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- Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cool and wet start on summer
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1552
Re: Cool and wet start on summer
I live up in the wasatch mountains of Utah, this year our winter was better than it has been for at least the last few years, nothing like the distant past, but the spring/summer has been pretty wet, we have only had a handful of days with no rain, and up until a couple of days ago it rained every d...
- Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Another reason I'm glad I escaped...
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4837
Re: Another reason I'm glad I escaped...
I sell Dutch oven lifters that my father and I invented, a few months ago I got a notice from our largest dealer that I needed to supply a list of materials used to manufacture them because of the cancer warnings. I can understand people wanting to leave California but I wish they would stop coming ...
- Mon Dec 17, 2012 11:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Thinking of a new gun
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2180
Re: Thinking of a new gun
They sure are pretty, my I don't have the patience to do a project like that.
Terry
Terry
- Fri Dec 14, 2012 11:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My Thoughts On The End Of The World
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1922
Re: My Thoughts On The End Of The World
Damnit!COSteve wrote:I saw a special on the History Channel last week that was about 12/21/12 and they had Mayan Experts who were digging in the ruins saying that they've found Mayan carvings about the 14th Katun starting on 12/22/12 so the 'end of the world' stuff is debunked.
- Fri Dec 14, 2012 11:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: geneology
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1742
Re: geneology
I have ancestors that lived in Connecticut, and Virginia at that time but I can't make a connection as to weather they actually fought in the war or not.
Terry
Terry
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: MUZZLE LOADING SHOTGUN
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2285
Re: MUZZLE LOADING SHOTGUN
I love my double, it is a 10Ga. Pedersoli, it has a semi pistol grip on it, I had one several years ago with the english straight grip, I liked it better, but they are still cool, mine had interchangeable chokes also.
Terry
Terry
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Background check rant
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2612
Re: Background check rant
Chas., Consider yourself lucky, at least it wasn't conducted by the Dept of Homeland Insecurity. I'm a foriegn-born US citizen, not a "Naturalized Citizen", but a citizen by right of birth. Of at least one parent (father) who was a US citizen in good standing at the time of my birth. EIGH...
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: .348 A-frame
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2843
Re: .348 A-frame
Good news for sure, I know I love my 71, just a cool gun, and a cool round, I still can't believe it almost went the way of the dodo.
Terry
Terry
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Shooting steel shot in older shotguns
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2244
Re: Shooting steel shot in older shotguns
I started shooting steel when it first came out, figured what the heck it's coming just as well get used to it, and I can tell you some if it was pretty bad, but now days it's pretty good, I started reloading for it when BP first came out with their steel shot shell components, and I put a lot of st...
- Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: what is it.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1662
Re: what is it.
I have seen #2 before, but darned if I can remember where, or on what at the moment, I am sure it will wake me up at...oh about 2 in the AM though, another night with out sleep
Terry
Terry
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Atlatl anyone?
- Replies: 103
- Views: 11202
Re: Atlatl anyone?
What amazes me is how inventive our early ancestors were!!
Terry
Terry
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Playing with the Camera
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2134
Re: Playing with the Camera
Yeah but it is a wooden fence!
What caliber is the Winchester?
Terry
What caliber is the Winchester?
Terry
- Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What guns have you let go? That you miss.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 8290
Re: What guns have you let go? That you miss.
Early Ruger No1 Tropical with a receiver sight in 375 H&H. It had the early looong throat and handled 300 grainers just right. I had that same gun, I thought it was pretty cool, great to look at, but I got tired of it unloading it's self wile I was carrying it on hunts, so I let it go, and got ...
- Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Just when you think you've see it all...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1256
Re: Just when you think you've see it all...
I wonder if the guy was making a joke about the rifle with the rings and no scope.
Terry
Terry
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: range dummy
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1649
Re: range dummy
I have shot 22 LR out of a 22 Mag. before on purpose, I have fired 44 Mags out of a 45 Colt Trapper before, my mistake, I don't think it would have raised my eyebrows if I fired a 300 Win Mag out of a 300 Wetherby, you never know he could have been experimenting with fire forming 300 Win mag brass f...
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What guns have you let go? That you miss.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 8290
Re: What guns have you let go? That you miss.
There are so many! The ones that I have let go, and miss are: A Savage over under 22 Mag, 20 Ga. A Savage over under 222, 20 Ga. A browning Model 71, but I did manage to get another one of these. A Colt New frontier in 45 Colt. But the one I think I miss the most was a Winchester 94 in 32 Winchester...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: (Movie) Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1691
Re: (Movie) Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Now I did like Risky Business, but not because of TC, the girls were hot, and Guido did a good job!!bulldog1935 wrote:or Risky Business
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: (Movie) Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1691
Re: (Movie) Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Me!!BlaineG wrote:TC is a jerk, but who didnt' like Last Samurai, or Top Gun?
Terry
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Do "glow-dot" beads help you shoot a shotgun better?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2048
Re: Do "glow-dot" beads help you shoot a shotgun better?
I tried one once, it landed in the marsh some where, not because I took it off, it just came off, so don't really know if it helped or not, but I do know that for me, I had a shotgun with a big white front bead, I shot very well with that gun, but not any better then I do with my Ruger Red Label wit...
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:14 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: PSE Coyote recurve bow
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3482
Re: PSE Coyote recurve bow
Just wondering, if you were to use feather fletched arrows why could you not shoot off of the shelf with this bow? I have always shot off of the shelf with my recurve, and long bows.
Terry
Terry
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 5:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: (Movie) Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1691
Re: (Movie) Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Cool, glad you guys posted, I have been on the fence if I want to see it or not do to MY distaste for TC, now I think I just might take the gamble.
Thank again for the reviews.
Terry
Thank again for the reviews.
Terry
- Thu Dec 29, 2011 5:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: PSE Coyote recurve bow
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3482
Re: PSE Coyote recurve bow
I mostly like long bows, but I do have one recurve, a Shakespear, can't remember the model, but the riser is maybe a foot long total, it is one sweet bow, I just wish it was a little more powerful, it is a 45#, I wish it was a 65#.
Terry
Terry
- Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: JB Weld a Poly-Choke?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3428
Re: JB Weld a Poly-Choke?
You might try jug choking it, I have a 10 ga. double that I managed to blow 8 or 10 inches off of the barrel, I jug choked it, and it was a better gun then it was before it got shortened, and it is free you can do it your self, the only problem with it is that you cannot adjust the choke once it is ...
- Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Home Defense scenario
- Replies: 57
- Views: 4908
Re: Home Defense scenario
I think if you wake up to find some one standing over you with a knife, he/she is not there to rob you, they have more sinister things on their mind, I think that weighs things in their favor a lot, if you were lucky enough to kick them away, then try and get to your hand gun. I think in most home d...
- Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2641
Re: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!
Man we were hoping for a white Christmas this year, but I am afraid it is not going to happen, I live in the heart of the Rockies just 15 miles from Park City UT. and NO snow in the yard! Last year it snowed before Thanksgiving, and we had snow for the rest of the winter, this year a couple of storm...
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What kinda rifle does Santa favor for hunting?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2971
Re: What kinda rifle does Santa favor for hunting?
I can tell you from personal experience that he carries a Browning 71...and loves it
Terry
Terry
- Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GPS
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2629
Re: GPS
GPS apps for phones are not all dependent upon the cell system. MY Droid2 on Verizon has setting to choose "assisted" GPS using 3G or just the GPS when that's all ya want. For a CAR it works great, as I can plug the phone into the car radio's "aux in" input, play my music stored...
- Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Pancakes anyone??
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1526
Re: Pancakes anyone??
Yes nice!!, so I see you have a stamp on those holsters, so why don't you have this in your sig so we all will know who you are...profesionly that is.
Terry
Terry
- Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GPS
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2629
Re: GPS
Good advise!!!765x53 wrote:Whatever you purchase, look for LTM (lifetime traffic and map updates)
Terry
- Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GPS
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2629
Re: GPS
I Craigslisted and sold my two car GPS’s. The smart phones are smack on & the wave of the future in GPS. That said I will continue to keep and use my little Garmin Geko 201 for in the woods trekking. The problem with phone/internet based GPS programs is just that they rely on internet access, a...
- Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: GPS
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2629
Re: GPS
Personally I think the new Magellan’s they are just as good as the Garmins, I have no problem with routing, speed or route to take, and have no problems with fast sat acquisition, they are less money, and give you more useful features such as traffic. That said for off road I do use a garmin etrex. ...
- Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: John Browning Winchesters
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1213
Re: John Browning Winchesters
Well I'll be darned I didn't know/think Browning Brothers ever made the 1886, my understanding was that Winchester lawyers visited Browning to talk about patent infringments and John showed them a wooden working model of what later became known as the Winchester 1886. Terry Edited to add: Ok I did s...
- Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is it possible to design a more ugly revolver!!!!
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6122
Re: Is it possible to design a more ugly revolver!!!!
I would have an LCR in 38 if they weren't so light, I ran my arm through a wringer when I was 3 or 4 and messed up my elbow, and the kick from it was just to snappy for me, hurt my elbow every time, so I stick with the "gentle" push of the good o'l 45 ACP
Terry
Terry
- Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Vamint Bullet for a 270 WCF
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1928
Re: Vamint Bullet for a 270 WCF
I like Nosler balistic tips, and Speer makes a pretty good hollow point, I have used both of these, sorry I can't give you any loading info, but I don't have it in front of me right now.
Terry
Terry
- Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Question, model 1886's differences between makers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 896
Re: Question, model 1886's differences between makers
I seen an 1886 model rifle that had the model 1886 stamped on the upper tang and the serial number underneath. But it does not say anything on the barrel or tang on who made it. It appears to be fairly new...( in the last 30 or less years I would think). It got me to wondering , How do you tell the...
- Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: TV Show "American Guns" made a new Win 1866. Anyone see it?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 6897
Re: TV Show "American Guns" made a new Win 1866. Anyone see it?
Notwithstanding what I've heard and read about Rich, I'm sure that the 'agenda' of the producers is to make for a controversial show with elements the viewers will love and hate (or love to hate). I feel that all the 'reality' tv is staged and it's not by accident that the wife and daughter at hott...
- Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: TV Show "American Guns" made a new Win 1866. Anyone see it?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 6897
Re: TV Show "American Guns" made a new Win 1866. Anyone see it?
Geeze it's amazing we are all in agreement on this guy, but his daughter is kind of hot
Terry
Terry
- Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Did an action job on my Rossi 1892
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9847
Re: Did an action job on my Rossi 1892
Thanks for the write up, how do you jewell?
Terry
Terry
- Sun Dec 11, 2011 3:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 29 years ago today
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2612
Re: 29 years ago today
Today my wife and I celebrate our 29th anniversary. I think it is a good idea to marry a farmer's daughter, they understand how sometimes work is a priorty, and sometimes you just have to make do with what you have. Hopefully that part is behind me but it sure was a helpful attitude starting out. H...
- Sun Dec 11, 2011 3:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hell on Wheels tonight!! Woo-Hoo!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3639
Re: Hell on Wheels tonight!! Woo-Hoo!
My opinion watching it for the first time last night is a lot like shrapnels. I just couldnt get into it either. And that episode was NOT one of the good ones, I was a little disspointed with that episode also, but I am hoping to nights will be back on track...no pun intended :D Terry Edited to add...
- Sun Dec 11, 2011 3:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: something wrong with this engraving?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1650
Re: something wrong with this engraving?
To me it looks unfinished, like the person started it, then lost interest, or time...or decided they needed the money more then an engraved shotgun.
Terry
Terry
- Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Prayers for Virginia Tech
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1137
Re: Prayers for Virginia Tech
Last I herd was that they figure the shooter killed himself, and not another student.
Terry
Terry
- Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: if a 30wcf won't do it maybe this will
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1188
Re: if a 30wcf won't do it maybe this will
Not wanting to be mean, cuz I want one but...is that thing even legal?
Terry
Terry
- Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Call it what you want.
- Replies: 47
- Views: 4688
Re: Call it what you want.
No kidding, this is my favorite subject to complain about, cell phones being #2, only cuz I see idiots "merge" with out turn signals, wile not using their cell phones!!Idahoser wrote:if they'd learn how to merge and use turn signals I think I would tolerate any pronunciation.
Terry
- Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Amazed by the wild hog problem!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2493
Re: Amazed by the wild hog problem!
Yeah no kidding, UT is one of the few states that doesn't have a wild hog problem, I know it's not good, but I still wish we had them hereMainehunter wrote:I wish some of them could migrate up here in Maine. Just don't know how well they'll do in the deep snow come January!
Mainehunter
Terry
- Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Amazed by the wild hog problem!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2493
Re: Amazed by the wild hog problem!
Wanted to go to Texas a few years back to hunt hogs. All the cotton farmers in the panhandle were b****ing about crop damage. Every one I contacted wanted a $100.00 a day to shoot them. Hey, its your problem and you want to charge me to help out? Dont think so. That sounds familiar, here in UT. the...
- Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hell on Wheels tonight!! Woo-Hoo!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3639
Re: Hell on Wheels tonight!! Woo-Hoo!
So far I have seen every episode, and I like it, in fact it just might move into first place as my favorite, but so far I still like Walking dead a little better...just sayin.
Terry
Terry
- Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looking for reports on FTX bullets from this season?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2065
Re: Looking for reports on FTX bullets from this season?
I really can't add any information on how well these things work, but just for every ones information Hornady just released the gummy tip 348, yahoo!!!
I ordered two boxes from Midway, just waiting for them to get here.
Terry
I ordered two boxes from Midway, just waiting for them to get here.
Terry
- Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Take a look at this Salute
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1882
Re: Take a look at this Salute
I thought the band did a great job, THANKS for posting the link!!! COSteve, it is to bad that some were treated with such disrespect we all herd the stories of that kind of treatment, but where I grew up they were all treated as returning solders, and heroes, defenders of our freedom, every local na...
- Thu Dec 01, 2011 6:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: My first 4x4, Jeep Wrangler
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2688
Re: My first 4x4, Jeep Wrangler
Just courious, what was/is off topic for/in this thread?Hobie wrote:No "OT" please. Thank you.
Terry