Random Thought Of The Day

[pbillyi69]

the shopping cart sizes isnt the problem. its the containers of food that have shrunk in size and the prices gone up at the same time that cooks my goose.

 

[59billy]

the shopping cart sizes isnt the problem. its the containers of food that have shrunk in size and the prices gone up at the same time that cooks my goose.

Look at Mister Moneybags over here, who can afford to cook a goose!

 

[pbillyi69]

if shoot them they seem cheaper. but they cost so much more. lol

 

[Bill G]

Look at Mister Moneybags over here, who can afford to cook a goose!

A shotgun shell is pretty cheap

 

[pbillyi69]

they used to be cheap. now they are a dollar a piece... i bought a new shotgun a couple of years ago. im in the hole on goose to shotgun cost ratio... lol

 

[Jusgunn3]

I bought some 410 for my kids to shoot doves with this past weekend and it was over $2 a shell for the “cheapest” shells I could get here is California…chitty!

 

[pbillyi69]

the best deal i could find for the premium waterproof goose shells were a dollar a piece and they were only that cheap if i bought ten boxes. those same shells on the shelves around here are more than 50 a box. so stupid they are fuggin shotgun shells

 

[stretch5881]

Geez, the last dozen or so comments, I thought I was on Senior Forum.

 

[Junk Meister]

Geez, the last dozen or so comments, I thought I was on Senior Forum.

Do I DETECT Some sense of (AGE) DENIAL?
Or just the FACTS.

 

[ammoaddict]

I bought some 410 for my kids to shoot doves with this past weekend and it was over $2 a shell for the “cheapest” shells I could get here is California…chitty!

410 shells are high here too. Years ago I bought a nice 410 pump to shoot rats while bushhogging. After buying a couple boxes of shells, I decided to sell the 410 and buy a 20 gauge. You can definitely come out reloading 410 if you have the hulls.

 

[pbillyi69]

i found a bunch of smaller shells for a reasonable price while i was looking for trap shells. but the big goose shells are way over priced

 

[stretch5881]

Do I DETECT Some sense of (AGE) DENIAL?
Or just the FACTS.

It is a fact. I might see you there some day.

 

[Junk Meister]

It Will be nice to meet you then . I Hope my memory improves by then..

 

[Bill G]

In my day this meant something.......

 

[pbillyi69]

that table is worth a few buck now

 

[stretch5881]

Yup, solving problems at the kitchen table over coffee and cigarettes. Now, those are our problems.

 

[Wilhelm]

Reading posts about needing Metric bolts, just to realize/remember You guys are mostly Imperial is mind blowing.

Wherever I look I have Metric bolts laying around, I have shelves, drawers & buckets full of sorted and unsorted Metric bolts, nuts & shims.

Imperial bolts?
For my life I wouldn't be able to find a single one!

Unreal!

Shop floor


Shop corner/wall, threaded round stock


A shelf holding volumes of bolts


Small assortment of most common Metric bolts in my dads shop


Buckets holding unsorted volumes of bolts will not be shown.

 

[Sloughfoot]

Reading posts about needing Metric bolts, just to realize/remember You guys are mostly Imperial is mind blowing.

Wherever I look I have Metric bolts laying around, I have shelves, drawers & buckets full of sorted and unsorted Metric bolts, nuts & shims.

Imperial bolts?
For my life I wouldn't be able to find a single one!

Unreal!

Shop floor
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Shop corner/wall, threaded round stock
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A shelf holding volumes of bolts
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Small assortment of most common Metric bolts in my dads shop
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Buckets holding unsorted volumes of bolts will not be shown.

That's not the half of it.

 

[legdelimber]

We had a supply house here that mostly dealt in metric fasteners. Amazingly they always priced out within a few pennies of our common SAE stuff.
The area is now a designated "economic opportunity zone" and all of the old businesses there have been bulldozed or gentrified into things like tattoo places or coffee shops.

We also had a supply place that dealt in "O" rings and similar bits. They would sell single items and didn't have a minimum sale amount if you payed cash.
I always got the impression they did it as a bit of a loss leader.
A lot of us guys (hobbyists) who needed the onesy twosy sales, remembered them when our employers needed to buy something.
That one was gentrified out also.

 

[Wilhelm]

We had a supply house here that mostly dealt in metric fasteners. Amazingly they always priced out within a few pennies of our common SAE stuff.
The area is now a designated "economic opportunity zone" and all of the old businesses there have been bulldozed or gentrified into things like tattoo places or coffee shops.

We also had a supply place that dealt in "O" rings and similar bits. They would sell single items and didn't have a minimum sale amount if you payed cash.
I always got the impression they did it as a bit of a loss leader.
A lot of us guys (hobbyists) who needed the onesy twosy sales, remembered them when our employers needed to buy something.
That one was gentrified out also.

Our hardware stores stock "loose" items, I can go in empty handed and come out with a single bolt/nut/washer/screw/nail whatever really.

I can go and purchase a single welding stick electrode.