Nolan

Thanks Jerry, Infamy, Penury, Ridicule, er Fame, Fortune, & Glory how can I resist. You have my permission to permanently post the videos. Nolan

No Dude, you've got to love taking better photos!!!! I can't tell for sure but it looks like a series 80 extractor. Just buy any of the name brand extractors. I've had good and bad luck with all of them keeping tension, breaking, etc... The fitting and tuning are more important than the brand (as long as it's a quality part.) Nolan

I finally got my HoserCam videos posted from my Rusty Buckle, er Silver Buckle Match. Man, I sucked, but at least I sucked consistantly. It seemed like everybody had at least one complete Crash & Burn stage except me. Nolan

Congratulations on your Class win! Nolan

Thanks! Actually.....No, I haven't been practicing at all. It was a great match, I'll have video up pretty soon of all but two of the stages (due to technical difficulties, I pressed the STOP button by accident). I shot better than I expected, but not as well as I had hoped. I had to take waaay too many extra shots on steel and I'm still not real fast on my feet. Like Short Round was kidding me, it's a good thing I only have to take 3 steps to cross the shooting bay! Nolan

Actually, I've bought all my new vehicles through my credit union's fleet purchase plan and gotten them for just over invoice. What I hate is to get the good deals I have to buy them in Gilroy, 60 miles from where I live. Here in the Bay Area the dealers are the usual overpriced slime this hate rant started with, with about a billzion car dealers you would think the competition would drive the prices down, but it seems to have the opposite effect. Nolan

OK this is the hate forum, New Truck 9K off sticker, Ooooh I hate you! Nolan ps just kidding!

I built a special HoserCam headset that incorporated a Tactical Light, alas I wasn't able to use it for the match. I did use it to film the Dark House after the match. I built 10 mounts and figured that if I could use it for score, I would sell 10 HoserCams in about 10 minutes! Nolan

I hope he's wearing a bib! Nolan

Catfish, If it was blue Ford Explorer, she did the same thing to me this morning on the way to work.....and I'm driving a pick-up truck. She flies by me in the left lane and hangs a hard right turn across my lane onto the exit ramp. Fortunately I had a premonition and was already slowing down, but for a split second I seriously thought about just plowing into the side of her SUV. Oh yeah, she was on the cell phone as well! Nolan

Pickup trucks are notorious for front brake wear, especially those with drum rear brakes. The OEM drum brake self-adjusters do not work well and it seems the factories want them that way to prevent brake lock-up because the rear wheels are so lightly loaded in empty pick up trucks. My Dakota has ABS but I never felt the rear ABS kick in even in the first rain of the season. I put it up on jack stands and with the motor idling in gear the brake pedal would not stop the rear wheels from turning!!!! The parking brake worked fine. Now I manually adjust the rear brakes and my front brake pads last much, much longer. Nolan

I've seen that in some other makes as well, so it's not only Winchester. "Gee I wonder why this shotgun shoots to the Right?" Nolan

Sushi? Nolan

Here in Kalifornia that would be a felony! Seriously, it doesn't happen very often, and like Nik said when it does it's usually an accident. Nolan

It was a burn-out contest. The full video clip can be seen here: FerrariTard Wee Todd Did Racing (Retarded Racing) or do a search for Ferraritard Supposedly he posted on a Ferrari forum that his foot got wedged between the brake and *thumb rest [generic]*? I think it was more likely his droopy baggy pants got wedged somewhere else! Nolan

Remember the old Foghorn Leghorn cartoons where he (a Rhode Island Red rooster) knew exactly there the leash on the watch dog stopped the dog? Foghorn would draw a line on the ground so he would know where he was safe to bait the dog (of course the dog would move the dog house/leash anchor about 3 feet closer to the line! ) Hence the "Foghorn Leghorn Line" You weren't the only one that had a long drive. Mine wasn't quite as long as yours, but I drove 250 miles round trip to shoot steel as well. This is the third time I've driven to a steel match and had it cancelled. Twice I've driven to Richmond and no match (it looks like it MIGHT rain ) and this time to Ione. Nolan

Counting has been an ongoing problem for me as well. So I really like the visualization idea. When I read, I visualize and see an image not words, but when I count, I have to hear that damn little voice and I can pull the trigger alot faster than it can say 1-2-3-4 Thanks for the idea! Nolan

Wrangling skills? You don't need any skills! All you need is a shopping cart full of fresh corn. Ex Kansas Farm Boy Nolan

Hmmm! Either of youse guys been hunting lately? Mourning Cuddle? Nolan

OH YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A SINKING FEELING IN THE PIT OF MY STOMACH WHEN I MISREAD THE THREAD TITLE!!!!!!!!!!! Thank God the title actually was SHOOT and not SHOT as I read it the first time~~ Whew! I think I need to get some new glasses. Nolan

I'm working on it David. I shot a match at Oakdale last month and my knee was the size of a cantilope the next day (damn classifier was A Barrel of Fun CM03-06). I'm trying to save my knee for the Silver Buckle match. Nolan

I tape 6 eight inch paper plates to a large silhouette target spaced as far apart as possible and then run the target out as far as possible. Then I practice one shot draws, picking up the gun and one shot, one shot reload one shot, etc... Nolan

Most of the tinkering involved is getting only the ball-bearing to contact the disconnector on the middle spring. You may have to bend the head of the spring to adjust the ball-bearing contact. Other than that I leave the springs pretty much flat. Nolan

Is she wearing a Bikini? Nolan

The rule states the course of fire is ended when the competitor removes his/her hand from the holstered gun, it doesn't say the gun has to stay in the holster! So I would think (Yeah I know it's a reach ) if you show clear, are given the command to holster, put the gun in the holster, remove your hand and THEN the gun falls out of the holster it's the same as any other time an unloaded gun falls out of the holster. I don't see anything in the rule that states 'gun must stay in holster xx amount of time to be considered holstered'. Nolan