Went to Tenderfoots wedding reception last night and it was a great one.  Normally I don’t really like to attend those sorts of things, but this was a very relaxed one with only a line consisted of the two groups of parents and the young married couple…the rest of the families were all laid back in their spots and greeting people they knew as they came in.  The cheesecake was super too!  Thanks to you all for pulling off a great wedding!  Empty nesters on one side for sure!

While there I talked to Lead Burn and our conversation went to the long range shooting school taught by one of the locals…His school guarantees you will hit your target after 3 days of training and that target will be sitting out at 1,000 yards!  That’s a long shot!

But, Lead Burn said the shells for the 338 rifle you will be shooting costs $5 p/shot!  OUCH!

So, I got up this morning and did some research on bullets for guns I own…my shock was that “if you can find them”, 22 shells are costing over $13 for a box of 50!!!!  WHAT?  Yes!  Over $10 for a box of 50 shells!  I better go clean out the jocky box in my truck before someone rips me off!

I used to think my friend Gattlin was crazy to go to garage sales and buy up all the ammo he could find and he didn’t even have a gun in the caliber he was buying!  A round of this, a half box of that…what the heck was he thinking?  Now I know!  I’ll bet he has enough shells to sell to buy a new 4 wheel drive truck!

I recall a few stories of his about going to a garage sale being put on by a little old lady and the old smoozer Gattlin would slide up along side her, make some kidding remark about getting older and ask her where the old man was…of course his intent was to find out if the old man had died recently and if she had any of his hunting and fishing stuff still in the house….Gattlin is sneeky like that.

When he found out that was the case he would get her to give up some of his nasty old useless guns and ammo, because we all know that guns around the grandkids is a bad deal and he would help her out by taking them all off her hands for say….(let’s not get too carried away, after all she looks like she is pretty well off)…$100…no that’s too much…say $78….And of course that was all he had in his wallet at the time.

So Gattlin would walk away with two bolt action 22’s, a 30-06, a pistol with a holster and a belt full of 45 cal rounds in it, plus since she didn’t have the guns anymore, she would toss in all the bullets she could find in the house…4 1/2 bricks of 22 shells, 1 1/2 boxes of ’06 and some 12 gauge shells kicking around in an old wood box that had written on the outside “Remington” and a flying duck painted on it….”Oh, by the way, I could use that box to carry all this stuff to the truck…do you mind?”    Of course not, deary, here take it….

Gattlin, how can you sleep at night?

Bears Butt

June 9, 2013