gun myths

[bpd303]

Talk about carrying a Buckeye. When I first joined the police force twenty eight years ago, on my first night patrolling alone as I walked to the car I found a Buckeye laying on the ground and picked it up putting it in my pocket. I have carried that Buckeye ever since. Somehow it makes me feel good because there were no Buckeye trees growing anywhere near where I found it...and I seem to shoot better when it's in my pocket. This is the first time I have heard about that myth so maybe it's not fiction.

 

[hanshi]

Talk about carrying a Buckeye. When I first joined the police force twenty eight years ago, on my first night patrolling alone as I walked to the car I found a Buckeye laying on the ground and picked it up putting it in my pocket. I have carried that Buckeye ever since. Somehow it makes me feel good because there were no Buckeye trees growing anywhere near where I found it...and I seem to shoot better when it's in my pocket. This is the first time I have heard about that myth so maybe it's not fiction.

Sounds like you might be superstitious. It's ridiculous being superstitious; don't you know that it's bad luck to be superstitious?

 

[VEARL]

Don't have a guns with special markings or such. Do have one gun that I refer to as my In-Law gun. It is really ugly and a pain to clean. All the evil spirits tend to gather around it.
:rotf:
Vearl

 

[Rifleman1776]

In case you are wondering, INRI and DEO are both Latin abbreviations. INRI was tacked on the cross by the Romans meaning " Jesus Christ King of the Jews". DEO means, " With the help of God". On Beck rifles some times this is found....... "J Deo Beck".

Not too be too picky on the Latin here, but INRI is actually "(J)Iesus of Nazarath King of the (J)Iews", not Jesus Christ,and 'I' being used rather than 'J' in Latin , and "DEO" is simply God, "J Deo" is an abbreviation of Juvante Deo, which is "With the help of God"
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Correct.

 

[Billnpatti]

As I understand it, "fair to middlin'" is from a cotton grading system. Cotton could have various grades ranging from good to fair to middling to ordinary and lastly to poor. A cotton whose grading would fall in between the two grades of fair to middling were called fair to middling (or middlin'). Stating that one was "fair to middlin" simply was another way of saying that you were doing okay....not excellent but not poor either. That is why, I suppose, that it is not common in northern areas or areas where cotton was not grown or graded.

In doing a bit of reading, I find that things other than cotton also had a similar grading system, sheep and wool being two of these things.

 

[AZbpBurner]

Talk about carrying a Buckeye. When I first joined the police force twenty eight years ago, on my first night patrolling alone as I walked to the car I found a Buckeye laying on the ground and picked it up putting it in my pocket. I have carried that Buckeye ever since. Somehow it makes me feel good because there were no Buckeye trees growing anywhere near where I found it...and I seem to shoot better when it's in my pocket. This is the first time I have heard about that myth so maybe it's not fiction.

Fortunately I was born out west, but I had opportunity to spend several years in Ohio. It's where I began muzzleloading.

In town there was a little bookshop that slowly evolved into Golden Age Arms Co. & I spent a lot of time there after school. I made up a bunch of deerskin pouches that sold there, suitable for keeping roundballs.

Local Ohio tradition says to put a Buckeye into your ball pouch for luck, so I did.

Dad recently gave me his rifle, a revolver and a box of stuff that included one of the bags I made, complete with balls I'd cast 45 years ago, and ... a Buckeye.

The bag is fine. The Buckeye is fine. But the balls are all severely corroded, to the point they will need either thicker patches to fire, or better yet, just toss into the lead pot to recycle.

Some may say the corrosion is due to the method of tanning used on the deerhide.

BUT, just to be safe, you may want to reconsider carrying around that Buckeye in your pocket. It may not be good for your balls.

Oh, yeah - the Buckeye is Ohio's State nut, tree, relic, mascot or something & is only lucky if you live there.

 

[bpd303]

I was born in Ohio and moved to Florida at age 5 and had never seen a Buckeye until I moved to Arkansas at age 40. There is something special about that Buckeye I found. It is petrified (hard as a marble) That's why I kept it.