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Post by Bullshop on May 18, 2020 18:16:12 GMT -7
I don't understand why we get 100 to 150 visitors to the forum every day but there are only about a half dozen that regularly participate in conversations. Its likely the same visitors for the most part that visit every day so they must find the forum interesting.
All are welcome to join in with just one restriction, no politics so please visitors feel free to ask questions or voice your opinion or share your experience with our favorite pass time of making and shooting lead alloy bullets. Its a pretty easy going friendly place and in the few years we have been here we haven't had to kill anyone, yet !
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Post by missionary on May 18, 2020 19:06:20 GMT -7
Ya know Dan you have a right friendly way of inviting folks...
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Post by Bullshop on May 19, 2020 5:52:34 GMT -7
Ya think the scared straight tactic at the end was a little over the top ?
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Post by Bruno I on May 19, 2020 8:38:56 GMT -7
Hello Dan; I check in daily to keep up with the latest. At 85 years of age I am not tech savvey enough, nor a
good enough typist, to operate a computer competantly. Be assured that I will continue to check in, and if I
have a question, or want to purchase something, I will be back. Thanks.
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Post by missionary on May 19, 2020 12:38:45 GMT -7
Well Dan it worked !
Howdy Bruno I ! I am not much of a key jabber either but I keep trying and slowly what a 10 year old can do I may get to some year.
But you have experiences and gun savvy we all need to read. Old guys know a lot ! I am near 70 and still know so little....
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Post by Bullshop on May 19, 2020 14:28:12 GMT -7
Well hello Sir Bruno, good to cyber see you here ! I am a two finger typer myself but hey you cant tell by reading it right.
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Post by shootist---Gary on May 19, 2020 20:30:03 GMT -7
Hi all. I sneak in here almost every evening to eavesdrop on the interesting topics. A lot of them, I'm not really interested in, as I'm kind of old fashioned in my likes, as I showed Daniel when I visited with him. Black powder smells better to me than smokeless, & also mostly doesn't kick me as much. I guess that I watched too many Hopalong Cassidy, Lash LaRue, Buck Jones, Tom Mix, & others of that era, to learn to like clip fed guns, & bottle necked cartridges. OK, I will say that I like my Model 1892 Winchester .25-20 W.C.F. rifle, as I have owned it since the late 1960's, while a great many other good guns found new owners. A like new .30-40 Krag, 2 M-1 Garands, bought back in '68 for about $150 each, 2 still in cosmoline 03-A3 Springfield .30-06's, bought for $35 each at a local gun shop in 1969, a very nice Artillery Luger, 6 nice Civil War Carbines, & more. Now, still have 3 S.A. Colts, 1 of which is a Bisley, a 3 screw Ruger Flattop .44 Mag, a Uberti 1847 Walker replica .44 C & B, 3 T. C. Hawkens, a Trapdoor, a .50-70 1871 New York Rolling Block, & a few more. I donated both of my Remington's, a rare, 1 of 1000 .36 navy to.38 Colt Center Fire factory conversions, that had belonged to my Great Grandfather in West Virginia, that I owned since 1968, & my original 1858 army .44 c & b, that I bought in 1963 for $100, to the West Virginia History & Culture Museum in Charleston, last June. My Colt .58 Musket was donated to the American Legion war Vet museum in Canfield, Ohio. As I'm getting older, I want others to be able to enjoy these firearms that I have enjoyed for about 50 years, more or less. Sorry that I got to rambling. Take care, & stay healthy.
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Post by missionary on May 20, 2020 5:43:52 GMT -7
Good morning Gary
That is a good bunch of calibers you have been shooting. I appreciate reading this... sure brought up some good memories !
When I was a little feller about 5 my dad and his Navy buddy Vern were involved in BP weekend shoots. Dad had several 1858 Remingtons and caliber .69 caplocks. Not sure if he or Vern ever won but they sure enjoyed it all.
From that I got interested in collecting firearms from the revolution on up to those "black" rifles I carried around while wearing a green suit.
We have most of those sitting in the Vermilion County War Museum in Danville, ILLinois where I volunteer on Friday's when we are up north there.
Thank you for your time here Mike in Peru
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Post by Bullshop on May 20, 2020 6:52:22 GMT -7
Thanks Gary I always enjoy and appreciate your input. I am glad you popped in because we have not heard from you in a while and I was getting worried.
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Post by shootist---Gary on May 20, 2020 19:36:43 GMT -7
Thanks for thinking of me. Yes, Jeanne & I are doing ok. I went to the Dr. for my Medicare wellness checkup today, & was told that everything seems to be fine. BP is 138 over 78, which is normal for me. The nurse always tells me 3 words to remember, then, just before thye Dr. comes in, he asks if I remember the 3 words. Today, I asked him 2 questions, 1. How many casualties did the Confederate Army suffer on the Gettysburg Campaign, July 1, 2. 3. until crossing the Potomac back into VA? 2. How many casualties did the Federal Army sustain during the same period? Casualties were killed, wounded, captured & missing. He smiled, & said that in high school, not much history was taught. I then told him that Gen. Lee's army lost an estimated 28,000, while Gen. Meade's Union losses were estimated at 23,000. I then told him that I asked him a loaded question, that I had just read that last evening, from Confederate Gen. Edward P. Alexander's book "Military Memoirs", one of the best books, as far as looking back after the war was over, & all of the battlefield reports had been scrutinized, that I have read. Gen. Alexander praises Gen. Meade's handling of his troops, & using them where needed at the right time, where, some of the Confederate Officers didn't follow Gen. Lee's plans, & took their good old time getting their troops organized, & in the correct places in time, so the Confederate attacks were piecemeal, instead of being 1 large concentrated push, followed up by reserves. Can you imagine a cannon crew spotting a Yankee gun at approx. 1,500 yds, firing a shot, with a direct hit. This was in 1863, not 1963, no computers, only a human brain to figure the distance, elevation, & fuse length. As Gen. Lee remarked after watching his troops overrun a union position, "If war wasn't so terrible, we could begin to like it", or very close to those words. Daniel & I are somewhat similar, in the respect that my memory is pretty good on the Civil War, & the gunfighters & Indian wars in the west, while Daniel is a walking encyclopedia on ballistics & performance on a very large variety of weapons. I don't know how he remembers so much, as there's always another problem to solve. Take care, my friends.
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