OSA Chit Chat Thread

[dennishoddy]

Been raining all night and most of the day here on the lower mountain fork river. Finally quit, realized I’d left my waders at home and went wading in the 50* water in shorts and a jacket.
Didn’t take long before the rain hit again, so it was one and done.

 

[dancer4life]

Been raining all night and most of the day here on the lower mountain fork river. Finally quit, realized I’d left my waders at home and went wading in the 50* water in shorts and a jacket.
Didn’t take long before the rain hit again, so it was one and done.

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Nice catch Dennis.

 

[Shinneryfarmer]

Been raining all night and most of the day here on the lower mountain fork river. Finally quit, realized I’d left my waders at home and went wading in the 50* water in shorts and a jacket.
Didn’t take long before the rain hit again, so it was one and done.

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Nice one! Just the scenery would be worth it even if the fish didn't cooperate. That is beautiful. Congrats.

 

[Waltercat]

This is a test to see if the link works.
Good gun but iffy sights. I do have one. They don't charge sales tax but try to get you to buy insurance.The package includes two magazines, a cleaning kit, a bushing wrench, a trigger lock, and a nice case. Not a flimsy case.
They also have a CTS-1000 Crimson trace for $69.99.

tisas-1911-a1-service-45-.45-acp-5-71-cerakote-black-limited-enhanced-pistol

 

[dancer4life]

Yes, the link worked for me.

 

[OkieJoe72]

Been raining all night and most of the day here on the lower mountain fork river. Finally quit, realized I’d left my waders at home and went wading in the 50* water in shorts and a jacket.
Didn’t take long before the rain hit again, so it was one and done.

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I’m a little jealous with that pic. My wife and I usually spend a few days over that way during the fall or winter, but we probably won’t make it this year because we have so much going on. Hope you’re having a good trip.

 

[Frederick]

check out these prices....1962.

 

[xseler]

And it was in Kalifornia!!

 

[Frederick]

I found this on the internet while researching K98's and thought it was interesting, it reveals a young boy in eisenhower-era USA dumpster diving for post war goodies in scrap yards.... thought it was interesting so i wanted to share it with ya'll... Source

Wayne Hackert letter
Here is an interesting first hand oral history of post WW II scrap piles in the U. S. in the early 1950s that provides the reader with an idea of the amount of surplus that was actually present after the war in the late 1940s. In a letter to the editor; Confessions of a pint-sized Entrepreneur in GUN COLLECTOR magazine, Dec 2014, Vol. 36 No. 6, as a kid in the early 1950s the author, Wayne Hackert, tells of escapades of plunder. I wonder how many such scrap piles and depots were in Europe where post war GIs could get goodies and send them home? I found this magazine article fascinating. I assume such mounds of surplus equipment must have been present in Europe after the war clean ups, but I do not know of any oral history from European kid’s plunder and if they got to keep or even wanted to keep WW II souvenirs. I am reproducing the letter here as photo shots so it can be read. It’s too good not to read. This one letter is worth the price of the back issue of Gun Collector magazine.

Spoiler: Photo

 

[TedKennedy]

Well hell.
After 88 years on this earth, my old dad expired Monday night. It was expected, he'd been in decline for a few years and he decided to quit taking meds etc..a few days earlier.
He was a damn good dad, husband and friend. I started missing him years ago when his physical health declined to the point he couldn't hunt and fish with me any more. I missed him even more as his mental abilities suffered in recent years. He was a smart, quick-witted guy.

Now that he's really gone, the finality does hit home a bit. We've waded creeks, fished in saltwater, lakes, trout streams and hunted birds in Oklahoma and Kansas together. (I guess I was three the first time him and Grandpa let me follow them around quail hunting, they said I about froze lol)

I never saw him miss a single that got up in front of him. We'd bust a covey and he'd slowly try to walk every one up. Back then, there would be several coveys on an 80 acre farm in Delaware County.

When I was young and wild and stupid we did not get along too well, but we always had hunting and fishing together to hold that bond. I'm sure glad I straightened up and had many more years of adventures with him.

He loved my wife more than he did me, and she took to him like he was her own father. He took care of Mom like she wanted, and the last couple years she repaid that care in spades.

If there's an afterlife I hope he's there with my son (his favorite grandchild, shamelessly so) - arguing some philosophical point as they often did. Maybe after the argument they can get together with Grandpa and my uncles and go catch a smallmouth in a cool, shady creek.

Whether there is or not, Dad left a mark on this world, and it was very positive.