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In these parts SW is about as good as it gets. Which is saying, not as bad as most - and the universal drawbacks to SW, BassPro, and any others is compliance with the stoopid state regs. Ammunition is locked up. You have to wait in line for an attendant to accompany you to the glass-fronted cabints and retrieve what you want for you (or fetch from behind the counter). Want to buy a gun? Or even just look at one? Take a number. Waits can be up to or over an hour. Faster to order online - then, you just go in and add your name to the "online order pickup list" and wait to be called. Line might be a bit shorter. Oh... and make sure you have your Real ID or passport with you! Oh... and don't forget, you have to pay for a background check for ammo purchases. Hopefully the system isn't bogged down. Otherwise, service is good.
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U. S. Passports
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 replied to Forty Rod SASS 3935's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
I don't travel internationally, but would like to visit Canada again one day. Mebbe next year. Last two times I was there all I needed was my drivers license; no more. That said, I do use my passport frequently in lieu of a "Real ID" drivers license. In california one of the two is required to buy firearms and ammunition. And supposedly, at some point one, or the other will be reqired to board airplanes, enter federal buildings, and other ridiculous stuff. So in my case, the name on my birth certificate is not the one I grew up with and have used all my life. As it turns out, it was a LOT easier and far less expensive to get a passport with the name I've always used than to correct the birth certificate issue. Ironically, getting a "Real ID" requires a birth certificate with your real name, or... a passport. -
Tree stump question: So, Ms Helen Brimstone had a huge Ornamental Pear tree removed from her back yard a few months ago. It was healthy, but the roots were beginning to damage her flagstone patio. Anyway, there was a gorgeous stump left that she's using as a base for a piece of statuary. But there's a problem.... That danged thing is sending up a literal forest of shoots from the roots! Might anyone have any suggestions on preventing those shoots while hopefully preserving the stump itself - at least for a while? Thankee!
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Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 replied to Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
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A young relative of mine just bought a Remington 700 Sendero .300 Win Mag. Still choosing a scope, but in the meanwhile ~ which rings will mate with the base?
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'Tis Tuesday
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 replied to Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
After they've had a chance to find all those "misplaced" boxes of ballots... đł đ -
'Tis Tuesday
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 replied to Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Vote. Vote hard. Pray. Pray harder! -
For jet fans
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 replied to Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Daliborka today, fifty-six years later at age 80. -
Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 replied to Pat Riot's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
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Wonder if it cured the dude....
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Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 replied to Pat Riot's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
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The Plane, the Plane!
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 replied to Subdeacon Joe's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
I got six minutes into the first video before I realized they were not making super-thin skin for R/C airplanes or gliders.... -
Tonight, for your viewing pleasure, Svengoolie is presenting the original 1932 production of "The Mummy," with Boris Karloff. Scared the dickens outta me when I was a little kid!
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The World Series is over... but here's a worthwhile bit of baseball history. Sent by good ol' Forty Rod some dozen years ago ~ almost that old then.
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Only had one kid, but he was somewhat unusual. Sassparilla loved Hallowe'en as much as me (a lot!) and enjoyed Trick or Treating. But he really didn't - and still doesn't - care much for candy. Just not into sweets. So, he might have one or two pieces Hallowe'en night, might keep a couple of pieces for later 'just because,' then tell me and his ma "it's okay if you want to take the rest to work and share it!" Um... I think it's fair to say that not all of the stuff we took made it to the office.
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Dressing up a Mud Puppy
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 replied to DeaconKC's topic in SASS Wire Saloon
Quite cool! Although the original "Fitz" was a Colt (brainchild of John Henry Fitzgerald, who worked for Colt) this is a plumb cool adaptation! On the TV series "Blue Bloods," Commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) carried a Fitz ~ passed down to him from his pop, an earlier Commissioner. -
I have not... I have, however, experienced the pathogenic fungus Mycosarcoma maydis, or "corn smut." Supposedly edible; even considered a delicacy in Mexico. Well, they're welcome to mine! That stuff is UGLY!!
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About⌠oh⌠twenty-five years ago or so I got an idea that it might be kinda fun to grow some âIndian Cornâ for fall decorations. A good project to get my kid involved in, along with our annual pumpkin project â usually over a hundred plants. I did some basic research at the library, sent for some seed catalogs (the ânet wasnât what it is now), then had an inspiration. Years earlier I had been sent to Omaha on business trips a few times, and I was impressed to see that there were actually fields of corn inside the city limits. These folk were into corn! So, as that memory manifested itself into a meager thought bubble, I got on the phone. I called the University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus?), and told the nice lady who answered the phone that I wished to talk with someone in their Ag department who knew corn. In short order, I was transferred to some professor who was an acknowledged âcorn expert.â I explained that I was looking for information on âIndian Cornâ for a kid project; he made the observation that it was kind of late in the season (late May â early June, as I recall). I told him that we had plenty of space, very rich soil, a good well, access to lots of composted cow manure, and average summertime temperatures in the area were well over 100°. âWell by golly, THAT oughtta do it!â he proclaimed. âGimme your address and Iâll send you a bunch of seed!â I did, and he did, and the âcropâ was gorgeous! Everyone we knew got plenty of decorative corn that year. You could eat it - popped, or dried and ground into corn meal, but steamed or boiled was pretty blah. That said, my buddy and next-door neighbor worked for the Fresno State ag department â which was well-known for their annual crop of really delicious sweet corn, appropriately enough a variety called âSweetie.â And Kurt was more than happy to bring me a big olâ bag of seed! So, for a few years I would plant sixteen to twenty rows â plant four, wait a week or more then plant four more, and enjoy an extended harvest. And of course, everyone got corn and the freezer got stocked. [link below] That stuff was SO good! It was sooo sweet that you could literally yank an ear off the stalk, husk it, and eat it raw. Makes my mouth water just remembering it. Well, we lost Kurt a few years ago. But the seed is available and not all that expensive. The Kid and I have already decided weâre planting corn again this year â albeit in our now smaller back yards. SWEETIE Plant to harvest 82 days. Sweetie is two and one-half times as sweet as ordinary yellow corn - even sweeter than the Xtra Sweet varieties. Ears are 6-1/2 to 7 inches long with 14 to 18 rows of crisp tender kernels that retain their flavor long after picking. The 6 to 7 foot stalks have few suckers and are tolerant to rust. Easy to snap from stalks.