Three Foot Johnson

"The Ancient Mariner of Lake Michigan", July 2003, somewhere along Highway 2 around the top of the lake.

It is. It's 16' wide and spans 7+ feet. There are three pre-cast concrete blocks on each side - one on each end and one in the middle, six total. The fill gave way between the blocks, which is where traffic is going to be on a one-lane dirt road - right in the middle, so your wheels are tracking between the blocks. A lawyer is a bit extreme at this point, and I agreed to use the gate in the meantime... except neither of us realized it was blocked... As long as you know where to drive, you can straddle the cave-ins, but if FedEx, UPS, fire truck, Sheriff, whatever, comes up the road, they won't see it til too late and they're leaving on a trailer or behind a tow truck. The land owner or fab company should really have put up a temporary stop sign, barricade, caution tape, SOMETHING, but they haven't. In an emergency, I can cut the fence to get out, and I contacted the assistant chief of the local VFD and told him about it, so if they need in, they'll also just cut the fence and go around everything.

I've never been fast, and pushing 70 pretty hard, never will be, so I strive to be mediocre - it's a lot less demanding and not very much practice involved.

There's a 5 1/2"er Jager .45 on Gunbroker currently at $255 with three days to go. 1072836431 Looks like $350ish is about the going rate. I have six Jagers - five .38-40's and one .357, and every one of them has an odd problem with over-rotating when trying to run them fast. The easy fix is to use a heavy grease on the base pin to add a little resistance to the cylinder turning. Just an inherent problem with the design I guess. Used .45 Hombres regularly go for under $400 - here's a 4 5/8"er for $425, BIN. 1073712166

My Norwegian maternal grandmother used to make lutefisk for the holidays... God, I hated going there for Christmas dinner as a kid.

About four years ago, I sold 130 acres and one of the stipulations was there were to be no gates across the access road. A few days ago, he contracted with a local company to fabricate and install a cattleguard. Immediately, within crossing it only a couple times, fill dirt started sloughing off each end/side and into the pit underneath. Dirt, not gravel or road mix, dirt. The stuff that immediately turns to mud when it rains. It's also installed about a foot and a half above grade with a short, steep approach on each side... of dirt. I stopped and took a closer look at it a couple days after the install, and there are no battens installed between the concrete piers along the top to prevent this sloughing problem. Then I saw the UF/UDB phone cable completely exposed in the bottom of the pit - I'm not crawling under there to see if it's damaged, maybe call the phone company and report it anyway, whoever the phone company is anymore - I haven't had a landline in twenty years. So I called the neighbor to discuss it (he was working out of town), and he had a ten yard load of road mix delivered the next day to have the company effect repairs when they get around to it sometime NEXT WEEK. No problem... I guess... I can use the gate right next to the cattleguard in the meantime, right? Um... no... WTH? What driver would have ever thought, "Where's the best place to dump this load? I know, right in front of the gate, so it'll block the only other ingress/egress to that house up there". (That would be my house.) Oh, and using the gate would actually put me off the road right-of-way and onto another neighbor's property to get around the cattleguard. I called the new neighbor and asked him what the load limit on it is, and he had no idea. The stringers are five 4" pipes spanning seven feet. I emailed the place that fabbed it, asking what the engineering specs are on it and they won't reply. This road regularly has 25+ ton loads on it, occasionally topping 30 tons, and I'd really like to know what the cattleguard load rating is. Near as I can figure, the truck that delivered the road mix probably grossed 25-26 tons, and he went across it, probably before he realized the fill was caving in, exacerbating the problem. Some days you're the windshield and some days you're the bug.

More often than not, I use a single trigger setup, either a Tedna 12g or a Baikal 20g. So far, so good, but both of them experience doubling now and then - maybe every 1000 rounds or so.

BIG STEPS?

With RCBS's naming protocol, this should be called something like 45-200-FN, but it doesn't look like there's any such thing in their current lineup for a revolver bullet. I can't find it listed as a discontinued mold either...?

An alphorn?

I had a B92 twenty some years ago with the same experience. It would choke on .38's every time unless the bullet was seated way out to get the OAL similar to a .357. Of course that required using a heavy bullet, so it was kind of pointless. I sold it to someone on here and used the money to buy two Rossi's instead.

My house being bombed by a P3 retardant bomber during the "Bucksnort" wildfire in August of 2000. When the plane flew over, the firefighters all pulled out cameras and started snapping away. I said, "You guys see this every day for months on end during the summer, why the cameras?" Turns out, they would pick out the best pictures and send them to Wildland Firefighter magazine, and if one got published, they got paid for it.

Several .44 spl Bond barrels on Gunbroker in the $130 range. I've got barrels for mine in .22, .357, .44 spl, .44-40, .45 acp, and .45 Colt.

The rear sight channel is wider too.

The 9mm's are more common and quite a bit less money. I have a .45 acp, hardly a mark on it. These use 1911 magazines. $1100, shipped & insured, my guy to yours.

Five months ago, I bought an eight pounder from Midsouth for $339.99 - $42.50/pound before hazmat & shipping. Bottom line was $367.98 all told. A hundred bucks stings a little, but really that's not even dinner & drinks for two at a decent restaurant.

Trail Boss was discontinued on June 1st, 2018 - six and a half years ago. I still say, "It ain't coming back". There are six 9 oz bottles on Montana Gun Trader right now for $30 each. A year and a half ago, I saw two 9 oz bottles go for $855, plus shipping & hazmat, on Gunbroker.

As in Palewolf's link above, it only takes a minute to remove the screw, DA fly, and spring to make it legal. The only time I ever shot one in a match was as part of a stunt I did several years ago where I shot different guns on every stage. Not just different guns, but all 24 were also in different dedicated chamberings and gauges, meaning I didn't shoot .38 spls in a .357, or .44 spls in a .44 mag, and so on. With the consent of the MD and the posse, I threw a .410 and 28 ga into the mix to get six different shotgun gauges. I finished with the dreaded one-miss match.

This was recorded with a very basic $25 cheapo dashcam from Walmart. I really need something better, but... I caught this incident just north of Great Falls four years ago. The trailer being towed by the semi at about the five second mark threw a tire which went flying down the ditch and eventually into the oncoming lanes where the white pickup passing me hit it, knocking it into the guardrail and back into the lane in front of me. The pickup might have saved my life - I don't think my Honda Fit would have fared so well. The semi never even slowed down - I don't think he realized he'd lost a tire & wheel. In 2018, I caught a drunk driver incident north of Helena with the same cam. The guy was coming off the pass at 90+ mph, bounced off the center divider half a dozen times, across both lanes into the ditch, throwing gravel, then back onto the Interstate, sideswipe the divider again, repeat. We called 911 and when he exited the Interstate five minutes later, a Highway Patrol car crossed the median, pulled in behind him, and pulled him over, simultaneous with the County Sheriff in his personal vehicle. The Sheriff lives very close by and was off-duty at home when he heard the call. The two occupants got a free ride to jail and I gave him the camera card for a couple days to copy the footage.

In my younger years, when we were much more avid "hunters", my cousin and I would make a challenge out of waiting until 30 minutes before sunset on the last day before setting out from my house to fill our deer tags, giving us one hour. I don't specifically remember ever getting skunked...? It's mostly open fields and accessible draws, so driving right to them or within a very few yards to load 'em up isn't a problem. Elk are a different story, and unless I draw a cow permit, I normally have to hit the woods, but I'm careful anymore not to take one somewhere I'll need to quarter it and pack it out, or haul horses in. The only moose permit I've ever drawn was in extreme northwest Montana, and I was very fortunate to drop it in a shallow spot on the bank of the Yaak river where we were able to drive within a few yards of it... after wading/swimming, dragging/floating it across a wide slow moving part of the river with a rope to the other side where the road was... in October... while my hunting buddy kept shouting across the water to me, "Would you hurry it up, I'm freezing over here"... Taken from my garage door. There's a stock tank in the bottom of the draw directly behind the juniper, so it's pretty common to see deer, elk, and even moose on a couple occasions. I'm sure bear and mountain lions also use it, but I've never seen one actually drinking out of it - the bears hang out a little higher up the mountain and the cats tend to stay hidden during the day.

I would love to share some stories, but in 30+ years of this now, I have yet to screw up.

This is not a bad buy - the conversion cylinder alone is $245 new, plus shipping. If you don't want the cylinder, even a used one like this will easily sell for $200, bringing your bottom line down to $850, which is a pretty dang good deal on a fixed sight ROA.

It's just a little glitch, you silly Republicans, calm down. Meanwhile, in Detroit yesterday, there were nearly two and a half times more votes tallied than the number of people who voted - 114,545 voters somehow cast 279,113 votes. https://www.westernjournal.com/urgent-report-single-voter-linked-dozens-votes-critical-trump-state/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=westernjournalism&utm_campaign=dlvrit&utm_content=link

Guardians and Commanders... wasn't that a Russell Crowe movie?

Solid frame?? That appears to be a takedown, and I'm pretty sure Winchester never made a solid frame Model 12...?