I remember the show but never watched it, just like a LOT of the action shows from the 80's. The only one I watched was Airwolf.Anybody else recall William Conrad's Cannon character? Never missed with his Colt DS (I think) even with his patented squint….
Indeed he does shoot down a plane. The bad guys had been shooting at him with a machine gun from the plane but he defeated them.
That's because he learned how to shoot when he was Marshall Matt Dillon. You know Marshall Dillon never misses.Anybody else recall William Conrad's Cannon character? Never missed with his Colt DS (I think) even with his patented squint….
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IN basic in 1970 we could use cigarette butts in our ears if you wanted hearing protection. Today I wear hearing aids. wonder why?
He was also greatly against the Viet Nam war. He wrote a thesis on how it was wrong and never should have been. A "male" Jane Fonda. No doubt a soothing comfort to our brave soldiers that were actual patriots and not worthless freeloaders like those two.
That's one of the things I really liked about Longmire. He didn't carry a super dooper plastic fantastic 9 mm and an AR-15. He carried the 1911 and a model 94 Winchester.
I fired my first shot from my Dad's H&R 900 .22 revolver when I was five years old. Sometimes, my Dad did use his cigarette butts as plugs. But I didn't wear hearing protection until I entered the army. Until then, I thought that high-pitched wine in my ears was just part of shooting. And, yes, I certainly don't shoot without hearing protection now, and sometimes double up shooting big bores under cover.
I went through basic at Fort Jackson in 1968. We were issued these triple flange earplugs. We were required to wear the case with the chain over the button, under the flap, of the right breast pocket of the fatigue shirt. Other units I remember them requiring the case affixed to the epaulet of the field jacket.
We could have used the same system in Navy boot camp, I just don't remember. I do know that it was a long time after I was an adult that hearing protection for shooting became a universally accepted practice.I went through basic at Fort Jackson in 1968. We were issued these triple flange earplugs. We were required to wear the case with the chain over the button, under the flap, of the right breast pocket of the fatigue shirt. Other units I remember them requiring the case affixed to the epaulet of the field jacket.
I have a pair of those, great for getting wax out of the ears.I went through basic at Fort Jackson in 1968. We were issued these triple flange earplugs. We were required to wear the case with the chain over the button, under the flap, of the right breast pocket of the fatigue shirt. Other units I remember them requiring the case affixed to the epaulet of the field jacket.
Thanks. Bought it new in April 1979. It's got 73675 miles on it. I don't take it out much anymore, I don't trust it much, needs a bit of work. I just drive it around the neighborhood some. It gets a lot of strange looks from people. I haven't seen another since 1996 coming home from work on the expressway. I only paid $7200 for it.
