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.

Yup.

I used a C-pap. I was a mouth breather and suffered from a really dry mouth when using C-pap even with the water supplement. I now breath normal and breath pretty much thru my nose when I sleep. Yes the Doctors who sell/install the Inspire make $$$ off them, but I really couldn't care less as I sleep normal without all that mask crap attached to my breathing. I feel great and don't wake up tired or need daily naps from having a bad nights sleep. OH....I will be 84 in a few months!

I have an Inspire! I have had it turned on for over a year and I love it! It took awhile to get "qualified" for it from a Medicare standpoint. I had an initial sleep test and the maximum score for Medicare coverage was 70 and my score was 71. My family doctor set up a plan for me that she thought would help. I lost weight (about 30#) and an excersize program. The next time it had a sleep test 8 months later my score was 50!. Medicare approved the Inspire procedure and my secondary insurance picked what Medicare didn't pay. I had the procedure. Minor, same dat surgery. Implant the device under the skin on my chest (similar to a pacemaker) with a wire going to the base of my tongue. I had to wait until everything healed before they turned it on (3 to 4 months). Once it was activated, I had to get the setting to the correct power. With their coaching, it took a week or so. Turn it on when I go to bed, off when I get up. No mask, easy peasy!.

When I got drafted into the Army in 1963, I was sent to Ft. Polk, Louisiana for basic training. I was a California kid and had never been to the south. The first time I went off post on a pass, I went to a cafe for breakfast. The was a big black gal waiting on tables. I ordered breakfast and when it came out , there was this white looking stuff and I said to the waitress, I didn't order Cream of Wheat (thats what it looked like to me). She said thems grits boy, your a damn yankee!!! That was my introduction to grits.

I have taken several deer with my 73 in .45 Colt. I was using smokeless powder instead of BP which I shoot in matches.

Growing up in SoCal and a surfer when I was a teenager, I loved the Beach Boys. I still listen to them when I workout or walk. They will live forever thru their music.

Take them mafia style....in both knees.

If you don't want to kill someone, don't buy a gun. Arm your self with a baseball bat or a Taser.

If all you want to do is Piss somebody off, go ahead. If I am going to shoot somebody , I want to kill them!

No antelope this year , just the cow elk. Next year we will hunt Colorado & Wyoming.