Recent content by mr surveyor

I agree!

why do you want to fly on something that's trying to sling it's own wings off ;) jd

"House on the Haunted HIl", 1961 .... I was 8 years old

weekly ... or more

does this include having a fully equipped gunsmith available 24/7 to keep those limited number of guns working? If not, I ain't going to your island jd

I can only speak for myself on the issue of shooting various different handguns, back to back, and expecting to do my best. My hands develop a bit of muscle memory with my handguns after shooting several rounds. That muscle memory carries over to the next handgun for quite a few rounds before it...

wax bullets, primer only, in a revolver jd

That was my exact experience 45-50 years ago. I was "assistant manager" of a small junior college ag farm and we had a couple of baby calves killed, supposedly by coyotes - which we had an abundance of. Other folks nearby had also been experiencing livestock loses as well. Being a bit fond of...

Even though I'm just finishing the 2 gallon pot of gumbo I cooked on Monday to celebrate Stumpwater National Gumbo Week (it only comes around two times a month here), my grandson and his wife and kids requested my gumbo for the Christmas Eve family gathering. So, Thursday will be spent putting...

You gotta enter to win .... leaves me out .... jd

What's the reason for a new state flag? jd

That looked and sounded like a total idiot scam .... it ain't gumbo. This coming Monday has been declared Stumpwater National Gumbo Week (by me - the mayor of Stumpwater), which only comes around a couple of times a month, and I will be cooking my usual 1-1/2 to 2 gallon batch. I think this will...

In 2007 I bought a used (older model) S2K to play around with. Until I found the proper way to handle it that 10 pound buffer weight nearly beat me to death, but at least that issue was overcome. I put thousands of happy rounds through it until it got traded in 2010. Then, as luck would have it...

My parents didn't get their first color TV until I got married and moved out of the house in January of 1973. By then, color TV pictures were almost tolerable. jd

"It's not the fall that makes it hurt ..... it's just that sudden stop"! (I did the rodeo thing a little bit in my younger years) jd