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“Here, hold my beer!”

Pietta and Uberti wood usually is, just covered with a dark brown spray on top coat.

I figured you might have been routed to SubTropolis in Kansas City!! It’s a huge underground business district with roads, docks, and a truck terminal, all 150 feet underground! “INSIDE THE WORLD’S LARGEST UNDERGROUND BUSINESS COMPLEX IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Created from an abandoned limestone mine, the world’s largest underground business complex, SubTropolis, was developed by the Hunt Midwest in the 1960s with Ford, Russel Stover, and Pillsbury as its first clients. Due to its underground location, SubTropolis is highly energy-efficient. The natural insulation provided by the limestone and the stable underground environment significantly reduces heating and cooling costs. With more than 55 companies and 2,000 employees, SubTropolis businesses span across industries, from animal health and food manufacturing to distribution, automotive, and pharmaceutical. The Kansas City facility includes 16-foot-high ceilings and 40-foot-wide corridors, allowing easy movement for trucks and heavy machinery. It has its own network of roads, loading docks, and utilities, making it a fully functional industrial complex.”

Weird twist to this story. A few years ago I joined the Arizona Rangers Facebook page. I noticed a guy on there whose name was Robert Miles and said his dad was J.T. Rye Miles! Wow, I commented to him that I was using his dad’s name as an alias for SASS. He knew nothing about our group and said he wasn’t happy that I was using his dad’s name for a shooting group! I was actually going to change it but i didn’t. I’ve had this alias for almost 20 years. I meant to honor his dad not make fun of him. He was 95 at the time and that was about 10 years ago. 🙄

What’s your favorite start line(s) for hot weather? Mine is: ”It’s hotter than a boot full of red ants!”

I like cold with snow. I like low humidity heat. I hate cold and windy. I hate hot and humid. Ya see, my heavy leather shotgun chaps work best under the weather conditions I like. 😀

Our power was restored overnight; we came home from sleeping at a friend's house to find our porch light was on! Thanks for all your kind thoughts.

Improvise, adapt, overcome - repeat as needed.

I think the Second Marine slogan is Stand by to stand by for a definite tentative possible maybe with changes to follow. Or at least that was the result.

To answer both Kris’ and Watab’s questions, I have broken that foot several times. Work accidents, sports, and motorcycling. It usually healed up pretty quickly and there wasn’t much displacement of bones. But accumulated wear and tear and diabetes, combined with an infection I picked up from a tiny cut that got away from me, caused me to have a significant portion of the tissue behind my little toe removed in 2017. It took a whole year for me to regrow that tissue and in the process, I picked up a MRSA infection that attacked the bones behind the fifth toe. This resulted in several more surgeries, a trip to intensive care that included two months of hospitalization and rehab, surgery on my neck from the infection spreading into my cervical spine, and the eventual removal of my little toe and the bones behind it. When I finally recovered from that, we discovered that the bone behind the fourth toe was pushing down and causing pressure sores to develop on the sole of the foot, so that bone had to be removed as well. With the absence of all that structure, my foot began to roll over to the outside when I walked in any kind of shoes which caused pressure sores on the outside of the foot where the remaining bone where the outer tendon attaches to the foot protruded. This last surgery was performed to stabilize the remaining bone structure and to shave off and smooth the protrusion causing the sores. I’m thirteen weeks into recovery now and was released to start walking with a cane and the walking boot three weeks ago. I’m also allowed to walk a little in my sock feet with the cane, a few steps at a time, as of last Friday. The preliminary indication is that the surgery appears to have been at least somewhat successful. There’s no evidence of any internal pressure after three weeks and it seems to have stabilized the foot roll. I won’t be sure of that stabilization until I can get back into shoes or boots. It may be that I’ll need a brace of some sort to complete the deal. For now, both the surgeon and I are optimistic. I start rehabilitation later this month and I’ll see him again early in August.

Anybody try one of these yet? Gunstrollers.com

You are correct about the bushing adapter. I had forgotten about that option. That is probably the best of all possibilities. Very few shops carry Hornady bushings anymore. Mec bushings are everywhere.

This single barrel percussion 8 gauge market gun is MASSIVE. Looks like a hyper-thyroid fowler. It is unmarked as to builder. Its half round half octagon barrel is 36" long. At the breech it is 1.5" across the flats. Bore measures .875". Bore is shiny, with typical black powder pitting. The barrel retains most of its original factory finish turned plumb. Underside of barrel has Birmingham proofs. A new stainless steel nipple has been installed. Walnut stock is held to barrel with two captured keys. Fittings are German Silver with engraving on buttplate and triggerguard. Stock is in very good plus antique condition with minimal bumps and scratches. Has an easily repairable crack at toe that does not affect structural integrity. There is a capbox on underside of buttstock. LOP is 13.5". Gun weighs almost 12 lbs. A scarce gun in this condition. $1750 + Shipping.

BTT. Reduced.

Us too Imis

Depends on how hot or cold we're talking about! We got furnaces and AC so I'm fine but I don't like the snow!

Camp Dutch Ovens

Could be worse... Cold is always worse. 😀

Sure get'n pricey

What's the issue with yours?

I hear ya but just the opposite for me!

We need to restore asylums for the mentally ill. If we dont then more massacres by mad gunmen will bring restrictive gun laws. I would rather put away the criminally insane.

Shooting Gunfighter doesn’t REQUIRE that you alternate firing drawn revolvers. It doesn’t even REQUIRE that you present both guns at the same time!! It DOES require that you shoot one revolver from each hand and that the gun be cocked and fired with that hand unsupported. A shooter in the Gunfighter category has the option of shooting with both guns presented or may shoot any stage “Double Duelist”! The shooter may also draw both guns and “fire one dry” and then do the same with the other or fire his/her guns in any other order they choose. They MUST engage the targets in the same sequence as everyone else, but which gun they shoot is their choice!

Hahaha! Thank you Scarlett! Happy to have all of you on this journey with me. Rifle is off to Rossi! I will post an update when the rifle returns and my lesson is learned lol

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