CaseyJ955

96 is a great run but a parent is a tough loss regardless. I can only begin to imagine what 96 years must have been like, how amazing to have seen and done so much. My condolences to you and yours.

If I had a choice to (or not to) step through a time portal and hit the original Woodstock, I absolutely would, it's an experience I would take. Just for the music alone it would have been amazing IMHO. Not sayin' I would be just listening to the music! Music and society have changed enough that I'm going to stick with the realization that it is an era gone by. I'm not actually sure what my choices would have been had I been of age in 69, but the only choice I could not make an argument for would the the choices taken by some of our would be POTUS that were of age at the time.

I'm not sure if there is a limit to how cold it can be while still riding. I've ridden in sunny dry but below 0. Thats mighty cold my friends. If you have the right gear, even heated gear and the roads are clear then it's a personal judgement call. If the roads are wet then I stay above 40f and dont go far. Here elevation and temp changes can come up on ya right quick and freeze the ground right under you. Trees shade areas and leave patches of ice on otherwise clear roads. Lots to think about. IMHO mixing freezing temps with wet is a hard no, the cost and likelihood failure is high. If your freezing while riding your more likely to make a mistake, that sort of freeze fatigues a rider pretty fast. I've been stuck in pucker-factor 9 trying desperately to keep the wheels in the tiny little grooves cars cut through the frost and snow. I hope to never have to do that again. I have done some very long trips in some nasty weather, nothing left to prove. If in doubt I take the cage and live to ride another day. So my own guidelines are 40 deg if wet, as cold as I can stand it if it's dry.

Very good point. It's hard to argue with keeping insurance on anything that could be a liability, like a drone. If one chooses roll the dice and be underinsured, and they loose everything via fire/theft/vandalism/drone mishap judgement or whatever then they got exactly what they bargained for. I have a really tough time mustering any pity for someone who gets bitten by their own blatant irresponsibility. The part I take exception to is the part when one causes damage to someone else's person/property without adequate insurance, ones victim may not be able to recover damages, could be a life changing event for an innocent person. No way to slice that to be acceptable. I put in a call to my State Farm guy to see what my coverages are on drones. Monday I should know my exact coverages. Thank you for bringing this up. Maybe others that have drone insurance can share how they got it, through renters/owners insurance or a separate policy. My cabin policy covers TONS of stuff outside and not pertaining to the home as well as all my **** at home. This is not an insurance policy I would want to walk through life without, drone or no drone. EDIT, I love my Canadians, seriously, but if I were ever thinking about moving to Canada you fixed that right up for me. It sounds like a really cold CA haha.

Mine is under a frozen cover so I cant look and see what your referring to but I have a loose recollection. Can it be repaired with JB weld or some type of epoxy? Some of these 2 part products are pretty darn good. I'm going with the school of thought that alternative wiring may well be less than ideal. A pic of the broken bit may help spur some ideas if nothing else works.

I better post something positive about rules/regs after thundering on in another thread about gov. This should be interesting to CA residents. https://www.kotatv.com/content/news/Wyo-SD-lawmakers-seek-to-loosen-gun-laws-504227351.html Concealed permits here are $10 and about 20 minutes, pretty easy already. If this passes then it might start to look like some of these politicians actually saw the 2nd amendment in print somewhere. This has a lot of folks excited. Please do! I'm fascinated by this piece!

Ive never seen one like that, that is COOL!

Ooh, I understand your reaction, I shared it with you! BTW I'm still angry on your behalf because I can see where this is going. There are rules/regs to protect the public, and rules and regs designed to generate revenue and assert authority. No need to explain which ones risk triggering civil unease/revolt in these parts. It's important to react appropriately to each. When a group or community work together to effect change, it can happen. Sometimes the good guys actually prevail but unfortunately sometimes justifiable use of force must be used to counter inappropriate use of force/intrusion. Obviously how far you can push people varies greatly from state to state. Not suggesting that an armed revolt would be an appropriate response to drone laws, but depending on how unreasonable it may turn out to be some civil action might be in order. This is extreme case but the right guys came out on top https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff I had a peek at the new Canadian drone laws on Field Law, which is what popped up. The new rules/regs dont sound too unreasonable. What I didnt find was anything on how much an average drone pilot may have to spend to bring themselves into compliance with the new batch of regs as it extends beyond flying etiquette, but holding licensure and registration. Any clue how much this is going to set you back? I'll be quite interested in what your experience is like going forward.

All excellent points. The federal regs seem to be common sense, SD regs are almost nill, outside obvious blatant stuff that only a complete dildo would try, I did give em' a once over. Even some legal things I wont do, like a flying field. There is vast open space here, I mean there are some amazing perks to having such a sparse population. I can fly where even if it got away from me it wouldn't have enough battery to make it to a structure or person. I might even register it if its free and can be done online, the rationale for it makes sense. Outside the federal regs (which make darn good sense) this is less about public safety and more about monetizing a popular hobby. Based on that realization I will always be safe and courteous, but I am not likely to comply with unreasonable expense and hassle. Nobody really believes city hall gives a single itot if you take a model plane to the melon. They do not. It will start out cheap and easy, and gradually they will stack on more rules and requirements that somehow all cost money and time. Pretty soon it will be a fairly expensive hobby and the revenue they generate will be pretty darn good. Isnt that is what just happened in Canada? The notion of the FAA outlawing RC aviation completely, that strikes defiance. Sure as I'm sitting here, if it is outlawed it will become a passionate hobby of mine! If bikes were outlawed would you really not ride anymore? really? I would ride EVERYWHERE! I know I wouldn't be alone either. There comes a time when defiance is not only appropriate but necessary. You would never guess that I actually have ODD, would ya? It has not always been easy but I wouldn't have it any other way. A quote that I like. "I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees" - Euripides. All very fair, except the idiot part, they might have me over a barrel there haha.

Seller was asking my son about the grips, apparently the grip is important for some reason. the Blued finish is a plus I'm told. I'm also told the older versions are worth more. I think the buyer was throwing out numbers when he should have been throwing out questions. From what I've seen through the links posted here is that maybe it's worth $1500-2500 optimistically and to the right buyer, if not even less than that. I think if someone just had to have this particular gun they would have to overpay a bit. I'm hoping to drop this off in town late tonight and see what happens. I would rather show it out here, I have a range on the property and a potential buyer could pop a few off. I believe this piece would sell itself if a buyer could handle and fire it. When I go to town next week I'll be happy to pick up a pile of cash or the gun. Either way I'll be happy. I'll check this link when I get to town later, it wont come up on my PC and I have no cell coverage here at home. I'm anxious to see it though. You are quite helpful good sir. Thank you!

They can try. I've had a .049 COX flying trainer new in the box for many years. If any such laws come to pass this baby is going airborne, a lot!

I live stateside. My son got me a pretty nice drone for Xmax. It's still to soupy and cold to fly it so Im totally green. SD has maybe 10 ppl/sq mi, CA 240, NY over 400, NJ and RI have over 1100 ppl/sq mi! Places so richly overpopulated would understandably need more rules and regs as people are stacked on top of each other, literally. I do know parts of Canada are pretty remote and other parts are gnarly as hell. Are the new rules/regs Canada wide or only some localities? Life on chunks of blue earth sounds fairly painful to me. Here is a SD drone law, it's a class 6 felony if I fly my drone over a prison to deliver drugs, thats not okay. Pretty normal common sense stuff. I see nothing about fees/registration/license req which is fine, if they ever do I will proudly be non-compliant, even openly defiant. Probably a darn good thing I do not (and never will again) live within any city limits. I'm the guy that would give my lawyer $1000 to prevent the IRS, county or state gov from getting $10. Sounds like nonconformists like myself aught to stay out of Canada! I hope it isnt too bad and you can still enjoy the hobby without too much gov interference. I honestly have a knot in my stomach, I'm angry on your behalf! You have my permission to continue to enjoy your hobby safely and to stand in violation of any laws preventing you from doing so. Print this out, laminate it and keep it with you while flying. Done!

The buyer is a local collector with cash, and is acquainted with my son. I've sent word to him that I'm ready to show it around that offer. Regardless of it's fair market value I'm not sure I could hand it over for a whole lot less. I'm no collector but I have no problem with hanging onto it. Still 4k would go a long ways to paying for septic and well for a project I have coming up. That does make sense. Seller was quite proud of it, he handed it over like a new mother would hand her baby over to a furious circus guerilla. Good times, I guess at that moment the bike was more enticing than the gun. Thanks all for the great info. Once again this forum is about as good as they get. I'll update if and what I get for it with a pic.

I ended up looking at some of the Ruger lines when I was after a hunting rifle. I recall all these beautiful but very similar Rugers lining the wall in FAR to many caliber choices for a mortal. I did settle on the MKII 7mm mag/Leupold VXII 3x9, all that stuff just to discover I'm no hunter. As per protocol I still have the gun just in case hunting becomes the only way to eat. IIRC there were at least 6 different calibers for the MKII platform alone.

I thought I posted this earlier, I'll bet I put it in the wrong place. The SN does match the box, 2W5NW510xx

Im lousy with dates so I have to think back, I got it from a neighbor while living in South Seattle. I sold home and fled Seattle to rural Snohomish Co in arond 97. I put my acquisition of his piece no later han 96-97, probably closer to. I fled back to SD in about 04 but had already owned this for several years prior to that fleeing. I think what happened is my highly dyslexic brain got the number wrong. I got the number off the box, not he gun, but that was with me too. I looked again and had my wife double check. NW51 is correct but on the box. Maybe I need to find the actual number on the piece, but this box was with the gun the whole time I have owned it. Im trying to just snap a pic of.the # and box.

2W05P24 is the model, 4 21/32" barrel, NW51 are the four digits in the center of the #. She is stamped "Cal 40 S & W" on the barrel, visible through the action. I'm holding her now. The balance is insane, the feel, I forgot how much I love it. This is the first time in ~18-20 years it's been in my hand. I've never fired a pistol that felt better or had better balance than this one (subjective I know). Since it holds 13 rounds the handle is a bit bulky, which is perfect for my hand. Unless there is something special about this particular piece to make it more valuable then I will not ignore an offer that far over actual value. I tried googling to see which of the above it might be based on the numbers and I came up dry. Maybe not looking in the right place. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I guess if I do have a good offer I need to wonder why someone would pay so much more than fair market value.

I have a pristine blued Browing Hi-Power 40 cal in the original plastic case. Had it since new, gave a tired Yamaha Maxum for it straight across back in the early 90s. The guy giving it up was quite reluctant but oh how he wanted the bike! By new I mean un-fired and in the original case. I have a few guns, but I'm no collector. Guns are tools, like screwdrivers and trucks. So I fired it maybe 100 times and put it away cleaned and oiled, 20-ish years ago. It really is like brand new. It saw daylight yesterday as I've been getting some offers on it that seem pretty high. Would love to hear some opinions of value from those in the know before I sell it and buy a 1911 and slip the rest in my IRA. Offers up to $4k, is that high or has this thing picked up some value in the last couple decades? Thanks for the opinions and wisdom.

X2, I used the All Balls kit on my 1st gen, pretty happy with it. With the right drifts and strategic profanity it really isnt bad. Be grateful your not doing a gen1 haha.

Bikes can always be replaced, they made a billion of these things anyway. Thankfully you are still walking and talking, the take away is maybe this; you got your accident out of the way with no serious injury. SCORE! With a secondary score of having good citizens come to your aid. Again, so happy your in tact! Now you can get the blue Venture you've always secretly wanted haha!

Very cool, whats better than distinction? Two thumbs up!

Happy new year all!

3 reasons to do our own maintenance; 1. Someone has to do it, plenty of shops are no longer taking clients with "classic" or "vintage" machines. 2. Stop me if you have heard this before... If you want it done right you do it yourself. 3. The sense of accomplishment/keeping wrenching skills sharp/being the cheap old-ish bastard that I am. It runs against my nature to pay someone to do something I can do myself. I'm not at that point where I'm to old to do it yet and I'm not acquainted with a tech that I would trust to do it right. The way I grew up and the ****ty cars/bikes I have been through, one will damn well learn how to fix things. It was just an integral part of being a motorist of cages or bikes. Knowing how to fix things at home as well as along side the road (I used to be an HD guy). I believe that maintaining the bike is part of the motorcyclist experience. I wont say bonding with the machine but I'm not sure how else to put it.

It looks like a really clean version of mine. What a score too! Nice bike!

Happy Holidays to all!!