so waht ya doin today?

[Intheshop]

Picked up some cheap,old stock ... good sheet 2215's at the bow shoot last weekend. Fletching them up sort of,as "beaters".

The rules in 3D archery got "bent" because the compound geeks are SO good that,a "10" wasn't good enough.... so they created a "12".

But then,that wasn't enough....so now we have 14's.

The funniest part is the trad guys,blasting 14's at about the same rate that we tear up 12's..... somebody notice a pattern here?

 

[popper]

The blower wheel especially builds up with some kind of mold-ish funk to the point that airflow gets restricted and it stops cooling well - Most overlooked part of AC. When the RH gets high they freeze up.

 

[Bret4207]

Fiver, already taking an OTC sleep med and a dose of ibuprofin (sp?). Going to try the naproxin (sp? again) stuff tonight. The slightest movement makes the pain shoot through the knee and wakes me up. Like I said, gets real old real fast. Trying some snake oil my wife got, emu oil and herbs actually. Seems to help a little already.

Al, the 32 and 25 WCF weren't first line deer rifles for most people, don't get me wrong. They were more for drivers put into the brush that needed at least something to carry. Win 92's in 38-40 and 44-40 were also found in that service. I know of several deer that were taken cleanly by old timers that knew what they were doing. Again, this was within 50 yards and one old Forest Ranger/WW2 USMC vet told me none of his 32-20 deer kills were over 50 FEET away.

The poachers were using 22LR and later 22 Mags judging by anecdotal evidence and what I found on making arrests for jacking.

 

[CZ93X62]

The poachers were using 22LR and later 22 Mags judging by anecdotal evidence and what I found on making arrests for jacking.

Bret--Sorry to read of the pain you are dealing with.

22 LR figured highly with deer poachers out our way as well. For a time, Federal Ordnance sold little muzzle gizzies for Ruger 10/22 rifles (and other arms) that allowed a 2-liter plastic beverage bottle to be screwed onto the muzzle. Once the bottom disk of the bottle was cut out, these made pretty decent suppressors. A carload of poachers I helped Cal-DFW do a felony stop on one night at zero dark thirty had 2 such rigs inside it. A deer poacher is just another form of thief, in most cases. In lean times, if a poacher was feeding his family......different story. But EVERY deer poacher I dealt with was also a house burglar, car thief, armed robber, or commercial burglar in his history package. Don't pass "GO", don't collect $200. BATFE rendered those screw-on gizzies into "suppressor" status, and they disappeared from the FedOrd ads in Shotgun News soon thereafter. FedOrd disappeared not long after that, too.

 

[Ian]

Emu oil (I use Blue Emu on sore joints/soft-tissue strains, I'm sure there's better stuff with more oil in it) actually seems to work for me. Not miraculous, but worth buying and using for sure.

 

[462]

A friend slathers a badly injured ankle with Blue Emu three to four times a day.

 

[Ian]

I look at the ingredients and have to wonder every time if it isn't just all in my head. Even if it is, that's fine because results count.

 

[S Mac]

My wife and I are Emu oil fans, general purpose burn, scrape, sting, muscle and joint relief. Good stuff.

 

[Bret4207]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. When my MIL came up here to our home to die of cancer, (not my favorite thing for a house guest to do), she fell within the first few days of being here. We rubbed several jars worth of Blue Emu into that dear womans shoulder over the next few weeks till she passed. She said it helped a lot. Next door neighbor has the same basic knee issues I do and swears Blue Emu works, and he uses that hemp oil crap too. After fighting druggies for 20 plus years I will be dipped before I jump to using that stuff! Right now I'm using "Australian Miracle" 'cuz that's what SWMBO got for me, no clue what the percentages Emuoil are, but it's listed as an ingredient.

 

[462]

About 25 years ago, I started wearing a copper bracelet and the nagging left elbow tendinitis and lower back aches disappeared. Whether it's real, or all in my mind, I don't care.

 

[462]

Put the cutdown-to-carbine-length 1898 Krag on consignment sale. The alteration was very nicely done (Benicia Arsenal?), its serial number dates it to July or August 1898, which makes for a very convenient cash-and-carry sale to defy California's overly onerous gun laws.

 

[popper]

Watched CBS news, got irritated. Implied that all flights should have a flight plan so the Alaska crashes would've have happened. Like that controls takeoff & landing? Loaded some 30/30 with unique and PB 145gr. Plaid big bucks for 2 tires but did ask for a discount and got a little.

 

[CZ93X62]

I feel the same way about drugs, Bret. They scare the living daylights outta me.

I wonder how many emus it takes to make each bottle of emu oil, though. The copper bracelets and copper-infused cloth garments seem to help a lot of people feel better. I don't care so much whether the white-coats and medicos can or can't say why the copper contact works--it appears that its users derive some net gain through their use, and no harm results from same. That goes for Blue Emu, too--it does no harm, people feel better, and it is not outlandishly expensive. Drugmakers can't claim such things honestly.

 

[Brad]

If olive oil is made by squeezing olives and soybean oil by squeezing soybeans I have no desire to see emu oil or baby oil being produced.

 

[Ian]

Yeah, just try to get bear oil some time.

 

[Brad]

I prefer bare oil

 

[Pistolero]

Bret have you tried methyl salicylate cream? There are inexpensive store brands which have
help a strained/twisted knee for me.

I'm sure Brad can chime in with more useful info, probably the Walgreen store brand info.

Bill

 

[Brad]

Aspercreme. Works same as Ben Gay and such but with ZERO odor. Counterirritants, what they are called, work by overloading the brain with a stimulus so the pain message is lost in the traffic.
Methylsalicylate is oil of wintergreen. Just don’t ingest the stuff, quite toxic.

 

[Pistolero]

Yeah, the 'no stink' is a make or break deal for me.

Bill

 

[Bret4207]

Tried Aspercream, didn't seem to do anything. I know heat works. Wrap the knee in a heating pad, bake at 350 for an hour and it's a lot less painful. The logistics involved kill that idea right off the bat except in winter before bed. I'll figure something out eventually.

Sheep people coming to the place today. I volunteered my herd for a Johnes disease test. Gord and I put up a makeshift corral in a meadow last night. Should be able to push them in there and get the 15 or so they need to establish a baseline.

At least it isn't raining!