I HATE mirrors. Especially the full length one in the bathroom by the shower!!gamekeeper wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:52 am Have a GREAT DAY Jerry. I can go nearly all day thinking I'm 25 until I see my darn reflection . . .
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- Sat Oct 10, 2020 10:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: a big day
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2192
Re: a big day
- Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: a big day
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2192
a big day
Well, folks, tomorrow the 10th of October is the 40th anniversary of my 40th birthday. Yep, the big 8-0 is upon me. My mind is still 25 but my body just laughs at that, it doesn't cooperate at all. :lol: Dont have anything big planned for the day, just celebrate still being above the sod, I guess. H...
- Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: sonic booms
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2120
Re: sonic booms
We live in Yuma AZ during the winter, it is right next to the Barry Goldwater Bombing Range, we dont hear many bombs as the drop zone is far away, but sonic booms are not unusual. The sound of Freedom.
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 1:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Buffalo Bullet Company?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1460
Re: Buffalo Bullet Company?
Buffalo BULLET Company.
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 10:40 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Buffalo Bullet Company?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1460
Buffalo Bullet Company?
I wonder if the Buffalo Bullet Company is out of business, they manufacture various muzzleloader bullets and are suppliers of muzzleloading accessories. They have a web site but it appears to be inactive. I cant find any place that has their bullets for sale. I have a bunch of their bullets and need...
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 4:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Done
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1300
Re: Fall In The Rockies!!
Here in Wyoming, 90's this weekend, snow Tuesday or so. Typical.
- Tue Sep 01, 2020 5:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Easy Off oven cleaner for gunstock?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3517
Re: Easy Off oven cleaner for gunstock?
I have used it on several milsurps, most Russians, sucks all the nasty old oil out of the wood, might have to do it twice. After you wash and scrape ( green kitchen scrubbers work pretty well), leave it out in the sun for a couple of days, turning it over a few times. I have never tried it on a nice...
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 3:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Why izzit?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2446
Why izzit?
How come now every time I want to add a comment or start a new thread I have to sign in. I always check the little "remember me" block but it doesn't seem to help.
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 12:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cost of shipping USPS
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2726
Cost of shipping USPS
The cost of shipping something USPS has simply gone out of sight. Even the Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes are outrageous. I'm 27 miles one way to the UPS station so that's not much of an option. Shipping a rifle is now right at 50 bucks. I just mailed a little package about the size of a cigar box or...
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Montana or Wyoming? added pics
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3779
Re: Montana or Wyoming?
Rihmfire, I'm always amazed by what some people call a "cabin". You must have seen plenty of them when you were in Big $ky. Lander, Wyoming and White Sulphur Springs, Montana would be on my short list. .. I live in Lander WY, we have just plenty of well-heeled folks moving in here from bo...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Best Stocked GunShop in Your Area
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2300
Re: Best Stocked GunShop in Your Area
Rocky Mountain Sports in Riverton WY
A & P Pawn in Lander WY
A & P Pawn in Lander WY
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 6:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A great new military museum
- Replies: 4
- Views: 834
A great new military museum
A friend and I drove up to Dubois yesterday and spent about 4 hours in this museum. There is so much to see there that a person cant really absorb it all in one day. Over 400 military vehicles, tanks, artillery pieces, motorcycles etc, over 100 million spent and still building. The vast majority of ...
- Sun Aug 09, 2020 9:27 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: When someone asks "Can I borrow a gun...?"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1634
Re: When someone asks "Can I borrow a gun...?"
Never. Not a chance.
I dont loan stuff and I dont borrow either. If I borrowed a stone from some one, I would bring it back with a crack in it.
I dont loan stuff and I dont borrow either. If I borrowed a stone from some one, I would bring it back with a crack in it.
- Fri Aug 07, 2020 12:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Round ball loads......
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3950
Re: Round ball loads......
I hunted pronghorn for 25 years with a flinter and round ball, only got skunked once and it wasn't the fault of the the round ball or the rifle. :roll: :D Everything I hit either fill over DRT or ran off a little ways, never more than 100 yards, and fell over DRT. Kinda puts the "hunting" ...
- Wed Jul 22, 2020 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: "How To Get a NEW Levergun into the House"
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4052
Re: "How To Get a NEW Levergun into the House"
Over the years I have bought quite a few guns, well more than that, anyway if I come dragging something in she'll say "OOhhh, what did you get, can we go shoot it"?.
Can't imagine living any other way.
Can't imagine living any other way.
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 10:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Question / POLL
- Replies: 115
- Views: 20512
Re: Question / POLL
Will be 80 in October. Been a gun nut since age 5.
- Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Where to buy Redding dies?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1940
Re: Where to buy Redding dies?
Nothing wrong with buying from ebay . Half my stuff came from there. Never had a bad deal.
- Wed May 20, 2020 5:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Back open?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3075
- Wed May 20, 2020 5:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Concealed vs open carry
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2292
Re: Concealed vs open carry
My dog has bitten a porcupine and been sprayed by a skunk both. Guess he didn't get the message. We had a pair of miniature Schnauzers, if there was a porky within 1/2 mile of where we fishing , they would get into him and come back with noses full of quills. Never did learn. Long gone now to the R...
- Sat May 16, 2020 2:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Back open?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3075
Back open?
I went down to Ace Hardware a little while ago to get some propane, the parking lot was jammed up, not a space open, store swarming with people, some masked, most not. Got me to thinking maybe the people of Wyoming have just had enough of this chit and are taking things into their own hands by comin...
- Fri May 01, 2020 5:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: new gun?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3040
Re: new gun?
What does "need" have to do with buying a new gun?
- Thu Apr 23, 2020 12:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Woohan red death rant
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2684
Re: Woohan red death rant
Joe Biden is just a stooge, beware the Vice President. Whoever is the VP candidate will almost certainly become the president within a year or two after the election, given Bidens age and mental deterioration. I have telling everyone for months that Michelle Obama will be the VP, making me the vict...
- Sun Apr 19, 2020 6:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Done
- Replies: 3
- Views: 811
Re: Instead of Going to the Range . . .
Steve, you are in desperate need of a GOOD airgun. Not the bb gun of your childhood nor a Walmart Special, but a precision made instrument capable of placing each shot in the same hole at the regulation 10 meters. You can probably find that distance or close to it in your basement or in the living r...
- Sun Apr 19, 2020 6:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Gotta admit this looks like a nice luxury...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 874
Re: Gotta admit this looks like a nice luxury...
What, you dont take your honey to the range with you?gamekeeper wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 3:55 pm Sure come a long way since the womenfolk reloaded the muskets......
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: SPAM
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3048
Re: SPAM
SPAM is the reason God made coyotes.
However, I must admit, once in Vietnam I walked into an Army mess tent at Camp Evans, all they had left were SPAM slices and some bread. I hadn't eaten for about 24 hours or so, the sammich was pretty darn good.
However, I must admit, once in Vietnam I walked into an Army mess tent at Camp Evans, all they had left were SPAM slices and some bread. I hadn't eaten for about 24 hours or so, the sammich was pretty darn good.
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Less gun control , more social distancing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1210
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 5:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cleaning Everything
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1650
Re: Cleaning Everything
Nice start you got there, Mr. Wright.
Hope you are not using those files to clean your sixshooters.
Hope you are not using those files to clean your sixshooters.
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 5:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: It official for those that care Brady is now a Buc
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2141
Re: It official for those that care Brady is now a Buc
Who is this guy Brady, anyway?
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: worst time in your life
- Replies: 54
- Views: 6220
Re: worst time in your life
They took me to a shoe store where they had a Xray machine to check how shoes fit you. ... They outlawed those machines. Whoa!! Talk about a bad idea--x-ray machines in the shoe store to see how your shoes fit! I clearly remember them from when I was a kid, got measured for shoes many times with on...
- Mon Mar 16, 2020 12:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How Do You Burn Through Most Of Your .22 Rimfire?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3500
Re: How Do You Burn Through Most Of Your .22 Rimfire?
Metallic Silhouette and benchrest.
- Sun Mar 15, 2020 5:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Effect of panic on gun prices?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2823
Re: Effect of panic on gun prices?
Anyone who finds themselves short on ammo after the last shortage fiasco deserves to be caught short. It's only been 2-3 years now since the Great Shortage was over, yet folks seem to have forgotten and let their stocks dwindle.
- Thu Mar 12, 2020 12:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Found an old Marlin 39A
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3206
Re: Found an old Marlin 39A
Marlin Model 39A: a .22 for REAL MEN.
- Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What turned you on to guns?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4002
What turned you on to guns?
I had a foster brother who was much older, he enlisted in the Navy in 1940 and served throughout WWII in the Pacific. My parents worried about him constantly of course, we got our news from an old battery-powered radio of some sort, having no electricity in the ramshackle farm house we lived in. In ...
- Fri Feb 14, 2020 1:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: where to get AR15 parts ?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3825
Re: where to get AR15 parts ?
I'm surprised Brownell's doesn't have what you want.
- Thu Feb 13, 2020 3:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Need Single Action Army revolver help
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1485
- Thu Feb 13, 2020 11:52 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Need Single Action Army revolver help
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1485
Re: Need Single Action Army revolver help
Since it was under warranty, I decided to let Cimarron worry about it. I called them, they didn't argue a bit, immediately sent me a mailing label. Took it to UPS about noon on Tuesday, had it back in my hand the following Monday about 7:00 PM. Little note in it that the refitted the hand and test f...
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 6:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Military Retirees Take Note
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2537
Re: Military Retirees Take Note
All that would be needed would be to issue anyone who signs up for military duty a 'card' that would help with medical care for the rest of their life (since they put their life on the line). The card could have 'grades', so the dude who signed up for duty in a no-war time, and spent his time on a ...
- Sat Feb 08, 2020 5:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Concealed Carry by State in the U.S.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2323
Re: Concealed Carry by State in the U.S.
I agree with Steve, the percentage of eligible residents should be listed. I also see that there are ONLY three states with over a million permit holders. Should it become a goal that we support a movement to increase the lagging states, minus the Constitutional carry states, to over a million perm...
- Sat Feb 08, 2020 5:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Military Retirees Take Note
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2537
- Thu Feb 06, 2020 1:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The best place to be
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1746
Re: The best place to be
One of my bucket list items is to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a roaring fireplace. I tried to fullfill this dream the other night, apparantly this is against policy at Crackerbarrel.
- Thu Feb 06, 2020 11:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: old gun powder
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2646
Re: old gun powder
I recently went to reload with some older 4350 I had had for a long time, maybe 25 years or more, when I poured it into the powder measure a cloud of red dust came up out of it. Fed it to the hollyhocks.
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Got sunshine?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1083
Got sunshine?
Why I am in sunny Arizona today: https://www.wyoroad.info/highway/webcam ... ander.html
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Old Lever
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1731
Re: Old Lever
I would just leave it as it is and hang it on the wall, good for storytelling.
Stories dont necessarily have to be entirely accurate.
Stories dont necessarily have to be entirely accurate.
- Fri Jan 31, 2020 6:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Need Single Action Army revolver help
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1485
Need Single Action Army revolver help
I have a Cimarron Single Action Army, .45 Colt, with exactly 51 rounds through it. Firing cast bullets with light loads. Upon firing the 51st shot, the action locked up and cannot be moved. The hammer is down and cannot be cocked or moved. The trigger cannot be moved at all. I got the pin and cylind...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 6:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Theodore Martin 1939. 1917 Winchester 1894 SRC
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1923
Re: Theodore Martin 1939. 1917 Winchester 1894 SRC
Somewhere online there is a website with the names of the residents of all the cemeteries in the country. I dont have the google skills to find it, but have seen it in the past. Might be worth a little time at the computer.
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Tree Stand Hunting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1136
Re: Tree Stand Hunting
I have never hunted from a tree stand, nor will I ever. Now I know why.
- Wed Jan 22, 2020 12:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I got sick
- Replies: 3
- Views: 472
Re: I got sick
I see what you did there, Todd. Go to your room without supper.
- Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I got a tough question to answer ..... can you help?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4512
Re: I got a tough question to answer ..... can you help?
Firearms should always be the last resort, there are plenty of things she needs to do to increase her safety and security, most of which have already been listed in this thread. I am very leery of anyone who is "blind" in any degree having a firearm and trying to use it in a stressful situ...
- Sat Jan 18, 2020 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For a litte pocket money ...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3018
- Sat Jan 18, 2020 6:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For a litte pocket money ...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3018
Re: For a litte pocket money ...
Down in Panama, it behooved one to walk in the street at 0200hrs after the NCO club closed. All kinds of snakes ruled terra firma after dark. The up side was zero stray cats, and no rats or mice problems. Most people that I recall were unable to walk after the NCO club closed at 0200. Never happene...