Pat Riot

I love running Mobil 1 grease on my Garand and SFAR. Works like a champ and pretty much stays put.

Maybe we’ll continue to rent. I see less and less benefit to buying a house. Here’s an interesting article on rising insurance rates. https://www.npr.org/2024/03/03/1233963377/auto-home-insurance-premiums-costs-natural-disasters-inflation

That is a cool tool, Yul

Well, Rye, I am getting my Conception Day Present after all. My dealer texted me and he found and ordered my Sig Sauer P226 Mk 25. I will probably get it Thursday or Friday. Friday is my Conception day.

I’m pretty sure we have a mating pair of Northern Flickers near our house. I have seen the female and the male. No photos…Yet.

Is this an AI image? I was trying to figure out that gun and wondering about that cat. I did not watch the videos.

The USPS closed the local post office here. I truly hope they fired the staff. The one guy that was always at the counter when I went there was a lazy POS with a s****y attitude. The delivery folks here are great. They go above and beyond.

I was playing peek-a-boo with this dove yesterday.

Huh? Never mind.

Awe…I thought we were going to see an oil well blowout or something more explosive.

I somehow missed this. That is a great looking Triumph. The Triumph Scrambler was on my short list when I bought my Kawasaki Versys in 2017. The Triumph lost because I rented a Bonneville T100 and I liked it but my butt was numb within an hour. Then I got this idea I would like an “Adventure Bike” so I bought the Versys. The Versys is no Adventure Bike. It’s a “Sport touring” bike. I still love my Versys, but my left hip doesn’t. The seat is 35 inches / 89cm high. Sometimes getting on the bike is a bit difficult. Recently I have been thinking about a new bike. The Triumph is back on my list. How many Km does it have on it? I love the lines of the Thruxton. I am envious.

Threads like these are like going to a movie then the power goes out 15 minutes before the end of the movie. Two years later the movie is released on Netflix or Prime and you find that you really don’t care how it ended, but you watch anyway because you’re bored and find the ending sucked anyway.

I read my post to my wife. She laughed, then began talking about growing vegetables in laundry baskets. I think that means she agrees.

I tried to get lightning bolt photos last night during a storm. I didn’t get any but these photos are of a blast of lightning that rendered my eyesight inoperable for a little while. It was an impressive flash. I took about 1200 photos last night. I use “burst” mode on my iPhone. Had lots of deleting to do. Out of all the photos I kept those 4 above and this one. It was a shot of far off lightning in the clouds. I just like the way it looks.

I am going to tell my wife about this “New Personal Holiday” that requires a gift allowance equal to the price of a gun. I think she’ll believe me especially after I tell her that the concept came from the SASS Wire. Don’t worry Rye, I won’t throw you under there bus. As luck would have it my “Conception Day” will be this Friday. My Birthday is Jan. 25th, so April 25th is the 9 month mark. I am keeping it simple for greed purposes, I mean, to make it easier on loved ones to figure the 9 month calculation. You see, I’m a giver. Anything I can do to make it easier for people to buy me things is, well, just plain considerate, in my humble, but lovable opinion.

A couple of years back grandson asked me what I thought of this “assassin game”, only he called it something else. I just can’t remember what. He said the kids at high school were painting their Airsoft guns black. Their games were played out in public places. First, I asked him if he played. He said that he didn’t. I asked “Why not?” He said “Because I wouldn’t want to be shot for real by a cop or someone that thinks I have a real gun.” (Smart kid) Apparently at another high school in that city went into full lock down over some kids playing the game at school. No one was hurt, but it brought the game into the local spotlight.

Forty do you think someone may have put the dog in your yard knowing you would take care of it? Instead of leaving it on the street somewhere they figured you would be good to it?

See?

I can see it now (queue wavy lines) A bunch of cowboys decide to have an impromptu shooting match on a Sunday afternoon at the ranch. Seth pulls out his brand new pistols and fires at a tin can. The noise makes all the other cowboys jump. All of a sudden everyone is concerned Seth blew up holid gun and he just smiles and says “Boys, this is the all new three five seven Magnum! It’s the most powerful handgun in the world. It’ll blow a man’s head clean off…” ”Well it ain’t no .45!” ”Is that your sister’s gun? No real man would shoot anything less than a .44!” ”Hey Billy, show Seth a real gun would ya. Show him that Colt Single Action you got that fires gawd’s own .45 Colt round!” ”Hey Seth, the ranch boss will skin you alive if you don’t get a .45. He wants MEN with guns, not boys with newfangled toys…” Laughter abounds Moral of the story - no matter what anyone comes up with there’s always a bunch of yahoos that think .45s are better than anything else. Just watch….3….2….1….

Oh yeah. That’s not windy. It was so windy in the North Atlantic we turned off our nuclear engines and let the wind against the super structure take us right to Europe. We beat the SST there by an hour.

What really ticks me off in today’s society is there are so many scammers doing so many different scams and the so-called authorities do not do crap about it. Nothing! If they are, they sure aren’t letting anybody know and it sure ain’t putting a dent in the scammer culture. I’d like to put some dents in the scammer culture…not very big ones, but very fast ones…

Really? That’s cool!

Any holes in the ground near your fence? The dog could have burrowed in. Image from: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3201814/Surfboard-maker-built-Great-Escape-tunnel.html

Thanks Dave. I have been asked what that metal disc was for on some Mausers. I never knew, until today.

As long as a rattler isn’t on my turf I am okay with them. Only snake I would go out of my way to “Widderize” is a Water Moccasin. Generally, I leave snakes alone. I tried that. No one else in my family would. It tasted pretty good, if I remember correctly. Kind of oily, but that may be because of the oil in the can. I also had rattlesnake at a restaurant in Pittsburgh, of all places. It was grilled. It tasted pretty darn good. I am pretty sure it was a “Special” meal of the day. I do recall the waiter making a fuss over me “This little kid will try it but grown men shudder at the thought of eating rattlesnake.” Which ticked me off - who are you calling “little kid”? The owner and the chef came out to see what I thought and how I liked it. I felt like some kind of Big Wig in my 8 year old brain. I do recall the owner making apologies that the rattlesnake meat had been frozen.