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chlinstructor,

PITY that I've "caught you IN" at least a few "mistakes of fact" OR more likely in KNOWING LIES. = Tell everyone what your excuse will be when I next go to Mother's home, make a Xerox of the letter that MAJ (He was then a 2LT, USAR.) Murphy wrote from a hospital in USAREUR to my mother at Christmas 1944, when he was recovering from a bullet wound to the hip. = The letter is 5 handwritten pages long & mentions mother teaching him English.
(Mother never taught 5th Grade or any other elementary grade.)
My guess is that MAJ Murphy actually took 8th grade English before going to the TXARNG.

NOTE: MAJ Murphy was evidently born in the hamlet of ONIONVILLE, Hunt County, TX, spent his early boyhood there & after his father deserted the family, he lived in at least 6 different towns before joining the TXARNG. = Mrs. Murphy, Audie & his sisters all did farm "stoop labor" to keep eating regularly & followed the "picking season", wherever they could get work.
His mother also was sometimes employed as a housemaid for various people.
(Life was always difficult for the family, until Audie went onto AD & started sending money home.)

When I copy/post that letter to the forum, we can all have a big HORSE LAUGH at your expense, "Mr. Knowitall".

yours, tex

When I was in high school my dad used to say I was getting big enough to hunt bear with a switch. Which is a green branch from a sapling for you who don't speak ohio-an.

So maybe that's the secret. Grab the thin part of a two piece fishing rod and have at it.

Having witnessed personally that a single well placed round of 5.56 ball from the Vietnam era will kill anything that walks I do have reservations about tackling a buff with the round. Given no other choice I'd be inclined to stack about 20 pallets of ammo, snatch it in a sling load with a chinook and drop it on his head from about 1,000'.

If it were a buffalo cow you just reduce the lead a little.

If anyone ever thought a 223 FMJ to the dome of a buffalo wouldn’t kill said buffalo stone dead has never seen a full grown angus take a 22lr in the head and hit the dirt. It’s what I would pick, cuz I’m a real man. PH sissies and their big bores.

I did shoot a fly last week with a salt gun at work. One of the sales guys bought it and i was playing with it. Damn cool and it worked great.

Cute girl wanted the fly off her desk. I complied.

Gonna load it with coper dust from barnes and see if i can piss off a Kodiak.

Ross Seyfrieds........22Hornet.......Cape Buffalo..........somebody mentioned it.