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Wisdom
NOT EVERYONE IS GOING TO LIKE YOU. Even if you’re the kind of person who always returns your grocery cart. Or makes a batch of homemade soup for a sick friend. Or always calls your aging grandmother back. Because you’re … Continue reading
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This is How You Keep Your Guns from Being Seized KEITH GRAVES FEB 23, 2024
At some point while cruising social media you’ve read a post made by someone proclaiming they were “red flagged” and the cops “stole their guns.” The term “red flagged” has become an adjective for any instance of seizure of firearms … Continue reading
Posted in Liberty & Freedom, Shooting
Tagged crime, guns, news, police, politics, shooting
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Loading the 20 Gauge. Part 1
I inherited an old MEC Jr. 20-gauge loader a while back and decided to give it a whirl. I ordered some Cheddite primed hulls from Ballistic products in Minnesota. I am making a load for a 3″ semi-automatic so I … Continue reading
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Tagged 20 gauge, MEC Jr., reloading, round ball slug, shooting, shotgun
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New England Firearms “Survivor” .45 Colt/ .410 shotgun
Recently, I purchased a used New England Firearms “Survivor” .45 Colt/ .410. I got it for a really good price. What I didn’t get was the choke tube to make the .410 shells useful. I mounted a scope on it … Continue reading
Posted in Hunting & Trapping, Shooting
Tagged .45 Colt/ .410, BFR, Choke Tube, H&R, Harrington & Richardson, Magnum Research, NEF, New England Firearms, Survivor
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Character Traits
There are certain things that I do not or cannot understand that people do and because I don’t understand them I find them suspicious. One of them is working when you could be retired. Our superintendent at the office could … Continue reading
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“Friends?”
I had an experience this past weekend where I was sitting around the campfire with a bunch of “friends”. The conversation swung around to current events and all of a sudden one of the “friends” spouted off with “you guys … Continue reading
…to find my soul.
This quote from John Muir is very popular today. I have always felt the truth of this statement. Recently, I finished a book by Albert Bigelow Paine titled “The Tent Dwellers” and his take on finding one’s soul in the … Continue reading
A pair to Draw To…….
Posted in American Mountain Men, Historical Adventure, Hunting & Trapping
Tagged AMM, Mountain Man, mountain men
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Requirement #20 of the American Mountain Men
20. Must have made a study of the lifestyle of the mountain man, frontiersman or American Indian before 1840 and must submit a report of this study to the association Capitaine. This requirement is optional for advancement to Bossloper and … Continue reading
Requirement #19 of the American Mountain Men
19. Must spend three days and two nights totally alone under primitive conditions and aux aliments du pays [“off the nourishment of the land”]. This requirement is optional for advancement to Bossloper and mandatory for the Hiveranno degree. This seems … Continue reading
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