Posted on 08/01/2008 5:04:06 AM PDT by Shooter 2.5
This is one of the first installments from Free Republic's Gun Club. It's going to be a daily discussion on subjects covering firearms, Gun Rights and overall firearms experiences.
Some years ago, Friday seemed to be the time to post photos of our favorite toys. I volunteered to make it a weekly occurance.
One of the things I did learn through the years, though. It's not the gun. It's just a tool in the hands of the person who makes it happen. That rusty and pitted .38 revolver may not look like much but to the owner, it may have helped in getting out of a lot of scrapes. Also, that match pistol may look good but it might have been instrumental in losing more matches than the one half it's price and bone stock.
So let's see 'em. The pretty ones, the ugly ones and the dusty ones including the old favorite grampa gave us when he passed on.
The BBC produces a lot, with the BBC 4 producing mostly science/history/technology ones.
"Time Team" is my all-time favorite, and I'm catching up on the last 14 years of the series. England has thousands of years of history underneath just a few inches of topsoil, and this bunch, with about six on-screen archaeologists and scientists, and dozens of workers, take three days to dig, catalog, and analyze some site. They've dug everything from a two million year old river bank to a Spitfire shot down over France in the opening days of WW2.
One episode involved re-digging a crash site in a moor where two B-17s went down in a tragic mid-air collision returning from a mission. The military picked up most of the pieces, and bodies, back then, but left a lot of stuff buried underneath the muck. Time Team dug up the rest of the planes, and was able to piece together how it happened.
They had access to last letters written home (one crew was flying their 25th and last mission), along with surviving witnesses and family. They donated two mangled Ma Deuces and a bent propeller to the US military cemetery where the crews were buried. A local flying club was to make a memorial to the crews out of the stuff. They closed with a tribute to the American crews.
That episode hit me a lot closer to home than their usual finds of broken pottery, old coins, and remains of walls, which they try to present in a less-serious, and very entertaining, style.
That would have to be tenderized with C-4 like on the mythbusters new episode !......and then served at amagustos during 2 hours into happy hour !
I thought that the Daisey Red Ryder to 12ga conversion kit was too good to be true!
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“Time Team”...got it! Thanks!
I have a Sig P239 SAS with a really nice set of grips. I'm a little reluctant to carry it because I don't want to ding them up. I put a set of Mustang grips on my Colt Diamondback and carried it on an elk hunt in the rockies. The gun now has "characture" but it isn't near as pretty.
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