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Dude.....you haven't told that story. Cause I don't think that's something I'd forget.

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I'm not much of a shotgun guy. I'll use em if I have to, but if I can figure a way around it, I won't. Partridge is all I really use them for. I've never kept one for home defense or in my vehicles. I always opted for handguns and short carbines. I do realize, however, I'm standing all alone on my s...

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GK wins! Yeah, Walt hangs with us pretty well! Spud guns! We used to make them from PVC pipe. A "barrel" about 3 feet long if about 2 or 2.5 inch PVC. Put a clean out at the breach. Drill a hole and put a gas grill ignitor at the back. Muzzle load the potato so it cores the potato to a tig...

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Being the closest Americans to you, we call em spuds too. And fish and chips is a thing here. Cause we got lots of fish, and Maine is second only to Idaho as a potato producer. Up in "the county" there are huge...I mean huge, potato farms. They let the schools out very year for harvest time.

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Nice work Griff. There's no doubt the lifespan is reduced with the Wolff mainspring. I haven't had an issue, but mine see way less action than yours for sure. I'm not as concerned about breaking it as modifying my original. I refrained from leather under the mainspring for that very reason. A plasti...

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Hey OS! Yup. I sent those out a while back. Always feel bad not sending one to GK, but I'd have to sell my truck. Then....potatoes would be ALL I'd be eating. Probably be ok with Kristy though. :D Warm and sunny here. About 30. Last one in that dump then I'm free for the week. Weather is supposed to...

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Haha yeah, but once she peeled em, you could hardly tell. I like a lot of pepper on my potatoes, so I didn't even notice. Haha yup. I've never had one. Only small Colt auto I've had is my 1903. And I gotta say.....once I shot it, I could see why they sold so many. That little thing is a great shoote...

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Had some mashed potatoes tonight. Along with some deer meat cooked with bacon, onions, and mushrooms, and a side of corn.
Good stuff!

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My wife absolutely loves potatoes. Loves em. As for the deer...... It depends greatly on WHAT they are being fed. Some things do more harm than good, and tends to just make the "feeder" feel better. Depending on how it's put out (at least up here), the bigger deer beat up and drive off the...

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I like em too , single sixes are all I've had though. Now about that XR3 VS XR3-RED. The Colt grip frame and later XR3 pre 63 frame very close to same. Here is the catch for me , my SAA if I let my trigger finger lye along side frame which feels comfortable to me .My finger sticks out past first jo...

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Glad you got it out Walt! My new 4.75" .45 didn't make it near that long unfired. Just a couple months from the production date. :D The trigger on mine was like that too. Do like Six said and burnish it while sitting watching TV. I also loaded it with snap caps and ran it a good bit. I shimmed ...

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Boy, I'm sure glad that 45 convertible isn't a 4.625". I'd have to have that.

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Hey! That's a great idea GK. It would be great if you could fly them over a yard of your choosing, then drop them.

I just noticed your Sig line! Its like it was written for me!

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Haha must have Bidens mom. I can't stand dog turds in the yard. Won't tolerate it. I keep a small garbage can with a lid beside the garage with a trash liner in it. When they go, we pick it up with tird bags and throw it in the can. When I go to the dump every week, I take the trash bag out of the c...

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Hahaha nice! Good thing you left the radiator hose home. We're up to camp today. Just dubbing around, which is the best kind of day. Made up a pot of coffee and had some lunch. Cleaned the roof off on the old ice shack. I took the sled for a ride down through the woods. Mostly just rabbit sign. Ther...

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You've never seen a "seasoned" potato explode? I ain't putting that in my pants. I hate to let the secret out, but an old radiator hose is what you want to go with. And, because I like you boys, here's another tip.... Always use the lower hose, cause it's got that spring in it and holds it...

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Shooter! That's great. I'll have to try Aguila. I've never shot any of it. I usually run CCI in my Colts.

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Now THAT is a good looking Ruger. 22! That's not something I usually say either. Can I have it? :D You will have to ask my kids after I am gone. :lol: PS - don't get your hopes up too high .... Haha yeah I get it Jim! I have the feeling my boys are plotting my death. :D In reality, the last thing I...

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JimT wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:03 pm Yessir! I put the XR3 gripframe on all my Rugers that had the redesigned gripframe. As you know, I put some Colt stocks on my old single six.

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Now THAT is a good looking Ruger. 22! That's not something I usually say either.

Can I have it?

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Haha 1830s! No way man. I don't care so much for the choices in guns. I'm thinking it was pretty tough sleddin in these parts around then. From what Ive read, it was a miserable existence. Nope, I'm too soft and lazy. I don't even own a computer. I hate electronics, but I'll be the first to admit th...

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I've used the 170gr Hornady Interlock since I was in Jr. High. Didn't see anything telling me it's the wrong choice. The trajectory isnt an issue in my terrain as my ranges are short. Interesting to me me, would be the Barnes 190gr traditional. However, I had poor performance with their 255gr tradit...

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No, no, no! Say it ain't so Johnny!
You ain't a native local boy?

You ain't even got a dooryard, do you? No Allen's Coffee Brandy in the house, either.....is there?

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Haha yeah great minds think alike! I replenished my duct tape supply this weekend. I used a bunch if my stick taping that broke back window up. :D Back before these high tech communications, we up here though everyone was like us and talked like us. It's only since all this new info that we learned ...

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Hahaha yeah everything was better back in the 80s! We lived in a country that made some sense at least. I spend too much time thinking about the old days.....but I'm sure glad I had em!

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Haha oh man!
Bet he opted for vinyl seats so the grease cleans off the headrest too.

Round here, that Bonny would have to be sittin on a 76 K20 chasis with a 4" lift and 36" Swampers.
Classy!

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JOG wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:40 pm Those curb feelers are the bomb! My 73 Gremlin has them in bronze!
Sure, enough brings in da ladies!
Johnny

Cornville and West Athens ladies, maybe.

73 Gremlin with curb feelers.........

You ain't right man.

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For single actions, I'm mostly a Colt guy. I have SAAs in all 3 generations, chambered in .45 and .357, with 5.5" and 4.75" barrels. I also have several of the .22s, and much prefer them to the Single Six (a Ruger I just cannot like). I do like the Blackhaws and SBs, but prefer the old mod...

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I can't do it either. And I've worked nights for decades. Lots of guys on 3rd shift back in the day used to go out in the morning for beer after work. There was a local place that would open up and serve just cause of 3rd shift at work. I just couldn't. Even when I got home, it didn't even criss my ...

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I can sleep on the way home too! My buddy's driving.

Hey! A beer sounds pretty good! I should start packing a couple in my lunch box.

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Man! Tonight is dragging like this thread is starting to.
Last one at least, then I'm out for the week. Of course, I'll have more snow to clean up waiting for me when I get home. Oh well.

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That can't be Six. He was never that young.

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Yeah. Not to make light, but there's nothing you can do but hang on. May as well have fun if we can.

Yeah, I saw that. WTH?

I couldn't help it. I went back and made a smart alleck post.

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Yes sir! Things sure are looking up. Shaping up to be a good year.
Gonna party like it's 1939.

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Brings back memories ...thank you! I grew up just like this in Maine traveling the woods with my 22 rifle. Brooks, streams, swamps and bogs. Lots of huge tracts of land with thousands of acres to play in. At the time it was SD Warren paper company land but not logged for many years. A paradise for ...

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No "creeks" or "cricks" in these parts. We have brooks and streams. We had brooks and Ponds in the woods we played in. They also had foxholes scattered through them from when my father and his friends played there a generation before. We utilized them too, having BB gun fights (y...

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That's a solid plan buddy. About the same as mine, but I have a shorter drive.

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It ain't to save the planet, it's to save (and grow) their power. The more deprived, destitute, and dependant the population is, the more power they have and can take. Simple as that. And nothing is going to stop it. It's much too late for that. Because if it looks like they aren't going to succeed,...

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It doesn't where I work. Well...... it stinks, but not the smell. Haha yeah they been talking about pulling all the hydro dams out of the Kennebec for years. Problem is, it's not only where all the power comes from, but they keep the flooding to a minimum. We just had that big storm and flood, so it...

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Early? I've been up since 5:30. Went to bed about 11 last night.
I don't work till tomorrow night. Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

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I don't disconnect for a tender either. Keep one on my Jeep in the winter. Keep my bikes and wheeler on one too.

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Yeah. May be ok but I wouldn't chance it. Of course, electrical isn't my strong suit either.

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If you are going to put it on an active charger, I probably would disconnect. Just to be safe. When using a tender I don't.

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Oh, I do maintenance. Plenty. I just run out every time it's Dusty and wash and wax them anymore. I have an Odyssey battery in my Rubicon. Big bucks, but run a winch and wheel my Jeep. In the winter, I keep it on a tender so the battery doesn't drain down. Low voltage will screw up electronics quick...

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Looks great Griff! Those are great holsters. I looked at them hard when I got my 4.75 " Colt.

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Yeah, its amazing how you change as you get older. Years ago I'd of lost it after breaking that window. I was pretty particular about my vehicles. I still am about my bike and my Jeep to a lesser degree. I haven't even washed that truck in months. I broke that window and didn't even really have a re...

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Haha nice!
My oldest son had a friend in HS who had a pair of shoes made completely of duct tape. Wore em all the time. WTH?

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Yeah...... Started out as a great day. I ran up to camp to re-cover the tractor before we get more garbage weather. Anyway, I had to get a 2x4 to bring up. Wouldn't you know it, I hit the back window of my truck. Weeeellllllll......great! Now I got a hillbilly duct tape window. :D But, I'm a step ab...

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While it's great to see a new levergun introduced, I don't see it going anywhere without being something really different. Especially for that money. There are a LOT of leverguns out there already. Many of us here on this forum are using examples way over a hundred years old. I'm no business man, b...

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While it's great to see a new levergun introduced, I don't see it going anywhere without being something really different. Especially for that money. There are a LOT of leverguns out there already. Many of us here on this forum are using examples way over a hundred years old. I'm no business man, bu...

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Yeah, I knew the earlier guns were nicer. Not as beefy as the later ones.
I never had a use for the old black powder shotguns. Some were beautiful guns too. I bet they had some proud owners back in the day.

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