Southern States Of America?

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GNTLGNT

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I belonged to two gun clubs when I lived in London, when you could own a gun in The UK. Some guy brought a Desert Eagle to shoot on the range one day it was the loudest pistol I have ever heard, I did shoot a S & W.357 Magnum and it seemed much louder than that.
...a .357 is a manageable and great caliber....the .50 is just ridiculous...yet somehow, so damn cool...
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ghost19

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My wife, being from the East Coast by way of Indiana, used to get very confused when, in asking her if she wanted something to drink, I'd ask her "What kind of coke do you want?" Now "coke" in the vernacular of southern Arkansas hillbilly -speak was a very generic term for ANY kind of soda or pop type drink, so when someone asked you "What kind of coke do you want?" You might reply with Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, or even Pepsi....I always thought it was funny the momentary look of confusion she would get when I asked her this. She always calls them "pop" which sounds bizarre as hell when I try to substitute "pop" for "coke". It just doesn't sound right...lol
 

ghost19

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I belonged to two gun clubs when I lived in London, when you could own a gun in The UK. Some guy brought a Desert Eagle to shoot on the range one day it was the loudest pistol I have ever heard, I did shoot a S & W.357 Magnum and it seemed much louder than that.
A .357 does make a helluva racket. I had someone touch off a 30.06 rifle round right beside me once before I had time to get my hearing protection on at an indoor rifle range. Was my fault, I had been shooting a lot of rounds that day and had moved my hearing protection down around my neck while I was reloading and the guy's announcement of "fire in the hole" didn't register for some reason. After that, any sound on my left side didn't register very well for about a month. I think it was the pitch of the sound as much as it was the volume. It took almost a month till I stopped hearing a weird, low crackling noise in my ear.....lol
 

HollyGolightly

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Has anyone mention Southern Fried Chicken?:love:

Don't forget the Coleslaw!!!;;D

Y'all - tonight for dinner - fried (and then slathered with BBQ sauce) chicken thighs AND homemade cole slaw (well, I bought the pre-shredded slaw mix, but the dressing is my own), mash potatoes and gravy, and sweet tea (house wine of the south).

There's lots of southerners on this board - staro's right about the writing, I think. Oxford MS is literary paradise. Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Capote, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Fannie Flagg, Harper Lee - I could elaborate on this forever.

We swelter in the summer - bare legs and open toed shoes from March - October - we think 30 F is insufferable in the winter. We're all great bar dancers - Sunny can even cut a rug to Sweet Home Alabama. I think we use more terms of endearment than many other cultures: honey, baby, darlin', luv, sweetheart, precious. Honey BooBoo gives us a bad wrap. I don't know if you can find a better tomato in the world than what we get here in July. And please for the love of God, don't put your tomatoes in the fridge.

Memphis is my town. This guy
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.made it his home (though he was from Tupelo).

I love living in the south.
 

FlakeNoir

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Y'all - tonight for dinner - fried (and then slathered with BBQ sauce) chicken thighs AND homemade cole slaw (well, I bought the pre-shredded slaw mix, but the dressing is my own), mash potatoes and gravy, and sweet tea (house wine of the south).

There's lots of southerners on this board - staro's right about the writing, I think. Oxford MS is literary paradise. Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Capote, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Fannie Flagg, Harper Lee - I could elaborate on this forever.

We swelter in the summer - bare legs and open toed shoes from March - October - we think 30 F is insufferable in the winter. We're all great bar dancers - Sunny can even cut a rug to Sweet Home Alabama. I think we use more terms of endearment than many other cultures: honey, baby, darlin', luv, sweetheart, precious. Honey BooBoo gives us a bad wrap. I don't know if you can find a better tomato in the world than what we get here in July. And please for the love of God, don't put your tomatoes in the fridge.

Memphis is my town. This guy
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.made it his home (though he was from Tupelo).

I love living in the south.
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ghost19

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I know. If I were ever to own a Desert Eagle I'd insist on a .50 cal. Not that I'd be able to bring myself to actually shoot it.
The recoil isn't as bad as you might think it would be. It has a kick but I was expecting it to jump out of my hand, so I had a two handed death grip the first time I shot one. I put about four magazines thru the weapon. About $60.00 worth of ammo in about five or ten minutes....lol I did feel it in my wrists the next morning, especially my right wrist (right handed), it was somewhat sore. Fun as hell to shoot. 7 rounds per mag of .325 grain ammo. I took great pleasure in knowing I was shooting a round that used to be used to fire at aircraft...lol not the actual round, the .50 pistol round is shorter but it's still a .50:)