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COVID’s over! Nellie Belle and Co. (me) leave Wednesday for 2 shoots in Torsby, Sweden It’ll be good ta see all our European friends again, and make a few new ones. If Sweden declares war on the U.S. in the next 3 weeks, ya know who’s responsible! wish us luck🤠

My artist college sophomore granddaughter is working in a ceramics shop this summer. She made this octopus mug, which I think is so cool!

What a great breakfast

A friend of mine had a former police bike. He thought it was great until he realized everyone in front of him slowed down when they saw his bike. His helmet didn’t help either. I think the person that owns this car may be having the same problem.

On 7 January 1967, John Steinbeck was at Pleiku, where he flew aboard a UH-1 Huey helicopter with D Troop, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry. He wrote the following about the helicopter pilots: “I wish I could tell you about these pilots. They make me sick with envy. They ride their vehicles the way a man controls a fine, well-trained quarter horse. They weave along stream beds, rise like swallows to clear trees, they turn and twist and dip like swifts in the evening. I watch their hands and feet on the controls, the delicacy of the coordination reminds me of the sure and seeming slow hands of (Pablo) Casals on the cello. They are truly musicians’ hands and they play their controls like music and they dance them like ballerinas and they make me jealous because I want so much to do it. Remember your child night dream of perfect flight free and wonderful? It’s like that, and sadly I know I never can. My hands are too old and forgetful to take orders from the command center, which speaks of updrafts and side winds, of drift and shift, or ground fire indicated by a tiny puff or flash, or a hit and all these commands must be obeyed by the musicians hands instantly and automatically. I must take my longing out in admiration and the joy of seeing it. Sorry about that leak of ecstasy, Alicia, but I had to get it out or burst.”

Desert Scorpion did a hybrid version with existing mug for Painted Lady.

How True!

Good lord...

Hell on Wheels was a fun shoot and well worth my drive up from Oklahoma. The stages were not P traps the targets were shootable and plenty of movement. I enjoyed the whole match. Thanks to The folks that worked hard to make Hell on Wheels an enjoyable and fun shoot.

I bought several cases of Federal large pistol primers about five years ago. They were $154.00 a case. Works out to $.0308 a piece! I checked yesterday and I have about 6lbs of Solo 1000 left and 7.5 lbs of International Clays. The Solo was $140.00 for 8lbs when I bought it and I bought two jugs. The Int. Clays was given to me. I have several other single pound bottles of smokeless, all but two of which were bought several years ago. Then there’s a rather large amount of FFFg and a recent acquisition of Goex Cartridge. I used to buy a couple boxes of bullets every time I went to a big match! $25.00 or less was the going rate for 500 .45s or a thousand .38/.357 and I made use of funds on hand. I mostly bought from SASS vendors whenever and wherever possible and still do. I just made a deal for more powder with one of our prominent vendors! I still have bags and bottles of shot that I bought ten years ago!! I actually bought shot from Shootin’ Fox a little over a year ago because I forgot that I had some squirreled away in the garage! Some of that old shot was $20.00 for 25lbs!! I have been mostly unable to shoot for the last few years, but I have continued to build my inventory. I can sit in front of a reloading press for as long as I want without putting unnecessary stress on my bad foot. There’s times when I avoided going batshit crazy by going into my gun room and spending a couple of hours reloading or working on a gun or a press! Besides CAS ammunition, I have other shotgun ammo, lots of ammo for my semiautomatic pistols, hunting rifle ammo, tactical rifle ammunition in steel and brass, and some nasty pistol caliber stuff for the Blackhawks and the lever action rifles that can use it. My current cost on a .45 Colt round, depending on what it’s for, is between $0.10 and $0.20, the CAS round being on the cheaper side of the scale. A CAS smokeless shotgun shell costs around $0.20. Those prices will probably increase dramatically if and when I have to replenish supplies of some of these components, but that may not be for several more years! In the meantime, I sit on my branch or the rocky shelf on a mountain and gaze down at the world below like a cagey old buzzard, looking to pick off that next great deal!!

No problem, I've been watching the Swedish Chef on the Muppets.

The strange pillar-like formation emerged after Crowley Lake reservoir was completed in 1941: stone columns up to 20 feet tall connected by high arches, as if part of an ancient Moorish temple.

And... After what the Rabbi did, there was not a possum within fifty miles!

Thanks @Subdeacon Joe . They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so....

They don’t show on that link anymore. Shooter’s World, for whom I am a distributor, is the exclusive distributor for White River. I have some to test and will let you know. At present, I have been told that their retail primers for 2024 are sold and that they are selling currently only to OEM ammunition manufacturers - which may be why they showed 24 hours ago and not now. They are a legitimate company located in Arkansas. They are owned by an American Holding company with Czech Republic ties - hence the SW connection since SW powders are manufactured in Czech Republic. Hugs! Scarlett OEM = Original Equipment Manufacturer

If three spotters did not notice only nine rounds being fired, and no one "SAW" a procedural - one miss for the unfired round. Then, offline, try to figure out how everyone missed the unfired round...

I remember people saying the same thing about Wild Bunch. PCC has been shot at some state matches around the southeast for at least the past 5-6 years. It's just a side match shot with semi auto, magazine rifles. Usually 9 mm AR-15 type platforms. It's a stand alone side match like Wild Bunch, Rimfire or the Black Powder match.

Some folks just can't get enough shooting.

At 270 miles from shore....

Better off with the F-35, which can do all things for all people...except NOT as well for CAS (that's Close Air Support). The AF "fighter mafia" has been trying to get rid of the A-10 for about as long as that bird has been in existence. IMHO, give the A-10 to the Army, just like the Marines have their own organic air force. The A-10 is a flying tank!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng49dg35vo

Three priests were at a religious reunion, and in an endeavor to strike up conversation the first priest (a Lutheran) said…….. “Last week I caught a possum in my back yard, I know they are territorial so I took it a mile away and do you know, within 4 days it was back in my back yard again”! The second priest was an Anglican and he immediately chimed in….. “That’s right, they do home, I caught a possum in my back yard, and to be sure I took it 5 miles away and would you believe within 2 weeks it was back in my yard again”! The third priest was Roman Catholic, he hung his head for a moment and said…… “Well, I once caught a possum in my Rectory garden, I baptized it, confirmed it and I haven’t seen it since”!

What are you talking about? Chocolate Day is EVERY day! (from an unreformed chocoholic) Give me all of your chocolate and nobody gets hurt.

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The microchip in your weedwhacker communicated with the central lawn care hive, which intercepted the spooling order to load the spool that was to be shipped to you with the heavier line. Watch out, because your toaster is linked in, too.

Queensland is two and a half times the size of Texas, but is still not Australia's largest State.

Texans tell stories like this, so they have something in common with Queenslanders. Maybe unreliable cars, not sure what... Alaskans just don't tell a lot of stories. Not sure why that either...

Usually sausage! Sometimes ham and sometimes it’s just lumps!! Spicy with plenty of black pepper and often some butter melted into it!

That’s pretty cool @Lawdog Dago Dom That would be a fun certificate to get and have. Of course I would have a heckuva time getting into MIT now and back when I considered going to college. I joined the Navy instead and became a salty dog.

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This is me shooting APP & SW Multi Black (shotgun). 115gr bullet & 32 HR Mag revolvers and 125gr 38spl in rifle. I make good smoke and have the most fun. As for any smell… I put powdered incense in about 1/3 of my shotshells. Makes it fun for the posse when shooting under cover. It’s especially fun when shooting in high humidity or rain. I know some of you aren’t on board with the substitutes. I can store APP, travel with APP, and sell APP without a gazillion papers to fill out and report. I only sell items I use myself - except for the smokeless powders other Clean Shot - so the holy black out. Hugs! IMG_1216.mov

Or Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Of Coffee