Recent content by Gaffer

The part that bugs me the most is the laws created by dishonest legislators to supposedly protect individuals who are suffering from this insidious illness but actually make it worse by their action or inaction. It seems as if our government and its so called legislation is basically robbing...

I am currently dealing with younger brother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. He his been giving away his money to various animal rescue groups and Indian schools and missions. He blames me for the state taking away his drivers license but it was actually done by the doctors. What bugs me the...

I am a Maine resident but still keep my CCW permit up to date for several reasons. One is that other states recognize it, not enough I'll admit, but still enough to help out and two I am told by law enforcement that if stopped while carrying you are breaking the law if you don't immediately...

As one who has had a torn retina, one of the questions I asked the doctor/surgeon was my shooting a possible cause of the injury. He said he did not think so and felt it was more a condition of old age that added to the causation. As a competitive shooter all my life in skeet, trap and some big...

Well I am a member of the Crotchety Old Man's club as well but at 86 I am really set in my ways. I have a routine and woe be to any who upset that, with exception to the wife of course. I can barely hear even with my hearing aids so my days need to be fixed and I do better at the computer as I...

Years ago back in the seventies I bought used a 4 barrel set of Contenders with the frame that had only 4 digits in the serial number. The barrels were all octagonal and in calibers .45/.410, .22rf,.256 WM and .222. Paid $95 for the whole set up. Since then I have added 5-6 more in various...

Some friends of ours just moved from Mass. to Tenn. and found that MV insurance was twice as high as they paid in Mass.. That is not a good thing I would guess as Mass. has high insurance rates with all the crazy drivers they have there.

Many years ago on a cold Thanksgiving day a large station wagon pulled into the dooryard of the house behind me that was for rent. Out of it came nearly a dozen black men, women and children. Over the next week we saw delivery trucks with stoves, refrigerators, washer and dryers. Oh, but I knew...

Can't comment on the serial number as my five are all earlier. The triggers can be made to be extremely good with the proper fixes. I have two that are at 8 ounces for silhouette shooting but don't use them that light for hinting. There are several ways to lighten the trigger but the safest is...

If the 20 gauge has screw in chokes then use full or modified. If it is w/o chokes it will be marked on the barrel shank. If it is cylinder or sheet choked he will need to shoot fast as the longer he waits the more open the pattern will be with holes that a bird can sneak through.

From my past experience with folks in Montana there bare a fair number of liberals there. Yes there may be conservative thinking there but from the many I have had interface with they lean toward prgressive liberal as they vote. Not sure why but my past visits indicate that it is so.

They just named a new CEO, Ken Hicks. The old one had an email address of [email protected] so can only assume that the new guy has [email protected]. Give it a shot!

I haven't been following this that close to know all the distances etc. Why can't they supply bthem with enough food and tunnel in from another direction or is that not possible as they don't know exactly where they are in surface location.

Ruger Mod. 77/22RF, and 77/22Hornet with the two part bolt that has the locking lugs at the rear of the action have not been as accurate as they could be due to the excessive and changing headspace. It seems that due to the small difference created by the two piece bolt that accuracy can suffer...

To get started you can be very simple, but as time goes by you will yearn for more equipment to speed up the process etc. Reloading is similar to most other processes where you start simple and then expand as you learn. You don't have to start gold plated,in fact it better to start simple and...