Bessie plays in the snow.

Ugly Sauce said:
You got Harley oil and Bug oil in your blood??? We ARE twin brothers, from other fathers and mothers. !!! :what:

I sure don't want to die in a hospice bed, or laying on the ground "playing dead" while Grizz eats me. I do want to go down fighting. Don't have a death-wish, but I'm ready to go when the time comes.
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Harley oil, bug oil, dirt bike oil, hotrod oil etc. I don't mean to sound maudlin or anything but I don't have anything to live for anymore. I'm not looking for sympathy or anything just telling it like it is. I don't have a death wish but I won't fight it when my time comes.
 
hawg said:
Harley oil, bug oil, dirt bike oil, hotrod oil etc. I don't mean to sound maudlin or anything but I don't have anything to live for anymore. I'm not looking for sympathy or anything just telling it like it is. I don't have a death wish but I won't fight it when my time comes.
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Well, we don't know what's around the next corner, so we have to live for that.
 
hawg said:
Harley oil, bug oil, dirt bike oil, hotrod oil etc. I don't mean to sound maudlin or anything but I don't have anything to live for anymore. I'm not looking for sympathy or anything just telling it like it is. I don't have a death wish but I won't fight it when my time comes.
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I have been watching my sister grieving for her husband of 60 years. She vacillates between lost and then buries herself in hobbies and great grandkids… lots of time lost. Myself, I feel pretty helpless as of course all of us on the sidelines are. Words don’t express… Hawg…
 
hawg said:
I've got to open up the rear sight on my Kibler. The rear notch is too tiny for my eyes. I wish tang sights were available in the 1760's. :D
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I have found, for myself anyhow, that opening up, making the rear notch wider does not increase my group size at all. Been meaning to do that to Bess, been noticing lately that it seems to have got more tiny for some reason. Seems to have shrunk a bit. ?
 
Somewhere I saw a post about a quick and dirty peep sight made of a small magnet with a hole drilled through the middle. He just attached it to the rear leaf and away she goes!
 
woodnbow said:
Somewhere I saw a post about a quick and dirty peep sight made of a small magnet with a hole drilled through the middle. He just attached it to the rear leaf and away she goes!
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Was it one of those "rare earth" magnets? I had a couple of those, and they were so strong, as to be unusable. I mean, it took pliers and a lot of muscle to pry them off anything. One of those would sure stay put.
 
Ugly Sauce said:
Was it one of those "rare earth" magnets? I had a couple of those, and they were so strong, as to be unusable. I mean, it took pliers and a lot of muscle to pry them off anything. One of those would sure stay put.
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That’s the one,
 
Crappy pic but this was my Investarms Hawken in the 90's. Yeah, I've changed a lot since then.:rofl:
 

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armoredman said:
I will have a buddy of mine build one for me sometime, as he is truly a master gunsmith. :)
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Do it sooner, rather than later.

I had the same thought. My best friend for 60 years was an excellent builder. I had barrel, stock, lock and all the small bits. My best friend of 60 years, passed away just before Christmas, 2023. I am still shocked.

Yes, I can build one but not the same as if Mark built it. Please, do it as soon as you can.

Kevin
 
hawg said:
The total price of a plain Woodsrunner kit is a little over 1,300.00 shipped. The others are about the same. The other kits require a good bit more work. Somebody that can really build a nice gun could easily expect to get 2,000.00 or more for one.
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So, how many hours does it take to build that one rifle? 100 hours? Is your time worth $7.00 an hour? Mine sure is NOT!

Kevin
 
StrawHat said:
So, how many hours does it take to build that one rifle? 100 hours? Is your time worth $7.00 an hour? Mine sure is NOT!

Kevin
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I dunno. Total time was over two months but there were times I didn't touch it for several days at a time. When I did work on it it wasn't for hours at a time. I'd work a little bit and quit when my hands started getting tired or I was getting aggravated. My time doesn't cost me anything. I have nothing but time. I'm not one of those that says I value my time at 20.00 an hour or whatever amount you want to put on it. If I did I'd never have done anything. All those hotrods and Harley's etc. I built I would never have gotten to enjoy.
 
StrawHat said:
Do it sooner, rather than later.

I had the same thought. My best friend for 60 years was an excellent builder. I had barrel, stock, lock and all the small bits. My best friend of 60 years, passed away just before Christmas, 2023. I am still shocked.

Yes, I can build one but not the same as if Mark built it. Please, do it as soon as you can.

Kevin
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Indeed, my buddy is 70.
 
hawg said:
I dunno. Total time was over two months but there were times I didn't touch it for several days at a time. When I did work on it it wasn't for hours at a time. I'd work a little bit and quit when my hands started getting tired or I was getting aggravated. My time doesn't cost me anything. I have nothing but time. I'm not one of those that says I value my time at 20.00 an hour or whatever amount you want to put on it. If I did I'd never have done anything. All those hotrods and Harley's etc. I built I would never have gotten to enjoy.
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Were you so inclined, I’m sure the next would go faster and the next faster yet. If I ever build one of these the time it takes will be furthest from my mind. And the value placed on it would be astronomical. For the guys who build these for fun and profit, I bet they can knock them out in 25 dedicated hours or less and it’ll be near perfection.
 
hawg said:
It was a love hate relationship but well worth it in the end.
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Kind of like bow-making. Love hate, and then in the end...the bow....breaks!!! But when it turns out good, accurate and reliable, and don't break, priceless. Can't even imagine how many hours go into a bow. Probably a dollar an hour if you sold it.
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StrawHat said:
So, how many hours does it take to build that one rifle? 100 hours? Is your time worth $7.00 an hour? Mine sure is NOT!

Kevin
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Well, time is profit, and if one is going for re-sale and profit that will cut down the margin quite a bit. However, if one enjoys it enough perhaps $7.00 an hour ain't so bad. ? I worked for one of the most talented auto-body men in the area for a while at $4.00 an hour. As part of the deal was "apprenticing", I probably should have been paying him. I mean, this guy was a regular Guru, although he had some serious addiction problems. But, I did probably spend half my time sweeping the floor, putting tools away, and organizing things. That was a while ago, but even so, $4.00 an hour was a long long ways from whatever minimum wage was, and what I made at my regular job. I didn't think it was a bad deal, all things considered.

Okay...did that have anything to do with anything?!!! :oops:
 
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I guess in a day or ten I'll clean off my workbench and get back on the powder horn. After all a new rifle deserves a new horn.
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Truth. My Plains Pistol has a new horn, came all the way from Mississippi.
 
Ugly Sauce said:
Well, time is profit, and if one is going for re-sale and profit that will cut down the margin quite a bit. However, if one enjoys it enough perhaps $7.00 an hour ain't so bad. ? I worked for one of the most talented auto-body men in the area for a while at $4.00 an hour. As part of the deal was "apprenticing", I probably should have been paying him. I mean, this guy was a regular Guru, although he had some serious addiction problems. But, I did probably spend half my time sweeping the floor, putting tools away, and organizing things. That was a while ago, but even so, $4.00 an hour was a long long ways from whatever minimum wage was, and what I made at my regular job. I didn't think it was a bad deal, all things considered.

Okay...did that have anything to do with anything?!!! :oops:
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Yes and no… I had a guy working for me would under report hours when he was doing something he’d never done before… I appreciated the thought but I also believe you get paid for honest effort too. It worked out, he was a top hand for many years. Nobody put in the effort like he did.
 
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