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  1. I had to show this Video of a good TO, Lucky Lead Pepper, helping Deadwood Miner through a stage! By the way Deadwood was 93 when this video was made, he’s 94 now and shot this month at Wartrace, he’s my hero!! Randy
    45 points
  2. IMO...YES (all things considered).
    25 points
  3. HIDE YOUR GUNS AND OTHER VALUABLES, LOCK YOUR HORSES AND WOMEN AWAY, GUARD YOUR WATER HOLES AND VALUABLE PROPERTY, AND PROTECT ALL OF YOUR TREASURES!!! FORTY ROD IS BACK!!!!! SERIOUSLY, MY THANKS TO ALL WHO WISHED ME WELL AND SENT PRAYERS UP TO THE BOSS. The virus is dead and I am still alive and kicking. I have several more afflictions to tackle but this one scared the bejabbers out of me. I have been very fortunate to have the BEST medical team anywhere, made friends of a few, and learned a lot from them all. Had a Chaplain pray with me and asked that this thing would be cured by the 20th of March. It was. They held me one more day to confirm that the virus was gone and to process the paper work and discharge me from the hospital. It was and they did. I haven't been a good man and not a religious one either, but I'm comfortable that prayer, sincerely offered and totally believed in, works. Thanks againg and God bless all of you. 4T
    18 points
  4. For over 10 years I have refused to get a 44-40 caliber gun. Absolutely adamant I tell. LOL The 44-40 is a fiddley case, prone to bend easy, bottle neck rubbish and a bugger to expand and load and an extra step to crimp. Plus very easy to get mixed in with 45 colt. A person would have to be out of their mind to own one. Monday, I swing by to pick up some canvas loading bags I ordered from a nice lady. ( Jax Leather) and the husband said I looking to sell some sequential S/N Uberti 73’s all tricked out and a slicked up 73 Oct barrel Uberti steel ringer. (4speed w/posi traction and 3 duces) And he said “they are 44-40”. I picked up one pistol and my fingers would not move to the open position when I tried to set it down and walk away. I felt off balance so I picked up the other pistol. The same thing happened to the other hand. My first thought in times of stress is ‘God, grant me the courage to accept the things I cannot change’ The loading bags are great and very pleased. To keep this happy train rolling, I went to my local gun store this AM and they had a consignment NIB Starline 44-40 brass 500 count. (under a 100 bucks) This brass is gonna work really great in my new black powder SAS shooting irons. 44-40 of course. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! SASS gives me more fun than any person should deserve.
    16 points
  5. That's today. She got up about 0400 to use the necessary, when she came back to bed I greeted her with We got up, started the coffee and turned on the news to get information about the Baltimore Bridge I asked if she wanted to go out for breakfast. She said she didn't, but really wanted pancakes. Made a batch at about 0700. She went to the Tuesday Crochet and Cards at the clubhouse at 1100. I did dishes and such. She came home after only about 75 minutes, wanted to go to Taco Bell. As we were on the way I said something about wondering which way to go, at that time of day there isn't any way to get there.....or anywhere in town....that's not a PITA...so she said, "OK, Burger King, McDonald's, I just want to get out and have something different." BK it was. "Ooooo.....tacos, 2 for $2!" she said as we pulled into the drive through. So be it. Those things are pretty good ! As we were waiting I asked if she wanted to go out to Bodega Head. "Yes!!" Away we went. Told her that I wouldn't want a taco until we were on Hwy 12 West. "But feel free to go ah..."(CRUNCH)"had and start," I said as she bit into one. Then had to not snort crisp tortilla out her nose. Got out to Bodega Head....a beautiful N. California drive through some truly gorgeous country which she kept commenting on....and as we were standing there letting the bracing sea breeze (wind about 15, temperature about 58) wash through us I started to take out my phone to get a few pictures, stopped and told myself to just enjoy. Then she said, "Look atthecolors!" Now, she is working on a Crochet "temperature blanket." One row for each day, different color for each 10 degrees, high and low temperature, and some calculations for how many stitches for day and night so there won't be a straight line down the middle. Kinda cool. One of the tools she has is a program that will take an image and generate a color palette for it in however many colors you want. She's already planning the blanket for next year. I looked around and pulled out the phone to capture the colors. She should be able to get some good colors out of those . Only downside is that she has lost enough weight over the last. 6 months that her shoes are loose, so her feet slipped a little in her shoes, took a tumble on the sandstone, got some scrapes and scratches. Nothing serious. But even that had an upside...within about 10 seconds 4 or 5 people were there to help get her up, grab her cane, purse, and hat off the ground, asking if she was OK. Even with the fall she says she has had a great day.
    12 points
  6. If the world you live in doesn't suit you, you have four choices: 1. Suck it up and live with it the way it is. 2. Change yourself to make a better fit. 3. change to world to fit you. 4.Kill yourself. 1. Will leave you sad, lonely. and bitter. 2. Is easier than you might imagine. You might not need big changes and may have to settle for a partial fix. 3. Can be done to a certain degree, and I have done it many times, again sometimes settling for a partial solution. (Note: it is often possible to work 2 and 3 together to get the results that work best) 4. Is a cowards way out and leaves no one satisfied.
    12 points
  7. He just called to tell me that he will likely be released from the hospital tomorrow. He was eating fresh baked chocolate chip cookies and dealing with an over sensitive call button. He has an appointment with urology in the morning and then he may go home!!
    12 points
  8. Acceptable to whom? ALL of my behavior is acceptable to me and no one else gets a vote. SO THERE!!! Pffffttttt!
    11 points
  9. Doing some gun room cleaning this weekend . And I Open up some spots I have not been in for quite a wile . And to my surprise ! Wow look at what I found stashed away . A Stash From The Past .
    10 points
  10. In May it will be ten years since my wife Delia Rose and I started Cowboy Action Shooting. As of Trailhead last week at THSS, I've now competed in 99 matches! Here's a chart with a moving 5-match average of my average time per stage. (I'm a math guy I can't help myself) It took me about a year to get the hang of things and dramatically reduce my stage times. The spikes you see after that are when I did our local club's Wild Bunch category, which adds extra rounds and time. I switched from regular two-handed pistols to Gunfighter category four years ago at Trailhead 2020. My times went up a bit with it at first, but I have really improved within the last year after getting some good advice from other Gunfighter shooters. The best part of this sport is the interactions with other shooters. My stage times are now in the upper-20s or low-30s most of the time. I hope to eventually average in the 20s every match. I've done it a couple of times now, so I know I can keep getting better.
    9 points
  11. My grandfather was on one of those 17 Fletcher class destroyers lost off the coast of Okinawa. He was on the USS Luce, DD522. A kamikaze hit the powder magazine and it blew up. My grandfather's leg was mangled terribly; there was shrapnel littered all throughout and he was bleeding profusely. Someone put a tourniquet on him and fastened him to a stretcher. Then the ship started listing hard; it was sinking, and the captain gave the order to abandon ship. The two sailors carrying my grandfather dropped him and obeyed the order. So there he was, tied to a stretcher and sitting on the deck of a sinking ship, unable to save himself. As the ship was going down, someone climbed onto the now-45 degree deck, freed him from the stretcher, and put a life vest on him before throwing him into the water. He floated with the life vest on, but the Japanese aircraft were strafing the survivors in the water with machinegun fire. He survived that. Then, while waiting in the water for three days to be rescued, the sharks were feasting on people and body parts. He survived that and was rescued. He was flown to a hospital in Oklahoma, where my grandmother drove down from Iowa and married him. He had a metal brace on his leg and walked with a limp and a cane for the rest of his life. He was in constant pain and never complained about it. He used to tell me, "Every day since that day is a gift from God." Every few years some more shrapnel would work its way to the surface and need to be surgically removed. He used to say, "At least I still have my leg." The doctors told him that one more such surgery and they would have to amputate his leg, but the opportunity never came. After beating cancer twice, it finally took him on the third go around in 2010.
    9 points
  12. BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here I was at the Gun Show today in Prescott Valley, AZ, and who do I see walking and talking to folks just coming towards me? FORTY ROD!!!!!!!!! He is home, and told me he feels good, and that the Doc's and Nurses at the local VA real helped him get thru this problem. Folks, all your prayers where answered. HE'S BACK, AND PROBABLY STILL OUT OF CONTROL!!!!!!
    9 points
  13. Actually, a place with pups and kitties doesn't look like such a bad spot.
    9 points
  14. My brother-in-law was a lay minister, so when his sister wanted a small, casual wedding, she asked him to officiate. He had never performed a marriage ceremony before, so he decided to ask his pastor for advice. "My sister has asked me to marry her," he began, "and I'm not sure what to do." The minister answered, "Try telling her you just want to be friends."
    9 points
  15. Don't let Subdeacon Joe see that!
    9 points
  16. From Shirley MacLaine’s autobiography “My Lucky Stars”/1996, “Traveling back to California in his plane, across country, after our last stadium show in 1992, Frank Sinatra was 76 years old. Frank didn’t want to sleep. It was late at night. He thought everyone else was asleep. I watched him. He went to the back of the plane, quietly retrieved snack food from the galley. He got down on his hands & knees, surreptitiously stuffed everyone’s shoes with popcorn, peanuts, jellybeans, gumdrops, crackers. Frank Sinatra, my friend, legend, glorious survivor would do anything to have fun.”
    8 points
  17. Calling dibs on the flowers....
    8 points
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