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My first ML rifle is a Mountain in 45. Built it about '78, headshot groundhogs out to 100 yards with ease. Very nice triggers, a real solid, accurate rifle. Slow twist for round balls only, which I personally prefer over the sabots and slugs. Consider removing the scope, keep or sell, put some...

I'm not sure what the various match rules are on wads, but these days, that's where the "choke" is. We can use flight control wads out to 60 yards or more and hold a 10" pattern with goose/turkey loads. Tech not available back in the day, but they shoot in ml guns nicely. Ballistics Products...

An old lady walks into a country store one day, returning a box of newfangled self lighting matches. "These ain't no good. They won't light" The proprietor takes one, raises up one leg a bit, and pulls it across his britches bottom. The match cracks to life with a big flame. "You gotta strike...

There are some good eats from our yankee friends and family we don't see much outside of the north. My mom was a New Yorker transplant, and often introduced strange foods to our poorer area of the south. Scrapple, real kosher delicatessen staples, etc. I like my scrapple cut thin and fried...

As the chefs like to say, start with proper ingredients. Hogs (heritage breeds are the best) raised and fed properly (not on a modern factory farm), field raised instead, things like sweet acorns (think the Iberian black foot hogs in Spain), alfalfa, etc, properly treated all the way through...

Cast iron cleaning for me is, deglaze, pour off the liquid, scrape a little if needed, wipe it out, hang it up. The big pot? Yeah, well... eat last!

Not sure. We had an older foodsaver, but we now use one of the bigger units we saw on Iron Chef. It has some white poly cutting board devices that you can remove to allow a sort of puddle of liquid to stand while you vacuum. Maybe hang it sideways?? We did have some containers with a hose, as I...

Ouch! Country ham, or as most folks called it when I was a kid, ham, requires some work. Since we're talking ex, I suggest some brains help out here, too. We also have an old cast iron kettle, guessing about 20 gallons-ish, from my wife's uncle, passed down a few generations. Been itching to try...

So, not 'zackly traditional, but my wife has this steam oven you see... Sous vide country ham! Just a hair brained notion, I'm sure others have done this, but I don't see much on the subject. It works really, really well. There are other ways to sous vide, but here is what I did: Very old...

I have an old book, Firearms Curiosa, by Lewis Winant, filled full of strange firearms and things like this. Very interesting oddities.

Looked into it some years back. I don't recall the numbers, but velocity is the issue. Golf balls are slow, bullets are fast.

We have a mile long drive, gravel, creek, steep hill, etc. Scary stuff for city oriented folks. About 50 yards up the drive we placed a rubber maid box/trunk, big enough for most deliveries. UPS has been real good about it, USPS just leaves notes in the mailbox for us to come get packages, and...

I built a 45 mountain in the seventies. Very accurate. Groundhogs at 100 yards were no problem. Small enough for rabbits and squirrels, big enough for a deer. Just a pleasant and accurate rifle. Congrats on your beauties.

Technology cannot be successfully banned, restricted, or prevented. It just never works. And laws and regulations only work where their is mutual consent and agreement, and "work" is a relative term. Think traffic laws. We sort of obey them. Sort of. A majority is 101 people ruling over 100...

Two things: insurance is more powerful than the government to many companies. Our small aviation charter business (5 planes) was doing pretty well, making a small percentage profit, then the insurance company presented us with a $1 million bill for the next 12 months, payable in 30 days, in...

Ted Franklin Belue has collected many stories on the Long Hunters first forays into Kentucky. He has worked with Hollywood (Last of the Mohicans) and has many good stories that can handle the "artistic license" of films. I think the time is right for even doing it as a native movie, what with...

Well, just got back from Friendship. This whole thing started with perfectly innocent questions, of which this forum allowed to be posted and debated, unlike the nmlra, which has prevented a public conversation to take place. In fact, it would appear that some officials have come onto this forum...

So a few more thoughts. I wanted to bring my wife to Friendship is where I come into this. She had colorectal cancer, so accessible restrooms are essential. Simple enough. When I looked into them, lo and behold, all of this hush hush nonsense rears its ugly head over the ADA, of all things...

I believe the initial post inquired about deleted posts and comments of legitimate members. These are members who are trying to ask their organization about what is going on, and they are being silenced by their own organizations' site administrators. And I believe your comment about Walter...

Well damn, isn't all this interesting? Explains an awful lot of the painfully loud, awkward silence we have been hearing. Glad this forum isn't deleting things, muting comments and questions, etc. Thank you for the summary. I'd expect cease and desist coming from various people/cliques...