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Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474

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  1. GRUMP! GET THE HECK OFF MY LAWN! Had to miss Strangers Buffalo Rifle Match on Saturday. Had my precision bullets all weighed, loaded into carefully examined and trimmed .45-70 cases that were loaded individually with Trail Boss after weighing each and every charge. Then a family health emergency stopped me from attending. Oh well. Maybe next time.
  2. Making some sales of toys I no longer use. Arthritis in the knees mean I can't do my share around the moose camp or if we get one. Pards. want me to come anyway, but wife's health issues are such that I don't want to be 10 to 12 hours drive away. Moose rifle, in .338wm with bullets, cases dies etc. on the block. So keep off my grass, 'cause I'm GRUMPY! Luckily, I can hunt deer an hour away, with my friend, Dr. Dr. Bob, at his place where I have access to a phone, so I can talk to her a couple of times a day. Our son, Big Red will handle most things while I'm away. The family encourages me to get away when there is a match within an 60 to 90 minute drive, so I loaded up some .45's for a match at Grenville this weekend.
  3. OK, That's a simple problem to fix. Use slower bullets. Geez, do I have to teach you everything?
  4. I've been thinking about this Jabez and I think I found a way for you to have a clean match. Every time. Use the Holy Black. Lots of Holy Black. The blacker the better. Have a pard standing nearby, but out of sight, with a steel plate and a hammer. After each shot into the smoke, your pard hits the steel plate. If it clangs twice, just claim it's an echo. No-No, don't thank me. Anything to help a pard. What? Cheat? Who Me? Spirit of the Game?? What? Asked to leave? What? Why?
  5. Just dropped off three new picnic tables at the Square Circle Ranch, (Our new CAS facility at EOSC) Buildings are getting moved in soon so I'm not quite as grumpy as usual. But GET OFF THE GRASS ANYWAY. EH
  6. I'll have a cup. Any donuts or sticky buns? Got a Clean Match certificate for my efforts at the "Lipstick on a Pig" match in May. Disappointing now though that they no longer use a timer with that "BEEP" when I get to the line. Now it's a whistle to start me and a sun dial.
  7. Dino's were sort of an off grey/green. My own pet, when it was young was a Hadrosaur, but I couldn't keep up with its feed and had to set back out in the wilds. Near Calgary. Later, Buffa caught it again and tried to break it to saddle. Didn't work. It was a star bucker in the first Stampede.
  8. Yore a tuffer man than I Gunga Din. (Or maybe I'm older and weaker)
  9. GRUMP! Shot the "Come On Safari" match at Cornwall, emanating from the twisted fertile mind(?) of Johnny Cheater. ( I can't imagine what He** his poor students go through during the year!) Red Storm & I drove up in the early AM; Me anticipating a clean match, (note, I didn't say fast!), that was until the first stage and the onset of heat stroke. Oh well, ice water over my head and quiet sulking contemplation, sitting in the shade, under the canopy and I was ready to go again. A wobbly pop and supper at historic Quinn's Inn improved my morale. Now get off the lawn!!
  10. Shades of "OPEN RANGE" ! We need another one of that calibre. (Spelling is correct for North of the Medicine Line)
  11. I'd have liked to try the .40-65 etc, but availability of brass and lead bullets kinda held me back. That's why I stuck with .45-70; availability of brass and I have a fellow with a Magna-caster who casts for me. But I do love those big thumpers! I recently bought a new Trapdoor, in .45-70 of course, to go with my original .50-70 conversion, that Bubba's Grandfather got to. It's the one with the open breech.
  12. OK, I'm jealous. Can 'it Nutin' and Stranger had a Buffalo Rifle match in Kingston, a couple of hours drive south of here and I couldn't go. SWMBO is feeling bad about it, but I don't feel right about leaving her alone overnight, after the recent falls she's had. Messed up her arm, side and back. I had the Sharps, Rolling Block and the Hiwal (.45-70's) tuned up for the longer ranges promised. Oh well, maybe next year.
  13. I've been trying to stain the deck now for almost two years. Directions on the can tell me to make sure the wood is dry, but the ()*&^%$%#$#@!@! rain won't lay off long enough for the wood to dry before it gets too hot around here to work outside. (For most of us Canadians - That's anything over 80. After that we just drink beer) Anyway, I covered the deck with a tarp and it's only coming off when it ain't gonna rain. I'll dry that thing one way or another. Now get off the soggy lawn! (Only 1207 post to go before the thread goes POOF)
  14. Do like I just did: Get your kid(s) to do it. Then they can tell YOU: GET OFF THE LAWN! Thread saved from the ignominy of page 2
  15. Back to the range and the place I parked the motor home and FOUND THEM! Apparently they dropped out of the jacket I was wearing while I was setting up and leveling the unit. Whew! What a relief! Now, GET OFF THE LAWN!
  16. Think I'll mosey on back to the range and prospect around where I was parked, Just in case. Danged inconvenient if I can't find them. I think the only ones I'm going to have trouble about is the keys to the Church doors etc. All restricted locksmith type keys. Now get off the lawn!
  17. Lost my keys on the weekend. Lookin' all over for them. Hate to think I'll have to replace them all, using the back-ups I have on the pegboard. So, I'm GRUMPY! Now GET OFF THE LAWN!
  18. Busy times in the Jabez ranch. Prayers still being made for your sister. As for your motor home, I hear ya pard. I've been watching things on the Forest River site and learning of a lot of things that have me shaking my head. I've been lucky so far with mine: No real problems other than the ones I did my own-self. Now GET OFF THE GRASS (Which now has a special meaning here in Canada!)
  19. Good to hear Jabez. We'll keep her in our prayers. Blessings+
  20. I guess I picked a good one, all those years ago. On Friday the 25th, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with a get-together at a local restaurant that included friends and relations that were at our wedding 50 years ago, plus God-kids, nephews and nieces from Quebec. After allowing a day of recovery on Saturday, SWMBO sent me off to shoot on Sunday. Pards had pity on me and tried to keep me off my arthritic knees, but boy Howdy they were sore when I got home. Good to have good family and friends. Thank you Lord for those gifts. As for the rest of you lot: GET OFF MY LAWN!
  21. Good to hear Jabez. We all hope the news continues to be good.
  22. Jabez, she has my prayers for the strength required for her battle ahead. Blessings+
  23. That my friend is the (in)famous Canadiangunnutz goat, awarded to those who reach 1000 posts
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