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I stayed at the Quality Inn last night for the Area 1 pistol championships. It's nice enough, but there was an uncivilized horde of yelling middle-school-aged girls racing up and down the halls several times before they gave up about 11 p.m. I suspect that the presence of an indoor swimming pool attracts such unhousebroken riff-raff. I wish I had stayed at the EconoLodge where there's no pool and no halls.
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Zone 2 (Stages 5-8) was located off "Slave Cave Road." For those of you who missed the cave, it was about a quarter mile from the lodge and well before the turnoff to Zone 2. (Not the big one on the way to the golf course) I didn't find much reference to the history on the Internet, but here's a link to a writeup by a California visitor, including some of the history. Slave Cave I explained the sordid history of slavery and the "Underground Railway" to some of the visiting IROA staff and they were amazed.
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I've always had to put up with my British friends/colleagues taking the mickey out of my by telling me that American beer is like "making love in a canoe" (translation available via PM for those who are unacquainted with the metaphor). Yet, when we had a meeting in Florida and I asked the Brits to go for the beer that would satisfy them, they came back with (hold on to your chair) Miller Light.
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The good news is that apparently, the ticks in Kentucky are usually not the deer tick, which carries Lyme disease. Now that the clock is ticking, so to speak, until the start of the match, you might check Tick Time in Kentucky And, I don't suppose that having a bunch of ticks crawling up your leg would entitle you to a re-shoot, but you could claim that a miss was caused by being "ticked off." LMAO....thanks for the Heads Up. We have the Deer Ticks that carry Lyme Disease in the area that I live, but they are pretty rare to come across. I have never had one on my person, but my Labs pick them up once in a while. How about Fire Ants. I spent some time in SC a few years ago, and they were pretty prevalent around the area I was in, Aiken! Dunno about fire ants near Rockcastle, but apparently they aren't a big problem in general. See Fire Ants
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The good news is that apparently, the ticks in Kentucky are usually not the deer tick, which carries Lyme disease. Now that the clock is ticking, so to speak, until the start of the match, you might check Tick Time in Kentucky And, I don't suppose that having a bunch of ticks crawling up your leg would entitle you to a re-shoot, but you could claim that a miss was caused by being "ticked off."
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Ticks tricks and tips Consumer Reports, the U.S. independent product testing organization, ran a piece on insect repellents in the July 2010 issue HERE. Unfortunately, they didn't include BugBand. They do suggest, among other other things, tucking trouser legs into boots to keep the beasties from crawling up the leg. I can't find any of the "blousing bands" we used on utility trousers in the service (USMC), but I find that 10" "mini bungees" work fine as a substitute method of creating a bug barrier. For those who wear shorts, well .....
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From Appendix D4 (Production) of the 2004 Rule Book: "Handguns with external hammers must be fully decocked. Competitors in this Division who, after the issuance of the start signal and prior to making the first shot, cock the hammer on a handgun which has a loaded chamber, will incur one procedural penalty per occurrence." (I have the pdf file if anybody wants it. Send me a PM)
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By now, you've probably read Jerry (The Geek) Burnett's article in Front Sight about the Area 1 match this year. Here in the Pacific Northwest we are not accustomed to high temperatures and the heat took its toll as Jerry described. I was CRO on stage 8 so I had the advantage of parking my truck immediately behind the pit. I kept a wet towel over my head on Saturday and after every shooter, re-soaked it in the cold water of my ice chest.