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The oldest gun in my possession is my great grandfather's 1880's Belgian-made 16 ga muzzle loading percussion cap SxS hammer gun. (Now a wall hanger). The oldest gun I own is a 12 ga. Marlin Model 90DT made in 1950 that my dad bought used for me in 1957 when I was 14. (67 years). He shortened...

Mobuck, you might want to make an appointment with a neuropsychologist. It might be a sign of “age-related cognitive impairment.” LOL We date all leftovers and throw out anything OVER 7 days old.

Glock pistols are made of a specially formulated Nylon 6 polymer. Type 6 Nylon melts at about 410 degrees F. According to Glock, their reinforced nylon 6 is serviceable to 200 C. (392 F)

As a teenager one winter in the late 1950’s while living on the family farm in Central Illinois, I saw a large “chicken hawk” (actually a red tailed hawk) perched in the top of an oak tree in the pasture east of the barn. I rested my dad’s Stevens model 66 bolt action .22 LR with open sights on...

I play all sports left handed. I shoot, write and wipe my butt right handed. 10 years ago at age 72 I had a torn left rotator cuff, bone spur and partially torn bicep tendon repaired by minimally invasive orthoscopic surgery. My arm was in a sling for 3 weeks. I slept in a recliner for 2...

Curious if you have ever weighed out 5mg on your digital scale and check to see if it weighs 5 mg on your other two spring scales. Just because the scales are graduated in 0.1 grain increments goes not guarantee they are accurate to 0.1 grains. Also, have you ever weighed the same 5mg ten times...

I remember on a trip toYellowstone about 30 years ago, we saw a large bull moose grazing in a marshy area about 50 yards from the road. I got out of the car to take some pictures. As I walked around the front of the car, the moose looked at me and started walking at a fast pace directly toward...

I grew up on a farm in Illinois abut 75 miles from St. Louis. I played little league baseball and basketball and baseball in high school. In our area there was a kind of rivalry between Cardinal and Cubs fans. I still ckeck how the Cardinals are doing but don't consider myself as a diehard fan...

You should have shot off twice as many firecrackers since Michigan beat no. 2 Ohio State for the third time in three years Saturday with Michigan's coach serving a three game suspension.

Growing up on the farm. we had a 55 gallon burn barrel. As kids we had fun putting empty aerosol cans in the trash fire to hear and watch them blow up. another thing we did as kids was stick .22 LR cartridges in the end of corn cobs and light them on fire with kerosene. Obviously, we...

My cousin and I had a very similar experience on the farm as teenagers--A very large brush pile about 200n yds from the house. a gallon of gas and several kitchen matches. There was a pretty stiff breeze out of the southeast. We poured the entire gallon of gas on the pile, then we moved to...

The original post in X had additional information. According the written X report, it was Ferric Chloride, not nitric acid. It was also reported that the person survived.

On Halloween night in 2007 we met our guide at a motel in Great Falls, Montana at the start of a 6-day Blast and Cast trip (2 days of duck hunting, 2 days of upland bird hunting and 2 days of trout fishing). He parked his truck and boat with his decoys, waders, etc, in the motel parking lot...

We got our first tv, a small B&W table model, when I was 10 in 1953. We lived about 70 miles from St Louis that provided three network VHF channels. Dad planned to put up a roof top antenna on a Saturday, but it raining, and the cedar shingle roof on our single story farm house was “too...

When I turned 65, my dad, who was 90, told his friends that you know you are getting old when you have a kid on Social Security.