Some old Photos for your enjoyment

KeithB

KeithB

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Front wheel drive is the major reason I have owned several Chrysler/Dodge minivans. Not what I would recommend for towing but otherwise fine for traction. Much better than a rear wheel drive/front engine vehicle with all the weight over the non-driving wheels.
 
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Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Rockydoc said:
Tupper, is that where Tupperware comes from?
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Nope, but Rubbermaid, or at least part of it, came from Ogdensburg NY. Tupper Lake was a logging down in the central Adirondacks. Used to be a pretty rough and tumble town. The big industry was the Oval Wood Dish Company and if you ever ate salad out of a wooden bowl back in the 40's-70's it might well have come from there. Later they made all the straws (plastic) for McDonalds. Tupper;s logging days pretty much died off in the 90's due to things I'm not supposed to talk about here. Sad, sad thing to see.
 
Rockydoc

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Bret4207 said:
Nope, but Rubbermaid, or at least part of it, came from Ogdensburg NY. Tupper Lake was a logging down in the central Adirondacks. Used to be a pretty rough and tumble town. The big industry was the Oval Wood Dish Company and if you ever ate salad out of a wooden bowl back in the 40's-70's it might well have come from there. Later they made all the straws (plastic) for McDonalds. Tupper;s logging days pretty much died off in the 90's due to things I'm not supposed to talk about here. Sad, sad thing to see.
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RUBBERMAID I made a ground stand shooting house from a Rubbermaid utility shed 4x8x8, the kind used for storage of lawnmowers, shovels, rakes, etc. It could accommodate two shooters in close comfort. Many deer were harvested from there. Many a youngster got their
first deer sitting there beside me in that stand. We lost it to a hurricane. It had been so successful that my son built a more permanent replacement of lumber and plywood.
 
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richhodg66

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This was captioned "Women learn to shoot, 1915" which seems accurate, but leaves a lot out. Can anyone identify the rifles they are using? At first, I thought Mosin Nagants, which would make sense as they were produced in America and many stayed here in training roles after 1917, but the first one looks to have a different bolt handle profile?
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L Ross

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Not sure but looking right behind their left hands I see protruding magazines. How about an 1891 Carcano?
 
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richhodg66

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L Ross said:
Not sure but looking right behind their left hands I see protruding magazines. How about an 1891 Carcano?
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I had not thought about Carcanos, you may well be right. Seems I have seen very few Carcanos in original condition.

I'm no expert on such things by a long shot, but the styling of the ladies' clothing seem to make me think America or Britain but I could be way off.

The comment about eye and ear protection is noted. I have some hearing loss from the time in the Army like just about everybody who does a career has. I teach high schoolers and it seems we have conditioned kids that raising their voices is a bad thing and they almost whisper when asking something. Seems like I'm constantly telling them to sound off. I'm OK in a quite setting, sitting on a tree stand in the woods I can hear all kinds of stuff but if there is background noise, I'm in trouble.

Wear your ear muffs, guys.
 
Missionary

Missionary

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I lost 50% of my right ear when the tank next to mine cut loose a 105 heat round (blue practice) at FT Hood in 72. During a ease fire !
I was half way up out the loaders hatch. Muzzle blast threw me to the turret floor. I had removed right earplug to ear something in the turret when traversing.
Never wondered again about firing the main gun near ground troops again..
 
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richhodg66

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I was an artilleryman, but I don't think it was the guns that did it as much as the times I was an FDO or FSO and had to spend a lot of time in a M577 with a big diesel motor and/or four deuce generator going while trying to minitor four or five radio nets at once.

For what it's worth, when I was real young, I spent a lot of time around 4.2" mortars back in my 3rd ACR days. I swear, one of those is a lot roughre on the ears than a 155 was unless they were shooting one of the really heavy charges. It was more of a metallic sounds that just seemed to hurt.
 
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Jeff H

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richhodg66 said:
...........I teach high schoolers and it seems we have conditioned kids that raising their voices is a bad thing and they almost whisper when asking something...
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DRIVES ME NUTS!

I spend three times more time making students repeat themselves than I do asking the original question!

"MUMBLE LOUDER!" IS MY USUAL REPLY, TWO AND THREE TIMES.

And they don't just whisper-mumble, the they whisper-mumble into their chest and try hard not to move their lips or face you when they speak.

I do know that my hearing sucks. Yeah, probably the cheesy 'plugs the Army gave me, in conjunction with the high-pitched whine of a blown, three-cylinder diesel on the Gamma-Goat, M16s, M2s, M60s, 81mm mortars, 4.2" mortars and those damned Howitzers we stood in front of once a year for Division pass and review. Oh, no gawdy, orange ear-plugs allowed for that particular event.

Sorry. Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks that "kids these days" (under 50) WON'T speak up! In a LAB with lousy accoustics and a really noisy, antiquated air-handling system too. Anyway, in t hree semesters, I STILL can't break them of that habit.

Yeah, I was thinking Carnanos too.
 
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richhodg66

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Part of the problem is that we really have conditioned kids in our society that anything assertive is threatening to someone, so God forbid you should actually raise your voice. I spend a lot of time coaching my air rifle shooters and it's a poured concrete room with nothing to absorb sound and shile shooting is going on (a Crossman Challenger PCP rifle you can barely hear in a large gym sounds like a real gun on our range) I have to practically get in their face to hear and understand when they ask a question.
 
JonB

JonB

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I thought those rifles looked like Brit rifles, mostly due to the Mag, BUT I am not familiar with the 1888 Lee Medford...do they use similar Mag?
 
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