Forty Rod SASS 3935
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Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Father Kit Cool Gun Garth's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
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Interesting perspective on modern day gunsmithing
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Buckshot Bob 's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Damn. I didn't know that. It's been a couple of years since I went in there, but the sign is still up. I'll treasure the few pieces she did for me. Is Kelly Laster still in business? He did some really good engraving work for me but that's also a few years back. -
Okay, so where did it go?
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You mean like a birth certificate.? I take that back. If you have one, at all you beat Obama!
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Forty Rod’s favorite day!
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Utah Bob #35998's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Somebody ought to paste that picture on a rum bottle. -
THAT EARNED YOU A DRINK ON ME. Bottles, set the man up. Thanks, Mo. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." I sometimes wonder why it has been so often wasted in TV and radio pukes....and politicians....and newspaper columnists...and too many teachers and professors. Mine wasn't wasted. It just faded away.
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Also I am greatly offended by subtitles telling what is being said and mis-pronouncing and / or misspelling half the words (including proper names of well-known people, places and things.) Some of this stuff should be grounds for hanging.
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Two friends and I decided to go "rodeoing" and bought a 1936 Packard hearse for $450.00 This was in 1963 IIRC. It was nowhere as big and elaborate as this rig, it was big enough for three "cowboys", all their gear and tackle, clothes and other essentials....and it ran very well for what it was. We rigged a homegrown top rack for the saddles and tack, had places to hang clothes, store food and cookware, a small fridge (which never quite worked as well as we wanted, chemical toilet, and water enough for about day....if you didn't mind washing in cold water. We used it for one season and one of the guys bought the other two of us out, "improved" it into a camper, and drove it for at least six more years. By that time it had a new engine, transmission, interior, and other things and didn't look as classy as it did while we were all together. Don't know what became of it. The guys and the Packard, and all the rest just faded away into the time tunnel we call life.
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I watch almost every one that is posted, at least part of them. Too many have some half wit trying to become famous "narrating" the whole thing and saying NOTHING worthwhile. I tried watching some with the sound of and it's much better, BUT they keep playing the same thing over and over and over again.
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....that has tiny cotton-looking "flowers"? We had them all over the valley when we moved to Utah in 1951 and Dad still had some by the garage the last time I was there in 2001. Seems they were very hardy....surviving even -30 f weather and hundred degree summers....and attractive, but I can't find what I'm looking for on the net. Any horticulturist out there. (There must be. Every other skill, arts, food, costume, language, historical, entertainment, and other question thing turns up someone really quickly.)
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"Grandma's Favorite Recipes"
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Subdeacon Joe's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
This brings to mind Mo Lasses's Cowboy Campfire Cookbook. I'd like to get my hands on a few more of those. They made great gifts and my own copy is getting bent, battered, stained, dog-eared, grease covered, and just plain worn out. Hasn't been many weeks I haven't used it at least once and usually a few more times -
Interesting perspective on modern day gunsmithing
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Buckshot Bob 's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
My gunsmith for ten years (ever since we moved to Arizona) has been David Fink. He was working out of a shop in his back yard in Chino Valley about 17 miles away, and picked up and delivered guns, and did amazingly good work. Then he moved from Chino Valley to Pauldin, maybe 10 miles further away and took over the gunsmithery at Gunsight Academy (Jeff Cooper's baby.) He doesn't pick up nor deliver guns any more and his prices have gone up. He's added equipment, master smiths in different areas of expertise, and has learned new skills in all fields of smithing. He's also made such a good name that he has a massive backlog, mostly for combat and specialty guns, BUT HE STILL DOES GREAT WORK on cowboy guns, collector pieces and everyday "let's go have fun" and sporting guns, even restorations on Grandpa's old "meat-in-the-pot" guns. He introduced me to Rachel Wells, an internationally known and respected engraver. She's amazing and has pictures of her work that will melt your heart and burn you brain. You'll have to wait for either one of them, but I'm here to tell you he and Rachel are both worth the time and cost for their work. I don't have a lot of their finer work, but what I have is top of the line. Know what else? Both are wonderful, friendly, and enjoyable folks to be around. -
Forty Rod’s favorite day!
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Utah Bob #35998's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Not in my house it ain't. 'Bout the only thing I hate worse than so-called pirate talk (not counting idiots running or running for office) is the Happy Birthday To You song. Anyone using either one will be cursed by me and some body parts that they or may not still be using will begin to wither and fall off. You been warned. -
Everybody’s kung fu fighting
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Buckshot Bob 's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Everybody? BULL!- 1 reply
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She Taught NASA Engineers How To Sew
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Subdeacon Joe's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Claw hammers are low tech, too, but almost all the buildings going up anywhere today are still hammered together with them. Don't give up on obsolete technology nor those who can still use it effectively. Why, I'll bet if you looked hard enough you could find some folks still using lever action rifles and single action six guns. -
Forty Rod’s favorite day!
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Utah Bob #35998's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
GRRRRRR! -
My only 9mm is a Star Model 43 Firestar, that I've had for about 40 years. It's heavy and has been refinished, but it is 100% reliable, more accurate than I am able to make every day use of, and it needs new grips. Over the years I have had a dozen or so 9mm handguns of many makes and models. This old Star is he only one I really liked and that's why I kept it. It's my "dashboard" gun living in the glove box all the time...along with an even dozen spare magazines with a 13th in the gun....just in case.
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I see the sign, can't open it.....and it isn't even April Fools Day. Just plain old fashioned every day home grown fools, like every other day.
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Very few pictures of "cowboy" hats as we see them today. Narrower brims. lower crowns.
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A daily excercise for those of us over 60.
Forty Rod SASS 3935 replied to Marshal Dan Troop 70448's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Running off at the mouth, lifting expectations, spinning tall tales, lifting my spirits., walking off cramps.........I get a lot of exercise. A Marine Sergeant Major (retired) said this morning at breakfast that he was going to get a dog and name it Five Miles so could assure his doctor that he walked Five Miles every morning. -
Amen to that. I'd be lost without my little Trinket The Tornado.
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Slim Whitman rules!
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Ain't that the cryin' truth?!