Shooting from the bag ...

[Stomper]

I still can't believe Andy said, "ball bag"!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Well what did ya want me to say?
A lead spherical object which goes into a leather container?

At least I didn't say ball sack ... Oops!
Andy

 

[Stomper]

Too many syllables will just muddle things up and confuse the denizens around here, best to not string sentences that require a breakdown diagram...




I can't stop snickering... disgraceful for a 50yr old man, yeah?!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Nah ... You should hear all the "Greybeards" suppressing chuckles and snickers at a shoot. LOL
Andy

 

[Stomper]

That must affect shot groupings, yeah?

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Yep!
But what's a little heckling between friends ... Now if I only had friends! LOL
Andy

 

[Stomper]

Don't fret, it's easier that way... plus you don't have to remember who you loaned your tools too!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Best Beavis and Butthead voice : "Hee Hee he said loan your tool!" LOL!
Andy

 

[Stomper]

Andy.... people expect that behavior from ME, not a dignified HS teacher...

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Its Sunday , my day off.
Besides I teach "LifeSkills" and if you can't laugh , you ain't got much of a life!
Andy

 

[BillGabby1]

My friend and I conducted a non scientific experiment to see what tumbling our balls for an hour or 2, (gasp) to see if it would even out the spherical shape. We concluded that it really didn't improve the shape enough to warrant the extra hassle. The first batch I forgot and left them running for 12 hours, really deformed them, apparently they stayed in one place in the Hex shaped can and so they got beaten into tear drops and some looked like someone had taken 3 strong fingers and pinched them. They returned to the melting pot to be recast! Total fail!
Gabby

 

[BillGabby1]

When is a bag a bag and not a sack and can a sack also be a bag? LOL
Someone esplaine it to poor ignert me???????

 

[Andy54Hawken]

I've seen guys run their balls over a rasp to give 'em "dimples" like a golf ball ... seem like a lot of work for little or no gain.
Best shooting I have done has always been after finding the right ball , patch and powder charge combination that the rifle or trade gun likes.

As to when a bag is a bag ... I think it is more a matter of where.
Where I grew up it was a sack , my relatives in Tennessee and Kentucky called it a poke and my northern family called it a bag ... LOL
Andy

 

[BillGabby1]

Brings to mind an old ditty.
"If a hog in a sack is a pig in a poke, why is a poke in the a**
a goose?
LOL

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Another shot of what goes into a bag.
Andy

 

[BillGabby1]

Andy do you have a pack donkey to haul all that stuff around?
LOL
Gabby

 

[Andy54Hawken]

That would be super cool!
But we have a period correct red pick up to haul it all in ... period 2010 that is LOL!
Andy

 

[BillGabby1]

Is it a red Dodge?
My favorite flavor for a truck, but mine is a 21 year old licorice
colored one. LOL

 

[Andy54Hawken]

its my buddy Dave's Red Chevy. LOL
Andy

 

[BillGabby1]

its my buddy Dave's Red Chevy. LOL
Andy

Well I like Chevy almost as much as Dodge and I like any color as long as it's RED!
Gabby