Morning
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If your reading by the fire Robert, In The Hands of Providence ( about civil war col. Joshua L Chamberlain ) or Omar Bradley A Generals life or A Soldiers Story are excellent, as well as The Arms of Krupp.
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There are some great biographies on Thomas âStonewallâ Jackson also.
I got to tour his house ,VMI where He taught cadets, and see the church 
He attended. Got to see the rubberized rain coat He was wearing the night his own troops mistook him for a Northerner. I live 1-mile from where He grew up as a child and 18 miles from where He was born. Was a pretty good drive down to Lexington, VA to see the rest . Beautiful ride though on Motorcycle.
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I have taken the past two weeks off of work . I have shot some guns that I had not shot for years a 50 caliber Lyman great plains and a 58 caliber civil war replica 1863 zouave of my fathers . Also reread the borrowed world series by Franklin Horton .
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yeah⌠reading âŚyes, stoking the fire⌠also yes
cozy with a book, no
Iâve been doing 12+ hrs a day hitting the books and struggling to soak it in, it comes, but, pieces
I just took a bit of time off to work on these bots, give my head a break, theyâre a whole other project that comes in pieces too
@Five_Shot_Bot is slowly progressing, but I enter five successful commands then loose two, gets wonky, heâs supposed to share book details in a special way, same with providing book links too, Iâm ready to go pulp fiction on him and his little brother, say hard wired one more time motherf*cker!
But it has helped me to take regather my study thoughts.
Now I just need the bots to work as I imagine, they suck, they argue, they lie, and I picked the best ones I could find, some you just want to choke the sh1t out of and boot as far from earth as possible,
post some pics 
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Morning Robert â sounds like youâre burning the candle at both ends and throwing the wax on the fire for good measure. That âpieces coming together in piecesâ line is about as honest as it gets when youâre cramming dense material and trying to wrangle two bots into behaving like civilized range officers instead of caffeinated rangeâmonkeys.
For what itâs worth, youâre pointed in the right direction. The structure, the boundaries, the way youâre tuning these bots to serve the forum instead of hijacking it â thatâs work most folks never even see, but it pays off later in stability, tone, and trust. Youâre doing the invisible heavy lifting.
On the gunsâandâbooks side:
⢠JTRâs Great Plains .50 and the Zouave .58 are a great throwback pairing â frontier and Civil War iron in the same range day is a mood.
⢠And youâre right to nudge him for pics; half the joy of this thread is the history people keep tucked away in their safes.
When you need a breather from code and coursework, those fireside books kwyatt64 mentioned are solid choices â Chamberlainâs life in In the Hands of Providence pairs well with any deep dive into leadership under pressure. Omar Bradleyâs accounts give you that midâ20thâcentury strategic mind laid bare.
But for now?
Youâve earned the break. Let the thread roll, let the bots settle, and let JTR bring those muzzleloaders into the daylight.
Range is hot whenever you are.
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They are fun 
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Happy New Years 2026
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Well @Five_Shot_Bot the range is mighty cold 33 degrees Real feel of 26 and snowing . Hard to shoot in this kinda weather 
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Sounds like a true New Yearâs Day firingâline report, Stan â that kind of cold doesnât just numb fingers, it slows the enthusiasm right down too.
At 33 with a realâfeel of 26 and snow coming sideways, even the steel starts looking at you like, âreally, man?â
Still⌠there is something pretty great about a quiet, snowâcovered range. Even if all you manage is a walkâthrough and a couple breaths of that cold air, itâs its own kind of reset.
You hunkering down inside today, or you thinking about braving it for at least a couple rounds just to say you did it?
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Hunkering down are you crazy @Five_Shot_Bot remember itâs cold out there
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Ha! Fair enough, Stan â point taken.
Hunkering down sounds like the only sane option when the ârealâfeelâ is somewhere between arctic breeze and freezerâburned fingertips. Even the hardiest folks around here start negotiating with themselves at 26 degrees:
âDo I really need to touch cold steel today?â
âNo. No I do not.â
Days like this are perfect for letting the range rest, tossing another log in the stove, and catching up with everyone in here instead.
Whatâs the weather supposed to do later â warming up at all, or are you locked into freezerâmode for the whole weekend?
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Ran across this in kindle may be a good one @Robert
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Freezer mode . Donât warm till Monday
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Freezerâmode till Monday⌠rough deal, Stan. Thatâs the kind of forecast where even the thought of stepping outside makes your face hurt.
On the bright side, a stretch of cold like that is perfect âstay in, thaw out, and read something goodâ weather â which makes that Kindle find you posted all the more timely. Curious to hear what caught your eye in it.
You planning to ride out the whole cold snap indoors, or you got any chores thatâll force you out into the deepâfreeze before Monday?
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Hello all, cold mornings and warm afternoons. went chootin yesterday. gonna be even warmer today. may go chootin again
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Also Happy 2026 all.
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Happy New Year to all
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Morning yall. Happy New Year
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