Vehicle prices are definitely nuts. I drove close to 400 miles yesterday carshopping, prices are high and selection is lacking. OTOH, it was a decent roadtrip. Saw some deer, porcupine, a couple coyotes. New car will be ok for commuting to work, and give me time to work on my old trucks. And save me enough in gas $$ to buy primers!
so waht ya doin today?
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CWLONGSHOT
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Range day with the Muzzle Loaders. I am using up loose powder @ 90g per with a hi rib sabo and my 330g hp bullets.
I could not get a maxi ball down the barrel!!! Maybe too hard? Maybe fat?
Ill test back @ home.
This is 100 Yards both guns
This is one of them back @ 50.
That aughta work!!
CW
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Most individuals don't buy new. Thinking they can't afford it. Yeah, probably not........... because of mixed up priorities. Don't need all the options the manufacture offers. Don't need to keep up with the Jones', either. All that's needed for transportation is a steering wheel and five tires, one of which is a full size spare. That's the way it use to be, when I grew up. All the other stuff is for comfort and/or show.
A/C was a $500 option. Roughly, 1/6th. of a $3000 brand new car. First car my dad ordered with A/C was a 78 Grand Prix. Had power steering and brakes. No power windows or door locks. AM radio. We made do. My father always bought new, what he could afford. Paid cash and had the maintenance done, regularly. Kept them for a minimum of seven years. Cars I remember him owning, 52 Pontiac Sky Chief, 60 Pontiac Catalina, 67 Buick Le Sabre, 78 Grand Prix and a 91 Buick Regal. I learned to drive on the 67 LeSabre.
My first car, 72 Chevelle SS, doesn't have PW, PS, PDL or A/C. All deemed frivolous growing up in Michigan. And yes I still own it. Cindy took it to town, this AM.
A/C was a $500 option. Roughly, 1/6th. of a $3000 brand new car. First car my dad ordered with A/C was a 78 Grand Prix. Had power steering and brakes. No power windows or door locks. AM radio. We made do. My father always bought new, what he could afford. Paid cash and had the maintenance done, regularly. Kept them for a minimum of seven years. Cars I remember him owning, 52 Pontiac Sky Chief, 60 Pontiac Catalina, 67 Buick Le Sabre, 78 Grand Prix and a 91 Buick Regal. I learned to drive on the 67 LeSabre.
My first car, 72 Chevelle SS, doesn't have PW, PS, PDL or A/C. All deemed frivolous growing up in Michigan. And yes I still own it. Cindy took it to town, this AM.
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CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
I have kept my current truck (2014 F-250 4WD) a bit longer than I planned to. The original idea was to give it to my grandson when he got his driver's license last year, but parking issues where they live in Seattle and operating costs for a big truck make that "free vehicle" idea unsustainable at present. 81K miles on The Beast, and not a moment of trouble in almost 8 years of ownership. (Knocking on wood vigorously here). I see no reason to even THINK about a new truck presently, and a whole lot more reasons NOT TO DO SO. That it has been paid off for a couple years now is another real plus.
Once or twice a month, guys stop by the house and make some ludicrous offers to buy the truck and/or the boat. The used vehicle and vessel markets must be real bleak.
Once or twice a month, guys stop by the house and make some ludicrous offers to buy the truck and/or the boat. The used vehicle and vessel markets must be real bleak.
L Ross
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Disassembling my 1187s today for a thorough inspection. Not much cleaning required because I clean them every night in duck camp except for removing the stock and the recoil spring. I do that once a season, although I didn't go last year so other than blasting coons in the yard at night with the synthetic stocked one they darned well shouldn't need anything.
Because I am an over thinking, OCD afflicted, part German, part English person, I am rubbing the wooden stocked ones with Johnson's paste wax, and I am also waxing the metal on all of them because I will be hunting salt water. I don't know if that is effective, or important, but I'm doing it.
I was recently gifted a new unfired 1187 Premier manufactured in 1987. My BIL was an engineer on the project to design and produce the machinery to build the 1187s. There were 25 lettered units built that the team could purchase for cost, he bought one for himself and one for my late FIL. They have never been out of the box! I promised to drag it out into the Gulf and shoot ducks with it and my BIL was thrilled. This older BIL also gifted one to his younger brother who is going on the Texas hunt with me. So there will be two highly polished blued 1187s with premium walnut out in the blinds. They may indeed get scratched, or dented, and mud and blood and salt water will certainly get on them. I also will have to drill the butt stock for a sling stud. I have a buddy who is somewhat appalled. He said I should leave it unfired in the box for the collector value. Hog wash! It is a gun, meant to be used, not an uncirculated numismatic investment. Besides, once I am dead what do I care what the collector value of any of these guns are?
Because I am an over thinking, OCD afflicted, part German, part English person, I am rubbing the wooden stocked ones with Johnson's paste wax, and I am also waxing the metal on all of them because I will be hunting salt water. I don't know if that is effective, or important, but I'm doing it.
I was recently gifted a new unfired 1187 Premier manufactured in 1987. My BIL was an engineer on the project to design and produce the machinery to build the 1187s. There were 25 lettered units built that the team could purchase for cost, he bought one for himself and one for my late FIL. They have never been out of the box! I promised to drag it out into the Gulf and shoot ducks with it and my BIL was thrilled. This older BIL also gifted one to his younger brother who is going on the Texas hunt with me. So there will be two highly polished blued 1187s with premium walnut out in the blinds. They may indeed get scratched, or dented, and mud and blood and salt water will certainly get on them. I also will have to drill the butt stock for a sling stud. I have a buddy who is somewhat appalled. He said I should leave it unfired in the box for the collector value. Hog wash! It is a gun, meant to be used, not an uncirculated numismatic investment. Besides, once I am dead what do I care what the collector value of any of these guns are?
CZ93X62
Official forum enigma
Those collector/purist types give me a case of the a&&. If that is what they want to do with their guns, have at it. I buy my guns to shoot and hunt with. Just another venue in which I am not real highly-evolved, as my ex-wife was and is fond of saying, bless her heart.
Ian
Notorious member
Some of our vehicles already have a drowsy detector, it watched lane departures in near departures and steering wheel input with AI to make a judgment call and wakes you up with an alarm, seat vibration, and steering wheel shake.
Nothing wrong with getting drunks off the road but what about the other side of the coin? How many people that don't drink at all will be forced to buy expensive equipment to prove it? Guilty until you prove yourself innocent. Regardless of how expensive the equipment is no equipment is fool proof, how many innocent people will be stranded by faulty equipment? Possibly in dangerous areas/situations? Lot's of how many's.
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
There lies the rub: society as a whole is forced to pay for the stupid and irresponsible.
KeithB
Resident Half Fast Machinist
Society always has paid for the stupid and irresponsible. Better the cost be a few dollars for hardware instead in human lives.
I checked Wikipedia, the USA has the most lax drunken driving laws in the world. Many countries have zero tolerance policies, some have mandatory imprisonment for driving under the influence.
They make people pay for spare tires even thought most people don't ever need one.
I checked Wikipedia, the USA has the most lax drunken driving laws in the world. Many countries have zero tolerance policies, some have mandatory imprisonment for driving under the influence.
They make people pay for spare tires even thought most people don't ever need one.
JWFilips
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Dark day here again today with cold rain showers...Had to get my Jeep inspected so I dropped it off and went for a 3 mile walk while I waited!
Lackawanna River Heritage Trail runs right next to the Garage....Lots of Ice on the Black Top trail so I had to walk along the edge of the path on the grassy areas! Counted 26 Canadian geese at the start of the river trail and about half mile up the river counted 35 Mallards who were having a great time and making lots of noise! Also in the 3 miles saw 19 gray squirrels. That is the first 3 mile walk I did in about a month. it was invigorating!
Lackawanna River Heritage Trail runs right next to the Garage....Lots of Ice on the Black Top trail so I had to walk along the edge of the path on the grassy areas! Counted 26 Canadian geese at the start of the river trail and about half mile up the river counted 35 Mallards who were having a great time and making lots of noise! Also in the 3 miles saw 19 gray squirrels. That is the first 3 mile walk I did in about a month. it was invigorating!
CWLONGSHOT
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Well this happened today...
Dont worry about the road treatment they say. It will never harm your vehicles they say..
Dont worry about the road treatment they say. It will never harm your vehicles they say..
Yep we should lock up drunk drivers. Nope the sober should not go to jail with them. Yep I paid for a spare tire, a jack too. Nope I have no need of buying a breathalyzer to get my car to start in case somebody else drives drunk. Nope I'm not getting a vasectomy because my neighbor has too many kids.