Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life

Mountain Byron aka Lee Merrifield passed away yesterday in Indio, Ca. He lived years in Yuma and was very active with the Yuma club. Lee and I were friends since the 1970's and hunted, fished and camped together for years. He would have been 89 today. He will be missed by everyone who knew him, especially his wife Linda and their kids, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Shoot straight buddy, I'll see you again someday.

Thats how I wear mine in hot weather w/o a vest.

Professional baseball lost me years ago. The millionaire crybabies are not representatives of the game I loved and played. I watch college baseball when I can, it comes closer and little league too.

On successful big game hunting trips, we always celebrate with some fresh game backstrap. We also fry up some fresh game heart steaks. None of us are liver eaters, so it stays in the gut pile. Fresh fried potatoes with onions goes along with it. Bacon wrapped backstrap that is still pink from the grill, nothing better. The breaded, fried heart is wonderful for sandwiches for a trail lunch when hunting.

They way they "eat" then, not 1. Put a polish sausage in the bun, now your talking!

I had 2 of them on a 56 Ford PU that I had a hot rod Oldsmobile engine in it back about 1960 that I drag raced. Depending on the track and traction, I filled them with water for extra weight & traction......no air!

Don't get rid of your wood stock.

Never heard of them, but not unusual because we live in a small town with only 3 grocery stores ( WalMart, City Mkt & Safeway. When we retired here 25 years ago there was one City Mkt.

It's spread to college sports now. NCAA now says college athletes can get paid! Absolutely the craziest thing I've heard. I was on a college football scholarship back in 1959. What we got in return for playing sports was a free education, books, room & board and other expenses. I know the major colleges make a lot of money today off sports, but it's really crazy to pay the athletes. It all started when professional athletes were allowed in the Olympics. The next thing is high school players are going to want to get paid.......CRAZY!

Illegal in Colorado to any type of light at night for shooting. When I first moved here (25 years ago) my wife and I were out just after it got dark spotlighting deer and elk from our truck just to look at them. Someone reported us to the local game warden and he was hot on our tail! He stopped us and told us about the law and asked if we had any guns in the truck. If we did we would have got a ticket. I live pretty much in the country and if anyone sees anybody "spotlighting" at night, they call the game warden or the sheriff.

Over the years I've had both. I have had 13 major surgeries, 5 replacement joints and a cancer survivor. I have had good and bad in both MD's & DO's. Like was mentioned, I think it was a matter of personality rather professional competence.

But they didn't get enough to arm everyone.

I checked in the book and they were using the trapdoor springfield and wanted to Krag. The Trapdoor was BP. I got them reversed....my 83 year old brain!!

In the example that Alpo used, it was a cartridge first, then a rifle. In the Spanish American War the Spanish Army was using smokeless German rifles and our rifle was the 30-40 Krag using BP. The smoke from the 30-40 gave away our positions and because the Spanish were using smokeless we couldn't see theirs. After the war we knew we had to have a smokeless cartridge. The rest is history. Teddy Roosevelt complained a lot about our using black powder in his book about the Rough Riders in this war.

I am not an expert on radar, but I worked on the B-2, YF-23 and several classified programs having to do with "stealth". As I understand it, radars are changing as fast as stealth. 40 years ago (Damn it doesn't seem like that long ago!) our radar folks were worried about "phased array" radars. Radars that could change frequencies so fast that it could find a frequency that would defeat the stealth ability, even slightly, so the enemy radar was more effective. I retired in 2000, but my company kept my clearance active and I did some work on the F-35 and the B-21 for a few years. It's been about 10 years since I totally left the "Stealth" community and I am sure thing have changed a lot.