Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life
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One of my Dad's best friends worked on a tuna boat out of San Diego before WWII. He made lots of $$$ as the crew worked on shares of the boat's profits.
Today it's all done with nets.
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We knew we wouldn't stay in Southern California, even tho my wife and I were both born there. Spent 20 years looking west of the Rockies and settled on rural SW Colorado. Bought 6 acres 5 years before I retires. We designed (with a contractor) our dream home and built it new. Our home of 30 years in Ca was 1970 sqft. Our new home is 38oo+/-. I have a 50'x50 garage with RV parking inside. I also have a 15x30 reloading, gun room on the garage. We have a 2 acre pond with bass, channel cats, crappie & bluegill in it. Also have covered storage for my pontoon boat.
Love everything, wouldn't change much. We do travel some to get away from the snow, spend 3 weeks to a month in Az shooting.
Being very rural (800 people in our town and only about 20k in the whole county), we do travel for shopping. Cortez is about 8 miles away, but still small. About every other month we go to Farmington, NM to shop (70 miles). The other thing that is a little difficult is flying out of here, Usually drive to Albq. NM (250 miles) and leave from there.
Would I do it all over again...you bet. Love it here!
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Man, that's a lot of skull sweat. I don't want to try to think of all the things involved in that. The thousands of steps. My hat's off to you, sir.
We used to call it "Work Breakdown structure". We broke down and analyzed every task and movement used and needed to do each task. It was given a time standard for performance. The standard was used for baseline work measurement. When a task became too great to be completed with the time allowed by schedule, another work station or worker was added.
Probably told you more than you wanted to know!! The analysis and skill needed to look at every small detail in the assembly process is complex. It took years for an engineer to be able to understand the relationship between what they designed and the ability to build that product in a timely manner within budget. I spent most of my 40 year career doing this.
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Almost unbelievable.
What can't they use those methods for General Aviation today to reduce costs by half?
They could if the demand for the product was high enough to warrant production numbers as high as what was needed during war time.
When they quote a bomber being completed every hour, you have to understand that the production lines were huge. Every worker only did his particular job for I hour, then a new part/plane was in front of him. The work breakdown was so small that that thousands of workers and work stations were needed and they worked 24/7. During my aerospace career, I planned and setup a new assembly line for a US Navy jet, it was planned to support a production rate of 20 planes per month. Assembly tools, work stations and manpower was set up to support that number. If a higher rate was required, we just increased everything to support the new production rate.
It does go back the assembly methods pioneered by Henry Ford. those folks were very smart and we use some of their analytical methods today.
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Winter is sure getting long!!!!
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I'm with Garrison Joe...just can't wear gloves when I shoot. But do wear them between the shooting cycles.
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I shoot nothing but BP & subs for CAS. I shoot SS NM Vaqueros, Uberti 73s and SKBs. All are cleaned after every shoot. Everyone needs to define "clean". All of my guns get wiped down using a 50% Balistol/water mixture. The Rugers barrels are cleaned, cylinders cleaned and lubed. 73 get disassembled (sideplates & innerds) cleaned ...especially the brass carrier, barrel cleaned. I also clean the mag tube several times a year. SKBs get barrel cleaned.
I have been shooting my Rugers for 7 or 8 years and they have never been totally disassembled, same with 73s and SKBs. I use nothing but the Ballistol mixture for cleaning and a moly grease for lubing. That's it.....Never have had a broken part or gun failure except when I did something wrong. I shoot monthly shoots at 2 clubs and 3 to 5 annuals every year.
My Bulls Eye pistols (S&S K38 Target Masterpiece & High Standard Supermatic Tournament) get cleaned Yearly after each years season is over.
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I retired at 58 (almost 17 years ago). I got cancer at 53 and the Drs said I had a 1 in 10 chance to live 5 years. The 5 years went by and my Dr said looks like I did it...whipped the big C. I went in to work and retired from my dream job and never looked back.
I have loved every minute of it. I was lucky to have been employed in a field that had great benefits and wonderful pay. We live very comfortably in a great area.
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If I write a book, it might sell 2 copies....me and the wife! LOL
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When I was a young college graduate and starting my career in aerospace, I worked at North American Aviation, prime contractor on the Apollo Program. There were lots of NASA bigwigs and gov't types around all the time. Some were real A holes, some were actually real people. Neil Armstrong was a real, genuine person who was always approachable and civil to everyone.
I was really lucky to work on the Apollo, Saturn and later the Space Shuttle during my career. It was an adventure that I feel blessed to have been a part of.
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Camping World has them.
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Nope...king crab legs and shrimp scampi and fresh fruit salad. Yummmmmiiii !!
Had some of my home ground venison breakfast sausage, eggs & biscuits for breakfast.
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Don't care much for Bama, never have....hope Clemson whips their butt!
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Here is a test for you.....close your eyes and point each one of them. This should answer your question. I found out how well they feel & shoot 8 or 9 years ago and bought 2 from Johnny Meadows. Never looked back.
Looks like it was a good investment for sure.
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Gunfighter? That's great. Welcome to the club. Now if only we can get you back to the dark side because there's nothing better than FCGF
Yep ....for sure!
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Nothing in the rules about button fly vs zipper fly. We sure as hell don't need any more rules on whats called "period correct" ala NCOWS!
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Well I'm in the minority....I shoot 1 1/8 oz and a full load of BP. Patterns very well and I am happy with it, don't plan on changing anything! Lots of smoke and "dead" steel!
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Very Nice indeed!
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Took me 2 days to see all of the Cody Museum. Well worth the time.
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My wife & son got me Cabelas gift cards. I want a new fish finder for the pontoon boat. Looked at Cabelas on line and they have exactly what I want on sale ($100.00 off). Didn't cost me anything as I used the gift cards and my points and also got free shipping too.
Now all I have to do is install it on the boat.
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Yep its a wadcutter bullet. I load them for my Bulls Eye target shooting. Makes a nice smooth, round hole in the paper! I shoot them in a S & W K38 Target Masterpiece revolver.
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I have a Royal Light (single trigger, like Dueces that's for sale) that I bought from Johnny Meadows about 7 or 8 years ago. If I remember correctly, he told me they were mostly sold in Australia, not seen very frequently here in the states.
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Oh hell, I thought you were going to say "When the freezers full"!
Disappearing plaques on California Historical Markers
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I remember when I was growing up in California, there were special highway markers on what was call "El Camino Real" ...the Kings Highway on highway 101. They represented and marked the original Spanish road between their missions. They were a kind of bell in a steel standard all along the route. Over the years they all disappeared. I don't really think they were salvaged, just used for peoples backyard decorations.