Recent content by Gee Whiz

Hi all, I'm looking for a bunch of high resolution photos to use as my desktop backgrounds (my PC is set up where they change ever half hour). I'd like photos of the following S&Ws, all current-production guns: Model 17 Masterpiece Model 18 Combat Masterpiece Model 63 5" Again, I'd like...

I know what it sounds like, just can't figure out how to put it into words. Maybe I should say, "ch" without the "ck" sound...:confused::D To me, German is a much more straightforward language than English (as are Latin and many European languages). It's just the pronunciation that bothers...

True, I know that, but I'm wondering if you pronounce the "th" like "t" as in many other German words. I'm now certain that my uncle errs in saying "Walter", though.:D Speaking of German pronunciation, is "Koch" as in HK a German word? According to HK's US website it's pronounced "coke" (as...

Ih-talian.:) Here's some commonly mispronounced names: Heckler & Koch: the "Koch" is pronounced "coke" Uberti, Umarex: Not You-berti, Oo-berti. Umarex is the same. Walther: somebody help me out here. I've heard it as Walter, Walther, and Valter. Which is it? I know the second is incorrect.

Judging from the Benelli USA DVD catalog, it's "Frahnkee" (or "Fron-key").

^^Unfortunately, he's right. Here in the USA we have the moronic 16/26 rule... I wish it'd change to either/or, but not both.:mad: Do NOT go within ten miles of said 10" bbl gun if it has a shoulder stock.

Good laird.....Jim....this is a joke, right? I mean, surely...no one...goat trauma......you've got to be kidding....better rephrase that....you've got to be pulling our legs....NOBODY has goat trauma...........:D:D:D (THAT is hilarious!!!)

I'll have to convince my library to buy it. I wish I could remember the arguments I used to get them to purchase the Flayderman's and the Shooters Bible.

"If It Weren't for the Honor of the Thing ... ... I'd rather walk." Supposedly that's the punchline of joke Abraham Lincoln used to tell about a man who was tarred, feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail.

S&W, put me down for one blued PP .22LR, please.... I'd love one of those, but older ones are less than affordable.:(

...find a resource of some sort that has in one place ALL new firearms introduced each year, because I keep missing neat guns and only discovering them eight months after their introduction. For example, the Smith & Wesson M&P22: I was searching RimFire Central for info on the P22Q (because I...

This might be the wrong thread to post in, but I didn't want to start a new one with my single piece of info. I emailed S&W yesterday before joining this forum asking a few questions about the M&P22, esp. about the lack of interchangeable backstraps, and here's the reply I received: "As far as...

How about some Twain on Guns?:D GUNS The Southern communities are just as peaceful and religious as the Northern. The Southerner may be more highly cultured, and anything he does is naturally conspicuous. Carrying a revolver is a fad, just a fad or a fashion; but the revolvers are mightly...

Rain?:confused: I seem to remember something called that, but I think it's extinct.:D When the mesquites and pecans start dying, and when people start baling corn stubble, you know you're in a drought.:eek::( Thanks for the welcome, guys!:)

WATERMELON It is the chief of this world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.:D