Wat’s Carbon Water-N-Stuff Thread - Concepts In Iron And Wood!!!

[Wat_Tyler]

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

~ Aldous Huxley

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

Over 11,000 posts to this thread. And this isn’t even Wat’s first record setting thread. It begs the question: Can serial thread starter Rory ever come close?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Over 11,000 posts to this thread. And this isn’t even Wat’s first record setting thread. It begs the question: Can serial thread starter Rory ever come close?

Apparently, there is no end to Wat's Wondemousness.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

https://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED610/64ceeaf8d93e4.jpeg

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Another anniversary, this one a victory for the armed citizenry:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)

 

[Wat_Tyler]

It is a defect in language that words suggest permanent realities and people do not see through this deception. But mere words cannot create reality. Thus people speak of a final goal and believe it is real, but it is a form of words and the goal as such is without substance. The one who realizes the emptiness of objects and concepts does not depend on words. Perfect wisdom is beyond definition, and pathlessness is the way to it.

The wise one treads this path for the direct realization of impermanence and for the direct realization of understanding. This, then, is perfect wisdom. Such a one should tread this path knowing that attachment and attractions are neither good nor harmful, even enlightenment is neither good nor harmful, because perfect wisdom is not meant to promote good or harm for that person. However, even though there is no intention of good or harm, it does confer endless blessing.

~ Prajnaparamita




You are not just a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in the drop.

~ Rumi

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Sonnet On Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel

Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring,
Sad olive-groves, or silver-breasted dove,
Teach me more clearly of Thy life and love
Than terrors of red flame and thundering.
The hillside vines dear memories of Thee bring:
A bird at evening flying to its nest
Tells me of One who had no place of rest:
I think it is of Thee the sparrows sing.
Come rather on some autumn afternoon,
When red and brown are burnished on the leaves,
And the fields echo to the gleaner's song,
Come when the splendid fulness of the moon
Looks down upon the rows of golden sheaves,
And reap Thy harvest: we have waited long.

By Oscar Wilde​

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Humility, that herb which only grows when the illusion of knowing it all diminishes . . . .

 

[Rebel5soul]

Natchez Shooting and Outdoors has a pot load of ammo on sale. They even have Colt 38 Soooper mags, albeit the Commander style which I don't think work in the full size 1911. Might be worth checking out. They're over in Chattachoochoo, TN. Not too fer a drive for some folks.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Thank you. Wat the Wonder Shopper found (pretty close to) precisely what he was alookin' for and ordered up a few. He also got thishere sweetheart deal on (yet another) 1911 in .45ACP so he found some lovely 8-rounders and ordered up a plateful of those, too.


The inexpensive rifle looks to be a winner. My only Winchester what ain't an M1. Same calibre. Needs some glass but it's already drilled-n-tapped, so there's that. The stock needs a wee repair but that should be easy to accomplish. Sand/clean,stain-n-seal and it'll be all kindsa purdy.


The SAFN will be a project.


Webbing about makes travel a breeze.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[Rebel5soul]

Only two striker fired in the list. I wonder why?

 

[HisArpy]

Natchez Shooting and Outdoors has a pot load of ammo on sale. They even have Colt 38 Soooper mags, albeit the Commander style which I don't think work in the full size 1911. Might be worth checking out. They're over in Chattachoochoo, TN. Not too fer a drive for some folks.

Rob Bonta, California's AG, is warning residents that even though the 9th Circuit invalidated their ammo background check law, you can still be arrested and prosecuted if you buy ammo and have it shipped straight to your house.

Fucking Democrats.

 

[Rebel5soul]

Rob Bonta, California's AG, is warning residents that even though the 9th Circuit invalidated their ammo background check law, you can still be arrested and prosecuted if you buy ammo and have it shipped straight to your house.

Fucking Democrats.

Somebodies going to call his bullshit.

 

[HisArpy]

Somebodies going to call his bullshit.

It's amazing that the police can't arrest anyone, even though that's their job and especially not while wearing a mask, but the State can try to put you in prison for doing something the courts say is legal.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Maybe it's like the so-called "building codes." At the end of the book, they basically tell the reader that the codes, which are quite lawlike in both their delivery and the enforcement thereof, are basically very strong suggestions and that the building official - yet another government hireling - can interpretize and enforcerize pretty much any goddamned thing s/he wants to enforcerize.


An fucking government hireling.


Just wait'll all the other departments find out about this.


(murdelization of Teh king's Engrish intentional . . . .)

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Hah. The landlady just called. Her trainer is moving to South 'Murrika this fall and is selling off his firearms, one of which is a VZ24. I hadn't planned to buy one, but he made me an offer I don't refuse, so . . . .

 

[Wat_Tyler]

https://gatdaily.com/articles/motor...e+and+Clyde+Changed+American+Policing+Forever

Motorized Bandits and The Evolution of Police​

The era of the motorized bandit in the United States is one full of romanticism. Bonnie and Clyde were star-crossed lovers armed with machine guns. Dillinger was a handsome rebel, not too different from Peter Pan. Legend had it these motorized bank robbers would burn mortgage information at banks, freeing farms from the hands of foreclosure-seeking bankers during the Great Depression.

The Era of the Motorized Bandit​

In reality, it’s like most things that have been romanticized: it’s largely a lie. Tall tales hid the truth of murderous outlaws who would murder on the drop of a hat for a bag full of cash. Desperate times made desperate people, and the Great Depression was a desperate time. The motorized bandit created a fascinating challenge for police of the era, and their response shifted police work forward by leaps and bounds.

Weaponry​

This is Guns, Ammo, and Tactics, so let’s talk guns. Police forces of the era likely carried a .38 Special, but also the .32 S&W Long and .32 Colt New Police. These are all fine calibers, especially these days, but in the 1930s, we didn’t have the projectile design knowledge or techniques to get the most out of these rounds. They could stop a bad guy, but they weren’t stellar.

They really struggled when it came to piercing through the vehicle skin of modern Ford V8s. Neither could .45 ACP. They couldn’t stop the motorized bandit if they couldn’t stop the motor, or at least shoot the guy driving it. This led to police forces and the firearms industry adopting new calibers to punch through these cars.

This gave us .357 Magnum for revolvers and .38 Super for M1911s. Plenty of motorized bandits carried automatic weapons and outgunned police with revolvers and shotguns. Police adapted to the demand and adopted their own automatic weapons, including Thompsons, BARs, and even Remington Model 8s. These offered faster rates of fire, better range, and the ability to punch through vehicles.


And so on . . . .

 

[Rebel5soul]

Hah. The landlady just called. Her trainer is moving to South 'Murrika this fall and is selling off his firearms, one of which is a VZ24. I hadn't planned to buy one, but he made me an offer I don't refuse, so . . . .

More than one on the list????

 

[Wat_Tyler]

More than one on the list????

One of those HKs that was in the video on the previous page. A bit pricey . . . for now.


2600 of 9mm.


She's checking on the grains of the .223 he has.


He wants too much for his R000ger raunch rifle, mostly because I don't want one. If it were free . . . .

 

[Rebel5soul]

It's the VZ's i'd be interested in. As many as my credit line can handle, at the right price of course.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

He only has the one.


I sent the money, so it should be headed to the guardianship of Fred the Cat.


Fred is well armed.


And (am)munitioned as well . . . .

 

[Rebel5soul]

Next time your out west hit the small town gun shops if you would, when not putting the backhoe to good use. I'm looking for VZ's (Brnos), La Corunas, and/or Mausers.