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Well, sorta. “Woobie” is the American term for any type blanket (or even a toy) a child uses as a comfort item: something he carries close for security. During the Vietnam War it was extended to include the poncho liner because the G.I.s had a similar attachment to it. Even more recently it’s...

Tree huggers deliberately drive nails into tees in national, state, or commercial forests specifically to sabotage harvests. @Broch you’re correct about farmers. At least up to a,point. We have never either but that said, we never deliberately attached it to any tree that would be harvestable...

I’ve been missing seeing your posts as well. Both here and on BCUSA.

@British Red, are you able to get true black powder easily and affordabley? I prefer it simply for the authenticity but it’s expensive to get here and difficult when compared to the modern substitutes (Pyrodex, et al)

@CLEM beat me to The Quiet Man scenes. That still,leaves these:

Regarding the 45LC I think my original post explained (more or less) that modern loadings for the caliber normally don’t exceed the power of the originals. Primarily because of the danger of those rounds being used in older guns (or modern replicas made to the same specs) To be completely honest...

Actually it was the opposite: you had a rifle available in a sidearm caliber. Still a,popular concept today as there are many rifles chambered for 44Magnum, 9mm, 357/38, etc. Likewise those calibers are quite popular for deer hunting with both the rifle or the handgun. At least all of them...

We’re lucky and unlucky here regarding foxes. Unlucky I’m that the only times foxes are bold enough to let humans catch a glimpse it usually means they have rabies. On the other hand we’ve been lucky they haven’t been much of a nuisance since the coyotes arrived to eat them. Tuen again unlucky...

Welcome back!

@Toddy Yeah, I have a small squaddie stove, small Mora, an emergency blanket, some instant coffee, chocolate, and teabags, and a few other non food items as well

Right now I’m looking over the loading data in my reloaders’ manual, an older one put out by Speer (1979) Picking a typical caliber from the old West, the 45LC, yields the most useful comparisons for a reason I’ll mention further on. It doesn’t give the energy itself but you can take the data...

First the water. I have a 3 gallon water cooler and a 5 gallon one like these...

Personally, not at all. See posts I made further upthread and you’ll see the Air Force paid for most of the last half of my degree and the first half was very inexpensive and and more than offset by the Soccial Security Widow’s pension Mama drew because of my staying in school. Likewise my...

Thanks. I thought so. I finished my degree on a similar program; while most of my classes were traditional in person classes they were in what Emmy-Riddle called their “Worldwide Campus.” Basically a classes were offered in person at the individual military bases around the world in their...

Be careful with that “healthy mix” though. Our system is supposedly such a mix but it doesn’t seem to have solved the problem. At the basic level the public universities are all ran by the individual states. The first subsidy (one that I very much agree with) is the level of tuition paid by...

Regarding the “open university” mentioned in a few posts, I have a question: is that a sort of remote learning? A combination of online courses, correspondence courses, and a few in Edson classes?

Seems a bit odd. Mama was educated in nursing to the RN level back in the 1940s. Back then there were two programs for the RN level: 1) a three year, non degree program (the one she took) and 2) a four year Bachelors’s degree program. Owadays there are still two programs for the RN level: 1)...

A) I originally completed 2 years of study towards a B.S. In Civil Engineering (Normally Bachelors degrees here are a 4 year course of study but engineering fields frequently require 5 years) I was typical of many at that age in that I used those years more for expanding my social life more than...