Recent content by villagelightsmith

An old coot here. Long ago I acquired a couple of reliable old Chronys and then got a smokin' deal on 3 good Magnetospeeds. In a fit of generosity I gifted 2 of the MS's. Just too much "stuff." My wife says it's all got to go. But not the Chronys. This year I'm gifting the last of the MS units...

Listen to your stitchin' too. Take a year off. Find a good Olympic air pistol and enjoy it. This is not the time for heroics. Don't do anything that hurts. Splitting and wiring the sternum back together is a pretty invasive entry, not to mention somebody holding your heart in their hands. I'll...

Arriving in camp well after dark I dropped my pack for a few minutes. I needed to settle down a jittery Mammoth Donkey for the last 50 yards back to camp. She had been really jumpy for the last couple of miles. Returning to grab my pack a few minutes later, in my headlamp I found the cause of...

Blown up or not; the man still owns it. The Sheriff needs to ream out the RO.

Depends on the color and size of the predators you're hunting. There's big brown ones, white ones, black ones, black & yellow striped ones, golden ones with big black ruffs around their necks, yellow ones with black rosettes, little bitty grey ones that are fierce as the dickens. Some of the...

I had this aquaintance ... what the heck ... it won't hurt now to call him a friend ... who thought it was best to learn "old school," which in his mind meant "without books and printed recipes." Nor doctors; claimed they "didn't know nothing." I fired one (1) of his handgun loads, a .44xGod...

They really don't have a bad bone in their bodies ... they're just doing coyote stuff. And I'm just doing me stuff, so don't get in the way.

One place the rumor could have started was the idea that the old nitro-cellulose powders could leach their nitroglycerine to the surface of the grains and it would flash off the surface when fired. 'Least that's what my daddy told me, and he should'a known 'cause he drove tanks in WWI. He had...

If the cans rust through, or it changes color and a Djinn pops out, go ahead and sprinkle it on your burn pile. But be careful ... the last time I burned a trash pile I had mistakenly tossed 1000 primers and the title to my wife's truck in the wrong box. Things were hot and a'poppin' that...

Before you throw away that "old" powder, look up Bruce Hodgden. Take a lookasee how he got his start in the power business. Even now, when you dig out some old shells 'come hunting season you have probably been burning some powder from WWII quite happily, safely, and without a care in the world...

What is its real job? Stroking your ego? Or ... stacking bullets? Where does it do that job? What are your complaints? What else would you like it to do? How does it shoot? What else matters? If you want a shotgun that gets a 18" pattern at 200 yards, I've got an old .30-40 Krag that'll do ya'...

Cousins Larry & Jerry (a young and foolish pair) were on a road trip. They made a midnight camp on a wide spot of a backroad, right over a swamp. Larry hogged all their remaining skeeter dope, and Jerry had none. What Jerry did have was the remains of a dead cigar. In desperation he lit the stub...

That's one of my favorite cartridges, a #3 is on my bucket list, and I have a lot of goodies for that 6mm. If that isn't enough to light a fire under me, my wife will be along shortly with the extinguisher! Price and location are considerations for me. Is it a looker or shooter?

That's one of my favorite cartridges. I, too, would like to own that rifle, but I live in Oregon. And transfers of guns to people of Oregon have now been essentially outlawed by The State. This is not an overstatement. I've been a gunny my whole life. I saw this coming long ago, and it is now...

As I read about your rifle builds and the pleasure you have in building accuracy by matching and modifying the component parts of the makers' arts, I feel a deep sense of loss. We were once able to participate in so many of these things. I have a very simple old .22 rimfire (single shot, bolt...