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Offline dan610324

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women where are you ??
« on: August 24, 2008, 12:55:55 PM »
why is it almost only us men who are interested in the cannon shooting business ??
how many women is it here reading this ??
ok you men are also alloved to reply   ;D
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Re: women where are you ??
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2008, 01:07:03 PM »
There was a gal by the name of "Calamity Jane" on here for awhile but, I haven't seen her posting for quite sometime now.  She even built herself a complete  1/3 scale pdr.
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Re: women where are you ??
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2008, 01:15:03 PM »
Quote from: intoodeep on August 24, 2008, 01:07:03 PM
There was a gal by the name of "Calamity Jane" on here for awhile but, I haven't seen her posting for quite sometime now.  She even built herself a complete  1/3 scale pdr.

She has her own website.  An engineer from Canada, she did it right - planned it out and posted the ideas and building of it step by step.  One of our pioneering leaders.

Do a search on her 'handle' and you'll find her website too.

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« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2008, 01:19:22 PM »
yeah I know , I found her posts a few months ago when I tried to read all old posts .
I even did read her website , she is an amazing woman .
and I loved her language   ;D ;D
we would need more like her here
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« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2008, 01:24:21 PM »
Quote from: dan610324 on August 24, 2008, 01:19:22 PM
yeah I know , I found her posts a few months ago when I tried to read all old posts .
I even did read her website , she is an amazing woman .
and I loved her language   ;D ;D
we would need more like her here

Good women are to be cherrished.  As DD & I have been MOST fortunate in having the wives we have.   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
You'll find pictures of them scattered throughout our posts.
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Re: women where are you ??
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2008, 01:32:41 PM »
      I married a cannon loving woman.  The big question is, "Would you ever cheat on a cannon carrying woman who could regularly outshoot both of her brothers with her cannon, a S&W 686 .357 Magnum?"  Well, I never even thought about it!  I like my hide unventilated, thank you.

Shoot straight and speak the truth.

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Re: women where are you ??
« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2008, 11:33:15 PM »
There are now quite a few female artillerymen in the NSSA.  If you watch my last video on the mortar match you'll see some of them.  The mortar crews in particular include quite a few women now.
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Re: women where are you ??
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2008, 05:29:55 AM »
I don't know how many times I've heard women say that the cannon is just a man thing.  They say they don't get it.  But then they think it's pretty cool when they see it, and they have a huge smile after they see it fired.  On my recent drive across Texas I was approached by several men who wanted to know about the howitzer, but not a single woman. That's a shame because I'd like to be approached by single women. :)
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Re: women where are you ??
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2008, 05:41:04 AM »
When I went to the range the first time to shoot my beercan mortar; my shooting buddy and his wife came along. His wife
 had never wanted to shoot anything of his; but, she was interested in my mortar. After he and I had shot it  a few times
each; she decided that she wanted to try it as well. We told her how to load it and sight it and she got closer to the flag
 than we did. If memory serves me correct; she shot it as much as we did. When we started to shoot regular guns; she
 was still shooting the mortar. Who would have ever thought!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: women where are you ??
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2008, 10:11:05 AM »
I think we should start an active recruitment campaign.

I'll get to work on it this weekend...







.. at Hooters®.

(Hey, it's a tough job but someone has to do it.)

;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2008, 10:33:12 AM »
You da man, Terry.  Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: women where are you ??
« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2008, 03:21:49 PM »
My wife and sister-in-law both serve with my crews. 
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Re: women where are you ??
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2008, 03:39:09 AM »
Quote from: Terry C. on August 25, 2008, 10:11:05 AM
I think we should start an active recruitment campaign.

I'll get to work on it this weekend...







.. at Hooters®.

(Hey, it's a tough job but someone has to do it.)

;D ;D ;D

   This sounds like a great idea Terry and just think of the money we could save. Instead of having to buy the girls any new outfits to wear on these outings to the range all we'd have to do is go buy a Super Sharpie and add a large S in front of the H on all the free promotional T-shirts their given.
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Re: women where are you ??
« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2008, 06:55:49 PM »
Hi everyone ;D
I have 3 granddaughters in our battery and my wife's web site payed for the cannon.
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Re: women where are you ??
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2008, 10:55:30 AM »
Consider yourself luckey my wife doesent care if i do it and if i make her she will, but as a rule all the girls in my area care about is television and drugs. They are all for shooting cannons if drugs are involved.
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Re: women where are you ??
« Reply #15 on: August 28, 2008, 02:38:16 PM »
"nice" neighbours you got .
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