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Why?

[Interesting perspective on modern day gunsmithing]

On 9/20/2024 at 7:01 PM, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

It appears Rachel passed away last year.

😔

 

www.dcourier.com/tncms/asset/editorial/dd52ecd8-788f-52aa-abfd-52ed3fee1346

 

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.

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Okay, so where did it go?

[Would it bother you to drink alone?]

On 9/19/2024 at 8:54 PM, Alpo said:

I'm not talking you're by yourself and you get out of the bottle and pour yourself a snort.

 

I'm thinking, for example, you go see this guy. You going to talk to him. And you bring along a bottle, and you take a couple of glasses out of your briefcase and put them on the desk. Y'all are just going to sit there and discuss whatever while having a friendly snort.

 

But before you can pour the drinks he tells you, "None for me thanks. I don't drink".

 

Would you go ahead and pour drink for yourself and y'all talk about whatever you were going to talk about while you have a snort or two?

 

Or, since he is not going to drink, would you just put the glasses and the bottle back in your briefcase and forget about it?

 

Don't y'all love the weird crap I come up with?

You mean like a birth certificate.?

 

I take that back.  If you have one, at all you beat Obama!

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On 9/19/2024 at 8:16 PM, Utah Bob #35998 said:

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Somebody ought to paste that picture on a rum bottle.

[What is the bush....]

On 9/21/2024 at 8:05 AM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Pussy willow?

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.

[Video clips]

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.

[1937 Packard Motorhome]

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. 

[Video clips]

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.

[What is the bush....]

....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.)

["Grandma's Favorite Recipes"]

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

[I knew this was coming - Starlink Satellites causing astronomy issues]

We have SMOG and it was inevitable that we'd move on to SPOG.

[Interesting perspective on modern day gunsmithing]

50 minutes ago, Buckshot Bob said:

 

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!]

On 9/19/2024 at 7:35 PM, Utah Bob #35998 said:

No you spelt it wrong. It’s Arrrrrr. 🤣

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]

4 hours ago, Buckshot Bob said:

This gives Gi Joe a new reason to have the Kung Fu grip 

You gotta love marketing  

 

 

Everybody?  BULL!

[She Taught NASA Engineers How To Sew]

4 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

Awfully high tech materials being sewn on a decidedly low tech machine.

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!]

GRRRRRR!

[Happy 9mm Day 9-19]

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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On 9/16/2024 at 8:42 PM, DeaconKC said:

 

Very few pictures of "cowboy" hats as we see them today.  Narrower brims. lower crowns.

[A daily excercise for those of us over 60.]

3 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

I get my exercise RUNNING AMOK!!    

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.

[Coco]

4 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Congratulations,a man needs his dog.

Amen to that.  I'd be lost without my little Trinket The Tornado.

[Train Hits Military truck with artillery load]

60 + tons of tank and more of the trailer and tractor didn't stand much of a chance against a freight train.

[Exploding Pagers]

15 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

 

 

 

Slim Whitman rules!

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10 hours ago, Alpo said:

Ain't that the cryin' truth?!