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same to ya kk.....be cool...
I'll do that and same to ya trk
thanks bubba
couldn't stay away.....got my laptop and my brothers phone line.......be cool all, just got done with a 5 hr. drive
Peace everyone.....I'm outa here, see ya on sun or mon.....peace and have a good 4th. Please don't drink and drive.
Peace everyone.....I'm outa here, see ya on sun or mon.....peace and have a good 4th. Please don't drink and drive.
Peace everyone.....I'm outa here, see ya on sun or mon.....peace and have a good 4th. Please don't drink and drive.
Peace everyone.....I'm outa here, see ya on sun or mon.....peace and have a good 4th. Please don't drink and drive.
One thing I've learned about reloading.......Make sure you like the load before you go loading up a mess of'm as your gun may not like the recipe.
Same to ya Bull!
Guys I'm on my way put of town so I'll be posting as soon as I return the first of next week..........This has been an out of office response!
Anytime Bull, I don't mind sharing my recipes!
one more thing......does that sako have a synthetic stock? as i recall, a few years back (5-8 maybe 10) some of the sako rifles with synthetic stocks had the pillar bolt holes wobbling out from the punishment of the magnum calibers causing erratic shots, the problem was fixed once it came to light......if that is the case a competent smith could install steel pillar post in the stock.
Being dead on part of the time is not uncommon with some of the problems I mentioned! just because something is loose doesn't mean that it's not going to shoot dead on part of time, I find it hard to believe that it's your ammo unless it was exposed to moisture, got wet etc, etc. I've got hand loads printing three shot quarter inch groups @100 yds that are ten years old.
check the scope too!
pre, chances are it's not your ammo, check your scope mounts, rings and bases, if no problems there check the screws that hold the action in the stock, if the gun is a heavy magnum rifle the pillar bolts could be starting to wobble. now as far as the ammo goes.......if you don't reload.....start! I have never found any factory ammo that i liked.
From our friend Pre......
This letter was written by Captain Jim Holder currently stationed in Iraq
OPEN LETTER TO FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH OF RICHMOND BEACH
It has been a while since I have written to my friends at First Lutheran
Church about what's really going on here in Iraq. The news you watch on TV
is exaggerated, sensationalized and selective. Good news doesn't sell.
The stuff you don't hear about on CNN? Let's start with Electrical Power
production in Iraq. The day after the war was declared over, there was
nearly 0 power being generated in Iraq. 45 days later, in a partnership
between the Army, the Iraqi people and some private companies, there are now
3200 mega watts (Mw) of power being produced daily, 1/3 of the total
national potential of 8000 Mw. Downed power lines (big stuff, 400 Kilovolt
(Kv) and 132 Kv) are being repaired and are about 70% complete.
Then there is water purification. In central Iraq between Baghdad and Mosul,
home of the 4th Infantry Division, water treatment was spotty at best. The
facilities existed, but the controls were never implemented. Simple
chemicals like Chlorine for purification and Alum (Aluminum Sulfate) for
sediment settling (the Tigris River is about as clear as
the Mississippi River) were in very short supply or not used at all. When
chlorine was used, it was metered by the scientific method of guessing.
So some people got pool water to drink and some people got water with lots
of little things floating around in it. We are slowly but surely solving
that. Contracts for repairs to facilities that are only 50% or less
operational are being let, chemicals are being delivered, although we don't
have the metering problem solved yet (...but again, it's only been 45 days).
How about oil and fuel? Well the war was all about oil wasn't it? You bet it
was. It was all about oil for the Iraqi people! They have no other income,
they produce nothing else. Oil is 95% of the Iraqi GNP. For this nation to
survive, it MUST sell oil.
The Refinery at Bayji is at 75% of capacity producing gasoline. The crude
pipeline between Kirkuk (Oil Central) and Bayji will be repaired by tomorrow
(2 June). LPG, what all Iraqi's use to cook and heat with, is at 103% of
normal production and WE, the US ARMY, are insuring it is being distributed
FAIRLY to ALL Iraqi's.
You have to remember that only 3 months ago, ALL these things were used by
the Sadam regime as weapons against the population to keep them in line. If
your town misbehaved, gasoline shipments stopped, LPG pipelines and trucks
stopped, Water was turned off, power was turned off.
Now, until exports start, every drop of gasoline produced goes to the Iraqi
people. Crude oil is being stored and the country is at 75% capacity right
now. They need to export or stop pumping soon, ...so thank the UN for the
delay.
ALL LPG goes to the Iraqi people EVERYWHERE. Water is being purified as best
it can be, but at least it's running all the time to everyone.
Are we still getting shot at? Yep
Are American Soldiers still dying? Yep, about 1 a day from my out fit, the
4th Infantry Division, most in accidents, but dead is dead.
If we are doing all this for the Iraqi's, why are they shooting at us?
The general Iraqi population isn't shooting at us. There are still bad guys,
who won't let go of the old regime. They are Ba'ath party members (Read Nazi
Party, but not as nice) who have known nothing but and supported nothing but
the regime all of their lives. These are the thugs for the regime that
caused many to disappear in the night. They have no other skills. At least
the Nazis had jobs and a semblance of a national
infrastructure that they could go back to after the war, ...as plumbers,
managers, engineers, etc., ...these people have no skills but terror. They
are simply applying their skills. ...and we are applying ours.
There is no Christian way to say this, ..but they must be eliminated and we
are doing so with all the efficiency we can muster. Our troops are shot at
literally everyday by small arms and Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs). We
respond. 100% of the time, the Ba'ath party guys come out with the short
end of the stick.
The most amazing thing to me is that they don't realize that if they stopped
shooting at us, we would focus on fixing things more quickly and then leave
back to the land of the Big PX. The more they shoot at us, the longer we
will have to stay.
Lastly, all of you please realize that 90% of the damage you see on TV was
caused by Iraqi's, NOT by us adn not by the war. Sure we took out a few
bridges from military necessity, we took out a few power and phone lines to
disrupt communications, sure we drilled a few palaces and government
headquarters buildings with 2000 lb. laser guided bombs (I work 100 yards
from where two hit the Tikrit Palace), he had plenty to spare. But, ANY
damage you see to schools, hospitals, power generation facilities,
refineries, pipelines, was ALL caused either by the Iraqi Army in its death
throes or from much of the Iraqi civilians looting the places.
Could we have prevented it? Nope.
We can and do now, but 45 days ago the average soldier was fighting for his
own survival and trying to get to his objectives as fast as possible. He was
lucky to know what town he was in much less be informed enough to know who
owned what or have the power to stop a 1,000 people from looting and burning
a building by himself.
The United States and our allies, especially Great Britain, are doing a very
noble thing here. We stuck our necks out on the world's chopping block to
free an entire people from the grip of a horrible terror that was beyond
belief.
I've already talked the weapons of mass destruction thing to death,
...bottom line, who cares? This country was one big conventional weapons
ammo dump anyway. We have probably destroyed more weapons and ammo in the
last 30 days than the US Army has ever fired in the last 30 years (Remember,
this is a country the size of Texas), so drop the WMD argument as the reason
we came here, ....if we find it GREAT, if we don't, SO WHAT?
I'm living in a "guest palace" on a 500 acre palace compound with 20 palaces
with like facilities built in half a dozen towns all over Iraq that were
built for one man. Drive down the street and out into the countryside 5
miles away like I have and see all the families of 10 or more, all living in
mud huts and herding the two dozen sheep on which
their very existence depends, ...then tell me why you think we are here.
WMD? ...important, ..have to find 'em wherever they may be (...in Syria?),
but not OUR real motivator. Don't let it be yours either.
Respectfully,
ERIC RYDBOM MAJOR, ENGINEER Deputy Division Engineer 4th Infantry Division
CLASSIC VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper
thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no
food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper
thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and
demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well
fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering
grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with
a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a
country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer
so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and
everybody cries when they sing "It's Not Easy Being Green."
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house
where the news stations film the group singing "We shall
overcome". Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for
the grasshopper's sake.
Tom Daschle & Walter Mondale exclaim in an interview with Peter
Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the
grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to
make him pay his "fair share".
Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper
Act", retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined
for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and,
having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is
confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a
defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a
panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of
single-parent welfare recipients.
The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper
finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government
house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house,
crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead
in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken
over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful
neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote
Your freakin old......
You hear that GP......Colts given us permission to access his bank accounts.....I'm calling my hacker buddy, hang tight Onebgg that Ruger is on the way......
Man......You guys are freakn OLD!
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Thanks K......
That makes three of us......
choke on this rag-head chit
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/boycotts/eidstamp.asp
Claim: A USPS stamp commemorates the Islamic holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Status: True.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2002]
This morning I received a very interesting email from a friend. Just wanted to pass it along because it took me for a shock. I checked on line and what follows is true!
You may or may not have an opinion - it has nothing to do with "profiling" - and would not "classify and entire group of people because of a "few." But I think, at this time, what has happened is in VERY BAD Taste! Please read the following . . . I am NOT A PROPONENT of Chain Letters but I do consider myself an AMERICAN . . .
Here's a link if you want to see for yourself:
http://www.usps.com/news/2002/philatelic/sr02_052.htm
Dear Fellow Patriotic Americans,
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of PanAm Flight 103,
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993,
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon,
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military Barracks in Saudi Arabia,
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa,
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE.
REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/01.
REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks.
Now the United States Postal Service REMEMBERS and HONORS the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a commemorative first class holiday postage stamp.
I strongly urge you to REMEMBER to adamantly and vocally BOYCOTT this stamp when purchasing your holiday stamps at the post office. To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors. I also strongly urge you to pass this along to every Patriotic AMERICAN you know, whether by email or otherwise.
Origins: The
37-cent Eid postage stamp, as noted in the United States Postal Service (USPS) press release cited above, is an October 2002 reissue of a first-class stamp introduced (at the then-current 34-cent rate) in September 2001, just ten days before the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
As the USPS describes the stamp:
The Eid stamp commemorates the two most important festivals -- or eids -- in the Islamic calendar: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. On these days, Muslims wish each other "Eid mubarak," the phrase featured in Islamic calligraphy on the stamp. "Eid mubarak" translates literally as "blessed festival," and can be paraphrased as "May your religious holiday be blessed." This phrase can be applied to both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
The word "eid" is roughly equivalent to the English word "celebration" or "festival." The three-day Eid al-Fitr celebrates the end of the month-long fasting of Ramadan; the three-day Eid al-Adha commemorates the willingness of the Prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael in response to God's command, and it marks the end of Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. In both 2001 and 2002 (by the Gregorian calendar) Eid al-Fitr fell in December, so the USPS issued the Eid stamp to coincide with other entries in their "Holiday Celebrations" series which commemorate holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa) occurring around the same time of year.
The Eid stamp is not a "semi-postal" issue sold for a price higher than the first-class postage rate in order to raise money for a particular cause (as the breast cancer stamp is), and all the revenues from the stamp's sales go to the USPS. In no way will buying this stamp help to fund terrorists (unless they're working for the USPS), so boycotting the Eid stamp is purely a symbolic act.
Should we boycott a stamp commemorating Islamic holidays as "a slap in the face to all those Americans who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors" because some Muslims have perpetrated attacks against Americans, even though not all Muslims are terrorists (or support terrorism, or despise the USA), and America itself is home to millions of Muslims? The President of the United States apparently doesn't think so, as President Bush has extended greetings, issued messages, and participated in commemorations of both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha (even after the September 11 attacks), and the White House web site promotes the Eid stamp as well. If it's appropriate for the President to honor these holidays, it ought to be appropriate for the United States Postal Service and the American public as well. If it's not appropriate for the President to honor these holidays, then Americans should be expressing their dissatisfaction through actions a little stronger than merely boycotting a postage stamp.
Last updated: 6 December 2002
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/boycotts/eidstamp.asp
Sorry Viv.......I know exactly what that is like!
Night all......see ya in the morning......
Now that's the part that sucks......
Did they catch the shooter?
Hows about giving us an update on your brother....
your right bubba......HARR!
Here's my rant......It was a 110 in my neck of the woods today!
Your more than welcome....
Wasup everyone? Looks like the smoke is starting to clear! I trust everyone had a good weekend.....Here's to a good week, for everyone.
You going to pull a travel trailer with that?
nyuk nyuk nyuk..........
Mesa here bud........