BS: bored olddude

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Feb 12 - 08:44 AM

Forget all them other suggestions ol'ster and come on down to NC and help me finish up my winter projects...

Can you operate a farm tractor with a front bucket??? If not, I can teach you in a matter of an hour...

Come on down... Bring work clothes and boots... And weed, if ya' got any...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Feb 12 - 08:59 AM

If you don't know how, learn to reload your own ammunition.

Then do it smoking a cigar.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 21 Feb 12 - 12:20 PM

Rap
been loading my own ammo with a cig since I was a kid. that's why I have no hair burned it off ...

Agree Spaw, that show sucks ... I had some hopes it would be good but no what a piece of crap

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 21 Feb 12 - 01:27 PM

"It sounds a womany thing to do but basic squares are so easy and pretty quick to make and in no time "

If I wanted to do something easy I would drink beer and shoot the breeze on the Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Feb 12 - 06:21 PM

Did you know that a cartridge case for a .45-70 is as tall as the neck of a .30-06 case, a .357 case is just a little over half the length of the .45-70, 7.65 mm is maybe a third of the length and a .22 LR is about a quarter of the length?

But if this sort of trivia still bores you, start reloading rimfires.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 21 Feb 12 - 07:09 PM

22 long? There's a way to liven things up. Take a buddy out to the woods. Take a hike in the fresh air. Bring some grub and make a cook fire. Throw a half dozen 22 longs in the coals. That'll beat the bordom, Tyler (a Never Cry Wolf reference... if you have never seen the movie... do see it. But, here's a tip. Just before Rosie asks, "How do you beat the bordom, Tyler?" he shuts the fuel to the engine off. If ya know what's goin on, the rest of the scene is hilarious.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: kendall
Date: 21 Feb 12 - 07:50 PM

Did you say 45/70? I used to hunt with one. It was a trap door model that my Uncle had.
I gave up hunting in 1982. Now we have Deer on the back lawn and I feed them instead of the other way 'round.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Feb 12 - 10:13 PM

Here's a place that's right here in town you can poke around. I suggest the "Select" and "For Sale" areas.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 22 Feb 12 - 12:51 PM

Ammo on open shelves? Machine pistols?

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 12 - 02:34 PM

Yes. Yes. And Sam will let you RENT a fully automatic weapon (Uzi, Tommy gun, M-16A1, MP-5, etc.) when you RENT the use of his range after you BUY the ammo from him. Sam ain't stupid -- you know how fast a submachine gun (machine pistol) will eat up ammo in the hands of someone who doesn't know how to use it? Take a 9mm MP-5 -- the magazine holds 20 rounds and you can fire all 20 with a touch to the trigger. A box of 50 gives you 2.5 magazines...so you have to buy another box from Sam. In an hour of shooting the thing you pay, in USD: $15.00 for use of the range (assuming you have your own eye and ear protection; if not, Sam will sell it to you), $50 for the rental of the weapon, and probably $75 to $100 in ammunition (and Sam keep the fired brass and sells it). One hour: USD $140 to pretend you're b-a-a-a-a-a-a-d. Oh, yeah, you'll probably buy some targets from Sam, so add another $10.

You MUST by the ammo from Sam because he has to control the type of ammo used on the range -- no depleted uranium or .50 caliber tungsten-spike armor piercing or tracers or something.

Now about the range: Sam had it built to meet all safety and EPA specs up to .50 caliber Browning machine gun (no, you can't fire one there, but you CAN bring you .50 BMB rifle and buy the ammo from Sam and....). The local Cowboy Action Shooting group uses it. There are winter .22 pistol leagues. The local police departmentS use it, as does the local National Guard and Army Reserve units in winter.

Since this is the ONLY indoor range in about a 150 mile radius, Sam doesn't lose money on it....

And don't expect to get into the shop for a quick weapons grab -- it's hot-linked to the local cops (who are Sam's customers and friends), assuming you can get by the armored doors, high security locks, foil the hidden video and still cameras that cover the place inside AND out.... Oh, yeah -- the roof has also been rebuilt.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 22 Feb 12 - 04:01 PM

Sounds like Sam is a business man.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 22 Feb 12 - 05:53 PM

But I already own an Uzi ... what else does he rent ma deuce?

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 22 Feb 12 - 06:00 PM

Ever shoot one Rap, those things are a hell of a lot of fun full auto. 9mm but you cut the target in half the firing rate is so high .. tends to creep up like all full autos do but a riot to fire. Gotta have an FFL licence to own one

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 12 - 06:45 PM

Sam is full Class III, both at the store and personally. He has a tripod-mounted US Machine Gun, Caliber 50, M2 which came from a B-25 bomber and still has the aircraft sights on it in the foyer of his house. Got a Barrett or an Armalite AR-50? Sam's got one of each and he'll sell them to you.

Business man? You better believe Sam's a business man! He's also a PhD in Engineering and Thai-American -- his daughter is a West Point Graduate; Sam himself is a disabled US veteran as well as a veteran of the Thai Army.

By the way, my brother found and has cleaned up Ye Olde Family Tommy Gunne. He also is Ye Keeper of Ye Olde Family AK-47 (With Ye Olde Fulle Auto Functione). Why my Grandfather had a Tommy gun is beyond both of us, but then he also had a personal still (now in a museum) and a commercial still (destroyed by the sheriff 'cause Grandpa didn't pay the right people).

Shoot fully automatic weapons? Why goodness gracious me! Ah swan, Ah feel faint at the very thought! Let's see: 45 grease gun, tommy gun, M1919A6, M60, M2, BAR and perhaps one or two more, maybe.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 08:38 AM

You guys will be happy t' know that after I am elected it's gonna be a lot easier to acquire them automatic weapons. I plan to liberalize the acquisition of firearms and open new gunnery training schools all over the country so that people can learn the right way to handle their weapons. You don't want guns in the hands of folks who ain't got a clue how to use 'em, right? That could be dangerous.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 09:23 AM

You are our kinda chimp Chongo ... ya got our vote sorry I doubted ya
LOL

Rap, a Tommy ... wow put the roar in the roaring 20's ... I want one with the 100 round drum ... that thing had a rate of 800 per minute of 45 cal hardballs ... still I think the best one ever made. WWII had a lot of use

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 09:29 AM

I get to shoot auto weapons when I visit my sheriff buddie. I go out on the police range with the officers ... lots of fun .. Chongo would have fun knocking holes in paper

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 10:23 AM

Firearms are a fun sport, but only used on paper, not people nor animals. Guitar playing is a lot more fun

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 10:28 AM

Yeah, a lot of people put too much stock in guns and not enough in music. I gave up spraying lead around...now I try for accuracy, like putting the second bullet in the same hole in the paper target as the first. And truth be told, I like wild game meat but getting it at the store is a LOT more convenient.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 10:31 AM

And as a side note, I know something about firearms and I enjoy target shooting. I also know how to build a nuclear bomb and several war gases. Just because you know something doesn't mean you have to use that knowledge.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 01:32 PM

The last couple of years I hunted I didn't. Just had the o/u 12 for defense while I inspected the fresh air. That was 6 or 7 years ago. Last time I fired "at" a an animal was to scare a 6p back into the woods on accounta I knew the lad I had sent down the road 200m just might try a shot at it. The girls I goes wit don't shoot small deer. AND, ricochets are the ricoshits. Either way, I didn't want to chance it.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: topical tom
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 02:16 PM

We have a skunk roaming around our house. How about coming up here and live-trapping him (her?). Or maybe there are some where you are that you could pick up by the hind feet and crate them to take them to farther pastures. They say they can't spray if all their feet are off the ground. That, it seems to me, would be a challenge and a boredom-basher.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 02:39 PM

And stupid. Gettin sprayed is one thing. Gettin sprayed in open wounds is another.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 03:31 PM

Shucks, it's just butyl mercaptan, same stuff the gas company puts in your natural gas so you don't leave the store and a blow yourself up or asphyxiate yourself or both.

Now, picking up a rabid skunk by the hind legs...could you put that on YouTube for me?

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 03:38 PM

Rap... "Shucks, it's just butyl mercaptan..."

Yeah? You ain't never been near it. It'll make yer eyes water and yer nose run. And that is just walkin past a dead skunk at 20 feet. Not yer dead skunk in the middle of the PAVED road. One that was shot fer gettin at the chickens.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 04:17 PM

I get em for you Alex, I got a trick to live trapping them. I don't hit then

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 04:22 PM

Care to share, Dan?

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 04:24 PM

Wingfield (Canuck, one man TV show) had a trick. Injecting eggs with a knockout drug. Hilarious story.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 09:11 PM

Wanna make a bet on that gnu? And did you ever EAT skunk?

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: olddude
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 10:38 PM

I turn the dog loose then I run .. eventually he lets em go ... LOL
No I never ate a skunk but you actually can ... not that I want to but if it were survival I would

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Feb 12 - 10:42 PM

Shoot them (from a distance) in the head with .22. Or trap them. Tastes something like rat or squirrel. Or chicken. Everything tastes like chicken. My brother ate a spruce 2 x 4 once and said it tasted like chicken.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 01:46 PM

A bet? I'll make a bet on what I said about a shot skunk. And, as far as eatin skunk, if the ravens and the yotes won't go near it, I won't. You ever eat skunk?

As far as survival, Dan, if there are skunks, there are far tastier and much less challenging critters around to eat.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: olddude
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 02:05 PM

my thoughts exactly gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 02:40 PM

Ever eat a possum? Greasy critters.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: olddude
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 02:45 PM

don't forget tough also ... yes i have and I don't care for it

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 02:47 PM

So are porcupines, Rap. But ya can pick yer teeth afterward.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: olddude
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 02:50 PM

but none of us ever cooked an Ape ... how about it ... we could find where Chongo lives

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: olddude
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 02:56 PM

one of the worst things I ever eaten, bear meat.. I tell you stringy tough, greasy .. its got all of it going. I would rather have a handful of maggots ... I never hunted them cause i never hunted anything that wasn't food. My neighbor nailed a big black bear when I was a teenager and gave me a bunch of it ... no thanks

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 03:39 PM

Same here, Dan. I coulda easily taken two every year for many years but my old man taught me, if ya ain't gonna eat and it ain't a threat, ya don't kill it.

A buddy of mine from NFLD wanted to come here and get a black bear (we got some BIG ones) as I am a registered guide. I asked him why he wanted to kill a black bear. Rug. Even tho I know he would have eaten the meat, that was the wrong answer. I said "No." I could tell he was very POd but I didn't care. Just ain't right.

Ever meet up with any blackies? I met up with lots. Even have had to elude a few when they stalked me when I had no gun. After the last time, I always carried a gun. Nasty critters!

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: olddude
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 03:45 PM

been treed by em, been chased by em, been visited by em ... lots of encounters for sure ... always been lucky never hurt only scared

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 03:57 PM

Treed??!! Holy crap! I never got into that situation. But, if I had have, I woulda used my backup plan. Take off yer pants and hope that when you shit it hits him in the eyes.

Just jokin. Of course, you snap off a branch and poke him in the eye or shove it down his throat.

Did he come after ya? What did you do?

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 09:37 PM

When traveling in the wilds you only need carry for protection what I carry: a Beretta Jetfire in .25 ACP. It has saved me from bears on a couple of occasions. Here's how it works: we're walking through the woods when we are attacked by a grizzly. I use the Jetfire the shoot you in the knee and then I calmly walk away.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 09:44 PM

But, if yer alone, and all ya ya got is a 25, do ya try to shoot the bear or yerself in the eye?

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: olddude
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 10:13 PM

I was 13 and walked between a mom and her cub ... didn't see the cub until too late ... treed me for 4 hours she was pissed

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 12 - 10:51 PM

I don't go down in the woods alone
'Cause I might get a surprise
I don't go down in the woods alone
'Cause I might not believe my eyes.
For all the bears that ever there were
Will be in those woods for certain because
If I'm there alone
The grizzlies will have a picnic.

Picnic time for grizzly bears,
The huge old grzzly bears will be having a lovely time that day.
Watch them, catch me unawares,
And see them picnic on their holiday.
See them gaily dance about.
They love to rip and shred
And never have any cares.
At six o'clock they'll head out to bed
Because they're sated huge old grizzly bears.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: gnu
Date: 25 Feb 12 - 02:29 PM

I got a GREAT bear joke but it's a visual.

The worst/best story I ever heard was from a fella who, at about 70 years old, was pickin his way around a deadfall while trout fishin. He stepped on an old black log but it wasn't a log. The bear bolted and never came back but he ended up arse over tea kettle with a busted arm and had gotten a deadfall branch shoved in his leg. Lots a blood, but he made made it.

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 25 Feb 12 - 03:23 PM

Mrs back from scotland, my kids bought me a kilt ... LOL what do you think the odds are of me wearing that with the hairy legs ... can't stop laughing

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 25 Feb 12 - 03:25 PM

they are all insane, I have insane kids (tee hee) can't breathe from laughing. Not that there is anything wrong with a Kilt my friends, but on me .. it is soooooo wrong

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 25 Feb 12 - 03:26 PM

but I did get some great chocolate and other goodies .. that I will love. I am a chocolate junky

Subject: RE: BS: bored olddude
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Feb 12 - 03:55 PM

1. Come to Getaway.
2. Wear the kilt or quilt or whatever it is.
3. No one will notice.
4. Just don't keep your hands in your sporran.
5. Most especially don't keep your hands in someone else's sporran.