Jeb48

I looked at one of these new in the box and a gun shop maybe 3 years ago and was tempted but just couldn't bring myself to own one. Price was probably ok, if I remember right it was marked $200, but I knew the reputation and I like to shoot my guns.

Wanted Dead or Alive" starring Steve McQueen as Josh Randall, bounty hunter with his cut down Mare's Leg Winchester Model 1892

I have a bunch of .22s, with another one on the way. Some are the guns I learned to shoot on that I still own, some are ones that just caught my eye. The one that I didn't intend to buy, I bought because the one I wanted to buy at a gun auction went higher than my limit. I don't even remember what I went to buy, but I bought a Winchester 290 semi, probably manufactured 1965-66 from the serial number, nothing special, I think I paid $125 for it and when I cleaned all the dust, dried grease and dead spiders out, it show almost no wear and I think it spent most of its life in the corner of a closet. Now why did it catch my eye, a semi automatic that shoots shorts, longs and long rifles. I was still in NY at the time and they had just pushed through their latest gun restriction which included a 7 round limit for semi autos, accept tube feed. It was later thrown out by the courts and it went back to 10 but I just had to have a semi that held 3 times the limit. It does shoot shorts very reliably but at the cost of shorts who would in a plinker. It doesn't get out of the safe to often, probably time to get it out again.

Need one of these?

Finnish soldiers 16 June 1944

Montana Bill

Soldiers at the Camp Hood Tank Destroyer Center practice swarm attack on wooden mockup of Japanese tank using grenades, machine guns, and grease bombs. September, 1942

Be sure to wear your mask

Not sure I can add much. I have had a 42" Dixon ZTR since 1987, one of the first zero turn makers. I have used it to clear trails through the woods, brush hogging and lately Kudzu control. I fix what breaks and do almost no maintenance on it. Still runs like a champ after breaking off 2 front casters over the years and one blade bearing mount. Engine has never hiccuped. That all said most of it's life was on fairly flat land, the last 5 years has been in the hills of TN. I have not had a lot of drive traction problems but trying to cut across a slope I regularly loose front traction and have to steer down the slope to stay in control. I do find that it does tear up the grass if I try to turn to sharp. I do keep my tires pretty soft. MIne is nearing end of life, the deck has holes everywhere including close to where one of the blades mount, one more big rock on that hub will probably rip it out. I have been trying to decide if I should just hire all my mowing done, already hire out some of it, or buy something. I can hire a lot of mowing done for the price of a new mower that I only use every couple of weeks

Hitler and Speer looking at the Schwerer Gustav, the biggest gun ever used in battle

No idea what these trucks are for.