Re: Check in

[ABLE1 <somewhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/14/2020 3:22 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> On 5/14/2020 12:20 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> On 5/14/2020 9:56 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>> On 5/14/2020 10:20 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>> On 5/12/2020 5:13 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>>> On 5/11/2020 10:58 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>>>>> On Monday, May 11, 2020 at 8:58:18 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>> On 4/4/2020 1:47 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hey!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How's everybody doing?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I had a gnat fly in my mouth the other day.  He tasted like mosquito
>>>>>>> repellent.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> HACK!  HACK!  HACK!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let's see now -----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you had a choice between eating a gnat that tasted like
>>>>>> mosquito repellent and a green horse fly that tasted like horseshit
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Which would you choose?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry Bob, I just couldn't resist :-D
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim,  Your resistance was futile..................
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh and Bob, think about it!! There has to be another choice.  Not!!
>>>>> :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> ROFLOL
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My place is surrounded by citrus and alfalfa, so gnats are a regular
>>>> hazard.  Mosquitos for some reason not so much.  Several of my
>>>> neighbors have horses as well, but no horse flies either.  Never
>>>> heard of a green horse fly, but we have a big black one that I see
>>>> out on the river fairly often in the summer time.  They will but a
>>>> nasty bite on you, and are hard to hit with anything.  One anglers I
>>>> used to knew kept a badminton racket in his boat for taking them out.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, not the first gnat I've wound up eating or spitting out.
>>>> Just the first one that tasted like deet.  FYI:  Mosquito repellent
>>>> seems to have no affect on them.  I tried back when I first moved to
>>>> this place back in 2005/06.
>>>
>>> Many Many years ago when I was the Maintenance Supervisor for a Plastic
>>> Extrusion Company I had a very small office near the shop.
>>> (maybe 11' x 9')Â  One summer there was this standard housefly that got
>>> into the office.  Since he was young he was very fast and I could not
>>> get him.  Buzz buzz buzz around and then would hide for a while.
>>> Myself in and out of the office all day.  Drove me nuts for 3 days.  Now
>>> the fly is 3 days older and getting slower.  He sat down on my desk and
>>> I very quickly reached out and caught him in my hand.
>>> Yahoo!!  Gotcha sucker!!
>>>
>>> Due to the torture he bestowed on me for 3 frickin days there had to
>>> be some appropriate punishment that was needed for this now captured
>>> fly.
>>> So I pulled off a bit of Scotch Tape and gently stuck him to it.  His
>>> legs were wiggling and his wings were trying to get loose but the sticky
>>> Scotch Tape adhesive would not let him go.  I walked him out to the
>>> shipping dock and gently stuck the tape with the fly to the floor.  He
>>> continued to try and get free but he couldn't!!  I then went over to
>>> the walk-behind forklift and positioned the left front wheel in line
>>> with the fly.  I the slowly (ever so slowly) moved the the 4,750lb
>>> forklift forward.  Once the tire rolled over the fly I went back and
>>> forth a couple of time just make sure he was DEAD.  I then pealed the
>>> Scotch Tape with squished fly off the floor and returned to my office
>>> where I pinned it to my bulletin board.  I did not have another fly
>>> enter my office for the rest of the summer.
>>>
>>> Wow, just typing that, made me feel so good!!  LOL
>>>
>>> I hope you all enjoyed reading my little fly story!!  :-)
>>> You may now resume your normal activities................
>>>
>>> Les
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Did you cackle and rub your hand together as you dreamed up your revenge?
>>
>> A few years ago I tried to grow a winter garden.  Black birds and
>> grackles were eating my seedlings as fast as they would sprout.  I
>> looked them up.  There is actually an international treaty protecting
>> both of them, but there is a clause in that treaty where I can
>> exterminate them with extreme prejudice when they are causing
>> substantial harm to crops.  I broke out an air rifle and spent the
>> next several weeks shooting anything with wings that came near my
>> garden. I'd go pick them up and toss them in the garbage, but one day
>> I popped two crackles  and a customer called.  Those two grackles got
>> left at the end of the rows of broccoli for several days, and as long
>> as they laid there not another grackle came near my garden.
>>
>> FYI, If a grackle happens to bend down towards you a properly tuned
>> .25 Marauder will put a 25.4 grain pellet though his beak and exit his
>> asshole at 30 yards without hardly slowing down.
>>
>> P.S.  I am sure when you were a kid somebody said they had a
>> Benjamin/Sheridan/Daisy/ etc that they could pump up a hundred times
>> and it would shoot like a .22.  They were full of shit.  LOL.  My .25
>> Marauder develops about half the energy of a .22 long rifle.  There
>> are air rifles that develop as much energy (or more) as a 45 acp, but
>> they sure aren't doing it with a .177 caliber 7 grain flat nosed cast
>> lead badminton birdie.  My Marauder is charged to 3000 PSI with an
>> SCBA compressor or SCBA tank and gets 28 shots at a little over 900FPS
>> before velocity starts to drop, and I go refill it.  Its an awesome
>> medium range game bird killer.
>>
>
>
> PPS:  When I was a kid my Daisy 880 did a number on horse flies.  2
> pumps with a steel BB would take one off the side of an aluminum drop
> tank without leaving a dent.  It would leave a pretty healthy dent on
> the side of the feed shed though.

I have a Beeman Silver Kodiak X2 single pump will move a .177 pellet
at a speed of 1000fps.  Unless I am having a bad day, all targets are
sent to ~~~~~~~~~>>>>>>>> another place.

Yes, those good old Daisy steel BB's will also shatter A-L-L the glass
windows that are located in the neighbors chicken coop............
Don't ask me how I know!!!