Forty Rod SASS 3935

Well digging: the only job where you start at the top and work your way down to the bottom, and if you are successful you lose your job.

If I had all the guns I want I'd need a crew to maintain the climate control equipment, too.

A friend (RIP) had one of these. I'd known him for three or four years before I knew he collected Civil War era handguns....lots of them. A California collector paid his widow a "college education" for those guns.....the whole lot of them with a lot a accessories as well.

Properly displayed and a crew of people to care for them, too. Not any rust spot or fingerprint in the place and no dust....and every gun perfectly operational. And a sarsaparilla bottling plant in the basement next to the kitchen.

I've heard that quote before but can't put a name to it.

Most people don't know and most of the rest simply don't care. It would require them to DO SOMETHING beside bitching about it and blaming others....but they just won't get up from the TV to do anything other than bitch and get another beer.

Would that become a 51st state? I would approve but I'm not sure Greenland would agree. It would balance our nation's other island state with a startlingly different climate.

Mohandas Gandhi said (not a perfect quote, but close): Being a great leader doesn't count on how many followers you have but on the number of leaders you have created." If I had Musk's money I'd consider saving money for retirement as "irrelevant" too.....and I would have a gun room the size of Delaware.

I'd bet that some of the recipients of the Spectre's "gifts" would believe so...if they survived.

Must be a very successful lawyer to afford the most unprofessional, outrageous, eye-popping jacket I've ever seen, and all while spouting non-sensical crap. My wife worked in a marvelous attorney's office for just about 25 years. When he hired someone new he would look for professional attire and carriage (his word, not mine) before he even looked into the applicant's credentials. Once in awhile he would take on a worthy person and "mold' him (or her) into what he wanted. This geek wouldn't even have gotten into the waiting room.

HMMM. Might give that a try. Thanks.

BTW, I also like butter in my coffee. Well, some of you use milk or cream...or some chemistry set project sweetener... but I like my dairy product to fit my taste and I simply love GOOD (Kerry Gold salted) butter. I put a pat on most of my beef, and some fish, too.

Sure I did. Funny! Hahahaha!!!

That's all I need: another mysterious un-vetted "ghost" telling me that he has a cure for something and all the time just stinking of (SCAM) trying to get more info from me (SCAM), about me, that he is exactly what he is promising to protect me from. (SCAM) If I fell for all things that the internet promises I'd be living on the street in a cardboard box. I've been scammed enough over the years to the point that I don't believe almost anyone about almost anything.

I have a 1 1/2 First Issue with a square butt. Second Issue was a round butt and the standard model had a fluted cylinder. There was a transitional model using First Issue cylinders without flutes, and with square butts, quite rare and much more valuable.

Well, now CRAP! I just saw this and now I have to make that Dutch Apple pie I've been putting off. It sure blew my evening's menu all apart.

Still cleaning up their own back yard. I applaud them for this.

I remember the day they took the Big Boy out of Pomona. They had disconnected all of her running gear and towed her away behind diesels. It was a humiliating day for her and her friends. After the rebuild I got to ride behind that big beautiful mechanical monster for a short and very expensive trip, that my wife would have never allowed had she still been alive. I have loved steam locos since my first ride when I was about three years old.

I don't really like coffee nor tea. I simply use them a means of getting a LOT of sugar into my system quickly.

I'm 100% ahead of the game on this......but not much else from our computerize world. I ain't got no buttons. I'm voice actuated.

I don't think anything about cioppino. I was raised in an Italian family, but never heard of it. Enlighten me Obi Wan.

I worked for 12 years for Ray and Jackie Taylor at The Flintlock At Hobby City in Anaheim, CA. This video caught almost all of the things that are keeping a flintlock from being a great rifle. I watched Ray swap locks, harden parts, make parts, and generally put some really fine guns together from mediocre imports. All of this was covered in the video, but a couple of things that Ray taught me that were not mentioned. 1. Use quality powder. Ray preferred Gearhart and Owens (GOEX) or a Swiss powder (can't recall the brand). He had a few that he wouldn't even sell in his shop. 2. Re-harden and polish all of the parts. Learn how and do it yourself. 3,. I saw him weld a lot of flash pans shut, grind them to fit, and re-cut the pan into a much shallower depth and often much narrower as well. He explained that too much powder in the pan would tend to burn off rather that flashing, which slowed the action. 4. He would often make the top of the pan and bottom of the frizzen to be a perfect fit with NO gaps. 5. He almost always replaced the springs with polished and tuned ones. He made the lock and shaped a swamped barrel for a custom gun made for me by Joe Sours, an amateur maker of amazing skill. It was a beautifully decorated .45 caliber piece with a 36 inch barrel in a maple stock. It never failed to fire and was as accurate as any rifle I ever owned out to about 300 yards. Beyond that I couldn't say because I wasn't capable of using the little rifle to its capability. I sold it for 1 1/2 month's payment on our mortgage because I was out of work. I still miss that pretty little gun.

Unedible in my opinion.

Greenland ? What did I miss this time?

You need something more challenging. Anybody can annoy me...a many do just for S&G!