Hey All
Thought I would start a new one.Hope your football team is doing better then mine.TN lost yesterday 59-0.Even my other team the skins are doing bad.Not much to do with the bb guns.Still have some to hang up and need to do some more work on the Marshals office but waiting till it gets a little colder outside.Going to a Halloween party,the wife will go as Rosie the riveter and I will go as a WW2 soldier.Last year she was an angel and I was a gangster.Hope all is well with everyone
Stevec

All is good on this end. It's getting cold here now. All the leaves are falling off of the trees. Thanks.

stevec

I am NOT a sports fan.

Don't have a clue who played in the Super Bowl or World Series last year.

But I am a Vikings fan.

I started in the late 60's when Gary Larsen (spells his name wrong) was one of the front four with Marshall, Page and Eller.

What I liked was often the defense scored as many points as the defense.

I also liked seeing it first and goal for the other team, and having them hold them for all four downs.

I probably have not watched a full game in 3 or 4 years but I consider myself a Vikings (and Cardinals) fan.

It is getting colder out, what happened to Gore-bull Warming?

Good to see you guys out and about.
It's cooling off here and raining more these days.
I'm not much of a sports fan either, still sorry to hear about your teams, stevec.
I hope you didn't lose too much on them.
I am going to a local gunshow today, maybe something will follow me home. KD

Well college is going good. I'm really likeing it. I can't wait to go out and find a job after I'm done. So what are you guys up to these days? Well I'll talk to ya'll later.

RM
Setting inside while it rains mostly.

It has been a very wet summer and fall.

The leaves are falling from some trees. The fall colors are really beautiful this year. No frost yet to kill them and knock them off with the rain.

I hope it drys out before cold weather moves in.

Glad to hear things are going well in school, keep up the good work.

It was cold here but it warmed up. Not really any snow here yet. Was at an airgun show on Saturday. There was some pretty cool stuff there. Other than that I've been busy with college. I'm doing well. Getting high marks Im second highest in the welding class. And doing well in the fab shop too. I'm gettng mostly 80's and 90's in the theory classes. Math is a class I have to work on though. Well talk to ya'll later. Thanks.

Howdy from south Texas! I inherited a nice Daisy NRA Comm.179 pistol, a Buffalo Bill Daisy 1894 and a Daisy/Winchester wood stocked 1894. The Daisy/Win. is a real fun gun..and plays hell with woodpeckers!These airguns make an interesting western display for my cabin. I did some "wheelin'n dealing" trading awhile back and got my grubby old cowboy hands on a vintage 1910 made 1893 Marlin lever action rifle in 38-55. Had to replace the stock and crescent butt place, the firing pin..now is a great shooter! Real story behind this old shootin" iron from the Republic of Mexico....! Good luck, good shootin' JD

JD

Sounds like a nice set of BB guns.

Wish you could send those troublesome woodpeckers up this way.

I live in town and the starlings give the redheaded ones stiff competition for nesting areas.

Here in Illinois most songbirds are protected except starlings and house sparrows.

When I got my first BB gun my 'job' was to exterminate all the sparrows around my grandfathers barns.

Shot a lot of them but never made a dent in the population.

Sounds like a neat old lever action, is ammo easy to get for it?

No sir the 38-55 ammo is not really easy to obtain. In ancient lever action rifles such as mine...use caution! Don"t shoot modern loads for current made guns. I got my ammo from a reloader in Apache, Arizona. He was told it was for a 1910 era gun so when I fired the first round..a huge cloud of black powder smoke poured out the barrel! So he must have loaded 55 grains of BP in each round. The heavy octagonal( 26") barrel holds 'er down so recoil is mild. It makes my little Henry(blued).22 saddle carbine look like a toy! Buenos dias,hombres The Old Texian JD

Cool.

Bet the black powder loads are fun to shoot, if you don't need to see the target soon.

I fired the old Marlin....just one time with those BP loads and it took 18 oily swabs/patches to get the soot out! So I am hoping to get some smokless powder loads of lower pressure suited for this old rascal. JD HAPPY THANKSGIVING and LORD BLESS TEXAS....and the GOOD 'OL USA !!

Sounds like you got some nice guns there sir. I bet the Marlin will be fun to shoot with some smokeless powder loads. I like powder burners but don't get to shoot them often. Well I'll talk to ya'll later. Thanks.

What is funny for me is getting used to shooting the Daisy/Winchester 1894 BB carbine. You have to manually cock the hammer after lever is worked. I am used to real saddleguns like the 94 Winchester,Henry & Marlin that hammer is cocked by the lever. Sometimes try for a fast woodpecker shot and forget to bring hammer back and think 'What the Helll....' And another thing I have a display case with several single-action co2 and springer model pistols of the 1950s -70s era. Lawmen and hunters seem puzzled, never heard of such guns before. Guess they arent old farts like I am!!

The current 38-55 cartridges are anemic by todays standards and are safe for the older firearms.
I've used black powder in my first year 1894 Winchester and then found out what a chore it was cleaning.
Lots of fun to shoot black powder, lots of fun cleaning up. KD

Why would you shoot Woodpeckers?

I shoot 'em because they are very destructive to the utility poles at my place. They peck big ugly holes in porch posts at hunting camp cabins and corral posts. We have two types of the little devils. Large and a smaller variety. You can tap on rifle stock like a woodpecker and soon one will fly over checking it out and light on a limb nearby...then you pop the rascal.

No sir, SOME of the modern 38-55 loads are not safe in old rifles like mine. I talked to a leading manufacturer and was told"Do not use our ammo in your gun. Our ammo is very high pressure and suitable only in modern firearms." A friend blew up an old 1886 Winchester in another caliber. Think it was 45-90 not sure about that. Anyhow he suffered a badly torn arm and hand from the mishap. Plus ruined a high priced antique.

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Living somewhat isolated from REAL wildlife as most of us do it is easy to forget that wild animals and civilization often clash.

Where I live it was almost unheard of to see whitetail deer 40 years ago, now you worry about running into one on the highway (I got one a couple years ago) and they just love some of the high priced landscape plants some people have.

I have a picture of my grandfather with a golden eagle he shot, had a write up in the paper about it many years ago.
I suspect if I shot one today it would make the paper too, but the story would probably have a different slant to it.

When I used to visit my uncle, who lived in the country and had chickens back in the late 50's, my cousin and I were urged to shoot any large hawks we saw.

My mistake,I was thinking of Winchester 38-55 ammunition in my own first year Win 1894.
I don't shoot anything above black powder velocities and pressures in that rifle. KD

Some varities are protected by the Federal Gov. or state laws.


Sometimes silence is golden,sometimes it's not.

Wow sounds like you guys have fun with your black powder. Wish I had more time to shoot. I got out for a few shots yesterday but it was cold. Well talk to ya'll later.

How cold RM422?

Friday the frost was heavy and finally killed the pepper plants in my garden, everything else has been dead for a few weeks.

Looks like we will have at least a week with lows below freezing here.

It's been about 5 degrees celcius. Maybe a little warmer in the sun. We had a bit of snow the other day. Thanks.

Steve, Hope you are enjoying your new home and retirement...

Seems as though Our AirgunsUSA site has fell through a crack...

I have talked to Brian Quinn in Texas a couple times..

I have called Joe and left messages but he has never answered..? Kinda weird..Hope he is OK. You ever hear from Him?

Oh well life goes on..

Hope Your Christmas In Merry and Bright.

Loyd

Lda2219@comcast.net

Hey guy
Glad to hear from you.It is a shame about airgunsusa but it just wasn't a user friendly site.I am sure Joe did his best.Maybe he will come up with something better.I am semi-retired.I have a home repair company that I have started here.I also work on the main gate here two times a week.It is a gated community.Hope things are fine with you and the family
Stevec

If I am be excused for a moment by getting off the airgun topics but here"s a TRUE little 'gun' tale; Back in the 1930s my uncle Herbert(died in the '80)had a small drilling rig and was hired to drill for oil in old Mexico. I have no idea just where in the 'Land of Manana' that was except had to have been deep in the interior. The location was a jungle and wild monkeys would get in every thing. Play hell with any food stuffs. Uncle would shoot the blasted things trying to protect the supplies etc.etc. One day an old, old weathered Mexican walked into their work camp wanting to speak to the 'Honcho'(bossman, patrone). Uncle Herbert being very sharp understood him quite well. He had something to sell. From an old burlap bag, the sunburnt wrinkled old vaquero pull out a gigantic revolver-an 1848 Colt Walker. All 4 lbs, 9 ozs. of cold steel. A relic of the Mexican American War that some U S Dragoon must have died yeilding in a long ago forgotten battle. There was a bit of metal broke off one side of the V sight on the huge hammer but nothing else seemed missing or broke. My uncle had spent all his money investing in the drilling/men"s payroll and so on and was could barely afford a Tequila at that moment.....the asking price was only SEVEN DOLLARS!! He had to pass on that deal. My guess is these days you would be mobbed at a big gunshow by collectors and maybe reap $ 50,000 -$100,000 for that BIG IRON!!

Steve,

I have been doing alot of visiting my Doctors.....Health is not as good as 20 yrs. ago...Still
getting around just not as fast as before...

I recently added a 1962 Corvette to My 2 car collection..So now I have a 1972 Corvette and a 1962
Corvette...I think the rate of return is a alot better than the Bank investments lately..
I have not talked to any of the Old members from AirGuns USA...Dave Albert passed away last month. He was a Very Nice Guy..Did alot of Gun-take apart diagrams for the site..

I have some guns, I think I will start thinng out a bit..I just Sold a Daisy double holster set with matching 179 pistols...

Here's Hoping You and Your Wife a Very MerrY Christmas and A Happy New Year

Nice hearing from You..I have a Cousin Living in Lebanon, TN. is that close to You?

Loyd

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUGHT MY LATEST AFRICAN WILD ANIMAL HUNT ...IT WAS FANTASTIC ...I SHOT TWO LIONS .TWO FULL GROWN ELEPHANTS FOUR GIARAFS SIX HIPPOS AND AN ENTIRE FAMILY OF CHIMPPANZIES ...I TAUGHT THEM NOT TO THROW THERE POOP AT ME ..FINALLY I ENDED MY SAFARI HUNT BY BAGGING AN HERD OF ZEBRAS... I WANTED TO SHOOT SOME MORE BUT THE POLICE CAME TAZERED ME ..KNOCKED ME TO THE GROUND AND ASKED ME HOW IN THE WORLD I MANAGED TO SNEEK A RIFLE INTO THE LOS ANGLES ZOO AND WHY WAS I SHOOTING ALL THE ANIMALS......

Why do you even POST???

have you been drinking out of the toilet again?

Never argue with idiots. They'll drag you down to their level & beat you with experience!

Hope your health improves.Lebanon is only about 8-10 miles from here.Glad I wasn't back home in MD where they got all that snow.I love it here in Mid TN.Hope you and yours have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year
Stevec

Well it's almost christmas.It's just a few days away. What did you all ask for this year? Well talk to ya'll later. Thanks.