Three Foot Johnson

I went to a Halloween party earlier tonight as a AAA Roadside Assistance driver. I walked in with my jumper cables over my shoulder and the bartender pointed at me and yelled, "You get out of here, I don't want you starting anything!"

I found a NIB Stoeger Uplander SxS 28g about a dozen years ago, and bought it because: #1, I didn't have a 28, and #2, it was such a good deal. Then a MEC 600 Jr to reload for ONE shotgun that I'm sure I haven't put two full boxes through... in TWELVE years...

I've got a Remington 1900 with Damascus or twist barrels. It's marked with XKEDY on the water table which means: X=16ga, K=grade, E=ejectors, D=two strip Damascus steel barrels. I haven't been able to find out what the Y is for, but maybe the choke constriction?

I think there are four choices in repros - Armi Chiappa 1887 Fast Load, made in Brescia Italy by Armi Sport di Chiappa and imported by Chiappa Firearms USA Limited & Legacy Sports International. IAC M87/87W-1, made by Norinco (North Industries Corporation) in China and imported by Interstate Arms Corporation. Cimarron 1887, made by Wuxi Bam Co. Ltd. in China. PW87, made by Zhongzhou Machine Works in China and imported by Century Arms International. The Chiappa is generally considered the best of the bunch and the PW87 the worst. My pard, Double Drop Fred, shoots a PW87, and so far it's worked for him. I've had two IAC's, and they both worked fine. With the IAC's, there was something that changed in the metallurgy in '06, which is the first two numbers of the s/n, and folks always used to say not to buy one with an 05 prefix or earlier. Both of mine were 06 prefixes.

I have several choices, but I normally use a 45-70 Handi rifle with a deep seated 405 grainer over 40 grains BP. There is only one club here that does a Plainsman match, and rifle targets are 80-85 yards. About a year ago, I bought an H&R .45 Colt "Classic Carbine", the relatively unknown third member of the Classic series, but haven't had a chance to take it to a Plainsman match yet.

Expect? Maybe 4:00 or so, but I've had them show up as late as 8:00ish a couple times. A couple weeks ago, I had a UPS delivery around 6:00

For me, 38-40's have the edge. 8 38-40 rifles 7 44-40 rifles 11 38-40 revolvers 6 44-40 revolvers As @Alpo mentioned above, I had to trim several thousandths off the bottom of my 38-40 sizer die to set the shoulder back far enough to chamber in several of the revolvers.

The Tisas is back down to $319 at Palmetto State Armory for a "Halloween sale". Spooky.

I don't think I've ever had it in a restaurant, but when I was young, I would hunt ducks along a couple local creeks, ponds, and the Missouri river and bring them home to eat.

According to the serving size on most nutrition labels, I'm a family of six.

I knew of an FFL holder a few years back who charged $55 per gun, TWICE, for a transfer. Once to enter it into his books when you brought it to him, then a second time to log it out to the receiving FFL. Texas has the most FFL holders of any of the 50 states, over 11,000. Of course, it's pretty big, so... Pawn shops will usually give you a much better price on a transfer. Most shooting clubs have an FFL holder - the three clubs I shoot at actually have several in each club. Cowboy Action clubs are often an affiliate of a larger club or range that may have even more FFL's. I know of a hardware store here in Helena with a license that carries absolutely no gun related inventory, but does transfers for twenty or twenty five bucks. Another FFL holder locally is a small farm co-op, again with absolutely no gun related inventory, but they do twenty dollar transfers. Ask around, surely there must be more than one close by.

Switch to F-600 or F-1000 targets. X ring all day long.

After reading this yesterday, I found it online and watched it. Spoiler Alert - the tank played no role in the battle. Final Countdown was pretty good. One interesting paradox, at the start of the movie, was there were two Richard Owens - old Richard in the limo, and young Richard onboard the ship. That happened a lot in the Back to the Future movies too though.

Day before yesterday for me (Sunday). We had a record snowfall for the day, and temps dropped into the 20's. "Record snowfall" for October 12/13 still isn't all that much, probably no more than six inches anywhere locally. It's supposed to be in the 50's and maybe the lower 60's again starting Thursday, and continuing for the rest of the month.

This was four or five years ago, just north of Great Falls. Camera was a $25 cheapo from Walmart. The trailer behind the semi at the five second mark lost a tire & wheel, which crossed the median into oncoming traffic. Another time, just north of Helena, there was an impaired driver towing a small utility trailer weaving across the Interstate bouncing off the guardrail then into the ditch on the opposite side. I called 911, and the guy was pulled over within three or four minutes by an unmarked car. Turns out the county sheriff lived only a couple miles away, and was Johnny-on-the-spot. I gave him the SD card to copy for evidence. I've since replaced the Walmart Special with a Viofo A119V3

Blue, stainless, plow handle, or birds head? I was watching a blue birds head .45 acp Vaquero on GB about a month ago, and spaced out bidding on it - it went for $443.

Who makes a modern reproduction small frame top break or "category legal" .38 special? Off the top of my head, I'd say nobody.

I finished my state career with a few years in driver licensing. No headgear, no glasses was the rule... except if it was a religious thing - when someone came in with a turban, it was OK. So about twenty years ago, some nutjob invented a religion called Pastafarianism to screw with a Kansas school board. Pastafarians worship an invisible and undetectable flying spaghetti monster, and their religious headgear is a spaghetti colander. We were instructed to just take their picture with their colander on their head and send them on their way.

This has been a dozen years ago, so maybe things have changed, but I spent a few years managing the gun room for the local Sportsman's Warehouse, and sent back more Taurus revolvers for warranty service than everything else we carried, combined. I can only recall sending TWO autoloaders back - one for a stripped sight screw, and the other I don't recall.

For what it is, the High Point is pretty impressive actually, but with a lightly used "like new" S&W SW9VE commonly available for well under $200, shipped, often with 2-3 magazines, and double the capacity, it's a no-brainer. I saw one on Gunbroker about a month ago sell for $122.50.

What collection is complete without a Rohm or two? M57 .45 Colt M63 .32 S&W

In my defense, I thought Bad Bunny worked at the Playboy Mansion.

I was permanently banned from the S&W forum over 20 years ago. I don't even remember what for.

I've shot Tedna and Baikal single trigger shotguns for the past seven years. Several folks around here went with the double trigger Tedna, and they've been great shotguns. My single trigger Tedna has an odd preference for European primers - if I used domed US primers, the firing pins hang up and it won't open. Flat European primers, such as Cheddite or Fiocchi, work fine.

These might still be available - @The Loose Moose