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Peter M. Eick

Question 1 is a Winchester 94 in 30/30 I bought new when I was 16.
Question 2 is a Winchester 9422 I bought new when I was 28.

There have been many since, but those were the first.

Peter M. Eick

I was thinking about this thread today. Couple of points. ANWR has a lot of oil. Go hit google and pull up the USGS assessments on it and look at how many known oil seeps are on the surface. The Jago, Hula Hula, Canning and Colville river if I remember all had known seeps. Those just don't happen be...

Peter M. Eick

Here in the states? Years, 10 is probably close just to get the construction completed. If I were to guess I would say 15 years total. Working for a major oil company I have heard that the big problem is steel. You need a lot of very custom steel pipes and sheets and things like that. And the steel ...

Peter M. Eick

My opinion of the oil resource is there is lots of oil but due to regulations and restrictions we cannot get at it. Now, 200 years in the future with our current lifestyle? That is hard for me to believe. Right now I am just happy to say that it will last my lifetime and I foresee actually being abl...

Peter M. Eick

My boss did the hardhat tour of the Texas about a month ago. He said it was well worth it but the ship is starting to rust again badly. I suggest you see it while you can as he painted a grim picture of its long term. By the way, he and I work a lot offshore. We are not experts at ship design but we...

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The question was raised as to why we have so much land under lease that is not developed. Its pretty simple. The time it takes to get a permit and drill the well. Lets start offshore rank exploration first. Say you get your lease. Now you want to really make sure your prospect is there prior to dril...

Peter M. Eick

I use an RCBS Uniflow. I actually now have 3 of them I think. One for small micrometer, one for large micrometer and one just because 2 is not good enough. They all work great and wear in nicely.

Peter M. Eick

Well, I was torn between 45 colt and 44-40 myself. I finally went 44-40 and don't have any problems. I have handled and reviewed many brands of Henry's now. My local dealer had at least 4 different importer's version on the rack when I select the Cimmaron. In my opinion it was the best of the bunch ...

Peter M. Eick

Grizz, I agree with your government conclusion but we still need exploration. I work for one of those companies listed above in the exploration department so I have a fair amount of direct knowledge. The issue is what is called the decline curve. Once you start producing a field after discovery, the...

Peter M. Eick

Sorry that you did not buy it. I consider my Iron Framed Henry to be one of my better purchases. Not that I have it, I wonder why I waited so long. It does just feel right on the shoulder.

Peter M. Eick

Why do they want us to produce more oil?

They don't.

They want to save the planet by reducing the CO2 output and greenhouse gases. Since they cannot get congress to legislate kyoto, they are achieving it by not letting us drill to produce it.

Seems pretty straight forward to me.

Peter M. Eick

I remember 29 cents a gallon in the late 60's because my dad was complaining about it going to 30 cents. The lowest I can remember recently is 79 cents a gallon back in 98 in Arkansas when we were on vacation. I took a picture of the pump to remember that day. I said to myself either I would lose my...

Peter M. Eick

Not only that, we get to sell natural gas and propane to the fertilizer companies to make fertilizers and pesticides to grow the corn. We get to sell diesel to the farm tractors, harvesters and crop dusters. We get to sell fuel oil to make electricity to pump the water to farm it. We get to sell die...

Peter M. Eick

We in the industry have been saying this my whole career. To comment on Rusty, most of our refineries are running more like 92+% and we try to keep them above 95%. I recently talked to another oil company that had to shut in its field because they could not get a refinery to run it's oil. This is he...

Peter M. Eick

Grizz, Hit the exxonmobil's tax page: http://www.exxonmobil.com/corporate/energy_issues_taxes.aspx Let me quote: "from 2003 to 2007 their tax bill was 64.7 billion" and "their earnings in the us was 46.0 billion". The 2007 net effective worldwide tax rate is 44 percent. Hit googl...

Peter M. Eick

A couple of points (albeit minor ones). Actually, I am unabashed proud of my standing in the oil industry. I have tried to keep my personal history out these discussions, but what the heck since it was implied that I should consider leaving since I am now part of the problem. To me working in explor...

Peter M. Eick

Wrangler John, Your analysis of oil refilling fields is correct. We have several fields that there is absolutely no possible way they cannot be refilling. We have produced more oil from them then the mappable closure could possibly have held. The problem is rates of production to the surface vs. rat...

Peter M. Eick

Your not thinking about the upstream vs. downstream part of the business. Downstream meaning refining is making a bit of money off the crack spreads, but not a lot like a few years ago. The downstreamers have had to absorb a lot of the costs of refining and not pass them on to the consumers "ye...

Peter M. Eick

One comment as an aside. Both of my Highlander's have mpg indicator's and have provent to be reasonably accurate. I found that for highway miles both the hybrid and the conventional both get better gas mileage on high octane stuff. If you run the mileage numbers, I do better if speeds are over 55, a...

Peter M. Eick

I have to ask how? How can we be seriously manipulating the price of oil? Just think about it. If we as the major oil companies wanted to manipulate the price of gas, why would we stop at $4 a gallon? Why not $10? So, I want to manipulate the price of oil. Lets see, I need to get all of the CEO's fr...

Peter M. Eick

If you look at the full cycle fuel requirements, the statement above is about right. E85 and ethanol are basically government subsidies to the farm block. While some would think the oil industry would complain about this, we don't care because it takes more fuel to make fuel. So be it. That is why p...

Peter M. Eick

I always liked the ar10T's, but having shot them at the range, they were far louder and different feeling them my M1A's. 2 mags through one convinced me not to buy it.

Peter M. Eick

First off let me respond to Karl. If you think we are corrupt minded, I would like to know how? We are just in business to provide you the energy to write on the net. I don't see how you think we are corrupt? Have you worked for a major oil company and seen how we operate? Do you know how hard it wo...

Peter M. Eick

Guys, Before you keep pouncing on the oil industry lets consider things a bit. Does gas costs more? Yep Does lead costs more? Yep Does gold costs more? Yep Does powder costs more? Yep Does food costs more? Yep Do cars costs more? Yep Do clothes costs more? Yep Does everything costs more? Yep Could i...

Peter M. Eick

I had another thought for you all that think we in the oil industry are not doing enough and are hold back on you all. I suggest you take some money and buy some stock. Most of ours (the supergiants that is) is less then 100$ per share. So buy some. Quarterly dividends are around 2 to 3$ a share, so...

Peter M. Eick

You guys are about right. On a good quarter we do about 8%. Some of the better companies get close to 9 but for the supergiants, 8% is about par for the course. Just go on yahoo or google and hit the finance pages. With all of the federal regulations we can't really hid anything. The ones that irk m...

Peter M. Eick

I have to shake my head at this thread. Are you guys really that upset at us in the oil industry that you think we really sit around over coffee and try and figure out new ways to screw with you? I don't know about the other supergaints, but at my company we are so dang busy trying to find more oil ...

Peter M. Eick

I was just scanning the news and came across this article.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353999,00.html

This is a pretty accurate over all summation of life in exploration in the US. Neat to see it described without having to write it myself. He did not even go into many details though.

Peter M. Eick

Sorry, business does not work that way. Big oil companies like the one I work for in it for the MONEY! . Unless there is a political reason an area is shut down, the greenies won't let us in, or we can't make money at it, we will do our dangdest to get that oil up out of the ground and sell it. That...

Peter M. Eick

Minor comment on the "there is 200 more years of oil" from a page back. So, working in the oil industry, and working in the exploration side of it, I have to ask the question. If we could get that more oil out of the ground, why would we not do it unless we are held back by the greenies an...

Peter M. Eick

Just get the shots if you are worried about it. I got the vaccine shot treatment 10 years ago and have to get it again next year for international travel. It does not make you immune but your odds of survival are quite high with it. No big deal, but dang its a lot of shots that have to be done "...

Peter M. Eick

2008 Highlander Sport 26 highway, 21 city but I have a terrible short commute.

2007 Highlander Hybrid 23 Highway, 30 city.

The hybrids are great cars. I would of bought an 08 one if I could find one when I had to buy.

Peter M. Eick

The first thing they teach you in basic geology as a geologist is that the seas go up and the seas go down. The do that because the earth warms up and the glaciers/ice cap melts and then it forms up again and the seas go down. Its been going on since time immortal. If you look at an average regional...

Peter M. Eick

It is quarterly reports season for the major's. Look at the profits from downstream or refining. Some companies don't even make money on refining because we cannot pass on the true costs of the operation. If there is no profit in gas refining, don't expect much new capacity to come to market and exp...

Peter M. Eick

They look pretty good mounted up. I have fp's on 3 of my 4 94's and 9422's.

Peter M. Eick

My wife says the last line should be:

"at that point he created global warming!"

Peter M. Eick

I bought the complete history of handloader and rifle on DVD. What is really interesting is reading the earlier issues in the pre-lawyer age when loads were loads! Actually I also find the reference capability great. Just sit down and want to research say the 22 hornet. Fire up the search program an...

Peter M. Eick

Agreed, Midway service reps are great.

Now, the question remains, why can't they package the stuff so UPS does not destroy it on the way?

I guess I could comment that UPS seems to be more and more creative in figuring out how to overcome Midways packaging which is my observation.

Peter M. Eick

Hankster, Just to answer the question, yes CZ in Kansas fixed the gun after a long wait. It just took forever to get done. The problem was the nature of the jam required that I hammer the barrel and slide off the gun in a loaded configuration. Not fun. Also I found out that I was not the only one th...

Peter M. Eick

When I got married, I sold my Browning Hi Power to pay for a wedding ring. I sold my Colt Python for the other ring. The Python was replaced, but the Hi Power could not be because it had a great factory trigger. By far the best trigger I have ever felt in a Hi Power. 25 years later I still regret se...

Peter M. Eick

And here is to the original Registered Magnums!

Can't have one without the other (although mine is from fall of 39).

Peter M. Eick

Get a check?

Fat chance. Nothing for me as with the way the rules are written I don't get anything. So if you have a good job and pay a lot of taxes, you get nothing back.

Peter M. Eick

As a new Cimarron owner, I was quite discouraged about this thread until I started thinking about it. To the best of my memory this is the first time that I had heard of someone having problems with Cimarron. Their reputation is for quality, I doubt they would let this go on for long and maybe someo...

Peter M. Eick

I did the same as a poster above. I bought a 3 or 5 year subscription and really thought this was great. After reading it a few years, I got to the point I could almost predict what they would conclude just by reading what guns they were going to test. It is quite opinionated and very subjective. I ...

Peter M. Eick

Are you sure they were GE SD90's? I could have sworn that the SD series was a GM (EMD) engine series and the GE's were the big AC4300's? I am not much of a GE fan, but I sure loved the SD-45's and SD40's. They were pretty engines made by EMD. Over my computer I have a painting of the EMD (GM) FP-45 ...

Peter M. Eick

Isn't that how the Rockchucker press got started? If I remember the story right, they got started swageing 22 lr cases into bullets for rock chucks back prior to WW2.

This is a vague memory that I read that somewhere.

Peter M. Eick

I will have to make one of those spacers for the henry. Looks like something even I could make.

Thanks Driftwood!

Peter M. Eick

Now that is impressive!

Too bad no where around here does silhouette. Someday when I retire I will have space for a range to have some fun like that. We don't even have gongs around here.

Peter M. Eick

Greasy Dan, Email or PM me. Shooter, Every major oil company has a link on the web site for careers. Go hit all the big boys and poke around. Also your university should have recruiter contacts. They would be a big help. If not email/PM me. To all that responded, It is a good career and I just wante...

Peter M. Eick

That is a true analysis. I travel a lot. Tomorrow is my yearly physical to certify for offshore duty. I have missed many events with the family because I have been on the boat or off some place. But I have been to Russia, China, Sumatra, Java, Libya, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Trinidad, New Zealand,...

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