Weekend Steam

Uploaded by SkipW on Apr 30, 2009
Hop Aboard as we witness a UP#3985 excursion grind to a halt with a Fire on the Historic Locomotive and the quick thinking Steam Crew Puts it out before the Volunteer Fire Dept gets there! then ride along side as she trys to make up lost time on a highball run into old Cheyenne WY.

Ruger Is All In To Support Soldiers' Angels

 True Blue Sam doesn't spend much time on Facebook, but I do enjoy seeing the information posted by Ruger.  Ruger has been auctioning some of the vintage guns in their vaults the last several weeks, with all of the proceeds going to Soldiers' Angels Project Valour-IT, which benefits wounded service personnel.

I have been a Ruger fan for four decades, but they have really raised my admiration to stratospheric levels with their contributions to Project Valour-IT.  Last year they sent two pistols to the Gun Blogger Rendezvous, and they are repeating that kind deed this year.  Great Products, Great Folks!

Check out the auctions on Ruger's Facebook page, and don't be shy about bidding.  You can be a good-deed-doer, and receive a fine new (vintage) firearm.  Click the pics to go to their respective auction pages.

Mr. Completely Makes The News!

Photo by Justin Burnett, South Whidbey Record; used with permission

 

Mr. Completely was recently interviewed by Justin Burnett, reporter for the South Whidbey Record, the local paper on Whidbey Island.  Justin took the great picture you see here, shot some steel with Mr. C, and wrote a great article.  You can read the it on the South Whidbey Record's website HERE and read about the interview on Mr. Completely's blog RIGHT HERE.

 

Hop over to the article, and leave a positive comment while you are there.  I sure do appreciate it when a newspaper publishes positive articles about shooting, and we need to provide positive feedback. 

 

Many thanks to the South Whidbey Record and Mr. Burnett for granting permission to post their photograph and allowing linkage from this little blog to their publication.

 



Elite Seat

Not just anybody can sit in this one. More photos and a little video in days to come.

Last Call For Gun Blogger Rendezvous!

Bloggers will begin getting together in Reno on September 5, 2012.  Mr. Completely has been working overtime to make this year's Rendezvous the best ever, and it looks like he has achieved his goal.  The Sunday Quick Draw event was cancelled due to circumstances beyond Mr. C's control, and he has set up an even better activity for his band of bloggers; Cowboy Action Shooting!  Read all about it on Mr. Completely's blog; you really want to be there!  It's too late to mail in your registration, so send an e-mail to Mr. C,  and call the Silver Legacy to reserve a room. (Use GBLOG12 for the group discount when you call the hotel.) You can register with Mr. C when you get there. 

Cowboy Action Shooting is fun, not just to do, but also to watch other people competing, and you will get to do both on Sunday.  Here is a video I shot of Cowboy Action Shooting last year near Cisne, Illinois.  Yes, you really want to be there!

Take A Day Off

We All Need A Break Once In A While. 

Normal posting will resume after I get back to the farm.  Enjoy the holiday with family and friends.

True Blue Sam Steals One...

...from his cousin Tammy.  Bea's brother Bernie is one of the conductors who will punch your ticket on the Midwest Central, and here we see him with his kids Tim and Tammy.  Mom and I skipped Old Threshers this year, (and stole this picture from Tammy's Facebook post) since Bea was just a few days out of the hospital, but we didn't sit around and mope.  Mom and I spent the weekend at an Appleseed event, and got thoroughly exercised standing up and getting down for prone and sitting; then running out to change targets.  Mom is now conversant with Inches, Minutes, and Clicks, and has a thorough understanding of how we sighted in her new scope with only two three shot groups.  (We don't need no stinking laser!)  We didn't have time for video or photos during the instructional periods, but we did bring home some targets worth keeping.  The True Blue Sam Team hopes that all of our loyal readers are having as fine a holiday weekend as we are. 

Not My Victrola

We are revisiting Ben Bernie this week, because he was one of my Dad's happy memories from childhood, when he could listen to a radio.

Recorded in 1925, and posted by Warholsoup100.

And Now, For The Nairrvous Amongst You...

...a major Ralfy Celebration! Ralfy has just posted his 300th!!!! whishkey revieww, and you have to wonder, how does he do it??!! Remaining verrticalll I mean. In Num-bair 300 he is discussing and reviewing Absinthe, and then we will post Num-bair 296 just below that, in which he discusses an Islay malt that is much more in character for the Ralfsterr.





True Blue Sam does not recommend trying to keep up with Ralfy, but he is entertaining, and very knowledgable about whishhky. Stay vertical my friends!

Weekend Steam: Come Early, Stay Late

I hope that some of you are going to visit Mt. Pleasant this weekend. If you do, stay late and watch the train (and ride) after dark. There is something magical about it.