Warden Callaway
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I hope these people never vote.
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I have a CZ hammered coach gun and had a TTN for a while and sold it to a new shooter. It was heaver than the CZ. The safety on my CZ was never a problem as it didn't automatically reset to safe. Push it off and done.
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This box turtle has been under foot around our buildings for at least 20 years. He(or she) is unique with a hole in its shell in lower left. It would come out in our sawmill and munch up night crawlers that would come out of the rich soil of the floor. Somehow it has survived thousands of trucks and other traffic on our farm. Although I've not tried to handle it, it is comfortable with me being close. It doesn't pull in or try to run away.
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Just a remembrance, when I was a young man, the country Sheriff's department was on the ground floor of the court house and had its own entrance. You step in and there was the sheriff's desk and the sheriff. Same guy was sheriff for many years. He later told me he had two full-time deputies and five auxiliary deputies. The auxiliary deputies generally worked public events like ball games and race tracks. Their radios didn't work very far out of town so patrolling out in the county you were on your own.
Now the Sheriff's department has grown to immense proportions. Last I recall 300 jail cells. You get buzzed in through two secure doors to a lobby. A deputy behind bullet proof glass comes to ask your business. My first comment, "I hope you feel safe in there.". No comment.
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I had a bad Wally-World experience this morning. I rarely go in but I wanted some SanDisk cards for my trail cams. I went to the the furthest back corner to sporting goods. There they were in locked display case. Nobody around. They did have a button to push to get service. No button. I looked 6 aisles this way and 6 aisles the other way and nobody. I could see a group of "associates" stocking stuff about a 100 yards away. I tried to get their attention. After a bit, I was doing jumping jacks waving my arms. A woman noticed me and I hollered HELP! She came but didn't have the keys but would get something. Seemed longer than it should have been and old guy showed up and I got the SD cards.
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I have a pair of Lightnings with duel cylinders in 32 H&R and 32WCF. I've never put the 32WCF in them so I'm no help.
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I converted my 91 Marlin to 32 S&W for easier availability of components. I shot it in one match. It worked but no advantage. It had to be worked very deliberately.
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I have a Colt ACE converscon kit. It's a little hard to keep running because rhe chamber is a piston that drives the action. It's better not to use wax coated bullets. I haven't shot it in years.
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For years we've bought electronic stuff; phones, tablets, tvs,etc from Best Buy. They had a Samsung tech support guy that was very knowledgeable. Get a new phone of tablet and they would transfer everything from your old device and help you through any problems. The know-it-all was phased out. Next couple of things we got we were not as happy. "Here's your box." Litte more than a year ago my old PC crapped out. We went to Best Buy and bought an HP complete setup. Last week the 27" monitor crapped out. I'm sure out of warranty. Ended going to Wally-World and seeing what they had. Tried to ask an "associate" but he just mumbled short answers. Picked one. Two brands, 2 LG and 3 Samsung. All $139.00. Picked the Samsung. Works.
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My good buddy Bill Fuchs of Spring Creek Armory in Ten Sleep Wyoming has restored three Colts for me and made repairs on several hammers as well as color cased about a half dozen other hammers for me. This time I had him make a set of figured walnut grips for my old Frontier Six Shooter made in 1881. The poor old gun had been rebuilt sometime after 1900 because most small parts are newer vintage. Even the pattern marks and rampant Colt stamp is not right. Not a good collector. But it locks up well and shoots well.
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My watching for groundhowgs post is atop an Indian Mound. I collected up three sandstone slabs big dinner table size and one foot thick and arranged them up like stairs. Lawn chair on top. Setting there and black snake slowly came out from under the top rock . We looked at each other for a bit then it circled around behind me and off the other side of the mound.
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Some 10 years ago I was in Westlake hardware looking for some copper wool. Finally ask. "Oh, we keep it under the cash register. Dope heads keep stealing it and tire pressure gauges to make crack pipes."
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Son came down this spring and got a tom with the Remington Whitmore Lifter I gave to him. 10 gauge 1-5/8 #6.
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I've taken several deer with my "buffalo" rifles in 45-70 and one in 50-70. One season I was slipping along a ridge and paused behind a white oak tree where I had a good view of the draw below me. Wasn't long beforerd of 6 or 8 deer came by in single file, probably about 50 yards away. I picked my victom and shot. She flinched like bit by a horse fly. All the deer stopped and turned in all directions looking for where the sound came from. Then turned around and slowly headed back from where they came. I waited a bit. There was a crust of new snow on the ground and tracking was easy. The doe was dead about 50 yards from where I ambushed her. Another season, I went out after lunch and slipped through the woods. There was an old tree top with a limb just the right hight to make a good seat. I sat on it and it broke with me. I fell backwards over the limb an main trunk of the top. Embarrassed, I grumbled as I got up on my knees. There about 30 yards away were a doe and two fawns looking it me. I suspect they had been bedded down there as I walked past. I picked the nearest one and plugged it with my 1869 Springfield in 50-70. I could see the bullet hit like a bowling ball. It only went a few steps.
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Came to like 44WCF. Thinking I've got 3 rifles and 6 handguns in that caliber. Several more in 38WCF.
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I used 1cc in 38 and 32WCF. 1.3cc in 44WCF, 38WCF and C45S. In 44WCF and 38WCF, I would make a filler wad with 1/3 U-haul packing peanut. Still makes a lot of smoke. Just doesn't smell like black powder. No lube on bullets.
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There is two things I dislike about Wally-World is; one, you can never find things, here one day, moved the next. The online search will give you the isle and number - if they have it. The online search brings up 59 choices but most are not stocked. Two, the prices online are their price online only. Store price is most often different.
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But it's a free freak show!
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Saturday night at the movies - westerns on YouTube
in SASS Wire Saloon
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