Some old Photos for your enjoyment

JWFilips

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Guys,
I really enjoy posting these photos for you! I just love to hear the comments!
"If a flintlock or Cap lock isn't primed it is just a cartridge!"
However I have fired a charge from a good flint lock without priming!....just to prove a Well built firelock works very well!
 

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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Test pilots didn't have a particularly long life expectancy, and the early jet age shortened it a lot.
 

Walks

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Probably the same reason Snowmobile gloves have cuffs.
To keep the cold air from blowing up your sleeves adding to the chill factor.
Or maybe to keep from getting snagged on the wires.
 

L Ross

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Anybody know the reasoning behind those cuffs on the gloves? Maybe to keep air from inflating sleeves?
Gauntlet gloves probably date from fighting with edged weapons. Also great for cold weather motorcycling. Even better with the cuffs are fringed and beaded ala Custer.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Gaunlets, as much a style thing IMO as a practical thing. That was the period where lace to the knee boots were all the rage. Anyone who's ever worn real high top boots knows that it's that much more weight to carry around and lacing them up tight cuts blood flow. I lusted after a set of 16" LL Bean Maine Guide boots for the cool factor. Outside of keeping my legs dry, they were a true pain. For snakes, yeah, I can see it. Even for briars it's your thighs and knees that take the brunt, not your shims. This was the era of wearing putees (sp?) in the military too. Style, kind of the tacticool mall ninja look popular today IMO.
 

L Ross

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Gaunlets, as much a style thing IMO as a practical thing. That was the period where lace to the knee boots were all the rage. Anyone who's ever worn real high top boots knows that it's that much more weight to carry around and lacing them up tight cuts blood flow. I lusted after a set of 16" LL Bean Maine Guide boots for the cool factor. Outside of keeping my legs dry, they were a true pain. For snakes, yeah, I can see it. Even for briars it's your thighs and knees that take the brunt, not your shims. This was the era of wearing putees (sp?) in the military too. Style, kind of the tacticool mall ninja look popular today IMO.
As a motor officer, I had a cool/cold weather riding out fit that consisted of a pair of heavy wool riding jodphurs, with doubled fabric in the seat and inner thighs to the knees. They had zippers to make a skin tight fit from the knees down. I wore Cocoran jump boots and puttees, all spit shined of course. And black gaunlet gloves, the cuffs easily slip over the cuffs and sleeves of the jacket. Eventually we went to Harley Davidson knee high riding boots as puttees became impossible to replace through the uniform shops.

Depending on who I was pulling over, I either removed the gaunlet gloves and my sunglasses, (soccer Moms and straight citizen types), or left everything on, (for special customers that required a more stern approach).
 

Walks

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The fringes on gauntlets are a royal pain in the rear end. Get in the way when holstering a handgun.
Even worse when fastening a seat belt.
 

JonB

Halcyon member
I think it is like working for a bank. The "Vice-President for Commercial Loans" from one of the local banks, being bought out by Wells-Fargo, became a probationary firefighter 25 years ago. They said they got a pay raise when they got the union firefighter position.
In 1985, when I finished my 2 year degree in Electronics and got my first job, pertaining to that, with a small industrial control manufacturer, my starting pay was $7.15/Hr. I told my Mom, who retired that same year, and she said, "that's more than I made at the Bank after all these years". She worked for the same small town, family owned Bank for 35 years. They did give her a nice spotting Scope for retirement, Bauch & Lomb 15x - 45x by 60. Funny thing is, I have gotten more use out of it (and still do), than she ever did.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
As a motor officer, I had a cool/cold weather riding out fit that consisted of a pair of heavy wool riding jodphurs, with doubled fabric in the seat and inner thighs to the knees. They had zippers to make a skin tight fit from the knees down. I wore Cocoran jump boots and puttees, all spit shined of course. And black gaunlet gloves, the cuffs easily slip over the cuffs and sleeves of the jacket. Eventually we went to Harley Davidson knee high riding boots as puttees became impossible to replace through the uniform shops.

Depending on who I was pulling over, I either removed the gaunlet gloves and my sunglasses, (soccer Moms and straight citizen types), or left everything on, (for special customers that required a more stern approach).


Our guys wore breeches from our inception in 1917 until about 1952 IIRC, same time they abandoned the cross draw holster with lanyard (Colt New Service 45 Colt got traded in for Colt 38 Specials, O frames I think) with Sam Browne type shoulder strap and knee high riding boots. The old gaunlet style winter gloves went too. I think our motorcycles ended about that point also, as much because half our dead or severly injured Troopers were due to motorcylce accidents as anything else. Plus radios weren't real reliable or even common in every Troop car then and there are photos from back in the day of Troopers walking defendants back to town behind the bike with a rope for security. Not good press even then, but what were you to do with someone when you couldn't get a car there to take him? These days there's a ceremonial MC detail riding Harleys that cost many times what it takes to run an entire barracks for a year. The detail is made up of guys (and gals) that apparently either have rabbis or knee pads and no gag reflex. I'm not a big fan myself, but I suppose it's great if you aren't bothered by such stuff. I think they wear tacticool black gloves, probably with those super cool little holes over the knuckles, or whatever is the latest and greatest in the Gall Catalog.:headscratch:
 

JWFilips

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Well Brad...We did not get a "selfie stick" for Christmas.....but my old Lads from my Astronomy & Observatory days arranged a Zoom meeting for all of us on New Years Eve! Well.......
Karen and I decided to use our Tree as background! Of course I had to set up lighting for us for the meeting so we did a few practice sessions as I asked,..... However she was none too happy with all this lighting & prep but after the 3rd set up she finally gave in and we got some stills!
First time in all the years of marriage!
Of course I had to only keep the one where she looked her best! ( guess how I looked didn't matter much!)
I really do not like cell phone or computer tablet cameras ( quality sucks!)
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oscarflytyer

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some personal old family pics. My paternal GF's farm. Off Hiway 18 in Jay County IN. He farmed ~1000 acres. Big corn farmer - hence the bushels/acre plaque. He had numerous years in the early '50s where he had 100+ bushels/acre. Plaques/belt buckle/certificates/newspaper recognition. Most would get ~500 hrs out of a rebuilt engine - I am told he would get ~1500 hrs. He was truly OCD when it came to details and mechanical things. And his grainery/shop floor was oiled dirt. But it was "spotless!" You could eat off of it if it weren't oiled dirt! And I inherited his OCD with those things! Consider it the best of anything I could have inherited. And why I over-engineer anything I do. Miss him.

(My GM had polio at a very young age/wore braces. She couldn't get in/out of a p/u truck, so he never owned one - as a farmer. Floored me. When I came to visit him/her, out of Germany, and was driving a p/u truck - a Dodge - only brand he ever owned - he was thrilled! And, the 1938 and 1942 Farmall tractors he bought new are still in the family and running!)

PS: The tractor is the first year IHC Model H (1939; serial # is one of the first, actually built in late 1938/year my Dad was born/Dec 25th!! - in the barn!) And, note the front end bucket loader on it. I remember it vividly. And, only ever seen one or two other pics of one!

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RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Whoa! Several of my Mom's German Aunts and Uncles farmed at Ft. Recovery, about 10 miles south and across the border in Ohio. House, barn and silo look exactly like those.
 

oscarflytyer

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Whoa! Several of my Mom's German Aunts and Uncles farmed at Ft. Recovery, about 10 miles south and across the border in Ohio. House, barn and silo look exactly like those.

Ric - VERY likely your relatives and my Dad ran into each other! Portland IN. Dad used to run over into OH/Ft Recovery (to raise hell!) and then head back home. Small World indeed!
 

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Ric - VERY likely your relatives and my Dad ran into each other! Portland IN. Dad used to run over into OH/Ft Recovery (to raise hell!) and then head back home. Small World indeed!
Yes it is a small world. If I remember correctly, IN was dry, but Ohio was wet. My youngest brother lives in that area and the KoC, VFW and Eagles are very popular with the folks from IN.