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James T. Kucaba
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Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 07:57 am |
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I completely "struck-out" on all the guns I bid on ... But I'm sure everyone would to know what the other folks who frequent this site may have purchased at the Rock Island Auction.
Jim Kucaba ... AriZOOna Cactus Patch ... Email: JimKucaba@aol.com
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Angel Cruz
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Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 07:27 pm |
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| I had $4000 set aside for lot #1378. A 16ga hammer gun with 28in Damascus bbls. On Sat afternoon my dog got sick and had to be taken to the vet. He needed and operation and there went $2000. The Parker sold for $3700. I dropped out at $2500. Somethings are just not meant to be..
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David Hamilton
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Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 08:48 pm |
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| The cost of vet services has gone crazy. People are buying health insurance for Phido. We've got a problem. David
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Angel Cruz
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Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 10:08 pm |
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| I sure wish I had the dog insurance. What with the antibiotics and the pain killer and the special diet. There went another Parker..
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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 10:34 pm |
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I flew my plane for 4hrs today.... there went yet another Parker....
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Brad Steinfeld
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Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 11:13 pm |
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I was just commenting over dinner that my Male Lab Buck is now into me for over $4000.00 in vet bills. Two ACL knee repairs at 1K each. Last month 1k for a swelled hematoma in the ear.Thirty four sutures and a host of other B.S.
For four grand he ought to shoot cock pheasants out his rectum on command.
Good boy Buck!
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Angel Cruz
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Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 11:26 pm |
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| If Buck could do that, you would owe him$4000...HEHEHEHEH...
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Frank Halsey
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Posted: Wed May 7th, 2008 05:38 am |
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For four grand he ought to shoot cock pheasants out his rectum on command.
Good boy Buck!
Brad, my ribs are hurting. I have not laugh that hard in a while. I did get a little 20 ga. hammer and tried for the 8 ga. that was restored. Just missed it by a little. The one I really wanted was the grade 5 restored uplift. I thought it would go for too much so I did not put it on my phone bid. $5,750 with fees. damn, I should have put it on my bid list. Frank
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C Roger Giles
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Posted: Wed May 7th, 2008 02:41 pm |
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My lab certainly has the volume of needed gas to opperate a mega high velocity pellet gun.
Does not bother the dog one bit, but it sure has an effect on my wife.
Roger
PS Our vet bill from Mondays visit for heart worm and ect was $90 and involved no medicines. My MD vivits are $10
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Richard Dow
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Posted: Wed May 7th, 2008 03:11 pm |
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Off subject -but have any of you guys flew with your dogs(especially United)? I'm trying to make some plans for the fall and a little nervous about the air lines. Any comments would be appreciated.
Also I've read several articles about insurance on dogs lately and for what they pay out it doesn't seem worth it in most cases. On the other hand dogs that hunt probably go to the vet a little more often. Dick Dow
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Harry Sanders
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Posted: Sat May 10th, 2008 02:36 pm |
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| Does anyone know what lot 1360 went for?
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Timothy Sheldon
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Posted: Sat May 10th, 2008 02:56 pm |
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I think it was 4500. Did you see the gun?
But, you would have to add their 15% cut on top of that, so, ah, em, let me figure, $5175. That sound about right???
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Harry Sanders
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Posted: Sat May 10th, 2008 03:51 pm |
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| Thanks, No I was not there. $4500 seems low though for a gun as described. Last edited on Sat May 10th, 2008 03:51 pm by Harry Sanders
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Timothy Sheldon
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Posted: Sat May 10th, 2008 03:59 pm |
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| Harry I could be wrong, maybe it was 5500. But I thought it was 4500. Confusion could be setting in.
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Francis Morin
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Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 01:44 am |
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| Angel- one reason dogs are so valued as friends- God did such a great job when He sat down and the drawing board and drew up the plans for Man's best friend- that He decided to name His newest creation after His-Own-Self- only in reverse order- I have NEVER had a dog: cheat me in poker, try to steel my Pigeon Grade M12 Trap gun at Vandalia. or break the 8th Commandment and slander my good name all over Creation- several good reads I would suggest- anything by Gene Hill-he had a flair for his dog stories like no other writer (in my opinion) and of course Corey Ford's "The Road To Tinkhamtown" but also his article in Nov. 1941 after his prized Setter was shot by an out-of-state deer hunter who was hunting near Freedom NH-and when the final curtain comes (I have three great Labs buried with marker stones in our large (12 acre) country lot- Ben Hur Lampman's 1925 article "Where To Bury A Dog" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "You've given your heart to a dog for to break" circa 1890- I could not be so bold as to tell another gentleman- no matter his preference in shotguns, bird dogs or whiskey- well sir, you can always find another Parker you can afford on another day- but a dog's days are numbered, just as ours are- but there is some comfort in knowing that Man's Best Friend does not know that all life ends in death-with sincere hopes that your four legged friend makes a full and healthy recovery-
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Angel Cruz
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Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 02:30 am |
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| Hey Francis. He`s back to being himself and running around like nothing happened. Every penny spent on the little guy was well worth it, seeing as how I can`t put a price on the joy he brings to the family I guess I`m still in his debt. Thanks for the heads up on the books. I`m sure I`ll enjoy the reading just as I`m sure there`s another Parker just around the corner..
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Erick Dorr
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Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 07:28 pm |
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| FYI, realized prices are now available on line at RIA for those of us who didn't bid or attend. Erick
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Francis Morin
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Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 07:57 pm |
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| Angel-so glad to hear your best pal is back- here's the abbreviated version of what Oregon writer Ben Hur Lampman penned circa 1925- "We would say that there are various places in which a dog may be buried. We are thinking now of a Setter, whose coat was flame in the sunshine, and who never entertained a mean or unworthy thought. This Setter is now buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry tree strews its petals on the green carpet of his grave. Buried beneath such trees, dogs sleep in the drowsy summer, or gnawed at flavorous bone, or lifted its head to challenge an intruder. For these are indeed good places, in life and in death. Yet it is a small matter. For if you dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your fitful dreams actual as he did in life, eyes kindling, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where that dog sleeps. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppyhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture land. It is all one to the dog, and all one to you, and nothing is therefore gained or lost-if memory lives. But there is one best place to truly bury a dog. If you bury him in this spot, he will come to you when you call him, come to you over the grim, dimmed frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path and to your side again. And although you might call a dozen living dogs to your heel, they shall not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he belongs there. People may scoff at you, who see no blade of grass thus bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper, people who may may never really have had a dog. Smile at them then, for you alone shall know something which is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing. The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master. Now-if I may, my friend- as this was written in 1925- and Corey Ford's immortal "The Road To Tinkhamtown" in the late l960's (I believe)-I have to feel that the great Setter man- Corey Ford- had to have read this- "Steady Boy, I'm coming".. At another time, if you would like, I will e-mail you the Kipling Poem about the heartache of owning a dog- or as for most of us, having a dog own you.
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Angel Cruz
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Posted: Tue May 13th, 2008 08:57 pm |
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Those words just brought me back to that place for I have buried a few dogs there. What a rush of emotions. Thanks for the words Francis.. I would love to read the Kiplin poem.
Angel...
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