"They weren't that tough"

[67Dart273]

See if I can clean this up enough:



A man and woman had stopped at an isolated spot in the desert when they were surrounded by a tough, outlaw biker gang.

"What do you want of us?" said the man.

The leader of the gang spoke up

"We're gonna take your water and your car, but before we do that, we're gonna do your wife, and you're gonna hold our nads up outta that hot sand while we're doin' her."

So much later, the couple, all beat up, no water, bleeding, their lips and skin parched, are crawling through the desert

"MAN, those guys were really TOUGH," said the wife.

"Aw, I donoo," said the man. "You see that one guy flinch when I dropped his nads in that hot sand?"

 

[ironracer1]

'67, You seem to be one of the most informed, and true to the Cause, Mopar Folks out there, but, I ride a antique Harley (1977 XLCR), rare bike.. I may look a bit rough (or strange) but I ain't no outlaw...and ain't no guy gonna hold my nads..LOL

 

[ironracer1]

With all respect, I read alot of your posts, and you have A LOT of knowledge. Thank You for sharing w/ us!!!!

 

[67Dart273]

No disrespect to true bikers.

I first heard that joke from a "now gone" rough old guy in my home town who was a firefighter in town for years and years, and had a horse shoeing business on the side. He was quite a rider in these parts, having gone on many trial rides and also handling pack strings for hunters This around 1967-68 that he told me this joke.

To show you "what sort" he was, one day he came in, laughing, and showed me an .06 case that was CRACKED down the side, with obvious primer damage to the rear of the case. He says "might'ah overloaded that one a little, huh?"

 

[ironracer1]

Awesome! So he did his own reloading? 30.06? My uncle Rick loaded his own comp rounds (7mm rem mag) for a single shot bolt handgun! Way back when...

 

[67Dart273]

Awesome! So he did his own reloading? 30.06? My uncle Rick loaded his own comp rounds (7mm rem mag) for a single shot bolt handgun! Way back when...

.....If you can call what he did reloading. My job at the time was "radio operator" for the local PD, long LONG before dispatchers "had to do much" and this was just a job before I ended up in the Navy. Mostly graveyard

"They" ("the force") inducted anyone who was breathing to help reload target ammo in their spare time, so we're talkin' .38 wadcutters. This was LONG before I knew A THING about reloading, but a couple of the PD showed us "what to do." What they DID NOT tell us is just how damn dangerous.................

Bullseye power can be. If you are not familiar with Bullseye, a target load for a .38 is a VERY few grains, and you can put about 10 times that much in the case. So naturally "a few" rounds got double--charged (something you cannot do with something like 2400 powder) and "a few" cases got NO powder.

So one night about 02:00 here comes the ONLY cop on duty who had ILLEGALLY been OUT of the city limits, shooting rats with a spotlight at one of the gravel pits

AND...............he's got a wadcutter firmly implanted 1/2 way between the cylinder and the barrel, and he's MAD and he JUST KNOWS that ME PERSONALLY just HAD to be the ONE PERSON responsible for his sorry situation. Yeah. He was an alpha hotel. A real one.

He bitched and moaned about "what would we do if I NEEDED my gun?" I neglected to point out the the AH that maybe, just MAYBE he should not have been plinkin on duty at 2AM, but hey......................

So that was my introduction to reloading ammo

In a "second life" I've loaded thousands of rounds of .38, .357, .44, and 9mm as well as a few .30-30 and some other stuff. Arthritis and lack of a farm to shoot on has put a stop to all that.

Nowadays, I just pack around a Ruger KLCR which is .357, but I usually carry .38+P in it. .357 in that thing is BRUTAL on my hands

The very office where I worked, but the TTY wasn't there then

I've personally used these very mics. Both went to old Motorola wireline consoles

The mike on the left was "low band" FM around 39 mhz, and covered Sandpoint PD, Bonner County sheriff, Bonners Ferry, City of Coeur d Alene, and the ID state PD used it some. So pretty much EVERYBODY heard everything all at once. That same freq also handled all Sandpoint city cars, water, dog catcher, mayor, and fire trucks and the "meter maid" Cushman unit.

The mic on the right as I recall was Montana Sheriff freq.

The old PD Motorola console. These controlled a remote radio over what is known as "dry pair" rented phone lines. That is, they are just copper, no dialtone, and go direct from the control point (city hall) to the radio location, whether in a building, mountain top or whatever.

The huge Motorola "all tube" radio used in many of the PD/ sheriff cars. Big, heavy, used lots of power. This same radio was in the 67 Chevy Biscayne when I last saw it when joining the Navy in May of '68