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I was cleaning out my reloading room the other day.. at least a little of it...

found two things I didn't know I had...

1. Found out where they buried Jimmy Hoffa

2. Any one have any use for a slightly worn and very dusty B 17?

That's a good one!!! One of my old reenacting / military vehicle collecting buds was raised in Germany during the constibulary days. His dad was shipped there after he got back from Korea. Said there were these brothers who had a salvage yard he always hung out in. This was like 1956-58. He was there to buy German helmets. They had piles of em. He said he would take em out in the woods and shoot em with his P-38. Then he would make a cleaning selling them to the new crop of GI's transferred in. $5 a pop! Back to my story,,,,, he said these old brothers had an entire B-17 in their shop. Scattered around all over in pieces. He said knowing these old boys the way he did, it was ALL there!!!

My grandmother had a bunch of German Helmets, that were brought back in WW 1 and 2....they were kinda passed on down by various family members and ended up in the barn....she pulled a bunch of them out thinking they would make dandy flower pots...until after a couple of years of use, I told her what they were probably worth... this was back in the late 70s, early 80s ( she passed in 1990)

when I was a kid and lived in England ( 63 to 66), there was a junkyard over in Cambridge that had the fuselage of a B 17....and then where I went to school at on Molesworth, there were still scrapped parts of B 17s in various sizes, on parts of the base that had been the scrap pile during the war...even all the Nissen/Ouonset Huts were all there boarded up....our school lunch run was a WW2 chow hall, and our auditorium was a mission briefing room... the AF let the school have use of it in 1964, when the other one burned down....my gym class was assigned to go in and clean it up, since it was winter and always raining...

on the stage, there was a big curtain, covered in dust, but when we pulled that moth eaten thing back, there was a big map of NW Europe... on it was the briefing from the last mission the 303rd Bomb Group flew over Germany in April 1945....

I don't have a B 17 but I had a Norden bomb sight.

Ya'll make your way down here with a day or two to spare, and some light dirt bikes, we can go see a PLETHORA of WW2 aircraft, B17s not so much as "Liberators" wrecked in training.
....admittedly "picked over", but sure neat to sit by and go into very humble mode.

...lonely deaths, those.

GTC

Might need to come for a visit with a 4wheeler, just to do that, Greg.

Mark

Sadly no dirt bikes or 4 wheelers...

but that would be something to see...

you never hear the stat much, but for every American killed in combat in WW 2, three were lost in training, or other such "accidents"...

I need it on my commode for when grandkids are over!!!

Ah jeez,put a 45x Leupold with CDS on their tally-whacker.

That takes care of the boys, how do you mount one on the girls?

Ed

Extension rings.

Well, the .38 Super brass is in the Classifieds, but I'd trade for some .25-20 brass

so what sort of interesting firearms are folks planning to bring?

I'll probably bring some eclectic things. Maybe a strange and exotic .270 for the prairie dog shoot

I hope you feel better soon Ken!

Exotic is good, and strange is better, especially in a .270 - never know what will win the PD shoot.

I have one of those "eclectic things" too, and it looks to be ambidextrous as well, but it won't shoot straight. Anyone have a factory manual?

A .475 Turnbull could be interesting





probably won't bring the cat, though...

heres a rare ole bird

https://levine.infinitebidding.com/?method=getLotInfo&lotref=3C725462AB&seq=136

If we can make it 50/50 chance right now, I intend to bring this recently finished project for shooting!

Nice,what's the chambering?

Interesting notch on the forearm. Looks like bowstring notch. Is it meant to tie it to a tree to keep the kicking down? miles