MLV - "Don't try this at home" -

w30wcf · Post by **w30wcf** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:31 am

I'm glad he's ok.....
From the Shiloh Forum....
I highly recommend not trying this. It hurts! Today I had to drive my old (one owner) '76 Dodge pickup into town to mail off articles. On the way home there's a 90 degree turn onto our frontage road. I had to slow to 2nd gear to make the turn. That was a good thing because midway into the turn the driver's door flew open and I fell out.

When I came to people were running up and someone had called 911 and an ambulance. My truck keep going through the Interstate 90 fence, across the exit ramp and into a ditch. Luckily it missed other vehicles over there.

The EMTs checked me out and couldn't find anything but scrapes and bruises and a slightly bleeding lump atop my head. I was just going to go home but then my loving wife pulled up and insisted I go to the ER. They could only find scrapes and bruises too.

So all's well that ends well aside from some stiffening up tonight but I'm home at Chateau Ex-cre-mon surrounded by cats and dogs and being babied by my wife.

There was a brand inspector, a retired highway patrolman stopped on the exit ramp checking out a guy's horses. He said the first thing he knew something was wrong was when a driverless pickup crossed the ramp in front of them and went on into the barrow pit. Then he looked over and saw me laying on the frontage road. He called 911 and an amublance and made me lay still till it came.

As some of you may recall "Shrapnel" as MLV calls him, blew up a couple of antiques ('76 WInchester and a Colt) which Mike reported in the Wolfe publications.

"Sharpnel" had this to say...
Ha...take some of your own medicine there MLV. I remember you telling me that I could have fame or justice, but not both...

It is your turn for justice, as you have made me appear as someone who's only lot in life is to blow up guns, now you send an unmanned Dodge careening off a fence and into a barrow pit, nearly missing a Livestock inspector and an innocent civilian. It doesn't stop there, because your editor called me up wanting to know if there was more damage inflicted on you than you admit, due to the missed deadline and the wrong article.

There may be an article in an upcoming "Rifle" or "Handloader" magazine written by Shrapnel about the questionable exploits of MLV................

Post by **Hobie** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:33 am

I'm glad MLV is ok but....

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:36 am

I'm glad all concerned are OK but who is MLV?

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:48 am

That would be Mike Venturino.

klhill · Post by **klhill** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:55 am

He should of had his SEAT BELT on!His books on Leverguns, Colt SAAs, and Sharps are all excellent.

damienph · Post by **damienph** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:57 am

Aren't they supposed to wear seat belts in Montana? Oops, didn't see klhill's post.

w30wcf · Post by **w30wcf** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:10 am

Regarding the use of a seatbelt, MLV said "I figured "3 miles from home, what's the use?" Duh!"

Now, I think he will ALWAYS use one in the future................

w30wcf

bsaride · Post by **bsaride** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:15 am

I miss my '76 Dodge 440 Camper Special

awp101 · Post by **awp101** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:24 am

C. Cash wrote:That would be Mike Venturino.

Oh, I knew that...

DOH!

damienph · Post by **damienph** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:33 am

On the bright side; now he might write about something other than his machine gun collection...

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 10:29 am

damienph wrote:On the bright side; now he might write about something other than his machine gun collection...

Or his new love affair with milsurps. But that's OK - he writes about whatever gun pursuit he's off into at the time and we can either read him or not. After his "butt gun" photo and this escapade I'm with Shrapnel - there's more than one knucklehead in the world and them that live in glass houses...

Oly

Mike D. · Post by **Mike D.** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:03 pm

No seat belt? Sorry, no sympathy here. Funny, but in his books he's cautious to the point of being timid.

rjohns94 · Post by **rjohns94** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:37 pm

Glad he is ok. How does that happen?

Post by **Hobie** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 2:50 pm

How does it happen? Not paying attention, door not secure, seat belt not secure, not holding on to the steering wheel with both hands (I drove a Truck Utility ¼T (aka "Jeep") for many years). Like a sailor, it is one hand for the ship and one for yourself. I'm glad he wasn't hurt (and that his new dog wasn't either!). I admire him for having the honesty and courage to admit he did it.

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:39 pm

I read that recently. Maybe it was on the Shiloh Forum. As stated, glad he wasn't hurt worse. And he did put it all out there by telling everyone about it.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:44 pm

The SEAT BELT thing is a given, but ESPECIALLY if you're backing up a car or truck, as you may be turned around to check some clearance, and leaning on the door. If you fell out then, you'd likely get run over by your front left tire, as your hand would torque the steering wheel clockwise as you tried to not fall out. (Don't ask me how I know this, but I didn't fall out all the way...

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Charles · Post by **Charles** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:28 pm

Anytime you leave your driveway and motor on a public road you are at risk. I will bet Mike will use his seat belts at all times now. I had a door on an old Dodge PU come open going around a turn, but I had the seat belt on. If not I would have joined Mike on the hard top.

3leggedturtle · Post by **3leggedturtle** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:28 pm

Glad your OK cant wait to read your next article on it and cast bullets

Rimfire McNutjob · Post by **Rimfire McNutjob** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:43 pm

I usually enjoy his articles in Rifle and Handloader ... the most recent I believe was the one about RN/FP bullet designs.

However, I am having a hard time getting past the fact that he was driving to a post office to mail in some articles. How positively Victorian Era of him. I wonder if he hand wrote them or if they were done on a typewriter. How does any magazine published today not operate electronically for the text and photographs used in their articles? I always figured they would write in Word or Acrobat, drop the JPEGs into place, and attach the resultant file to an email sent to the editor. I would never have guessed that a postage stamp would have to be employed for this in 2011.

I guess I will appreciate his articles all the more now that I know the effort required to get them out the door.

3leggedturtle · Post by **3leggedturtle** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:50 pm

Rimfire McNutjob wrote:I usually enjoy his articles in Rifle and Handloader ... the most recent I believe was the one about RN/FP bullet designs.

However, I am having a hard time getting past the fact that he was driving to a post office to mail in some articles. How positively Victorian Era of him. I wonder if he hand wrote them or if they were done on a typewriter. How does any magazine published today not operate electronically for the text and photographs used in their articles? I always figured they would write in Word or Acrobat, drop the JPEGs into place, and attach the resultant file to an email sent to the editor. I would never have guessed that a postage stamp would have to be employed for this in 2011.

I guess I will appreciate his articles all the more now that I know the effort required to get them out the door.

And your pont is? In a dead thing, how far can you flip a dead jellyfish? Todd am in a really sarcastic mood today

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:58 pm

Well, I guess a lesson has be learned. But heck, I learned that one when I was five or six and went sideways out of a '48 Dodge. Some folks just take longer to learn some things.

Bis · Post by **Bis** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 4:22 pm

We all screw up. Just glad no one was hurt. The guy has some great articles, I always look for his.

Bullard4075 · Post by **Bullard4075** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:43 pm

OK I read it over and over but........................He fell out how ????????????????????????

Jeff H · Post by **Jeff H** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:57 pm

I just read an article by Mike about why he doesn't take his guns apart.
Next one may why he now wears a seatbelt!

At least the fella has the nerve to tell one on himself.

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