Forty Rod SASS 3935

Well, it looks like my good fortune is still working. I got a message from the one of the medical staff at the VA (A shooter and wife of a shooter, and mother of three other shooters...and not a cowboy in the lot) and was sent to a jewelry shop three blocks from my home. Their engraver does laser work, hand engraving, three kinds of power engraving, and some inlay work. Very reasonably priced and the work he's done that I got to see is wonderful. I'll take a test piece in this week and give you report. Thank for all the tips BTW, it's Afterglow Jewelers on Florentine jut around the corner north of Fry's. Stop by and we can get a cup of coffee just down the road.

The day I sold my Tacoma I went home, had lunch and started, to kick myself. I miss that truck and now I cant' find an affordable one anywhere. Been seven years and I have an Impala that's a great sedan but I can't haul anything but people and groceries and other light loads.

I will never understand why anyone would use that stuff knowing the risks.

And if you think those are big just wait until you see loading dies and presses and such.

The Navy does better with guns that measure the bores in inches. I had this discussion with a CPO at NWS Seal Beach in 1974. He asked me to teach him how to shoot, but after a dozen sessions he still couldn't stick his pistol in a bucket of water and make a splash. We stayed in touch until he died about 15 years ago. Nice feller.

Amerigo Vespucci was the first to identify TWO continents and made maps to prove it.

Christopher Columbus, Jewish gent who got turned down for funding a half dozen times, finally bought three tiny boats with other peoples' money, went looking for China and India, had no idea where he was, had a crew who nearly mutinied because of very crowded conditions and really lousy food, ran his flag ship aground and had to abandon her, finally got home again, came back two or three times, and eventually got a river and a few towns named after him.......and then a Dago came along later and got two whole continents named after him.....and Chris gets a holiday in his honor so all the drones get a day off. Besides, Leif Eriksson was here five hundred years earlier, and likely Irish fishermen were making catches along the East Coast not long after that, too.

I miss my International Harvester Scout II.

Me, too. How many do you have?

Wait another 28 years ans you'll say the same thing. Wives NEVER forget! NEVER!

Get a second copy for "just in case".....and maybe another for Young Mav to keep so he can look at it some day when he has a family of his own. It's a good thing you weren't on the cover or nobody would have looked any further.

I'd have it stripped and re-blued even for the extra cost. Cerakote is probably a better finish but not for my guns. I'm a blue or nickel, wood or ivory sort of guy.

Everyone I can find uses lasers to engrace metal nowadays. It isn't nearly as nice as hand done work. It's not very deep and looks like it is scratched on very shallowly. Also, they can't engrave the concave inner surfaces of a pocket watch lid. Does anyone do that sort of work any more? Rachel Wells did, but she died. I can't find Kelly Laster anymore. Longline Charley Glackman did very nice work, too., but he also passed away. Are any of you talented in the trade? I'd like to keep it in The Family, so to speak.

I bought one of CVA's like that when I worked at The Flintlock in Anaheim. Mine was Union Army olive green. It shot well but I sold it a couple of years later for the same as a I paid for. They also has a smaller .45 cannon. I Think it was a CVA, too, but I'm not certain. Jackie Taylor...who owned the Flintlock with her husband Ray...had a 1/4 scale one and Tom Lay had a 1/2 scale one. Those were a rip to watch when they fired blank loads for events.

That kid is smaller than any of those fish.

About five days ago I started to smell something vile near my fridge. It smelled like bad meat and it was just around the corner where my little dog sometimes has accidents. (She's old and has trouble with her bladder sometimes. I can't blame her nor punish her...I'm old, too.) The floor where she pees was dry and had no detectable odor, so I went back around the corner and opened the fridge. It was stronger there but I couldn't put my finger on it. I began tossing everything that looked suspicious.. Two days later, still no joy! The smell got measurably worse, so I began tossing stuff that didn't look bad but might have been. When that failed I probed under the fridge and the stove a foot away. Kept getting worse. This morning I pulled the fridge away from the wall and got up to unplug it (The outlet is above the fridge on the wall behind it. On top of the fridge and near the back I found a once-frozen, now spoiled and burst open 1/2 pound bag of uncooked, peeled, and deveined shrimp. I have spent about five out of the last eight hours cleaning it up. It's better and I've used up 2 pounds of baking soda, a quart of white vinegar, a third of a bottle of Simple Green and a bout half that much Dawn, so far trying to get rid of the stink. All the windows are open, I've apologized to my dog, and most of the smell is gone....but it looks like it will take a few more days. Somewhere up in the here after my wife and mother are laughing and laughing....an LAUGHING! See? I've told you all again and again, "Pobody's nerfect!" . . . . . . Aw, shut up. It could happen to anybody!

Why can't I open this?

Semper fi Docs, and all you other corpsmen and women, medics, field doctors and nurses, and any others who have been there to chase that evil spook out of the place. Even those who took the risk of getting us out of the field of fire when they went above and beyond. A lot a readers here have had your help in some really bad places and at unbelievable times. What we owe you can never be sufficiently repaid.

Doesn't look like that little critter is a big as PT boat.. Even so "Thanks, little darlin' You can be proud of all of your offspring."

When do you want me to be there and what can I bring? "I make a world class chess pie if a plateful of sugar doesn't bother you.)

I tell their kind I support all their causes,too. Lie to me and I'll lie to you.

I joined AMAC about 20 years ago and have never regretted it for a second.

Way cool, but it left me with two questions: 1. Is the booster going to be reusable? 2. If so, is the expense saved by this catch going to be significantly less that the actual cost of retrieving the booster? If it didn't save a ton of money to retrieve a workable booster or if this was just a "look what we can do" experiment, what was gained?

WOW!! That didn't take long at all. Thanks. folks.

Damn! I gotta stop scanning these entries and start reading what they really say. Taylor, you're embarrassing yourself. STOP IT!!!