November Cawfee, Tea 'n' Grub Thread

[Texas Lawdog]

Congrats to Major on your state match being voted match of the year!!

[Silver Creek Slim]

Congrats!

Slim

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Howdy, pards. Been out of town for a few days and just rolled into town. I see you all have been busy. Hope I didn't miss anything important like birthdays, shoots and such.

I do see that your match is going to be your state championship, Majer. Congrats.

OK, I'll have to catch up later.

[El Peludo]

'Ev'nin' folkses, any MUD left in the bottom of the pot?

Belated Happy Birthday, Miss Annie.  Hope your travels are going well.

I'll be thinking of your wife RussT, hope she gets weller quicker.  Been over that path myself.

JDY, you're a man after my own heart; stuff 'em full, mash it down, and crimp - BOOM, choke, blink, wheeze, love it.  At a match in Orroville, CA, some years back, one stage called for shooting out the winder - made of butcher paper stapled over a frame about 2' x 2' - with your shootgun, and then engaging the eight targets beyond through the broken winder.  You had to get a big enough hole to stick the barrel(s) through, and move enough to see all the targets.  Most of the folks on our posse were shooting that heathen powder, and tight chokes, and took lots of shots to get a hole big enough.  I had some #6, 1-1/8 oz. square loads with 2F, and my first shot from five yards, cyl bore, lit the paper on fire and burned it clear and set the winder frame afire, too; that got to bein' some real fun, then.  Speaking of buck and roar and smoke, RussT, does Tim - Jasper Agate still shoot his Walkers and Dragoons?  When he was shooting with us at Beale AFB, he always alarmed any visitors that were around with the boom and such.  We all got a big kick out of it.

Well, I'm sitting here doing my PT (typing) for my right hand this time; went in and got my softball sized bandage yesterday.  Today, I have my hand back, except for the bandage.  The tingling and lack of sensation are almost completely gone, and even with the bandage, I have very good motion.  I may not do any shooting for a spell, but that has been my story for several years anyhow; when you can't feel the trigger, and every shot is like an icepick in your hand, you don't do much of it.  Once the soreness gets gone and the palm and wrist can handle the thump, I'll get back to it.

Weather has been good, as usual, mild days, cool evenings, some high thin clouds from time to time, but generally, just normal desert fall; nice.

Time to go see what I can scrounge up for supper.

Later.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Glad to hear the feeling is coming back rather rapidly, EP. Good sign! Just don't over do it, but then again some motion keeps it from scarring up short.(BT,DT)( not fun!)

[Silver Creek Slim]

Got up ta 68. 'Tis 39. Low of 35.

Slim

[Leo Tanner]

Chicken accordian blew fer supper.  We're feedin this kid good afore he goes back out on the road.  Aint sure who I'm gonna miss more, him er his little beagal.

Good news Maj, I bet it were fun, all them folks misusin guns like that.  (Yeah I still got a craw about what that idot in Arcey's paper said).  Congradulations!

[MontanaSlick]

After a pot of Cawffee I finallly got some work done on my new leather shop, missed the shoot today, but thats okay, I needed to get some issues tied up.

Tomorrow, much of the same thing, cawffee, work , work, more Cawffee.

MS

[Marshal Will Wingam]

A belated Happy B-Day, Mis Annie. Hope it was a fine one.

[J.D. Yellowhammer]

Mornin all.

JDY, you're a man after my own heart; stuff 'em full, mash it down, and crimp - BOOM, choke, blink, wheeze, love it.  

Well, them cartridges certainly had the desired effect. Just ask Texas Jack or anyone else that had the misfortune to be timing me, especially on the stages in the little cabins. Copious amounts of smoke and flame and thunder-clap Booms!    

Unfortunately, two issues slightly dampened my pleasure:

1. There was a range next to ours where some folks were shootin exploding targets loaded with big heaps of black. Those explosions totally out-boomed and out-smoked me.  

2. My wife complained that I didn't set the woods on fire, implying that my loads weren't truly Manly.  

PS: Hope yer hand heals fast!  Glad it's gettin better.