Forum rules
Welcome to the Leverguns.Com General Discussions Forum. This is a high-class place so act respectable. We discuss most anything here other than politics... politely.
Please post political post in the new Politics forum.
Having lost just about everything I owned in the recent Carr Fire here in Shasta County, I've been feeling pretty low. About two weeks after the fire there was a Friends of NRA dinner scheduled, and I was urged by a family friend to attend. She had purchased a corporate table and had seats available for my wife and I at no cost to us. We decided that getting out might be a good thing so we went.
I had promised myself not to go buying a bunch of raffle tickets as I never win anything anyway. I did purchase tickets for a few of the side drawings where I thought the odds were more favorable. Lo and behold, on one of the very first drawings, I won a combination prize consisting of a Montana Silversmith "Friends of NRA" belt buckle and money clip, along with a brand new Leupold RX-1200i rnage finder and an incredibly nice Kimber Custom II pistol in .45 ACP, complete with laser grips.
I gotta say that went a heck of a long way toward cheering me up!
Shasta
California Rifle & Pistol Association LIFE Member
National Rifle Association BENEFACTOR LIFE Member
Maybe that is a sign that things are going to get better. Prayers for your situation sent.
D. Brian Casady
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
My heart goes out to you. I know exactly how you feel. We burned to the ground April 19, 1985 in Michigan. My son ,10 yrs old at the time, stood next to me in the driveway, and said "I'm gunless!" Makes you appreciate life, and just how trivial (comparatively) material things are. Kind of a tough cleansing, though. Sorry you had to go through this.
This is plagiarized from someone else, but I love it!
I was born a gun owner.
It wasn't a choice.
I didn't become one later in life.
I was born this way.
Sorry to hear this bad news, good to see it headed the right way.
An old friend collected shotguns when his son put a pan oil oil on the stove for French fries and went outside to play football. The Coleman lantern fuel blew a hole 4 ft across the foundation and melted about 40 - 50 shotguns. Red Cross was there next morning with a double wide full of clothes and food.
Glad to hear things are looking up for you Shasta!
Truely sorry about you loss.
My grandmother lived just outside of Woodfords CA, every spring my uncle would "borrow" a dozer or grader from the county road department ( he worked for the county)and recut the fire break around the property. Cant remember how many times the sage would burn right up to that break.
Shasta, can’t imagine what your going thru. It’s not much but i have a bag of 38/40 W-W brass you can have... Todd/3leg
30/30 Winchester: Not accurate enough fer varmints, barely adequate for small deer; BUT In a 10" to 14" barrelled pistol; is good for moose/elk to 200 yards; ground squirrels to 300 metres
250 Savage... its what the 223 wishes it could be...!
jnyork wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 9:07 am
Sent you a PM, Shasta.
BTW, did your range there get burned also?
Jerry, I got your PM's and much appreciate your generosity. As for the Hat Creek Rifle & Pistol Club range, it is located 60 miles east of the Carr Fire near Burney, CA, but yep, there was another fire up that way too. None of the range facilities were damaged, but some grass and brush did go up in flames. It's been so smokey around here that I haven't seen a night time star in over a month!
California Rifle & Pistol Association LIFE Member
National Rifle Association BENEFACTOR LIFE Member
I had the honor of firing in the first (IIRC) high power rifle silhouette match held there at Hat Creek. I was attending the Lassen College school of gunsmithing at the time there in Susanville, a group of us from the class came up there to shoot. It would have been the first silhouette match of that type for most of us. This was in about 1980 +/- a year or so. Range was still under construction , dirt work underway, ram targets hiding up in the trees. None of us covered ourselves with glory scorewise, but a good time was had by all and we got to support the people who were building the range. Good memory.