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The Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo's used an ablative (sp?) heat shield. In other words it got white hot and sloughed off carrying th heat with it. This had a lot to do with the radio blackouts. The shuttle uses the tiles which do not slough off but rather act as insulators. That way all tehy have...

Marshall's kit is the best! For me you can leave off the smokes...........unless its a good cigar. Seriously I carry all kinds of stuff in my truck or boat. The places I hunt here are within 20-30 mins from the truck. I always carry a knife, fire material, short piece of rope, and extra...

I have seen them on E-bay going for 3 to 5 bucks.

For those of you that belong to the American Legion I urge you to read the interview of Gen. Foss from just before he passed away. It is in this months issue of "The American Legion magazine". The part about airport security shows just how STUPID the government can be! If you are not a member I...

"YOU are named as a defendant in a victim lawsuit, just like the gun stores, pawn shops, etc. are. Kiss your savings, and maybe car, house, retirement, and a large percentage of your future earnings goodbye - attorneys fees and, God forbid, satisfaction of an adverse judgment, will blow right...

prolly 75% of my brass is GI. Only when I cant get it do I use others.

2 or 3 of each!:D

Well OldFart and Tall Pine I may move by y'all then there will be 3 "Old Farts". I guess the older ya get the less horse stuff you are inclined to take.............no matter who it comes from...............the government or otherwise.

I look at it this way...............right now I have a 3/4 quarter horse 1/4 Welsh crossbreed horse to sell 6 years old. the first $650 CASH takes him home. To who I don't care.....figure it from there! If he looks over 21 thats good enough for me. By the way Louisiana had no laws concerning...

Sometimes if I really need to get a fire started in the wet woods (most of em are in Lousiiana) I carry some of those little 35MM film cannisters with gasoline, and motor oil in em. Get that going and it WILL light up wet kindling etc.

we used to have tons of the block lead sitting on some of our offshore platforms. We melted it and used it as buffers in welded pipe fittings to try to alleviate some erosion in high flow rate gas wells. Stuff sat in an exposed store room and had the prettiest gray coating on it from exposure to...

Hummmm I saw that ruling yesterday..............been d-loading music at a feverish rate ever since then....get it before they shut it down :D!

Thanks! Got it!

"the least he could do is teach us how to swear in russian." :D After I started working in Syria 28 days on and then 28 off, I was visiting my ill father as I did every morning. One morning the parish priest stopped by for his coffee and he asked me if I had learned any Arabic...

Hey guys (and gals) When I got in late Sunday night I saw a thread on here for a postal match and would be interested in firing in it, however I was dead tired when reading the forum and now cannot find the thread on it............................HELP! Thanks!

I cannot tell you what to do but if it was me I would just put on one of those paint masks they sell at Wal Mart 3 for a dollar and load and shoot the shot. I have messed with lead all my life, loading, shooting, casting, you name it I have done it. Not to mention the fact that I worked for...

"the next one was always catching one of her landing lights in the loading tools," HUMMMMMMMMM! A rather interesting set of landing lights I would imagine!

IIRC Hodgdon had one in #26.................gonna have to look I used some highlighter on it so it would catch my eye.

Hang em high!!!!!!!!!!! (but be nice and send their bodies back.................freight collect :D)

"I'm really glad that Louisiana got an F. And I quote, "In 1998, the most recent year for which data is available, 124 children and teenagers in Louisiana died from gunfire." 1998! ***, that's 4 years ago, and I bet if they looked at those numbers it was a lot of gang and drug related violence...