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WELCOME TO THE WATERING HOLE





A stress-free place to gather and share whatever is on your mind! A fun place of mutual respect where you can hang your hat, vent, relax and shoot the bull for a while!





Happy Easter to all who celebrate that faith.




To all others, Happy Spring!




Easter symbolizes a new beginning, so it is fitting that TWH has a new beginning as well!
Along with RFC, TWH has been remodeled!




Actually, it can be anything you imagine it to be!



I am happy to announce that due to the increased bandwidth of the new RFC, there is no longer a need for the weekly closing and re-opening of TWH!!! After 10+ years of weekly "flipping" we now get to keep the doors open continuously! My sincere thanks to our moderators, especially Sophia, for making this possible!

I would also like to thank all the members who have kept this boat afloat for so long! We have become like family here, and now have a permanent residence! (y) While we have many long-time members who have been enjoying the company found in this amazing virtual bar, we also welcome all new folks. Jump right in! The first drink is always on the house and Veterans always have an open bar!
Al The Infidel (Tubby Slayer extraordinaire) is the bar manager.

So, let's get this re-opening celebration going! Set 'em up, Al! Drinks all around!!!
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Especially if Splatz lived with you guys in the big house. I've seen all y'all's housekeeping and the Finn would have no part of it. Pond would have to be restocked after every summer and the boilt fish removed. Maybe Don has mudbug tips for em living on rotten boilt fish.

Wings are toast once again.

Oh, local outdoor show had our lake featured whereas they're dumping pile of logs, trees, n brush in it for habitat to raise the fish numbers. Maybe if the craniums were removed from cranium owner's sphincters they might see the zebra mussels are the problem for the fish numbers that bottomed out. But then again that would involve some actual biology vs Boy Scout feel good work. stop
Funny [not] how many times some things get overlooked in the name of improving things w/some nonsensical agenda ain't it? And yet there are other times when the available data is sound, and it gets overlooked or swept under the carpet & never gets the play it rightfully deserves. Strange bed fellows and all that. One seldom need look further.

I may have a midnight martini yet. Jack's limited reading skills was making mine challenged and it's hard, waiting two minutes... to turn the page.

I've always thot that Bob Seger has the best handle, on that. And I still find that number moving; it plays on demand, in the back of my mind.

And further back in those Rockola table side juke joint or drive in 45 tunes also plays 'Get a Job'. I'm at a loss to explain it to Jack. He has one and is rather happy with it. It just goes right over his
head.

He isn't that tall.

Sad, in some ways, that the only goats he gets to herd are the two old ones he lives with and ones a nanny that's as stubborn as a mule.

Makes for good entertainment, at times.
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No holes in the pistons or apparent cracks.
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That's good that it was only valve train damage apparently.

Weather got cold again so I haven't done much at all. Got the Burris Timberline scope mounted on the Kimber, now need a windless afternoon to get it sighted in. I've been paying for all that walking at the gun show Saturday. Did not get the garbage out to the road today for tomorrow's pickup. I'll have to burn it and dump the used kitty litter in the field. Tomorrow is supposed to be a nice warm day and the cold blast done with so maybe I can get out of the house a bit and accomplish a little something for a change. A combination of feeling rough, tired and colder weather puts me out of order. I think that tonight is the last freeze warning being given. Come on spring time!
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Did not get the garbage out to the road today for tomorrow's pickup. I'll have to burn it and dump the used kitty litter in the field.
Won't that attract more cats from the neighborhood or, are you looking for more feral buddies?

I'm sharpening my pitchfork this Tues am @ 13º. :cool::banana:😇
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Good evening everybody, engine updates...
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We have some bent push rods and broken rocker studs, to go along with our bent valves.
Amazing that you can take an engine apart like that. Hope you can put it back together. Is is fixable? And is it worth it?
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I enjoy my cheap $800 watches, whats da problem?
Yeah, and I would love to find a house for 300k. My daughter and her fiancé are looking. Nothing below 500k.
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Amazing that you can take an engine apart like that. Hope you can put it back together. Is is fixable? And is it worth it?
It's fixable, I'm not sure that it is worth it. It's worth it to have a running & driving truck but I'm not sure that it's worth it to partially rebuild an engine.
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Big overcast remains, 50° @ 6 A, 74% RH, wind S 12 G 22 making it feel like 45. 69 is forecast high w/winds increasing.

Coffee is good this morning, but the shelf prices seen for same yesterday were scary. Catch a good sale and I'll load up again; probably have a month's worth on hand at present. Anyone else notice that we are slowly but surely being offered fewer choices at the big grocers and guided to only more expensive packaged items? I find it rather insidious skullduggery, in these times of inflation. 87 grade corn swill was noted at $2.899 at a couple of stations, so down a nickel from Saturday. Does not look like there will be any 'cheap gas' this spring and summer. Bummer.

Lots of sinus drainage this morning as the nose blows its way toward freer breathing. At least I'm not totally clogged up, so that's good. You wouldn't believe the amount of pollen and dust on everything again and it was washed clean during the last rain! Times, there is enough particulate matter in the air that it creates a haze. Late summer's high-pressure systems and inversions that park here many years are nasty to get thru. So are the triple digit days that coexist w/those conditions. I'm still not ruling out the possibility of an April snow. We get them now and again, but w/o any consistency.

Have plenty of spring cleaning to tend to.

It's taco Tuesday Justin Case ya forgot.
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Good Morning RFC'rs, et al:

Breakfast is cooking on the stove top. Plants are watered.

Once I eat I'll return to the ballistic laboratory for another day of casting.
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Annihilation

One of my ex's faves and first I heard em at abode where we lived in sin the first year.

No delis or nutting for lotsa miles @ the hunting shack on 40 acres at the end of a dead end 2 track in the middle of nowhere but lotsa birds and a river 250yds from the shack that touches one corner of the 40. State land on 2 sides, big chunk of non used private property on another, and the river on the 4th side.
Shack's been added onto by 20' and shower added during my permanent leave of absence. It has a well and wimmin and dumb useless non hunting dogs, that try and eat porkies, run freely. It was heaven while I lasted. Towards the end dad shot his last buck out the window. I made a plaque for above the window that said; WALLY'S BLIND. When he first saw it he said, "I'm not blind." :LOL:

Plant Sky Vehicle Window Tree
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If a 454 BB is needed by all means rebuild it. They have become few and far between these days. Most have been scrapped by now. If pulling heavy loads there is no equal to cubes and a lesser engine will get poorer fuel economy than the BB with a shorter life.
Had several buddies get into the truck pulling game. Some poured lots of money into the diesel game others stuck with the 454/460’s. The diesel guys spent a lot more money losing to the BB gassers.
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Another sunny frosty morning,here ,in the Valley.It will be an aroma filled day...farmer across the river is spreading chicken litter,and the breeze is blowing this way.
Wook,Turkey season has not opened yet,in another 2>3 weeks.Have not heard any gobbling from over on the mountain.
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Confirmed that the Tasco World Class Plus 8-32x50 scope will need taller Redfield twist in rings. Believe the high value four screw engraved rings that come with rifle are mediums but finding the needed measurements for tall or extra tall rings is proving difficult. Actual scope objective measures 64mm so with research showing a large set of rings fits 50-56mm objective scopes?
May just have to go on a wander and dig through the takeoff ring box at LGS and see what can be found in integral rings.
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Confirmed that the Tasco World Class Plus 8-32x50 scope will need taller Redfield twist in rings. Believe the high value four screw engraved rings that come with rifle are mediums but finding the needed measurements for tall or extra tall rings is proving difficult. Actual scope objective measures 64mm so with research showing a large set of rings fits 50-56mm objective scopes?
May just have to go on a wander and dig through the takeoff ring box at LGS and see what can be found in integral rings.
You trying to put the hubble telescope on your gun again?
You trying to put the hubble telescope on your gun again?
Gotta have 50mm minimum at 32X unless shooting on the surface of sun.
Yeah, and I would love to find a house for 300k. My daughter and her fiancé are looking. Nothing below 500k.
My son got married last Oct. Him and his new Misses are also looking. If it is $500k it has 5AC and a trailer made in 1972.
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