Posted on 04/25/2002 7:33:48 PM PDT by PatrioticAmerican
Yep. I can't tell what it is because there's only fifteen left and I don't have a credit card so the payment is going snail mail. I can't blab about what it is because the next thing I would know is that a message board that has 80,000 members may make me miss out but I have to tell someone because it's so cool. Ping me in a couple of weeks and I'll give a vanity report.
Uh, OK. It's not a Webley-Fosbery.
Thanks for the bump, post, and all of your hard work gc;-)
Is it a XYTHOS?
Congratulations to those who can.
No. I'll put your name on a list to ping you later when the pistol,{?} revolver,{?} gun arrives.
Fair enough.
(BTW; isn't, "the beard" a mob term? {g})
"Look, you elected to leave, I however would rather stay and fight."
No.
You've got me all wrong; I never lived in CA, per se.
Only lived in CA for a bit over a year & even then, I was in northern CA.
NOT even remotely similar to where you're located.
"I just get sick of all the California bashing. New York, New Jersey, D.C., Massachusetts, Illinois and Maryland all have gun laws just as odious as CA's."
Yes; which only serves to show how successful the Leftist bastards have been in disarming us, incrementally over the past several decades; so, they may waltz right in & ??.
At least, that's the way I see it.
The people of CA have an even more serious problem right now, IMO.
Which just so happens was the reasoning behind any statement I made to you; regarding the wisdom of leaving that state?
Moreover, I have to believe this *problem* CA's experiencing was & is the A#1 motivation behind those you know & have known who've already elected to flee CA.
You know that, too.
"Eventually if we all keep bailing, all the Constitutionalists will be huddled in Idaho!"
Maybe they/we all will, gc.
Fact is?
I've heard of some mighty assinine PC crap coming outa Idaho too, of late; so, I'm not sure Idaho's going to provide any kind of refuge from those seeking relief.
Not unless one desires to become some kind of, "Mountain Man."
Which I gotta say, will most certainly be a tough row to hoe for those of us coming from metropolitan areas, in any event.
Shittin in a hole, out in the cold & wet, doesn't do a *thing* for me.
I had enough of that bullcocka in the military, thank you.
Be advised: *I* don't have any answers to the horrible situation(S) that're festering & brewing out there in CA; not even one.
But I can see the *problem(s)* -- very clearly -- nonetheless.
Here's what I do know:
It isn't called bravery when one fails to recognize they're outnumbered; & yet?
Elects to waste their life fighting a battle which is in reality, a lost cause.
gc?
One who does something so foolish is called, a fool; & in many cases, they're wind-up a dead fool, at that.
IF I ever run from a fight?
It'd be solely because I was able to quickly & accurately assess I've poor odds of winning; and, I have a choice in the matter.
I'd rather you said of me, "There he goes," than, "There he lays." ~eh?
But I just gotta tell ya gc, I'll be watching -- quietly & safely from afar -- for those odds of mine to improve in my favor; &, when they do and, at a time of my choosing?
...I'll be back.
I am not your ememy; nor you, mine.
That, is the bottom line.
The second day after the initial attack, fifteen warriors rode out on a bluff nearly a mile away to survey the situation. Some reports indicate they were taunting the Adobe Walls defenders but, at the distance involved, it seems unlikely. At the behest of one of the hunters, Billy Dixon, already renowned as a crack shot, took aim with a 'Big Fifty' Sharps {it was either a .50,.70 or .90, probably the latter} he'd borrowed from Hanrahan, and cleanly dropped a warrior from atop his horse. This apparently so discouraged the Indians they decamped and gave up the fight.
Two weeks later a team of US Army surveyors, under the command of Nelson A. Miles, measured the distance of the shot: 1,538 yards, or nine-tenths of a mile. For the rest of his life, Billy Dixon never claimed the shot was anything other than a lucky one; his memoirs do not devote even a full paragraph to 'the shot'.
Sergeant Grace, 4th Georgia Infantry
On 9 May, 1864 a confederate sniper took what was to be considered an incredible shot at that time. During the Battle of Spotsylvania, Sgt. Grace of the 4th Georgia Infantry, took aim and fired at a distant Union officer. Grace was using a British Whitworth target rifle and the distance was 800 yards. Grace's target, Major General John Sedgwick, fell dead after uttering the words "Why, they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...". Sedgwick's death resulted in a delay of the Union attack which in turn gave General Robert E. Lee the edge he needed to win the day at Spotsylvania.
Timothy Murphy, Battle of Saratoga.
Morgan's Kentucky Riflemen On 7 October, 1777, Timothy Murphy, a rifleman in Morgan's Kentucky Riflemen shot and killed General Simon Fraser of the British army. Murphy was said to have taken the shot at roughly 500 yards. He was using the renowned Kentucky rifle. Fraser was leading a recon in force against the rebellious colonists at Bemis Heights in New York. As a result of Fraser's death, the recon failed. This had a direct impact on the overall battle, leading to the British defeat. The Battle of Saratoga was considered one of the turning points of the War for Independence.
Col. Patrick Ferguson, British Army
Patrick Ferguson was a leading developer of breech loading firearms. The Ferguson Rifle was considered at the time to be one of the most deadly weapons in the British inventory. Ferguson's second claim to fame was the "Shot Never Taken." As a Major, Ferguson found himself in position to make a shot on an unidentified Continental officer near Germantown Pennsylvania. When the man turned away at approximately 125 yards, the good major chose not to shoot him in the back. That man turned out to be none other than General George Washington. Had Ferguson taken the shot one can assume that the entire history of what is today the United States would have been affected. Recall it was Washington who turned down the offer to be King of the Colonies after the successful resolution of the War for Independence. Had he not been in charge of the Colonial forces, not only would the outcome of the war have been in question, but so would the very nature of the Republic which rose from that conflict. Ironically, Patrick Ferguson was later killed on 7 October of 1780 when a member of Morgan's Kentucky Riflemen shot him at approximately 450 yards. As a result, Ferguson's unit surrendered which forced Gen. Cornwallis to abandon his invasion of North Carolina. The loss was doubly hurtful to the British cause, since they had lost one of their premier weapons designers.
These guys were good.
I highly recommend this book. Olive chased her husband around their ranch with a notebook just in case he started reminiscing. This is the only source of the real story that was made. It's by State House Press. Austin Texas and I bought it at the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco.
You may want to check out this author if you have any interest in the "Indian Wars".
A great read.
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