If I make it sunday, definitely won't be all there.

Well .... Sunday is Family day around here so I'll probelly leave out Monday moring soon as my bones-get-to-moving.   So Me and the tent should be in West TN. by mid afternoon.

WD did you say we'll have a out-house and a water hose for admiddites ?  

which brings up another question ???  Will it hurt anything to get a little soap in the pond ?      Just kidding ... I was thinking of a fast driping waterhose over a tree limb.and a big rock or board to stand on.  

Looking forward to it , and a walk around Beal ST. would be good !
I had a rack of the BEST ribs I ever ate there ,

Hay !!!      a ride up to Union City to see Dixie Gun Works should work-out perty good with this bunch !!!    For those who have never been there  its kinda like  a cross between the knife works (of Black Powder) and a history musumnm.    

OK, since I am supposed to be tenting with MM then I will plan to show by late afternoon time, Monday Sept 16th.  This will give Verslagen a day to recuperate from his drive and to spend a little catch up time with Lancer.  Both should be all rested up and at 90%+ by then.    (us old folks need some recuperation time to get up over 80% you know)

A week long trip, some riding, some fishing, some shooting.   Beef ribs, yum.   Dixie Gun works, fun.

Minimum of 50 gallons for a comped shower. The YMCA in Millington only charges a buck or two for shower and steam room.

Our "nice below average" temp of low 80s today was instead low 90s. Weathermen are about as useful as doctors and lawyers around here, not very.

Beef ribs? Yuck, all bone and fat, only fit for the dog, the local butcher shops all specialize in pig parts.

Well, I am glad the gang is all here -- wouldn't be the same without all the Dragon boys in attendance.

I mentioned I needed a 30 carbine case sizing die so I could post-size out some bumps in the seated bullet case (locally deform the cup & core lead core bullet a bit where needed) to make the cases slide into my chamber effortlessly and neatly.  

All factory ammo is post-sized for this very reason, every single piece of it.   Lawsuits cost much more than an extra manufacturing step/station.

What I really didn't count on was that Americans have taken up reloading in a really really really big way lately -- There ARE no dies available from Lee and I ain't paying 2x-3x the price for RCBS, Redding, Dillon, etc. even if they were available.

I found a Lee die set sitting at Optics Planet, sent them the money and they missed their ship date and I had to contact them.   They said it was a B/O item with no known delivery date and did I want to cancel?   Heck yes, and thank you for wasting a week of my time while you KNEW you didn't have what I had ordered.  

Tried again on Ebone, so far the man has my Paypal money but still hasn't provided me ship information yet.   I am smelling another no-show, I think I do.

(smells like dried possum guts on the front of your frame & engine, it does)

Boys, M1 Cabine, caliber 30 isn't a ball busting popular caliber, but it is 100% sold out on components and dies and everything else associated with it in any of the normal retail channels.   Secondary channels look bare, too.

If you want some real frustration, go try to buy something for 9mm or 40 short&weak -- yeah, you just thought you were gonna buy something.

Check your ammo supply for what you were planning on bringing.  


Tula and Wolf and Fiocchi are the primers you can buy now-a-days (if & when you can find them).

9mm jacketed slugs do exist, but only as bulk style thin roller drum plated jobbies.   Ditto for 40 caliber slugs.

caps... check
lead... check
powder... check
pellets... check
air... gonna have to get some while I'm there.

Verslagen is planning to pop him some squirrels out of your pecan trees with his $79.00 Crosman Titan .22 air rifle.

Well, I'll bring mine and we can walk down the rows of pecan trees and you can see the ones that hide from me and vice versa, I'll see the ones that hide from you .....