American gun control debate.

[Frankie Reloaded]

Gang Wars

Meanwile in Slovakia...

[rickcharles606]

just purchased a new Smith & Wesson M&P .45 and love it. Just thought I'd leave this here, lol.

[whalen]

Enjoy breaking that puppy in! ? You do know the .45 is God's caliber, right?

[Frankie Reloaded]

I might as well ask right here:

Does anybody have any Remington 9mm pistol ammo at hand? I need to know what is stamped on the casing. I found a photo showing "R-P Luger," but the casing I should describe is from a Beretta 92 and I think that one does not use Luger

Or, in other words, WTF is "the familiar Remington brand mark stamped on the base"?

[Zimobog]

Remington is the manufacturer of the ammo, Luger is often used as the offical name of the 9mm Parabellum round, harkening back to the heady days when there were more than one type of 9mm around.

Around 1911, there were like five types of 9mm like 9mm Lago, 9mm Bergmann, 9mm Luger, 9mm Browning Long, 9mm Steyr, 9mm Glisenti etc just in Europe.

Beretta 9mm does shoot the 9X19mm Luger (or Parabellum) as it is called. Cause 9mm Luger became the 9mm of choice.

[rickcharles606]

I might as well ask right here:

Does anybody have any Remington 9mm pistol ammo at hand? I need to know what is stamped on the casing. I found a photo showing "R-P Luger," but the casing I should describe is from a Beretta 92 and I think that one does not use Luger

Or, in other words, WTF is "the familiar Remington brand mark stamped on the base"?

9mm Luger is just the name they call the round in europe, and here in the US they call it 9mm Parabellum. Both measure 9X19 and can be fired in your Beretta 92f.

[rickcharles606]

Enjoy breaking that puppy in! ? You do know the .45 is God's caliber, right?

Yep, it's my people getter, errrr protection piece ;-) Well, that and my Mossberg 500a, lol

[Frankie Reloaded]

Yes, thank you, but I have been thinking about how to translate the sentence "the familiar Remington brand mark stamped on the base" for about a month now and I still only have the preliminary version there. And the book is ending soon
The one I found:



The brand mark does not look like a symbol or logo which would the automatic no-brain translation. So is this familiar Remington brand mark actually letters R-P? If you have the cartridge, could you just have a look for me? I think bigger cartridges for rifles bear the whole Remington name, but the one I am concerned with is a small pistol round.

Full context can be read here (It is a teaser to make you buy the book though...): http://www.michaelconnelly.com/novel...ckbox/excerpt/

[squeezyjohn]

Meanwhile back in the old country:

Which is not dissimilar to this which is what I do:

[Zimobog]

Yes, thank you, but I have been thinking about how to translate the sentence "the familiar Remington brand mark stamped on the base" for

about a month now and I still only have the preliminary version there. And the book is ending soon
The one I found:



The brand mark does not look like a symbol or logo which would the automatic no-brain translation. So is this familiar Remington brand mark actually letters R-P? If you have the cartridge, could you just have a look for me? I think bigger cartridges for rifles bear the whole Remington name, but the one I am concerned with is a small pistol round.

Sorry! The only 9mm I have on me at the moment are half a box of PMC 124 grain FMJ and 15 rounds of Federal hollow points.
I do have some Remington rounds here, but they are .22 LR and have the little "R" on the rim.
That's just what I have here in the office. I can check the gun safe when I get home, I might have some Remington .300 WM there. I will check them for the "R-P".

[rickcharles606]

Yes, thank you, but I have been thinking about how to translate the sentence "the familiar Remington brand mark stamped on the base" for about a month now and I still only have the preliminary version there. And the book is ending soon
The one I found: [ATTACH=CONFIG]2973[/ATTACH]



The brand mark does not look like a symbol or logo which would the automatic no-brain translation. So is this familiar Remington brand mark actually letters R-P? If you have the cartridge, could you just have a look for me? I think bigger cartridges for rifles bear the whole Remington name, but the one I am concerned with is a small pistol round.

Full context can be read here (It is a teaser to make you buy the book though...): http://www.michaelconnelly.com/novel...ckbox/excerpt/

I'd say it just stands for Remington-Parabellum, which is far too big to put on a 9mm casing ;-)

[Zimobog]

Meanwhile back in the old country:

Which is not dissimilar to this which is what I do:

What is that? Morris dancing?

[squeezyjohn]

First one is Backswording ... a sort of english martial art based around trying to hit your opponents brains out with a wooden club.

Second one ... bingo!

Spot the difference?

[Zimobog]

First one is Backswording ... a sort of english martial art based around trying to hit your opponents brains out with a wooden club.

Second one ... bingo!

Spot the difference?

Backswording looks like fun! I hate to admit it... but I am a bit of a WMA (Western Martial Arts) fan and do a bit meself. I hate to admit it because such things are considered very "uncool" here in the USSA. But to hell with it! I have a great time doing it!

When fighting a round of Single sword, as those two gentlemen are doing, it is quite difficult. Do backsworders generally employ the hanging guard or was that just the mood those two men were in?

So in Morris dancing one is not supposed to hit his partner, I take it? But still, Morris dancing would have been a display of ritualized combat, correct? Or was Morris originally a type of training for swordsmen? If it is ritualized, are they fighting the evil spirits or winter/famine?

I am into traditional methods, myself, Squeezyjohn. We might have that in common, after all!

[Crow]