Handsome Rob

Did anyone notice if anyone was selling any non-bubba'd Lee Enfields? I'm on the lookout for one.....

Bet you half a dollar you've got one for yourself, within 6 months

Well, they're getting another big thumbs up from me! I finally relented & mailed off my old Wave for it's broken blade, mashed up screwdriver & chewed wire cutters to be repaired. 6 days later & I have in my fat, sweaty hand a BRAND NEW Wave! The model I owned has been discontinued & rather than try to find the correct parts, they simply replaced my old tool with a brand-spanker. To say I'm happy is an understatement Come the revolution (or Zombie Holocaust, S hitting the F or whatever) I'll be reaching for my Leatherman & my Henry .22 Both companies have gone above & beyond in honoring their respective warranties for me & I'll never part with either.

Yep, They both give me the raging squitters, but Krystals is more of intense, stabbing, intestinal pain; Whitecastle is a dull, repetative, nauseating wave

If you put a red dot on a lever action, John Wayne's ghost will rise up & kick you in the nutsack. As far as .22shorts accuracy in the Henry, I get exceptional groups out to 50yds. At 25-30 It'll shoot a 5 shot hole you can cover with a penny. I have nothing but good things to say about Henry Repeating Arms. I'd part with my wife, truck & dogs before you get my Henry!

That's called a 'Millionth' chip. During chip production, all the cut, pre-fried chips run down a conveyor. To maintain quantity & quality control the chips all have to be individually inspected & counted. The Person doing the inspection (the Chip Counter) is given a small punch, like a ticket punch at the movies, & when they've counted a million chips, they punch one to let the management know exactly how many are produced during a shift. Punched chips, also called 'Millionths' are usually collected & handed in at the end of every shift, because it's much simpler for management to count a small stack of millionths that to have to manually count how many chips have been produced. Counting individual chips would be hard work, monotonous & pointless. The fact that you have one in your possession tells me that one of the Counters has obviously been neglectful & dishonest during their shift-count, possibly because they're embezzling money in a complex criminal scheme. If I were you, I'd immediately contact the manufacturer & make them aware of the obvious criminal conspiracy taking place in their factory. 's all true. Honest!

The Brownell's advert above the main forum body, the one with the 'accessorized' shotgun has been bothering me for a while now. Has anyone else noticed that the loading gate seems to be hanging down by a half inch & the extended tube magazine looks bent! I don't know why, but whenever that particular banner is above the forum, my eye is immediately drawn to it. Is it supposed to look like that, or have Brownells dropped a bollock by using a poorly built, cobbled together gun?

Yup, BIG fan. Sonofa....gun has cost me a fortune!

Somewhere, on a lone, cold prarie, a cowboy is playing Taps.

I've canoed the Caney a couple of times. Personally, I'd avoid a flatbottom Jon boat. If it's big enough to be stable enough for fluff-chucking, it'll be too big to maneuver in the Caney. A good friend of mine & I have found that solo paddling a decent size canoe is much simpler & more stable. A couple of things to be aware of though, when they hit the button to open the sluices at the dam, the water gets real fast, real quick. The other being the hundreds of pleasure canoers & tubers that want to float along with you. They can be a REAL pain in the a$$. You might want to look into a cheap drift-boat. If you can make it up to Troutfest when they hold it (I can't remember the dates) you can see & try out a few very nicely priced drifters. If a canoe/gheenoe etc... isn't your cup of tea, go with a 'V' hulled jon boat (a proper, traditional 'boat shaped' boat. Pointy at the front, flat at the back) they're much more stable in moving water than a flatbottom. You may also want to look at the NuCanoe. Fiendishly useful looking bit of kit

Thanks for the kind words y'all! Got out in the back yard this afternoon to give it it's trial run. I only loaded light, 50gn of FFG under a .530 ball & .018 patch. I'll get some range time at the weekend to start working on a load (although I may just wait until I've got a hundred of so shots through it) & start dialling it in. Here's the first 5 offhand at 35yds though. Encouraging so far.....

[h=1]$9 Gallon Gasoline Will Crash World Economies If WW3 Starts[/h]Isn't the bigger issue, surely, that we'd be in the middle of WW3? Everyone's at war with everyone else! Who gives a flying expletive how much gas costs!

I got the call today, from John Anderson here in Tullahoma, that he'd finished up building my 'Tennessee non-typical' longrifle. It's a fullstock, has a 42" Octagon to round (and slightly swamped) Colerain barrel. L&R Durrs Egg lock & Davis triggers. John built it in a style suited to me, rather than following any existing 'pattern' It's influenced by the Southern Mountain rifles, but it has been altered to suit my own tastes. OAL is 62" I may need to buy a box to stand on to load the thing! The stock doesn't show up particularly well in my shoddy photos, but it's one of the prettiest pieces of Maple I've seen!

Sorry if this is a repost, but it really made me chuckle! How Everything Goes to Hell During a Zombie Apocalypse - The Oatmeal

Dickel all the way. Not the most spendy, not the cheapest, but one of the smoothing drinking non-Scotch Whiskies I've tried.

Sorry Jack, slipped into a bit of colloquial there Boz-Eyed. Descriptive. 'He is boz-eyed', 'He has a bozzy eye' One, or both eyes are pointing in different directions. A lazy eye. Can't tell whether the person is looking AT you or looking FOR you.

Just saw the trailer at the theater tonight. I am seriously giddy as hell about seeing the latest & last, Batman movie. As far as Bond goes, I always thought that there would never be a better Bond than Connery, until Daniel Craig. When I first saw the films, before I read the books, Connery's Bond seemed far more enigmatic, charismatic & believable. Since reading the books & figuring out that Bond is basically just a government sanctioned thug in a suit, I think Craig's portrayal is much more accurate than any of the others. On a similar vein, Matt Damon as Jason Bourne was awesome, again, until I read the books. Jason Bourne is originally written as a middle aged guy & The Bourne Identity begins in an underground Casino in Japan! (If memory serves.....)

Worst movie of all time ever, ever? Ghost Dog, Way of the Samurai. Fat, Black, pigeon fancying, boz-eyed Samurai? No thanks. No plot to follow, badly scripted, no dialog to speak of (pun intended), TERRIBLY cast, depressing & pointless waste of celluloid.

That's cos you don't know no better! LOL! Just kidding I'm still flabberghasted that there's a forum for Tacoma owners!

A really nice SxS 12 gauge, but I know it ain't gonna happen! I'd be tickled pink to get a copy of Cabelas Big Game hunter for the Wii ('cos I'm mentally still 9)

Alrighty. You'll need; 6" of backstrap per serving, cleaned & with all the siver skin removed & marinated for 24 hours in; ¼ cup Soy Sauce 1 tsp Tabasco 1 tsp Liquid Smoke ½ red bell pepper ½ yellow bell pepper 3 Portabella mushrooms ¼ cup garden peas ½ stick of celery 2 rashers of bacon ¼ cup toasted pine nuts ½ cup basmati or risotto rice ½ cup Madeira (sweet Sherry or White Port would work) ½ pint GOOD chicken stock Method; Finely dice all the vegetables & bacon & soften in olive oil in a large skillet. Add pinenuts when cooked (If you're nut are un-toasted, dry fry them over a low heat until they begin to darken) Slide a long chef's knife into the center of your backstrap, creating a tube & stuff roughly 1/3 of your veg-mix into the cavity. Place the stuffed meat on a pre-heated grill (250-300º) & baste with marinade. Cook for aproximately 15 minutes & turn. Re-heat the remaining veg & add the rice. Fry the DRY rice until clear (this gets the flavour deep into the rice grains) Begin adding your stock a tiny bit at a time & boil until almost absorbed by the rice. Keep adding your stock in small amounts until the rice is almost cooked. Finish the rice by adding your Madeira (this gives a nice, sweet flavor) Make sure the rice is throughly cooked & all the liquor is absorbed. Your stock quantity will vary depending on the amount of rice you're cooking. Total cooking time should be around 15 minutes. Once cooked, turn off the heat & let sit for 5 minutes & the rice will totally absorb all the liquid, it also gives your venison time to rest before you slice it. Slice the venison into 1" 'rounds' & serve on top of the risotto. It's very well accompanied by a nice, light Red wine (Riocha or Shiraz for preference) Total cooking time is about 20 minutes.

Yup! Stuffed with mixed peppers & pinenuts, served on a bed of chicken & madeira risotto.

I'll be back soon with the details, but here's a teaser.....

I'm not usually one to get all frothy in praise of a corporation but I'm going to have to here. In the recent thread asking for opinions on the Henry .17hmr I mentioned that I'd really like to polish the receiver of my H001 if I could get a matching, metal barrel band. I was told to email Henry and ask & also ask about a replacement front sight. Well, at 10pm last night that's exactly what I did. I just mentioned that I'd like to purchase these items if they were available (they're not on the website) 5 minutes ago I received a phone call from the CEO of Henry Repeating Arms (the "Amurrican Made" guy from the tv comercials) letting me know that the parts are indeed available & that as a valued customer, he'd be more than happy to shop me these items FREE OF CHARGE!!! I'm utterly stunned by this. This level of generosity & customer service simply blows my mind! Henry Repeating Arms, you have a customer for life!

If I could find a steel barrel band, that's exactly what I'd like to do! I could paint the plastic, standard band, but I'd rather get hold of a metal one if I can.