Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474

My mother told me about this day and listening to the news with horror. My Father was a pre-war, Royal Canadian Air Force Regular, stationed at RCAF Station, Rockcliffe, in Ottawa. Great Britain, Canada and the rest of what is now the Commonwealth had been at war with Nazi Germany, since September 1939 and the prospect was looking grim. He and my Mother had only been married for three months and he was expecting his overseas (British Isles) transfer, momentarily, having just finished his embarkation leave. Monday evening, December 8, he returned from the air base and told her "With the Americans now fully in, we just won the war" Thank you America for your sacrifices. You helped my Father and most of my uncles to survive.

Oh Jabez, Where ya been? We got no worries no more. The Little Potato and his merry men are making it all legal. If we're all tokin' like he wants, we won't care anymore and he gets to be PMFL, just like his Daddy wanted to be. Get with the program boy!

Full Buckhorn on my '66 (Uberti) My '73 has a semi-buckhorn that I think I'll switch out for a Full.

My woes? ! We ain't got enough time right now. Maybe later over a rum or three. (You know, the one Red Storm and I like: that 8 year old Bacardi the folks below the Medicine Line can't get!) OK, OK, Knees are aching pretty good even with the braces, pills and cortisone; snowed last night and it's still coming down - about 4" on my rear deck right now. Good thing # 1 son is home from work today HE can shovel while I try to run the snow blower after it stops. Found out I'm now married to a 71 year old woman, who now claims she's going to start counting backwards. Oh well, I suppose she's going to start on me on the 25th when I turn 73. Oh well, coffee's made and the waffle iron just "beeped" Later 'Gator HEY YOU KIDS - GET OFF THE LAWN! YER GONNA DAMAGE THE WEEDS!

Well, here we are in Ottawa, December 2nd, snow all gone, raining. Again. Can't even get out for partridge. Flu season getting underway with the cold and damp. OK, I'm GRUMPY Now, GET OFF MY LAWN!

Here, in and around the Ottawa Canada area, (Ottawa Valley Marauders, Wild Turkey Posse, Ruff's Regulators etc. we opted out of providing food during the spring, summer and fall matches and reduced the price per match accordingly. We provide cold bottled water, but the matches are advertised as "No Chuck-wagon" affairs and shooters bring their own lunches. Our sole winter match, (February - "Winter Camp") is the only one we'll provide hot beans and coffee in addition to what the shooters bring for their lunch.

HAH! I recall them little "Kittys" Here in Ontario, it seems some "Stuff"-for-Brains, sitting in the Lands and Flowers offices inToronto, (the Centre of the Universe) decided it would be a good idea to re-introduce the Eastern Cougar. (They tried to deny it. but were caught out a few years ago) Last year, on 417, a truck struck and killed one. Ontario Provincial Police showed up and their report ID's the beast as a cougar. The Merry Men from Lands and Flowers showed up to claim the remains and ID'd it as "a large fur bearing animal".

Big Red AKA Number 1 Son and I put up some lights around the veradah and the eavestrough, at the front of the house. Left the side of the place free of lights. We're on a corner with a creek and a designated wetland area across the street from us and I don't like to disturb the neighbouring coyotes, wolves, deer, occasional moose, and lately, a Martin. Neighbours are all former city dwellers and are wondering "What happened to my cat?" Posters up looking for lost cats all over the neighbourhood. Tried telling one citidiot and got a blank look like I was making things up. Now: ​GET OFF MY LAWN!

SIL? Big Wind? Oh Jabez! Yer livin' dangerous!! Does yore life's saddle pardner read yore posts on yore confuser? ​(1818 more posts until this thread goes "POOF") And, get off the Lawn!

He do got nice hair though. Too bad there ain't nothin' but solid rock underneath it. Some of our cousins, south of the medicine line, complain about elected officials who got no previous experience as an elected officials. Well heck, we'uns gots a boss that never had a permanent or fulltime job! He was a part-time drama teacher! And from what I see on TV, he couldn't have been very good at that! OK,Ya got me Grumpy! Now get off the lawn. (Lawn? What lawn? All I sees is white stuff!)

Well, as long as he offers a few tid-bits to his sire...... And I said Tid-Bits, NOT Tim-Bits. (​Do ya think we'll have to explain that one to our pards south of the Medicine Line?​) ​​Grumpy here right now. Foggy as all get out and rain turning to flurries later. Supposed to drop 15 cm of snow Sunday. Monday's drive into work should be a load of laughs; between the ones who haven't put on their snow tires and everyone who forgot how to drive in snow and ice. Since I'm retired, I don't have to go anywhere. So I won't.

Already made up a Sweet and Sour Stew, from my SIL's receipe. Picking her up from the Nursing Residence to enjoy it. She likes game meals and became a real Canadian Outdoor GIrl before her stroke. (Not bad for a girl from Amritsar!)

Oh LORD ​!, there is even celebrating among a lot of us here in Upper Canada, never mind in Rupertsland!! (Sure hope there will be some spill across the Medicine Line.) Back from getting my Free Range, Antibiotic and hormone free winter meat supplement. Couple of nice bucks for Doctor-Doctor Bob and I. Only trouble is he got both! Oh well. There's always next year. Good thing I picked up a chain block and replaced our grinder with a powered version. Those lads were heavy! Well, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed is calling, the fresh perked coffee and slices of fresh baked Banana Loaf are waiting. Chimo.

Calibre ain't cowboy if it don't start with a "4"

I think I'll stay with my TB for regular shooting and save th Holy Black for special occasions, (Like when the mosquitos invade the range☺) I find it a bit trickey loading BP and shotshells are a real treat. I find shooting .45 Colt in my '66 and '73 gets a lot of stuff in the action, from blow-back, in spite of a tighter than usual crimp. Maybe if I was using .44-40 it would improve, but that means more irons and .44-40 brass around here seems a little scarce. Packing up right now to head off to the deer camp for next week's opening. Wish me luck.

Still sending some knee mail for Grey Beard and Granny. I guess we won't have to heat up the cauterizing iron Grey Beard, but you get healing! (Hey, it's period correct!) As for me, the ribs are healing and the cortisone shot in the knee is helping me walk without looking like Chester."​Marshal Dillon, Marshal Dillon" ☺ Looks like I'll be well enough to be a nuisance at Winter Camp come February and poison folks as camp cook. Jabez: In regards to the new-to-me Open tops and 3F: I used to shoot Holy Black, when I started out in CAS, but I found I was too tired to clean up things properly after I dragged my aching bones home, so I switched to the Heathen smokeless and gave up being a Soot Lord. In those days, I shot a '58 Remington and a Dragoon in .44, a '92 Rossi in .44 special and a '97 Winnie. A case of "Shoot what ya got" Don't have any of them any more. Now it's two SASS NMV's, a '66 and a SASS '73 in .45 Colt and a Wyatt Earp open hammer in 12 ga. Oh, and a 1911 and another '97 for Wild Bunch.

Snow here, yesterday, in Canada's Capital. Rain washing it away today. Cool and damp to help develop the cold and flu season, but I got my flu shot yesterday and made an appointment to get my snow tires out of storage and have them installed. Jabez: Tried the Open Tops at Eastern Ontario Shooting Club, (Home of the Ottawa Valley Marauders, www.ovmcowboys.ca ) From a rest, they shoot high with the light TB loads, I use in the Spencer. The heavier TB loads tightened the groups and lowered the POI and were pretty good to shoot. I still have some room to load up the TB, a coupe of points, before it gets into red line territory, according to the bible. I'm using a 250 gr RNFP lead bullet, but I wonder what a lighter bullet might do? Grey Beard: You and Granny get better. Prayers still heading your way west. Might ask for a couple for She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed here with me. Her diabetic condition and the complications are worsening.

The new to me Open Tops are really new, tuned, matched pair of 1871's by Cimmaron/Uberti, in .45 Colt with 7 1/2" barrels. The Pard who owned them first shot maybe 20 rounds out of each of them before he put them in his safe to languish. No drag lines on the cylinders or idiot marks. Yet. He just has too many CAS revolvers to play with them all and I was around to help him out! Tried them with snap caps in the family room, pointing them at cabinet knobs and they seem to find the target on their own with those long barrels. The action job on them is nice and slick. Takes a little getting used to with the higher hammer, compared to my SASS NMVaqueros, which I shoot regularly. I still have to see what kind of load the open tops like. I have some 250 gr over a couple of Trail Boss charges, so we shall see what we will see. If I get real lucky, they'll like the same lighter load my little Spencer handles so well. Too bad it doesn't load 10 rounds. It would be fun to shoot Classic using the open tops and the Spencer, instead of the Yellow Boy! Rained a bit here today; windy and warm (24°) as well. Temperature dropping overnight and cool the rest of the week, down to 4° or as high as 9° and no more rain, so I'm hoping to get out to the club and do some shooting with the .30-06, to make sure nothing has gone awry with the scope since it was put away. (Deer opens Nov 7 around here) Later Jabez - you take care Still praying for you and yours Grey Beard and remembering my days out west and north of you around Cold Lake/Grande Centre.

Prayers up for Grey Beard and hisn' Cowboy is over for 2016 here in Upper Canada. Lookin' at deer season. The geese is flyin' around my ranch in big flocks and when I go by the local golf courses, I se the Floggers tippy toeing through the goose drops. LOL! Finally feeling like I can safely handle a gun again and lookin' forward to trying my pair of new Open tops. Have to make sure the deer rifle is shooting where I point it first.. Come on November 7 Oh! And 1859 post before the thread goes POOF!

Still GRUMPY here. Too sore and achy to go playin' cowboy. Missed a bunch of matches and it looks like my year is done. Had to pay to have the covered wagon winterized, 'cause I hurt too much to bend or do much of anything. Sawbones tells me I broke three ribs and jarred my preserves when I fell in our covered wagon prop, September 10 Still hurts to take a deep breath and a cough or sneeze is a real treat. Nothing but time to fix things Dr. J tells me. Sure hope I feel better for deer season in November. Now: GET OFF MY LAWN!

Here. And GRUMPY! Fell last Friday, before the Ottawa Valley Marauders Annual club match and injured the left side and back. Too sore to handle a gun. Too dangerous as well. In pain all week. Can't sleep lying down. Can't sit up too long, Can't cough or sneeze with out it really hurting. To add insult to injury, tomorrow is the Upper and Lower Canada Championship Wild Bunch Match. Was registered and looking forward to it. Can't make it. Still too sore and Grumpy. Now, GET OFF MY LAWN!

Loading up the covered wagon for the annual Old Time Buffalo Shoot this saturday. Brought out the Sharps 1874 and the 1873 Trapdoor just to see what we shall see. Oh, and in case you forgot, 1875 more posts before the thread goes Poof ​So Stay Grumpy and ​GET OFF THE LAWN!​

Knee-mail on it's way to our Heavenly Father for you Grey Beard. May you come through this and get back to being normally Grumpy. Blessings+

Took the covered wagon and stayed on the range at Eastern Ontario Shooting Club, with Red Storm-Regulator, and Rooster. Hot on set-up Friday and for the match Saturday. Ray Charbonneau, range owner has just received the OK from the inspectors from the Chief Firearms Office for our new and (greatly) enlarged, dedicated cowboy range. New digs for the Ottawa Valley Marauders! WHOO HOO ! ☺ Grumpy about all the work that'll have to be done though ! (1895 posts before thread goes "POOF")​