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bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:28 am

RooK wrote:The first time I ever handloaded was under the supervision of my uncle for his S&W 1006 in 10mm. My first handgun that I bought myself was the Witness in 10mm. I've got a soft spot for cartridge and always will.

That same uncle and I took a trip to pick up a Colt Defender (1911 Officer that was tricked out) and when I shot it I knew I had to have a 1911 one day. I can't think of many other guns that left a significant impact on me. Perhaps an M1 Carbine my grandfather owned, as well as his captured Arisaka rifle he got in the Philipines. I own the latter.

Rook, as you know I am an old man as my sreen name denotes, I have a grand daughter about a year or so yoiunger than you. I was just a week short of 9 years old when on that fateful morning I remembered FDR on the radio ( that was a large wooden box with no picture tube that was ful of tubes and stuff and recieved AM radio signals) that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. Growing up in the war years the guns that still stick in my mind so well are" 1 the M1911 pistol, 2 the Thompsom sub machine gun, 3 the M1 carbine ( they built a lot of them at Saginaw Steering Gear here in town and the plant was like 6 block from where i presenty live and 4 the M1 Garand.
Guess that is why I just love shooting the 1911, I am sure there is a lod you can develope to hunt deer efficiently as you will not shoot it all the tome you do not have to worry about harming the gun with just a few occassional shots.

Post by **Bullseye** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:21 pm

That same uncle and I took a trip to pick up a Colt Defender (1911 Officer that was tricked out) and when I shot it I knew I had to have a 1911 one day. I can't think of many other guns that left a significant impact on me. Perhaps an M1 Carbine my grandfather owned, as well as his captured Arisaka rifle he got in the Philipines. I own the latter.

I have a captured Arisaka Type 99. My Father-in-Law gave it to me as a gift when he found out I was a military shooter. He captured it from the Japanese (the home island) when he was there after the war. He was in the Coast Guard and they were part of the occupation force after the surrender. Too bad the mum isn't intact. The government had all the mum's ground off the war trophy rifles out of respect for the emperor, MacArthur didn't want him to lose face so he ordered the alterations. He had a 400 year old samauri sword too but now it rests on the bottom of Tokyo harbor, but that's another story.

R,
Bullseye

RooK · Post by **RooK** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:08 pm

My Arisaka is a Type 38. I also have the bayonet with scabbard and frog. It has the mum intact, but it has some circles stamped around it showing that it was used outside the Imperial Army. My grandfather was a 2nd gunners mate in the Navy during the end of WWII. He saw a bit of everything, including shooting at incoming kamakazis.

BTW, I'm still working with Globat (or at least I'm working, not sure they are.)

RooK · Post by **RooK** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:37 pm

http://www.mkiii.org/

We're in business, time to get to work on the forum.

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:15 pm

RooK wrote:http://www.mkiii.org/

We're in business, time to get to work on the forum.

OK how do I make it work???????????

RooK · Post by **RooK** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:21 pm

You can't yet. It's just now been fixed to where I can work on the forum and try getting it setup. I'll post here again when a working forum is setup and functional.

Post by **Bullseye** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:23 pm

http://www.mkiii.org/

We're in business, time to get to work on the forum.

No, he's just saying the domain is now active and he has to build the forum data base for us to use.

So now everybody knows the new domain name! Spread the word.

R,
Bullseye

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:26 pm

Bullseye wrote:
http://www.mkiii.org/

We're in business, time to get to work on the forum.
No, he's just saying the domain is now active and he has to build the forum data base for us to use.

So now everybody knows the new domain name! Spread the word.

R,
Bullseye

OK, glad tohear it, old Polaks can not lkearn new trick, we can remember the old ones but thera are alot of them we s\can't do any more.

Post by **Bullseye** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:14 am

Rook has a new "under construction" logo up on the new domain site now and it looks pretty good.

R,
Bullseye

RooK · Post by **RooK** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:29 am

OK, we will have the old forum back. I've tested some stuff, even upgraded the old database to 2.1.7 with almost no problems. However, I want to try some stuff before opening it back up. This means it won't be up until sometime tommorrow afternoon.

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:41 am

RooK wrote:OK, we will have the old forum back. I've tested some stuff, even upgraded the old database to 2.1.7 with almost no problems. However, I want to try some stuff before opening it back up. This means it won't be up until sometime tommorrow afternoon.

Good job Rook, Bear and I appreciate the job you have done. Do you still want us to serve as a moderator, Bear checks all my work you know. Can I Paypal you a few bucks to help offset expenses?

Post by **Bullseye** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:55 pm

RooK wrote:OK, we will have the old forum back. I've tested some stuff, even upgraded the old database to 2.1.7 with almost no problems. However, I want to try some stuff before opening it back up. This means it won't be up until sometime tommorrow afternoon.

Very good job! You'll have to tell me about the process. You've peaked my curiousity and since I have some time invested in this project, I'm eager to find out details.

R,
Bullseye

RooK · Post by **RooK** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:30 pm

In the end: IPB 2.1.7 chokes on MySQL 5.0. Needless to say, I was using it and that is why the scripts kept screwing up. An older version seems to work fine. Also, it appears Globat has done some improvements since the last time I attempted, because the upgrade scripts used to timeout.

I also converted the DB essentially twice. My RooK account wouldn't work intially, but it appears to be due to me fudging some stuff in phpmyadmin I shouldn't have.

Post by **Bullseye** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:22 pm

Well, you did good because it's all working now. I see a few pictures that haven't linked up yet but you mentioned something about needing to manually input those.

R,
Bullseye