Bri:

Got this today. Right up your alley kiddo!

http://www.usmilitaryvideos.com/servlet/th...-M-dsh-1/Detail

My birthday IS on Friday...might have to buy myself something.

I agree. I always by myself something. Go for it!

An early Happy Birthday too!

Sounds like a cool video. Nothing like shooting thru things like helmets and cars to see how powerful those guns were.

My brother bought a Spanish 8mm Mauser in the 1960s and the ammo he bought had red bands on it---steel armor piercing rounds. Boy! Did we have fun with those.

For many deer rifle, you shoot it into a oak tree and it stops---you can see the bullet in the entry hole. Fire these rounds into a 3-inch branch and it would go clean thru. I recall shooting thru a railroad tie with it.

Steve

Thanks Marion.

AP is definetly fun to play with too.

Brian. I see you just missed the big day also. My birthday, Monday, was 2 days before and your's 2 days after. After what , you say!!!. I guess I forget just how far along I am. Back then, It was a time of great interest, AND FUN. Maybe this will clue you in on how it was back in the days of the "Dinosaurs".

SADIE HAWKINS DAY vs LEAP DAY

Sadie Hawkins Day is November 15 - Leap Day is February 29

Sadie Hawkins Day, an American folk event, made its debut in

Al Capp's Li'l Abner strip November 15, 1937.

Some people want February 29 to be Sadie Hawkins Day. February 29

is already Leap Day, and Sadie Hawkins Day is already November 15.

There is no need to change anything, or to merge them together.

Please read the information below from the Lil'Abner website.

Sadie Hawkins Day, an American folk event, made its debut in Al Capp's Li'l Abner strip November 15, 1937.

Sadie Hawkins was "the homeliest gal in the hills" who grew tired of waiting for the fellows to come a courtin'.

Her father, Hekzebiah Hawkins, a prominent resident of Dogpatch, was even more worried about Sadie living

at home for the rest of his life, so he decreed the first annual Sadie Hawkins Day, a foot race in which the

unmarried gals pursued the town's bachelors, with matrimony the consequence.

By the late 1930's the event had swept the nation and had a life of its own. Life magazine reported over 200

colleges holding Sadie Hawkins Day events in 1939, only two years after its inception. It became a woman

empowering rite at high schools and college campuses, long before the modern feminist movement gained

prominence.

The basis of Sadie Hawkins Day is that women and girls take the initiative in inviting the man or boy of their

choice out on a date, typically to a dance attended by other bachelors and their aggressive dates. When

Al Capp created the event, it was not his intention to have the event occur annually on a specific date because

it inhibited his freewheeling plotting.

However, due to its enormous popularity and the numerous fan letters Capp received,

the event became an annual event in the strip during the month of November, lasting

four decades.

Please understand the differences between Leap Day and Sadie Hawkins Day:

Leap Year Day

Sadie Hawkins Day

The date for Leap Year Day is February 29.

Leap Year Day has been around since 45 B.C.

Forty-Five B.C.!

February 29 has always had the name Leap

Year Day. From day one of it's existence.

Leap Year Day was added to the calendar to keep

the calendar in line with the seasons. It represents

balance and harmony between the seasons and

our method of time-keeping.

The date for Sadie Hawkins Day is November 15.

Sadie Hawkins Day has only been around since

1937 A.D.

November 15 was just a day on the calendar until

someone decided Al Capps character should have it.

Sadie Hawkins Day was added to the calendar

because students at college thought it would be fun.

Granted, it is. But it does not have the responsibility

that February 29 does.

So there you have it. Four good reasons why Leap Year Day and Sadie Hawkins Day should not be the same day.

They each have their reasons for being, and they have their own day on the calendar.

The only similarity between the two is that the woman is allowed to do the asking. Well,

that's not a good enough reason for them to merge onto one date. They are separate.

That was make believe, and fun. But Feb. 29 was not. If you were so fortunate, or not, to be born on Feb. 29, that meant you had a birthday only every "FOUR ------YEARS". Can you fathom what that would mean. I would be 1 year old going to kindergarten, still 1 going into the Air corps, My wife arrested for marring a minor, I would be younger than you, AND----- not old enough to enjoy this beer that I have before me now. Thinking back, I can only wonder; What if with a twinkle in my Fathers eye, my Mom would have said; Not now dear, I have a cold. Give me a couple of days. Colds are like that; Some last 2 days, some 4.

Again Brian; Lil Abner & I hope you enjoyed your Once a Year birthday

chucktoo

Thanks. Now I have more info to hide in my brain and keep forever.