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Tuesday evening; We just blew in the door from the Cody show, I don’t think I quit grinnin’ all the way home 
. It’s a good thing I have a credit card and My credit is good cause I come home broke, and I’ll be eating weiner water soup for a while
. Seriously it was a fantastic show, dinner and meeting. I ‘d like to thank the guys for parting with the pieces I did purchase and the guys who helped Me put those deals together, it is very much appreciated. I will post some pics a bit later.
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Henry, I truly hope weiner water soup is not a Canadian tradition during hard times. Even in Ottawa the parks are loaded with tasty gray squirrels.
Given modern sensitivities, an air rifle may be indicated but take a lesson from your expatriate cousins in Houma and Bayou Teche. “Ain no need to starve, Ami. Lezze le bon temps rouler! Why you tink dem 22 shorts is bes’. Dey QUIET!”
- Bill
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"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.
I also finally made it home this afternoon… I blasted across three different mountain passes and covered just over 1000-miles.
Bert
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Bert H. said
I also finally made it home this afternoon… I blasted across three different mountain passes and covered just over 1000-miles.Bert
I had no idea your driving distance was that long but, of course, it is. Cody is only about 270 miles further from DFW. I guess I was thinking of relative latitudes and forgot about the difference in longitude. You went through Bozeman and Spokane?
- 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.
We took the long way home, the scenic route , up over the “Beartooth” pass, breath taking up there, then route #2 all the way to Mackinac city Mich., app. 1800 mi.. Of course 1000 mi. in a big red Dodge would be a fair task.
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Henry:
I’m happy that you were finally able to add the 18″ ’94 trapper to your hoard! It is quite a nice carbine.
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Zebulon said
Bert H. said
I also finally made it home this afternoon… I blasted across three different mountain passes and covered just over 1000-miles.
Bert
I had no idea your driving distance was that long but, of course, it is. Cody is only about 270 miles further from DFW. I guess I was thinking of relative latitudes and forgot about the difference in longitude. You went through Bozeman and Spokane?
Yes. I start from Kingston WA by driving around the bottom (south) end of the Puget Sound, narrowly skirting past Seattle, then heading east on I-90, through Spokane WA, Coeur d’ Alene ID, then through Missoula, Butte, and Bozeman MT, then turn south at Laurel MT (just shy of Billings) for the final 100-mile jaunt into Cody WY.
Bert
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Henry, thank you for helping me out.
I flew the 1,100 plus miles and got home around 9 PM Sunday. With all of the hassles of getting what I bought home I really am thinking of driving again. It is about a 16 hour drive and we used to do it with 1 long day and a short second day.
Anthony said
Bert,What a beautiful Ride, that has to be!
Anthony
It is a scenic ride, at least through the Cascade mountains, the Idaho Panhandle, and then through western Montanna and over the Continental Divide. On the drive home my odometer in the old Dodge rolled over the 398,000-mile mark. I suspect that I will roll it through the 400K mark later this summer.
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Chuck said
Henry, thank you for helping me out.I flew the 1,100 plus miles and got home around 9 PM Sunday. With all of the hassles of getting what I bought home I really am thinking of driving again. It is about a 16 hour drive and we used to do it with 1 long day and a short second day.
In your shoes, I would drive it. No hassles with anything you want to bring, or to buy and then bring home!
Bert
p.s. please keep me up to date on your 45 EX experiment.
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I got in yesterday afternoon in time for a nap after I got the car unloaded. It’s best if I break my 1250 mile trip into three days, especially since I leave Cody after the show closes Sunday. It’s a long drive but I can’t imagine flying with the stuff I bring or want to take home. Glad to hear everyone seems to be getting home without incident. I understand Ben needed a minor repair but it sounds like the shop treated him fairly.
Mike
Thanks Rick, ‘m sure it is a nice one, I haven’t seen it yet, but I am looking forward to it.
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Wow, that’s a lot of driving and frequent flyer miles for many of you. Thanks for packing your rifles half way across the country…Beth and I left after the show on Sunday and made it back to Billings with plenty of time for me to unpack the truck and mow the grass before dinner.
Maybe not everything about living in south central Montana is perfect, but there’s a long list of pluses….One of which is being an easy 1 1/2 hour drive from Cody and the museum. Not sure how I’d survive if I couldn’t make it down there two or three times a year!
Roger
It’s only 2,136 miles each way for me, well beyond my driving ability now. 50 minutes due East and I’m looking at the Atlantic from a lighthouse George Washington had built. Oy.
My van blew a fuel injector seal as I drove to the Erma for breakfast Sunday… backed into a parking spot and saw the trail of fuel… called AAA and had it towed to M&P RV repair (they are open Sundays during the summer). $18. in new seals for the drivers side injectors and 3 hours labor & tax… $504. and I was on the road again by Monday afternoon. Mark Douglas let me use his trailer to hold my stuff for the night and the Robin’s Next BNB had a room available (with meals) for a very reasonable price. Got to visit with Bert, JWA, Elliot, Lou, Rick & others that were staying there too… very thankful the seal didn’t blow when I was out on the road later that afternoon…. just another one of life’s little adventures.
Side note…. I have never been able to eat oysters, raw, boiled, cooked, grilled… you name it, nope. Well, Doug Hart has made me a convert… he grilled oysters for a gathering in Cody… I wasn’t going to try, but he talked me into it. To my shock and amazement, they were great… so several oysters later, I’ve become a convert… to grilled in the shell oysters. There was also “poor man’s lobster”… halibut cooked a special way… it too was wonderful… So, hang out with Doug and Bert if you want to gain some weight… 😛
