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    Primers locked up

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    44 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

    That’s true. Ammo, except shotgun ammo, is locked up. I forgot about that. 
     

    It’s that way at all Walmarts. They also do not sell handgun ammo. I like to pop in once in a while and buy Federal AutoMatch .22 and then tell the clerk how great it fires from my handguns. 
    Now that I think about it I haven’t bought ammo at Walmart in 2 years. 

    All the shotgun ammo is locked up too, at least at 3 of the Walmarts I’ve been to.

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    Daylight Robbery Caught On Camera

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    On 6/11/2025 at 4:00 PM, Blackwater 53393 said:


     

    NOPE!!! Never WAS a homer AND NEVER WILL OR SHOULD BE!!

     

    Any fly ball caught before hitting the ground or a part of the grounds, except for explicit ground rules for the facility, is an OUT!

     

    Even if the ball is juggled or bounces off of one player and is caught by another, so long as it doesn’t touch a part of the field or another object that is not a part of the player’s uniform or equipment, it is an OUT!!

    This ^^^^^^^

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    Stage starting lines

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    Years ago we had a new shooter, nice guy but he had a stuttering problem big time. When he got nervous he would stutter. He tried saying the lines and if it was kind of a long one he would stutter it. It was funny and sad at the same time. After two stages we all told him, just say READY! He came back a few times but family problems stopped him from continuing. 

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    Stage starting lines

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    On 6/10/2025 at 7:13 PM, Sixgun Seamus said:

    I think lines are part of the fun of the game and this is supposed to be fun. That being said, whatever the shooter does to indicate ready is fine with me. Whenever someone asks what the line is, I always respond, "Seamus is my hero". I've had quite a few say it.

    You would never hear me say that in a million years! 

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    High Trestle

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    8 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

    From FB 

     

    Holy moly! TOT reader Francis Reaves kindly shared this astonishing circa 1895 photo of a train crossing the high bridge over the Pecos River near Langtry. If you have a large computer monitor, check out the architectural details ... the underpinnings, the foundation/footings and how they are built etc.. Wow. What an engineering feat and what a leap of faith to cross it in a train! I am reminded of this quote:

     

     "The high, spindle-legged railroad bridge across the deep canyon formed by the Pecos River between Langtry and Comstock was breathtaking. It was more breathtaking to stand on it and look down than to stand beneath it and look up. It had no guardrails, and a broad footpath ran its length. To walk across made one giddy enough, and legend gives credit to a young ranchwoman who first dared to ride across it on horseback. She was celebrated in an anonymous poem, "The Pecos River Queen." James Cooper of Snyder said that when he lived near the bridge in the 1930s, sheet metal was laid in places where the wooden walk was unsafe. Many times, however, he and others rode their horses across that clattering path with the danger of plummeting to death at both elbows. He said you needed a steady, unspookable horse. Others told stories of their encounters with the Old Pecos High Bridge. When she was a child, Katherine Anne Porter crossed it more than once on trips from Kyle, Texas, to El Paso. She remembered the bridge, which was two years younger than she, having been built in 1892, as being unsafe. She wrote, "Here was the famous and beautiful Pecos Bridge, then supposed to be the highest and one of the longest in the world." Three hundred twenty-one feet above the river, it stretched 2,180 feet long, almost half a mile. It was the highest bridge in the United States and third highest in the world, merely 27 feet short of the record. "

     

    ------ Elton Miles, More Tales from the Big Bend, 1988

     

    Thank you, Francis. I have never seen this photo before

     

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    Wow and yikes 😳 

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    Primers locked up

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    3 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

    Around here they lock up the thieves, not the products. ;)
     

    A refreshing change from the west coast. 
     

    Actually, at Walmart they have been randomly checking receipts on your exit to verify purchases. I guess the theft rate at self checkout has gone up. 
    I made a comment that they shouldn’t need to check now that the university is on summer break. The “Asset Protection” lady said “We think it’s regular folks.”

    I said “You’re probably right. All the chi’dren that go to WVU are little angels. We wouldn’t want to huht dare whittle feewings now, would we?”

    Dirty looks from the Asset Protection lady and her coworker. 
    I have never seen a place that reveres their University soooooo much. It’s almost uncanny. 
     

    Walmart has their ammo locked up. Everyone I’ve been to as a matter of fact. You have to get a clerk to open the the case to get you what you want. That’s the only thing locked up.

    Primers locked up

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    I’m surprised this place had all the primers and ammo out in the open. It’s a big place.
    All the small gunshops around here have the ammo behind the counter and primers in a case. 

    Primers locked up

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    3 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

    If cutting down on theft and shoplifting will help to lower the price, (which it certainly should) I’m good with it!!

    Oh yea I have no problem with it. They gotta do what they can to cut down on theft. 

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    Primers locked up

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    I was at a local sporting goods chain, Fin Feather and Fur, I bought a few items and was looking for primers. I have enough but I like to pick up a couple hundred now and then. I didn’t see them, they’re usually on an end cap shelf. I checked out and the girl asked if I found everything ok. I said .” Are you guys out of primers”? She said they were locked up back by the gun counters in a glass case which I missed. She said they’ve have instances of theft of primers so they locked them up! All their ammo is out on shelves and they got a ton of it. I wonder if that’ll be next? 

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    Just Rifles

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    Okay so 2 rifles and shotgun. Shoot rifle targets twice so you don’t have to shoot rifle at the pistol targets which may be too close. 
    THE RIFLEMAN CATEGORY! I like it! 

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