Sedalia Dave

Any first hand feedback on the new Winchester/Miroku 22?

Any chance you have the drawings laying around? Would be nice if we could get them to a few of the current mold makers so that these excellent designs don't go the way of the Dodo Bird.

First thing to look at is will it pay for it's self. Skip the percentages of savings they are meaning less. Look at real dollars. My typical summer time gas usage is about $5.00. Would take forever for one to pay for itself. I researched putting them under the sinks to reduce the time it takes to get hot water. The problem is most of them require more amperage than is typically available in either location. A 1500 watt heater is pulling 15 amps. Means that it will have to be on a dedicated circuit or it'll blow the breaker when its on and you plug in anything else that pulls much current. A whole house unit requires a lot of power. At a minimum you'll need 200 amp service for an electric unit. Depending on how many other large electric appliances you have (Stove/Oven, AC, baseboard heat, etc) You may need to upgrade to 400 amp service. For gas units you may need to have a higher capacity meter or bigger lines installed for it to work. So be sure to weigh the initial expense vs the time to pay it back.

I still have friends in the China Lake area. They are paying a stupid water surcharge because the valley doesn't have an alternative plan for water beside pumping it out of the ground. They live in the desert for crying out loud. There is only one source of water unless they blow up the pipeline Mulholland built when he stole their only other source of water in the 30's

The Texas Quote of the Day was written by old-time trail cowboy Teddy Blue Abbott: Teddy Blue Abbott at the age of 18 "If a storm came along and the cattle started running -- you'd hear that low, rumbling noise along the ground and the men on herd wouldn't need to come in and tell you, you'd know -- then you'd jump for your horse and get out there in the lead, trying to head them and get them into a mill before they scattered to hell-and-gone [The cowboys would attempt to make the cattle run in an ever-tightening circle until they could no longer move.] It was riding at a dead run in the dark, with cut banks and prairie dog holes all around you in a shallow grave... One night it come up an awful storm. It took all four of us to hold the cattle and we didn't hold them, and when morning come there was one man missing. We went back to look for him, and we found him among the prairie dog holes, beside his horse. The horse's ribs was scraped bare of hide, and all the rest of the horse and man was mashed into the ground as flat as a pancake. The only thing you could recognize was the handle of his six-shooter. We tried to think the lightning hit him, and that was what we wrote his folks in Henrietta, Texas, but we couldn't really believe it ourselves. I'm afraid it wasn't the lightning. I'm afraid his horse stepped into one of them holes and they both went down before the stampede. The awful part of it was that we had milled them cattle over him all night, not knowing he was there. That was what we couldn't get out of our minds. And after that, orders were given to sing when you were running with a stampede so the others would know where you were as long as they heard you singing, and if they didn't hear you they would figure something happened. After awhile, this grew to be a custom on the range, but you know, this was still a new business in the seventies and we was learning all the time." ------- Teddy Blue Abbott, "We Pointed Them North, Recollections of an Old Cowpuncher," 1939

Meet Rusty... He's a Springer Spaniel.

You both are in my thoughts and prayers.

Accurate Molds will make you what you want. They can customize the diameter to suit your alloy and any bullet design can be customized to have either a plain or bevel base. Check out page 16 of their online catalog

Just wait... To pay for all those solar panels, Emperor Newsom will add an income based surcharge to everyone's electric bill AND he'll add a matching surcharge to everyone's water bill. Got to keep everything equitable don't cha know.

The first DC-3 flew on December 17, 1935, the 32nd anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight. The oldest one still flying, the Flagship Detroit, became a flagship when was delivered to American Airlines 15 months later, beginning a decade of service with the airline. It was delivered just over 87 years ago on March 2nd 1937 Flagship Detroit-The Oldest Flying DC-3