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I yam alive and relatively well..physically. Just returned from NM on Monday. Attended the Historical Society Conference and the Wild West Dance in Albuquerque. Unbeknownst to me they had a costume contest and I won Best Lawman outfit. Donna was deessed as Olive Oatman, chin tattoo and all. She should have won best historical lady. I even made a dance card for her. Uneducated judges I reckon. She did let me wear her bonnet for awhile. Back in Cahone now enjoying the fine spring weather.

I bought this pair of Old Armies from a pard who’s trimming down his cap gun supply. He had Snake Oil George shorten the barrels to 3 1/4” and install solid brass sights. The hammers were lowered when he got them and doesn’t know who did them but they did a nice job. I bought Kirst Konversion cylinders in .45 Colt and have been using Cowboy .45 Special in them and really like them. I wanted to install blued Belt Mountain quick change base pin kits but they’re going out of business due to retirement and only had stainless kits left and I think they look real good on them. The previous owner also had some very nice engraving done and installed some beautiful grips. All in all I think they’re a pretty classy set of Old Armies and will be my new main match pistols.

Just add "From either end" Black Powder shooters and Lefties appreciate the option of going right-to-left or left-to-right. It makes no real difference to right-handed smokeless shooters, but it might make a huge difference to BP guys and Lefties. --Dawg

Last Friday, I was minding my own business at the South Carolina State match. I was shooting the last stage of the day about noon when my Uberti 73 rifle locked up with 6 rounds in the magazine. Crap!! I got home later that afternoon and took the rifle apart. After consulting with my personal gunsmith, Joe West, it was determined that my extractor had "lost it's temper". That sounds bad. He said it is. Going to need a new extractor. So, I got on the computer and found that VTI claimed to have them in stock so I ordered a Uberti extractor. I then found that Cowboy and Indians Store also had some superduper "CLAW" extractor in stock so I ordered one of those too. I have a bunch of big matches coming up soon and I don't have time to wait for back ordered parts. All this ordering was done over the internet and I never talked to anyone or expressed any urgency. Just a routine order. Today about noon, (Monday) I walk out to the mailbox and both extractors are in the mailbox. From Friday afternoon till noon on Monday. That was fast. I'm now back in business and ready for the rest of the shooting season. Well done VTI and Cowboy and Indians store. I call this a tie.

For those that did not follow the Kansas State - Classic Cowboy Showdown thread. I am now retired after 20 years at Texas Woman's University, Facilities Management and Construction in Denton Texas. Prior to that for 25 years I worked for 3 different Architects in Fort Worth Texas. So that is 45 years in the industry, 25 working with Owners and Contractors producing construction documents and 20 years as the owner working with Architects and Contractors marking up construction documents. Now I can travel and play Cowboy without having to deal with limited vacation time. Started off my retirement May 1st by traveling to Kansas to shoot the State Championship and Classic Cowboy Showdown. Later this month I will shoot the Mississippi State Championship then the Wisconsin State Championship. Mississippi will be my 22nd and Wisconsin my 23rd different state to shoot Cowboy Action. Maybe I will get to meet you down the road if we have not already met during my 22 years of shooting Cowboy Action.

When I got out of the Navy in 73, I started going to church with a feller that liked to shoot ..... .22 pistols in particular. EDIT: I didn't go to church 'WITH' that feller. His family and my family were going to the same church. He introduced me to the S&W model 41. I couldn't believe its refined feel and accuracy. Soooooo, I bought me one back around 74. Cost was $146 for a new one. Since then, I have owned, sold and/or traded everyone I've owned, which was about 10 of them. Then about 2 years ago, a fellow Cowboy Shooter passed away and his son started selling off some of his guns..... cowboy guns and other guns. One of them was a S&W model 41. I bought it. About 15 minutes after I got it, the son produced a picture of the pistol along with the history of it. His father had bought the pistol back in the 80's FROM THE VERY GUY had introduced me to that model pistol. And that particular pistol was the one I had originally fired back in 74. It was still in top shape with all the blue and SUPER crisp trigger. Now get this.......... The serial number is my birth day. Is that strange, or what? ..........Widder

My son got me this beauty at the Gibson store in Nashville. It’s not a Gibson but she plays real nice. It’s an Epiphone Casino

My youngest wannabee Buckaroo Grandson

shooter's handbook, page 21 "5-SECOND PENALTIES Misses are 5-Second penalties. Revolver, rifle, and shotgun targets must be engaged with the appropriate type of firearm. A MISS is defined as the failure to hit the appropriate target type using the appropriate type of firearm and includes: - Each missed target. - Each unfired round. ... Double Jeopardy applies- a miss cannot cause a procedural." A miss for the unfired round. No "P" --Dawg

Interesting

I build scale models, and follow a couple of model building pages on Facebook. This is a picture of a P-39 at a contest recently. Something about it caught my eye, but I can't quite put my finger on it...

I will be curious how this goes, I personally would rather have the book given to me at registration. I will not have my computer nor phone on the range. How many shooters will not print off their own copy? How many shooters will forget to bring their copy? There is neither phone or internet service at the range. I don't think this is the right place to save a dollar. Just my view but we will see.

This is a stage problem. Everything else is just whining.

My wife started this some long time ago with intent to have it finished by my birthday. It's a little late but I am sitting here just plainly devouring it with my eyes! She ordered a plastic model and spent an unholy amount of time and effort (and holding her breath!) to detail this to her satisfaction!

DO NOT DO IT!!!! Seating the bullet deeper will raise chamber pressures to dangerous levels. Doesn't matter if the load is compressed or not. Buy different ammo that will cycle in your gun.

There was a thread about octagon barrels a while back and several folks asked me to post pictures of mine when I got them back so here they are. I'm very happy with these. They're Ruger Single Sixes with the longer OMV grip frames, Snake Oil George 5 inch octagon barrel with brass sights, Jimmy Spurs full race package with extra set back triggers and custom base pins. I also added some nice aftermarket grips.

I have been shooting open tops for the last few years (I have 6, pairs in 3 calibers) so I have forsaken Top breaks. Well, I work part time in a local gun shop, and guess what came in? A Uberti No. 3, 1st Model "American" 5" top break in .44 Spcl/Russian! It had been back ordered several years ago, apparently, but there is no longer any record of who ordered it, nor was there a deposit paid. Boss knew I like cowboy guns, and offered it to me, to work off with shifts! I said "hell yes!". I liked it so much, I contacted Cimarron and arranged to get an 8" in the same caliber. I ow have a pair. They go great with my 1860 Henry and hammered double. I used them at a local match last week end and loved them. I am loading a 246 grain, conical round nose lead .44 Russian bullets over 5.3 grains of Unique in a Starline .44 Russian case. Pretty much dead on at 7 yards.

May 4, 2024, RUFF JUSTICE was presented with his REGULATOR badge. It came as a complete surprise to him. The cowboys and cowgirls of Ruff's Regulators of Cornwall, the Wild Turkey Posse of Grenville and the Square Circle Wranglers of Ottawa, have appreciated his efforts as a prop builder, painter, host and all around promoter of the Cowboy Way in the area.

The light in our older LG refrigerator works very rarely. I’ve changed bulbs and replaced the switches in the hinges to no avail. We’ve had 2 different repair outfits out and they want anywhere from $800.00 to $1,100.00 upfront to order a board that they say might or might not solve the problem, no guarantees. So I found these motion sensing LED lights on Amazon and for about $60.00 I fixed the problem. The lights are rechargeable and the charge lasts quite awhile and Mrs. Lose is very pleased. My stepson and his wife have been complaining about the same problem and they took my advice and did the same thing.

I may have mentioned two of my great grandfathers who were Confederate soldiers. One was scour for General Sterling Price and the other signed up and was on his way with a few others to get uniforms weapons, and cetera when a Yankee patrol captured them and he spent the rest of the war in a POW camp in Michigan. Well, I recently was given some of Mom's papers that my sister had ever since Mom passed. Sis didn't know, nor did she much care, what they were. Four eight and a half by fourteen photo copies of pay records for Private Robert C. Owens (My grandmothers uncle and brother to the one who was a scout) of Captain Landis' Company, of Light Artillery, CSA. There are four pay records per page and start on December 8, 1862. There are some gaps because the next one, dated July (can't read the day) 1862. Skip ahead and he is on the Roll of Prisoners of War, captured at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863 and now living at Camp Morton, Indiana. He was released January3, 1865 after refusing for the entire time he was a prisoner to accept parole and finally taking the oath of allegiance to the Union at Camp Morton, Illinois. He was released at Gratiot Street Prison, Saint Louis, Missouri. He was described as dark complexion with brown hair and black eyes, standing 5'7 3/4" tall. One more brick in the wall.

Since so many awards are given at annual matches, I'm sure a lot of us have stacks of plaques (mostly the old days) and buckles (mostly these days). Many will wear one or two of their favorites on their holster/shotgun belts. But what about the rest, gathering dust? I did just order a buckle board from Ruby Red Rider that will display a dozen of them in a vertical strip. But then at the Comancheria Days banquet last night, I discovered a new way to display one, and you don't even need a belt. Inspired by rappers with all their bling, I present - - the watch chain fob buckle!

Good dinner. Fairly nice sunset.

Thanks for the thoughts and prayers. Surgeon just let us know that everything went smoothly. He will be in ICU until tomorrow. Should be awake and able to talk tomorrow afternoon.

These events are not "pro-Palestinian." They are media events staged by supporters of Muslim Einsatzgruppen dedicated to carrying out the National Socialist Final Solution. The Hamas death squads , as usual, broke the existing cease fire, attacked Israel, retreated behind their human shields in Gaza, killing many citizens themselves for propaganda photos as well as knowing that IDF retaliation would inflict additional civilian casualties among the women and infants that Hamas loves to hide behind, and then scream for a cease fire because big bad Israel is picking on them for no reason. All those mohammedean Einsatzgruppen want is a chance to rearm.

Like CC stated, its up to the TO to make a final call on the 'P'. But, a spotter can let the TO know that he/she saw the 'P' and tell the TO what exactly caused the 'P'. Its still up to the TO of make the 'P' official. And also as CC stated, the ...."I think" should never precede a penalty call. ..........Widder

Launched in 1977, it’s now 15 billion miles from earth. It took 5 months to fix a glitch in its computers. Think about that, the computers aboard are over 47 years old, and the engineers communicate with it using 1977 computers and their ancient language from earth. A stunning achievement! https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Technology/nasa-voyager-1-spacecraft-sending-readable-data-back-earth/story?id=109572983

Shooter should have declared the malfunction and safely grounded the revolver. TO should have waited until the end of the stage to verify the position of the unfired round in the cylinder (SDQ if under the hammer). If the TO had simply advised the shooter to safely stage the revolver instead of reholstering it, THAT would have been considered "proper coaching" to avoid the possibilty of a SDQ = No RESHOOT. Shooter should have appealed the miscall up the chain of command & received a RESHOOT for RO interference: SHB p.20

Wouldn't that be "ARRR!" rated? (Come on, you know SOMEBODY had to do it).

... but when I was a kid, rainbows were in black and white.

I was in WalMart yesterday when the Store Manager came into the room I was in. He wanted to know why I was in their Breakroom. I politely told him that I was taking a break. He responded by advising me that the Breakroom was for employee use only. I advised him that I had just recently worked here. But you aren't an employee he retorted, to which I quickly asserted that I had just checked myself out at the self serve register.

I just got back from the foot doctor this morning! I GOT MY WALKING PAPERS!! I can walk with a cane and wearing the walking boot for the next week. I visit the doctor again at that point and, if all goes well, I will be able to then go to soft shoes until my new prescription footwear arrives. As of now, I can do short stints on my stationary bike and move around on my feet, carefully!

I got it off. Soaking in Kroil didn’t work. It still wouldn’t budge. I used a cut off wheel to take it down near to the barrel then used a hacksaw to slowly remove metal without cutting into the barrel. When it was close, I was able to pinch it off with a pair of plier. New sight was installed and the barrel is safe. Thanks everyone.

This photo, taken in 1945, in the Pacific theater, shows Sgt Archie C. Vanskike Sr. (third from left and his three sons, PCF Clarence E. Vanskike, PFC Louis E. Vanskike and PFC Archie R. Vanskike Jr. (they all came from Galveston, Texas). During WWII, when Clarence, Louis and Archie Jr. went off to war, their 43-year-old father decided to go with them. These four American heroes took part in the New Guinea campaign and the Liberation of the Philippines. Against all odds, they all survived the war and all went back to Texas. This amazing father passed away in 1962, Clarence died in 1978, Louis died in 1979, and Archie died 1988. They are now resting in peace, all together, at Evergreen Cemetery in Galveston.

Jimmy Stewart and the WW2 Mission That Almost Broke Him https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/jimmy-stewart-ww2-mission-air-force/

Nothing too fancy here, but I finally got around to making a shelf and adding it to my gun cart. The part I thought might be of interest to some is the folding shelf brackets I found on Amazon. Due to the design, you have to use pretty short screws in the front in order to collapse the shelf fully. I didn’t realize that at first and didn’t use short screws, but it still folds enough for easy transport so I may leave it as is.