Posted on 04/01/2016 7:27:40 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
Nice night in the Panhandle ......:o)
Sorry, I was in there watching Broner v Theophane.
Each of the parts of that story happened. The bull running through the fence part I only saw later, and it wasn’t “five strands ...” and all that. It was a standard old fence out on that first turn-row after the Oldsmobile pump, not the Chevy, the Olds. Go south for a quarter-section and right there by the old tank. Or something.
But the part about the bull being named Melrose is true :)
I lernt not to mess with the Schlitz Malt Liquor bull.
Oh man, I love hamburgers on the hoof :)
Taste like Victory.!
“I was a dead shot with my little Nylon 66,.....”
I had a Nylon 66. I think it cost $55.00. Fun gun.
We used to shoot at wasp nests with M-80’s shot with Wrist Rockets.
lol.
My mom grew up on a farm/ranch down in Hudspeth County. My uncle was named Cowboy. Wasn’t his Christian name but that’s how everyone knew him. It was always an adventure for me to visit there.
If you have been out there sometimes, it is worth the storms and the wind.
My old daddy had piece of property out northwest of Plainview, we put up a radio tower because we were in the two-way radio business. This is long before cell phones.
I have stood out there in the full moon and the wind blowing the maize around at about 50 mph, from different directions, and realized there is something in the world greater than my existence.
One of the most visceral experiences in my 59 years.
Like I said, I love adventures.
Sure wish I still had one. P38 was one of those thing you just assumed would be around forever.
They are as hard to find as a church key.
Nylon 66 man, those were perfect rifles for a 10 yo Okie in Del City, or whatever.
I was nowhere near the crime scene, occifer.
Agree ..... I’m in the town of Panhandle..... so flat you can stand on a 5 gallon bucket with a pair of binoculars and see the back of your own head pretty much.....
I was gone for 24 years in the military and couldn’t wait to get home. Early sixties now so don’t plan on leaving again....:o)
Stay Safe !
OMG, that’s awesome. I remember seeing blinking yellow lights in Hale Center (hometown of DeForest Kelly, the doc from the original Star Trek series) from the south side of Plainview. Like 12-13 miles away as the crow flies, or thereabouts.
Why does the wind blow in the Panhandle?
Because Oklahoma SUCKS!!!
(more full disclosure, I am from Del City OK, too)
Stay safe FReeper.
WTC
Mine was (still is) the 66SG model...the one with the green stock.
It cost me around $30.00 bucks, in 1963...I had just turned 12 and that was most of the profit of a nearly year-long paper route.
I still have it, although it is faded from the sun and some of the bluing is rubbed off.
It still shoots true, almost as good as my hot-rodded 10/22, with Volquartsen upgrades.
It is the rifle that I awed my sons with, by lighting a "scratch anywhere" match, many years ago.
We used to shoot at wasp nests with M-80’s shot with Wrist Rockets.
I had a friend that lost most of his left pinky finger doing that.
He fumbled it as he was trying to launch and for some dumb reason, tried to catch it and re-fire, with the fuse still burning.
I think that may be one reason M-80's are so hard to find, nowadays, but then he was also the dumbass that hit a .22 round with a hatchet.
Still has the marks from that one, too, in his right hand and wrist.
I blew the toilet out of my high school bathroom with an M-80...they will do some damage.
LOL.... nite !
LOL
Wow, hey asshole, you set the new record. Congratulations, asshole. You da man, man.
Sixth post, and we are now trying to go po-li-tickle.
F-off numnutz, we’re just sitting on the porch around here. Enjoying some nice sour mash. Go pee in your own hot tub.
Numnutz. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.
mucho garcias amigorinios
Mine is the green stock, too. A buddy got the darker stock.
We got some plastic tubes and would load them so we could re-load pretty fast.
You and I must be the same age. (1951) I was 13 when I got mine.
You’re right about the M-80’s.
And you, too.
Very good.
Thank you.
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