No tip, but some light humour-
An Oklahoma Kid’s first Bow and Arrow set
Around age 10 my dad got me one of those little badass compound bow beginner kits. Of course, the first month I went around our land sticking arrows in anything that could get stuck by an arrow. Did you know that a 1955 40 horse Farmall tractor tire will take 6 rounds before it goes down? Tough “sumbich”.
That got boring, so being the 10 yr. old Dukes of Hazard fan that I was, I quickly advanced to taking strips of cut up T-shirt doused in chainsaw gas tied around the end and was sending flaming arrows all over the place.
One summer afternoon, I was shooting flaming arrows into a large rotten oak stump in our backyard. I looked over under the carport and see a shiny brand new can of starting fluid (Ether).
A light bulb went off in my head.
I grabbed the can and set it on the stump. I thought that it would probably just spray out in a disappointing manner. Lets face it, to a 10 yr old mouth-breather like myself, (Ether), really doesn’t “sound” flammable.
So, I went back into the house and got a 1 pound can of pyrodex (black powder for muzzle loader rifles).
At this point, I set the can of ether on the stump and opened up the can of black powder.
My intentions were to sprinkle a little bit around the (Ether) can but it all sorta dumped out on me. No biggie, a 1 lb. pyrodex and 16 oz (Ether) should make a loud pop, kinda like a firecracker you know?
You know what? Screw that I’m going back in the house for the other can, so I got a second can of pyrodex and dumped it too. Now we’re cookin’.
I stepped back about 15 ft and lit the 2 stroke arrow. I drew the nock to my cheek and took aim. As I released I heard a clunk as the arrow launched from my bow. In a slow motion time frame, I turned to see my dad getting out of the truck… OH SHOOT! He just got home from work.
So help me God it took 10 minutes for that arrow to go from my bow to the can. My dad was walking towards me in slow motion with a WTF look in his eyes.
I turned back towards my target just in time to see the arrow pierce the starting fluid can right at the bottom. Right through the main pile of pyrodex and into the can. Oh shoot.
When the shock wave hit it knocked me off my feet. I don’t know if it was the actual compression wave that threw me back or just reflex jerk back from 235 fricking decibels of sound. I caught a half a millisecond glimpse of the violence during the initial explosion and I will tell you there was dust, grass, and bugs all hovering 1 ft above the ground as far as I could see. It was like a little low to the ground layer of dust fog full of grasshoppers, spiders, and a worm or two.
The daylight turned purple. Let me repeat this… THE COTTON PICKING DAYLIGHT TURNED PURPLE.
There was a big sweet gum tree out by the gate going into the pasture. Notice I said “was”. That sucker got up and ran off.
So here I am, on the ground blown completely out of my shoes with my thundercats T-Shirt shredded, my dad is on the other side of the carport, having what I can only assume is, a Vietnam flashback: ECHO BRAVO CHARLIE YOU’RE BRINGIN’ EM IN TOO CLOSE!! CEASE FIRE. DAMN IT CEASE FIRE!!!!!
His hat has blown off and is 30 ft behind him in the driveway. All windows on the north side of the house are blown out and there is a slow rolling mushroom cloud about 2000 ft. over our backyard.
I wish I knew what I said to my dad at this moment. I don’t know – I know I said something. I couldn’t hear. I couldn’t hear inside my own head.
I don’t think he heard me either… not that it would really matter. I don’t remember much from this point on.
I said something, felt a sharp pain, and then woke up later. I felt a sharp pain, blacked out, woke later….repeat this process for an hour or so and you get the idea.
I remember at one point my mom had to give me CPR. and Dad screaming “Bring him back to life so I can kill him again”. Thanks Mom.
One thing is for sure… I never had to mow around that stump again.
Mom had been bitching about that thing for years and dad never did anything about it. I stepped up to the plate and handled business.
Dad sold his muzzle loader a week or so later. I still have some sort of bone growth abnormality, either from the blast or the beating, or both.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, get your kids into archery. It’s good discipline and will teach them skills they can use later on in life.
Great story! Reminds me of the time I thought I shot a cow out in the pasture.
http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2015/08/29/armed-patrols-planned-for-european-trains-in-recognition-of-islams-contribution-to-civilization/
Remember those old European movies about war time, when police routinely checked everyone on the train for I.D. , well it was wartime.
Clearly, it’s wartime again in Europe. They just refuse to admit it.
Don’t get uppity, Canada is just one Via Rail attack away from the same thing.
Via Rail? Gee, those European Islamist jihadis are such copycats.
So Europe is forming an E.U. police to do this, in order to prevent European nation-states from exercising sovereignty over their own national borders.
How badly might this end?
I’d recommend the Euro-Rail system offer massive sale price discounts to U.S. military personell on holiday in Europe.
If the current Canadian election goes south, so to speak, we may need to get police/army guarding trains/buses here. If they open the borders as Europe has.
Hmmm. armed guards on the local bus… dealing with the 20 random hitchhikers on board? Let me think about that…
Quebec is going to start another gun registry? http://courtrulings.einnews.com/article/257071272/OBoLXk2ydAyaG3W2
They tried that with those evil black (assault) rifles in New York and Connecticut here in the US of A. Only about 90-95% of them were NOT registered.
That is correct. The best estimates is that almost none of the people registered their guns. Even if it is a felony to not register them.
Quebec is going to start another gun registry? http://courtrulings.einnews.com/article/257071272/OBoLXk2ydAyaG3W2
They tried that with those evil black (assault) rifles in New York and Connecticut here in the US of A. Only about 90-95% of them were NOT registered.
That is correct. The best estimates is that almost none of the people registered their guns. Even if it is a felony to not register them.
THIS IS FYI … A MESSAGE …I AM HAS EMAILED THIS MORNING TO THE CANADIAN CONSERVATIVES NOW STILL GOVERNING CANADA:
Dear Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
CTV and GLOBAL TV are seen to be shaping the “news” particularly the DUFFY issue.
It is NOW the time for the CONSERVATIVE PARTY to change the …..NEWS CHANNEL and do some major housekeeping.
Get OFF YOUR ASS, PM HARPER, or at least get an high profile CONSERVATIVE MINISTER into the NORTH OF CANADA AND MARK OUR CANADIAN TERRITORY with CANADIAN FLAGS…. now before the General Election!
It may well be TOO LATE should MULCAIR or the guy with “THE NICE HAIR” gain governing power in Canada.
Move, …..LEAD….. LEAD….; ……..LEAD!
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW WHERE OUR CANADIAN NORTHERN LANDS and who controls THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE …..NOW!! Before the General Election.
AND WHILE YOU ARE HOUSEKKEPING , GET ALBERTA OIL SANDS shipped TO THE EAST VIA PIPELINE, TO A CANADIAN REFINERY, and save EUROPEAN ASS from RUSSIAN MALICE.
This message will appear on KATE MACMILLAN’S “SMALL DEAD ANIMALS” blog for all the world to see so this message will never get hidden.
I AM , the same …..I AM which helped free the slaves from EGYPT ages ago.
I AM ……………….!
my little brother, about 20 at the time, wondered what a keg of pistol powder would do it he shot it with a 243. It made a crater , moved the van a few feet and really pissed of my Dad. the hole was still there 20 years later.
Harper manipulates the media is the joke of the day. The media would like to be able to manipulate Harper, somehow play nice,nice with them so they can get more material to use against him. Truth in reporting isn’t one of their virtues, Harper knows that so he tells them how many questions he will answer,they then say he’s a control freak.
When PM Harper is campaigning and addressing the public they want to talk about the Duffy case before the court which is of no importance to rank and file Canadians concerned about real issues affecting their daily lives.
There was a large Joan Crockatt sign on Riverfront Ave. in downtown Calgary with “Nazi B**ch” scrawled across it the other day. Junior LibDips have also been defacing traffic control signage in Crockatt’s riding their “stop Harper” meme.
Surprised (pleasantly) that the CBC even reported on the Montreal vandalism.
Homer Henderson sings picking up beer cans on the highway.
Trump goes off on CNN at fundraiser. Don’t know if he’d make a good President but anyone who gives it back to the mendacious media is okay in my books.
Great story Snag.
Those of us that grew up in that era didn’t appreciate what we were living through until we compare it to what came later…..Hell I remember a kid who shot off a toe with a .22 short. It had misfired a few times and thinking it was a dud put the muzzle on his toe and pulled the trigger – one more time.
It was slingshots, bows, knives and guns for kids back then. We took our guns to school and went hunting after. No Xbox for us.
No tip, but some light humour-
An Oklahoma Kid’s first Bow and Arrow set
Around age 10 my dad got me one of those little badass compound bow beginner kits. Of course, the first month I went around our land sticking arrows in anything that could get stuck by an arrow. Did you know that a 1955 40 horse Farmall tractor tire will take 6 rounds before it goes down? Tough “sumbich”.
That got boring, so being the 10 yr. old Dukes of Hazard fan that I was, I quickly advanced to taking strips of cut up T-shirt doused in chainsaw gas tied around the end and was sending flaming arrows all over the place.
One summer afternoon, I was shooting flaming arrows into a large rotten oak stump in our backyard. I looked over under the carport and see a shiny brand new can of starting fluid (Ether).
A light bulb went off in my head.
I grabbed the can and set it on the stump. I thought that it would probably just spray out in a disappointing manner. Lets face it, to a 10 yr old mouth-breather like myself, (Ether), really doesn’t “sound” flammable.
So, I went back into the house and got a 1 pound can of pyrodex (black powder for muzzle loader rifles).
At this point, I set the can of ether on the stump and opened up the can of black powder.
My intentions were to sprinkle a little bit around the (Ether) can but it all sorta dumped out on me. No biggie, a 1 lb. pyrodex and 16 oz (Ether) should make a loud pop, kinda like a firecracker you know?
You know what? Screw that I’m going back in the house for the other can, so I got a second can of pyrodex and dumped it too. Now we’re cookin’.
I stepped back about 15 ft and lit the 2 stroke arrow. I drew the nock to my cheek and took aim. As I released I heard a clunk as the arrow launched from my bow. In a slow motion time frame, I turned to see my dad getting out of the truck… OH SHOOT! He just got home from work.
So help me God it took 10 minutes for that arrow to go from my bow to the can. My dad was walking towards me in slow motion with a WTF look in his eyes.
I turned back towards my target just in time to see the arrow pierce the starting fluid can right at the bottom. Right through the main pile of pyrodex and into the can. Oh shoot.
When the shock wave hit it knocked me off my feet. I don’t know if it was the actual compression wave that threw me back or just reflex jerk back from 235 fricking decibels of sound. I caught a half a millisecond glimpse of the violence during the initial explosion and I will tell you there was dust, grass, and bugs all hovering 1 ft above the ground as far as I could see. It was like a little low to the ground layer of dust fog full of grasshoppers, spiders, and a worm or two.
The daylight turned purple. Let me repeat this… THE COTTON PICKING DAYLIGHT TURNED PURPLE.
There was a big sweet gum tree out by the gate going into the pasture. Notice I said “was”. That sucker got up and ran off.
So here I am, on the ground blown completely out of my shoes with my thundercats T-Shirt shredded, my dad is on the other side of the carport, having what I can only assume is, a Vietnam flashback: ECHO BRAVO CHARLIE YOU’RE BRINGIN’ EM IN TOO CLOSE!! CEASE FIRE. DAMN IT CEASE FIRE!!!!!
His hat has blown off and is 30 ft behind him in the driveway. All windows on the north side of the house are blown out and there is a slow rolling mushroom cloud about 2000 ft. over our backyard.
I wish I knew what I said to my dad at this moment. I don’t know – I know I said something. I couldn’t hear. I couldn’t hear inside my own head.
I don’t think he heard me either… not that it would really matter. I don’t remember much from this point on.
I said something, felt a sharp pain, and then woke up later. I felt a sharp pain, blacked out, woke later….repeat this process for an hour or so and you get the idea.
I remember at one point my mom had to give me CPR. and Dad screaming “Bring him back to life so I can kill him again”. Thanks Mom.
One thing is for sure… I never had to mow around that stump again.
Mom had been bitching about that thing for years and dad never did anything about it. I stepped up to the plate and handled business.
Dad sold his muzzle loader a week or so later. I still have some sort of bone growth abnormality, either from the blast or the beating, or both.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, get your kids into archery. It’s good discipline and will teach them skills they can use later on in life.
Seems that a job in the civil service has a status that’s worth fighting for in some countries. It may not mean they get the best, but they certainly don’t get the lazy ones either.
http://www.newser.com/story/211987/you-almost-definitely-couldnt-pass-this-indian-exam.html
Hope you are on the mend Kate.
I thought for a minute that Lance accused you of being crabby.
She must feel right at home as Obama’s chief advisor. Her credentials are as impeccable as Hillary’s.
http://linkis.com/dcwhispers.com/81D2W
A Liberal supporter claims that his contribution to the Conservative Party was done ”withouth his consent.
The story ran yesterday, however today, the truth is beginning to unravel.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/2-men-conflict-over-donation-made-to-conservatives-1.3208189
Great story! Reminds me of the time I thought I shot a cow out in the pasture.
http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2015/08/29/armed-patrols-planned-for-european-trains-in-recognition-of-islams-contribution-to-civilization/
Remember those old European movies about war time, when police routinely checked everyone on the train for I.D. , well it was wartime.
Clearly, it’s wartime again in Europe. They just refuse to admit it.
Don’t get uppity, Canada is just one Via Rail attack away from the same thing.
Via Rail? Gee, those European Islamist jihadis are such copycats.
So Europe is forming an E.U. police to do this, in order to prevent European nation-states from exercising sovereignty over their own national borders.
How badly might this end?
I’d recommend the Euro-Rail system offer massive sale price discounts to U.S. military personell on holiday in Europe.
If the current Canadian election goes south, so to speak, we may need to get police/army guarding trains/buses here. If they open the borders as Europe has.
Hmmm. armed guards on the local bus… dealing with the 20 random hitchhikers on board? Let me think about that…
Quebec is going to start another gun registry?
http://courtrulings.einnews.com/article/257071272/OBoLXk2ydAyaG3W2
They tried that with those evil black (assault) rifles in New York and Connecticut here in the US of A. Only about 90-95% of them were NOT registered.
That is correct. The best estimates is that almost none of the people registered their guns. Even if it is a felony to not register them.
Quebec is going to start another gun registry?
http://courtrulings.einnews.com/article/257071272/OBoLXk2ydAyaG3W2
They tried that with those evil black (assault) rifles in New York and Connecticut here in the US of A. Only about 90-95% of them were NOT registered.
That is correct. The best estimates is that almost none of the people registered their guns. Even if it is a felony to not register them.
THIS IS FYI … A MESSAGE …I AM HAS EMAILED THIS MORNING TO THE CANADIAN CONSERVATIVES NOW STILL GOVERNING CANADA:
Dear Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
CTV and GLOBAL TV are seen to be shaping the “news” particularly the DUFFY issue.
It is NOW the time for the CONSERVATIVE PARTY to change the …..NEWS CHANNEL and do some major housekeeping.
Get OFF YOUR ASS, PM HARPER, or at least get an high profile CONSERVATIVE MINISTER into the NORTH OF CANADA AND MARK OUR CANADIAN TERRITORY with CANADIAN FLAGS…. now before the General Election!
It may well be TOO LATE should MULCAIR or the guy with “THE NICE HAIR” gain governing power in Canada.
Move, …..LEAD….. LEAD….; ……..LEAD!
THE WHOLE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW WHERE OUR CANADIAN NORTHERN LANDS and who controls THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE …..NOW!! Before the General Election.
AND WHILE YOU ARE HOUSEKKEPING , GET ALBERTA OIL SANDS shipped TO THE EAST VIA PIPELINE, TO A CANADIAN REFINERY, and save EUROPEAN ASS from RUSSIAN MALICE.
This message will appear on KATE MACMILLAN’S “SMALL DEAD ANIMALS” blog for all the world to see so this message will never get hidden.
I AM , the same …..I AM which helped free the slaves from EGYPT ages ago.
I AM ……………….!
A good one from John Snobelen (channeling Rex from the other day; start of a counter-narrative? One can only hope!):
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/08/29/ts-the-economy-stupid
It appears a scientist is whining about being suspended for creating, singing, and posting an anti-harper “folk” song this past June.
*Trigger Warning* NPR link
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/28/435637815/scientist-who-wrote-protest-song-about-canadas-pm-is-put-on-leave?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
Keep up the good work Joe.
But Harper manipulates the media doncha know?
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/08/29/harper-manipulates-the-media—and-you
The ‘writer’ has Liberal ties but that wouldn’t make him biased now would it??
my little brother, about 20 at the time, wondered what a keg of pistol powder would do it he shot it with a 243. It made a crater , moved the van a few feet and really pissed of my Dad. the hole was still there 20 years later.
Harper manipulates the media is the joke of the day. The media would like to be able to manipulate Harper, somehow play nice,nice with them so they can get more material to use against him. Truth in reporting isn’t one of their virtues, Harper knows that so he tells them how many questions he will answer,they then say he’s a control freak.
When PM Harper is campaigning and addressing the public they want to talk about the Duffy case before the court which is of no importance to rank and file Canadians concerned about real issues affecting their daily lives.
‘If guns kill people, then forks made Rosie O’Donnell fat”
Conviction rates for people with a CHL (concealed handgun licence) in Texas…
https://www.txdps.state.tx.us/rsd/chl/reports/convrates.htm
During election campaigns some people from every ideological bent steal signs, deface them with graffiti. I suspect that usually this is done by youthful party supporters. The following incident is way over the top though.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/conservative-candidate-in-montreal-target-of-sexist-graffiti-1.3205507
Hopefully Kate is feeling better.
There was a large Joan Crockatt sign on Riverfront Ave. in downtown Calgary with “Nazi B**ch” scrawled across it the other day. Junior LibDips have also been defacing traffic control signage in Crockatt’s riding their “stop Harper” meme.
Surprised (pleasantly) that the CBC even reported on the Montreal vandalism.
Homer Henderson sings picking up beer cans on the highway.
Trump goes off on CNN at fundraiser. Don’t know if he’d make a good President but anyone who gives it back to the mendacious media is okay in my books.
Re Trump…Doh!
http://tinyurl.com/ozzcm4f
Great story Snag.
Those of us that grew up in that era didn’t appreciate what we were living through until we compare it to what came later…..Hell I remember a kid who shot off a toe with a .22 short. It had misfired a few times and thinking it was a dud put the muzzle on his toe and pulled the trigger – one more time.
It was slingshots, bows, knives and guns for kids back then. We took our guns to school and went hunting after. No Xbox for us.
Daniel Moynihan on male violence, via David Warren: http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2015/08/27/moynihans-scissors-today/
Oh good. CBC Vote Compass is back. See how Liberal you are!
https://votecompass.cbc.ca/home
Cool took the vote compass and am further to the right of Atilla the hun .
My major source of information was CBC radio television >
That’s a beautiful story of youth. Laughed most of the way through…
Some low incomes are more equal than others:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/08/toronto_taxpayers_fund_muslimonly_apartments.html