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Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 11:13 am

Locust? Now why didn't I think of that? I even have a dozen posts from the tornado that are the size that I could rip them on the table saw.

I still want some long Osage orange...told my guy last week when he was here...yea...yea....only thing he brings me is junky red oak.....

My president sick? Yea...heard about it........and the First Lady??? Ahhh..they are both tough people. My guess is that Trump will be on TV in a couple of weeks saying he never felt nothing.....

Well boys.....I smell a quick trip to Tractor Supply.....lots of neat stuff there for my lifestyle........if your that "other lifestyle" there's a store next to it that sells coloring books, tea rooms, and tall wine glasses.----6

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 11:44 am

Hey...ANOTHER HONEST WIN!!!!!!!

Where's Fred? It's about time YOU gave up some of that California loot for a prize....I gave away half my gun collection......and others people's guns too!! Poor Pitchy...I gave away most everything he owned and that's why he has to keep making stuff....I cleaned him out.

OK Fred.....what do I win and I don't want some stupid control panel......please send me some nice warm soft stuff......----006

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 11:59 am

Oooohhhhhh GGGGUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNYYYYYYYY........

whew, sure am glad your around....ole pal ole buddy.....friend...confidante......

As you probably don't know and which most others are afraid to admit, being retired can be boring at times......and I have a mind that needs to be constantly fed new knowledge and excitement so I woke up today with a new brainstorm.

Ya know those walnut logs I have and are ready to be put to the sawmill?

Sure, I can put them on the trailer and take em right down the road to a real deal saw mill but having a mind that needs new knowledge I figure I can do these things myself...hell, it ain't rocket science.....I have the tractor to lift them and several chainsaws with a fair amount of loot to play with so ......lets gets me's a spankin' new Alaskan saw mill!!!

Just a homeowners job. ...nothing with a motor and expensive band saw blades.....I'm thinking somewhere under 2 g's and that includes (if needed) a new Stihl chainsaw with a long bar and special ripping chains.

I've been searching but like most things in life, it's always better to consult a trusted expert....well? Come on! I ain't go at all day!----006

Post by **Old Savage** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 12:43 pm

Ok Six, I am looking around the office and you win ... a Road Kings hat !!!

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 1:13 pm

Ahhhhh......you can keep it.......by the way, where have you been spending your free time, down in the homeless camps.??

I don't want that other stuff either...only thing they want is what I have.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 2:14 pm

Here ya go ol buddy ol pal-o-mine!
https://www.baileysonline.com/catalogse ... aska++mill
I think northern tool has em too, maybe even tractor supply!!

Post by **Old Savage** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 2:53 pm

Ok, here you go then, the model 123. I think we were trained on these. Point it downward, could be used for brush clearing or rodent control. Don't stand on the wrong side.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_123_mine

jazman · Post by **jazman** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 3:14 pm

See, Six, I told you that little redwood tree would grow fast...glad to see you already got a nice shovel handle from one of the branches! Another’s few months you can remake your back steps with redwood too.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:44 pm

Hey how about a picture of that 1911 with those fancy grips??

jazman · Post by **jazman** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:58 pm

I knew I forgot something! I’ll try to figure how to post a picture, never have been good with that.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:13 pm

well thats easy, send it here, ill take some pictures , maybe shoot it a bunch & send it back eventually!

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:19 pm

jazman wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:58 pm I knew I forgot something! I’ll try to figure how to post a picture, never have been good with that.

Hey JAZ Dude! Funny thing you stopped in......mom told me yesterday the Redwood tree you gave me don't look so good.....I looked at it and does seem to be a little "worn looking". Then I looked at my white pine trees and they are all beginning to drop their needles so I guess the redwood is the same......in the beginning throes of needle dropping.

Yea, I do have some redwood here...my father was a furniture builder and I naturally inherited all of his woodworking tools and inventory. In the inventory were redwood 1x3's, 2x4's and a couple of 4x4's. Have no idea where he got them, maybe from dismantling long picnic benches as some had screw holes in them.....I'm very stingy with this wood and only use it for select and very hard to make items like shovel handles.

(I'm no Gunny, my bag is guns)

It's actually a beautiful wood with a coat of clear varnish on it like the shovel handle I made....very easy to work with, nothing like oak or hickory.

Well boys...just came back from Tractor Supply just to look at their saw mills....I got there and bought $100 worth of stupid stuff like grease for the Kubota, fly trap stinky stuff, few bars of candy, Diet Pepsi, these K.A.humongous funnels and other worthless junk...farted a few times walking down the aisles to keep nosey people from looking at the same stuff I was looking at. WHAT is it with people?...there could be 3 people in a 30,000 sq ft building and when they see me looking at something they have to run right over and look over my shoulder as if I found a gold mine.....they do the same at gunshows....I HATE most people...get away from me!!!!

NO funnel works with diesel fuel for the mighty Kubota...I've made them from 1 gallon plastic jugs with PVC spouts and they flop around and I dump a quart of diesel everytime.

Yea....forgot all about looking for the saw mills......----006

Post by **Old Savage** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:43 pm

You know Six, those hats come like that so it looks like we been out cowboyin' here in the land of fruits and nuts just by goiin' to a car show.

Homeless are all over the place but they don't have anything like this.

Btw, these guys own a lot of rodeo bulls if you want to try your hand.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:17 pm

No thanks on the rodeo bulls......I know what they can do and have seen it.....they are like Polish people...big, stupid, and they don't know their own strength. The guys who ride them aren't much different but I'd never tell them that....who in their right mind would bust themselves up at a young age? Ahhhhh, maybe they are Polish....

I know one guy who spent his life breaking green horses.....he was known to the women as "Mr. Sex".....good looking guy, well built, HARD CORE drinker, belt buckle the size of a road sign and T's the size of grapefruits....you'd have to see what he used to do.....anyway, mom and me ran into him at a horse auction about 7 or 8 years ago. If I remember he was 3 years older than me and mom.....so at the time he was about 60....broken did not describe him.....looked like he was drug along a gravel road, his body looked like a piece of Twisler licorice.....all twisted and bent ....more wrinkles than a wet towel that was rolled in a ball that was left to dry ....if I didn't know better I would have said he was about 80.

Always wondered about him and mom.......she was full of blushes at the time.....

-----006

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:55 pm

Since i've pulled/cut down (okay, my son did the cutting), several trees around my barn I got to looking at my gate hinges... I'm tired of lifting the darn gates to open or close and found several bent or otherwise useless hinge bolts. Previous owner built the gate out of 2/½ sched 40 pipe and solid rod... heavy! The worst hinges are all ¾". Need 8! TSC, Home Depot, Ace, Lowes, even McCoy's only carry 5/8"! Only place I found the ¾" was Amazon! What's up with that?

Six, If I send you some Osage Orange, (Bois D Arc) what sizes do you want? I've got at least three trunks, 20" or better to get milled. I'm thinking some X-sticks from some of it, should be awesome.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 10:57 pm

Griff...I'm done building gates.......for about a buck and a half-2 you can get a 10 footer at most any farm & garden center.....tube steel with two hinges......the hinge is nothing more than a 5/8 lag screw that's turned up on the end and fits in a corresponding loop on the gate.....

You got Osage orange down there???????? I thought I had the market on dat!!!! Yea, I believe it grows all over the US.....probably harder and denser the more north you go........

Well...I did more than you today...I farted in the aisle at Tractor Supply and left a brown stain on a 50 lb block of salt....

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri Oct 02, 2020 11:21 pm

All my gates but one are mounted on steel posts, two of mine are 12' tubing & wire affairs that are lightweight and work really well. Of the 3 others, all of the former owners production, one is an 8', 1 is 8' and the other is a 16' opening with 2 gates. Yeah, I think I'm going to replace all his "heavy metal" gates.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:08 am

If you don't have animals why even bother changing the gates? Just open them and stick a bungee cord to hold em open.
Do you have the ability to pull the posts back? A comealong to pull it back to lift the gate and then fasten the top of the post to something solid and the sag will be taken care of. But yes tubular gates are the way to go! Another thing you can do is lengthen the lower hinge, unscrew the hinge fron the post a bit, it'll sit funny but that will help.

Six I give you one task and you didn't get it done! What am I going to do with you?!

Got a return phonecall (finally) from Dan at Giacomo Sporting. He says he needs to see this Perazzi before he can give me a quote on repairing/fitting these barrels I bought. I questioned him about how he does this repair, he was cryptic as to locking bolt fitting. In my mind that isn't going to get rid of .012" of excessive head space... I hate sending guns through the mail!

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:24 am

Man! Finally got a decent amount of rain yesterday.
I sat down in the gunroom, cranked up some Hank Jr., and loaded my hunting batch of 44s for the old 73.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:32 am

Hank Jr! Don't you know he is a vulgar right-wing God fearing gun toting anti- socialist?? My kinda guy!!

I haven't listened to him in years- since my cd player bit the dust.

I'm going to finally get my 22-250 sighted in today! Good conditions- light wind, high sun.

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:50 am

GunnyMack wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:32 am Hank Jr! Don't you know he is a vulgar right-wing God fearing gun toting anti- socialist?? My kinda guy!! I haven't listened to him in years- since my cd player bit the dust.

I'm going to finally get my 22-250 sighted in today! Good conditions- light wind, high sun.

Oh yeah! I have an old stereo in the gun room with a 5 disc changer. I know it's stupid in this day and age, but I have a tin of CDs, so........
And, it isn't spying on me.

It is loaded up with Hank Jr., Charlie Daniel's, and a few other Southern Rock bands. Same stuff I listened to in HS.
Lord Knows, I Can't Change.......

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:35 am

Hey..hey..hey there you hillbillies! Hank Jr.? Fiddles? WT#? . . Around here is Metallica, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull and Arlo Guthrie and Beyoncé!!!!!! (If that liberal Arlo or that wannabe white B EVER came on the radio around here I'd shoot it)

Yea baby..it's bang your head on a cement wall music for me. I still remembing moshing......we'd get the girls over our heads and by the time they hit the ground their bodies would look like Swiss cheese with indentations all over em. Don't know if you can do that in Maine unless you had some kind of a hoist.

Well.....don't know if it's a good thing with my daughter moving a mile down the road.....she's here now and already asked me if I can cut down some trees and bring my tractor over to pull out some bushes....mmmmmm.....I'm RETIRED and they are pulling in several hundred G's a year.......nope! I'm a nice guy and love to help people but if they can help themselves, let them do it.....I'm nobodies slave while they are in the islands.....

Missed the handgun match today...what's new..missed them all this year except for one long range rifle match.

Nice day..60 and clear.....where were these days when I was working?------006.....(secret agent man...they gave me a number and took away my name......)

piller · Post by **piller** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:36 am

I prefer Hank Junior to almost everything you hear on the radio nowadays. For a while, he let his drinking control him. That does happen to some people. No one is perfect. From what I can find out, he has got it under control. I hope he can keep it under control. I can't hold it against him because I see that he is trying. I like his music and how he views life. He would probably fit right in here.

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:44 am

Metalachi, that is where the fun begins.

piller · Post by **piller** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:46 am

I grew up with 70s and early 80s rock and country. Bob Seger, Glen Campbell, Journey, Hank Junior, Loverboy, Kiss, Charlie Daniels, Chris Rea, Lee Greenwood, Fleetwood Mac, Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen, Night Ranger, ELVIS, CCR, Marty Robbins, Michael Martin Murphy, Johnny Cash, Johnny Lee, and a bunch of other great ones.

Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:00 pm

More Metallachi

piller · Post by **piller** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:10 pm

Have you ever seen this guy? The words and the tune sure cause me to try to sing the wrong song with him.
https://youtu.be/6bfPwtUTP4k

piller · Post by **piller** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:11 pm

Try to sing along to this version of Folsom Prison Blues.
https://youtu.be/PuhYZwwwEt8

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:37 pm

Oh Fred...THATS GREAT! Crazy dudes they were and some of the best music to ever hit my ears...oh, the "Sandman".....how did you get so close? Man! Your important......besides mom, who are the other babes?

Yea....liked a lot of them, even the Motown when black music was music.....Elvis...yea! Beatles? Na..too liberal......Moody Blues..loved em.....AC/DC...can't stand em..that guys voice drives right through ya........Saw a lot of them..Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull..Led Zep....T-Rex.Bang a Gong...was right at the stage on that one smokin a joint....never liked any liberal war protest groups...they were the cause of Vietnam Vets being hated.....in Jan of '69 my brother flew into San Fran from Vietnam, all suntanned and bbbaaaaddddd, got in a cab to go somewhere and the cabbie downed him something fierce....

Just another reason why I despise liberals....what they do is their business but when they don't use their heads and try to take way of life away there's going to be issues.....being gay or putting a bone through your nose is sometimes natural and I don't hate them for that...this is America and land of the free...

We all know guns keep people free so taking mine away because of violence in the cities and those people who are unable to control themselves is not my problem......yea, Hank Jr.is a good dude as is Ted Nugent......

I'm on a rant...got to get outside....----006

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:47 pm

Glad to hear that you are not a Beatle fan.... I nearly got booted off rimfirecentral forum for slaging them off...

piller · Post by **piller** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 1:01 pm

I like Iron Maiden, but here is an old man covering them. He sounds better than they did.
https://youtu.be/KF_0Jgm7JHg

piller · Post by **piller** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 1:11 pm

Ever hear Charlie Daniels "Still in Saigon"?
https://youtu.be/KmslaEudR3M

piller · Post by **piller** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 1:15 pm

I am not a Beatles fan. Just not my kind of music. Iron Maiden was good to run to back when I still did that. They had a good 4 beat rhythm that you could keep pace to. A 7 minute mile for 4 miles was a good workout to their music. Now, I couldn't run 1 mile.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 1:15 pm

Yup to all of the above- however you all forgot that Little ol band from Texas!! Ya cant forgot ZZ TOP!

So I went and shot my 22-250. I loaded 5 each with 36.0,37.0,38.0, 39.0 of CFE223. Not stellar accuracy but shows promise at 36-38 grs. Then i shot my long forgotten accuracy load, only a 3 shot group but they were just about touching. Guess I have to pull a bullet and see if its H380 or WC846...

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I also tried some SS109s, NOPE they don't shoot for beans! Tumbling and out of 6 only 2 hit the paper- 4" low and 6" right!

Oh here is my Rem 600 22-250, Bastogne walnut thumbhole, Douglas barrel.

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Post by **Old Savage** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 1:18 pm

Well Six, Nugent concert, asked this gal if I could take her picture. She flashed me while her biker dude boyfriend laughed. Missed that shot, asked if she would do it again. She pointed at a security guy who apparently caught a glimpse.

oh well, still see it in my mind.

piller · Post by **piller** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 1:20 pm

Those three where Beard is the one without a beard? My favorite album was the one where they went commercial and really took over empty vee. Eliminator.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 1:34 pm

Where were you shooting at? That don't look like a gunclub to me.....can I come over ...we could set off some claymores.

Gunny...you know most all new powders ..within burn rate....have a burn rate that's similar to the old IMR series....4064 was always my favorite for the 22-250. I simplified by just using H-4895 (about the same as 4064) for most everything.....

These powder companies are selling ice boxes to the Eskimos.......as far as I'm concerned the only advancement in powder in the last 50 years has been 5744 and some of the slower powders for monster cases......

They can't improve upon the 1911 so they make up all kinds of garbage to keep selling other junk....just like the powders...

Another "as far as I'm concerned" is the reason why we have so much accuracy...."bullet technology"..."barrel technology"....and computers to determine the ballistic coefficient with the bestest of rifling twists....and of course the scopes that see for you.

I'd say your doing fine...free floated I assume?

What's with the tumbling?

piller · Post by **piller** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 1:38 pm

Probably using Wild Turkey 101 primers.

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:55 pm

Oh yeah! I like all the 70s and 80s rock too!

And yeah. Hate the Beatles.

I'd much rather CCR.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:58 pm

Ya got me on the tumbling!? SS109s are what, 62 grains? I figured they would shoot ok in the 1:12 twist. My favorite powder is IMR4895, I just find it a real pain to use in the small neck cases& lets not mention the powder measure!
I want to say my accuracy load was WC846( Blc-2) but I'm not certain until I pull one of my loaded rounds.

That is our hunt club, we have 100 yard range- until I can get there with my chainsaw and do a little cutting!

My college roommate and I were on our way to Raton one day to do some shooting, we were getting gas and a tour bus pulled in. Out the door comes two guys with long beards and another guy without one. We exchanged pleasantries with ZZ TOP who then invited us in for a beer! We declined as we were going shooting- stupid kids!!

Nope, no turkey 101 primers- probably had Labrador hair stuck in the flash hole!!

Oh and I cleaned out the bluebird houses I made today, there were pheasant feathers in the nests!

Rimfire McNutjob · Post by **Rimfire McNutjob** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:34 pm

Sixgun wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:19 pm WHAT is it with people?...there could be 3 people in a 30,000 sq ft building and when they see me looking at something they have to run right over and look over my shoulder as if I found a gold mine.....they do the same at gunshows....I HATE most people...get away from me!!!!

If I were at a gun show with you I'd be glued to your *** as well ... because you have a nose for all of the good stuff.

fordwannabe · Post by **fordwannabe** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 6:27 pm

In response to the comments from a day or two ago, tomorrow I am starting a Week long type of survey I haven’t done since March 2019 with four of my female coworkers.The team leader decides who does what. I got “sixed”on three separate items, so I had a conversation with her. I thought it was my duty to remind her that whatever genes lets people screw with you and you let it slide....I didn’t get any of those genes. When I called her bravo Sierra she said,well she didn’t realize it had worked out that way. Uhuh sure. Funny how when you call Bravo Sierra on Bravo Sierra they back down.

Oh it’s gonna be an interesting week.
The good part is I took that Savage 99 to the range today. Loaded five rounds each of 38.5, 39, 39.5, and 40 grains of 4064 with a Sierra 150 grain soft point and 40 grains was a 3/4 inch group at 100 Yards. Hot diggity. One group does not mean anything but I willl be reloading more of them to try again.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:10 pm

Rimfire McNutjob wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:34 pm If I were at a gun show with you I'd be glued to your *** as well ... because you have a nose for all of the good stuff.

Hey Nutjob! Where ya been hiding bro? It's nice to see ya here in the Gun Room post where all the action is....

Well, on to your statement.....your right and your wrong,so I give you 50%....I do have the nose for good stuff but like anything else, it's learned behavior on a lower level...ain't rocket science.

As for gunshows my guess is I've been to 5 or 6 hundred in my lifetime and I've rarely bought guns there.....I have a better gunshow to go to everyday and the admission is free and no time limit...downstairs........ ..I prefer auctions.....

Sometimes I'll open up my safe and pull out a gun and have a pretend "sale and buy". I'll buy it and pay cash....no paperwork either... .....it's funnier than hell, I'll keep switching sides pretending to be the buyer and the seller.....after the "buy" I'll ogle
it then get out my books to see what kind of a buy I did...then check prices and run upstairs and brag to my wife on the great buy I got.

Well, tell us, been poking any dead things lately?------6...o....de...bro....wit ...da...

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:36 pm

Don't have animals right now... but will by next spring. Gate and fence repairs are necessary.

Started the day by determining where to lay out the new electrical run from the main panel to the barn... decided that it would be good to run it thru part of the barn, necessitating the moving of my firewood stash. That entailed deciding I needed to build a firewood rack and move the wood to my back patio. Before it was all out in the barn, except for a few logs in the living room... inconvenient. So much so that I probably haven't lit the living room stove in 3 or 4 years! Since I recently fixed the sticking sliding glass door to the patio, moving wood from the patio to the stove is much improved... the installation of the new electrical wire will wait a bit longer!!!

Never put off until tomorrow, that which can be put off until the day after tomorrow!

Rimfire McNutjob · Post by **Rimfire McNutjob** » Sun Oct 04, 2020 12:02 am

Sixgun wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:10 pm Hey Nutjob! Where ya been hiding bro? It's nice to see ya here in the Gun Room post where all the action is....

Slowed down on the gun stuff over the last few years. It turns out that as kids get older, they cost even more. I've got 3. Example, "Dad, I found a new apartment but I need $1800 to move in." and that was just today's ask. Kids seem to need a lot of help getting started these days. I'm sure I leaned on my father back when I was in my early 20's. Hopefully they'll be self-sufficient soon. But you can imagine how that might eat into the gun hobby money.

I've been reading a lot on the forum lately and recently bought a few boxes of Swift A-Frames with the intention of loading and shooting some soon. Man, who went and bought up all of the IMR-4895 though. Seems like everything is tight these days unless you're looking for Pyrodex and such. I'm flush with primers and 22 LR from the last crunch 10 years ago or whenever that was. But I only keep about 10 lbs of various powders around.

Recently did some hard time in the hospital from some virus (not COVID, they tested the hell out of me for that) that ended up weakening me and thus I ended up with pneumonia and an assortment of other junk. Just 8 days in, but man you can lose some weight in the hospital. I've dropped about 40lbs since being in there. I need to lose more so I'm keeping up the lighter eating habits. Wife said if I lose 70lbs (30 more) I can go buy a bass boat. I live on an 85 acre lake down here and I have a dock and so I seriously NEED a bass boat.

I've been working on some electronic designs that are hobby stuff that I'm trying to finish up. Might go shooting once those are complete. Rains almost every day down here though. We had a cool day today at a peak of 79 degrees. Looking forward to the Fall and getting out more once it cools.

Good to see you guys are still keeping the faith here.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:11 am

Well that is good news Nutjob! Glad to hear you are on the mend! Yeah if I lived on a lake I'd have a boat too.

When I buy powder I buy 8# kegs. Figure I'll have a bit of surplus for a while.

Yesterday was yard work day( after I went to sight in my 22-250) so I can go play today! Now what to go shoot! I can save a bit of money and just go to the bunker, also 10 miles closer or I can drive a bit further and shoot ZZ birds and have some real fun! Or do I just stay home and save Ammo, fuel and money? Next weekend is the club champeenship, the following weekend is the hunt club champeenship shoot. Then bird season opens and then it's all about the Brown Wonder finding birds- she got screwed out of half the season last spring. My plan is to hunt Claro one day and Parker the other- if I get to hunt during the week I'll hunt both together.

Time to get my day figured out!!

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Sun Oct 04, 2020 7:59 am

Hey Rimfire, glad you are feeling better.
I hear you with the kids. We have 3 sons, and yeah it gets pricey.
However! As long as it's done right, its money well spent. All 3 of ours are grown, own their own homes, and make a better living than me.
But the only thing they ask for now is dogsitting or free labor.

Post by **Old Savage** » Sun Oct 04, 2020 8:13 am

fordwanna, here is one from a long time ago.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Sun Oct 04, 2020 10:25 am

Hey Rimfire, glad you are feeling better. Good to hear from you!

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sun Oct 04, 2020 1:22 pm

Nutjob is a great dude..he needs to see us more often here in the "Fun Room".....If I remember right he has a super deluxe 71 all engraved...(I think, I don't even know what I have anymore)....

Kids will drain ya...if ya let em.....one time I got to thinking.....I'm burning wood to heat, driving the same vehicles year after year,
doing most all of my own fixing's, making stuff instead of buying it and while my kids make more in a couple of months than I did in a year they are always broke...I don't get it...I taught them different.

People today live right up to their influx of money....always thinking they are going to be healthy and their job will always be there...

The year..1967...I was 13 and had a paper route.....I also was a Boy Scout and summer camp upstate for a week was $25. I saved up something like $15...(paper route only paid me about $5 a week and if I didn't collect from one person, there goes 20% of my earnings)....still remember the amount...84 cents for two weeks and most people wanted their .16 cents change .....some would give me a dollar and tell me to keep it. Anyway, when summer camp came up I was ten dollars short and my dad told me, upon me asking that I should have started saving earlier and it looks like I wasn't going.

a few days later he gave me the $10 but I had to pay him back....

My daughter and her beau are in the process of buying her new house down the road...over $700 g's...so she's asked mom the other day if we could give her 5 to buy some furniture....money I can't replace....ain't gonna happen. ...it's a current issue around here.

If someone really needs it I can see that and they don't even have to ask...I'll give it unconditionally but this new crowd of people spend money like there's no tomorrow....islands one month and a couple of months later it's Europe.....

Ahh....I'm done....good to hear from McNutjob...your not alone buddy.....

Getting cold lately and it's time to bring in the wood...about a 1/4 cord I have room for inside.....cleaned the pipes yesterday of creosote......I leave it in all year as the creosote protects the liner....----006