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Forty Rod SASS 3935

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  1. I bought it new in 1978-1979. It became battle-worn, torn and tattered over the years, but is still structurally sound. To replace it would cost almost $2000.00. I found a company called FIBRENEW and they came to my house. They don't reupholster, they restore leather and plastic covers. You have to find another solution for wood, metal, or fabric furniture. In 4 1/2 hours the lady and gent who own the place used very fine abrasives, magic solutions, finely-blended dyes, air brushes, salves and ointments and polishes, and whatever else they needed. I got a chair that looks nearly new (they even patched a badly worn spot one one arm and a 3" cut on the other arm) and with a coupon I spent $425.00 for the job.....a whole lot less than a new chair or a fully re-upholstered one. I have no idea if they are local one-off company or a worldwide chain, but they get my vote if I ever have another need. They are great craftsmen and wonderful artists as well. If you need that sort of repair / restoration In recommend them without reservation.
  2. I have a set of five stones that I've owned for over forty years andI bought a new very fine diamond steel. A bit of a PITA but I learned how to use them many moons ago and still get a better than necessary edge when I sit down and take my time. The steel is good for a quick dress up.
  3. I don't think my parents had sex after 1989.
  4. I was 31 days premature (Mom had a ruptured appendix and they figured that had something to do with it), my son was 19 days early, my daughter was 27 days early and my wife died while delivering her. They took the baby and brought my wife back with minor negative results to either one. Scared the hell out of me!
  5. Anything is possible but doubt it.
  6. You just had to mention snow. We got about 2 inches of that stuff yesterday, April 18. I know we need the water but I'll take rain any day.
  7. So would an M-16. The .357 hasn't been popular in my house for almost 60 years. I owned a few but I still go to a .44 or .45 in a handgun.
  8. I think she has an adrenalin gland just for things like that. Several months ago she chased about a 45 pound bobcat out of our yard and she could have been killed in a flash. She was afraid of this dog hurting her just be being all over the place trying to be friendly. I think she was more afraid of him hurting her by accident.
  9. Didn't find any and the ground here is mostly caliche...hard as a steel.
  10. She was a afraid of him. He was so rowdy that he bumped into her and knocked her down a couple of times. She let him drink from her bowl but was ready to tear him up when he went toward her food. She managed to get between him and me whenever he got too close.
  11. I got up this morning, did my daily get out an go stuff, walked into the kitchen and found my 13 year old dog and a year old pup about her size. Good looking dog, well-groomed, well-fed, and a rowdy as all get out. Very friendly and happy to be a friend. I never laid eyes on the mutt before. He had no collar or any form of ID at all. He obviously got in through the doggy door out to my deck, but how he got into my yard is a mystery. It's surrounded by skunk proof fencing and I couldn't find any gaps in it anywhere. After getting him out of the house I secured my dog inside, gave the stranger some water and blocked off the doggy door. A tour of the neighborhood didn't turn up anyone who recognized him so I called animal control. They sent a young man over and he scanned for a microchip. No joy there. We finally got the dog in the truck and the man said they'd take him to the pound. He looked me right in the eye and said if the dog wasn't get claimed in 21 days he be up for adoption...and the he would be first in line to give little guy a home. I still don't know how he got into my yard. He was a jumper but I've got five to eight foot fences all around the yard and that pup was about the same size as my eleven pound chihuahua min pin mix. I can'r see him jumping nor climbing the fences. Mysteries abound
  12. You mean like gasoline, motor oil, fertilizers, paint, tobacco, sugar, propane, Spam, aerosol containers of all manner of stuff, and other hazardous materials?
  13. A place in Upland, CA many years ago. It was called Yanks and had waiters that did that and spectacular food. The partners split and the one who took over Yanks brought in a loud New Orleans piano player, mediocre staff, and added a few tables which made it very crowded. We only went there twice again.
  14. The P-38 wasn't a fighter bomber....just a spectacular fighter.
  15. I thought it was because of family ties TURKEY!
  16. That top latch isn't the right profile for a Schofield. It's "lift up" latch not a "pull back" latch like the others. Notice how far into the trigger guard he has his finger....like maybe 80% of real shooters.
  17. No they aren't.
  18. I think that is the STUPIDEST video I've ever seen.
  19. Lyman is very good. There are others better but usually more pricey. Judge for yourself: 1. are you good enough to get the full value out of the sight 2. does it fit you and the gun 3. is it simple to use 4. is it sufficiently durable 5. if you find you don't like it is it resellable I have had tang sights on a bunch of guns. The only one I liked well enought to keep and used successfully (and wish I still had the gun and the sight) was a Sharps repro ten years before Quigley was born. It was a .45-70 with a "Hawkenesque" stock that looked marvelous, shot better than I could, and with ammo, accessories, etc. sold for almost $100.00 more than I had in it when my wife and kids and the dog needed food more than I needed that rifle.
  20. I add pearl onions (when I can get them) in my beef stew. Adds a different and very pleasing touch.
  21. Behind the Rainbow Bar in Naha. Great haircuts for thirty-five cents. (1966-1968). Also a few doors down an old lady named Kai did baths and massages for a buck fifty. The younger guys wanted young girls to "DO" them. My wife and I both went there about once a week.
  22. The old kind (diatomaceous earth base), not the modern gels. I've used the old stuff to smooth gun actions. It's messy but it works if you're patient. Be patient. It's worth it.
  23. I DON'T CARE!!! I don't want to listen to that BS everywhere I go! I resent being captive to some so-called marketing scheme that causes me to go miles out of my way to find a quiet place to shop. They are getting scarce. I'd love to get the people who put this garbage on the air everywhere and lock them in my workshop and crank Slim Whitman (I love his music) up to a volume painful to ears, lock the doors and make them listen for about a month. I'd give them food and water and there's bathroom out there. I'd settle for piping their own garbage into their offices, homes, and stores forever. For some of us it becomes elder abuse...against the law throughout the land. Hey, maybe we could put the politicians through the same thing I have proposed for the "corporate " idiots who force it on the rest of us...even into their chauffeured cars and expensive planes....and the halls of Congress and all government offices at every level of government.' including passageways and cafeterias. But most people would rather tolerate it than to stand up and complain. They are too timid to rock the boat.
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