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I've never owned a 357, but just loaded up some for my brother-in-law and found a box in my stash of ammo. May have to remedy that some day, just never found on that tickled my fancy enough to pull the trigger on a purchase. As mentioned up above, I can get the power without the bark by moving up to...

It was a great week. Haven't taken time to download pics from my camera though, so here's just a couple I snagged with my phone.

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Glad it got sorted. As mentioned, Scott, Andy and I were all at Raton this week, along with a few dozen other folk. I'm currently road running up in the US so haven't had time to check the inactive accounts for a while. Just nuked about 80 or so. With a user name like that I'm glad you gave us a &qu...

TedH wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2026 5:28 pm Bill hasn't marked it sold, but it was delivered to my FFL yesterday. I won't be able to pick it up until Monday though.

Thank you!

Bill's a great guy to do business with. Glad you picked this one up, Ted. Lack of disposable funds is what kept me away from it. As usual.

It's amazing what some folks will do for attention...

It's great to see you're up and posting! Há perigo de sobrevivência! Um abraço enorme e cauteloso, querido amigo!!!

I thought this piece was lost to posterity... and then thought to search here. Sure enough, there it is! So here it is again, for folks who might not have seen it the first couple times around... :lol: And this time I thought to copy it to my personal blog, where I thought I had it in the first plac...

Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2026 12:29 pm Thank you. I visited with Dad this morning and he’s already getting back on the tractor

That's great to hear, Scott.

Here's an update from today.

Dad is such a trooper! This feels like a huge milestone. He still has a big road to walk down but he’s fighting through. Thank you for all the prayers!! Please keep praying for his recovery.

UPDATE 5/13 -
Dad will go into surgery today at 10:30am to fuse his Spine from C5-T1. Appreciate prayers for him!
Ya’ll are amazing group of friends.

That's the most recent I've seen as of May 13 at 9:14 a.m. CDT

Update from Jim's daughter, Jami. Jim's daughter Jami shared that Jim was in a Go Kart wreck and was in the hospital. Please keep him in your prayers. Here is the update from her on his condition: Finally saw Doctor. Basically his spine is pretty messed up. C2 vertebrae is bad but c6 and c7 - the li...

First step, find a company that would value your work and is willing to offer you employment. Second step, get all your employment paperwork and immigration paperwork in order and keep copies of everything. Thirst step, move. If you work in a part of the economy that needs your specialized abilities...

JimT wrote: ↑Sat May 02, 2026 6:08 pm Yessir ... I believe it was! Thank you.

Youŕ're welcome. I still have a couple rifles he gifted me for the boys. A Haenel 10 meter pellet rifle he'd cut down for his kids and a Winchester 67 he'd done the same to. He was a meticulous workman.

Thanks fellas. Jim, where did you find an 8-inch barrel? Carry it in an X-15? John Linebaugh got it from an old gunsmith in Montrose, Colorado who bored and rifled barrels. He was fairly famous years ago for his barrels but I don't remember his name anymore. It was hand-cut and hand-lapped. The bor...

I have read the Borax kills ants. If you pour it out to where they get it on their feet they take it back to the nest and it kills them too. Not sure if it is internet lore or not but here is the AI take on it. "Borax is a highly effective, slow-acting stomach poison for ants, typically killin...

Glad to, Scott.

My father-in-law had one put in a few years ago, it gave him a new lease on life and almost a bounce to his step. Last year he had it replaced and the new technology really kicked him into overdrive. May your Dad have a similar result!

I'm only vaguely familiar with them, but they are a huge problem and are even implicated in the decline of quail populations is some areas. Ankles got chewed up once while clearing brush in the alley behind my home in Sweetwater. Amazing that they crawl onto you and then wait until one signals &quo...

I wouldn't recommend this in a wall or other structure, but for fire ants in a field or yard?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI

I am thinking of applying for an Agricultural Exemption on our property taxes. We have so many Fire Ant colonies we are now supporting that it's awful! So far everything I have tried using to kill them has not worked. Except gasoline. And that kills the ground for several years where ever you pour ...

That first quote always reminds me of the first cartridge firing pistol I ever owned, a glorious little Rossi double barrel derringer. It was only slightly more effective than Twain's revolver, due to the more potent LR cartridge is shot. So the two barrels about equaled the seven shots Twain had! A...

I didn't hear a voice answer but the thought that came suddenly was "Mankind was created for eternity. It would not matter how long we lived if we feel this life is all there is. It would never be long enough." I remember my dad's last words to me, back in '93. "I won't be around lon...

. According to my mother-in-law, that means in 10 years you're going to be OLD.... :lol: I say that because on her 80th birthday, we asked her how she felt to be old, and she said " I won't be old until I'm 90... !" 8) According to my dad, "The good thing about turning 50 is you know...

Scott Tschirhart wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2026 2:56 pm MY RIFLE HAS BEEN FOUND!!!!

I made the claim and in less than two hours my rifle was located and the gunsmith has it in his possession.

All is good.

Great news!

You would think that the whole point of having 12-15 years of post-high-school education would be to build a solid foundation of knowledge upon which physicians could build over the years, constantly learning and adapting and researching, and improving health care delivery. But instead, they seem t...

Feliz aniversario, irmão! Que Deus te siga abençoando!

Some folks have nothing useful to contribute.

Seems like a woman's issue, so not really my problem I have been a member of this website for a long time, and there are a lot of threads that don't apply to me. Calibers that I don't reload, etc. When I see a post that isn't interesting to me, I just move on without comment, because I figure that ...

Just saw a post of his on LinkedIn, so he's still around.

A better photo A few years ago I was visiting Mic over in Cortez. He turned some pillars for me on his lathe and we bedded the action on my old P17. The original sporter stock had started to split at the rear but with Mic's help we got it fitted up "better than new". Looking forward to se...

A quarter of a century ago I stopped at JT's place in Boise. He took me to his range and we had a grand time. While there I set up a target at 25 or 50 yards, I forget which at this point. I found my 45 Colt Vaquero was hitting to the left. So I took the target and the revolver to Shapel's gunsmith ...

I know there's another thread on here, about this, but I just got to ask, does anyone know what is going on with the site? The last several days, maybe longer, it's been really hit and miss as to when I can even get on here. And then sometimes it runs really slow if at all, once I do finally get it...

I wonder if the model 24 specific forum at milesfortis.us is still operating. There used to be lively discussions and information posted on the diverse models produced over the decades. There is a way to get into an over-under 30-30 that is reasonably sight regulated by starting with the very rare ...

Impressed that it's got wifi included...

Hadn't heard they were bringing out such a critter. I'm guessing it's geared towards smooth bore. Is it designed to load in a shot cup, or just loaded over an over powder wad? NOE's got a great rep in molds, looking forward to what you may discover with this one.

If you haven't read "The Attack" by Kurt Schlicter I highly recommend it. If you don't follow Sarah Adams on IG or X I recommend you do. She's been shouting from the rooftops about our vulnerabilities in the US, and the planned Mumbai/October 7th style terror attack in America. The upcomi...

That is the most annoying part of the Lee hand press, having to remove the shell holder to dump the spent primers. That's an interesting mod. Do you decap over a tub or how do you catch the primers?

My Dad's formative years were around Globe and he was always going on and on about the region. We had oodles of Zane Grey novels and some of them featured parts of Arizona. But I grew up in the Amazon Basin and recall the first time he took us to Globe. Now I see the beauty, but then? "Haven't ...

I have read all of the J.T. Edson books. My nom-de-guerre here comes from the name of my favorite character. Edson was an Englishman, never visited the American west, but was the third-most prolific western writer during the heyday of the westerns (well behind LL, but that is to be expected). One o...

The Louis L'Amour novel I recall mentioning a revolving shotgun, not a pistol. and if I recall right he had to manually rotate the cylinder. But it's been a LOT of years ago since I read it. Can't recall off the top of my head which one it was (novel that is).

Thought I was the only one loaded that way. Never had an issue either. Don't recall where I learned it, but it goes back to my first single action, a German built 22 with a weird "safety" that was a hammer block one could manually push down to keep the hammer from contacting the firing pin...

Living by integrity and honor doesn't mean perfection, not by any means. But it lays out guidelines that help us along the way. One must have an idea of what one is attempting to achieve, and then live each day doing one's best to do better than yesterday. The first two verses of the 12th chapter of...

I know families that raise their children with these principles. And families that do not. But there are more families that DO teach integrity and honor than many in today's society realize. They don't make waves. They make a difference. A positive difference.

Recently there was a post on men and boys that brought out some interesting thoughts on the topic of what it means to be a man or a boy in today's society. Me? I figure society may have changed, but the need for integrity has not. Here's an extract of an email sent to a list I've been on for the pas...

The United States has become a place
where entertainers and professional athletes
are mistaken for people of importance.

~ Robert Heinlein

A neat calendar. But to point out something ... EVERY non-leap year February has every weekday in it 4 times. 7 days x 4 weeks = 28 days What is special about this years February is that each day in the calendar (if you are using one like the one in the OP) is lined up vertically. That doesn't happ...

@Safestuffer , Interesting how your entire paradigm is built upon the exact opposite of "the golden rule". Who I am and choose to be does not depend on others. It depends on who I am inside and lived out in my life. To live one's life based on whether other's "deserve" our best b...

I heard an interesting take on marriage and monogamy. Simply put, marriage is an institution of women, by women and for women. From a reproductive standpoint marriage isn't necessary. Marriage simply provides security for women. Whether that be in the form of a living space, food or safety from pre...

Social and cultural incentives alone are not good motivators. If a person has nothing internally then that's about all that is left. But if a person is not motivated to act by those outside things, then they act because of what they have internally, which would be their belief system or world view....

Glad you made it home in one piece! It always amuses me to hear folks up north complain about the "horrible roads"... you oughta come drive some of our toll roads here in Coffee Country! There's not a toll anywhere in the country under $2 US per 30 mile stretch, and many of them are well o...

Great story but I hate when the AI is too stupid to pronounce someone's name correctly .........🤔 I can't help but wonder how bad their own reading skills are that they'd depend on AI for proper emphasis and pronunciation. Like my dad used to say, "You need to learn the proper em-PHA-sis on th...

Way back in the early days of the century we had an opportunity for the first "family hunt" since we were kids. My cousin was up from Brazil, we were up from Coffee Country and so we got together with my brother and my sons and my cousin. Didn't have enough guns to go around at the time wi...

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