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Post by Plainsman on Dec 31, 2023 21:28:05 GMT -5
Then there are those that try to handfeed wild bears and want to pet elk.
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Post by trailboss on Dec 31, 2023 22:04:58 GMT -5
I think it’s funny how many people are obsessed with bear and cat defense and don’t take a first aid kit into the woods, or enough water, warm clothing etc. They have a gun, but can’t build a fire or administer first aid. Stupid humans…. While accompanying scouts on a wet drizzly night, one pulled out a flare and ignited a portion of it with a bic lighter, and quickly had a roaring campfire. Some of the kids protested that he is cheating, I said no...he is prepared. |
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Post by urbino on Dec 31, 2023 22:10:54 GMT -5
Then there are those that try to handfeed wild bears and want to pet elk. And poke bison with a stick. |
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Post by urbino on Dec 31, 2023 22:12:46 GMT -5
I think it’s funny how many people are obsessed with bear and cat defense and don’t take a first aid kit into the woods, or enough water, warm clothing etc. They have a gun, but can’t build a fire or administer first aid. Stupid humans…. According to the hunting safety course I took many a moon ago, the majority of ER hypothermia cases happen when temps are in the 50s. People go into the woods or out on the water completely unprepared and underdressed because they think it's not that cold. |
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Post by Plainsman on Dec 31, 2023 22:29:56 GMT -5
Urbanization was had some very interesting results. One of them is a variety of stupidity that our grandfathers would not recognize.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 1, 2024 12:19:27 GMT -5
Then there are those that try to handfeed wild bears and want to pet elk. A friend who is US Park Ranger told me how an urbanite once asked "At what altitude do deer turn into elk?" That about sums it up. |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 1, 2024 12:27:10 GMT -5
I think it’s funny how many people are obsessed with bear and cat defense and don’t take a first aid kit into the woods, or enough water, warm clothing etc. They have a gun, but can’t build a fire or administer first aid. Stupid humans…. While accompanying scouts on a wet drizzly night, one pulled out a flare and ignited a portion of it with a bic lighter, and quickly had a roaring campfire. Some of the kids protested that he is cheating, I said no...he is prepared. Indeed. I always had a freshly loaded Zippo lighter with me and a hatchet rather than a knife as a Scout. In the mountains, I was called upon to start fires for other BSA Troops who had given up fire starting owing to their lack of preparation. Never thought of a road flare. Good thinking by that young man. |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 1, 2024 12:33:37 GMT -5
Agree with Bob, leave the bears alone and make camp with proper food storage. I liked my Ruger Deerfield .44 mag carbine for bear defense. Semi auto. Five rounds. Two magazines. Never had to use it for that purpose. Also can take game if it came to that.  |
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Post by urbino on Jan 1, 2024 15:14:03 GMT -5
Agree with Bob, leave the bears alone and make camp with proper food storage. I liked my Ruger Deerfield .44 mag carbine for bear defense. Semi auto. Five rounds. Two magazines. Never had to use it for that purpose. Also can take game if it came to that. A friend in h.s. had one of those. Fun to shoot. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 1, 2024 15:14:49 GMT -5
I think it’s funny how many people are obsessed with bear and cat defense and don’t take a first aid kit into the woods, or enough water, warm clothing etc. They have a gun, but can’t build a fire or administer first aid. Stupid humans…. While accompanying scouts on a wet drizzly night, one pulled out a flare and ignited a portion of it with a bic lighter, and quickly had a roaring campfire. Some of the kids protested that he is cheating, I said no...he is prepared. We always had "scout water" in the old metal film cans. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 1, 2024 15:45:09 GMT -5
Those metal canisters are bringing insane prices. Somewhere I have a garbage bag full of the dang things.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 1, 2024 17:16:54 GMT -5
Those metal canisters are bringing insane prices. Somewhere I have a garbage bag full of the dang things. They are very handy. We could keep a 50/50 mix of gasoline and kerosene in them for a year or more with no leaks. We always had a couple in our pockets. When they went to plastic, we were bummed. |
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Post by don on Jan 1, 2024 19:49:08 GMT -5
Always take a bag of Fritos.
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 1, 2024 20:20:01 GMT -5
A bag of Fritos and a flask of Bushmills…
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Post by lizardonarock on Jan 1, 2024 20:57:03 GMT -5
The Fritos are for quickly starting a fire and snacking of course.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 2, 2024 20:25:19 GMT -5
In town today for an MD visit. Annual Wellness for Old Farts as mandated by Medicare. Alles en ordnung hier, ya!!
I had time to kill so I visited our one and only gun store which is a pretty good place. Lo and behold, they had a Springfield SA35 in OD Cerracote. I gave it a close examination and it fits my hand well enough. I was impressed with it. It did not fit as well as the old CZ 52, single stack 7.65 Tokarev which also impressed me. The M35 is the more practical gun, easier and cheaper to feed. At $776 I have to think it over as I do not really need this but since when did need interfere with a gun purchase? Besides, needs often arise in an unplanned for manner.
They also had a new in box Colt Python with a 3 inch barrel. Not the 2.5 inch, a real 3 inch. Since Colt only made one of these in every thousand Pythons over the years, the price was a cool $12,500.00. Clearly that is not in my budget but you well heeled guys might want to consider it, right? I have three wheel guns and not looking for anymore.
I shall see how I feel about the M35 tomorrow. Thanks to all who offered good advice.
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Post by urbino on Jan 2, 2024 20:57:14 GMT -5
In town today for an MD visit. Annual Wellness for Old Farts as mandated by Medicare. Alles en ordnung hier, ya!! ... They also had a new in box Colt Python with a 3 inch barrel. Not the 2.5 inch, a real 3 inch. Since Colt only made one of these in every thousand Pythons over the years, the price was a cool $12,500.00. Huzzah! And ZOINKS! Respectively. I think I'll just stand pat on my lone revolver. (A S&W 586.) |
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Post by lizardonarock on Jan 2, 2024 21:26:11 GMT -5
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Post by urbino on Jan 2, 2024 22:34:47 GMT -5
And, last I heard, not well made. |
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Post by lizardonarock on Jan 3, 2024 11:09:19 GMT -5
I will let CZ know your thoughts.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 3, 2024 16:06:38 GMT -5
I will let CZ know your thoughts. Seriously, they make a fine pistol. If it had been in a common available caliber I might have purchased it. It was a little rough looking as befits the age. I have long admired that cartridge and wish the were more factory loads. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 3, 2024 17:13:55 GMT -5
The MSRP on the SA-35 is $799. I paid $774 for my latest one. I don’t know what the price might be for a M35. Nor do I know what it is.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 3, 2024 19:02:45 GMT -5
The MSRP on the SA-35 is $799. I paid $774 for my latest one. I don’t know what the price might be for a M35. Nor do I know what it is. The Browning Model 1935. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 3, 2024 22:00:03 GMT -5
OK, thanks. I’ve heard it called a P-35. Even an HP-35. But never an M35. Learn something every day.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 4, 2024 12:40:02 GMT -5
OK, thanks. I’ve heard it called a P-35. Even an HP-35. But never an M35. Learn something every day. The pattern not an exact model. Browning Model 1935 or M35 for short. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 4, 2024 15:55:54 GMT -5
I think you’re just making that up, John. 🤪
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Post by toshtego on Jan 4, 2024 16:35:35 GMT -5
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 4, 2024 19:01:12 GMT -5
It is almost impossible to get an honest take on the Hi Power story. (This article is typical.) The French army asked FN to develop a new service pistol for them. FN turned the job over to JMB. When he died in 1926 the pistol he was designing had NO similarity to what would become the P-35. It was a very heavy, striker-fired (hammerless), single-stack that looked more like a ray gun than a 1911. On his death, his assistant, Dieudonné Saive, a French-speaking Belgian designer, took over. The Hi Power is his work. But nobody, particularly American JMB worshippers, is willing to let it go.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 4, 2024 19:06:37 GMT -5
Thank you, Bob. I did not know that.
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 4, 2024 19:36:11 GMT -5
And the irony is that after the superb Hi Power (originally called the Grande Puissance, or “High Power,” only later shortened to Hi Power) was presented to them the French rejected it in favor of a smaller, single stack, 7,65. Go figger. But don’t expect good decisions from le militaire francaise between the wars. You will be disappointed. (Remember the Maginot Line!)
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