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If you take the guns off the street you will still have a crime problem, whereas if you take the criminals off the street you cannot have a gun problem. - Jeff Cooper
The proper response to the recognition that people can go berserk and cause mayhem is to foster a culture of marksmanship. – Alan Korwin
One unerring mark of the love of the truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. John Locke, 1690
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Bill Jorden's old admonishment that when in a gun fight to "take your time fast" I've heard that Wild Bill Hickock opined that saying. Or something very similar.
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Well I guess Capstick extracted it from..."Lions and leopards and rhinos excite me but don't frighten me. But that buffalo is so big and mean and ugly and hard to stop, and vindictive and cruel and surly and ornery. He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money. He looks like he is hunting you … He makes me sick in the stomach, and he makes my hands sweat, and he dries out my throat and my lips." in "Horn of the Hunter". Ruark wrote the sentence.
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He's long been shunned (for good reason) but I loved Clay Harvey's line about the .250 Savage: "An arthritic leprechaun could shoot it."
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Say the sentence twice as follows: "Magazine writers have been replaced by you on the Internet." "Magazine writers have been replaced by me on the Internet." One would not say, "Magazine writers have been replaced by I on the Internet." So, the correct grammar/structure would be: "Magazine writers have been replaced by you and me on the Internet." Congratulations to those who got it right. I'm afraid I would vote for, "Magazine writers have been replaced by people like you and I, on the Internet"
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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I have six books on English grammar and style within reach. None of them agrees with you.
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I have six books on English grammar and style within reach. None of them agrees with you. Those books probably do not like the part of my family heritage that makes me use the terms Y'all and All Y'all either then..............
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Airplanes are made for people that do not get enough punishment owning a boat!
Some mornings, it just does not feel worth it to chew through the straps!~
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When truth is ignored, it does not change an untruth from remaining a lie.
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I have six books on English grammar and style within reach. None of them agrees with you. Do they pre-date the Internet?
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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Yes, they do. Like me, they are from sometime in the late Holocene Epoch.
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Somebody once asked me the best pistol to carry. At the time, I said with no hesitation,"A Baby Browning .25 ACP."
He responded "Won't that just make him mad for the fistfight?"
And I said "You didn't say ANYTHING about shooting...only carrying..."
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Until reading this thread, I didn't know "outdoor writers" wrote so much about defensive handguns.
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Two quotes from Elmer Keith:
1. A 270? A damn adequate coyote rifle!
2. To heck with efficiency, its performance we want! According to Elmer Keith's nephew, Elmer recommended him buying a 270 Winchester in the then new Model 70 for an Elk hunt. Elmer knew his feud with Jack O'Connor favorite cartridge was good for selling a lot of magazines!
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BOB:
Thank you immensely for addressing the proper Subject/Object sentence structure. Do you think you could/would address the juxtaposition of the objective in the subjective tenses and vise-versa? How about [spelling]? Forget punctuation....I'm not worth a damn at that.
WILL.
DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF:......IT'S ALL SMALL STUFF! D@MN; I miss my meds. THE WINDS OF TYRANNY HAVE SHIFTED. BETTER TIMES AHEAD.
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Before you all start dumping me in deep doo-doo, I completely skipped over pgs. 7-9; Murphy's been following me forever, it seems.
WILL.
DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF:......IT'S ALL SMALL STUFF! D@MN; I miss my meds. THE WINDS OF TYRANNY HAVE SHIFTED. BETTER TIMES AHEAD.
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I believe JB said the following .... "The only folks who have trouble killing deer with the .243 Winchester is gun writers"
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I believe my statement said "...are gunwriters," but in general that's about right.
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I believe my statement said "...are gunwriters," but in general that's about right. Didn't need that kind of grammar attributed to you MD?
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Airplanes are made for people that do not get enough punishment owning a boat!
So true. Imma haf to steal that one...
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