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- Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Baseball fans here?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1571
Re: Baseball fans here?
Another iconoclast! How many pints would we need to drink for you to explain cricket to me, John? Guinness, room temperature of course.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Baseball fans here?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1571
Re: Baseball fans here?
Will, you iconoclast, you! :lol: I don't know how many games of whiffle ball we played in the street as kids, with chalk-marked bases and somebody yelling "CAR" every minute or two. Never been much of a racing fan, although I like to watch the horses run -- and I will watch the TT motorcyc...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Baseball fans here?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1571
Baseball fans here?
It's funny, but it's not so much that I love baseball as it is loving the idea of loving baseball. I usually don't pay much attention until the Series starts, but the world seems a better place when spring training is underway. A half century ago, a Saturday was incomplete without having a Giants ga...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Missed it by that much!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 567
Re: Missed it by that much!
Sorry Ted. I miss my Bulldog.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT, post and beam
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5924
Re: OT, post and beam
I'll take a stall, and prefer my grain fermented and filtered, with a drop of rainwater ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: OT, post and beam
- Replies: 67
- Views: 5924
Re: OT, post and beam
What a wonderful space you guys have created!
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: CZ Bobwhite Project Upland 12 Ga SxS, "Ugly Duckling"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 356
Re: CZ Bobwhite Project Upland 12 Ga SxS, "Ugly Duckling"
Sorry you had to suffer that disappointment Darryl, but I hope the restored and properly oiled CZ gives you some nice memories in the field. I've been daydreaming about the Bobwhites myself.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Home defense without a firearm IS possible...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 573
Re: Home defense without a firearm IS possible...
This is simply excellent guidance. I will forward to my "progressive" friends.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: That Adams percussion repro ...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 401
That Adams percussion repro ...
The reproduction of this very interesting British .442 revolver from the 1850s by Arsa in Spain is slowly proceeding. Initial pricing of 1,000 € puts it out of my league, but I sure would love to see and handle one. More in this thread over at Britishmilitaria ... https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/bri...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: IN THE PAST .......
- Replies: 7
- Views: 742
Re: IN THE PAST .......
Jim, hand me a sign. I'll march.
Ray, my father would start laughing just thinking about "Golf Without Tears." Huge Wodehouse fan.
As to Hugh Laurie and Steven Fry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWpHQQ-wQg
Ray, my father would start laughing just thinking about "Golf Without Tears." Huge Wodehouse fan.
As to Hugh Laurie and Steven Fry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWpHQQ-wQg
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Sage learned a hard lesson today!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1232
Re: Sage learned a hard lesson today!
Will, when I first knew my ex she had a retriever pup from a kennel involved in Gerald Ford's dog. That puppy chewed up the hot tub edges and cover then went to work on dismantling the heat pump wiring. How that boy survived is beyond me.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Weirdness with Altamont Grips
- Replies: 7
- Views: 796
Weirdness with Altamont Grips
I have bought their grips several times over the years and have been quite pleased for the price. There was some sort of change in the company a while back with the result that for a long time their grip selection contracted mightily -- and most of those shown were "temporarily unavailable,&quo...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:59 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The GForce 1892 Copy in 357
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2655
Re: The GForce 1892 Copy in 357
One thing the Turks have access to is some very nice walnut.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Aluminum receivers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1024
Re: Aluminum receivers
I think the SAAMI pressure standard for .357 is 45,000. SAAMI for the 5.56 NATO is 58,000, but of course the aluminum AR receiver is built around a far different locking design. I'll be curious how the Huckleberries in aluminum hold up.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1385
Re: Marlin JM 2001 336W, 30-30, with “Texan” /straight stock
That came out just dandy!
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:00 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lost a Good One (taught me how to shoot)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 903
Re: Lost a Good One (taught me how to shoot)
Wow. What a legacy. A born teacher and obviously a very good man. Glad you had him in your life, Doc.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: are Rossis getting better?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2933
Re: are Rossis getting better?
Doc, one of the other customers in the shop at the time said he was tempted to buy it as a collector's item.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: are Rossis getting better?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2933
Re: are Rossis getting better?
I'd like to handle a current production Rossi side by side with the new GForce Huckleberry steel version. The Huckleberry is just a bit lower in price. I ordered one maybe 30 years ago in .44-40 when Interarms of Virginia was importing the Rossi brand. The gunshop owner in Medford and I were astonis...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I wonder if it is like this
- Replies: 5
- Views: 784
I wonder if it is like this
There is a nine-page thread of prayers for a critically ill little girl named Olivia over on the Texas Hunting Forum. She had been admitted in early January, and died in a Houston hospital yesterday afternoon. One of the fellas put up this image of what it is like to come home to the Christ. I find ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I lost my willie
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1722
Re: I lost my willie
Losing a dog is a very hard thing, but you can have a horse for half your life.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Went to a gun show today
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1917
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 25 yard standing offhand rimfire challenge
- Replies: 6
- Views: 571
Re: 25 yard standing offhand rimfire challenge
Excellent! Darn, that Rossi looks nice. What is it capable of when benched?
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Went to a gun show today
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1917
Re: Went to a gun show today
Liking that hammer double, Jay.
I am working the ticket booth from 3 to 6 today at our Sweetwater show, and will stick my nose in the door and look around before I start my shift.
Guessing there were good hauls of rattlesnakes for the roundup, thanks to those temps in the 80s last week.
I am working the ticket booth from 3 to 6 today at our Sweetwater show, and will stick my nose in the door and look around before I start my shift.
Guessing there were good hauls of rattlesnakes for the roundup, thanks to those temps in the 80s last week.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:03 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Last Outlaw movie review
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1994
Re: The Last Outlaw movie review
Scott, it sounds like they needed to hire Mike Venturino to coach them on shooting single shots. He worked with Tom Selleck on "Quigley Down Under."
I can handle Sharps rifles and revolvers fine. But I stay well hidden when seated on a horse, as it is just too hilarious a show.
I can handle Sharps rifles and revolvers fine. But I stay well hidden when seated on a horse, as it is just too hilarious a show.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My patient needed her Backup Gun
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1975
Re: My patient needed her Backup Gun
I looked closely at the Abbott stimulator the pain doc in Alamogordo was pushing. I did a fair amount of online research. But combined with my neurosurgeon's advice based on what he had seen, and statistics such as these from what I consider reliable sources, I decided against one. I did not appreci...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Colt 1872 Open Top
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1012
Re: Colt 1872 Open Top
Ray, I had one I got from Buffalo Arms some years ago in .44 Russian. Possibly the most pleasant sixgun I have owned -- and accurate to boot.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Texas Independence Day!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1011
Re: Texas Independence Day!
Blackhawk, I have seen those three words attributed to a great Texas hero, Deaf Smith.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
- Replies: 9
- Views: 731
Re: If you love a Savage Model 99
Ray, surely there's a photo of your 99!
Grizz, I had an uncle who lived in Black Canyon City, but I never got off road in that country.
Grizz, I had an uncle who lived in Black Canyon City, but I never got off road in that country.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Ji, you are moving along at a good clip in that short! Beautiful waters you are fishing there.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
- Replies: 9
- Views: 731
Re: If you love a Savage Model 99
Grizz, my grandparents started a ranch under the Mogollon Rim in the Tonto Basin near present Young before World War I. I visited once ten years ago, and it is very interesting country, with human history that goes back probably to the last Ice Age.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:40 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wildfire
- Replies: 5
- Views: 288
Re: Wildfire
Saw that as well. A fire victim has already fired the first lawsuit against EXCEL. This is what started the deadly fire that destroyed Paradise, California.
Ultimately it will be the ratepayers on the hook.
Ultimately it will be the ratepayers on the hook.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My patient needed her Backup Gun
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1975
Re: My patient needed her Backup Gun
Doc, maybe there is justice in the world ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: If you love a Savage Model 99
- Replies: 9
- Views: 731
If you love a Savage Model 99
You'll love this one. Not trying to sell it for the guy, but wow what a beauty!
https://forums.accuratereloading.com/ev ... 9061064772
https://forums.accuratereloading.com/ev ... 9061064772
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:44 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Parker, CZ and Winchester
- Replies: 4
- Views: 320
Re: Parker, CZ and Winchester
Will, you have wonderfully long seasons. Back in Oregon pheasant season was just a couple of months long, starting in October.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
Ji, I watched a segment of that classic. Imagine being lowered with your dory, lines, hooks and baits to spend the next 12 hours alone on a heaving sea handlining cod, and doing it again day after day. I confess to getting motion sickness at the drop of a hat all my life, so just that alone -- the s...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Soothing.....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 471
Re: Soothing.....
Ray, she has a classic country voice. Was it this show?
https://www.pbs.org/video/tate-emmons-d ... no-tlriry/
https://www.pbs.org/video/tate-emmons-d ... no-tlriry/
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
For an in-depth look at the Portuguese dory fishermen off the Grand Banks, it is hard to beat Alan Villiers' "Quest of the Schooner Argus," and of course there is Rudyard Kipling's classic "Captains Courageous." By the way, the 1937 movie of the same name with Spencer Tracy and L...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wildfire
- Replies: 5
- Views: 288
Re: Wildfire
The big one, the Smokehouse Creek Fire was still at 1,076,638 and 15 percent contained, with cause under investigation per the Texas A&M Forest Service this morning.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bluebonnets
- Replies: 9
- Views: 597
Re: Bluebonnets
WOW! There is just nothing to compare with the spring wildflower season in Texas.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bluebonnets
- Replies: 9
- Views: 597
Re: Bluebonnets
Lovely, and what a sweet-looking pup, too. Did you just take these Scott? Are they already blooming down your way?
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4983
Re: For the "Old Iron" nerds out there
I think the St. Pierre has the most glorious sheerlines of all the dories.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 709
Re: 80 Years Ago -- U.S. Fighters Over Berlin!
Just a wonderful post and tribute, Darryl. Dad was in the 97th Infantry, but all four of Mom's brothers Army Air Corps. The guy on the left here is my Uncle Milton. His B-17, the Sad Sack, was in the 91st Bomb Wing, 324th Squadron based at RAF Bassingbourn. The Memphis Belle was in this squadron. Mi...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Excellent Service from Bravo Concealment Holsters...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 424
Re: Excellent Service from Bravo Concealment Holsters...
Will, I won't starve right off, that's for sure!
The kydex isn't very appealing, but it is very tough, durable and easy to fit to your gun.
The kydex isn't very appealing, but it is very tough, durable and easy to fit to your gun.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Excellent Service from Bravo Concealment Holsters...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 424
Re: Excellent Service from Bravo Concealment Holsters...
Doc, do you carry with the pancake loops or the paddle attachments? I bought a couple of IWB holsters recently and they are uncomfortable as my paints don't have much give at the waist as I seem to be packing a little extra these days, and I am not talking additional ammunition. I bought a leather D...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New To Me Winchesters
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1430
Re: New To Me Winchesters
Absolutely love the buttstock configuration on the .25-35.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 70-150 winchester video
- Replies: 9
- Views: 619
Re: 70-150 winchester video
Not for me either, Grizz. Much more than 25 foot-pounds of recoil and I fly the white flag these days.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New Garmin Zero chronograph
- Replies: 4
- Views: 391
Re: New Garmin Zero chronograph
I'm envious. I wish the price would come down. Making do with a ProChrono currently.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking at a Kimber 1911
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3918
Re: Looking at a Kimber 1911
Jason, on that same forum you will find a subforum dedicated to the RIA/Armscor guns (and one dedicated to Tisas). The only 10s I have owned were Glock Model 40 MOS longslides. I have been favorably impressed by the Tisas 1911s and am looking hard at the bob-tailed lightweight commander-sized Stingr...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: More Confederates in my blood
- Replies: 3
- Views: 335
Re: More Confederates in my blood
The interesting thing I am finding, chasing these ghosts through Find-a-Grave links, is reading about the lives my Confederates led after the war. Here's an example, a sketch of great-great Uncle James, the one shot in the head, written for his grandson who died at 21 and lies in Mt. Olivet in Forth...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Went to a gun show today
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1917
Re: Went to a gun show today
I'll be volunteering at the Sweetwater Rifle and Pistol Club show next weekend. It is held in conjunction with the Rattlesnake Roundup right next door. I am told it is a good one. The next one in Abilene will be in June.