Pat Riot

The Negative: Really loud motorcycles ridden by fair weather posers. The Positive: Kids outside riding bikes, scooters and skateboards and playing. Tree frogs and crickets Birds everywhere

When I was 14 me and a friend built a still. We got the instructions from the Foxfire books. We made about a gallon of alcohol from potatoes and corn. My friend’s uncle destroyed our still saying that our alcohol would cause blindness. Years later I realized our alcohol wa probably just fine. My buddy’s uncle just wanted to teach us a lesson.

That’s an old ad. ————————————————————- Apparently it was made in Spokane Washington, Portland Oregon and Billings Montana. I can’t find a year on that ad, but I did find a reference to it on Reddit that said it was from 1948.

Yes, it is. I just did some research and those cases can only be reloaded between 5 and 7 times. You can buy once fired brass for this round but you have to be careful that they didn’t clean the brass and remove the lube coating. The average price is 50₵ per round. .357 Magnum runs around 36-40₵ per round now for target ammo. For me that’s too high. If I didn’t reload my selection of ammo that I shoot would diminish pretty quick.

Same here.

Say it ain’t so! Puerto Rico will never become a state. They get tons of Federal Money and no requirements. They get to do their own thing. Canada, if it opted to join the U.S., would probably have to keep their provinces and they would likely become states. We should also make Mexico a state or group of states. Half the country is already here anyway. By adding Canada and Mexico we could be well on our way to a single controlllng government on this continent. Then at some point the UN could take over and all the conspiracy nuts head’s would explode and then we could move forward to creating the Federation and having Star ships and the Star Trek could be a reality! Oh, wait…was I typing out loud? Sorry. I gotta get something to eat. My blood sugar is low.

I remember back in the early 00’s when SASS was more fun. I was at The Cowboys monthly match in Norco, CA we had one stage that was 34 or 36 targets and could be shot with any guns you wished in any manner you wished. Some chose all pistols, some chose their regular SASS guns plus a rifle. Some chose all rifle to shoot the stage. There was a lot of lending of guns that day. I chose to shoot the entire stage with my Stoeger Coachgun. I had on my shotgun belt with 24 shells and my shotgun shell slide and I had a bunch of shells in my possibles pouch. That was one fun stage! Recall knocking some targets over and I I got a P but no misses. Man, that was fun!

@Rye Miles #13621 Grab-a-Gun has the KelTec P57 on sale right now. https://grabagun.com/kel-tec-pr57-black-5-7-x-28-4-6-barrel-20-rounds.html I think you posted this twice to tease me. C’mon…admit it, young man. You, Sir, are an enabler!

Wolf Spider patrolling outside my garage. He ain’t as big as the photo makes it look. It’s about the size of a quarter or a $1 AUS coin.

Thank you. Edit: I don’t think I have had a counterfeit bill since.

I got two $20 bills from my ATM at a Wells Fargo bank in Huntington Beach, CA back in the mid 90’s. I took my wife and daughter out to dinner at our favorite Mexican restaurant. When I paid for dinner with cash one of the bills didn’t pass the pen test. The cashier handed it back to me and I gave her a different bill. Luckily not the other counterfeit that I had in my wallet. The staff at this restaurant knew us. We went there every week for years. I knew I had a 2nd counterfeit bill because their serial numbers were the same. I went to the bank the next day. The manager verified they were counterfeit and thanked me for turning them in. She then proceeded to interrogate me as to why the cashier at the restaurant didn’t confiscate the bill. Then she told me that by law that she didn’t have to give me two replacement $20 bills. This pizzed me off. I told her the bills came from “her” ATM and that if she didn’t give me $40 to replace those bad bills that I would call the Secret Service and inform them that I suspect her for distributing counterfeit money through “her” ATMs. She gave me two $20 bills and I left. On Monday I called the Secret Service anyway and told them about my experience. I never heard any more about it.

I stopped at the metric distances. Not doing math in my head for entertainment.

After working in, building, designing and dealing with low bidders on light rail and commuter rail facilities I recommend you do not buy the type of pole where the bottom grommet of the flag is attached to a sliding weight. The weight has a loop that goes around the pole then clips to the lower grommet of the flag. The top grommet is attached to a single line. The wind tears up your flags much quicker with these set ups. With a 25’ pole you should have a concrete anchor made for the pole. You set the pole into the hole in the anchor and use sand to fill in around the pole inside the anchor hole. This is also how you level the pole to be at 90 degrees. If you make a boo-boo when leveling the pole the sand can be vacuumed out to re-level the pole. Just my 2¢

Going by memory here so I may be a little off…regarding this cartridge. Regarding that 38-55. Modern 38-55 bullets are smaller in diameter. .365” I think. The original 38-55 took .381” bullets. Case dimensions are the same. So, if you decided to buy one be advised you will be reloading ammo for it unless you wish to pay through the nose for it. Bear Creek Supply sells true to original 38-55 bullets. Also, modern reloading die sets are made for the smaller bullets. RCBS made a “Cowboy” die set for 38-55 that including seating plugs for both modern and vintage bullet sizes. The .38-55 is a very cool cartridge. Very accurate and a pleasure to shoot.

Definitely some cool stuff. Thank you, Rip.