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July 3, 2020
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Join us for the 2nd Annual, Unofficial, Informal, Pre-Cody Show BBQ Dinner Gathering! That’s “U.I.P.C.S.B.D.G.” for those of you into that sort of thing. No pressure… just good people enjoying great food & conversation about great guns!
Location: Fat Rack’s BBQ on main street in Cody, Wy
When: Wed. July 8th @ 5:30pm
We had a great time last year… please reply here with the number of your group and meat preference so I can give them a heads up.
Thanks in advance!
Ben
April 15, 2005
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Ben said
Location: Fat Rack’s BBQ on main street in Cody, Wy
When: Wed. July 8th @ 5:30pm
We had a great time last year… please reply here with the number of your group and meat preference so I can give them a heads up.
Thanks in advance!
Ben
Solo and Brisket for me
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
November 7, 2015
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Gonna be a long drive that day but I’m planning on some good Texas BBQ ribs when I roll in. Just hope I make it in time!
Mike
June 1, 2023
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I’ll be there, and Mrs BRP might join me now that she is retired. Brisket would be my culinary choice this year.
BRP
July 17, 2012
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I will likely be there, depending upon traffic. Brisket for Sandy and I.
Looking forward to seeing everyone!
WACA Life Member #6284 - Specializing in Pre-64 Winchester .22 Rimfire
November 5, 2014
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Ben-
I expect to be there (just me) by mid-afternoon Wednesday barring travel delays.
I’ve not eaten there before, but will likely go for ribs.
Best,
Lou
WACA 9519; Studying Pre-64 Model 70 Winchesters
March 31, 2009
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I hope to be there. What’s on the menu?
August 25, 2009
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The Princess and I will be there
Brisket please
July 3, 2020
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Here’s a link for the menu: https://www.fatracksbbq.com/copy-of-menu
December 21, 2006
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We’re gunna’ do Our darndest, Brenda has a dr.’s appointment on the 6th, so that makes for a lot of drivin’ in 2 days..
W.A.C.A. life member, Marlin Collectors Assn. charter and life member, C,S.S.A. member and general gun nut.
September 19, 2014
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Henry, Try to relax. Best get there when you can and not push it so hard you don’t make it to Cody at all. Besides, my son and I can have more brisket that way! Tim
January 20, 2023
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Henry Mero said
We’re gunna’ do Our darndest, Brenda has a dr.’s appointment on the 6th, so that makes for a lot of drivin’ in 2 days..
Henry, in 2024 Barbara and I drove her Subaru Forester 1,115 miles from DFW to Cody and we swapped off at the wheel. We had to stop overnight in Salina, KS at the end of 6.5 driving hours [Day 1], and again in Denver at the end of 6.75 driving hours [Day 2]. We got to Cody after a long 9 driving hours [Day 3.]
I was then 80 and she 74. We could still make that drive today, safely. But adding another 4.5 hours of driving to each of the first two days would have left us dangerously tired after the first 8 hours on the road. It also would have required staying one night in unspeakable accommodations comparable to what one might have found on Devil’s Island in 1875.
The only thing I would do differently is avoid Denver like the Plague and drive further to Fort Collins.
If your distance to Cody is over a thousand miles, please don’t try to drive it in two days. Leave that to our youthful Darwin Award candidates. We would miss our favorite Canadian.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
April 30, 2023
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The real question is….where is Thursday night’s dinner? 🙂
April 15, 2005
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Hmmm… I am just a youngster compared to some of you (I will be 66-years old in August). That stated, I drive just over 700-miles per day when traveling (and I do 100% of the wheel time).
I used to make the trip to Reno, NV for the Big Reno show three times a year, and I always drove it straight through… 769-miles. If I push it real hard, I can get just over 840-miles on a full fuel load in my old Dodge.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
November 7, 2015
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For those of you who don’t know, Harry is a true road warrior. He rode his bike to Cody a few years back and was in great shape when he got there. Y’all be safe!
Mike
November 7, 2015
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Bert H. said
Hmmm… I am just a youngster compared to some of you (I will be 66-years old in August). That stated, I drive just over 700-miles per day when traveling (and I do 100% of the wheel time).
I used to make the trip to Reno, NV for the Big Reno show three times a year, and I always drove it straight through… 769-miles. If I push it real hard, I can get just over 840-miles on a full fuel load in my old Dodge.
Bert
I’m a youngster as well, my dad was a much better long-distance driver into his 70’s than I ever was or will be. I break my 1200 mile drive into two days and it’s a beating for me. I’m getting better, it used to take me over a day to recover. Might be one of those Navy things.
Mike
January 20, 2023
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Bert H. said
Hmmm… I am just a youngster compared to some of you (I will be 66-years old in August). That stated, I drive just over 700-miles per day when traveling (and I do 100% of the wheel time).
I used to make the trip to Reno, NV for the Big Reno show three times a year, and I always drove it straight through… 769-miles. If I push it real hard, I can get just over 840-miles on a full fuel load in my old Dodge.
Bert
I do not doubt it. However, a common realization among my peers – those who survive into their Eighties — is, having seen most of their friends die, that they are not promised tomorrow, that endurance and reaction times diminish with age in a non-linear fashion, and prudence is not a weakness.
A good friend now departed, a well decorated Army aviator with thousands of hours of flying time, used to lecture me when I was a low-time private pilot:
“There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are very few old, bold pilots.”
It is a point of pride with me that I used to leave small aircraft all over the Southwest and take Greyhound home. I am still here. Several people I used to know aren’t because they wouldn’t ride the ‘hound.
What you can endure safely in your Sixties may or may not be an intelligent thing to do in 10 years, much less 15.
You have not yet written down everything you know about Winchesters. We, your friends, would like you to get that done before you and your Dodge emulate the Burning Man spectacle on some desert road.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
April 15, 2005
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Zebulon said
You have not yet written down everything you know about Winchesters. We, your friends, would like you to get that done before you and your Dodge emulate the Burning Man spectacle on some desert road.
If I started writing tomorrow, I might get it all done in 20-years! My wife already complains about the time I spend on my Winchester related projects. Just today, I had to waste another 4-hours doing yard work 
On the plus side though, it was a beautiful 78-degree day.
I do not drive in the desert! The driest part of the country that I drive through these days is the eastern half of Washington along I-90.
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January 20, 2023
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I envy you the PNW Summers. You know enough about Brazos County to avoid it in August.
Baja Oklahoma is just now finishing up False Summer and about to enter Hell’s Front Porch, the season when motorcycle riding and lawn mowing end by 10:am.
The Comanche, when still roaming free across Comancheria, would be breaking camp about now and heading North into Minnesota. I’m pleased Mike and Jeremy will be able to emulate them, eventually turning West. I wish I were going, too.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
July 17, 2012
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It is 867 miles from my house to Cody, due north and a bit outside the range of my Dodge Cummins on a single tank so my wife and I always break it up into 2 days, although if I was driving myself I would do it in one long day at 12.5 hours. I am slightly younger than my older brother Bert but after discovering the addictive drug known as a “nap” I am finding it harder to stay awake over long distances anymore.
As far as desert driving, it is 106 right now at my house at 9pm (but will be hotter in a few weeks) and that prompts me to drive hard, fast and long for the North.
I hope everyone has safe travels and looking forward to seeing everyone again at Cody!
Best Regards,
P.S. Calculated round trip fuel cost for the Cummins is $520 so we will be bringing the Dodge “mini van” instead…..
WACA Life Member #6284 - Specializing in Pre-64 Winchester .22 Rimfire
