Forty Rod SASS 3935

...form about1990 with Ahnuld Whutzizname. Lots of Calico .22 carbines and 9mm pistols. Stupid movie but I watch it every ten years or so. I think the auto body designers at Tesla got a lot of ideas for their pickup from the movie.

My '72 is .44-40 and has a 24" octagonal barrel, a gift from my wife for Christmas in 1982....my first dedicated SASS gun. I've taken a Mule deer and a whitetail, two bobcats and a badger with it. (The badger was almost an accident. I wasn't really hunting anything that morning.) All of these were before 1991. My SKB 220E 26" 12gauge has been used on several pheasant, four chukars, two huns, three or four California quail, and jackrabbits galore....all before 1984 Too long and heavy for much SASS work and my Rossi coach gun wasn't long enough for decent hunting, so I adapted. I bought another Ithaca 12 gauge Model 34 Feather Light (one of several plus one 20 Gauge). Haven't hunted much of anything since 1999.

And how long did it take you to get it out of your digestive tract?

His web site stinks.

Why bother? BP is for muzzle stuffers and percussion revolvers

I'm 83 years old. How long does it yake?

They'd have to be pretty low.

When we were stationed on Okinawa my wife did a good job using a garden hoe on habu.

I was given a 1947 vintage Dick Special by a friend who was dying. It's a solid 90-95% gun and the only thing I've done is added a Tyler T-Grip to it so it fits my hand better. I bought a "vampire" shoulder holster (holster is upside down so the muzzle points straight up) for it that is the best holster I could find. I wish they made them for semi-autos. Using Hornady Critical Defense and firing one-handed (right hand) I can keep six out of six in a four and a half inch circle at ten yards. Two hands shrinks it to three and a half. One handed (left) I can keep five out of six in a nine to nine and a half inch circle. The sixth round is two or three inches lower at five to seven o'clock. All are suitable for a close range gunfight. Anything further will have me looking for something to rest the gun or my hand on. Anything over six shots.....even though I have three loaded Speed Loaders.....is not a gunfight, it's a war and I'll be looking for a way out. This is my everyday carry piece for most of the year. In really cold weather and a wearing a heavier coat, I up grade to a 1911 in .45 acp. with the the same brand and style of ammo. The gun is refinished and tuned by David Fink at Gunsite Academy and has a three dot tritium sight set for indoor dim light like in my house. It also sports some really nice "double diamond" walnut grips. It rides in a custom Ted Blocker holster I bought years ago when I had a business in San Dimas, CA, about a half mile from his shop and for a different 1911. I have a lot of other guns but these are the ones I carry in case of unexpected social events requiring a gun.

JUST GOT MY FIRST CPAP GIZMO ON THURSDAY! Whee! I'm going back to the clinic to get a tutorial to help me put it inaction

I LIKE IT! Thanks.

Thank you for noticing. It's always gratifying to have someone recognize the effort I put into that.

I can't remember the last time I went into a Target. Probably close to your 20 years.

They have alienated me and is has nothing whatever to do with Trump or politicians of any breed. My family is laced with them...like my sister and her son. She sees the world through a tiny aperture like a soda straw. He's just a raging so-called "conservative" moron.

Too little, too late.

Up in the northern Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming Rockies there are millions of fossils that look just like these critters, some up to three feet long. Been there from way back, but I don't know how far back they go.....but if they are still around their family tree has to be huge beyond imagination. I never saw a live one and had no idea any still existed. That is above 7,000 feet altitude, right up in the area where the are miles of seashells in layers where the ocean either drained away or were thrust up in massive earthquakes. And then there's the axolotl, a quite rare salamander-like aquatic beastie. The town of Prescott (rhymes with bisquite) Valley has one and he/she/it is fascinating to watch. It's right next to two tarantulas and a beaded lizard. Come take a look. They will jolt your reality bones.

I have seldom found a faster check out because they have one or two checkout registers open and lines at the self help area are seven to ten deep. One store doesn't even open registers until 8:00 am and I'm halfway through my day by then.

I find that I also get NO ONE who knows their butt from a hole in the ground....and they are almost all computer-bound. I don't know how some of them find their way out of the store so they can go home at quitting time.

You might get a horse to cross it but I'd bet a mule wouldn't go. They'll walk a narrow trail but they get right against the uphill side and there ain't no uphill side on that bridge.

I keep envisioning claymores....or electric fence INSIDE the shed.

I saw two of them for sale at the big gun show in Pomona many years ago.....back when California was a real place and not some wannabe leftist liberal puke's dream. Interesting pieces but the top gun was way out of my price range...about $450.00 back then. The best of the pair came with 20 "cartridges" and a very nice gun bag. It had an adjustable choke IIRC. The other one was not as good, actually almost junk.

My wife and daughter both selected 2" 6 shot .38 specials and they both could outshoot me, very proficient the wife was and my daughter still is. I have a 1947 Colt 2" Dick Special as my every day piece and I'm good with it, but not as good as them.

Tarzan gots WD-40 and litho grease. Him primative, not stoopid.

I have a dog that spends a lot of her time inventing new ways to lay down for a nap.