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My wife says I give everyone a hard time so ifn I ain't giving you a hard time it must mean I don't like you. LOL TM

I think a lot of assumptions are being made out here in the internet world of SASS. In a little less than a month, I'll be 75... I started this game the month I turned 35. I was working a full time job commuting from OC, CA to downtown LA, going to college and raising a family. Y'all think it was easy to afford going to matches... not time consuming to load ammo for 3 on a used, second hand single stage press. Desire my friends... is a tough mistress. Either one has the desire to do something, or one finds excuses for not doing it. Moving to TX in 1990, it took a few months to find a range willing to let me put on a match, took a trip to NM to buy steel from a CA member to acquire our first set of targets. I think it's fine that y'all want to make it "EASY" on new folks to get started. But changing the rules for the parent organization to accommodate the few folks that'll bother coming out is a fool's errand. Change 'em at YOUR club and see just how many NEW folks you attract. In the forty years I've been playing this game can you imagine the number of "NEW" folks I've seen come and go. FAR, FAR, FAR more than are currently playing. New folks come out all the time... for some that's their only visit... some shoot a few months, some as long as a year, others maybe a few. You will see more current members switching to their .22s than you'll see new folks. The single way to more members is thru advertising. Print, radio, TV, internet & word of mouth. I'm as guilty as the next person... How many of you post your personal cowboy action exploits on your personal TIC-TOC, Facebook or other media accounts about your cowboy shooting activities? Not SASS or club related pages... just your personal page where your family and friends see your posts? Before you see an influx of new shooters, you must generate the desire to do so. And desire will lead them to acquire the already legal guns and required paraphernalia.

The answer is simple!! At least up until now, the agencies that would normally be tasked with prosecuting these violations have been weaponized to attack and harass honest law abiding citizens!! It is to be devoutly hoped that, the new administration having directed the DOJ to review and reassess the workings of the BATFE and other agencies, they will return those agencies to doing what they were intended to do!! BATFE, DOJ, and the FBI and US Martial’s Service should be all over situations like the one in Chicannistant!! DOJ could and should be taking the state and local Attorneys General to task for shirking their responsibilities!!

I have seen guns with enough build up on the front of the cylinder to cause it to not spin smoothly. TM

If you'd have listened, just think how much bandwidth we have saved here.

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Plus the Government of Alberta has entrenched the right of Citizens to own Firearms, this is being fought by the Ottawa Clown... Jabez Cowboy

Nothing offensive, but I occasionally get too political in my commentary. I usually have a pretty good idea that I'm getting close to the line, and usually add a note for the Moderators telling them that if they have to delete it I understand. Sometimes though, I wind up getting a whole thread deleted, which is NEVER my intent.

I'll take the cylinders & the barrel

I have just recently acquired this shotgun, the issue has been present since it came out of the box. It appears to have practically never been fired due to how tight the bolt rides against the top of the hammer. I guess it still needs broken in. One thing I have noticed is that when you load a once fired shell into the chamber to eject it, it grabs the shell out of the chamber but doesn’t kick it out of the action unless you grab the bolt itself and pull it the last 1/4 inch back. (This movement of the action is only possible with the hammer cocked and the pressing of the release button) I have no clue as to why that would be. when the hammer is uncocked, the carrier begins to move slightly down, (visible from the side of the receiver), but stops after the first 1/2-1” of movement of the slide handle backwards. im wondering if I should just try to disassemble the gun to see if someone assembled it incorrectly. I just wish I had a manual. I’ll have to find a video on the assembly of a Winchester 1897, which I would assume would be 95% the same. also I very much so appreciate your effort in trying to help me with this issue, I’d be lost without your help sir.

Looks like a sweet potato with rosemary made to look like a roasted roach. Hugs! Scarlett

A lot of you all are missing the scam, if we in Alberta kept the money we send East each year and divided it up equally between our population, my wife and i would get 3/4 of a Million dollars each year... Plus my pension could be increased by 300% if We took back our pension funds from Ottawa... Not that I would really need those funds if we stopped being robbed by Ottawa.... Jabez Cowboy

@Michigan Rattler @Michigan Rattler, SASS#70590 is a good guy! It’s really nice of you to shout out for good service. As a vendor and sponsor, sometimes that extra sale helps and may be the difference in gas to get home (not me but the purchase I made was gas money home for said vendor). You’re a good one, @T-Square! Hugs! Scarlett

With your avatar !!

Welcome to the MOST FUN EVER!! Midway had a lot of suitable powders for sale last week. Tite Group (High Gun) are identical powders with separate labels for pistol and shotgun and Vita Vouri etc. fair price… but not a deal so to speak. Clean Shot is out of stock til another container arrives from Czech Republic. 2.9-3.2 gr of Tite Group is a good starting point with a 125gr bullet. Test in rifle and pistol before you load up too many! 😉 IYKYK, right? 🤣🤦🏼‍♀️ Hugs! Scarlett

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THAT is an OUTSTANDING idea! A RED cart! Hugs! Scarlett

Wish it was a First Model .

That, I have had. There was a guy that decided he was going to make his fortune in the water buffalo business. Some of them got out. One lost an argument with a semi. This fella I knew that worked out near the water buffalo farm asked the buffalo's owner what he was going to do with the corpse. And the owner said that if he wanted it he could have it. He made a lot of biltong. Sliced up the meat, covered it with black pepper to keep the flies off, and air dried it. No putting it in the dehydrator. No putting it in the oven. He hung it on strings in his kitchen and have three fans blowing on it, and left it there. It was pretty good. He gave me a few pounds of it, and I ate it over the next four or five years. But he moved to nebraska, and I ain't got no connections with the water buffalo farm owner, so I don't reckon I'm going to get any more. Not for free, anyway. I did order some from a place in South Africa one time. Also ordered some ginger beer. Didn't like it. Ginger ale is better. The stuff I got from South Africa wasn't bad, but it wasn't as good as Steve's. And I had to pay for it.

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comin' soon to the roach coach near you

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SPF - 1: A batch of orphaned cylinders and pieces. Nope - don’t know what they came from so - don’t ask. (Please don’t ask!). $125 shipped conus 2: 1 navy arms barrel - 5 1/2” from muzzle to forcing cone. Has a case ejector assembly on it. Brass front sight. It is stamped .36 cal but should be for .38 special. $50 shipped conus