Congratulations Rick.
Since I retired I almost never wear a shirt. Hell, I don't even wear pants unless I'm goin' to town.
(Let's see you get that image out of your mind. ;D)
Congratulations Rick.
Since I retired I almost never wear a shirt. Hell, I don't even wear pants unless I'm goin' to town.
(Let's see you get that image out of your mind. ;D)
Oh my, did you have to paint that image? I'll have trouble sleeping, keeping my food down and my
general health is now failing.
What you really don't want to mention is wearing that yellow moo moo around the house with the
bunny slippers ;D ;D ;D
Seriously, though. That is so cowboy of you to give up for someone else a shirt you could have easily
made some kind of use of. You are a gentleman sir, I mean it. :)
Bring back the Old Army!! I have coveted a pair of them short barreled Ruger Old Armies in SS ever since I saw Howdy's. Beautiful and reliable revolvers, iff'n you remember to put bullets in them. ;D
I guess you must have been there that day, Charlie!
LOL, Will ever live that one down? ;D ;D ;D
Hey, I miss you and Twinkletoes Katy a bunch, pard.
Whajoodoo, Howdy? Share with us, man. We want to laugh at you and point like everyone else. ;D
(I know I'm gonna pay for this, but it will be worth it. ;D)
Congratulations Rick.
Since I retired I almost never wear a shirt. Hell, I don't even wear pants unless I'm goin' to town.
(Let's see you get that image out of your mind. ;D)
I mean shirt and i will learn how to spell someday.
By golly Forty Rod,i'll play wipeout any time on yer belly,now ther's an image fer ya :D Thank for the shirt ;D
Thanks Chuck, she loves the birdshead frames. I'll get her hands on one for a trial run, but the gut tells me we have a winner here. She has some health issues as well (enough to keep her away from the .30-30) so for the long term, it seems like the perfect caliber.
Leo
I love my shirt Marshalette. :)
I wore it to a formal affair. A sort of rally of tree huggin' PETA folks. I got lots of comments on the shirt.
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Nawwww, just funnin' ya a mite is all. It is a great shirt, but I wore a beaver coat instead ;D ;D ;D
Unfortunately I am now down to just the Large and Medium sizes... so some of you fellers might want to enter for your wives.
;) I wear the medium and it looks mighty purty on us gals. :)
Back before there was a SASS I bought a Ruger. It is the Ruger Old Army. I've shot deer with it, rabbits, heads off partridge and uncountable former receptacles of fermented malt beverages. I shot round balls and conicals but was never impressed with the accuracy of the second cylinder full without cleaning. But, that's another story. I'm getting ahead of myself here.what did you have in that can ? I have shot ffffg 40 grains with both conical and round in my ROA for years with no problems just a lot of smoke and a lot of bang. you had better check your can!
One sunny summer afternoon I decided that I wanted more power from the ROA. I'd tried putting all the FFFg under a conical that would still allow the cylinder to turn. Pretty impressive, but I wanted more. I had a can of pan priming powder from a pard that quit shooting his flint lock front stuffer rifle. The can was worn, but I knew what it held. So, I charged up the ROA with a good compressed charge of FFFFg under conical bullets.
Then, I put up some of them empty beverage cans and had at it. First shot had impressive roar and recoil. The can took a dead center hit. And, the hammer was OPEN on the ROA. The blowback had blown the cap off and the hammer open. I pulled the trigger again and BOOM. Same thing. Second can suffered a fatal wound. Then, I noticed blood dripping off my glasses. The caps had hit me in the forehead and blood was running.
I didn't empty the last four chambers by shooting them. I pulled the bullets, scooped out the powder and cleaned the gun.
That's one strong gun. Also, one dumb but learning shooter. I never repeated that experiment and never will. Thanks to the glasses I didn't loose my eyes. Things could have been worse.
So, now you know the story of the semi-auto ROA. I wonder if I'd held the trigger back if it might not have gone full auto???
That same gun is in the photo below, along with a matching companion. It now goes to SASS matches with either a Kirst Konverter cylinder or the original C&B cylinder, depending on my mood. These ROAs have a balance and feel that my big hands love. The brass backstraps and squareback trigger guards are a joy to the eye.
I have other Ruger guns, but this is my first one. All are good, but the original ROA has a special place in my heart.
DD-DLoS