Your favorite present this Christmas?

[GoodOlBoy]

My favorite present this year is a 7'0" Shakespeare ugly stick medium action lite pro carbon fiber fishing pole. My wife, bless her, has been listing to my mumblings about how much fishing I used to do and has decided to get me started back towards the old fishing holes.... It isn't the material rod that means so much, but the fact that she really does want me to be the happier more relaxed person I used to be.

GoodOlBoy

[toxic111]

mine was the Foxpro Spitfire from my wife. now just waiting for it to warm up -20C to go out and try it!

[Tater]

The 7mm I bought for myself is pretty sweet but my favorite thing was to be able to surprise the hell outta my cousin in Billings :D

[dovehunter]

My son (pleasantly) surprised me with a new CZ Ultra Lux .22 LR bolt action. That was obviously my favorite. Now if the weather would just improve and some of this snow melt I'll take it to the range and sight it in.

:)

[Adam Helmer]

GOB,

Just before Christmas I came across a Savage Tactical bolt gun in .25-06. I got some RCBS dies and brass and worked up some loads. Yesterday I fired 10 rounds into .625" at 100 yards. I named the rifle "Tora Bora" and she is a keeper.

My "stocking gift" was a Colt M1903 .32 caliber pistol in Very Good+ condition.

Happy New Year.

Adam

[Nulle]

Model 37 shotgun barrel from Larry.

[Larryjk]

Nulle, You are too easy.

[buckhunter]

A $300 bow case. Awe, just a little too much. Returned it and bought another bow case for about 1/6 of the money. She will never learn but bless her sole she tries and I just thank her.

[Rapier]

You older guys might appreciate this, my Dual turntable has a problem and I can not get the hum it developed to go away. So my wife asked what I wanted and I told her one of those new Sony turntables that converts vinyl to MP3s and also hooks up to the Amp and plays vinyl as a regular turntable. So that is what I had under the tree, along with a new conversion software program that can be set to one db level for all records as they are recorded, to escape the loud to soft recordings plus it will remove pops and crackles. We shall see if the collection that fills four wall cabinets is still worth a listen or not. I am really interested to see what happens with all the 45s.
Ed

[jon lynn]

I didn't get anything.:(

[skeet]

Well I got the gift of life..or so the doc told me from my trip back east... 2 days 'fore Christmas he called and said things look ok and I shouldn't have to see him for a year this time. Those 6 month visits are a bit worrisome

[dovehunter]

You older guys might appreciate this, my Dual turntable has a problem and I can not get the hum it developed to go away. So my wife asked what I wanted and I told her one of those new Sony turntables that converts vinyl to MP3s and also hooks up to the Amp and plays vinyl as a regular turntable. So that is what I had under the tree, along with a new conversion software program that can be set to one db level for all records as they are recorded, to escape the loud to soft recordings plus it will remove pops and crackles. We shall see if the collection that fills four wall cabinets is still worth a listen or not. I am really interested to see what happens with all the 45s.
Ed

I have been wanting one of those too. I'd sure like to know how yours works out.

[Mr. 16 gauge]

Didn't really exchange gifts this year....wife & I decided that if we want something, we just buy it during the year. However, the best gift that I gave to someone else was a case of 20 gauge shotgun shells that I got for a buddy so that he can go skeet shooting with me this summer.

[Seawolf1090]

I have basically NOT done the "Christmas Thing" for the last few years - it has simply become too commercialized.

But this year Mom sent me her coin collection that she had been working on for years. Not a whole lot of monetary value, but I do appreciate it. I think, being in her seventies and ailing, she is feeling mortality creeping up.

I had also mentioned being interested in 'gluten-free' cooking, as my best friend has Ciliac Disease, and I recognise the benefits of that particular cooking style. His wife has gotten really good at it.
So Mom sent me a Gluten-free Cookbook! Mom's birthday is coming up very soon - I'll do right by her.

[Nulle]

Well last year I got shorted and went out and got myself a boat. The other half looked at it and said "Great looks big enough for you to live in" .
This thing is Huge lol

[skeet]

Dem wimmin just don't have the foresight to see all de uses fer a boat. Mine didn't complain even when I had 5 of 'em. There was de crabbin boat...the fishing boat..the fishin party boat... the jon boat fer duckin and de skiff fer carryin de party to de blinds...oh and de canoe fer dunkin myself in de water..specially when de water was CCCOOOOLLLLDDD!! Boats is so much fun. Only one I have left is de fishin party boat..and a friend has my Jon Boat back in Md..

[Nulle]

I just told her "I didn't want the grand kids falling out of the boat" lol

[skeet]

I had one with high sides like that once. That argument didn't work. A short funny story..took that boat out fishin one day. Next to the Russian compound on the river. Nice hole there to catch a nice rockfish(striper). Had my 13-14 yr old son and a friend. Russian party gal was laying on the little walkway(20-30 ft away) with no clothes. Them boys almost jumped outta the boat. Eyes as big as dinner plates..must admit..gal WAS a looker..and they looked a bunch. I caught a couple of nice stripers. Don't think them boys wet a line(cept with drool) till we left..right after the gal did. She smiled and waved at those boys. And that is a true story. She and I thought they were funny

[Nulle]

Thats a good one and got to love those teen years

[skeet]

Good grief Nulle...Can ya remember that far back??Teen years?? hehehehehe

[Nulle]

I kept my court appear. papers and citations. You know what they say if you can remember the 60's you werent there

[skeet]

Well I sure wasn't in never never land..and I do remember the 60's..it was a time of plenty..well some of the time. I actually made pretty good money especially for a kid. Now the 50's I'd almost just as soon forget. It was a time of poverty pestilence and work even for a little kid. I do remember meeting Eisenhower. There were very few really good things. Made me very rebellious but not too stupid...except for signing up to go get shot at...Duh!!

[GoodOlBoy]

I wasn't born until the 70s so ya'll just go ahead and ruminate.... As bad as it is now compared to what it was when I was a kid I can barely imagine how much better it was in the 60s, the 50s, etc.... I really was born in the wrong era.

GoodOlBoy

[Rapier]

Dovehunter,
A report on the turntable, it works pretty good. For some reason I could not get it to play sound while it was recording, then I fooled with it, no clue what I did, and it started to play and record at the same time, which is nice. :cool:

But all in all, based on pops, crackles and quality, compared to mp3s I have downloaded or ripped, it makes a very good recording.

Not to make you guys feel bad, but I used an original 1967 release, the album Vanilla Fudge as the test bed, it has been played several times, gotten wet somehow ;) and smoky a time or two:D. It made a very nice high quality CD recording. Now I have a very cool variation of Eleanor Rigby, done in 67, by the Fudge, in my mp3 collection. For you youngsters, the Fudge is credited with being the cross over band from psychedelic to heavy metal, they could get cranked up pretty good. Their Version of Eleanor Rigby does not sound exactly like Paul and John wrote it.....and is 9 minutes long.
Ed

[skeet]

I was a wonderin who the VF band was.. Thankfully never heard 'em I guess. GOB..I really wasn't kidding about the 50s being pretty bad. Everybody where i lived was poor..different degrees of poor but that way nonetheless. We had lots of tenant farmers..and the average farmer made a living with his 100 acres or so 4-10 cows some chickens hogs..well you understand. They didn't have money but they had 'nuff to eat. and the little money from the crops and milk they sold helped 'em along. Gas was a whole 15-18 cents a gallon. After the democraps got in power in the early 60s things changed. Welfare got goin..and I had all the farm type work I wanted. I had a pool room that catered to teens etc in the early to mid 60's. Made a lot of money with it..more'n my mother and father combined.I put money in the bank and bought them a house in the later 60's after I closed the pool room. The young black kids I grew up with were comin to the pool room and the older folks in town didn't want to have that happenin..So we closed her down.I grew up in a kinda southern type of rural area. Things were a changin..but the older folks really didn't want the change. Now..since I is the older folk..I kinda understand. Nobody likes change..especially Nobama's change. He's doing things now by presidential order..and that ain't right....but that is kinda what LBJ did in the 60's.

[Rapier]

Ah Skeet, if you were alive in the 60s you heard the Fudge, just do not remember the name. You recall a song called You Keep Me Hanging On or She's Not There, both very destinctive. She's Not There was also done by the Zombies. Gine it a listen I think you will recall the sound.

If you had a place in 67 with a juke box, gurantee it had the Fuge on it. There sound was very different. If you go here, you will also find Rigby off to the side which is a "where did that come from" cover that is very special and may be the best cover of any song ever done to the point where it almost becomes a Fudge song instead of a Beatles song.
Ed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QuHqjnfpLE&feature=related

PS: I have a very eclictic taste in music, so I have Jimmy Reed next to Les Paul and Lead Zepplin next to Patsy Cline. I like good, regardless of style of music. Rap is not music, it is offensive noise.

[skeet]

Well I do remember the zombies..But the VF..if they were around I really didn't listen..and at that time of my life the government was getting a lot of my time. . My parents had a small M&P grocery store and my mother listened to 50's Rock and Roll..Doo Wop..and that is what I grew up with..played some CW and older country from the 30-40s at the bars and promptly got away from most music....except real timeless music. Mostly Classical..but I do remember Hotel California very well. I even listened to a little Swing..mainly cause it was being played in the compound where I was "working"

[Rapier]

I know the story pretty well myself, grew up on a small ranch in South Florida. We got electricity when I was 14 and indoor plumbing the next year. Ain't a joke, it is very true. I listened to one of those big wood radios with a large battery that had a carrying handle. No money, but good food and family to take care that you walked the straight and narrow. Church on Sunday and Wednesday night. All day sings and dinner on the ground.

That which does not kill you, makes you stronger.:D
Ed

[skeet]

Yep..we got a (indoor) bathroom when I was about 8. We did have 'lectricity cause we had the store. Space heater insome of the rooms. I seriously remember snow drifts under the windows in my bedrooms when itr was really nasty. Quilts and wearin PJs. When i got old 'nyuff to go huntin I wore HMDs..oh hell wore them anyway. Everybody was givin clothes to other families then. Nobody was embarrassed by it either. Girl clothers lasted pretty good but young boys just tore 'em up. LOL. We had a big ol radio too. Member goin to my grandmothers and she listened to the soap oprys on the radio..while she was a workin.. No TV sittin..Listened to the fights on the radio.My father got a used TV in the early 60s and watched the fights when it worked on Friday nights. I also remember the TV goin off the air at 11PM..12 on Saturdays. I got to stay up and watch the not so old movies..Dracula..Frankenstein etc etc

[Nulle]

Your right the 50's was a wreck and going through high school in the early 60's was fun I must say. I started working construction when I was 12 and the rest of the kids was playing baseball in the summer. I don't regret growing up the way I did but guess I did miss out on being just a kid for a few years.