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    What else is your love besides gaming???

    in General Discussion

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    I became interested in Italian reproduction Civil War-era black powder "Percussion/Cap & Ball" revolvers back in the late 1970's. You can buy them in most US states mail-order because there are no federal restrictions on them. They are considered antique firearms so no background check is needed. They are a lot of fun but totally impractical for defense by today's standards.

    It takes several minutes to load them and they are not reliable. Misfires & jams (due to pieces of spent caps falling into the action) are an issue. When they came out in the mid 1840s they were state-of-the-art and gave one the ability to get off multiple shots very quickly at a time when almost all pistols and rifles were single shot muzzle loaders. These are my 3 guns and they were the most coveted percussion revolver models 155 years ago:

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    Hourly Minimum Wages By State

    in General Discussion

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    My first job was at a car wash at age 16 in 1973. It paid  about $1.60/hour which was minimum wage in Maryland at the time. The job wasn't worth more than that as a starting wage. It was a very low skilled job for young people to make a couple of bucks after school & on weekends. Period. The car wash could never have sustained paying employees enough money to live on. it would have gone out of business.

    Where Is Everybody?

    in Call Of Duty: World At War Discussion

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    What happened to all of the traffic on the DM servers? I see a number of people on our Sniper Server much of the time but the DM 1 & 2 servers have been vacant when I have checked lately.

    The shine has to wear off of the sniper thing pretty soon I would think but there still are a lot of players unaccounted for.

    My Latest Toy

    in Hunting, Shooting, Fishing, Boating

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    To be accurate, in my original post I said that cartridge revolvers were common place by 1873. The reality was that shortly after the Civil War the old cap & ball revolvers had cartridge conversion kits so that they could fire metallic cartridges. The first actual cartridge designed revolver came out in 1873 which is the now famous Colt Single Action Army "Peacemaker". That is the most common revolver seen in western TV shows and movies and is known as "The Gun That Won The West". Colt has produced it off and on since then and it is available from Colt today. 

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