range about 4-5 ft. The dog, on a 6 ft long leash, had already walked past the hen. She crouched as she did so and I saw her movement. Because I was wearing a parka, zipped up against the cold, I had the chamber loaded and the gun cocked and locked, in my parka pocket. I would have shot her thru the pocket, but I had a can of pop in there with the gun. I can't remember why? Anyway,, I pulled the dog aside with the left hand and fired one handed with the right hand. I dont remember if I sighted or not. Probably did, but cant swear to it.
She flopped all over the place and the dog grabbed her. There were lifers all over the place, cause we were doing a practice launch of the Nike-Hercules missiles. In order to launch, they had to fire up a couple of huge diesel generators. Those things were so loud that men 50m away didn't hear my .45 blast! That generator noise is why I have had tinnitus for years and that led to the various secondary problems that resulted in my getting a net 42K per year, plus not having to pay sales tax or property tax, which currently means another 3k clear per year. It's also paying my wife to go to college and will do the same for the kid. Wife is due back from Asia the end of the month, kid in tow. In theory, I'll get another 3k per year after the COLA increase Jan 1.
I am in the process of going back to mailed checks for my SS and VA benefits, cause I dont trust the banks. Gold's down pretty badly, but after the election, when gas goes to $6 a gallon by Jan 1, gold's going on a tear. Just watch. They will have emptied our strategic oil reserve and have to re-fill it. That's going to drive up the price of oil in general. So will the situation in Europe, of course. Right now, the Saudis are playing the US game about the petrodollar. but that's going to stop. everyone can see that we're just printing dollars that have nothing behind them. We dont produce/export much of anything anymore. So our trade deficits and national debt can't do anything BUT spike.
She flopped all over the place and the dog grabbed her. There were lifers all over the place, cause we were doing a practice launch of the Nike-Hercules missiles. In order to launch, they had to fire up a couple of huge diesel generators. Those things were so loud that men 50m away didn't hear my .45 blast! That generator noise is why I have had tinnitus for years and that led to the various secondary problems that resulted in my getting a net 42K per year, plus not having to pay sales tax or property tax, which currently means another 3k clear per year. It's also paying my wife to go to college and will do the same for the kid. Wife is due back from Asia the end of the month, kid in tow. In theory, I'll get another 3k per year after the COLA increase Jan 1.
I am in the process of going back to mailed checks for my SS and VA benefits, cause I dont trust the banks. Gold's down pretty badly, but after the election, when gas goes to $6 a gallon by Jan 1, gold's going on a tear. Just watch. They will have emptied our strategic oil reserve and have to re-fill it. That's going to drive up the price of oil in general. So will the situation in Europe, of course. Right now, the Saudis are playing the US game about the petrodollar. but that's going to stop. everyone can see that we're just printing dollars that have nothing behind them. We dont produce/export much of anything anymore. So our trade deficits and national debt can't do anything BUT spike.