SOLD!  Hopefully it was somebody here who got it.

Griff

I have no affiliation with this seller, I just happened to see this for sale.

Someone is listing a copy of the classic reference book Packing Iron, by Richard Rattenbury.  It's listed for a "buy it now" price of $54.95, but it also has an "or best offer" option, so he would likely come down a bit.  In my opinion, it's well worth the price and you don't often see it for sale for less (although if you try, you might find it for less eventually). 

Just in case someone is interested...

Griff

https://www.ebay.com/itm/267197077038?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=brUzRTnDTZG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=wE7JsbpQTNq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

  Ah well Uh

Which One??  I gotz THREE.  Oh heck.  I'll just take 'em ALL 

Morning y'all.
Coffee and tea are hot.

Pulled pork for breakfast.

The better-half is getting ready to boil maple sap into maple syrup.

'Tis 22 and sunny. High of 38 and sunny.

Slim

About 30 years ago at Winter Range there was a Posse Shoot that was in a similar vein.

There was a gallows with a rope with a weighted bag at the end,
the bag was on the trap door of the gallows,
The trap door was held up by a 4x4 post,

The posse shot lever action (pistol caliber) rifles at the post until the trapdoor would drop the bag,
 (I think the post was set in a hole so it was stable & wouldn't fall)

Then the Posse would shoot the now swinging rope to cut it dropping the bag to the ground.

With a full large Posse it was over before anyone had to reload.

The die-hards were when only 6 or so Posse members showed up instead of the full 24 or so.
I watched them reload twice if I remember right. 

With good help the reset was pretty quick, pre-cut posts & the rope had pre-made loops for quick-links.

I haven't even seen a Posse shoot in many years. (lots of reasons the died out)

If you are going to have any rope shooting you might want to advertise it early, most folks don't have their guns or eyeball dialed in that tight.

Pretty simple for me. I was a kid, and grew up on the Trinity River (the California flavor, rather than the Longhorn version)

Quote from: Major E A Sterner on March 20, 2025, 12:16:38 PMTK, welcome to the brotherhood of Veterans.

Thank you sir. I'm still deciding whether to join the VFW and tell "back in my day" stories, or just accept my free pancakes from ihop on Veterans Day.  I've asked others for opinions, but I could t hear their answers over the tinnitus

(Disclaimer, tinnitus isn't a joke. I should have warn earplugs more often )

—TK

Yes, it's March 22nd., the 204th. anniversary of Benjamin Tyler Henry's birth.

So take your Henry rifles to the range this weekend, gentlemen, and let those "Sixteen-shooters" sing his praise!     

Pork butt is in the roaster with a bunch of spices.

Slim