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by OJ
Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Date night ideas?
Replies: 41
Views: 4525

Re: Date night ideas?

Well, you are so young, let :) me thonk ... Thanks OC for reminding me to add I'm only 86 - I may change my habits when I get old - with a bride taht looked like this 33 years ago - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/MAY81980.jpg And now 33 years later - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2...
by OJ
Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:45 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Date night ideas?
Replies: 41
Views: 4525

Re: Date night ideas?

We go to the zoo and to her home town of Cripple creek ( her dad owned the pool hall and they lived on the second floor so she literally grew up in a pool hall) - eat out a different restaurants but at 5:00 PM to miss the crowds - plus - we go out to breakfast every week.
by OJ
Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: You motor cycle guys.........
Replies: 21
Views: 2305

Re: You motor cycle guys.........

OJ, now THAT is a Real Motorcycle !!!!! Cheers, Carl 1982 BMW R65LS Thanks - I didn't mention the mods I made - engine made for high octane leaded gas - which was discontinued three years after I got it - BMW suggested thicker base gaskets but you don't buy a performance machine like that and reduc...
by OJ
Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: You motor cycle guys.........
Replies: 21
Views: 2305

Re: You motor cycle guys.........

Broke my heart when, at age 83, I had to give up my motorcycling because my knees were wearing out and no longer could stand the weight of my beloved bike - this , my 30th bike - a BMW 1977 R100S - for reference, the first 1000cc bike BMW ever made and deviated from the standard "old man's tour...
by OJ
Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO, OJ, Rustolium & ndcowboy.
Replies: 18
Views: 2995

Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO, OJ, Rustolium & ndcowboy.

Truth be known, just reaching #86 makes me feel happy - I can still enjoy my shooting every week but had to give up skiing and my beloved BMW R100S motorcycle - have a happy marriage and social life - good dog and good guns - lever guns and 1911 Colt Government Model 45 ACP pistols - play catch with...
by OJ
Wed Aug 29, 2012 1:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Old bikers getting killed
Replies: 83
Views: 8238

Re: Old bikers getting killed

Looking back, I see I forgot (age related memory) a couple of things I wanted to mention - one is, as a surgeon working in several hospitals, there was always room in the doctor's parking lot for my bike - :wink: The other is - I spent over a couple of thousand hours in this - and similar - vehicles...
by OJ
Wed Aug 29, 2012 1:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Old bikers getting killed
Replies: 83
Views: 8238

Re: Old bikers getting killed

Speaking as a rider who started riding and ancient HD (suicide clutch model - cost me and my roommates $5 - total $15) in 1940 and since has owned and ridden 16 bikes - at least half dirt bikes - with no accidents involving other vehicles and only injuries self inflicted - on dirt bikes in the wild ...
by OJ
Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Anyone else here feeding hummers?
Replies: 45
Views: 5627

Re: Anyone else here feeding hummers?

We have a few here in Colorado Springs and it is nearing the time until they migrate here from the mountains before going south - we love'em. For the first time ever, we have one that seems to enjoy a social relationship with out Boxer - in the bay window - flying back and forth and having our littl...
by OJ
Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO, OJ, Rustolium & ndcowboy.
Replies: 18
Views: 2995

Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO, OJ, Rustolium & ndcowboy.

Thanks, guys it's been a great trip President Coolidge's wife Grace holding me on my first - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/MRSCOOLIDGE.jpg With my first 22 rifle for 6th birthday - circa 1932 - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/RIFLES/Jackatage6WhitmanNE.jpg Our Battalion Sur...
by OJ
Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Yard Deer
Replies: 20
Views: 2533

Re: Yard Deer

cool pics, about keeping deer out of your yard, I thought I would share this. My wife was lamenting about how the deer eat everything we plant, etc, etc, to someone, forget who - anyways, this lady says that she has found the best and cheapest solution to this problem. she went to (Walmart maybe?) ...
by OJ
Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Another 1911
Replies: 18
Views: 2084

Re: Another 1911

Ysabel Kid wrote:
BlaineG wrote:Call the PO-lice. You done thieved that'un. :mrgreen:
Wow! +1

I'll give you $605 for it, just to relieve your conscious... :wink:
I'd even go up to $650 - based on your promise to not reprt me to any LEO - I guess laws against stealing aren't enforced where you live !!

:roll:
by OJ
Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Humor: Opposites
Replies: 7
Views: 1350

Re: Humor: Opposites

To the third student, from Thu University of Texas in Austin, he asked, What is the opposite of woe? The student replied, that would be Giddy up! ............................... WHAT ? - ;) . :mrgreen: . Well - I grew up in ranching country - Nebraska Sandhills - in the 1930s and was almost 16 when...
by OJ
Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Yard Deer
Replies: 20
Views: 2533

Re: Yard Deer

Thanks for the great pics - we have these friends in our back yard also - keeping the buffalo grass from getting too long - sometimes even napping - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/ANIMALS/Buck01.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/ANIMALS/IMG_1760.jpg http://i2.photobucket.c...
by OJ
Sat Aug 04, 2012 11:30 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ever shoot a SKUNK...?
Replies: 31
Views: 3700

Re: Ever shoot a SKUNK...?

My little girl Mastiff Belle (OK - 150# - little for her breed) got "skunked" in our back yard so I washed her clean in the bath tub. The following week, the same thing happened and I opined I would have to shoot that skunk. My wife assured me I wouldn't have to do that - pointing at the d...
by OJ
Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cowboy boots?
Replies: 37
Views: 6861

Re: Cowboy boots?

OJ, do those boots have a model name other than Chippewas? I wasn't kidding when I said I was jealous. I looked at the Chippewas Webb site and didn't see anything that really looked like your boot. I been looking for something similar for some time. I was just in Casper, WY and in Cheyenne for Fron...
by OJ
Mon Jul 30, 2012 5:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cowboy boots?
Replies: 37
Views: 6861

Re: Cowboy boots?

FWIW - I was nearly 16 years old when my folks moved to the city and I found out there were other ways to make a living than being a cowboy. However, my cowboy years were in the "great" depression and, most of the time, I couldn't afford real cowboy boots - so, when I got a pair, I wore t...
by OJ
Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 10 Commandments for My Daughter's Potential Boyfriend
Replies: 30
Views: 3142

Re: 10 Commandments for My Daughter's Potential Boyfriend

I hope you'll excuse this incident this thread reminded me of - I grew up in the Nebraska Sandhills - way out in the country - so growing boys well knew any father of any girl they dated - plus our "sex education' was our cattle breeding system and we didn't need any warning - plus, we already ...
by OJ
Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 10 Commandments for My Daughter's Potential Boyfriend
Replies: 30
Views: 3142

Re: 10 Commandments for My Daughter's Potential Boyfriend

Great thread and posts - - way back in the first half of the last century - we, as growing boys enamored by girls ( there were no "pills" then) took seriously the motto of a grocery store chain - Miller Supermarkets - with regard to their only then competition - "There is NO SAFEWAY&q...
by OJ
Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:19 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A little Foolishness at my old age...
Replies: 9
Views: 1634

Re: A little Foolishness at my old age...

This was just about as foolish as the time I caught my thumb in the breechbolt of an M-1 Garand rifle in front of witnesses. I wanted to scream so bad that time but I held my breath and watched the little geyser of blood erupt from my broken thumnail... I'll bet some of you have been there. That ha...
by OJ
Sat Jul 28, 2012 11:38 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tell me about fast draw shooting
Replies: 11
Views: 1850

Re: Tell me about fast draw shooting

Fast draw shooting was popular some years ago and a lot of guys shot themselves in the leg doing it. One of those guys tried to pretend he did it by making a short knife cut at his knee and pushing a pellet just under the skin - and coming into the ER for treatment - drugs & free stay in hospita...
by OJ
Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS
Replies: 29
Views: 3957

Re: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS

I see my post on visitors in my back yard looked sexist - all males - but, we have some females also- http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/ANIMALS/IMG_1584.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/ANIMALS/IMG_1580.jpg And, this guy didn't understand my Mastiff puppies just wanted to pl...
by OJ
Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:43 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cowboy boots?
Replies: 37
Views: 6861

Re: Cowboy boots?

FWIW - I was nearly 16 years old when my folks moved to the city and I found out there were other ways to make a living than being a cowboy. However, my cowboy years were in the "great" depression and, most of the time, I couldn't afford real cowboy boots - so, when I got a pair, I wore th...
by OJ
Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:05 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS
Replies: 29
Views: 3957

Re: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS

OJ which hospital in Detroit did you intern at? I worked in the carpenter shop at Henry Ford Hosp in 1969-71 .. worked on hanging doors and general repair in every dept from the delivery rooms to the morgue..(that about says it all) Glad to be away from that S#^& hole of a city..out here where ...
by OJ
Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS
Replies: 29
Views: 3957

Re: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS

I have been hunting along the front range for 60 years and know every big game animal, those are young imature big horn sheep. Goats are white as shown in the picture in a previous post. Goats become very unafraid of people very quickly, if you want to see them up close go to the summit of Mt Evans...
by OJ
Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:55 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS
Replies: 29
Views: 3957

Re: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS

OJ, thanks for the cool photos. I used to fish up that way on the Frying Pan as a young man. Would like to take the kids up there to show em some mountains. I always look forward to your posts and opinions on this forum and have for years. Thanks for the kind words - we don't even have to leave hom...
by OJ
Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Nephew shot in Aurora
Replies: 41
Views: 4475

Re: Nephew shot in Aurora

The theater had no choice and shouldn't be blamed. Colorado has the concealed carry law which specifically stipulated no smaller community can pass more restrictive legislation but both Denver and Aurora have more restrictive laws - which they claim to be legal because they are "home rule citie...
by OJ
Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS
Replies: 29
Views: 3957

Re: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS

Your pix are Rocky Mt. Bighorn sheep... ewes and lamb .. young rams also look like that.. only after two or three are rams horns getting large enough to be noticed. Thanks for shareing... Les http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/ANIMALS/MG01.jpg COUPLE OF GUYS AND THEIR GALS http://i2.photob...
by OJ
Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS
Replies: 29
Views: 3957

Re: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS

I've been wanting to go to Cripple Creek for the past year. I just found out my grandfather lived and died there. He was a very well liked blacksmith in town. Neat history in Cripple Creek. Sounds like it was a wild place during it's peak mining days. Just got back from Glenwood Springs and my brot...
by OJ
Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:03 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS
Replies: 29
Views: 3957

Re: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS

[ b] "Despite its name, the mountain goat is actually a member of the antelope family. It has a long face, long black horns and a short tail. Both males and females have beard-like hair on their chins. The mountain goat sports a coat of wooly, white fur that keeps it warm at high elevations. Th...
by OJ
Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS
Replies: 29
Views: 3957

Re: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS

Bighorn sheep ! Those appear to be ewes =though the littlest one could be a ram-in which case he would be expected to develop massive curled horns. Ovis canadensis --bighorn Neat animals. Mountain goats typically are whiter in color, have short dark horns and show a beard on their chinny chin chins...
by OJ
Sun Jul 22, 2012 5:36 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS
Replies: 29
Views: 3957

Re: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS

goats? maybe sheep? glad you had a good time , any road. :mrgreen: Technically, I think you may be correct - they probably are of the sheep family - out here, though, we think of sheep as those magnificant Bighorns and these little timid guys as goats - they are fun to watch and - they blend in wit...
by OJ
Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS
Replies: 29
Views: 3957

VERY TIMID MOUNTAIN GOATS

My wife, Bonnie, is a native -she grew up in Cripple Creek, Colorado, and her high school holds a reunion every year. Some friends ask if the gambling ruined the town but her answer is clearly it saved a dying community and now, mining has returned. End result is there are good hotels and restaurant...
by OJ
Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Older Eyes/ Aperture sights...
Replies: 33
Views: 4923

Re: Older Eyes/ Aperture sights...

Aperture sights work for me and my 86 year old eyes - seeing 20/30/ after removal of cataracts but i have a very small amount of ARMD (age related macular degeneration) meaning there is that very small spot in the center of vision of my right eye - unfortunately, that just happens to be where the fr...
by OJ
Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: An alternate look at handgun stopping power
Replies: 26
Views: 4078

Re: An alternate look at handgun stopping power

Articles like that are always interesting - but - always leave some question in my mind. I spent a year as an intern at what was then the county hospital for the Detroit area and five years as a surgical resident in what was in the 1950s - one of the best in the country. Nearly 25% of our surgery - ...
by OJ
Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: An alternate look at handgun stopping power
Replies: 26
Views: 4078

Re: An alternate look at handgun stopping power

Studies and reports like that one have always been interesting to me - particularly reporting high figures for the effectiveness of 22 rimfire. I served my internship plus five years surgical residency at the county hospital for the Detroit area and we saw a ton of gun shot wounds. I had gone to U o...
by OJ
Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:06 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: It's HOT!!!
Replies: 26
Views: 2058

Re: It's HOT!!!

The fire west of Colorado Springs has reached the west side of town and destroyed Flying W Ranch as well as many homes - area west of I-25 evacuated - here's what the fire looked like last evening from my back yard some 15 miles from the fire. No wind this AM looks good but, we're not out of trouble...
by OJ
Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Notifications not working?
Replies: 6
Views: 1196

Re: Notifications not working?

It's not a problem that bothers me since I check my forums daily but, my notifications come somewhat spotty - no pattern I can see but I only get about half of them - same email address for years and no other changes.
by OJ
Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Little mule deer buck
Replies: 11
Views: 1571

Re: Little mule deer buck

Nice peace of the world you have there OJ :D Thanks - I lucked out - the Realtor was a good friend. I was still practicing surgery and had a choice house on the golf course of the Country Club where I was a member but quickly found out what a terrible choice that was - no privacy and my fellow club...
by OJ
Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:27 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Getting old and the black dog...
Replies: 40
Views: 3532

Re: Getting old and the black dog...

Without loading you with any details, I graduated from med school in 1952 - and, it's been my experience - personal and with my patients - that yellow stuff referred to in the "golden years" contains more rust than gold. That said, on Wednesday I'll be at a memorial service for a very clos...
by OJ
Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Has Anyone Seen My Wife's Lipstick ?
Replies: 10
Views: 1730

Re: Has Anyone Seen My Wife's Lipstick ?

We adopted this little (then) Boxer girl at estimated age 2 months - and NOTHING was safe - http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/DOGS/IMG_2369.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/DOGS/IMG_0052.jpg Now - about 95% trained - she catches tennis balls in mid air - http://i2.photobucke...
by OJ
Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Favorite?
Replies: 22
Views: 2198

Re: Favorite?

Love my 94s in 30-30 http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/RIFLES/IMG_2491.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/RIFLES/AWINCHESTER942.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/RIFLES/003.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmastf/RIFLES/BUFFALOBILL94A.jpg But, my 95 in 30...
by OJ
Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:45 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Little mule deer buck
Replies: 11
Views: 1571

Re: Little mule deer buck

I have - for me anyway - the world's best home lot. When I bought it in 1975, the north city limit was 2 blocks away - now, I'm told, the geographic center of town is less than 2 miles east of me - because of geography, city can only expand east and north. The good news is that the wooded 22 acres b...
by OJ
Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:29 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What`s some of your best lever action books ?
Replies: 38
Views: 2754

Re: What`s some of your best lever action books ?

North Cape Publications has a three book series on lever guns - best manuals I've seen on lever guns

Vol 1 - 1866, 1873, & 1876;
Vol 2 - 1866& 1892
Vol 3 - 1894 & 1895.

https://www.northcapepubs.com/
by OJ
Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:09 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Some girls along the road
Replies: 12
Views: 2250

Re: Some girls along the road

These girls frequent my front and back yard (house was north edge of town when I bought it in 1975 - now I'm told the geographic center of town is less than two miles east of house - do have some 20 acres of wooded space back of us - will never be developed) http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/kmas...
by OJ
Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:38 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How many Winchester 95 shooters are out there
Replies: 46
Views: 6933

Re: How many Winchester 95 shooters are out there

I had a 30-40 for a time but my "over 50" eyesight was no match for the iron sights so I traded it off. So it goes. TR Yep - those who refer to aging as "the golden years" are really still young and those of us in those years realize that yellow stuff isn't really gold - IT'S RU...
by OJ
Sun Jun 03, 2012 2:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Coolest Airplane you ever flew or flew in
Replies: 70
Views: 7981

Re: Coolest Airplane you ever flew or flew in

OJ, i believe this is a super cub, a guy not to far from me owns it and it has real low hours on it. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/InTheWind/sub%20album%201/SDC10563.jpg Yep - you are correct. The Super Cub was under rated by most modern day pilots with their tricycle gear plane and they d...
by OJ
Sun Jun 03, 2012 12:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Can Win 95 w/ rebounding hammer&tang saety be "fixed?"
Replies: 4
Views: 1118

Re: Can Win 95 w/ rebounding hammer&tang saety be "fixed?"

Image

My man had me "fixed" - I wasn't broken - and I haven't been the same - since it amounted to removing valuable parts.

Do you really want that rifle "fixed"??

:mrgreen:
by OJ
Sun Jun 03, 2012 12:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Coolest Airplane you ever flew or flew in
Replies: 70
Views: 7981

Re: Coolest Airplane you ever flew or flew in

I lucked out and found this one with only FTO ( ferry time only - 20 hours ) on the Hobbs meter - belonged to a duster who never put it into service - I almost assumed they came out of the factory with a thousand or so hours. Maybe not as fancy as jets, fighter planes, etc. - but it took me into a w...
by OJ
Wed May 30, 2012 11:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: How many Winchester 95 shooters are out there
Replies: 46
Views: 6933

Re: How many Winchester 95 shooters are out there

Browning 1895 in 06 and one of the most accurate leverguns I have. Care to share the loads you are using. I have not found one my rifle likes I dunno about a Browning 95 but my Winchester 95 30-06 (made by Miroku in 1995) did this with Wolf Gold 180gr copper SP ammo when I zeroed the sights - this ...
by OJ
Mon May 28, 2012 1:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: 1895 complaint.........
Replies: 14
Views: 1979

Re: 1895 complaint.........

The phrase “throw the baby out with the bathwater” appears to be German in origin, and it essentially means that the good should not be discarded along with the bad due to inattention or haste. Before one gets a mental image of flying babies and dirty bathwater, it should be added that this term wa...