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- Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ...And that's why you don't go shooting in the desert alone.
- Replies: 65
- Views: 5590
Re: ...And that's why you don't go shooting in the desert al
I don't understand what happened. Did he announce a hold-up or were you just afraid of him because he didn't appear to have a weapon? Why was this any different than going to WalMart where you usually encounter people you don't know? What am I missing here? Is the desert one of those no-go zones lik...
- Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Time to stock up
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1062
Re: Time to stock up
Jack Paar did a piece once on a spaghetti crop failure. He got so many complaints he had to show people that spaghetti does not grown on trees but is mined from inside the earth.
- Sun Jan 18, 2015 11:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Look What I Found In An Old Log.......
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2809
Re: Look What I Found In An Old Log.......
"big sack of gold buried under there."
Was the tree at the end of a rainbow?
Was the tree at the end of a rainbow?
- Sat Jan 17, 2015 9:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wintertime Bullet Casting Question.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1958
Re: Wintertime Bullet Casting Question.
Why, thank you Sixgun. At 65 I consider myself and old fanny burp. I cast 2-3 hours at a sitting but then get bored. I use cinder blocks to divert wind wind around my electric pot. After about 10°, it becomes hard to cast with my gear because I can't keep the melt evenly heated. I try not to cast in...
- Sat Jan 17, 2015 3:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Wintertime Bullet Casting Question.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1958
Re: Wintertime Bullet Casting Question.
I was casting outside on both 12/25 & NY day. 21° on Christmas & 18° on New Year's. What's the big deal? Wear a coat.
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1943 Winchester Factory Creed.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 956
Re: 1943 Winchester Factory Creed.
"Give every working hour a full 60 minutes"
More calculated to assure maximum profits to corporation rather than success in war efforts.
Whole poster smacks of greed & profiteering rather than furtherance war time national goals.
More calculated to assure maximum profits to corporation rather than success in war efforts.
Whole poster smacks of greed & profiteering rather than furtherance war time national goals.
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 132 year old Winchester 1873 found leaning against tree.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2611
Re: 132 year old Winchester 1873 found leaning against tree.
Glad the Park Service found it instead of some low life who woulda kept it.
- Wed Jan 14, 2015 10:10 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: USAA runaround on my hunting vehicle
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1634
Re: USAA runaround on my hunting vehicle
" asking for a response within 10 days"
Sure sign of an amateur complaint. What are you gonna do to 'em if they don't get back until day 12?
Don't make any kind of threats, actual nor implied.
Sure sign of an amateur complaint. What are you gonna do to 'em if they don't get back until day 12?
Don't make any kind of threats, actual nor implied.
- Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Maine GameCam Pix
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1689
Re: Maine GameCam Pix
Nosy neighbor put a trail cam at my gate. Dog & I usually relieve ourselves after the 300 mile trip as soon as I open the gate.
Neighbor got a pic he didn't expect.
BTW, he did get a pic of another of our neighbors poaching deer inside an area posted, 'No Trespassing'
Neighbor got a pic he didn't expect.
BTW, he did get a pic of another of our neighbors poaching deer inside an area posted, 'No Trespassing'
- Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custommade cat-fur coats
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2646
Re: Custommade cat-fur coats
Posted it here from a local gunsite. It turned out to be phony but the old lady REALLY was prosecuted in GA for selling mj.
Thought you'd enjoy it here because there have been some funny anti-cat strings/comments here in the past.
Thought you'd enjoy it here because there have been some funny anti-cat strings/comments here in the past.
- Mon Jan 12, 2015 9:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What do you call a deer blind?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2588
Re: What do you call a deer blind?
Old No 7 is correct about Maine Game Warden show. Not a show I favor but they had a special about the 66 year old woman lost of the Appalachian Trail. Boston Globe had a long piece about her recently as she's still missing. We hunt from blinds, especially in -0 weather. Some few guys here hunt from ...
- Sun Jan 11, 2015 8:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What do you call a deer blind?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2588
What do you call a deer blind?
'Deer blind" is the only name I use for a structure to provide shelter from weather and observation by game. I think I have read that some folk call these structures a 'hide". Once heard a client from LA call it a 'fish house". Tonight, on TV, I heard a guy in Maine refer it to a shoo...
- Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 1830 Log Cabin Restoration.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1405
Re: 1830 Log Cabin Restoration.
Boy! Even in the 1830's, the dirtbags were stripping copper plumbing from unoccupied houses.
- Sat Jan 10, 2015 7:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Quickest, safest way to clean brass (perhaps)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 5717
Re: Quickest, safest way to clean brass (perhaps)
I'm not afraid of my wife, but I bought a used washing machine for @20 and use it for brass & other nasty, filthy stuff.
- Fri Jan 09, 2015 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custommade cat-fur coats
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2646
Re: Custommade cat-fur coats
Gotta admit seeing your own cat's hide among others from the neighborhood on one of her coats would be a unique experience.
- Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custommade cat-fur coats
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2646
- Fri Jan 09, 2015 11:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your Favorite Quotes Thread.
- Replies: 87
- Views: 9027
Re: Your Favorite Quotes Thread.
"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week."
L'audace! L'audace! Tojours, l'audace!
Geo. Patton
L'audace! L'audace! Tojours, l'audace!
Geo. Patton
- Thu Jan 08, 2015 11:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Historic English Law:
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2653
Re: Historic English Law:
"Day my church says that is the day I leave it for good..."
Bespeaks a great faith in the tenets of your religion.
Bespeaks a great faith in the tenets of your religion.
- Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is this supposed to be in Classifieds?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2347
Re: Is this supposed to be in Classifieds?
Sixgun wrote:Its probably real.....by the people who have been educated by the Klinton/Obama/ era, nothing surprises me anymore..........good Lordy...that's nasty.----6
Yeah, it got better under GW, but only temporarily.
- Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Todays pictures.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2427
Re: Todays pictures.
No snow?
- Fri Jan 02, 2015 9:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: x
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2068
Re: Family Heirloom Saga--Can't seem to get my hands on it.
If he's from Frankenmuth he probably sold it for meth long time ago.
- Tue Dec 30, 2014 3:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Guys, pieced together or not? 38/55 336?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1301
Re: Guys, pieced together or not? 38/55 336?
Whoever Mickey is that bought that thing , I hope for his sake it shoots REALLY WELL because it's not much good for a collectible piece . At the point I had acquired 10 lever guns, I got the idea to buy a beater that I could disassemble & teach myself how they worked &how to put them back t...
- Mon Dec 29, 2014 8:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GUNS YOU REGRET BUYING!
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4929
Re: GUNS YOU REGRET BUYING!
"I guess that is what you get for buying a gun in Detroit. "
Bought gun elsewhere in MI, not even in the same county as Detroit.
Bought gun elsewhere in MI, not even in the same county as Detroit.
- Sun Dec 28, 2014 9:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GUNS YOU REGRET BUYING!
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4929
Re: GUNS YOU REGRET BUYING!
" if it makes you feel any better, he was a dealer" Last gun I bought from a dealer turned out to be stolen. FFL bought 15 pistols in 10 days from a crackhead & never inquired about why he was selling so many. Cops confiscated gun from me. Returned it to crackhead's dad (from whom they...
- Sun Dec 28, 2014 8:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What is your new years day food tradition?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1653
Re: What is your new years day food tradition?
Big Mac, fries & a Coke
- Sun Dec 28, 2014 10:03 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GUNS YOU REGRET BUYING!
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4929
Re: GUNS YOU REGRET BUYING!
" I sold it and havent ever had a moment of regret."
Did you inform the buyer it was a lemon before the sale?
Did you inform the buyer it was a lemon before the sale?
- Sat Dec 27, 2014 12:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Merry Christmas from an ex-city boy...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 554
Re: Merry Christmas from an ex-city boy...
"Just remember, every time someone uses the initials "PC", what they probably don't know, is that it doesn't mean "Politically Correct" as the media would have us believe; it actually stands for "Public Cowardice"!" -1 It means being polite. Think what you wan...
- Fri Dec 26, 2014 10:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Grandpa Fred...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 673
Re: Grandpa Fred...
Lot of people hereabouts remember Fred Bear for his vicious, anti-union employment philosophy & practices more so than any positive contributions he may have made to bow hunting.
- Fri Dec 26, 2014 10:20 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Christmas dinner?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2951
Re: Christmas dinner?
Dog & I @ hunting camp alone for late deer season. Shared a can of Hormel chile without beans; fruitcake the wife sent along with us.
- Thu Dec 25, 2014 8:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Christmas Dinner for the village children
- Replies: 9
- Views: 603
- Mon Dec 22, 2014 10:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Christmas Rifle
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2283
Re: The Christmas Rifle
tldnr, again this year
- Sun Dec 21, 2014 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Winter Solstice
- Replies: 14
- Views: 915
Re: Winter Solstice
My neighbor was mowing his lawn 12/18 here in Detroit. Gosh knows why, we had snow in early October.Bill in Oregon wrote:Tomorrow will be 1 second longer here in Oregon! Get out the flip flops and start the lawnmowers!
- Sun Dec 21, 2014 5:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: It's a Christmas miracle!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1741
Re: It's a Christmas miracle!
Went to a large gunshow yesterday. .22 going from .06 to .23 per round.
- Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: An Interesting Observation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 877
Re: An Interesting Observation
Where does ice hockey fall in your masculinity schedule?
- Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: WAaaaah !
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3537
Re: WAaaaah !
Guys said all all same thing when Magnaport started.
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Scat Quiz...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3458
Re: Scat Quiz...
Looks to me that's its what the Ferguson, Mo. protestors left on the street after a lame brained Al Sharpton influenced manifesto was read to the crowd....after all, the majority of those animals can't read. Well, I guess it's not much different than regular behavior.-----6 And you are somehow qual...
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Snagged Another Remington Pump In 35 Rem.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3473
Re: Snagged Another Remington Pump In 35 Rem.
.35 Rem factory rounds selling for $3 each here in MI; box of 50 swaged bullets going for $50
- Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I Just LOVE CVS Pharmacy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1837
Re: I Just LOVE CVS Pharmacy
Struck me as a refreshing instance of corporate honesty
- Sun Nov 23, 2014 4:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: I Just LOVE CVS Pharmacy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1837
Re: I Just LOVE CVS Pharmacy
Was there a co-pay involved? CVS required by contract to correct billing errors.
If Medicare or Medicaid was involved, federal state criminal laws require correction of payment irregularity.
If Medicare or Medicaid was involved, federal state criminal laws require correction of payment irregularity.
- Sat Nov 22, 2014 8:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You think you're tough...check THIS dude out...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1706
Re: You think you're tough...check THIS dude out...
In True Grit I, Cogburn watches Mattie swim her horse across a cold, swollen river into Indian Territory, causing him to remark, "She reminds me of me!".
Same comment'd be made if the marshal saw this kid in the video
Same comment'd be made if the marshal saw this kid in the video
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 3:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Trip to London Proof House.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2253
Re: Trip to London Proof House.
My dad had an old Damacus twist sg. told me that last time he fired it fired (1936-37), it, he got some gasses in his eye.Must have been describing an 'off face' situation.
Thx for info
Thx for info
- Mon Nov 10, 2014 6:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The pre-cell-phone generation will appreciate this...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1250
Re: The pre-cell-phone generation will appreciate this...
Rude, old fanny burp.
In my home as well as my parents' we always say, "please". Etiquette is not forgotten when peeved and especially not when making a point about polite comportment.
In my home as well as my parents' we always say, "please". Etiquette is not forgotten when peeved and especially not when making a point about polite comportment.
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 9:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Trip to London Proof House.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2253
Re: Trip to London Proof House.
I've been around guns for 50+ years,but don't know. What does, "off face" mean? ______ Not that it will make anybody feel better, but it's now illegal to fill 20 pound propane containers here if they're more than 12 years old and have not been re-certified as sound & within factory spe...
- Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You might be a 'ccw-nut' if. . .
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1885
Re: You might be a 'ccw-nut' if. . .
State law here prohibits ccw in a church with very narrow exceptions. Of course, law didn't apply to me when I was an active LEO. Gotta admit my faith teaches me non-violence.. Most violence in one of our churches requires reconsecration of the premises as a place of worship. I'm not trying to conve...
- Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:55 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Reloading: Bench mounted press changes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2755
Re: Reloading: Bench mounted press changes
"so I have to ask ... How long does it take to fill up a 32gal can with used primers LOLOLOLOLOL"
Takes me about 2 weeks.
Takes me about 2 weeks.
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You might be a 'ccw-nut' if. . .
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1885
Re: You might be a 'ccw-nut' if. . .
Never heard of a need for a gun at a beach. I took kids to swim, and have a good time not to engage in gunfights. My church is not in one of those kind of neighborhoods. If it were, I wouldn't stop at the party store coming or going. I've never shot anyone but know many who did; I do not envy the ni...
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You might be a 'ccw-nut' if. . .
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1885
Re: You might be a 'ccw-nut' if. . .
Pretty narrow minded and childish understanding of being a LEO. It's certainly not just walking around with iron on your hip. Have you ever gone to the beach with kids and a pistol? Have you ever sat down on a church bench and heard that embarrassing clunk? Do you go to church, for that matter? Why ...
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 1:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Lot lizzard
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1033
Re: Lot lizzard
What is it with truckers and thick-legged women?
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 1:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: You might be a 'ccw-nut' if. . .
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1885
Re: You might be a 'ccw-nut' if. . .
Police Dept I worked for required I always carry.
Not having to lug that damnable thing around with me EVERYWHERE was the best part of retirement.
Not having to lug that damnable thing around with me EVERYWHERE was the best part of retirement.
- Sun Oct 12, 2014 2:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Recurve Bow Question
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1695
Re: Recurve Bow Question
Both good pieces of advice.MacEntyre wrote:^ this is correct.Mescalero wrote:NEVER attempt to string it without a stringer.
I shoot a 52# long bow... anything over 50# will keep you young!
Don't let anybody dry-shoot it.
I know 2 guys who have taken deer with 37# recurves. That's about the minimum for deer, though.