I am facing a scary time next week and ask for your prayers and thoughts next Wednesday.
I'm 80 so any surgery can be tricky but this has me a bit on edge. I've had 2 strokes in the past 2 months...
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Forum: Our Town
I am facing a scary time next week and ask for your prayers and thoughts next Wednesday.
I'm 80 so any surgery can be tricky but this has me a bit on edge. I've had 2 strokes in the past 2 months...
Forum: Our Town
Don't know about device manager...complete nube.
Forum: Our Town
I have a desk top with Windows 7, running Firefox...it has always done what I wanted but something has gone awry recently. I have loaded the software packages for my various cameras, phones,...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I'll give you my personal information...mine only....I have advanced COPD, asthma and a Hemi-diaphrgm which means 1/2 of my diaphragm is paralized so only one lung is functional...my...
Forum: Our Town
I have many many friends on the board and want to tell what could be a life saving story...hope it might help some day.
On May 30th I woke at my normal early hour (about 4am) and tried to turn on...
Forum: Our Town
Living in San Diego the military is an ever present part of our lives...Lots of nice activities over the years to help say thanks to our service men and women...Up until a few years ago I was able to...
Forum: Our Town
Wonderful California...drought, drought, drought and then a "massive rain storm"...we had 0.01 inch of rain....didn't even wash the dust off my windshield..but the accident rate on the freeway...
Way back in the 50's a friend and I welded up a trap thrower that did a very servicible job..ugly and dangerous but it worked...Loved to shot clay birds with it and got fairly good with it. ...
Forum: AirGuns
I have a 30 year old Gamo spring cocker that has open sights...very plane jane...we had a neighbor that fed pigeons in her back yard and every morning there would be about 50 or 75 "flying rats"...
Forum: Military Rifles
Love those old canons..I worked in a gun shop in the 50's while going to college....a 1917 in like new shape was about $25...we all made "deer rifles" out of them back then..I really put a lot of...
Forum: Our Town
A while back I purchased a portable generator and since it was to be my first I did a lot of research...the Predator "brand" of generator that Harbor Freight sells sounded really good "on paper" from...
Forum: Our Town
On the day that I die
On the day I die a lot will happen.
A lot will change.
The world will be busy.
On the day I die, all the important appointments I made will be left unattended.
The many...
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
That's why I don' t use Bullseye in 38 special
Forum: Gunsmithing Tips & Tricks
I load my 38 special loads in 357 cases..never have a ring...works like a champ
Forum: Our Town
My Wife has had a lumbar laminectomy, 2 back lumbar fusion operations and a 3 level neck vertebrae fusion...she suffers bursitis in her left hip and leg and also has fibromialgia..She has been...
Forum: Our Town
You all have made a serious mistake!! My Wife...non technical wizard that she is....asked me to please find her a phone that was durable...that was easy for an older person to use..for a phone that...
Forum: Military Rifles
8mm does have a bit of a kick to it...lol...Don't ask me about this but it was a '98 "sporter" that has some stock fit issues for me..wheeee
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Forum: Our Town
My Wife and I are both hearing disabled...she got "miracle ear" hearing aids about 4 or 5 years ago...some $4000...she didn't wear them at all after about the first few months...As time went on and...
Forum: Our Chapel
Just before I had one done (in 2006) the doctor came into the prep room where they were getting me ready to go into the O/R and he said ..."you seem awfully calm"...I told him I'd given it all to God...
Forum: Our Town
We have several cats and our grand old man ... Junior...is sort of getting ready to "move on"...he's 18..no real illness that the vet can find but he's showing the aging process really a lot in the...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I load Missouri Bullet Co "cowboy #4" (lead round nose flat point..200 grain...high tech coated...12 hardness) in both my CZ 97 45 acp and also in my Ruger Blackhawk 45 Colt/45acp convertible ....I...
Forum: Our Town
I'm much closer to the end than I am to the beginning...so the comments about death get my attention...been losing friends fairly regularly these days so give things some thought...I mentioned on...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |