 sight adjuster.Have you adjusted today? Geezer is as geezer does. |
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Posts: 2179 (02/26/09 08:54 AM) Mad Scientist |
AD anno domini which is latin for after death or more properly year of our Lord. Someone more educated than me please correct this if I have it wrong but AD
is the current era we are living in.
Terry in OKC
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Posts: 1757 (02/26/09 10:31 AM) Icon of Geezerhood |
I know that.I wuz jest raggin ya.
The more I listen,the more I hear....and vice versa.
The LT-2 sight adjuster.Have you adjusted today? Geezer is as geezer does. |
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Posts: 2180 (02/26/09 10:49 AM) Mad Scientist |
If you guys ever quit raggin' me I will stop stopping by here.
Terry in OKC
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Posts: 296 (02/26/09 10:53 AM) |
Hey wait a Minute are you saying us Geezers also lived through the BC era so we have to ID it now? Ok I admit I lived and enjoyed the BC era. That is the
Before Cholesterol was a problem era right? Man could I eat back then too and anything that crossed my plate too. Come to think of it I kinda think it shows
now too.
Ok it is 45 degrees and we are having rain showers out there right now. Just enough to wet the concrete and not much more. The front is supposed to come through here tomorrow and Saturday is supposed to be cooler and by Sunday the dreaded S___W showers word is back again. I have never taken my long johns off so I have not any changes to make. Grrr! You guys have caused this I am sure of it. Dang blood thinners 45 degrees out there and I have the heater blasting away. I love it when you start going through old stuff and wonder when the devil and where did I get this? I have duplicated stuff often and it realize I lost one of the duplicate things at one time and that is the reason. Need to get down to the senior center today and pay my dues and make my contribution so they can keep up the meals on wheels thing. Heaven knows when I might need that so I try and kick a bit into it. It is especially critical with the gas prices being so high and bad weather like snow. Hmmm oh never mind. I am sitting on the heat vent in here right now and the warm springlike air feels real good especially with my long johns on. Well I guess I will get rolling here and see what the day brings. Y'all have a Great Day! Bill |
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Posts: 2181 (02/26/09 12:08 PM) Mad Scientist |
Just got done with a bit of bullet mold inventory. Wife did the stenography. Crap where did all these things come from. There were several I swear I never
saw before. And I'm only about halfway through the stash. What is a .450 hollow base round nose used in? This mold inventory will take longer than I
thought 'cause the wife has to go to the gym. Powder inventory may have to wait a few days.
This heat is killing me. 64 now. I sure do miss snow and freezing temps. I already need to mow the yard. Dang I miss winter.
Terry in OKC
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Posts: 1684 (02/26/09 01:59 PM) capt. kita |
"What is a .450 hollow base round nose used in?" Small Minie ball? About 30 years ago there were lots of kits for .45 muzzle loaders being sold.
Cool and clear this AM (Ante Meridionalis or some such, "before mid-day"). Yeah, I'm defending my title as resident smartass, Terry. I guess I'll have to excavate the mower, as the back lawn is getting shaggy in patches. Not sure why it's uneven, either the mix of seed wasn't mixed very well, or when I levelled the yard a bunch of subsoil got spread around in the low spots and the grass doesn't do well there. Looks OK when freshly mowed but odd if the good spots get long, as after the recent rains. Yep, Hiroko had me looking up where Milk is playing. Anybody want a review of that movie? Didn't think so. Tom in SoCal |
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Posts: 2182 (02/26/09 03:09 PM) Mad Scientist |
Ok I've had enough of these abbreviations of obscure latin phrases. I cheated and googled them. A.M. means ante meridium. P.M. means post meridium,
whatever that means. Maybe some latin scholars can enlighten us. For me, morning, midday, afternoon, evening, and night are sufficient. Who even knows latin
anyway, except for a few catholic scholars.
Terry in OKC
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Posts: 316 (02/26/09 06:37 PM) |
The term "meridian" comes from the Latin meridies, meaning "midday"; the sun crosses a given meridian midway between the times of
sunrise and sunset on that meridian. The same Latin stem gives rise to the terms A.M. (Ante Meridian) and P.M. (Post Meridian) used to disambiguate hours of the day when using the 12-hour clock.
BC is Before Christ AD is the year of our Lord. So Terry if AD means "after death" what happened to the 30 or so years while he was alive? Can't be Before Christ as he was there and couldn't be before. AD starts when Christ was Born. Not when he died.
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Posts: 455 (02/26/09 07:15 PM) The Bama Geezer |
This is getting way to deep for me. PM, AM, BC, AD, AC/DC....
Went to CMP Anniston today. Bought some ammo but the guns there were pretty crappy. They appear to be scraping the bottom of the barrel. Glad I got my rifles when I did rather than have to try picking something out now. Nice day though with temps in the 70's. Great day for a roady to the military surplus gun mecca. Bama Geezer |
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Posts: 2183 (02/26/09 08:52 PM) Mad Scientist |
Neil, I didn't make this stuff up. It's just what I was taught. Maybe the year of our Lord starts at birth. I don't know, wasn't around back
then. What does piss me off is BCE.....before current era. It still recognizes Christs existence but cheapens it all by denying that time as we know it began
when He was born. Dang, all I did was put AD in the title for the day. Good discussion. Shows us all where we stand.
Terry in OKC
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Posts: 3978 (02/26/09 09:18 PM) Capt. Klamath |
I travel for a few days and you guys go latin. I'm still in Walla Walla, Wa. Woke up to snow this morning, and it was snowing hard when I finished up in
the orchards. I then drove 15 miles north to the motel and the sun is shineing. Weird weather. Supposed to be 20F in the morning, and I still have another
orchard inspection. I also have to go to Pendleton, Or. sometime tomorrow to the FSA office.
Can't say much bad about geezers. The adjuster helping me today is 82 and sharp as a tack. He is much more literate on the computer than I am. 82 doesn't seem old anymore. Wish I would have taken better of myself when I was younger, but who would have thought I would last this long. All the old injuries from horses, cows, and general screw ups are catching up with me. Kevin in Or. |
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Posts: 317 (02/26/09 09:55 PM) |
The "after death" thing is a common misconception. The old timers would say "in the year of our lord...."
I just did a google search for the terms. I didn't take latin. I don't like the BCE either. |
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Posts: 367 (02/26/09 10:51 PM) |
I had about a 3 paragraph post the other day and lost it. Today I posted another witty and wonderful reply and lost it also. From now on I'm going to cut and paste my post before I hit "post". Kevin, it sounds like you are in the neighborhood. Stop by if you get a chance and we'll drink some homemade beer. Today we had snow, sun shine, clouds, wind, and calm, the whole enchilada also. Terry, when I hear hollow base bullet I think muzzle loader. I've read that when you were in battle and didn't have time to clean your bore they
used undersized bullets with a thin skirt that went down the fouled bore easily but the skirt swelled to make a good gas seal.
Paul in Eastern WA
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Posts: 297 (02/26/09 11:20 PM) |
During the Civil War packages of bullets for the sharpshooters Sharps rifles were 8 or 10 to a pack and contained 1 or 2 cleaner bullets like Paul described to
sort of clean the bore between serious shooting. During the second day of Gettysburg there was a group of Berdan Sharpshooters near the angle or Confederate
highwater mark and they were forced to fight using cleaner bullets and for some reason it swelled the breaches of their Sharps rifles. We have one member of my
reenactment group who has his great Grandfathers rifle from that day with the swelled breach. I have held that rifle on the very spot his Grandfather fought
and it is a mighty impressive feeling one gets knowing when it was last fired there. Black powder is very dirty to shoot for any great amount of time and they
were shooting for a couple of hours there so the cleaner bullets were needed. They used a coarser grind of powder back in those days from what I know which
made it even more prone to fouling, it was almost like our 2ff powder of today. Snow on Sunday did I mention that? Grrrr Bill Whoops that was on the third
day not the second day! Senior moments are becoming hours!
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Posts: 2184 (02/26/09 11:29 PM) Mad Scientist |
Paul my question about the mold is not so much what it is for but rather why do I have it? I think people bring stuff by here and drop it off just to confuse
me.Tomorrow I will go through the rest of the molds. No telling what I will find. Hopefully I'll find that NEI .44 mold.
Terry in OKC
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Posts: 298 (02/27/09 07:36 AM) |
Hey Terry did I remember to tell you there is a box of molds in the shop marked for you? Sorry I keep forgetting that! Bill
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Posts: 1758 (02/27/09 07:58 AM) Icon of Geezerhood |
Xcelsior dominoes
The more I listen,the more I hear....and vice versa.
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Posts: 2185 (02/27/09 09:13 AM) Mad Scientist |
Supremos Mazzios (actually I like Pizza Hut better)
Terry in OKC
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Posts: 1685 (02/27/09 01:46 PM) capt. kita |
AD, Anthony Davis, BC, a comic strip about cavemen. BATF, a disaster.
Pizza? A matter of personal preference. What we eat isn't much like traditional Neapolitan pizza. Bill, is that box of mold in the shop refrigerator? Tom in SoCal (Old-time Los Angeles humor: What's the difference between USC and UCLA? USC has Anthony Davis and UCLA has Angela Davis. Never heard of 'em? try a Google search.) |
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