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I got home from my Colorado hunting trip on Sunday (I got a mulie, but only saw a cow and calf elk) recovered most of Monday and Tuesday. Last night Mrs fordwannabe says let’s go for a ride.
But, you have to work in the emergency room tonight.
It’s ok let’s go for a ride.
Ok.
We ride about a half hour when she starts giving me directions. Being a trained investigator I can tell something is up but not sure what.
We pull up at a nice house and I hear yelping!
In a huge fenced area is...:a nine week old yellow lab puppy now named Ruger!
She doesn’t surprise me often but boy oh boy did she get me yesterday. Pictures to follow. I have had a smile since I saw him. We now have 5 year old chocolate named Winchester, 1 and a half year old dobie Marlin, and a yellow fur ball Ruger.
I am a happy man. Scared but happy.
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Wow that`s cool, grats man. 8)
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Way Cool!! Just made my day, nothing better than a puppy. Especially a lab puppy!!

I want another Great Dane, and so does everyone else in the house but we have four dogs now. Just too much work for everyone, especially my little buddy that does most of the feeding and cleaning up after them.

Have fun with the little guy!!

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Now that's a WELCOME HOME present if there ever was one!!
I got my yellow on my 35th birthday, for myself, she is now 13 and slowing down. Poor thing has been through the wringer but keeps on waggin!
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Wonderful....
You know what to do now, right?
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Blaine check your e-mail 8)
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That's cool Tom......after Ruger you will need more, like Ruger O.M., Ruger Flattop, ........keep on going and use all of the models of Winchesters. "Here 1886, come get your food". "1873, what are you doing?" "Flattop, I told you to get off the bed!"

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There ya go, Tom.....
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Look at those paws! He is gonna be a biggun!
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He looks great!! What a perfect little dude!

Really happy for you, there's not much better in this world than a Lab puppy!


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8) 8) 8)
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:wink: oh my , lucky you . :D
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:D I am feeling pretty lucky. Thanks Blaine!
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Happiness is a puppy !
Especially when they finally sleep through the night!!
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GunnyMack wrote: Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:46 pm Look at those paws! He is gonna be a biggun!
The "expert" here said the same thing...big paws! He is gonna have one big set of waggers too.......

He's a nice looking dog Tom, well, all dogs are good looking....he is exceptional! There, that's better.-----6
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Thanks Jack.We shall see but I like him so far.
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Good looking puppy.
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Wish I had a wife ... to give me a puppy!

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Forgot to tell you Tom....I decided to let the like new in box 218 bee go also......see......yoooooooouuuu in September!!!!----6
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Well hot darn
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Sure woulda been nice to have heard about that 218! That's one of my favorite calibers!!
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GunnyMack wrote: Sun Nov 04, 2018 7:34 pm Sure woulda been nice to have heard about that 218! That's one of my favorite calibers!!
Thanks Gunny! I did not know they were in so much demand. That means I just raised the price another $500. :D
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Whoa whoa whoa gunny. I think we would get along but .....
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Gunny there are two on GB
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Well Gunny....beings that the 218 is gone..well, almost...how about a 219? Yep, got a 99% example here. Shoots easy moa with the short stubby 20" barrel. One of 3,000 made in the late fifties. I had two others, shot one to death..it only took about 1500 rounds to burn out the shallow micro groove rifling and the other went ??? can't remember....ooooo now I remember...I traded it straight up for a 99.9% Savage 99 in 358....still have it. I had it listed here for some time and everybody wanted a deal on it...yea, right.

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I am sure I will get a frequent flyer discount
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Discount? Absolutely! Tom will get a screaming deal as I know with Tom, it's going to a good home.

I always give discounts to my buds and for that matter, just about everyone here. I have a simple policy, discounts can range from .0000000000000001 % to ................1 % under going price. Everyone fall somewhere between those numbers. :D -----6
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218 dies- check
218 brass- check
218 Ruger #1- check
I ain't got the dies & brass for 219...
I have a 17 rem, 223 and 22-250 so my large case varmint guns are covered. Guess I'll have to settle on my hornet and my #1 in small case vermin blasters.
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Relax Gunny...with the Zipper gun, dies, loaded ammo, brass and even a $ 2-300 set of rcbs case forming dies come with the gun. (Can't remember what they cost or even if they are still available, but I do know I paid $100 for the case forming dies, back in 1976) it's a 99% gun with maybe 200 rds out of it. Guaranteed to be moa. It even has a 3-9 leupold.....it's all like new.

Wait, I never said I was gonna sell it.---- :D ----6
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You crack me up Jack
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Well that's good- cuz I never said I was gonna buy it :D
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It’s all good! just a little friendly ribbing :D
You, Me, Six, and Mossy really ought to get together sometime.
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Jack and I PM once in a while, I mentioned that maybe the next Oaks show we should try and meet up there.
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Six, you sound like you are trying to get interest in your rifle. Why? Nobody wants or shoots those obsolete calibers anymore. It probably would be better off melted down to scrap and turned into a Prius. :lol:

On a serious note, I would love to shoot a bunch of those obsolete calibers. There is just something intangible but real about the sensation of knowing you are hitting your target with a caliber that still gets the job done even after all of the years when faster and louder rounds have taken over. Sort of like riding a Harley for 30 or 40 years while watching some kid ride and wear out a Japanese motorcycle in less than 10 years. The newer type of motorcycle is faster and can be louder, but the Harley still gets the job done for a lot longer with a comparatively mild temperament.
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I hear ya Piller.....even when I was 18...1972.....I started reading about all of these old weird calibers..40-72....45-90....40-65...on and on...I was mesmerized and the first gun show I went to.....they were REAL gunshows back then.....the old timers used to sell single specimens of cartridges and I bought a mess of them...took them home and fondled them like they were ...well, you know....the other guys were fondling "those" things and I was fondling old cartridges....yea...I was a geek before the term came out.

Have been seriously addicted since then and no pelosi, I gained considerable experience loading these old ones, making bullets,cases...there were NO cases then.....completely self taught...there was no one to talk to, no internet, just reading old manuals, etc. Cartridges of the World was read over and over again.

I wanted to hunt with them to "see what they would do" , thinking in my naive mind that these bullets were magic. As a blue collar worker money was tight but I was determined to get the old guns so I bought junkers, cleaned them up and sold them making a meager profit that I reinvested. Talked to anyone that would listen, bought every book and studied, studied, studied. Went to work, dealt with the aggravation, raised my family and studied and studied. Bought when I could and now it's time to pass them on as we are all just temporary custodians of all of this industrial revolution art.

Ya never learn it all and that's what makes it continually interesting.

I have been blessed with being in the best part of the country for obtaining these guns. Plenty of old money around here and people used these guns for once a year hunting, unlike the westerners who used them as tools and thus, these people around here must have been thinking of a long haired hippie wanting their guns someday so they took good care of them...for ME. :D

The cowboy craze started and everybody wanted the old guns and I had em. The timing was perfect..I bought low and plan on selling high. :D So.....that means if these buddies of mine want that 219 Zipper, they had better start coughing up the bucks.

Yea, Fordwannabe is a potential candidate for carrying on the costodianship....(is that a word?)---6

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Gunny and Tom....oaks? Ok...but I'd rather go the Allentown ag hall show. ....at the Allentown show there are still remnants of what I used to experience.

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I am up for either show. Jack st let me know. I think it will be fun.
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get him up to Pheasant Valley farms for good training.Friend of mine had his English Setter ther and they did wonders.$ of us from Denver area have a hunt/shoot set up in Dec.Hope it isn't to cold and windy.
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Allentown works for me too! Just let me know when.
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Blaine is going to post some pics of Ruger for me.
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Your wife has great taste in dogs...... :D
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Thanks GK. She says other than her taste in men she makes good choices.😳
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Here's the Pics, Tom.....
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Thanks Blaine! I do appreciate it.
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fordwannabe wrote: Sat Jan 26, 2019 10:19 pm Thanks Blaine! I do appreciate it.
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gamekeeper wrote: Sat Jan 26, 2019 4:03 pm Your wife has great taste in dogs...... :D
Yes, she sure does -- enjoy the pup!

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Good looking pup- yes the growing pup, all gangly legs. Tripping over their own feet- what fun!
Parker has stopped growning " up" and is now getting longer. Seems like yesterday she was just a newborn.
I need a puppy fix! Friend has a litter due end of March guess I gotta wait...
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