Grouchy Greg, SASS#71981

The Air Force served great SOS. So did the D.C. Department of Corrections where I worked for 27 years + after the AF. Our prison mess stewards were nearly all retired military mess sergeants who used the military master menus, and they taught the inmate cooks how to make it just like they did. It was ALL good, no matter which institution served it.

"A tattoo ain't nuthin' but another set of fingerprints that makes it easier for the po-lice to grab you up, or for your family to identify your corpse!" (Dale "Popeye" Sutherland)

The best thing to do when/if this present primer crunch eases up is to buy all you can, when you can. The way the political winds are blowing lately, you'd be a fool not to. I'm glad I stocked up with everything I could after the last Great Panic.

I considered using one of those carts when I first started shooting CAS in late '06, but decided instead to build one using materials I had on hand, except for the 16 inch diameter wheels I got on Ebay. Large diameter wheels make pushing/pulling yer cart over gravel parking lots, range roads and such a lot easier.

For many years I drove stick shift cars, and got real adept at driving, shifting gears, shifting coffee cups back and forth from right hand to left hand, and sometimes while eating a sandwich. Now I've got cup holders up the wazoo. My Ford F150 Crew Cab truck has 8 of them!

The owner of an indoor range the next county north of here uses a cement mixer and bird gravel to polish his brass.

To me, the greatest feature to ever hit the auto industry is: (drum roll goes here.......................................................) CUP HOLDERS!

I've got a ladies' flintlock single shot 'muff pistol' that a friend of Dad's found in the wall of an old Revolutionary War vintage house he bought and renovated. It and a mens' flintlock single shot boot pistol were found wrapped in rags in the same hole. He gave the muff pistol to Dad, and kept the other one for himself. Dad passed his along to me a couple of years before he died. I've still got it, and plan to mount it in a shadow box and hang it on the wall.

I mowed grass for folks when I was a kid, also starting at age 12, and mowed grass all the way through high school. I started out generally in March, and finished up in October. I had plenty of steady customers, and did better at that than the ones who got up at O-Dark-30 to throw papers, or the ones who bagged groceries after school.

My Granddad would say "Boy, do you want a workin' knife to cut stuff with, or do you want a purty knife to look at?" I've always gone for the workin' knives.

When the actions start feeling 'gummy' is when I know it's time for a tear-down and a clean-up.

We've had three late-night indoor floods in the last 20 years, due to the failure of the cheap Chinese plumbing fixtures and fittings they sell these days. Now if we are going to be gone for more than a day, we shut the water off completely.

I know the Air Force would have ceased to function without coffee. At 72, I still can't face the day without at least 2 cups to get my heart jump-started.

My cell phone stays in the truck, but I check it periodically between stages.

I've been using 3M 8247 R95 respirators for just about everything. You can get them in most hardware stores or Home Depot or Lowes. For handling lead, I use Nitrile disposable gloves that I get at Harbor Freight, 100 to a box. I get "D-Lead" lead removal soap from Dillonprecision.com.