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    Honey every day?

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    I try to keep local raw honey around all the time.  I don’t suffer from seasonal allergies and never have, perhaps because of that.

     

    I love sourwood honey! It’s one of my favorites and I try to find the really dark stuff.

     

    Forty Rod sent me a jar of mesquite honey and it has a great, strong flavor that goes really well on biscuits straight out of the oven with butter. It’s also great on a peanut butter sandwich!!

     

    I also use honey in many of my marinades! A dab in the mix really adds to the flavor of meats that have a good sear on them!!


    EDIT: I prefer Peter Pan peanut butter. It’s smoother and a little less salty than Jif!  
     

     

     

    IT’S TIME TO START THE SMACK TALK ABOUT BLACK GOLD!!

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    We got here yesterday afternoon!! The range looks great! Folks are starting to wander in. Already seeing some familiar faces and some new ones too!

     

    Uncle Ethan!! I understand that you have something for me!!  I’m sitting here anticipating your and its arrival! 
     

    If I’m not at the registration desk, I’ll be in room #1 in the Cathouse!!

     

    Daddy Boots was kicking butts last night at the poker table!!

     

    Y’all C’MON!!

    Ghoul Pool Numbers Are In

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    On 7/14/2025 at 10:18 AM, Sedalia Dave said:

    I'm still trying to understand why the feds don't prosecute those in violation of federal firearms laws. Given the nature of the crimes those cases would be a slam dunk for even the most incompetent prosecutor.


    The answer is simple!! At least up until now, the agencies that would normally be tasked with prosecuting these violations have been weaponized to attack and harass honest law abiding citizens!!

     

    It is to be devoutly hoped that, the new administration having directed the DOJ to review and reassess the workings of the BATFE and other agencies, they will return those agencies to doing what they were intended to do!!

     

    BATFE, DOJ, and the FBI and US Martial’s Service should be all over situations like the one in Chicannistant!!

     

    DOJ could and should be taking the state and local Attorneys General to task for shirking their responsibilities!!

     

     

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    GOFWG

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    OH THE PAIN!!!  Doc!! You said that W word!!

     

    I made the trip to Ponderosa Pines this morning without incident.  I’m NOT gonna be doing ANY labor this week!!  I’ll help with registration here at the range, I’ll probably play some poker, I’m debating whether I will or can try to shoot the match, (doubtful) and I’m gonna just kick back and have me a good time!!

     

    It’s been a year since I got to just get out and enjoy myself with a bunch of my shootin’ friends and I ain’t gonna put it off no longer!!

     

    Y’all ‘ll hafta pardon me if I ain’t quite as GRUMPY for the next few days!!

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    GOFWG

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    Doc! So glad to hear that he’s recovering well!! 
     

    I’m making the final preparations for the trip to Black Gold this morning. We’ll be leaving in a couple of hours and I’ll be mostly incommunicado for the better part of the week. The phone reception at the range is pretty spotty and I’m hoping that I will be busy, but I’ll check in when I can.

     

    Y’all have a good, safe week and I’ll try to get some reports out to ya’s!!

     

    While I’m gone, GET OFF THE LAWN!!

     

    GRUMP ON!!!!

     

     

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    Another "why not" question

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    Generally, the stiffest hats are the best felt.  It’s felted tighter and usually has a finer grade of fur.  That allows the felter to press the hat body tighter and actually makes it more waterproof and it holds shape and size better,as well as producing a lighter weight hat.

     

    HOWSOMEVER!! It DOES take more effort to reshape a top quality hat.  I wear a 7 7/8 hat in most instances. Having once made a living as a professional hatter, I learned a lot, but I’m by no means an expert!  YES!! You DO need a good source for steam!!  It also requires more time and patience because the hat body naturally tries to hold the shape it was previously given.

     

    An alternative to simple steaming a hat body is to soak it thoroughly and dry it to the new shape or size desired.  It’s far more difficult and time consuming, but in the absence of a good steamer, it will get the job done.  In the old days before modern steamers, this method was used along with “irons” of different shapes and designs.  A leftover from that era is the “curling shackle”, used to put the “roll” or “pencil roll” in the hat brim.  Today, they’re used in conjunction with the steamer to create that shape. When they were originally employed, the hat brim was soaked and the tool was heated and applied to curl and dry the brim into the desired shape.

     

    A thin, stiff hat body is often the sign of quality.  I’ll qualify that statement with the following exception. Felt hats CAN be chemically stiffened. I used a mixture of shellac and denatured alcohol to stiffen older worn hat brims and, on occasion, even on the crown of an older hat that had begun to fail to hold its shape.  I’m reasonably certain that some of the lower priced or lower quality products offered these days have been chemically treated to better hold their shape and size. Nothing wrong with it. It’s just their business in a time when the price of a high quality product is too expensive for the average buyer!

     

    For those who have difficulty with the size vs shape of a hat crown, (where the shape of your head isn’t compatible with that of your hat, despite the hat being the correct size) I recommend you buy a “hat jack”. It’s a necessity for many hats and the people who wear them.  I have a couple of hats that I keep on a hat jack when I’m not wearing them, mostly because unless you wear most hats constantly, they attempt to return to whatever shape they originally had. The more you wear an individual hat the better it fits and the longer it retains that fit. Sweat bands also shrink naturally, so the hat jack also prevents that shrinkage.
     

    To compensate for various changes or shrinkage, I get my hat stretched and shaped to fit my head comfortably. Then I sand or file the hat jack to fit that shape and just keep a little tension on the hat’s sweatband when I’m not wearing it!  The next time I choose to wear it, it’ll fit perfectly.

     

    A top quality, 100% beaver felt hats, given even minimal care, can easily last a hundred years.  I’ve worked on a couple of them that had had the sweat band replaced several times due to age and wear. The hat body was still perfectly viable and, when cleaned and blocked, looked and felt like it was new!  I used to joke that a pure beaver hat would last forever so long as you didn’t cut it up, grind on it, or burn it!

     

    Lesser quality hat bodies may not last as long, but proper care can extend the life of your hat greatly.

     

     

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    Pre-Trial Felony Release fails

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    Chief Judge Timothy Evans is a certifiable mental deficient if he believes the garbage that comes out of his own mouth!!

     

    That bastard should be jailed and tried for aiding and abetting every murder and attempted murder and any other crimes committed, with a gun or otherwise, by any criminal that is given pre trial release under his leadership!!

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    GOFWG

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    2 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

    Are you still going to need special orthotics?


    Hopefully, just special insoles.  I have a couple of orthotics that I can use for the foot drop if I need them. One fits over the shoe, (it can be adapted to almost any shoe) and another that just wraps around my leg above the ankle and hooks to a ring that’s laced into my shoe laces. I went for part of the day, yesterday, with just the boot. We tried the ankle wrap later in the day and it didn’t seem to make a lot of difference.

     

    I STILL have to learn to walk again!  It’s a journey that I have taken several times in the last few years.

     

    The surgeon has said that I may need an ankle brace, but from what I can tell with yesterday’s experiment, that might not be necessary.

     

    I start PT the 25th of this month and I go back to see the surgeon Aug. 11th.  We’ll see…

     

     

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    Deterrent: Death Penalty

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    With an average cost of $65,000.00 nationwide to house a prisoner and a 1.2 million person prison population in the USA., that amounts to roughly an 80 billion dollars a year tax burden!

     

    Housing a prisoner for thirty years amounts to an average of two million dollars cost.

     

    If that prisoner is held in Massachusetts, it’ll cost over $300,000.00 a year while the state of Arkansas only spends around $25,000.00 per inmate.

     

     But $80 billion a year over thirty years is $2.4 trillion dollars!!

     

    None of this takes into account what is spent on the apprehension, processing, and prosecution of the criminal or the costs of repairing the damage done by those criminals.

     

    Just a quick summary of the cost of crime…

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    Deterrent: Death Penalty

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    Kidnapping can also get you the death penalty in some cases!

     

    What does it cost to house a single criminal sentenced to life imprisonment for forty years?? Why shouldn’t/couldn’t the capital punishment standards be adjusted to further deter capital crimes??

     

    Add to that the reinstitution of “hard labor” to sentencing of repeat and aggravated crimes!!  There’s nothing cruel or inhumane about making a convicted criminal earn his/her keep?? They receive food and shelter, free healthcare, and education!!  This is all at the expense of citizens who respect and obey the law!!  There are a number of services that can and should be obtained from those who don’t, as reparations for their criminal behavior!!

     

    There are any number of other subtle changes that can and should be made to the penal system, reversing the unsuccessful practices we’ve witnessed over the last half century. They’ve failed to produce the results we were promised and have done NOTHING but increse recidivism and disregard for potential consequences!

     

    Perhaps it’s time to take a step forward into the past!!

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    Canada: AR-15 Buybacks

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    Given that several provincial governments and the leaders of those provinces have already made it clear that they will not support or participate in this governmental overreach, their constituents are resisting and the operation is becoming a logistical and economic nightmare!!

     

    BANKRUPT THE BUREAUCRACY and it will cave in on itself!!!

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    Won't help ICE. But ATF?

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    States, including California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Massachusetts would do so without ATF, and have more than once!!  Their “red flag” laws are nothing more than confiscatory bypasses of citizens rights!!  If they are given the opportunity to confiscate under the auspices of a federal bureaucracy, THEY WILL LEAP AT THE CHANCE!!

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