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Thanks for your service in protecting our way of life living free Koz :usa:!! Do the M9's still have the decock/safety up on the slide or are they down on the frame on that Military model of the 92? Does any of the above shooters have a little better "feel" to it than the rest in your opinion? Many years ago I got to playing around at a gun show slipping a lazer round into chambers and lifting the weapon up without using sites to see which model came to (what I call) true point of aim for me by pointing at a spot on the Arena's wall (one of the Vendors had his sell bench set up to do just that). Ironically, the Beretta 92f was so spot on it was scary. I was shooting a Smith 29 for hunting back then and that model with stock grips pulled low consistently. The 1911's (which is what I shoot A LOT) all went high on me but WOWZY - that Beretta was AMAZING. Unlike you, I shoot for fun and dont pack for my job so to speak like you but someday when one pops up at a steal I am going to grab one!!

I already stuck these pics and the short demo vid in another thread but I think this loader is SOOOO COOL,, I just had to stick it in here too. We have been shooting the 22lr AR15 some and the only downside so far is how difficult it can be for the ol Dupentren invested fingers to reload those 25 rd mags.. Our Mcfadden mag loader came in today,, I am sooo excited I could eat a gallon of ice cream!! Check this out:

Consider me lightened up Dear !!

I think its just a simple matter of personal choice/opinion and tastes.. One mans junk is another mans treasure so to speak. Matter of fact, I have a really good friend who even collects actual old tools and indeed, some of those puppies are worth a fortune and highly collectable!! Personally, I am with you though Zag,, I like my guns cause for what they are = SHOOTERS! Speaking of shootin, check this out, the mag loader for my AR15 22lr conversion came in = pretty cool tool brother (vid shows how it works)!!

Seriously Patch, I was just trying to respond to the statement you made above (seen in red) thinking I was not addressing you properly. The "?" you notice following the "Dear" was a simple question as to what name you preferred when addressed as Steven is not your name. Probably sounds corny in todays day and age but when I write a letter, or an e-mail I usually start it out with "Dear Sirs" or something like that. It was purely an oversight on my part that it was taken as some form of gender reference. Sorry about that Patch.. Puc

and I am speaking to whom?

Dear ? (please fill in the name) = "Stochi" must be wayyyyyy above my pay grade,, please define. Thank you Puc

WAYYY COOL SKY = thanks for the link! Brings back some AWESOME memories.. I had a 1970 Mach 1 fast back

Not me Corporal Newkirk but you will be in my thoughts and prayers for a good outcome on that upcoming surgery. Thinking back in time a ways, I do recall a couple of dirt riding buddies who suffered some rotator cuff injuries and were down for a good while. If memory serves, I think one of them who I had not seen at the track for months finally showed up at a race and I asked where he had been. His reply was something along the line of "because of the lower blood flow in the region of the rotator cuff - the recuporation from such surgery is fairly lengthy". He also added that so was the therapy program taken to get back up to par. He obviously did what he was suppose to do cause it wasnt long and he was clearing 150' jumps with NO PROBLEM again..

Oppsss, my bad on having the wrong name associated with you brother. Quick question, did you know that your screen name comes up as "Steven" and, while on the subject, may I ask what you prefer to be called - just in case we do bump into each other and I want to get your attention ? Yep, I am definitely aware of high revving V-Twins. Matter of fact, I had the honor of riding and working on an Aprilla V-Twin dirtbike that was amazing in its ability to aquire some awesome hp wayyy up there in some high R's. A simple check on bore/stroke for figuring out piston speed associated with those like the Aprilla that do may be helpful in understand how/why they are able to do successfully aquire those R's though. I also know of several longer stroked large V-Twins that spin up pretty far too BUT they are very expensive machines built around big money parts that can handle the pressures associated with those R's. Certainly not your typical run of the mill engines and wayyyyyyyy out of my league both financially and mechanical abilities. Concerning the fuel gathering in the intake track thoughts. Back in the 80's Honda played around with dual carb arrangements on some of their single cylinder scoots. The design was such as using a low speed carb and high speed secondary (set up operated on similar principles behind a 4 barrel carb on a muscle car = they just used separate carbs in place of secondary "barrels") and they found that they had problems with fuel gathering in the intake track of the secondary carb and then, when the secondary was opened a nasty "bog" would take place. Once the fuel had a chance to clear out after the secondary was opened for a second - the bog cleared BUT - that nasty bog cause many not so good issues on hill sides if a rider wasn't aware to what was about to happen. Those engineers at Honda did something pretty cool to eliminate the situation. They borrowed some design work from the 2 stroke world of the day, they introduced a small reed valve into the intake track of the secondary that would only open with pressure from the secondary, thusly closing that track until needed. Worked fairly well too.. IMHO, the only issue with all of that was that keeping those things operating up to par was a NIGHT MARE. Just getting the carbs out for cleaning was a job and half and, if ya had to replace the reed valve, you had to take the head apart as that is where the reed was located..

Where's the gas flowing from Snipe? Carb over flows that empty right in front of the rear wheel? If so, maybe she's got a stuck float from being on her side.. Easy fix if so.

All other bases covered, I think I would look at this while paying xtra attention to Pt 5:

Yeppers and you did a FANTASTIC job of protecting you and your son IMHO.. I only wrote that as an after thought of a reminder to someone not quite as quick to respond and that may end up eating that plastic and aluminum.. Man that WAS close brother!!

WOWZY WOW WOW WOW,, DEFINITELY NOT GOOD:thumbdown: and clearly 100% Mr. I Don't Have To Stop At Stop Signs And Look Both Ways Before I Proceed's fault - there should be a 0% chance of him denying that. Did he stop and get his deserved citation Snipe or was this one of those "leaving the scene of an accident" deals? Beyond that, and DEFINITELY in no way meaning to sound critical here or blaming you in ANY WAY ,, just an after thought.. Thru the years of biking and doing a little Semi Driving I learned to become a hardcore, anal "hub cap watcher". By that I mean that when I am approaching an intersection where I have the right of way and another vehicle is approaching a stop sign and/or sitting at a stop sign waiting to pull out and take me out - I watch their front wheel hub cap for movement. If that hub cap dont stop and stay put, I do. May sound nuts but there have been many times over the years in dealing with "creepers" (those that like to creep forward instead of staying stationary) that I have actually pulled over and motioned them thru as, IMHO, they had somewhere very important that they needed to get to. Don't mean to lecture you and I KNOW that what happened there could and does happen to EVERYONE. Just thought I would share a perspective that may or may not save someones life.. Biking definitely has it's dangerous side and real life video's like you have posted here show proof positive why its getting more and more dangerous all the time. Glad you and your Son are ok brother!! Puc

Following up in answering the questions, in my case with the blown 88inch 01 HD, piston speed is/was the limiting factor in deciding to go with the CV carb (I still have other mechanical carbs I could easily gone with). One of the reasons for this being that if the engine by mechanical design cannot run reliably and effectively above 5250 without coming unglued then there is no sense in chasing HP by relying on valve overlap that requires a fuel/air flow scavenging which requires velocity stacks and drag pipes. Mechanical (non CV) carbs (sticking with the posts "carb" theme and getting away from the EFI discussion) are far superior in my experience if chasing HP up into the +5250 range in both performance and yield, albeit they tend to be more finicky in maintaining tune. CV's work AWESOME though if boosting for torque (some folks dont know this but boosting for torque is actually a very common thing = think trucking industry and diesels) because they really do not rely on scavanging which wreaks havoc on vacuum pressures that the the CV's "read" to do their thing. On a side note here, with the onslaught of big V-Twin engines in motorcycles, I have noticed a continual tendency for the manufacturers to use propaganda in the sales of such behemouths that state things like = with all the torque these bikes have - the need to SHIFT GEARS is greatly reduced. I know I am pretty much still alone in this debate but I still take issue with that thought. It is actually the other way around. If your RPM range is increasable (remember = piston speed is the limiting factor in spinning a Big Twin above a few grand and RPM is RPM) you can use that increase to subsidize the need for multiple gears. I have another set of back yard videos that I did where I tried (and failed = caused a LOT of contraversy that ended up being partially responsible for some threatening phone messages = not fun) demonstrate this but in writing, the best way for me to describe what I am trying to convey is advising you look/listen to a Semi Tractor (high torque, low low low rpm range) going thru the gears and then think about a puny little 1000cc R1 Yamaha with its ability to easily top 100mph in its first gear = all because of its ability to reliably spin up well above that 5250. So for the HD I sprung for 5 pounds of gear driven boost (LOOKED GREAT IMHO, others too cause SOLD fast) to boost the torque and, YES,, the HP too BUT torque was the target. I chose the CV because of its consistency to right itself even with the boost. I wasn't dealing with turbo lag as Gear driven superchargers are much more lenier in their delivery so that enhanced the air flow stabilities and vacuum variances which also inspired my pea brain to stick with the CV. In the end, my butt dyno (that, because of a few years of playing with this stuff - is not usually wayyy far off) told me that I had probably gained 10 to 20 ft pds and 15 HP in the end. This may not sound like much to a lot of folks BUT, considering that 88 inch was probably in the 60 HP and 70 ft pd range when new and stock,, if my butt numbers were even close I ended up with a very rideable 75ish hp/90 ft pds Big Twin. Which, given the bikes weight that the torque had to move/lift, was PLENTY and a very easy, non lumpy, nice attitude scoot that maintained its "potato, potato" friendly voice..

100000000% agreed Jeff!!! Not to long ago HD was producing, and the general public could purchase right over the counter, a tuner called a "Screaming Eagle Race Tuner". This tuner allowed for complete access to all parameters and was tunable down to 200 rpm increments. The thing was AMAZING, the control it gave the builder/tuner was incredable. I did a couple builds with them and WOW was that fun and VERY rewarding performance eliminating all flat spots commonly associated with Carb builds. Problem was, HD got sued for selling them due to the Guvment green standards and they are no longer available. My understanding is (health has taken me out of it too and its been a while) the "new" wave is the fully automatic tuner that makes its own adjustments - crazy!!! That said though, and this probably sounds just as crazy,, Steven - I have found that the CV Carb has some similar qualities about it in that - due to its nature of functioning off vacuum, it too makes certain corrections for the user,,, sort of a cheap, back yard version of a full blown EFI set up with a self correcting tuner..

By the way,, I am strickly a wanna be back yard mechanic with much lacking therein and WOWZY, my painting skills are wayyyy behind even that. While I did take an airbrushing class out in Sturgis one year, what I learned was that that art form and even spraying on a base coat is best left to people who know what they are doing. That said, Tip had no input into the color of that 2001 HD. The bikes tin actually came to me in the color you see. A good example of my painting abilities is shown on the 59 Iron Head Chop I built. I did mod the frame on it to hang the 10 over Grass Hopper fairly nicely IMHO BUT, look closely at the tank and think = RATTLE CAN AMATURE!!!!!!

Prayers Up brother!! Hope you heal quickly and fully! 100% in agreement with you,,, this confounded Wisconsin White Wash nonsense is starting to get old!!!!

YEEEEEOUCH!! Prayers Up for you and your son Snipe!! Sorry to hear about this BUT thankfully you are both OK!!

,, WOWZY WOW WOW WOW,,, that right there is a TON of brain storming activity and most of the storm is wayyyyyy beyond my capabilities (can't wait to hear from the real, engineering lop eared scientific brained varmints on this one) BUT,, seems how "debate" and "opinions" were openly asked for and both mentioned very close to my name,, thought I may jump in and a little.. Couple of things to start off this adventure with though.. I never really considered air to be fluid. The main reason for that is that air is compressable and fluid is not. Now if we were talking Electricity, then I would have to agree. Matter of fact, I have successfully (still alive and didnt start to many electrical fires) gotten thru many electrical nightmares because of I can see where the way my mind see's some fairly close comparisons in their charactoristics. I cant say that my pea brain can do that with air though. The compressability of the stuff (this includes atomized gases and such too) is a huge limiting factor in that . My target for the Blown HD was actually centered on Torque more than HP. That being due to the fact that I was dealing with a Big Twin (88 inch) which, by its very design charachterisics, was extremely limited in its ability to reliably spin to far above the absolute torque/hp rpm line (5250 R's,, did you know that Torque is always greater than HP until the R's get above 5250 rpm and then they invert? Thats right.. And so being, if the engine is not capable of spinning above that line due to design limitations = you HAVE to build for torque). You mentioned not being to concerned with pistons.. Well, in my mind,, I am always concerned with pistons when doing this stuff.. Most of that concern is wrapped up in Piston Speed.. Hold on Steven,, I just thought of something.. Here,, take a peek at this video and see what you think... It may help you in developing some predicitions of where I am going with all the opinion sharing that YOU invited:

You lop eared old school, , trouble makin, dont know how to do a google search varmints are wayyyyyy to hard on a bother.. Being the kind, tender hearted person I am,, being Valentines Day, I took the time to do a little research and found out what @gmarshall was referring to,, easy peasy.. I always said these MK1's could FLY:178:

You know I think you are spot on with this Jack,, I also recall he had some really cool black leather pouches on his patrol belt that contained a stack of ammo with those puppies all linked up like you suggest. He also carried a sawed off shotgun in his patrol car that he kept at home, it was a pump action 12 that when you racked it, the slide came out of the rear of the receiver and if you didnt have your wrist in the right location and you racked it, that slide would peel the hide off your hand above your right thumb like an easy peel Tangilo Orange = this I learned from experience. He also carried a true blue leather "thumber" that was lead filled. As I recall, he called it his "zapper", no idea if that was what that relatively short (about 8 inches in length if memory serves) thing was called but with the leather covered lead snapping end easily "flippable" for snap action it was a fun thing for a growing boy to play with when his LEO father was sawing logs:680: from working nights..

This stuff may do it BUT you gotta be VERY careful if you use it in the application we are talking about cause it is REALLY hard on rubber parts. Inject it, soak for an hour max, pull it out with a syringe, refill the carb to over flow the mains with regular spray carb cleaner, agitate with the syringe and remove. Do with regular carb cleaner till it flows clean back in the syringe, rinse with gasoline in the same manner. Do one carb at a time cause this stuff is wayyy powerful. Thing is, if you do this and fail in the process, you can plan on replacing all internal diaphrams and rubber parts BUT, IMHO,, that is part of a carb rebuild and if I am going to pull one completely down I like to replace everything anyway sooooo.. Anyway, here is the stuff I have worked with and been successful with numerous times, even on idle jets: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Chem-Dip-Carburetor-and-Part-Cleaner-0-75-Gallon-Valves-Transmission-Carb-NEW/142757596338?epid=2255923355&hash=item213d040cb2:g:KU4AAOSwyKta0hFV:rk:19:pf:0

OUTSTANDING ROLLER!! Sounds like a blast! So,, to clean those tasty squirrels down younder, did you do the ol make a slice in the skin on the back - tuck a couple fingers under the hide and pull in opposite directions to skin em like we Squirrelers up here in the north or were our squirrels tougher skinned cause of the cold? Brother some of big old Fox squirrels could have one tough hide!! Good eating once ya got em skinned though..

Like this @Sylvester? My dad was a Cop when I was just a little lop eared varmint, mid 50's up into the 60's and he carried a Smith 38 Revolver. I still have his Smith n Wesson cuff's and his holster but the shooter was department issued and I am sure it got turned back in,, would have LOVED to have it though. He used to take me shooting "wad cutters" (a Dad teaching his youngen to shoot - WOW times were different) - precious memories. I also remember him having to use these little half moon clips that went around the ejector lip of the ammo. Not really sure now what that was all about - any clue? Anyway,, is this what you are refering to Sly? : https://www.gunbroker.com/item/797562978 Not a bike for sale, not my auction and nothing to do with me soooooo :rasberry: MarCarl the mighty moderator!!