Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967

Glued themselves to the wall. The museum folks shoulda oughtta just turned off the lights and left 'em there overnight. I hope that sentence included a diet of only tomato soup for two years.

Sassparilla Kid* has a 16 ga Winchester Model 12 that was his "Go-To" shotgun for years. Ducks and doves and clay pigeons all feared the lad and that gun.... Alas, with lead shot now illegal for hunting in california it's pretty much retired - he's not about to mess up the full-choke barrel with steel shot, and lead trap loads are a challenge to find. Hopefully some day he'll stumble upon a proper barrel and bring it out of retirement. *He still fondly remembers dinner with you and your delightful missus some fifteen or sixteen years ago... The kid - limit of doves before the start of work ~ 16 ga Model 12, back when lead shot was still legal.

Oakland doesn't deserve a team. Hell... Oakland doesn't deserve to exist! My buddies and I used to go to a LOT of games "back in the day" - college and after. Many, many games would have only a few hundred people scattered throughtout a stadium that held something like fifty thousand. Their first World Series game wasn't a sellout! The Coliseum actually wasn't that bad - until they butchered it to make Al Davis happy. Then it was beyond awful.

I truly enjoyed that, Joe. But I have to confess, when I first saw the thread title I honestly expected something totally different....

Nigh onto ninety bucks for a bale of bung fodder...? Dang!! Bidenomics??

I'm getting curiouser and curiouser about the 28 gauge...

Two things I don't care for on this model, without having seen one "in the flesh:" First, the lever shape. I think the more oval loop is more appealing, and would actually prefer a classic style. Second... the corny-as-all-get-out name. Seriously... spelling "Lever" backwards?? That reminds me of a few times back in the 1980's when I was sentenced to spend weeks at a time in Omaha on business. Now... Omaha in itself wasn't too awful bad, but it was a mite boring. The food was quite good! But I cringed every time I saw "Aksarben" this or "Aksarben" that... Aksarben Village, Aksarben Foundation, and so on. C'mon... the couldn't get more creative than spelling Nebraska backwards? That said, I actually could see myself investing in one. I've thoroughly enjoyed the Savage rifles I've owned or shot; the 99 is a classic, nothing wrong with the 110 bolt action, and I just love the old Savage Model 1920 series.

Pondering a new shotgun. Passed on my 12 ga Franchi O/U to Sassparilla Kid last weekend. Think I shot it once in seven years; nice gun, just never got around to using it. We had a trap event on Saturday (Boy Scout fundraiser); it was somewhat nicer than the Kid's CZ Woodcock, so I made him an early birthday present. He was plumb tickled - and did well with it. Anyway, I'm thinking about replacing it next spring with another smaller gauge - gots plenty o' twelves. And leaning toward another Franchi O/U. So... Twenty? Sixteen? Or how 'bout a Twenty-Eight? Thoughts? Opinions?

Well, I'm intrigued. Looking foward to your report!

Hell, "Triple T," knowing me, it might've been something I thought...! 🙄 😏

Was it sumpin' I said...? So I got home this evening and there were "alerts" to a bunch o' likes and comments on the "Movie Question" thread. Well... I seem to recall that someone had noted that "Howard the Duck" was more enjoyable than the questioned movie... and I commented that I happened to like Howard the Duck. But when I went to look at the comments and likes, the thread has been pulled. So was my stating that I liked "Howard the Duck" considered offensive? So lessee... San Francisco, late winter or early spring of '86 I was on the first leg of my journey home from work one afternoon, sharing a bench with Chris Danko on the underground Muni rail car. At a stop somewhere under Market Street, a young lady boarded and sat directly across from us. Well, she was a cute lass, but when we looked up we were startled to see her arms full of HtD memorabilia - including a Howard the Duck poster. And both of us blurted in unison, "Howard the Duck?!?" She looked at the two of us, clad in suits with briefcases on our knees, and started to giggle. Well... it seems that she was a "background artist" (extra!) in the movie, and they had just finished filming the closing nightclub scene up topside in the Warfield Theater. Dangit... if we'd known, we coulda been in it too! But Honest... I didn't mean to offend anyone~!

Very cool. But honestly, I'm surprised it's even legal there.

Had it not been an internet forum only there would have likely been a bunch o' fistfights and at least a couple of duels - pistols, blades, or bricks....

Who...?

Good find - but I think you mean "Frankford." Here's the link - scroll down to find the screens: https://www.frankfordarsenal.com/case-cleaning/

Well... I'd simply hire someone else to shoot it. @Subdeacon Joe mentioned shooting an H&R Handi Rifle in .45-70. I have a Buffalo Classic; 10" longer barrel and 1 1/4 lb heaver and it's not a bit unpleasant to shoot. Stuffed with 3f behind a 405 gr pill.

Nope. Not hard at all. He'll just trip over her on his way to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

So Ms Helen Brimstone has something strange happening in her lawn. Walking across the grass the other day I stepped on something hard and lumpy - literally, a hard lump poking up out of the grass. I stopped and looked at it, and it appeared to be a tree root that had been skimmed by the mower blade - woody colored, stiff, and... well... looking like part of a tree root that had surfaced. About the size of an apricot. But when I kicked it, it popped loose! I looked about, and there were several others - and they also popped free with a few kicks. But wotinell are these things?? She posted the query on "NextDoor," and the responses were eyebrow raising - "Why, that's DVSM! 'Dog Vomit Slime Mold!'" What??? Well, I looked it up, and I'll be danged - that really IS a "thing!" But this ain't it... DVSM is evidently literally soft and slimy. AND mobile! These things ain't. But what the heck are they? Lawn Tumors?

Wonderin' if the gun is FUBAR....