Kingsoverqueens

How was the match?

Consider alternate cooking applications. We oven roast them, grill them, sauté them with garlic. Another nice application is to make a batch of chili, and then throw in a frozen block of spinach. Delicious. There is always a bag of fresh spinach in the house but on occasion we'll use frozen spinach. Take a knife and chiffonade a handful of that fresh spinach, sauté real quick and then add some scrambled eggs and some diced onion and olives, feta for a Greek style omelet. I love food. lol

Regular olive oil. You aren't using enough of it to cause a problem, and it never gets that hot to smoke. Remember a lot of the heat is consumed by the vegetable and not transferred to the oil. If you were deep frying I could see it being an issue. Some fats are more suited for high heat cooking, like stir fry. I don't know what olive oils temp threshold is, but it's fine for this application.

A week at my place and you'd be asking for the hard, piping hitting veggies. My kids are 15, 13 and 12. They eat brussel sprouts, brocholi, cauliflower, squashes...you name it. I wasn't kidding about oven roasting. Take a head of brocholi and trim off the bottom part, and the leaves and disregard (or save for use when making chicken stock). Cut the flourettes and place on a cooking sheet. You can peel the stalk so it isn't as rough, and then slice into chunks. Take some olive oil and rub between your hands, and then rub your hands over the brocholi. Do this once or twice. You don't need a lot of olive oil. The sprinkle with Koasher salt and then fresh black pepper. If you don't have Koasher salt, get some. I use the mortons in the black box. Same with fresh cracked pepper. Roast this in a 400 degree oven for 15 minutes, or until the edges get brown. My kids eat this stuff right off the tray like they are sneaking a cookie out of the oven. This technique works for all manner of veg. The dry heat carmelized the sugars in the veg and creates a flavor profile you'd never expect. Broch turns nutty and sweet. Do this with a butter nut squash and it's like eating candy.

There is something about Lawman that I just like. Can't say why, but I do.

Very well said Dave. Not that I was the one complaining, but you brought up points that I hadn't considered, especially the purpose of Obrams and why it was organized. I wasn't able to shoot yesterday because we (niether my son nor I) had the experience necessary (Classification or participation in two prior Obrams events) so we decided to shoot IDPA. Given the match requirments I find it hard to belive that there were shooters who couldn't execute reloads.

Don't use your age and/or financial situation as an excuse to eat crappy food. You will pay for it later in life. How much does a bag of beans and some rice cost? A 4 pack of chicken thighs? I can teach you to make a very healthy meal for $5.00. (oven roasted chicken thighs, oven roasted vegetable <yes-roasted in the oven> and a potato). Do your self a favor and learn how to cook a little. Take one dish and master it. Then another. Soups are a great place to start. And eggs, well, they aren't just for breakfast anymore. I've saved the best part for last. Chicks dig a guy who can cook.

I'm not a real big fan of striper fishing from party boats. You might have been better off along the ocean front, but surf fishing is a dicipline all to itself. As far as them being around...they never left from the summer. Bait has been plentiful and thus so are the fish.

A bunch of pistols (a Trooper MKIII 357, a S&W 17-4 22LR and a Star PD 45ACP <all circa 1981 and never fired> plus a S&W 38 5 screw circa 1950 something. There are some other pistols too. A 35 cal lever gun and a 30-30 lever gun. These two are currently listed in the buy sell as is the Trooper MKIII. I still need to put price on the other pistols.

Have fun guys. We'll be up trying out IDPA for the first time.

The fireing pins are not bushed. My gun guy tells me he'd list it for $699 if it found its way on his shelf. My son and I shot it today, together with an old Mossberg 410 that was also handed over. I didn't hit anything with it yet my son did very well.

Me, Beretta 92FS. My son has a M&P 9 Pro.

We've never shot IDPA either. It's a different game than IPSC/USPSA. I'll be there with my son. We're looking forward to it, and to putting some names to screen faces.

Less Hell than a destination wedding, and having the Saturday after to be home and getting prepped for the honeymoon was terrific. We got to relax, have breakfast, then go visit family that was in town. We spent a great day before departing for our honeymoon.

Have you considered a Friday night wedding? We saved a boat load of money on that. Also, ask the place where you finally decide if they have any cancellation dates that can be booked on the cheap. We got a Friday night at the Shadowbrook for short money...I think $40 a head. Granted, we planned it in 4 months, but it was cheap. This was also 19 years ago. Good Lord how time does fly.

Thanks Parker. I'll check to see if it's got the bushed firing pins tonight. Knowing that it's a sidelock might help me. I'm torn. If it's worth more than I think its worth I'll probably sell it for him. I'm hoping it is becuase he needs the money more than I need a side by side and while it's very sentimental, I'm not looking to spend $1,000 on it, you know. I'd feel worse giving him 4 or 5 hundred for it and as much as I'd hate to see it go I'd be happier to find a buyer at a thousand. One of those things.

I don't know how to tell the difference between engraved and stamped plate. < embarrased > I have seen values around those numbers....3 to 5 hundy. Seems so low for such a pretty old gun.

I did. There weren't any listed when I checked a few days ago. Anything I've found is that they were considered lower grade, less expensive firearms. I've read values between four and five hundred dollars. I'm having trouble with that because of the engraving on the gun. It would help if I could at least determine what model gun it is, and I think the only way to do that is to write to the Mfg.

I recently took possession of all of my fathers long arms for the purpose of selling them to raise cash. He's had this shotgun since 1961 and out of the entire collection its likely the one gun that I'd like to keep, but I need to pay him a fair value for it. I've search google till my fingers bled and can't really find a solid valuation for it, primarily because I don't know which model it was called at the time of production. I know it's a Zabala 12Ga SxS. The barrel reads "FCA De A.Zabala, Eibas, Espana." It's a very pretty gun and out of them all is most sentimental to me. Anyone have an idea what it might be worth in a transaction father to son.

I start with both eyes open to see the bird fly and then close my right eye (I shoot long guns lefty but am right eye dominant) to finish my sighting before tapping the trigger. I shoot around 20 birds out of 25.

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Buy 'em! lol Nah, he's looking to sell everything, and aside from an old Zabala 12ga side by side there is nothing I really want out of the collection.

I'm in the process of acquiring my fathers collection and came across these old "pin fired" pistols. Any idea how to transfer ownership? There are no numbers, no mfg stamp, nada, zilch.

LOLZ. Longer than normal?

Storage and then shipment to another FFL.