@opipeman, @RockyMountainBriar Their goal is to make it incredibly expensive because that's easier than taking away 2A. These people are complete jackasses and need to be stopped. Nobody voted for this and you know it.
@Balisong I handload, and I have bullet moulds for nearly all of the calibers I own that can shoot cast lead bullets with gas checks if needed. I have lots of lead and hand cast bullets. I still have the issue of finding primers and powder. Primers and powder are not any more prevalent than loaded cartridges, actually even more difficult to find, at least around here. I have flintlock and percussion muzzleloaders and lots of percussion caps. Flint...well it’s laying around on the ground, black powder can be made. A PCP air rifle in .357, .45, or .50 caliber is on my list. Then I just need a high pressure hand pump, perseverance....and money.
Ahh, and don’t forget. Compound Bow, Recurve Bow, Crossbow, arrows, Atlatl and darts, slingshot, Break-Barrel air rifle, multi-pump air rifle, lions and tigers and bears..oh my!
@motie2 Oh yea, those are cool, but dang rare, unobtainium as it were...at least with my pocketbook. Try to find ammo for those. I knew about the pistol years ago, but I did not know there was a carbine too.
Nice setup @Londy3, I had a discussion recently with a contractor regarding knives with finger holes, he liked them, I find them dangerous to the untrained.
Speaking of that, this “little” fire was started by some target practice😳. No, I was not there....but a friend might have had something to do with it. Montana gets kinda dry.
@RockyMountainBriar; Every fire can be dangerous, but I never experienced any close calls on wild land runs. I hated them cause they were always in remote rough terrain and it involved a lot of walking in heavy gear. Carrying all the brooms, shovels, Indian pumps and whatever we would need. It was hot dirty work. I would take a structure fire any day.
A lot of Mainers still talk about the fire of 1947. It burned through quite a few towns in York County and surrounding areas, literally right down to the ocean beaches.
@Londy3 It’s actually not that uncommon. In a good wet spring (at least for most of Montana) the prairie grasses grow fast and thick. Then comes the late spring/early summer heat and it dries out the grasses to tinder. If you look at the grass with a glaring stare it will burst into flame. I have seen bullets spark occasionally when they hit something in/on the ground, I am not sure how that happens with lead or copper bullets, but it does🤔
1988 was a very bad year in Montana for wildfires. There were fires, big fires, all over the state. The Yellowstone fire, the biggest, burned ~794,000 acres (per Wiki). I think some of that was in Wyoming though. It took months before the fires were out. The whole state of Rhode Island has a mere 776,900 acres of land.
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Let's hope not, but with the looney tunes in charge, it will probably come to pass.
Their goal is to make it incredibly expensive because that's easier than taking away 2A. These people are complete jackasses and need to be stopped. Nobody voted for this and you know it.
You are preaching to the choir, my brother. I can't even watch the news without my blood pressure spiking.
I handload, and I have bullet moulds for nearly all of the calibers I own that can shoot cast lead bullets with gas checks if needed. I have lots of lead and hand cast bullets. I still have the issue of finding primers and powder. Primers and powder are not any more prevalent than loaded cartridges, actually even more difficult to find, at least around here. I have flintlock and percussion muzzleloaders and lots of percussion caps. Flint...well it’s laying around on the ground, black powder can be made. A PCP air rifle in .357, .45, or .50 caliber is on my list. Then I just need a high pressure hand pump, perseverance....and money.
You've got it all covered.
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🤣 Indeed. I have nothing in comparison.
This is not everything but a few things in my office I was cleaning up a bit...
Oh yea, those are cool, but dang rare, unobtainium as it were...at least with my pocketbook.
Try to find ammo for those.
I knew about the pistol years ago, but I did not know there was a carbine too.
Interesting. I never heard of that gyrojet guns.
Yes, the karambit is extremely dangerous. It serves absolutely no practical purpose, except one.
I always hated wild land fires about as well as anything.
I can imagine the danger, especially if the wind shifts. There have been plenty of fire crews overrun.
Every fire can be dangerous, but I never experienced any close calls on wild land runs. I hated them cause they were always in remote rough terrain and it involved a lot of walking in heavy gear. Carrying all the brooms, shovels, Indian pumps and whatever we would need. It was hot dirty work. I would take a structure fire any day.
Holy crap man. That's horrible. Do you know if your friend did it?.. By accident I'm sure.
Yes it was an accident, a ricochet/rock strike/hot lead in the grass? started it I guess.
Wow, what are the odds of that?
It’s actually not that uncommon. In a good wet spring (at least for most of Montana) the prairie grasses grow fast and thick. Then comes the late spring/early summer heat and it dries out the grasses to tinder. If you look at the grass with a glaring stare it will burst into flame. I have seen bullets spark occasionally when they hit something in/on the ground, I am not sure how that happens with lead or copper bullets, but it does🤔
Yep