The Browning Meme

Gunnies everywhere owe a toast to John Moses Browning, innovator and inventor of multiple firearms. The Expert Witness has proposed a meme for real firearms enthusiasts, collectors, acquisitors, and tinkerers. Copy the list. Embolden the firearms you own. Place an asterisk next to the firearms you once owned, but own no longer.

Single Shot Rifles:
Winchester 1885

Bolt-action Rifles:
Winchester 1900

Lever-action Rifles:
Winchester 1886
Winchester 1892
Winchester 1894
Winchester 1895

Slide-action Rifles:
Winchester 1890

Recoil-operated Semi-automatic Rifles:
Remington Model 8

Blowback-operated Semi-automatic Rifles:
*Browning .22 Semiauto

Double-barrel Shotguns:
Browning Superposed

Lever-action Shotguns:
Winchester 1887

Slide-action Shotguns:
Winchester 1897
*Remington Model 17 (later the Ithaca 37)
Stevens 520

Recoil-operated Semi-automatic Shotguns:
*Browning Auto 5 / Remington Model 11 (+ Rem 11-48 revision of same action)

Blowback-operated Semi-automatic Pistols:
FN M1900
Colt 1903/1908 Pocket Hammerless
FN 1906 Vest Pocket/Colt 1908 Vest Pocket
FN 1910
Colt Woodsman (Browning Buckmark is a direct descendant)

Recoil-operated Semi-automatic Pistols
Colt 1902
Colt 1903 Pocket Hammer
U.S. M1911
FN G.P. 35

Gas-operated Machine Guns:
Colt M1895
U.S. M1918 BAR

Recoil-Operated Machine Guns:
U.S. M1917/M1919
U.S. M2 Heavy Machine Gun

Automatic Machine Cannon:
Colt-Browning 37mm

100

I really dislike this meme because it is so.... Western..... and civilized, but here goes..

1. Started your own blog. You're reading it.
2. Slept under the stars. In Africa, Saudi Arabia, and in between the tail fins of an F-18 at sea.
3. Played in a band. Drums.
4. Visited Hawaii. A three hour lay over at Pearl. Does that count?
5. Watched a meteor shower.
6. Given more than you can afford to charity.
7. Been to Disneyland.
8. Climbed a mountain. Mt. Fuji. Slept under the stars there too, and watched the sunrise.
9. Held a praying mantis.
10. Sang a solo. Only if when drunk in a Perth Australian pub counts.
11. Bungee jumped.
12. Visited Paris.
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea. Sailed through typhoons, actually.
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch. Oils, intaglio, lithography, sculputure and photography. Taught others at the college level as well.
15. Adopted a child.
16. Had food poisoning.
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty. No, but I've walked to the top of the Great Budda in Kamakura.
18. Grown your own vegetables.
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France.
20. Slept on an overnight train.
21. Had a pillow fight.
22. Hitch hiked.
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill.
24. Built a snow fort.
25. Held a lamb.
26. Gone skinny dipping. Hong Kong harbor, no less, as well as the Marianas Trench.
27. Run a Marathon.
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice.
29. Seen a total eclipse.
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset.
31. Hit a home run.
32. Been on a cruise. Ha! Does Uncle Sugar's Yacht Club count?
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person.
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors.
35. Seen an Amish community.
36. Taught yourself a new language. Japanese and Tagalog
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied.
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person.
39. Gone rock (wall) climbing.
40. Seen Michelangelo's David.
41. Sung karaoke. In Yokohama and Yokosuka.
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt.
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant.
44. Visited Africa. Tsavo, Mombassa.
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight. Yep. Crawled across it under the new moon too.
46. Been transported in an ambulance. Airlifted.
47. Had your portrait painted / drawn.
48. Gone deep sea fishing. Sharks and groupers.
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person.
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling. Great barrier Reef, Diego Garcia, Guam.
52. Kissed in the rain. Rainy season in the PI.
53. Played in the mud. Rainy season in the PI.
54. Gone to a drive-in theater.
55. Been in a movie.
56. Visited the Great Wall of China.
57. Started a business.
58. Taken a martial arts class.
59. Visited Russia.
60. Served at a soup kitchen.
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies.
62. Gone whale watching.
63. Got flowers for no reason.
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma.
65. Gone sky diving.
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp.
67. Bounced a check.
68. Flown in a helicopter.
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy.
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial.
71. Eaten Caviar.
72. Pieced a quilt.
73. Stood in Times Square.
74. Toured the Everglades.
75. Been fired from a job.
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London.
77. Broken a bone.
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle.
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person.
80. Published a book.
81. Visited the Vatican.
82. Bought a brand new car.
83. Walked in Jerusalem.
84. Had your picture in the newspaper.
85. Read the entire Bible.
86. Visited the White House.
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating.
88. Had chickenpox.
89. Saved someone’s life.
90. Sat on a jury.
91. Met someone famous.
92. Joined a book club.
93. Lost a loved one.
94. Had a baby.
95. Seen the Alamo in person.
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake.
97. Been involved in a law suit.
98. Owned a cell phone.
99. Been stung by a bee.
100. Read an entire book in one day.

Ok, so there it is. What is this supposed to say about me?

Western Bad Ass

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I scored as Clint Eastwood Names aren't important as I ride into town on a pale horse. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms. I also enjoy a good spaghetti dinner once in a while. Clint Eastwood 100% Charles Bronson 100% John Wayne 88% Lee Marvin 75% Lee Van Cleef 75%

100% Baby!

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Highlight to learn the secret.....
When all else fails.....Cheat.
Just go into your HTML and change the score to 100.gif.........
Now what the hell is an octagon........

My Life Graphed Out

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	8.1
Mind:	7.8
Body:	6.5
Spirit:	6.4
Friends/Family:	5.9
Love:	9.1
Finance:	8.5
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Hat tip Skywriter

Figures.............

but then.........

91%

Blog Chain

The lovely and talented Monica Ricci, organizer and Makarov packer extraordinaire has tagged me for a blog chain. As a full fledged member of BOMCA (Balding Old Man Clubs of America) any attention from beautiful young women is a flattering but fleeting thing, so I am compelled to respond. The deal is you're supposed to share five off the wall, strange, unusual or just little-known facts about yourself. Then you "tag" five other bloggers who are supposed to do the same thing. Ok, We're off...........

1. My first degree was in Fine Art. I was, at that time, a damned fine painter and printmaker, who painted still lifes inspired by Chardin, Peto and Vemeer, as well as made assemblages similar to Robert Rauschenberg's early work. I no longer paint or do intaglio, but the framework of art philosophy still influences me in everything I do.

2. I am the seamaster of four saltwater aquariums. Four. A total of 675 gallons of circulating sea water complete with fish, crustacean critters and coral held behind tempered glass in my den. These are not things you dry fire at. Why four tanks? Some saltwater fish eat other saltwater fish, critters and coral. If you want to keep them all, you keep them separately.

3. I was once "into" hot rods, and built a '32 Ford. I went through a vintage motorcycle/chopper phase, and finally restored two antique Series IIA Land Rovers early in my marriage. One for me, one for the wife. Real Land Rovers, Marlon Perkins style.

4. I once had a bounty on my head in a foreign country. I will not say where or when or why.

5. I am an Honorable Shellback, 000/0046E.

Now I have to tag five folks......
Lets see.......
Porta Cat
PawPaw
Tamara
Matt
Amy

Seven by Seven

I see I got tagged by a Pistol Packing Mama a while back to do the Seven thing.....The old man might be slow, but he's willing.

7 Things to do before I die:
* Visit my old ship, the USS Midway in San Diego.
* Walk my daughter down the aisle.
* Own a Yost~Bonitz 1911
* Dive the Great Barrier Reef again, this time with my daughter.
* Eat lizard with aborigones in the Northern Territory under a sky full of stars, again.
* Drink a beer in Barrio Baretto, again.
* Tell my wife I love her, again, always.

7 Things I cannot do:
* Cross a suspension bridge in an enclosed vehicle.
* Carry a tune without a wheelbarrow.
* Tolerate a phone call at supper time.
* Eat balut or kimchee.
* Genuflect.
* Be late.
* Touch my toes without bending my knees.

7 Things I wish I had done:
* Made a pass a Princess Diana when I met her.
* Bought gemstones instead of massages and beer in Thailand.
* Had a gun engraved in the Philipines
* Kept my father's pre-64 Model 70 Winchester with a Leupold scope and the stock he finished himself. I kept our home instead. Bad choice.
* Kept my mother's Smith & Wesson K22 Outdoorsman.
* Saved more silver dollars.
* Put a flaming sack of crap on Michael Moore's porch and ring his doorbell.

7 Things that attract me to the outdoors
* Pine trees.
* Fresh breezes.
* Morning dew.
* Stars.
* Birds singing.
* Leaves rustling.
* Blasting the hell out of targets with a 12 gauge shotgun while running through a course of fire.

7 Things I say most often:
* Damn.
* Shit hot!
* Make it happen.
* Gotcha corn!
* Check this out!
* Tell 'em I'm not here.
* Where's my remote?

7 Movies I could watch over and over again:
* Band of Brothers
* The Right Stuff
* Reservoir Dogs
* Gettysburg
* The Ghost & The Darkness
* Kill Bill
* Homeward Bound

7 People I want to join in, too
* Zippianna
* Stefani
* Real E
* Nguyen Huu Huy
* Bingyang Hou
* Tammy

There. In case you wondered, I went random on that..........

My 5 Weirdest Habits.

Dam Tam.......

#1... I get paid every two weeks, but I pick up my check a week late. This is a holdover from when I was stationed at Atsugi Japan and over 10000 people all got paid at the same time and used the same bank. The long lines were absent on the off weeks. To this day it drives my employer nuts and makes them believe I really don't need that check after all. That's a distinct advantage.

#2... When I get junk mail with a prepaid envelope, I tear it up and sent it back in that envelope. Sometimes I sent extra. One time I taped the envelope to a brick.

#3... I always ask patients if there is anything else they need before I leave. This is often a mistake, but I have yet to stop doing it.

#4... I wake up at 4:30 AM just so I can be lazy drinking coffee in my house shoes before going to work.

#5... I will play devil's advocate for the sport of it. I do this to check the validity of my own position, and anyone who has me doing this to them should feel honored that I have deemed them a worthy adversary. They often just get pissed and shake their heads in disgust.

Now....I tag PawPaw, LDF, and redmemory1. The curse continues.....

Finally, a Quiz for Gunnies........

You are an Assassin.
That means you are a professional and do your
job without mixing any emotions in it. In your
life you have probably been hurt many times and
have gotten some mental scars. This results in
you being distant from people. Though many
think that you are evil, you are not. What you
really are is a person, trying to forget your
pain and past. You are the person who never
seems to care and that is why being an assassin
fits you good. At least, that's what people
think. Even if you don't care that much for
your victims, you still have the ability to
care and to generally feel. It is not lost,
just a little forgotten. In crowds you tend to
not get to noticed, and dress in black or other
discrete colours. You don't like being in the
spotlight and wish people would just leave you
alone. But once you do get close to someone you
have a hard time letting go and get real down
if you loose him/her.

Main weapon: Yourself
Quote: "The walls we build around
us to keep out the sadness also keep out the
joy" -Jim Rohn
Facial expression: Narrowed eyes


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You are a Social Conservative (18% permissive) and an... Economic Conservative (80% permissive) You are best described as a: Strong Republican Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

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Jesus! I give up!