Thanksgiving

[Vikram]

Let us wish all our American members a happy Thanksgiving Day!



Best-
Vikram

[brihacharan]

Here's wishing "Happy Thanksgiving Day" to all my brothers & their families in the USA

Briha

[StampMaster]

Thanks giving is one of the most awaited holiday. May you (we) all spend a great time with family and friends.

Cheers

[ScoutSniper]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Hope you have a wonderul and relaxing day!

[timmy]

Thank you, gentlemen! Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday to me, because there is so much for me to be thankful for. President Lincoln set aside a day to give thanks in the dark days of the Civil War. The day has some political, some patriotic, and some religious elements in it, without being any of those things. It's one day that the marketing money-grabbers have not been able to co-opt.

I'm thankful to be here with you all!

[Baljit]

Wishing Happy Thanksgiving to all of our friends in US.I hope all of them going to enjoy this wonderful day with there loved ones.


Enjoy.
Baljit

[xl_target]

Thanks all for the good wishes.
My family and I have a lot to be thankful for.
Yesterday, we drove up to Northern MN, through part of a thanksgiving snowstorm but no worries.
Right now, pleasantly full, I'm recovering from a Turkey inspired nap and I get to sleep in for three more days.

[xl_target]

My daughter drove up on her own as she had to work on Thanksgiving Day.
Before she left to go back this evening, her Grandpa pulled out something for her to take along with her.






It is a Ruger Standard Pistol. It is pretty close to mint and doesn't show much use at all.
Since Alexander Sturm had died in 1951, the Ruger Phoenix emblem was rendered in black for many years.
She was tickled pink to have a pistol that is over twice as old as her, especially since it is Grandpa's pistol.

[ckkalyan]

Thank you, gentlemen! Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday to me, because there is so much for me to be thankful for. President Lincoln set aside a day to give thanks in the dark days of the Civil War. The day has some political, some patriotic, and some religious elements in it, without being any of those things. It's one day that the marketing money-grabbers have not been able to co-opt.

I'm thankful to be here with you all!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Huge opportunity to express one's - Attitude of Gratitude!

Somehow the Canadian Thanksgiving takes place before the American Thanksgiving?! Still haven't figured out why; working on the research....

timmy - 'Marketing Money Grabbers' - well, they started the tradition of Black Friday in the US (first Fri after Thanksgiving); to top it off - Canadian retailers came up with, 'hey you don't have to go across the border - get the same great deals right here, in your back yard' so, it is Black Friday in Canada too!

xl_target - Grand-dad's RUGER for Dani - Drool! Very Nice! I would love to hold it in my hands one day (I am a huge WWII Luger fan) somehow! Enjoy and have fun!

[timmy]

timmy - 'Marketing Money Grabbers' - well, they started the tradition of Black Friday in the US (first Fri after Thanksgiving)

Yes, you are correct, and it is actually worse than this. When we first moved to Texas in the late 90s, the stores would open on Black Friday at 6am and people would stand in huge lines, waiting to be the first in the stores to grab up the deals.

As time went by, it became traditional for the stores to open at 0:01am on Friday. People would stay up and go to the stores before going to bed. It was common for people to figure out how to buy things like flat screen TVs at the cut rate prices offered by stores like Walmart, only to turn around and sell them on Ebay later on for a profit.

Now, some stores are already opening at 6pm on Thanksgiving. The idea is for the early opener to pick the customers' pockets before another store has the chance. It is only a matter of time before stores are open all day Thanksgiving, just like any other day, and the whole day of a holiday is completely gone -- gone for the shoppers, because they are such losers that they would rather be out shopping than spending time with family (possessions are already much more important than people in many circles), but also gone for the poor slobs that have to wait on these losers (I have had to do it, BTW), because the people who work in retail are subject to the demands of the almighty dollar, and that alone.

My prediction is that, within the next 10 years, Christmas will also no longer be a day when the demands of losers force retail serfs to work. I think that, in the USA, the only sacred day will be Superbowl Sunday, when most people currently do stay home (although the retail serfs still have to work).

But one of the many things I am thankful for is having a job last year and this year where I didn't have to do this. Instead, we were able to spend Thanksgiving with my teenaged granddaughter from Denver, and a few days before Thanksgiving, we took her up to Edison and shopping through the jewelry and sari shops on Oak Tree Road. She had never seen anything like this, and her eyes were certainly wide open. Then, we went to see Deepika Padukone in Ram Leela. She liked the show. It was so much fun talking to a group of ladies after the movie at the theater door, and watching their surprise when they found we liked Bollywood, and that my young granddaughter knew about SRK and Aamir Khan, Kajol and Aishwarya -- and Madhuri, my favorite. Then we went to Mirchi's for some Biryani. The next day, we went to NYC and took her to "The Lion King." On Thanksgiving, we took her to the shore. She had never seen the ocean. Then, the three of us gave thanks and had our meal.

Despite the commercialism and the corrosive effects of mammon on society, we still have so much to be thankful for!

PS: Yes, we also showed her a Rajinikanth movie at home -- we watched "Chandramukhi," my favorite. She liked it!

[TC]

XL,

That's MY Ruger

Your daughter is indeed very lucky. It's a wonderful pistol and built to last several generations. I am sure this piece will be posted again on this forum, or some other, after 50 years after another Thanksgiving

The only way to conceal carry the 6.7 inch barrel beast of a 22 is the Uncle Mike's No 2 vertical shoulder rig. Nothing else worked for comfort, at least for me. Hogue still makes rubber mono grips with finger grooves but the stock panels are the best, I felt.

And, it shoots any ammo with breeze. Hyper velocity rounds however hit a little high at 25 yards as expected. I found best accuracy with Eley and CCI standard velocity ammo.

Wishing the young lady a wonderful time at the range and outdoors.

TC

PS : Try getting the fully click adjustable back sights I have... They really help. Bo Mar used to make them. Also, B Square had a rather strange mono mount for putting up a scope. But if memory doesn't fail me the mono mount would fit only the 5.5 inch bull barrel. Thanks for the post.

[xl_target]

TC,
It looks like this one was made in 1962 (from Ruger's website).
You are correct, like all Rugers, it is well made.

[TwoRivers]

Somehow the Canadian Thanksgiving takes place before the American Thanksgiving?! Still haven't figured out why; working on the research....

Well, your fall comes earlier, so your harvest must be done earlier. So you'll be ready for Thanksgiving before the US.

[TwoRivers]

Nice one, XL. That was my first .22 pistol as well, also bought 1962. Friend talked me out of it, and I never replaced it with another Ruger like it. Hey, that's what I have been meaning to do.

[brihacharan]

Hi XL,
Your daughter is indeed very lucky to have a loving / doting Grandpa .
It's a wonderful gift and one built to last several generations & to be passed on as an heirloom....
Briha