messerist
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Hey Doc if you need a patient list put me on the top. My sufferin' is powerful bad! I think that some of that guvmint money would cure me lickety split!
You folks talk the talk
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That picture is 20 some years old, but Itchy and I have done some serious Tipi livin' in our day.
Iggy's Story:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/5005/IGGY2/IGGY2.html
How Itchy got her name.
http://home.bresnan.net/~buflerchip/itchysname.htm
Macmac
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Iggy, you ever know a guy going by Red Hawk leathers? The shirt looks like his work to me.
AKElroy
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Macmac,
Best thing about this thread...fella called me up today and showed me some of his handiwork...Beautifull bearded sheath with many hours of painstaking work. Jaquar claws mounted in brass, bead work, brass beads about a 1/4 inch all ovaled to let the lacing inlet to the sheath.
I ended up acquiring it, and it made my day...
Topped the day off by commiting to join the Ancient Ones...
Life is good....
Best thing about this thread...fella called me up today and showed me some of his handiwork...Beautifull bearded sheath with many hours of painstaking work. Jaquar claws mounted in brass, bead work, brass beads about a 1/4 inch all ovaled to let the lacing inlet to the sheath.
I ended up acquiring it, and it made my day...
Topped the day off by commiting to join the Ancient Ones...
Life is good....
She ain't walkin'...
Because she's too busy converting Goex FFg, beeswax, lard, and 535gr lead boolits into smoke. See below, at the moment she's using an 1874 Sharps Business Rifle to knock over some unfortunate 200 yard steel. There's something to be said for an Air Force guy to marry a Marine Corps wife, right?
Because she's too busy converting Goex FFg, beeswax, lard, and 535gr lead boolits into smoke. See below, at the moment she's using an 1874 Sharps Business Rifle to knock over some unfortunate 200 yard steel. There's something to be said for an Air Force guy to marry a Marine Corps wife, right?
alemonkey
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Looks like she's having a good time! The one time I tried to get my wife to shoot my Sharps she couldn't even keep it on paper at 100. Even shooting from the bench it was just too big and awkward for her to handle comfortably. She needs one of the Little Sharps from Charles Daly, but she just doesn't know it yet.
Macmac,
No, don't know that feller.
Itchy did all the bead work.
Gewehr98
I got my wife to try a shot at a full sized iron buffalo at 1000 yds with a Sharps very much like yours. She fired, lowered the rifle, and said "did I miss?" Bong!!!!
She said "That's good enough!""
She regularly out shoots me and most everybody else with a 40 cal caplock, but she leaves the Sharps to me.
No, don't know that feller.
Itchy did all the bead work.
Gewehr98
I got my wife to try a shot at a full sized iron buffalo at 1000 yds with a Sharps very much like yours. She fired, lowered the rifle, and said "did I miss?" Bong!!!!
She said "That's good enough!""
She regularly out shoots me and most everybody else with a 40 cal caplock, but she leaves the Sharps to me.
DrLaw
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Why I am on the sidelines
I only got a chance to shoot a Sharps replica once. I wandered into a Buffalo shoot at my club. We razz each other mercilessly, and as usual, I was dishing out as much as I was getting.
One of the guys was shooting a Sharps replica. I knew he paid $1600 for it.
He turns around and says "Okay, you want to try!" and shoves the gun in my direction.
Gingerly, I take it. I was wearing sunglasses and the sun was setting. Looking
through the peep vernier sight, I could hardly see the buffalo at 300 yards. It was all very dark with those glasses on.
I had just started to touch the trigger when I hear him say, "It has a hair trigger". Just then, as I was trying to redo my grip on the gun, that hair trigger tripped. I did not think I was putting any pressure on it at all.
The gun roared and almost jumped out of my hands. It startled me and as I was grabbing it again, the buffalo silhoutte that the gun owner could not hit, fell.
I hand the gun back and said, "There, that's how it is done!"
And that, is why I am on the sidelines whilst you guys walk the walk. I know lightning does not strike twice!
The Doc is out now.
I only got a chance to shoot a Sharps replica once. I wandered into a Buffalo shoot at my club. We razz each other mercilessly, and as usual, I was dishing out as much as I was getting.
One of the guys was shooting a Sharps replica. I knew he paid $1600 for it.
He turns around and says "Okay, you want to try!" and shoves the gun in my direction.
Gingerly, I take it. I was wearing sunglasses and the sun was setting. Looking
through the peep vernier sight, I could hardly see the buffalo at 300 yards. It was all very dark with those glasses on.
I had just started to touch the trigger when I hear him say, "It has a hair trigger". Just then, as I was trying to redo my grip on the gun, that hair trigger tripped. I did not think I was putting any pressure on it at all.
The gun roared and almost jumped out of my hands. It startled me and as I was grabbing it again, the buffalo silhoutte that the gun owner could not hit, fell.
I hand the gun back and said, "There, that's how it is done!"
And that, is why I am on the sidelines whilst you guys walk the walk. I know lightning does not strike twice!
The Doc is out now.
1KPerDay
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Nice one, doc! LOL
DesmoDucRob
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These pictures are great! I do however realize that there are some things a photograph can not capture. I wish I knew what some of these folks smelled like- I wonder if any of the more accurately dressed "walkers" smell like stetson and old spice? Macmac I may not want to know what you smell like! Keep 'em coming!
Keep 'em coming!Macmac
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What's a Sharp's,,,, Err well I see something nice, and made after 1840, but in my world the world ended in 1840..... sometimes...
That orange thing... Why I bet they woulda used it if they had it, but at best crossed sticks did it back then.
Now I had me a few good hosses, but the one I got is iron right now, oh No wait it ain't, it's more aluminum than iron.
Ah the times do change, don't they....
I smell like damp wool and fire smoke, mixed with pine and maple suga' sweetie..
N' ifn' I don't I smell like bar grease (bear) and if not then, like a big coconut when the bar grease is runnin low and i got on Hawaiin Tropic to make paint with...
Girls don't seem to ,mind that one bit, if ya know what I'm sayin....
That orange thing... Why I bet they woulda used it if they had it, but at best crossed sticks did it back then.
Now I had me a few good hosses, but the one I got is iron right now, oh No wait it ain't, it's more aluminum than iron.
Ah the times do change, don't they....
I smell like damp wool and fire smoke, mixed with pine and maple suga' sweetie..
N' ifn' I don't I smell like bar grease (bear) and if not then, like a big coconut when the bar grease is runnin low and i got on Hawaiin Tropic to make paint with...
Girls don't seem to ,mind that one bit, if ya know what I'm sayin....
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