Don Shearer.............Thanks!

Dave Parks

Dave Parks

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Don,

Your package arrived today and it was very much appreciated. Your timing was perefect, I had not yet found the T.E.F. album on eBay with "Shotgun Boogie" on it. Is this an album you found or a MP-3 download? It has a lot of his greatest songs on it. Judy and I listened to all of them this evening. It will certainly be added to our collection of "road trip music" CD's.
No doubt T.E.F. had one of the best voices ever. He was a great entertainer and I always liked how he made fun of himself, a sing of a good man IMO. I never tired of watching him on his T.V. Show and listening to his songs. Thanks again Don for sharing.

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Dave
 
Dave,

Oregon must be down hill from Pullman, that package made it there in a hurry. I only put it in the mail on Monday. I am pleased you liked it. I have a pretty extensive collection of old country and bluegrass music. I found the album two or three years ago. I came to the world a bit to late to have ever seen TEF's television program, but he did have a wonderful voice and you can tell by some of the songs he sang that he didn't take himself to seriously. I hope you and Judy enjoy it. Now you need to get her a Fox .410. I really like the last song, Hicktown. I have spent my entire life livin in hicktowns.

My best,

Don
 
Don,

Fox .410 are as hard to find as a 10 carat diamond in a bag of dogfood, but I'm sure she'd like one. There must be a difference in US Mailing procedures between east of the Cascades and Seattle. On average it takes them 8 6-7 days to get a letter or package down here from Sutton. One thime Steve got mad and sent me a large envelope by special Over-Night mail, it costs him $11.75 and of course that one took ELEVEN DAYS to get here! My mail gets to Steve there in 3-4 days............go figure?

Every song on this album is a good one, Hicktown certainly has something to say to the city boys. Like you, I have lived all my life in small towns or out in the country. At present, I'm 32 miles round trip to Grants Pass and that's almost too damn close. Like in the Merl Haggard song "Big City" I'd be happy to be "Dropped off some where in the middle of Montana" and Lewistown, MT. is about dead center in the State. When I grow-up I'd like to learn how to download music onto CD's, but it will never happen with this slow dial-up sysytem I have for the computer. But that's just part of living out beyond the the city and their cable hook-ups. It's 10 miles to the nearest Hicktown and they only have a Post Office, a small market and a small cafe.

Again, thanks for sharing Don.

Dave
 
I was amazed that you got those dies so quick. I mailed something to Ill. and it took forever to get there..and that was only a couple hundred miles. I mailed a letter from my house to the lumberyard once..2 1/2mi away across the state line and it took 7 days!
 
Those dies of yours did get here pronto. And they worked fine, now have over 500 rounds of .45 long colt loaded up. I shot a box of them the other day and the gun shot fine. Now I need to spend a few hours up at the shop casting a bunch of .45 bullets again.

It should be about time (they said 12 weeks) you start receiving your subscription to Shooting Sportsman Magazine. I relly look forward to seeing each issue........but it drives me nuts that it's only six issues a year. It is a first class magazine though.

I read in the current issue of American Rifleman that Bob Petersen died in March, 1926-2007. He went way back in the publishing business (Petersen Publications) He was a hell of a guy and published his first magazine "Hot Rod" back in 1942. Guns & Ammo, Petersen's HUNTING and Moter Trend were just a few of his most popular magazines. I used to talk to Bob at the early Sports, Vacation and travel shows in California.

There was also a good artical by Mark Keene (host of the American Rifleman T.V. show) on Ruger's new .375 Ruger rifle and cartridge. Also a good artical on the Winchester Model 21.

I see where Interstate Arms has come out with a very nice replica (Chinese) copy of the Winchester Model 1887 12 ga. lever action shotgun. It's going after the Cowboy Shooting market and only offered with a Cylinder bore in a 20" barrel............heck of a covey flushing gun though :^)

Dave
 
What year Gun Digest were you looking for? I've seen those 1887's on the auction sites and watched a guy shooting "cowboy" with one on a local station...wasn't the smoothest shooting stick I have seen. I bet brass shells would work better. I'm watching my mailbox for my subscription with beer breath.
 
Gun Digests from back in the 1940's. I have the Stoeger Shooters Bible collection almost complete going back to 1939.

I don't know what 1887 you've seen, but the Interstate Arms Win. 1887 was just announced in my June 2007 issue of American Rifleman magazine. It is a LEVER action. You might be thinking of the Chinese Norinco copy of the Win. 1897 which is the pump and has been around for awhile.

Let me know when your first copy of S.S. arrives.

Dave
 
Lee ,I had a long discussion with the Post Mistress when I mailed Dave a small package,last wed.I sent it first class
and asked,what the other options were.It was double for two day,but no gaurantee,and 8 days for first class.I asked her if was because the horses
get tired quicker than they did 150 years ago.I reminded her that we DO have jet planes flying the mail now,even from South Carolina.She laughed.
My Dad would send me packages APO NY to Korea with bread ,cheese,and pepperoni and I would get them in three days.No jets were flying then,except for
F86s in MIG Alley.The only way the post Office can last is to privatize it,IMO.
 
Dave, there was a bunch on auction arms from the 50's..they didn't look to be in too good of condition. There is another Chinese 1887 that has been out a couple years..I haven't paid much attention to it and figgered it was made by Norinco (sp?) . Funny how the chinese can make guns for Americans but can't have one of their own..all state owned too.


Joe, I'm with ya on the post office. What a bloated whale of taxpayer waste.
 
What I find painful is that the USPS has actuall been called "the best run department in the Federal System". How sad is that! The US post office is the only government agency that actually turns a profit. So the may be mismanaged, bloated, etc, but they still pay their way, unlike most agencies and departments.

Charlie
 
Was that a NO COMMENT Lee?

The USPS is different than other Agencys.....they chage you a fee for a service where as the FBI, CIA, FEMA and HUD et al do not. They are not in a business to make money, they are in business to SPEND out tax money sometimes correctly and sometimes foolishly.

What the USPS does not do.......is tell you all the facts. When they want more money to stay in the green they announce they are raising the stamp by 2 cents (like they did May 14th.) What they don't tell you is that shipping of packages, certified mail, overnight mail and everything else they offer goes up $1.00 to $5.00 everytime a stamp goes up. People think that a couple cents ain't bad, but wait until you need to ship something again, you'll see exacrly how that little 2 cent raise actually does little for them, but the increase in shipping costs brings in BILLIONS for them.

A perfect example of these out of site USPS shipping costs is eBay. a small light weight item that sells for say $5 now costs twice what it's worth to ship it. That will eventually put a bug hurt on eBay.

A few days ago I was looking at a stack of 20 or so Shooters Bibles and Gun Digests a guy had on eBay. His opening price was good at $24.95 and I was interested. He did not mention how much the shipping was, so I emailed him. He said that by USPS Media Mail he was qouted $84.50. It was easy to see why they went off without a single bid.

If somebody does not do something about these outrageous gasoline prices we have only seen the tip of the iceberg on shipping of everything. DHL, UPS, Fed-X increases their prices everytime the Stamp goes up as well.

With 5 ponds on the place......I think I'll get a camel, they are cheaper to FILL-UP!

Dave
 
No....I had a comment...don't know where it went though.It was about like yours so I won't type it out again. Probably erased by the post office. I see they gave up trying to nick an email for a few cents...for the time being....
 
Not to mention the cost of food, clothing, building materials, etc.

The fact is that is costs money to ship things. Diesel, jet fuel, hay for the horse, water for the camel, they all cost something. USPS could concievably internalize the costs and hide it like most agencies do, we'd just pay more taxes. We'd all pay for it, it would jsut be hidden. The thing that's nice about postage is that you only pay for what you use...

I know it costs me a lot more to drive to work these days, and I have to pay for it at the pump. Like you say this has an impact on a lot of other businesses.

Then again, we're still paying a lot less for fuel than they are in Europe ($8 + /gal in great britain). If you calculate in the externalized costs (like the cost of pollution, illness, evironmental degradation, and damage to duck habitats [had to tie in ducks]) we are still paying a lot less for gas than it really costs.

Charlie
 
would kill me........

Heck 16 weeks would barely cover the opener of Dove to the close of Ducks.....what the heck would I do for time off for Turkeys?

I'd retire but everyone I know that went that route works too damn hard for my tastes......

Steve
 
That was neat Mark.............what a Country song!

"Pa's got a 16 ga. choked like a rifle" Too cool!

Thanks!

Dave
 
Mark,that was really great.I listened to about all of them,and loved the video with Dean Martin.
Thanks for bringing back memories of great entertainment.

Dave,how was the Polenta??I know,I know,they call it Grits in the South,but we had it in Italy since before the Romans.
 
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