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- Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is this real ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 422
Re: Is this real ?
https://markvpeterson.com/ I suppose he is legit. I've watched quite a few of his programs. It's just the theme of "squirrel slam" made me think perhaps he was making fun of of us hunters who are poorer than he. As for the "trophy class" rodents, slaying a fat squirrel ain't no g...
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: REMINDER - Before Leaving Your Home
- Replies: 12
- Views: 759
Re: REMINDER - Before Leaving Your Home
You don't need to apologize to me, Bill. And I know I have preached sermons and pastored but anyone who knows me can you that I have very rarely been reverend. :D Reminds of the nervous young preacher who got his introductory words transposed and said, "If I can find my peter I'm going to prea...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is this real ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 422
Is this real ?
I just watched this on the telly then found the video to post here..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV-1J1LMwvU&pp=ygUbbWFyayBwZXRlcnNvbiBzcXVpcnJlbCBzbGFt I took it to be some kind of spoof/lark what with the use of trail cams and scoring of the "trophies" but maybe it was meant to ...
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 8:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lest We Forget . . .
- Replies: 12
- Views: 728
Re: Lest We Forget . . .
The sight of that field of poppies reminded me of this song....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zlj689Ayvhc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zlj689Ayvhc
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 3:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Semi-Annual Offering To The American Sun God
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3207
Re: The Semi-Annual Offering To The American Sun God
In our neck of the woods the whole of october is hazardous with dusky glare if you have to make a westerly commute between 1700 and 1800 and the "fall back" is most welcome. So, while it may not be "real", it can be a blessing if you are counting them.
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 6:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Biggest US civilian ammo maker sold…?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 417
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 10:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Biggest US civilian ammo maker sold…?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 417
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 6:41 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I had just enough shekels.....
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2142
Re: I had just enough shekels.....
I am thinking that four 120 gr. round balls at daisy bb gun velocities might get me safely down the drive to the mailbox and back. Certainly as well as a 6.35 mm self-loader but with the antique roscoe in one pocket there is not any reason not to have a mousegun or two in my other pockets for plans ...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I had just enough shekels.....
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2142
I had just enough shekels.....
in my pocket to buy a 1990s era lightly used taurus .38 but I brought home this home instead..... IMG_20231024_152811838~2.jpg IMG_20231024_210039869~2.jpg IMG_20231024_210102600~2.jpg Like charlie brown picking out a Christmas tree, I often come home with a three-legged mangy mutt figuratively spea...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 1:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anybody here old enough.....
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1033
Re: Anybody here old enough.....
If the link works scroll down to page ten for a vintage article on handgun deer hunting by the good doctor.....
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f3vte9 ... -Gtxf/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f3vte9 ... -Gtxf/view
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The man in the.....
- Replies: 2
- Views: 206
The man in the.....
brown suit/van just brought this.....
I'm hard to impress but you can imagine my feelings are on the positive side.....
I'm hard to impress but you can imagine my feelings are on the positive side.....
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hunting accounts using lever guns?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 493
Re: Hunting accounts using lever guns?
E.N. Woodcock preferred a .38 w.c.f. 1873 to anything else.....
https://dev.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34063
https://dev.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34063
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 3:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Tsunami warnings
- Replies: 14
- Views: 519
Re: Tsunami warnings
under the influence of certain herbals, chris and gram made-up a song about the event..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UcU04NGMQb8&pp=ygUNc2luIGNpdHkgc29uZw%3D%3D "the scientists say it'll all wash away....." and chris performed it whilst trying his hand at being a country music star...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 2:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hunting accounts using lever guns?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 493
Re: Hunting accounts using lever guns?
Do an internal search here for member "shrapnel" and if the photos are still there you'll see plenty.....both game taken and vintage leveractions.
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 7:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Good or Bad ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 370
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 3:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1876 for Brown Bear
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1739
Re: 1876 for Brown Bear
Autumn of 1884 bighorn mountains..... Theodore Roosevelt..... “I shall not soon forget the first one I killed. We had found where he had been feeding on the carcass of an elk; and followed his trail into a dense pine forest, fairly choked with fallen timber. While noiselessly and slowly threading ou...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 8:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ammo flying off the shelves
- Replies: 7
- Views: 540
Re: Ammo flying off the shelves
I've received a dozen or more sales pitch emails this past weekend up to today all saying something like "5.56 & 9mm low stock alert" or the like. They maybe entirely correct but I didn't bite so their fishing expedition was not successful.
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 1:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Converting FMJ into better defensive rounds...?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3318
Re: Convewrting FMJ into better defensive rounds...?
I quite forgot I had modified some prvi partizan 7.62x39mm subsonic by boring a tiny hole in the nose with a carbide burr. My intent was not to increase terminal performance, their penchant for yawing & tumbling serves there, but to fulfill game laws requirements of the fmj prohibition for deer....
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Converting FMJ into better defensive rounds...?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3318
Re: Convewrting FMJ into better defensive rounds...?
When the online video sharing sites were relatively new we watched dozens and scores of patrol car dash-cam videos with gun fights during traffic contacts. In one example the hopped perp was scuffling with a much larger smokey and it escalated to a battle over smokey's sidearm. Just like in the movi...
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 6:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I just watched this on the telly.....
- Replies: 3
- Views: 322
I just watched this on the telly.....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DerXebNxa ... cmlib3U%3D
Bob Foulkrod hunts canadian caribou with model '94.....
Bob Foulkrod hunts canadian caribou with model '94.....
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:18 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Negotiations.....
- Replies: 9
- Views: 663
Re: The Negotiations.....
What a great story and project, Ray. Hope it all pans out for you. How does one control kudzu? Cut and remove? Herbicide? wilhelm, the kudzu in the o.p. is fictional from the schizoid brain of ray in whose world the sky is green and the grass is blue. If we find any kudzu vines on the real place it...
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking for 327 federal brass
- Replies: 13
- Views: 762
Re: Looking for 327 federal brass
When I first read that .327 backorders were soon to be fulfilled I contacted grafs and the lady responded that starline backorders are awarded in chronological order and they have had some 10,000 on order since 2018. So I'm hoping that starline has made at least a quarter to half millions so most ev...
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 5:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Negotiations.....
- Replies: 9
- Views: 663
Re: The Negotiations.....
The only recent deer sign (tracks in mud) is at the side of a busy highway and under the highway concrete culvert. I'm unsure if deer will actually pass through the tunnel under the highway or not. And the small fishes are still being fooled with rubber bugs but they are gradually catching on to the...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 5:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wet vs dry
- Replies: 8
- Views: 487
Re: Wet vs dry
All dry flies become "wet" and sinking after being sodden for a while and this has been a problem since izaak walton first tied a bit of yarn onto a bare fishhook.
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 5:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lake City cancelled commercial contracts.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 497
Re: Lake City cancelled commercial contracts.
I thought Federal was the occupying contractor for Lake City Army Amunition Plant. That's where the 7.62 NATO comes out of . It was federal but the contract is renegotiated every four years. Winchester really made use of the over-runs in unique ways and we greatly benefited with win.(and oddly fed....
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 10:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What did you carry today?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 332
Re: What did you carry today?
Tomorrow is said to be "global jihad day" ! Will definitely be toting something that goes bang and keeps going bang ! This morning in the predawn I was refreshing the salt/soda/jello/pudding lick after a much needed rain shower and was carrying a 21 shot .22tcm9r self-loader. Would have fe...
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 9:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shooter's World Buffalo Rifle powder
- Replies: 6
- Views: 536
Re: Shooter's World Buffalo Rifle powder
Shooters World Buffalo is the original 5744.
Natchez is showing buffalo out of stock. Same at bruno's, grafs, midsouth, midway and powder valley.
When it is available it is often discounted to half the price of Accurate xmr 5744.
Natchez is showing buffalo out of stock. Same at bruno's, grafs, midsouth, midway and powder valley.
When it is available it is often discounted to half the price of Accurate xmr 5744.
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 4:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking for 327 federal brass
- Replies: 13
- Views: 762
Re: Looking for 327 federal brass
I certainly did not mean to disparage freedom arms. I was simply pointing-out that they do not have the brass in-stock. Their merchandise items listed are not current and since I went to the effort of emailing them I posted the results to save others from calling or emailing. As for the rest of my c...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 7:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking for 327 federal brass
- Replies: 13
- Views: 762
Re: Looking for 327 federal brass
Just got an email reply from lori collingwood of freedom arms re. .327 brass and they do N O T have any .327 brass in-stock and haven't had any for quite some time. There are sites that will take your money with no intention of delivering a product. Beware of any site that promises availability of s...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: old uncle hovey is.....
- Replies: 2
- Views: 219
old uncle hovey is.....
still above ground and videographing.....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hAnlyPO7JgI
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtzsd6a64Zw
Mumbles to himself between scripted lines and seems a bit wobbly which only means he is qualified to be p.o.t.u.s.....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hAnlyPO7JgI
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtzsd6a64Zw
Mumbles to himself between scripted lines and seems a bit wobbly which only means he is qualified to be p.o.t.u.s.....
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Incident In The Superstition Mountains
- Replies: 9
- Views: 467
Re: Incident In The Superstition Mountains
If any of you arizonans find any bones, horace was said to be somewhat bowlegged and had a prominent overbite.....
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Interesting J.C. Higgins shotgun
- Replies: 7
- Views: 463
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Incident In The Superstition Mountains
- Replies: 9
- Views: 467
Re: Incident In The Superstition Mountains
Explains why great uncle horace who went on vacation in phoenix was never heard from again.....
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Interesting J.C. Higgins shotgun
- Replies: 7
- Views: 463
Re: Interesting J.C. Higgins shotgun
Mine is marked 583.18 and modified. I bought it from k.t.p. and they had two 16 ga. j.c. higgins listed.....a bolt for $165 and a single for $130. I collect old single-shot fowling pieces so that is what I ordered. To my surprise I received the bolt. I felt sorry for the fellow who spent the extra $...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: another levergun at range day
- Replies: 5
- Views: 388
Re: another levergun at range day
They called him frog. Never mind he looked more like a toad than anything else. A toad is just a frog that doesn't like water and this particular frog preferred drier conditions. He had thought and planned to spending the daytime hours of his waning years in a boat on the coosa river, primarily on l...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 7:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Incident In The Superstition Mountains
- Replies: 9
- Views: 467
Re: Incident In The Superstition Mountains
You had me sitting on the edge of archie bunkers chair there. For the next fortnight I'll probably peer behind shower curtains and under beds with a roscoe in hand.
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 10:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What are you packing for the National Zombie Attack Alert tomorrow?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2023
Re: What are you packing for the National Zombie Attack Alert tomorrow?
Belay that last misinformation.....
Their granny, my beloved bride of 12,094 days, corrects me in that, during the intense hand to hand skirmishes that rattle the windows, the middle grand imp is a wookie..... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wookiee
and the youngest is bruce wayne/batman.
Their granny, my beloved bride of 12,094 days, corrects me in that, during the intense hand to hand skirmishes that rattle the windows, the middle grand imp is a wookie..... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wookiee
and the youngest is bruce wayne/batman.
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What are you packing for the National Zombie Attack Alert tomorrow?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2023
Re: What are you packing for the National Zombie Attack Alert tomorrow?
Mythical undead malevolents are nothing compared to grand imps in character as jedi knights. These three remind me of mine..... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YvlGGWqRzZQ&pp=ygUcRGlzb3JkZXIgaW4gdGhlIGNvdXJ0IHNjZW5lcw%3D%3D Fast forward to about 9:15 and hear the judge's admonition..... I say the ...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Superstition Mountains
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1139
Re: The Superstition Mountains
In light of this thread, I tried to watch this on the "toob" but it is zapped by the copyright stazi just as quick as the lawless geeks in asia upload it. But....you can "borrow" it from any of the libraries affiliated with archive.org..... https://archive.org/details/MACKENNASGOLD
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 8:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Superstition Mountains
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1139
Re: The Superstition Mountains
Most interesting ! Reading of desert gold prospecting has long been a fascination to me. I remember watching this when I was just a pup. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0vatOSBSbFU&pp=ygUoaW4gc2VhcmNoIG9mIGxlb25hcmQgbmltb3kgbG9zdCBkdXRjaG1hbg%3D%3D https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Dutchman%27s...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 2:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Negotiations.....
- Replies: 9
- Views: 663
Re: The Negotiations.....
The story above is certainly fiction but I use real life as inspirations. We took possession of a fifty-four-year old derelict home place and adjoining lots last week. The negotiations with the heirs/estate were quite interesting with the tanning-bed overdone agent pulling her bleach-blonde doo out ...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I can't remember......
- Replies: 13
- Views: 816
Re: I can't remember......
You all don't have to sell me on them, I'm already a satisfied customer. I just wanted opinions on which of the two (above links) to buy for .38 special and midrange .357 loads (.38 +p maximums in .357 cases).
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 10:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I can't remember......
- Replies: 13
- Views: 816
I can't remember......
just who it was who turned me on to this outfit..... https://www.bearcreeksupplybullets.com/bulletselection But I know I read about them here..... They are great, but with one caveat, they aren't set-up for online ordering as yet.....you have to call them. I am thinking about ordering either this fo...
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 7:12 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I just watched this on the telly.....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 213
I just watched this on the telly.....
Amish hunter bags colorado bull elk. The videographers are careful not to show the hunter's visage in respect to old order customs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FObX5Oyf11I
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FObX5Oyf11I
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 3:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I was feeding the dogs when I heard the sound of radial engines
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1029
Re: I was feeding the dogs when I heard the sound of radial engines
There is nothing like the sound of a radial except for a Rolls Royce/ Merlin V12! If you need a 'fix ' for aviation engines ya gotta go to Reno air races ! A while back I was walking down the road here and behind me I heard it coming. No mistaking the sound! A beautiful P-51 Mustang came over and I...
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Negotiations.....
- Replies: 9
- Views: 663
Re: The Negotiations.....
My grammar and punctuation failings are so egregious I am ashamed lest you learned folk censure me. That next to last sentence should have read.....
"schmeared the first dollop".
"schmeared the first dollop".
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 7:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Negotiations.....
- Replies: 9
- Views: 663
The Negotiations.....
The Negotiations..... It sat there languishing on the market for nigh-on three years. The owners were just asking too much by virtue of its supposed commercial potential. Yes there were 28 established r.v. pads with hook-ups and a his & hers bathhouse and a general store but kudzu vines had obsc...
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pocket Pistols
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1415
Re: Pocket Pistols
Fictional l.a.p.d. patrolman reed & malloy do it at least once every other episode(s). They roll up to a silent alarm with roscoes drawn and cautiously peer into bank, bar, gun, jewelry, pawn establishment, etc. Reed crawfishes back to car to broadcast mayday and fetches the slide-actioned fowli...
- Sun Sep 17, 2023 7:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anybody here old enough.....
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1033
Re: Anybody here old enough.....
B.T.T. And this stalwart levergunner greatly resembles the inimitable Roy Yeager of handgun hunting fame/infamy..... https://www.levergunscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?p=331443#p331443 Yet another reason to join the renewed handgun hunters international..... https://www.handgunhuntersinternational.com
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 6:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pocket Pistols
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1415
Re: Pocket Pistols
In my lunchbox at work. The magnum has first two chambers loaded with cci shot for bats in the overhead and snakes under the chemical tanks.