Singin' Sue 71615
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Of course ours don't normally come with your price tags.
Both our littles were under $10k,used...
And the big ones were under $20k used!
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4 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:
Nice to hear from you, the ones that have those 'rooms' that extend out must be amazing Sue. Hope you guys are well and enjoying life.
They are. We could live in it for a time if the need arose!
This was the space in the 5th.
A young couple now live in it at their grandparents home!
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Bear, many an Aussie as well as Kiwi have stayed in our campsite for gatherings around ours.
We have always had 2...once we had 2 AND a truck camper (slides in the bed)
Many SASS members have used one or another of ours for EOT.
Now, we are older, and just have one!!!
Some pics of our 5th, our little guy and our now motorcoach!
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I love it!
Cleans with Windex
Don't have to clean it 'as soon as possible'
Less corosive than Holy/777/Pyrodex
Not as 'hot' loads
Smokes great
Is forgiving when loading
In 12g, you have no real recoil
(Actually, in any gun)
Give it a try.
In our cases, we load 3/4 case/ base of the bullett as it sets
For sg, around 38gr...wich some think is too much.
Video is in AZ...dry
When in humidity, triple the smoke!
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19 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:
For the pards who burn wood in Winter for home heating, do you burn softwood or hardwood?
Do you cut and split your own or buy it in?
We burn all of it!
If we are burning a bunch of pine, we burn some paper 'stuff' ...gets rid of the paper/trash and cleans the icky sticky the pine leaves. I also use Kwik Shot at least once a month.
We bought wood last year...but we just dropped 5, 100' pine...so we will be splitting and stacking for a bit!!!
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Give him a holler!
He's been good and lookin' sharp.
We've had late spring snows and cold weather in his and our woods.
But yup, he pops up pretty often!
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5 hours ago, Waxahachie Kid #17017 L said:
Always great to see my ole Saddle Pal, Singin' Sue.
Hey Waxa!!!
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1 hour ago, Blackwater 53393 said:
In October we’ll have been here forty-five years. It’s a 1,200 sq. ft. house on just under and acre and three quarters, in a cul de sac with 15 other houses.
We were the first and one of only two of the original owners. When the neighborhood was filled up, there were 32 kids under the age of six and by that time, Hatfield was two years old.
Eight years ago, I built my shop next to the house. It’s 2,400 sq. ft. and fifteen feet to the rafters. It was my goal when we moved here to be far enough from town to be away from the rush and close enough to be abe to readily access health and business needs in a matter of minutes. That still seems to be the case, even though Nashville has become a destination place for refugees from bigger cities and those who want to move “to town”!
We thought of moving to Wyoming fifteen or more years ago, but the grandsons are in school here. The oldest is apprenticing as a steam fitter and the younger one is a junior in high school, studying to be an actor. We’re their support team along with Hatfield, who now lives with us and works out of my shop.
I reckon we’ll just stay right here! It took a while to get this place like I wanted it and it’d take three times as much to pick up and move somewhere else and have what we have.
Youth sports, the band, my biker friends, seven dogs under sod in the back yard, and all those grown men and women who still call me coach and who point out Schoolmarm as “the teacher that rides the Harley” are memories that reach out and grab us every day or two!
Love it!
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34 minutes ago, DeaconKC said:
That's it!!!
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1 hour ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:
Gorgeous photos!
Proud of you, dear heart!Retirement is ... different ... but I'm sure you'll get used to it!
I haven't worked outside the home for 15 years!! Brian is coming into it very nicely!!
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There will be a small cabin built this year, across the road...but that is the last space in our little neighborhood.
Our NM house now is owned by our first son in law, and he has our grands, their mom and new husband living there too! 5 bedroom, 3 bath on an acre.
The surrounding acerage is being built on quickly...so I hear ya. Still better than the city hustle.
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Remember that song?
How about the 'feels'?
As a child, our childhood home seemed large. This old cabin did too!
Our childhood home was a 3 bedroom, 2 bath home for the 5 of us.
The front and back yard was more than enough room to play.
The kitchen was small, yet the dinner table wss in the center.
The washing machine was in one corner.
The first dishwasher was portable, and sat at the end of the cabinet.
The cabin, with its high, pitched roof and enormous fireplace seemed HUGE.
Us kids slept in the loft.
Well, careing for daddy in his last few days, in his home that he built and we lived in our entire childhood, was a blessing. The 'feels' were overwhelming. I am blessed I had those days in 2019.
Now, living in this under 900 sq ft home...the 'feels' are wonderfull.
It has and still is makeing me decide what is important and what can go.
Now, the kids think we are changing the place...and we are! Rearranging things to fit us as we are now in our forever home.
I wonder how many of us grew up in modest means...and feel blessed?
I am in awe of some of the beautiful, magnificent homes we have been invited to...but, am always grateful for the home(s) my daddy provided...as well as the home Shanley provided for our family.
If ya get in a rut, put on This Old House...and get back the 'feels'🤗
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15 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
Singin’ Sue, it’s nice to see you posting in the Saloon again.
I’m so glad to hear you are both retired now and that things with your cabin sound like you got it all worked out.
Congratulations!
Thanks Pat.
Still lots to do to get this summer place turned into full on winter livin'.
I promise to let Shanley go fishin' when he wants!🤪
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57 minutes ago, Billy Boots, # 20282 LTG-Regulator said:
Creeker,
Good tread and comments, as your posts usually are.
Something I have learned in my travels as related to "P traps" is that a stage that may at first look rather challenging to me may be simply one that is not shot often in my regular matches. However, it might be quiet common in another area so simple to another shooter. A P trap, not at all, just one that is more of a challenge to me. As a veteran competitor, I get thru it and certainly remember it and note to perhaps practice it and/or suggest it to stage writers I know in my area. Yes, there was a coupe at EOT that I had not shot in some time. One I even practiced a little and still got a P. oops!
(Side note : I found it interesting that some scenerio names and their sequence did not match that as I normally shoot. No problem just shoot the sequence as per the good stage notes and call it what I want. )
This year I felt the "huff-huff" to a few stages travel from A to B/C. Perhaps it is that I am getting older, 79, and just had back surgery in December. Did that make this EOT harder? You bet. But I doubt that distance was no further than distances in stages I have engaged in the previous 24 EOT attended.
For me this years EOT was a bet difficult but still a very well run match that suffered some difficult rotations due to weather. My posse, 7, started 1st day, 1st rotation at knock-down stage so we got full benefit of a tough day with disaster at stage 8 and complete re-writre of stage 7 before we sent first shooter to line. It could have been worse, wind with rain, hail, sleet, and/or snow. Sound familiar?
A big "GOOD JOB!" goes to staff who cleaned up messes made and still kept things running the best they could. I think it safe to say there has been times of much latter finishes of 3rd rotation.
Surveys should possibly change things a tad for 2026 EOT but I doubt much "correction" will be needed.
BB
I was happy to see you there BB!! You rock, and You know you are loved!
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27 minutes ago, Crisco said:
I would be surprised to hear anyone that actually shot it complaining that EOT this year was a tough “match”. The wind was ugly at some point almost every day, but there was not a difficult shot or sequence in the entire match. It was a good mix of distances and sequences.
Well done, Crisco!
131 in the match and a fellow 'smoker' too!!!
Some stages that wind was with us...but most was not🤪
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20 minutes ago, Tarheel Doc said:
I would attend any match written by Deuce Steven’s and Lassiter. Indiana State, Guns of August, and Gunsmoke are really fun to attend and are all straightforward and sufficiently challenging. Based on what I heard about EOT this year I would not consider attending.
Hmmmm....I am not very keen on making decisions on hear say.
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16 hours ago, Sagebrush Burns, SASS # 14226 said:
You guys are the backbone of EOT!
Awww...well now, you aren't just puddin' yourselves!
Hope you got home to snow too!
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20 minutes ago, Singin' Sue 71615 said:
No appologies needed, Creeker.
I was just verifyng that I used the phrase ' benifiting a championship match'
Was nice meeting you in Pampa last year!
Befitting...not benefiting
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9 minutes ago, Toranado, SASS # 58447 said:
I also enjoy spending time with friends and visiting with others from around the country. That is the great part of this sport that no matter how the shoot is, it makes it fun.
But we are also here to compete in a shooting event as the primary reason for our attendance, and if that is not enjoyable, it tends to lessen the enjoyment of the whole match IMO. The match entry costs are going up and up and we are getting less and less, and generates higher expectation, all which contribute to some's unhappiness also.
I had a different match than you. More misses than I've had EOT/WR than I can remember. (After shooting F&I and RRup clean) I also did shoot the Thursday morning session in 50-80mph winds on stages 1-4 which were I think the smallest are farthest targets, which made it extremely difficult.
The struggles in that high wind DID impact the match, no doubt.
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13 minutes ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:
I did not shoot at EoT.
The phrase referenced has been used for many many years (and pertaining to many other shoots) prior to this year's EoT.
@Singin' Sue 71615 the use of the term was not intended to slight or insult you. My apologies.
I'm just curious why criticism of a match (number of procedurals, percentage of clean shooters, fun) is waved away by the phrase "Championship match" as if that explains/ justifies further targets or less straightforward stages.
Having been a match director for a number of years - I wrote straight forward matches designed to encourage successful engagement and speed from every level of shooter.
I never wrote a match with the intention of slowing anyone.
I always believed (that regardless of match type) the same shooters were going to end up at the top of the score sheet - but the shooters that didn't buckle could feel successful as well.
I never felt that the winners were less elevated because the mid pack shooters were less challenged.
No appologies needed, Creeker.
I was just verifyng that I used the phrase ' benifiting a championship match'
Was nice meeting you in Pampa last year!
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For Toranado...
You came in 65th (?)
I came in 589th...
So I must have enjoyed the match 520 times MORE than you!☺️
I had the same match that I normally do...misses, and average times ( for the majority) makeing new friends, and having fun.
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Who here hunts with BP cartridge?
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Shanley took the boys out dove hunting...used his sXs and bp shells.
The boys thought it funny...the other dove hunters, not so much😝