Reeder Custom Guns - Holy cow there's a stock birdshead single 7bid

up to 1125 on GB. What?

Waiting to buy stuff until you need it. Milk and bread, I'm ok with. But, people who buy a box of 100 primers, a pound of powder, box of ammo and such just confuse me.

Hate to hurt anybody's feelings, but a gun without ammo is an expensive paperweight.

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isn't related to age?

Most of us old farts were raised by those who came through the Depression and/or WWII and Korea. Most everything was rationed or hard to find. Plus a lot of us came from farms and ranches where you just do not run to town every time you need a Kleenex.

Younger generations grew up with "convenience" stores on every corner and you just went and bought as you needed.

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You were considered not responsible if you needed to go on Wednesday. So, I have to agree with your logic.

Sadly, folks seem incapable of learning. The Obama 22 Ammo shortage didn't seem to soak in. I'm watching the same people repeat history.

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Growing up, Mom baked potatoes in the oven. First in wood stoves and later as we got more affluent, in electric stoves. A baked potato took about 45 minutes to cook. We did not start getting anxious to have them until about 40 minutes to pass.

Fast forward some years. I am standing by the microwave oven, getting impatient for my baked potato, AFTER 3 OR 4 MINUTES! When I caught myself on this I had to laugh. And change my attitude.

It's the "I want it now and I don't want to plan for it or wait for it."

As I explained to a friend once, "In the old west, if you missed the stagecoach today it was OK. There will be another one next month."

Living in Africa brought much of that back as life is much slower there, especially away from the cities in the bush. Like here, ranch life is still much like it always has been.

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I mean just last week I added one of those new fangled repeating rifles. Moved from my normal falling and rolling blocks to the more modern Winchester 1892s.

Leaves me wondering what this new generation will come up with next?

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ahahahaha

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MOM MADE 'EM ON TOP OF THE STOVE IN BOILNG HOT CRISCO. THEY WERE CONSUMED HEARTILY NOT DOUSED IN CATSUP BUT DIPPED IN A LITTLE BUTTER. OH MY! HAVEN'T FOUND ANY STORE BOUGHT FRIES THAT COULD EVEN COME CLOSE.

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And rendered out the fat to cook in. Made our own cracklings, sausage, bacon, etc.

In the south we had to time butchering hogs, etc. A three day cold spell was necessary to smoke meat so it wouldn't ruin.

Many times we'd kill young rabbits and smoke them whole at the same time.

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It was usually a three or four day event that a few farmers did together. We raised pigs and usually butchered 8 of them and our next door neighbor would butcher two or three steers. We traded some of the meat too. There was a day set aside to make those PA Dutch necessities.....Panhaus and puddin’ as well as sausage. Most of our hams were sugar cured.

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while living in Oracle, AZ we raised some hogs. We butchered them ourselves, sugar-cured the hams, rendered the lard (which made excellent tamales!) and had some of THE BEST pork.

I took the bladder out of one that I had just opened up, washed it out and then blew it up and tied it off and gave it to my 6 year old daughter for a balloon to play with.

She went off around the house throwing up in the air and having a good time. A while later she came back crying. I asked her what was the matter and she said, "The cat ate my balloon!"

I had not thought about fresh "balloons" and the cats ...

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Before butchering. It makes more lard and the lard gets solid when cold. Not so on wild hogs.

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Back then, even in Alabama we had winter weather. Usually butchering 3 or 4 hogs. Had a salt bin we put the hams, bacon, and pork belly in before smoking. froze the loins and chops. Made sausage and head cheese with the rest.

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Holy cow there's a stock birdshead single 7bid

It's a great time to be a hoarder. I never understood...

I wonder if part of that kind of thinking

I was raised that town was once a week...

I call it "The Micro-Wave Generation"

Yeah, I'm making great headway too...

A repeater? Say it ain't so!

FRENCH FRIES WERE NOT FOUND AT A DRIVE-UP WINDOW

Crisco??? I grew up on a farm. We butchered hogs...

We always butchered in February.

Back in the late '70's and early '80's

Interestingly enough, everyone fed the hogs corn..

We usually butchered Thanksgiving weekend