[Happy Veterans Day 🇺🇸]

It was an Honor to serve.

cr

[45 colt to 44-40 in a rifle?]

marlin 1894 44-40 For Sale – Buy marlin 1894 44-40 at GunBroker.com  

[What Was Happening In 1946?]

my birth year

[Scoring APP or Program]

Practiscore user here.  made a master template of all 9 stages, then clone and delete stages we aren't using.  Add the name of the match, and we're ready to go

 

One gripe is that as we add new categories (they call them something else, and I'm not at our tablets) they just go to the bottom of the list--haven't found a way to alphabetize them with the ones provided

 

small problem

[Have a two-parter here - autograph]

Got Steve Wozniak's on the program flyer he spoke at.  Framed it

 

Also, Holy Terror's for my wife Violet Peacock (semi-character* from the movie Stagecoach, one first one with John Wayne in it). Put it in a frame with her picture from the SASS Chronicle

 

*She was only spoken about in the movie--never seen

[First or last?]

first

[Another Rifle Question]

If you go with the Marlin, keep the screws tight.

 

 

[reloading question - what would you do?]

since I cast my own bullets, they would go in the pot and I'd make the ones I needed

[No Highway In the Sky]

have to admit the airplane didn't look real--cartoonish was how I saw it

 

cr

 

[ST Machining Status]

I got in

had to sign up but no biggie

 

direct link:  Loading Block | Cowboy Bullets, PMA

[Another Alpoesque Observation]

down a side trail

been watching Miss Marple on cable.  I just grit my teeth every time they refer to the semi-auto as a revolver.

If I say anything, wife hits me with a pillow

[when did they come up with private second class?]

Sometimes the 'troops' would make up their own ranks. We had a few "Senior" Sp 4s in the boonies in RVN

[flamethrowers]

Got to demo one in RVN for the replacements*.  Boy, was it hot behind it!  would have hated to be in front of it

 

*The First Team Academy (TFTA), 1st Cav.  The brass put the "THE" in there; otherwise, it would have been FTA 

 

[so attire is important here - but outside here , what did you wear ?]

Here in Houston, it's t-shirts and shorts for a good 8 months of the year.  probably long pants and sweat shirt in our "winter"

 

[Does your club have a "2-squibs-and-you're-out" rule?]

We had a shooter blow up his revolver:  the top strap and 3 uppermost cylinders we all torn off the gun.  He wasn't hurt, nor any posse members, but we all stood there for a few seconds like a still life picture.

 

Turns out he had purchased some reloaded ammo at a gun show.  

 

"funny" thing:  he is a lawyer and was going to sue the gun manufacturer for the failure. 

We had to use small words and took our time to tell him why that wasn't a good idea. 

and no, it was not Nostrum Damus.

[Vietnam War Veteran UH-1 Hueys Roar Into Football Ground]

rode in them a lot in RVN.  1st Cav was Airmobile.  

 

still can tell by their sound when they fly over

 

 

[Texas Motto]

30 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I'm pretty sure that at one point in that video he referred to himself as a Texan.

 

Last I heard, that was a capital offense - somebody that wasn't born there calling themselves a Texan. I believe the exact punishment is "being dragged to death behind a pickup truck".

pretty sure Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin weren't born in Texas . . . just saying 🤠

[FOUND! Lets say a feller was looking for a .32 H&R mag rifle...]

our Beloved, President for Life, had a gunsmith convert a .32-20 to shoot .32 H&R Mags.  It required cutting a new chamber, and the cartridges had to be loaded 'long'.  In his honor, we called them .32 Crockett.  

 

If I remember, the term PRICEY was used in describing the operation

[Does your club have a "2-squibs-and-you're-out" rule?]

50 minutes ago, John Barleycorn, SASS #76982 said:

I thought so too. I used to bring 2x the required ammo until I became more confident in my reloading skills 

 

I still bring double in case someone needs to borrow ammo

[So how do "Side Matches" work? Because I've never seen one]

We have, in the past, allowed big-bore rifles, shooting 5 rounds in our match.  Had another set of targets way out there for them.  This was in our normal monthly matches.  Incroaching civilization made us stop allowing these rifle-caliber rifles.

 

I know Willow Hole Cowboys works them into their matches every month.

https://willowholecowboys.com/

 

 

 

 

[OK to have Torx screws on a Marlin?]

you would be able to see them while the rifle is in the rack

 

https://wrenmetalworks.com/product/screw-kit/  

[Ruger Baby Vaquero faulting]

time-consuming but a good way to do it.  

 

[Harvesting Winter]

21 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

I still recall the Ice Man making deliveries when I was a child.

First on a horse drawn wagon and then a truck.

Big ice tongs and a leather protector on his shoulder when he carried the block into the house and placed it in the ice box.

 was visiting family in Williamsport, PA, and the ice man came by with ice for my aunt.  I was fascinated watching the operation.

 

 

[TrailBoss at Midsouth]

thanks, just had a pard asking where he could find some

[DIDN'T EXPECT THAT ONE!]

spent 9 years as a volunteer firefighter, 5 as an EMT, here in NW Houston area.  As a school teacher, was one of the few who could make the daytime fires.  Nothing like rolling up to a fully involved house fire with a total of 3 on the truck

  

our "beloved" chief won't let us wear  balaclavas under our helmets cause we kept melting the helmets 

 

good times

 

cr