Firearm information for the enthusiast
04/23/2023 – There was a period of time, in throughout the 1960s and into the mid 1970s, when drag racing was the number one participating and spectating sport. Tracks operated, some three days each week, all over the country in 1/16th, 1/8th and 1/4 mile track conformity, car owners were […]
Spring is here, but spring temperatures are not. Skippy has a grapple related malady. Of course, the only accessory on the tractor not made by the John Deere elves. It isn’t the grapple itself, but rather the small associated wiring harness added to the tractor in support of the grapple. […]
04/09/2023 – The official first day of spring was 03/20/2023, which may be true for urban dwellers and democrats. Here, the official first day of spring is the day I wake up, decide possible sow storms are limited and pull the snow blower off of the tractor and prep it […]
You know how everyone has at least one special talent that makes them unique? My special talent, to date, is having no special talent. So my life’s work has been a never ending exploration of the unknown, with the hope I would eventually stumble into something I could do well. […]
My wife was a wonderful mom to her four children; our three sons and me. Quite some time ago, I got into a dispute with my heart over a workaholic life style and it, unfortunately, filed for a divorce. It was a long drawn out process that culminated with my […]
I thought we were there. Snow on the ground was melting and receding, icy stalactites were loosening their grip on the gutters, and the house and driveway were previewing the magnitude of clean up that would keep me busy through spring. Mud season. Then the snow began to fall, heavily. […]
03/12/2023 – When the original reloading press tray 1.0 was constructed, above, there was no intention to rest on our laurels. More so, we were surprised, after extensive research, that laurels was not a metaphor for “butt”. The process goes something like this. Get an idea, turn it into something […]
I will leave the roles of Alaskan homesteader and subsistence hunting to others who actually live those realities. Rural living, at least in my area, is certainly not the same. Anytime a person lives within an hour round trip to a Hannaford, they are not in a survival setting. For […]
03/07/2023 – In Maine, it is never good to say that winter is coming to an end and sunshine will soon follow… for a couple of reasons. The first, it will jinx this happy ending and it will snow until June. Second, men should never phrase the weather with such […]
03/05/2023 – “Yesterday”, and the rest of the 1965 Paul McCartney lyrics that follow, express the day. This scene was a black top driveway, patches of green lawn and woodland. The town was out posting roads in anticipation of spring thaw. The daytime temperature was 40°F. But that was then […]