Neat brass adjustable BP powdah measure - < $5!

[Newtire]

One time I said purt’e neer and my son looked at me, actually appearing annoyed, and said, “What the hell did you just say!?”. Took me quite awhile to quit saying warshing machine. I still have a hard time calling a crick a creek.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

In times past, on another forum, several guys would want to talk about their "arrahs". It was cute for a while, then several of us asked them to just write "arrows". They finally capitulated.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

Hey, I just got an idear!

OK, I'll quit now.

 

[Zonie]

One time I said purt’e neer and my son looked at me, actually appearing annoyed, and said, “What the hell did you just say!?”. Took me quite awhile to quit saying warshing machine. I still have a hard time calling a crick a creek.

Creeks and cricks are totally different things as Pat McManus pointed out in several of his books.

A creek has slow flowing, totally transparent water with pristine bed rocks, gravel and small aquatic plants showing. Fish love living in a creek.

A crick has dirty water which prevents you from seeing the tin cans, old tire rims, old tires, broken glass and sludge on the bottom. No self respecting fish would be found within 20 feet of a crick let alone live in it.

 

[cvco]

That powder measure quickly ran out of stock.

 

[Eric Krewson]

Simple to calibrate a powder measure, on my deer rifle, which is finicky for an exact load. I use cheap dope scale and set the plunger accordingly.

A good friend and a top notch B/P tournament shooter showed me how he filled his measure, tapped the side a couple of times and topped it off to get a consistent charge. He demonstrated his technique with a digital scale close by, he was always within a grain or two, most often right on the money.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Those were originally made by a company (one man operation) near my home in Arkansas. When he retired he sold the company and it has changed hands a couple times since. I still have one or two kicking around someplace. Original price was higher than what is being asked for this one.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Creeks and cricks are totally different things as Pat McManus pointed out in several of his books.

A creek has slow flowing, totally transparent water with pristine bed rocks, gravel and small aquatic plants showing. Fish love living in a creek.

A crick has dirty water which prevents you from seeing the tin cans, old tire rims, old tires, broken glass and sludge on the bottom. No self respecting fish would be found within 20 feet of a crick let alone live in it.

Nothing fancy in the meaning. A 'crick' is Yankee, above the Mason Dixon line. 'creek' is southern.

 

[hawkeye2]

I can't speak for all the Yankees but I spent a large portion of my life in the far Northeast and crick was only found as a dialect in fiction. It was extremely rare to hear creek, they were either brooks or streams many of which "babbled in their rocky beds". We all thought creek and crick were Southern and found in Mark Twain's writings.

 

[Robby]

Conesus Creek boarders my property, when directing someone to it, it's down by the crick. Yankee all my life.
Robby

 

[Notchy Bob]

Nothing fancy in the meaning. A 'crick' is Yankee, above the Mason Dixon line. 'creek' is southern.

I can't speak for all the Yankees but I spent a large portion of my life in the far Northeast and crick was only found as a dialect in fiction. It was extremely rare to hear creek, they were either brooks or streams many of which "babbled in their rocky beds". We all thought creek and crick were Southern and found in Mark Twain's writings.

Funny... My dad, a native of southeast Alabama, used the term, "branch" instead of creek or "crick." Where he was from, "Creek" meant a native person of that polity. In fact, have you heard the expression, "Lord willing and the creek don't rise"? That came from Alabama, and was originally "Lord willing and the Creeks don't rise," in reference to the frequent uprisings and conflicts between the early settlers and native people of that region.

Notchy Bob

 

[Kansas Jake]

I grew up in a south central Nebraska farming community and everyone referred to it as a crick. It was considered high fallutin to call it a creek or something the English teacher said.

 

[hawkeye2]

Where I came from a crick was something you got in your neck.

 

[evan9201]

I bought some black powdah then banged a U-ey after aftah the rotary and drank out of ah bubblah at stop and shop.

 

[toot]

are they still avaliable?

 

[Buck Conner]

I think our friend is writing phonetically to reflect his New England dialect. When he's driving, he probably "uses his blinkah" before making a turn.



Notchy Bob

Wonder how he "parrkss his carr" Taxachusetts - "parks his car" English


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