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by Booger Bill
Mon May 25, 2020 12:36 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Done
Replies: 14
Views: 3016

Re: Oh Heck Yes!! I Want One Of These!!

I was born 80 years too soon.
by Booger Bill
Sat May 02, 2020 12:45 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Happy birthday Booger Bill.
Replies: 5
Views: 886

Re: Happy birthday Booger Bill.

Thanks. I spent it under house arrest along with everyone else. How did ya all know?
Oopps. Just went through my recent posts and see where I ratted myself. Thanks again.
by Booger Bill
Fri May 01, 2020 5:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: FYI PLEASE BE AWARE
Replies: 6
Views: 1767

Re: FYI PLEASE BE AWARE

Took me awhile.
by Booger Bill
Wed Apr 29, 2020 11:53 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Done
Replies: 4
Views: 1068

Re: I Just Couldn't Help Myself!!

We haven't received our check. They must know we would just blow it anyway. Today is my 79th birthday. Ya would think they would have given me my present! Ya think maybe they are waiting for me to die??
by Booger Bill
Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Done
Replies: 7
Views: 1563

Re: An Apparent Gunshot Accident

Bonnie & Frank were close friends of mine. They went to Tijuana Mexico and were looking through a store window. Another american couple came up alongside and also were looking at something. Bonnie turned around to leave and accidentally elbowed the other woman in the ribs. The woman screamed, &q...
by Booger Bill
Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Latest 1895 Winchester And A Few Test Shots
Replies: 13
Views: 2789

Re: Latest 1895 Winchester And A Few Test Shots

I own this 95 carbine. When I bought it about 45 years ago the rear sight was missing. A close friend, a old man who was into guns gave me and mounted a Buffington rear sight for me and the holes matched! We didnt have to drill. However the handguard wont fit over it so I dont use it. The rifle is a...
by Booger Bill
Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:12 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: My wife and I decided we don't want to have children....
Replies: 8
Views: 1713

Re: My wife and I decided we don't want to have children....

A couple were at the divorce lawyer and bickering over a mean looking boy and the lawyer is telling them, well one of you has to take him!
by Booger Bill
Mon Apr 20, 2020 8:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: new vs. used.
Replies: 18
Views: 2838

Re: new vs. used.

Over many years I must have bought at least 200 to 300 guns. Probably the majority of them used. Bought only two used ones off the net the rest face to face. I never "got took" but had a good old collector friend that was my mentor when I started out.
by Booger Bill
Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Done
Replies: 12
Views: 2381

Re: Toilet Paper Lottery!!

Thats like I seen in a bathroom pay toilet wall years ago: Here I sit broken hearted,
paid a quarter, only farted.
by Booger Bill
Wed Apr 15, 2020 11:51 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: new vs. used.
Replies: 18
Views: 2838

Re: new vs. used.

Used guns, like used brides, should be eyed with some suspicion, However I have had good luck with both and conversely had trouble in the past with new ones.
by Booger Bill
Tue Apr 14, 2020 3:54 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Done
Replies: 7
Views: 1265

Re: Relative Importance in 2020

All pooped out.
by Booger Bill
Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "The Virginian"
Replies: 18
Views: 2141

Re: "The Virginian"

My wife and Clint about 7 years ago.
https://i.postimg.cc/3JSN746m/Theresa-Clint-Walker.jpg
by Booger Bill
Thu Apr 09, 2020 2:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New tire thumper.
Replies: 19
Views: 2618

Re: New tire thumper.

Many years ago I dated a tough divorcee. She heated up a frying pan and brained her ex with it! That had to smart!
by Booger Bill
Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: hardships of sheltering in place:
Replies: 33
Views: 4648

Re: hardships of sheltering in place:

I really was a fool. Should have went to night school!
by Booger Bill
Tue Apr 07, 2020 3:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: My 1st Safe Queen -- H&R Sportsman "1 of 999"
Replies: 16
Views: 2952

Re: My 1st Safe Queen -- H&R Sportsman "1 of 999"

I recall my dad having one in the 1940`s. Had to be the first handgun I shot. Actually he had two. He traded one for a 1936 chev (first car I drove) and replaced it with another.
by Booger Bill
Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I'm getting ready to go to town ..
Replies: 13
Views: 1093

Re: I'm getting ready to go to town ..

Mine did as I was guarding the place.
by Booger Bill
Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I'm getting ready to go to town ..
Replies: 13
Views: 1093

Re: I'm getting ready to go to town ..

Fine, but I wouldn't open carry wearing that mask!
by Booger Bill
Sat Apr 04, 2020 6:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Feeling the years...
Replies: 17
Views: 2211

Re: Feeling the years...

79 in two weeks, if I make it.
by Booger Bill
Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: My stay at home project.
Replies: 24
Views: 2724

Re: My stay at home project.

You guys would have liked the chance I had when I was a kid in the late 1940`s through the 1960`s. I had a bachelor uncle and I was his favorite (and only nephew). He came home from the war and owned this junk yard. The photograph was taken from a airplane about the mid 1950`s. He would have gave me...
by Booger Bill
Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fauci's best guess
Replies: 10
Views: 2195

Re: Fauci's best guess

I cant agree with wecsoger on that. I think the leftest news along with the democrat party sensationalized the virus to put president trump in a spot so bad that the stock market has tanked. Odd how they tried to get him impeached for so long and when that didn't work they used this virus that conve...
by Booger Bill
Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Fauci's best guess
Replies: 10
Views: 2195

Re: Fauci's best guess

I am confused. [Since 2010, the flu has killed between 12,000 and 61,000 Americans a year.] In the early 1950`s many died from polio and many crippled. The country didn't have a 2 trillion stimulus and the stock market didn't tank. So far we have lost something like 2,100 to the virus and we now fin...
by Booger Bill
Sun Mar 22, 2020 5:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: It official for those that care Brady is now a Buc
Replies: 10
Views: 2140

Re: It official for those that care Brady is now a Buc

Roy Rogers sidekick that drove nelly bell.
by Booger Bill
Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: worst time in your life
Replies: 54
Views: 6216

Re: worst time in your life

Kirk, I had the same. It was about 1947 or 1948 when I was seven. We had a old wringer washing machine. It would chatter like a machine gun if you partially engage it. I was mowing down a bunch of krauts swinging the wringer. My left hand got caught in it. Fortunately I kept my fingers straight. My ...
by Booger Bill
Sun Mar 15, 2020 1:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Positive comments about Buck Knives
Replies: 19
Views: 2464

Re: Positive comments about Buck Knives

Somewhere I have a orange handled knife something like that with a odd switchblade. It has a curved blade for cutting parachute cord. I think my uncle gave it to me when I was a kid as he was in the 82nd AB during war 2.
by Booger Bill
Sun Mar 15, 2020 1:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Positive comments about Buck Knives
Replies: 19
Views: 2464

Re: Positive comments about Buck Knives

Somewhere I have a orange handled knife something like that with a odd switchblade. It has a curved blade for cutting parachute cord. I think my uncle gave it to me when I was a kid as he was in the 82nd AB during war 2.
by Booger Bill
Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Positive comments about Buck Knives
Replies: 19
Views: 2464

Re: Positive comments about Buck Knives

Picture of one of my bucks. A David Yellowhorse.

https://i.postimg.cc/W16Q9CCW/Colt-SAA-SA-22235.jpg
by Booger Bill
Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Found an old Marlin 39A
Replies: 21
Views: 3206

Re: Found an old Marlin 39A

I had a 39A when I was a teen. After that I had a Mountie. Later I bought a Winchester 9422 in .22 mag when they first came out in the early 1970`s. That one got stolen along with a bunch more when my house got burlared in 2003. I still get mad every time it cross`s my mind. Once owned a marlin leve...
by Booger Bill
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:41 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Mosley folding bathtub.
Replies: 17
Views: 1226

Re: The Mosley folding bathtub.

Throw the grandkid in and scald and scrape! Pitchy your talent always amaze`s me. I cant build a bird house, or at least am too lazy to try.
by Booger Bill
Sat Mar 07, 2020 9:53 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: worst time in your life
Replies: 54
Views: 6216

Re: worst time in your life

Hang in there Rusty. Better days are coming for us.
by Booger Bill
Sat Mar 07, 2020 5:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: worst time in your life
Replies: 54
Views: 6216

Re: worst time in your life

Saw the football player alex karass on a interview. He was asked what was the worst pain he ever had? He answered hemorrhoids! Cracked me up! I have been plagued with kidney stones. Not fun! No one gets out alive. Once seen a mother coming out of a driveway with her little daughter on the handlebars...
by Booger Bill
Fri Mar 06, 2020 9:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: worst time in your life
Replies: 54
Views: 6216

Re: worst time in your live

[The first time I caught my wife cheating on me. It really knocked me down for a few months.] My first wife did that to me too. Took me many years, not months to get normal. She also cleaned me out, stole many fine guns I owned before I met her and I had to live in a world of overtime bondage many y...
by Booger Bill
Fri Mar 06, 2020 9:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: worst time in your life
Replies: 54
Views: 6216

Re: worst time in your live

I have been laid up since last may. I broke a hip, got a replacement and fell another three times since and re cracked the hip again. Got both kidneys blasted for stones and just got out of the hospital again. Went into sepsis shock four times about two weeks ago and the doctor told us I almost died...
by Booger Bill
Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:02 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Done
Replies: 8
Views: 1027

Re: I Hope This Isn't Accurate!!!

I lived in los angeles county from 1964 to 2005. I can believe it. I had to take someone to the county hospitals a few times and it was unbelievable. Wall to wall spanish speaking mexicans with hardly another gringo. Some of the stats may be off but probably not by much. I really believe when you he...
by Booger Bill
Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:45 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Going Back In Time......................
Replies: 16
Views: 2614

Re: Going Back In Time......................

I still dont know what I want to be when I grow up. When I was a kid in third grade in a one room school our teacher asked everyone what they wanted to be or do when they grew up. I guess I was a wise azz. I said I want to be a crook. My three year older sister ran the two miles home crying and told...
by Booger Bill
Sun Feb 09, 2020 2:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Salute to President Trump
Replies: 26
Views: 2844

Re: Salute to President Trump

Pelosi isn't as classy as a dead rat.
by Booger Bill
Thu Feb 06, 2020 10:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Like a.....
Replies: 11
Views: 1822

Re: Like a.....

Sounds similar to the remington jet in a s&w model 53. I have this one. No recoil but deafening.
https://i.postimg.cc/x1fVghHP/S-W-M53-K-446683.jpg
by Booger Bill
Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Theodore Martin 1939. 1917 Winchester 1894 SRC
Replies: 9
Views: 1922

Re: Theodore Martin 1939. 1917 Winchester 1894 SRC

My best and worst story. A Audie Murphy gun. About 1972 I bought a colt new frontier like new out of a pawn shop in southern california. A year or two later I bought George Garton`s book on Post War Colt SAA`s. In it was a New Frontier that Audie had owned that was one of a consecutively numbered pa...
by Booger Bill
Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Theodore Martin 1939. 1917 Winchester 1894 SRC
Replies: 9
Views: 1922

Re: Theodore Martin 1939. 1917 Winchester 1894 SRC

I had a friend that found a old hunting license under the buttplate of a old shotgun.
by Booger Bill
Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:11 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tree Stand Hunting
Replies: 10
Views: 1136

Re: Tree Stand Hunting

I had a cousin who fell from one and broke his back. I have never hunted from one. I was raised in wisconsin. I think when I grew up hunting there in the 1950`s they were illegal but soon after they must have legalized them as they were all over.
Where does all this high tech stop?
by Booger Bill
Mon Jan 20, 2020 12:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: I got a tough question to answer ..... can you help?
Replies: 41
Views: 4507

Re: I got a tough question to answer ..... can you help?

A small light .380 that she can keep in her purse. Of course with training of point shooting up close. I don`t automatically believe everything a woman or anyone else tells me. There`s always two sides to a story. You cant carry a shotgun around shopping or whatever. Fine to keep in her house or apa...
by Booger Bill
Sun Jan 19, 2020 5:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 357 magunum 3" barrel
Replies: 16
Views: 3217

Re: 357 magunum 3" barrel

Here are my short barreled revolvers. I also often pack a 2" s&w model 40 hammerless. A 2* you can pocket carry but a 3" you need a holster. Still they pack better than 4" + guns. https://i.postimg.cc/zGKpbG3t/S-W-model-40-L-2137.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/KjM1Xhyb/Oct-2012-016.jpg ...
by Booger Bill
Tue Jan 14, 2020 1:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For the Contender fans here
Replies: 22
Views: 4438

Re: For the Contender fans here

I own a first or second year contender. Came in .45 colt & .410. It also came with a wooden company presentation case. I later added a .256 win mag barrel and scope. The butt has a silver presentation plate (un engraved). Think I bought it used/unfired about 1970. Any idea what it would bring? A...
by Booger Bill
Thu Jan 09, 2020 5:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 7x57
Replies: 38
Views: 4058

Re: 7x57

I have this Ruger in 7X57. It`s a sweetheart caliber. Low recoil, accurate and flat shooting. Mine shoots to the same POA with light or heavier bullets.
https://i.postimg.cc/XYnf1csW-/Ruger-M-77-74-43028.jpg
by Booger Bill
Sat Jan 04, 2020 12:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Shooting Times article on Uberti single action revolvers
Replies: 17
Views: 2382

Re: Shooting Times article on Uberti single action revolvers

Thanks Bill. Just for kicks and giggles, here is a picture (about 1971) of me and two close friends (both now dead) of me showing them my new Ruger New model army. I am on the right. Old Savage will reconise "Red" Becker on the left. Bill Sandifer in the middle. Taken at a campgrounds in t...
by Booger Bill
Sat Jan 04, 2020 12:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: why i like the ruger single-six
Replies: 29
Views: 4994

Re: why i like the ruger single-six

My first good handgun was a convertible single six I bought new in 1961 or 1962. It was a 6 1/2". I shot it more than any one or several of my six guns since. Unfortunately it was stolen out of my house in 1969. I got to the point I could throw a bottle in the air, draw and shoot it (at the vil...
by Booger Bill
Sat Jan 04, 2020 12:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Shooting Times article on Uberti single action revolvers
Replies: 17
Views: 2382

Re: Shooting Times article on Uberti single action revolvers

I own this original 1858 New Model Army Remington. It was refinished before I bought it in the early 1970`s. It came with a old post red bead King front sight and the U shaped hog wallow rear sight had been squared up. At the same time I owned a Ruger old army. This Remington I considered as good or...
by Booger Bill
Thu Jan 02, 2020 4:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Your Opinions On Sig Saur
Replies: 38
Views: 4967

Re: Your Opinions On Sig Saur

I carry a .380 Sig 238. Really, I bought it because it was on sale at ACE as a fathers day sale with about $150 off about five years ago. Still while I pack it a lot I still haven't shot it all that much yet. It does appear well made. It has (to me) a heavy trigger pull. I have read it is a characte...
by Booger Bill
Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 44 spceial comparison ...... interesting article that might appeal to many here
Replies: 14
Views: 1969

Re: 44 spceial comparison ...... interesting article that might appeal to many here

Thanks guys. Truth is they haven`t seen the light of day in many years. I have been laid up the last couple. I know what I should do, (sell a few) but just haven't been able to bring myself to do it just yet.