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- Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What’s under your bed?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5186
Re: What’s under your bed?
When did they change the barrel length law? I owned this J.C. Higgins 12ga since the mid 1950`s. My house was broken into about 2003 in southern California. It was stolen among many others. Only it showed up a year or so later. Deputy wasn't going to give me the gun back as it was sawed. I walked ov...
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Smoke them while you have them.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3999
Re: Smoke them while you have them.
We live at Cedar City Utah. The most of our rides have been about eighty mile radius of here multiple times. Either high mountains or high beautiful desert, We live near Cedar Breaks, Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks. Here was my other love. Sold it a couple years ago. https://i.postimg.cc/KvBxW...
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 4:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Smoke them while you have them.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3999
Smoke them while you have them.
Smoke em while you have em. Boys I am out of the hospital on hospice. I had a ton of guns and related stuff. Just gave most away to relatives. Most of the guns hadn't seen daylight in years. My thing was always motorcycles, guns, airplanes and trail riding on our Polaris XP 900. I did a a lot but no...
- Thu Nov 05, 2020 6:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: First Time Concealed Carry...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 999
Re: First Time Concealed Carry...
Almost 50 years ago I was in a Sevier motorcycle accident. I was in and out the hospital recovering. I was doing business at billing and had a ton of paper work which I stuffed in my shirt front under the shirt. I had a full leg cast on and many bandages, on crutches. Behind me I heard a old woman t...
- Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ran across this picture ... is this anyone on the Forum?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1745
Re: Ran across this picture ... is this anyone on the Forum?
Love that picture! Right now I am in similar shape. Laid up with falls from a broken hip, pushing eighty and my wife is taking good care of me and the house while I am camped in my recliner around the clock remembering better days. I relate.
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:43 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "The Years Have Been Good to Me..."
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3007
Re: "The Years Have Been Good to Me..."
I and probably most have gone through some execrating painful and dangerous events that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Most I got myself into and the Lord got me out of. I wonder had I been able to avoid some what shape I would be in today. At the moment I am in a convulsant hospital for the pas...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: “...if only one gun...” [eyeball roll]
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3142
Re: “...if only one gun...” [eyeball roll]
The way I was raised most households had a pump twelve, a repeater .22, a 30/30 or cutdown bring back Mauser sporter. In the bedroom drawer a .22 handgun and a 38 special or a bring back luger.
- Fri Oct 16, 2020 2:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: hey Californians !
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2868
Re: hey Californians !
My experiences in California are about the opposite of standard popular opinion on all of these gun sites. I did my main 35 year career in 1965 and retired to Utah in 2005. Perhaps in my case it`s a matter of water seeking it`s own level. Most all I associated with were republican, ex leo and milita...
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 2:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Winchester 94 30-30
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1930
Re: Winchester 94 30-30
Was I reading this wrong? I assumed he first tried lowering the hammer like Grizz described. Was he trying to drop the hammer by squeezing the lever extra hard after the lever was already closed?
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 1:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Done
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1807
Re: Capitalism Explained
I was in a store and a kid of about 13 asked me for some change to buy something as casually as if I was his daddy or some guy would ask for a match or to borrow a pencil to write something. He didn't look poor and was with a group of other kids, all looked average. I cut him off and a older man ove...
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 12:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Winchester 94 30-30
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1930
Re: Winchester 94 30-30
No, it isn't normal. I have a 94 I bought new in 1956 plus a model 64 like new also made in the early 1950`s. I handled a couple post 1964`s and haven't seen the problem. I suspect it needs looking at if you cant live with it. Evidently it isn't locking up tight enough to compress that whatchamacall...
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 12:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: SR-71
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8189
Re: SR-71
I always thought I would die of old age and still be riding one. Then I married a large woman and we couldn't ride one comfortably together. Also I fell and broke a hip and re cracked the new one and am in bad shape. Motors have got so expensive I wouldnt or wont pay for a nice one. My first Harley ...
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 11:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Done
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1807
Re: Capitalism Explained
Lately I have been mentally fighting myself with the question of giving money to panhandlers. Through the years I have (and still do) ignore them. I have helped out just a very few through many years. This morning I noticed one regular that I have seen numerous times around town holding a sign "...
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: SR-71
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8189
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 2:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: SR-71
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8189
Re: SR-71
I just googled Morganfield. Here he is.
http://www.epnaao.com/BIOS_files/REGULA ... 20copy.pdf
He must not be as old as I first said.
http://www.epnaao.com/BIOS_files/REGULA ... 20copy.pdf
He must not be as old as I first said.
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 1:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: SR-71
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8189
Re: SR-71
I just googled Morganfield. Here he is.
http://www.epnaao.com/BIOS_files/REGULA ... 20copy.pdf
http://www.epnaao.com/BIOS_files/REGULA ... 20copy.pdf
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 1:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: SR-71
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8189
Re: SR-71
I dont know. His first name is Tom. I am going on eighty, never thought about it but suspect when I knew him he was five or eight years older than me. I got to rethinking about what I wrote him cracking up a F 117 but now I am not positive if it was him or another pilot we had. Getting my wires cros...
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 12:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: SR-71
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8189
Re: SR-71
Far as I knew the SR 71 never carried weapons. Strictly made to observe (spy). Same with the U-2. The F-117 and F-35 were a different proposition. I also was there and seen the F-35`s maiden flight. Dave Fergenson flew it and then Morganfield flew it on it`s second flight out of Edwards. Both were L...
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 12:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: SR-71
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8189
Re: SR-71
Plant 42 (Palmdale) sure has changed since I retired in 2,000. I just googled Earth`ed it. You can see the two SR 71`s, the U-2 and F-117 on display by the FAA site as Old Savage says, but I dont see another plane on the field at the other sites. There were all kinds of them when I worked there. Loo...
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 11:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: SR-71
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8189
Re: SR-71
I worked as a security guard around them from 1965 to 2,000. What got me was we were sworn to keep our mouths shut to even our wives. Yet McNamara gave interviews on them, there were write ups in aviation magazines and we were sworn to secrecy about even knowing they existed forever. I was a private...
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Parts for an 1895 Winchester
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3095
Re: Parts for an 1895 Winchester
Just for conversation sake I also have a 95 SRC in .30 army (30/40) . When I bought it the rear site was missing. I do have the hand-guard but it is cracked. A old friend of mine had a Buffington sight that we put on. Didn't have to drill. My problem is the handguard wont fit over the Buffington sig...
- Wed Sep 02, 2020 12:39 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BANDITS!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2219
Re: BANDITS!
1960 I worked in Yosemite and lived in a tent cabin at Wawona. I had a bunch of them that camped under the raised wood floor. Cute little buggers. Gad! Thats 60 years ago! I am getting old. When I was a kid a woman that ran a bar would occasionally have a "Coon feed". People started missin...
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My $32.50 shotgun.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2984
Re: My $32.50 shotgun.
My first shotgun was a 20 gauge Iver Johnson my dad gave me when I was twelve. I shot a few deer plus rabbits and pheasants with it. Now I have some expensive shotguns and no longer hunt. I recall being in Mexico and a old Mexican-Apache proudly showed me a old single barrel shotgun. It was really w...
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "It's Only Painful To Others..."
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2781
Re: "It's Only Painful To Others..."
There just was a talk about the high cost of cremations and funerals on another site. Most were tough talking and bragging how their ashs could be flushed down the toilet etc. I wrote this: [Something I cant quite grasp. This nation go`s to extreme cost of money and research to find the remains of s...
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 11:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Admitting myself to be an old fool
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2049
Re: Admitting myself to be an old fool
I had just retired. About the same time my dad started to get Alzheimer`s. It was a trying time as he was a widower and lived in Wisconsin, I in California. It was a bad couple of years of me flying back and forth and living with him for six months as at first he was stubborn to go to assisted livin...
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 10:40 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Montana or Wyoming? added pics
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3932
Re: Montana or Wyoming?
Ancient history but in 1961 I worked for the NPS in the Grand Tetons not far out of Jackson. It was bad then and has got even worse for prices and tourists the times I have went through since. To live there year round in the winters when you get old would give me pause. I am going on eighty and your...
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 11:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: priceing my 1937 Win 70 22 K hornet
- Replies: 1
- Views: 642
priceing my 1937 Win 70 22 K hornet
About 45 years ago I bought this model 70. Serial # 8xxx. Thought it was a hornet, shot it and found it was a K hornet. Bought K hornet dyes, loaded it, shot it very little but had good results. Put it away and all but forgot about it. Rifle has been drilled and tapped for a scope and believe the st...
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 10:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Has there ever been a lever action
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3563
Re: Has there ever been a lever action
Could the old Savage 22 Hi power be altered?
- Thu Aug 13, 2020 10:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Browning 1892 barrel specs in 357
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2968
Re: Browning 1892 barrel specs in 357
I have one of each. A Browning 92 in .44 mag That I bought in the 1970s when they first came out, and a Rossi in 357 about yen years ago. I have shot each relatively little, BUT: First the browning loading gate broke in two on me. They arent exactly like the old winchester 92. The winchester`s had a...
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: RETIRED! DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT WAS SUNDAY
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2494
Re: RETIRED! DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT WAS SUNDAY
The trouble with retirement is you never get a day off.
- Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New look for gun forums
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1482
Re: New look for gun forums
The new Colt site bugs me. I cant find my way around it and am close to giving up on it. I think I was born 100 years too soon.
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: JEFF QUINN
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3524
Re: JEFF QUINN
So sorry to hear it. Just read it on the ruger site so checked over here.
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 5:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: anyone use reduced 357 loads?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3611
Re: anyone use reduced 357 loads?
Thanks. I have the same rifle, the bullets and the makings. Havent reloaded in a coup;e years. Think I will try your recipe. I drive past Berry`s in St. George ever once in awhile. Wonder if the plant has a sales room?
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 2:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Couple unusual musical instruments.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2747
Re: Couple unusual musical instruments.
Listened to it. Heck, I do that all the time. Specially after eating kraut, beans, onions and refreshments.
- Sat Jul 11, 2020 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Drill & Tap for Williams FP-94/36 - not that hard or costly
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11072
Re: Drill & Tap for Williams FP-94/36 - not that hard or costly
I bought this 94 new about 1957 when I was 16. I put the Williams foolproof on it. The holes were there and I didn't have to drill. I did have the pad put on for LOP. I have other rifles and hadn't shot this one in many years. Finally a few years ago I took it to the range to check it and it still w...
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 6:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Question / POLL
- Replies: 115
- Views: 21654
Re: Question / POLL
About a 37 ford.
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 5:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Question / POLL
- Replies: 115
- Views: 21654
Re: Question / POLL
79. So far looks like I am in third place? Probably started shooting at 7 years old. My dad was a great teacher. He worked me at it.
https://i.postimg.cc/6QDtdftr/Dad-in-1946.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/6QDtdftr/Dad-in-1946.jpg
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 6:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Im in love.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4672
Re: Im in love.
I left Jackson 7 am. June 6, 1968. Hit snow over the pass out of Jackson but later that night around Mesquite was riding in my T shirt. Got to Salt Lake and needed a rear tire. Bought a recap at the Harley dealer and thought I would save money and put it on myself. Thats the only time I ever heard o...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Im in love.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4672
Re: Im in love.
I started out with a 1946 whizzer just like this one.https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/whizzer/schwinn-whizzer/2323321.html I think I paid $45 for it in 1953 used when I was twelve. From that a used 1947 CZ and in later years a bunch of Brit bikes, a goose and a few rice rockets, KLR and t...
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Im in love.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4672
Re: Im in love.
A friend I used to ride with bought a new 1946 Chief when he came home from the war. (2) When they built the Alaskan highway he rode it by himself up and back from California. He was big on Beemers and had I think three including a single cylinder R-27. all four at the same time. He died in the 1990...
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Im in love.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4672
Re: Im in love.
That would be my dream too. When I was a kid in the fiftys we had a old family friend. He claimed he bought new the last 4 cylinder Indian built. Said he went to the factory and talked them into putting his together with left over parts or whatever after they quit production. The american Indian com...
- Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Done
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2811
Re: I Hope This Isn't Real
There are two followings in the christian community. Pre trib and post trib thinking. I dont worry much about what I cant control. Just live by faith. I dont claim to know everything. I admit I dont know which faction is right. I think I have heard preachers of the same denomination pick opposing si...
- Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hello again folks! Kinda starting over
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3029
Re: Hello again folks! Kinda starting over
Been there, done that. Hang in there life gets better. My old best friend died from near you. Maybe you are dating his widow? Her divorced sister also lives at Moore last I heard. Hmmm
- Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lonesome Dove.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3310
- Sun Jun 21, 2020 6:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shooting
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2926
Re: Shooting
You aught to name that "Nut Breaker."
- Sat Jun 13, 2020 11:59 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: We would go to jai!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1869
Re: We would go to jai!
Almost 50 years ago I got in gun confrontation in of all places downtown Los Angeles and walked! My GF was driving my 1964 Coupe DeVille. Since it wasn't my main ride I just had liability on it. I had worked graveyard, hadn't been to bed and this was evening on my night off so she was driving. Two d...
- Fri Jun 12, 2020 6:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Car Seat for Levergunners!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1712
Re: Car Seat for Levergunners!
About 55 years ago I bought a seat cover for my truck that had a long gun case enclosed at the bottom behind your legs. They were popular and many looked like a Indian blanket.
- Thu Jun 04, 2020 12:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: gun owning demos.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1488
Re: gun owning demos.
As already said above, I think many are demonrat because their family were. I am convinced a bible thumping christian couldn't be or stay a democrat unless they never owned a tv set, radio or newspaper. If I was a member of the demonrat party all it would take is to watch liberals like pelosi, shumm...
- Fri May 29, 2020 8:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Smith & Wesson model 19
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4820
Re: Smith & Wesson model 19
Since I made this a "show & tell" here`s my other two .357`s. A model 27-2 5" that I had the company engrave my name on, (I wouldn't do that again) and a 4" Python. (Have the original grips stashed). I guess I was getting even for a poor childhood. https://i.postimg.cc/vTXTS9...
- Fri May 29, 2020 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Smith & Wesson model 19
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4820
Re: Smith & Wesson model 19
My model 66-3 3" Lew Horton special one of three hundred. Ported, triljon sight, all the bells and whistles.
https://i.postimg.cc/5NvLktcT/S-W-66-3-088.jpg
It`s pretty close in size to the Python
https://i.postimg.cc/BShHKJYj/Oct-2012-016.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/5NvLktcT/S-W-66-3-088.jpg
It`s pretty close in size to the Python
https://i.postimg.cc/BShHKJYj/Oct-2012-016.jpg