Thank you kindly, all. It is the only CF now, .

by John Meeker, Tuesday, September 25, 2012, 18:16 (4388 days ago) @ John Meeker

..save for the AR. However, it may mean that I have to find a companion SS DA .357. Ya know, just so it don't get lonely for another gun in the same caliber. ;~`)

And, I didn't get the .357's name-n-clature just right. CS it is. Have to get over to the Marlin board and hunt up the birthday in their serial list. I think I've got a receiver 57 sight around and a big gold bead front sight, so that may do for the nonce, also.

Yes, Grayling is on next year's annual bucket list. Part of an extended Michigan-around. Say the Port Huron and Blue Water Bridge a couple of weeks ago, coming back from a weekeend of dogshow at Goodell's Park. It really IS blue water, and had about all I could do to keep Macha from taking a dive right under the seawall railing and down ten feet to the beeg river. Lots of big floaty things out there to retrieve, like -apparently- freighters.

Later at a beach, just above the entry into the river mouth from the lake, she found out what a ripcurrent was all about: for the first time in her Chessie life NOT in control of direction or speed. Fortunately, I had a sec to shed down to the 'trow and was able to get out there, standing on tip toe a-hold of her as she worked hard to turn towards me. When she got broadside to the current, it was all I could do to toe-scratch gravel in water up to my neck, and get us headed back to the beach. Sorta no time to think of situation, but I thot a lot after that, for a minute of two. Steel pilings and jagged sheet breakwall aren't ideal swimmin' holes for dog nor man being driven by a concrete-stiff fast current..

So, at eight years of age the Irish's Queen Macha learned that there IS bigger and tougher water than she had ever met. Good, me thinks.

So yeah: trusting we aren't in some sort of Revolution or Similar Political/social upheaval, planning on plinkin' plenty up Nort', dere..