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Kokopelli
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posted March 07, 2017 06:08 AM
I've been getting ready for a bowfishing trip to Alamo Lake later this month. The usual checking the gear over and just to be really spiffy, a fresh coat of paint on the canoe.
It's an old Ouachita that I've had forever. As in since I was about 14 years old. That would put the canoe at about 50 years old. Needless to say, it's seen a lot of use.
Now all I have to do is get a battery for my Ted Williams trolling motor and I'll be ready to go.
Anybody else still using stuff from back when stuff was built to last ?????
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booger
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posted March 07, 2017 06:31 AM
I am still using the fixed blade knife my granddad gave my dad in 1934. Great steel, and sharper than the dickens. Old sheath rotted out, so I had a new one made.
Used to use my dad's old Herter's upland vest, but it got too small when I gained some weight...still have it hanging in my gun room.
I still have my Plano fishing tackle box I got for my 10th birthday in 1971...replete with my name on it in the plastic sticky strip stuff you could emboss your name on with that hand held tool...can't remember what it was called..
My old fishing rod is long since gone, but I still have my Johnson spin-cast reel. It is retired, but this thread may make me buy a rod and put it back in use!
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Leonard
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posted March 07, 2017 06:45 AM
I spent a New Year's Eve tent camping at Alamo Lake in 1971. I know this because of my new Datsun pickup, at the time.
But anyway, it was a big tent, double side walls and my cousin Mike and family, also my mom and dad, me, the wife and a couple of kids that looked familiar.
We had one of those catalytic heaters and were worried about ventilation so kind of left the tent flap half open.
I'm not kidding, that was one of the coldest nights ever experienced by any of us, OMG! Fishing wasn't that great either.
But, I did get a coyote while on a beer run and (this was the same day) I had the guys drop me off at the turn off, while they continued to the store. Ten minutes later, I'm dragging a big coyote. It was so damned hot by then, that coyote bloated up and got very ripe on a fifteen minute drive back to the campsite. Long time ago, maybe it was 16-17 minutes? That's AZ for ya.
That time, there were a bunch of burros honking all morning and every morning we were there. We decided not to take a chance spending another night there. Like I said it was very cold and we really weren't prepared for it; made a few women crabby.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: Dremel, no Dymo?
edit: I've got more damned knives than I will ever use, I aught to have my ass kicked if I ever buy another one but still looking for the perfect knife.
[ March 07, 2017, 06:48 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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Moe
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posted March 07, 2017 08:55 AM
All of my old stuff is probably in the Juneau dump. My ex must've had a field day hauling it away while I was trying to find somewhere to store it.
I still have my 16' Lund skiff I bought in' 76, tho. People have offered to buy it but I've had so much fun in it I hate to let it go even tho it just sets in the weather.
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Lone Howl
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posted March 07, 2017 08:57 AM
I have some underwear from the 90's?
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Leonard
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posted March 07, 2017 10:06 AM
Shoes! Except for a couple, I probably have very shoe I've ever worn. I just carefully wear down half of the heel and store it in the closet forever. I have a few that are embarrassingly 70's trendy. At least I never wore an afro, like Don Sutton, or Eric Holder.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: I had a real nice Minikota trolling motor and a beefy deep cycle battery. I lent it to a guy at work and he SUNK HIS BOAT. Never offered to pay me for my loss so I guess there is an unwritten rule that you don't re-pay someone when you lose his shit if it sunk on your boat? I ran into the guy a couple years ago, still never mentioned my stuff. Then there was the time I lent a nice deep sea rig to neighbor. He divorced, moved out but when I inquired of the ex and looked around the garage, not a trace, so he knew when he took it! Never a borrower or lender be.
[ March 07, 2017, 10:17 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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4949shooter
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posted March 07, 2017 01:39 PM
My father's old Belgium made Browning Auto 5 shotgun.
Still going strong..
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Kokopelli
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posted March 07, 2017 02:48 PM
I'm actually kind of surprised that no one has mentioned a Coleman Lantern.
The old ones were damn near bullet-proof and lasted forever...........or until you loan yours to your (ex)son-in-law. ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
The newer ones.........not so much.
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Leonard
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posted March 07, 2017 03:22 PM
Yeah? Well, I've got two Coleman stoves, one is a 1946 model and the other is (guess) mid fifties. Both bought at yard sales, replaced the fuel cap on one, that's it, both work like a champ....on Coleman fuel @ $12 a gallon/ Walmart. That's the main issue, otherwise they will outlive me. A good product.
PS Won't freeze fuel like propane.
Good hunting. El Bee
PS I am not sure? I paid something under ten dollars for one, five dollars for the other, which was at least thirty years ago?
edit: one time, cold Utah camping, pitch dark, I kept hearing "click" "click" snap, "click" "click" snap, click-click-snapclickclicksnap etc. etc. etc. I finally woke up enough to see that Richard was screwing with a fucking Coleman Lantern. I rolled out, grabbed my own Coleman Lantern and went click-click-poof! Instant light! To say that he was impressed is an understatement. It's called a piezo.
[ March 07, 2017, 03:31 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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posted March 07, 2017 06:36 PM
An old Winchester Model 12 12 gauge. Inherited it from my grandpa on my dad's side. Right handed gun but the safety was redone to accommodate a left-handed shooter. Gpa and I were the only two that shot that way. Built in '46 according to the serial number. Dad told me he remembered as a kid gpa sitting at the kitchen table for several night with a small file reworking that safety.
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Leonard
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posted March 08, 2017 08:48 AM
My son still has my old C10 Panel Truck. It's a two door with four on the floor, and with an insane granny gear that will walk up damned near any grade, as long as you can hang on. But, this ain't about that, or the fact that he never paid me for the truck except for the first $100.
No. This is about the time I lent him my pristine coffeepot, and he went crawling up and down, hither and yon, somewhere, for no discernible reason whatsoever? My very old, but well preserved coffeepot was rolling around in the back for what must have been two, maybe three weeks, or judging by the challenging places he liked to go, at least all day.
When I got it back, it looked like it had been run over by a convoy of 18 wheelers on the Interstate. Never could find a replacement for the little percolator glass. Don't forget, this thing looked new, but was at least 20 years old when I let him borrow it. And, he acted like, "huh, what do you mean, what's the problem?"
Then, there was the time I let him use my premium down sleeping bag. Oh, I guess I left it at Randy's? But, don't worry, I will get it next time I'm down that way. Never saw it again.
And, me. I treat other people's stuff way better than my own, even though I seldom borrow. He ain't my kid, we got switched in the nursery!
Good hunting. El Bee
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posted March 08, 2017 10:22 AM
We had an old Coleman lantern we used when we fished at night. We were out in the middle of a large ranch north of Russell, Kansas in the early 70's. We were fishing a pond that had some good catfish in it.
Pitch dark except for the glow of the Coleman. I was sitting about 10 feet from my dad, and the ranch owner was about 10 feet away from him, with my dad in the middle.
My dad used to make this god awful concoction of raw shrimp, limburger cheese, garlic and Carnation milk. Smelled awful, but it caught catfish...at any rate, I told my dad that the rancher's dog kept sneaking in and sticking his nose in dad's jar of smelly shrimp which was sitting right next to him.
After about the 4th time of the 'dog' sneaking in next to my dad, he told the guy to call his damn dog away from his bait! To which the rancher said, my dog's back at the house...well, it turned out to be a coyote that grabbed 4 mouthfuls of catfish bait! Darn thing came in and was a foot away from my dad every time!
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Leonard
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posted March 08, 2017 11:24 AM
THAT'S A GOOD ONE !
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posted March 08, 2017 02:12 PM
lol
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Leonard
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posted March 08, 2017 06:04 PM
What the world needs is a durable silk mantle for a Coleman Lantern.
What else does the world need?
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Kokopelli
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posted March 08, 2017 08:51 PM
Actually, if you store the lantern upright the mantles will last a long time. Store it on it's side and they'll break in a heartbeat.
Was gathering some fishing gear to take and lo & behold..........a couple of Johnson / Century spinning reels. Those go back a long way, too.
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Leonard
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posted March 09, 2017 08:25 AM
I wasn't referring to storing it. I meant, transporting it.
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Kokopelli
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posted March 09, 2017 08:46 PM
I store / transport one in a tote in the back of my truck. As long as it's upright & secure, I rarely need to replace a mantle on it. Same with the ones in my tent trailer.
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posted March 10, 2017 05:25 AM
If I ever get it running again a 1947 CJ2A willies jeep. I've seen my dad stuff it full of deer and people and go like hell down the road with it.
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