Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428

I see questions like this a lot. A fair price is whatever he is willing to take for it and somebody else is willing to pay for it. If he is happy selling it for $300, I'm sure somebody will sprain their back reaching for their wallet to pay for it. If he needs $1200, either somebody with money to burn or somebody really desperate for that model will pay for it, or he will get lower offers until he and the buyer reach a number that both can live with. There is so much more involved than just what the going rate is for an online purchase. He may get considerably more than the online average doing a face to face with somebody who doesn't want to buy online and is willing to pay more for face to face. Or, he may have to accept less than the online average because he wants to do a face to face and there isn't enough of a need in his area for that model. Then there are the "need" factors. Selling because he needs the money for something serious, or just for something else. Or selling because it is extra and just in the way. Or selling because his wife doesn't want those "nasty guns" in the house where the kids can find them anymore (I have gotten some great deals from people at work selling because of this last reason!) It is always tough picking a starting cost for something you are selling. If it sells too quick I always assume i asked too little. If it sits without interest for too long, I figure I asked too much... but it may just be a case of not the right buyer seeing the offer yet. Anyway, just my two cents...

Just set your alarm for tomorrow to be 1.6 milliseconds later than normal. 😁

I recall doing that experiment in physics lab. They had a fancy mechanism that caught a ball that was launched by a spring, and the maximum angle of the pendulum was recorded. Some math later and we had the initial velocity. At the time I thought it would be fun to try it with a rifle and compare the results to a chronograph, but never tried it.

Yes, holiday in a week and one day delay, so it comes Friday instead of Thursday. You always see some folks who dont remember and put it out and it sits out a day. Better early than to forget and miss it.

That may or may not work. I have argued with a catalog company that would not ship BP guns to california although there is no law preventing it. I was finally told that their lawyers had suggested that they exclude my state for political and CYA purposes. I no longer order anything from that company. So just because some company wont doesn't necessarily mean that it cant be done. edit: so if you are going to use this method, stick to some of the larger companies to check, not commonly known catalog companies

Never used them so I dont know. I do know that I am envious of the need to load enough to feed your own gatling gun! That has to be a hoot at the range!

I actually got hit before my first match. I had a mixed asst of guns, one OMV, a super blackhawk, a Win 94 and an old double barrel 12ga. I had a holster set that was a single drop holster and a cross draw holster. I was in a gunshop owned by a well known shooter and was talking to him trying to learn what I could. He started berating my choice of guns, two mixed handguns in different calibers was just stupid. A win 94 is the poorest choice i could make and being a trapper I would always need to load on the clock, I needed to buy a 73. The old double barrel wasn't good enough either, I really needed a tuned 97 and had to spend all my time practicing with it to speed up my loading or I would never win. My leather was useless and was likely to be laughed at, I needed to order a belt/holster set made by one of the top makers specifically for competition. Basically I was told how useless it would be for me to go to a shoot because there was no way I could ever win and I would just slow down the entire process because I obviously wasn't serious enough about it to spend the kind of money that was required. I was a kid paying my own way thru college at the time.... After all that, I literally put everything away and it was at least a year before i even contemplated getting to a shoot. I never did go back to that gun shop, nor did I ever (and in all these years still have not) gone to the particular club he was known to frequent. one of these days maybe... Luckily there are many clubs in the area so that was not my only choice.

I have used "machined parts". Then there was the time at a UPS store (not a main UPS site) where I used "machine parts" and the guy saw I was sending to a gun company. He started screaming at me about lying about the contents and i cant do that or ship firearms and pretty much told me to get out of the store before he called the cops. I immediately reported the incident to UPS who pretty much said that UPS stores can do whatever they want and that I should always ship from a Main UPS facility to avoid that kind of issue. Which I have since done and never had another issue.

When i started a long time ago, I was "Short Fuse", named after the first GI Joe figure I got as a kid. At one point during college, I let me membership lapse just long enough for somebody else to snag my name, so I became "Mean Ol Doug", and was known by that name for quite a while. When Don Knotts passed away they were showing a bunch of episodes of Andy Griffith. In one episode, Andy is telling a trouble maker all about his deputy and at one point called him Crazy Gun Barney. My wife said "that should be your alias", and I was still laughing when I called SASS HQ to get it changed.

I most assuredly am not racist. I live and work in So Ca and as such I am the minority here. There is every race, religion, sexual orientation, ideology known to man within a stones throw at all times. There is one guy at work who went to HR to complain about my "racism". He is a full of himself woke idiot that has had way too much schooling and not enough common sense. When HR told me about it, I actually laughed. I told them I have no problem with him being from Turkey, I have a problem with him being absolutely useless and a hinderance to any team he gets attached to. At the time, management was doing a lot of off site team building. I mentioned this to HR, who is always there and she agreed. I have no problem at all with this guy in non work related activities. Dinner and drinks, bowling, "mystery/spy" games... no issues at all. Have him weigh in on my work to tell me what I am doing wrong when he absolutely has no idea what I am doing or why and I have issues. HR understood, and I was not the only person in the building that was having similar issues with this guy. many years later and somehow he still works with us, and still causes issues, but most of us have learned (and he has learned) how to get along...mostly.

That depends. If you are looking at the PDF catalog, there is more info elsewhere. click on the link for registration and online bidding and they have pics and a little more description, but not much more.

In smokeless loads, you can get away with larger pieces of paper confetti, streamers, I've even heard of chicken feathers. Dont want to do those in BP, because things tend to burn when emerging from a fireball. Also, those can make a mess on your range.

Holy Cow Dusty, I need to read more carefully. I'm looking at all those pictures of the beautiful rifle trying to figure out what made it left handed! Some days, I guess I am just dense. Anyway, I already have a Husqvarna roller in that caliber (got it from you 🙂, and it is lots of fun), but keeping this at the top for a good pard and a beautiful rifle.

Everybody will suggest going blue. I even gave in a few years ago and got a 550. But you cant go wrong with a single stage press. in fact, get a couple. You can get used or small presses cheap. For example, my dad and I started many years ago with a RCBS reloaded special. Fine press! We soon added a RCBS partner press mounted to the worktable next to the first press. That turns it into a "sort of" progressive. We can size in one press, then transfer it to the second to expand the mouth. kind of cuts out one full handling of the brass. I prime using a hand primer. Then I powder 50 at a time (tray I use hold 50) and insert the lead and crimp. Doing it this way allows you to break up the process over time. Since then, I have picked up a few more presses for one project or another. I dont have a permanent location to keep them mounted, but I do have a board with permanent mounting hardware installed that I mount to my worktable. That way i can simply screw the press into the t-nuts already mounted into the board. I will usually deprime with a hand deprimer in the evenings while watching tv. then when i have a proper bucket of deprimed brass, I drop them into the polisher. Then when I am ready, I will set up the two presses and size and flare all of them. Priming takes place a different day. Then powder and lead can happen on another day. I find it easier to grab small sections of time than to block out large amounts of time.

Just remember, if the wind is blowing back on you, many of those color ingredients are going to be much worse to breathe than just plain BP smoke. Same issue with various glitters and other small items that have been added into shotshells in the past, you dont want those little things getting into eyes, I did hear tell of a pair of womens panties getting shot at a target once as a joke, apparently that one came off hilariously well.

Wow. Yes, the fan went too far. Heckling the players is a time honored tradition, but very personal verbal attacks are too far. Did the fan know his mom died 8 years ago or was he just throwing out some standard mom jokes and jabs to heckle the guy? However, a lifetime ban is a bit much. Kick him out of that game if he is causing a scene., sure. But if we start giving lifetime bans because a fan was heckling a player, there are going to be a lot of people that will no longer be able to go to games. If you are a professional sports player, you need to grow some thicker skin. If the players are distracted by the heckling, then the heckling did its job, right?

My bank account at the time wasn't exactly overflowing, so I opted for a heritage. I figured once I was cleared by the dr, I would be able to start with a bit less punishment to my hand than my 45s give. I was buying a tool for a specific job and figured if it didn't last forever it would be ok. It only cost me under $100, and that was a model that came with the extra 22mag cylinder. This was many years ago (maybe 25 years) and that heritage still gets shot pretty regular. Have since got a second one (like it has been said, you gotta have two if you got two hands).

Just got notified that Graf and sons has #10 remington caps in stock. I had forgot I had notifications turned on for these, I picked up a case a while back somewhere else. Anyway, if you need them, you got a chance....

Have a Ruger P944. Used to keep the 1911 in the nightstand, but thought I would get something a little "easier" after I got married so my wife could use it if she needed to. This was back when I followed the commandment "thou shalt not own a centerfire handgun whose caliber does not start with a 4". I have long since discovered the joys of 9mm. In any event, you never hear anything about the P series, and especially not the P944. But I do not ever recall a FTF or a jam. It eats up any factory ammo or bulk reload ammo (gun show style) I have ever bought. It is accurate and fun to shoot, and my wife with smaller hands and thinner wrists loves to shoot it too. Only issue I have with it is finding mags for it. Midway always seems to have a 20 round extended mag, but until laws change i am not going to be able to order that into this state.

Just waiting now for some drunk troglodyte to grab a real rifle instead of the pool cue rifle.....

I'd be having some words with a DR about 2 days! I wouldn't have left the hospital without script in hand. Heal up well. Listen to what that (idiot) dr says about post op stuff. Dont try to do anything beyond what he said to do, you dont want to end up prolonging the healing. And use this as an excuse to buy a 22 sixgun. When i had carpal surgery many years ago, I used healing as an excuse to get a 22... and my wife went along with it. 😁

When I have my 10ga '87 with me, I have said "remember to hold your breath".... or if they allow stoking the mag on the clock, I'll let out a "watch this" with a big grin on my face. 😁

That is just so wrong... especially since here it is still June 24.... 😁 No Xmas until after Thanksgiving (at least Halloween)

Be sure to double check yourself to make sure you are not indeed a robot....

If short barrel rifles and shotguns come of the NFA list making them legal to own without flaming hoops to jump through, maybe the rules would be changed.