Dave McCracken
Moderator In Memoriam
You remember her from "A Streetcar Named Desire", the play by Tennessee Williams. She "Always depended on the kindness of strangers".
I do not. By and large, I depend on myself. I buy, scrounge, and redirect components in my quest to extract the maximum shooting from the limited discretionary income MD's finest college leaves me. I get kinda miserly. I do not beg or bum, but I've been known to spend time recycling bad reloads, cutting them open and reusing the parts.
This is well known among my friends, including the Geezer Squad and other regulars at PGC. I reuse boxes until they open themselves, check the trash for usable hulls and boxes and in general Silas Marner it up.
So, today I was shooting with the usual suspects. About the time we finished up at Chinese trap, Lightload showed up.
He had PM'd me and asked if I was shooting today. He said he had something in his truck for me. It turned out to be a large bag with about 300 once fired STS hulls.
I thanked him vociferously. Good hulls do not grow on trees.
So we went and shot a few rounds of Wobble,joined by Duckman and eventually Tom Held. As mentioned elsewhere, both of these Worthies were armed with 410s, a Model 42 for Duckman while Tom had his pretty little Browning O/U with gold birds all over. I got to shoot a few shots from these, and have to admit 410s are fun.
As I got ready to leave. the RO gave me a large bucket of once fired STS hulls he had picked up.
As the Jeep ran for home, I fell to musing.
I had a half year's supply of hulls for free. I was able to shoot a pair of fine guns costing well into four figures I'd not get to try otherwise.
All this through the kindness of friends.
THANKS, GUYS!!....
I do not. By and large, I depend on myself. I buy, scrounge, and redirect components in my quest to extract the maximum shooting from the limited discretionary income MD's finest college leaves me. I get kinda miserly. I do not beg or bum, but I've been known to spend time recycling bad reloads, cutting them open and reusing the parts.
This is well known among my friends, including the Geezer Squad and other regulars at PGC. I reuse boxes until they open themselves, check the trash for usable hulls and boxes and in general Silas Marner it up.
So, today I was shooting with the usual suspects. About the time we finished up at Chinese trap, Lightload showed up.
He had PM'd me and asked if I was shooting today. He said he had something in his truck for me. It turned out to be a large bag with about 300 once fired STS hulls.
I thanked him vociferously. Good hulls do not grow on trees.
So we went and shot a few rounds of Wobble,joined by Duckman and eventually Tom Held. As mentioned elsewhere, both of these Worthies were armed with 410s, a Model 42 for Duckman while Tom had his pretty little Browning O/U with gold birds all over. I got to shoot a few shots from these, and have to admit 410s are fun.
As I got ready to leave. the RO gave me a large bucket of once fired STS hulls he had picked up.
As the Jeep ran for home, I fell to musing.
I had a half year's supply of hulls for free. I was able to shoot a pair of fine guns costing well into four figures I'd not get to try otherwise.
All this through the kindness of friends.
THANKS, GUYS!!....
