so waht ya doin today?

[oscarflytyer]

AND THEN... There IS the ~$2500 worth of tools my wife/son #4 informed me of today, that were stolen from the rehab house project they are doing. Mostly hers/their tools - BUT! Also my big 12" Dewalt double bevel compound mitre saw on a hvy A frame. Damn, but I was (AM) pissed! Worse is, probably meth head kid next door, AND, mine left the back door unsecured! AARRGHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Fortunately, we are in position to replace all the tools. And done, except my saw. Wife footed the $ (from previous sales proceeds); just have to wait til replacement is available. She already replaced everything else - had to have them to complete the project.
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Having vented about all that, a potential Silver Lining. Bumped couple pawn shops to let them know yada yada. And one I would not normally go to, and while there, perused the used gun counter. And lo-and-behold - what did I spy, but a Smith Mdl 30-1 2" Snub in 32 S&W Long! AND, $369. She said they weren't discounting any guns these days, and I left. But I knew what it was.

Little research tonight, and... tomo - I go back, double check, then drop $325 cash on the counter. Will go $350 tops. It's in good shape. IF I HAVE to, MIGHT cave to their price. BUT I KNOW nobody has, or even KNOWS what 32L is! And it will sit, even in today's market. Maybe I get lucky! AND - I have EVERYTHING to cast/load 32L! Wish me luck!

 

[fiver]

that sucks big time.

 

[creosote]

Yup, horse is very good eating.
Had it a few times.
Even she liked it. And she is a horse person.

 

[Rally]

Horse makes good coyote bait!

 

[creosote]

Coyote wake me up almost every night. Yap, yap, yyyyyap.

 

[CZ93X62]

The S&W Model 30-1 can be loaded a bit past the usual run of 100 grain bullets at 700 FPS. You can safely run those about 20%-25% heavier than standard.

At $369, I wouldn't have argued at the pawnbroker's pricing in Kalifornistan.

 

[L Ross]

About that horse thing. What offends, upsets me, (and I am easily offended and upset), is the irrational, sentimental, stupidity surrounding horses. Where I live in South West Wisconsin, there are horses all over the place. The only ones that make any sense are the ones owned by our large Amish population, and the ones families have for their kids in rodeo. I was surprised how big a deal rodeo is down here, it is a high school thing. There is a bull riding school not far from me where middle aged men with a mid life crisis, or older than middle aged men with a bucket list, can go break their collar bones in under 2.2 seconds.

The vast majority or the horses around here are what my wife and I call "pasture pets." They live for decades eating up hay and money, because after the daughter goes off to college or gets married, the horse no longer gets ridden and just spends its lonely days standing with its butt to the wind in a pasture.

Apparently there is no market for horse anything anymore. My favorite motorcycle jackets, (Brooks), were horse hide, then there was real glue, the meat is good to eat, but no, we can't butcher horses in America, we are too enlightened.
I'm not sure where the leather comes from for baseballs anymore. The joke down here at a live stock auction is to lock your empty stock trailer when you leave your rig or you'll come back to find a horse in it.

 

[creosote]

In drought years, or high gas price years, the price of hay goes up and we get abanded horses around here.

 

[popper]

There was a problem with horse meat sold as beef a while back. IIRC most of them go to mex. for slaughter now. That may change under Biden. She finally found a car she wants so off to make exchange today.

 

[JWFilips]

Been working most of the day trying to get dug out from the 3 day snow storm! Measured 17 inches at 9 am today.
Problem with is that the first 2 days the temperatures were cold ( in the low 20's) so the snow was nice and powdery easy to move... Should have done some shoveling yesterday but I did not want to do it twice and decided to wait to this morning well starting last night the temps went into the low 30's so all of that snow was heavy and wet! To twice as much work to get rid of it! I got everything clear except the cars are still covered and I could not break through the bottom of my driveway where our towns plow trucks left a pile of snow that is filled with rock since I live on a dirt road. On my firt try I picked up a large rock that was plowed up and it stuck in the snow blower. After 10 minutes I worked it out of the bound up blades!
The whole pile is all rocks and snow

 

[RBHarter]

Horses .....the majestic mustangs of the west ! Right up until the dark colored darlings walk out in the road and destroy a $30-50k car or pick up or do $30 k to a Freightliner .

They had a problem in Korea during that war with the locals getting sick after receiving tetnis shots . Turns out because the meat they ate was mostly horse . I wouldn't be surprised if it swings the other as well and a basis for us not eating horse .

I always told folks that mustang would be high on the meat source list if the zombies came but we had upwards of 200 in a resident local here just across the street .

Never knowingly ate any but I did have some suspect tacos in Baja once .

Ms and I went for a much needed wander-about today we saw trees , trees next to trees , trees in front of trees, a Forest Service shale cut appearently used as a range . Picked up about $40 worth of brass , 2@06' ,2@243 , 2@40 , 15@38 , and about 50-60 9mm and 380 .

Nice lunch .

 

[smokeywolf]

My little Arab mare, Ginger, was a good horse, low maintenance, high stamina and in spite of being blind in one eye, incredibly trail wise. But, she could be pretty temperamental at times. A reminder to her that I could still get $124 for her from Kal Kan dog foods seemed to sometimes help in adjusting her attitude.
For those here who don't know me that well, I would never turn one of my animals into dog food. When Ginger was 26 years old, I gave her to a family who had a few acres and were just looking for company for their daughter's barrel racer.

 

[creosote]

Our present hay burner is a keeper too.

 

[BBerguson]

The Germans ate a lot of horse meat in WWI. When they invaded Russia, their army included about 600,000 horses for pulling supply carts, artillery and such. When things got tough, like when the 6th army was surrounded at Stalingrad, they had to eat a lot of their horses.

 

[L Ross]

Scheduled a day to make gas checks at a buddy's house about 70 miles away. Of course we are in the basement churnin' out checks and it was gorgeous outside. Shoulda waited until the weekend. Forecast is for -16 Saturday night and a high of 0 for Sunday.

Oh, was still a good and productive visit and I learned how to make a ramen pogey bait soup that was really good. I'm still belching it up 6 hours later. Plus I have a big pill bottle full of checks.

 

[oscarflytyer]

RB

" They had a problem in Korea during that war with the locals getting sick after receiving tetnis shots . Turns out because the meat they ate was mostly horse . I wouldn't be surprised if it swings the other as well and a basis for us not eating horse ."

What's the connection? No clue here

 

[Rick]

If I remember correctly it was because the vaccines/injections they were given were made from horse urine.

 

[oscarflytyer]

Filed police report on the stolen property. Least if they pawn it, it will pop.

Managed tp pick up 2 AR stripped lowers for $65 ea as insurance. I have an AR, perfectly fine there, and one of the (5) boys popped for one. One coming back from Iraq has a special edition 82nd deployment piece coming, so he is good for now. But I know my boys will expect me to "bail them out" when they decide they finally want one, so...

and that little 32 L revolver at the pawn shop... Bastiges! Locks up VERY tight. Very nice shape - EXCEPT! broken hammer spur! offered $275 for it. They said their $369 price took into affect the broken hammer. HAH! KMA! It will still be there when all this crap is all over and they can't give it away.

 

[oscarflytyer]

If I remember correctly it was because the vaccines/injections they were given were made from horse urine.

OK. so? Why would a vax from that be a problem when eating horse meat? I must be real dumb...

 

[Rick]

Dunno, over my pay grade. Just what I heard, causes an allergic reaction or something. Most likely Brad could chime in here.