This policy would have shortened World War 2:
Any recruit who could immediately, intuitively, attach the sling to the carbine, threading web around the oiler correctly on the first try, should have been instantly promoted to staff sergeant.
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Dec 6, 2010
Tomorrow
On December 7, 1941, it started for us.
McGee: "With every passing year it will seem more quaint, the little tin airplanes bombing the sleepy giants."
Not many months later, sergeants barely old enough to shave crept through the western Pacific island jungles. It was not quaint for them. It was ultimate struggle.
For personal survival. For revenge. And yes, for Mom and apple pie.
Fools are willing to forget these men and women. No one else.
Dec 5, 2010
Loophole AAR
I shillied and shallied and came home only a few small-denomination Federal Reserve Promises lighter. The headline buy was a vintage Pacific case trimmer.
I know I mentioned wanting another .38/.357 shooter, but I got emotionally involved instead with a pretty $900 SW 25 in .45 Colt. I made no long-term commitment, though a return to re-fondle and re-consider is not totally out of the question.
(Is Providence telling me to quit fiddling with minor calibers? )
To make my fellow WW2 arms fans feel better -- if you bought yours long enough ago -- the offerings were limited to one so-so 1911A1, a Remington Rand at $2,200. No Garands. No Carbines.
Savage 99 prices caught my eye. There were several, about $800 to about $1,900, the latter for an 80 percenter in .250.
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If I do go back, I'll try to come home with, at least, the ratty Mossberg 144LSA, one of the more underrated target .22s. The price is too high, $150, but maybe I can negotiate well enough to make a refurbishing worthwhile.
I know I mentioned wanting another .38/.357 shooter, but I got emotionally involved instead with a pretty $900 SW 25 in .45 Colt. I made no long-term commitment, though a return to re-fondle and re-consider is not totally out of the question.
(Is Providence telling me to quit fiddling with minor calibers? )
To make my fellow WW2 arms fans feel better -- if you bought yours long enough ago -- the offerings were limited to one so-so 1911A1, a Remington Rand at $2,200. No Garands. No Carbines.
Savage 99 prices caught my eye. There were several, about $800 to about $1,900, the latter for an 80 percenter in .250.
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If I do go back, I'll try to come home with, at least, the ratty Mossberg 144LSA, one of the more underrated target .22s. The price is too high, $150, but maybe I can negotiate well enough to make a refurbishing worthwhile.
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