Wildhorse mesa

First posted
Monday December 19, 2005 07:40
Updated
Sunday March 15, 2009 06:35

Sunday March 15, 2009 06:35 Fixed pistol arrived from Smith and Wesson on Friday March 13, 2009 by UPS. Photo of broken frame with date of 03/09/2008 was sent with fixed pistol by S&W. 2009? Note new frame number of UBY6263. Hopefully UBY and 22A-1 designates stronger metal. If we are plunged into darkness within the next several years [A]ccording to a recent USGS study (Assessment of Coal Geology, Resources and Reserves in the Gillette Coalfield, Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USGS open-file report 2008-1202), the coal reserve estimate for the Gillette coal field is 10.1 billion short tons, which is a mere 5% of the original 200 billion ton resource total. In other words, the USGS has just revised the Gillette resource base down by 95%. then a reliable pistol may be important. The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. Tuesday February 10, 2009 05:59 Dr Nejad is a "cuckooberry" Mr Reed was recorded saying? ENTELEC fun. Received Thursday January 29, 2009. High tech. Here's mp3 of conversation with Rob on January 5, 2009. And mp3 conversation with Pat on January 22, 2009. http://www.prosefights.org/msd/wildhorsemesa/wildhorsemesa.htm#pat

Thursday January 22, 2009 Guys We have a repeat of below letter. Pat emailed me the shipping label. You can see the pistol and application at http://www.prosefights.org/msd/wildhorsemesa/wildhorsemesa.htm. Thanks again! Bill Sunday 7/6/03 7:07 AM Smith and Wesson 19 Aviation Drive Houlton, ME 04730 Dear Smith and Wesson: I got the mailing label from Larry. We spoke on m 6/30/2003. Number of cartridges which would not fire increased. I could see where the firing pin contacted the cartridges. So I first suspected a bad batch of Remington shells. Next the recoil increased. And very few cartridges would fire. So I took the 22A apart. The frame was broken AGAIN. Thanks for being so reputable and continuing to fix the gun. The 22A sees reasonable duty punching holes in beer cans on the desert. I'm retired and have more time to pursue this interest. We will be in Florida until July 20 so there will be no one here to accept the gun. Thanks in advance. William Payne 305 Calle de Sandias NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 505-292-7037 505-463-1020 cell bpayne37@comcast.net http://mywebpages.comcast.net/bpayne37/index.htm

Sunday January 4, 2008 06:59 http://www.prosefights.org/msd/wildhorsemesa/wildhorsemesa.htm#brokeframe2

Just before Christmas we went on another essential non-gas-wasting trip to Valencia county to plink beer car, shotgun shell hulls, etc. The 22a slide was sticking which required a shove forward to seat a shell. Guess of source of problem was that the oil drops had solidified - a common problem in dry New Mexico. So the 22a was cleaned but not totally disassembled. Trip to Valencia county on Saturday January 3, 2009 revealed that the a22 now would fire a shot but the slide, at first, stayed in the open position. This required manual pull back to release the slide. Then the 22a would not cock. Back to Albuquerque to try to figure out what the problem is. Found it! The frame broke for the second time. The grips had to be removed to clearly see the source of the problem. Fortunately S&W warrants the 22a for lifetime for the original owner. We now get to talk to the nice people at Smith and Wesson again. We expect the S&W question, "How old are you?"

Sunday December 18, 2005 about 13:00 bill decided to practice S&W .22 pistol shooting. So about 100 miles of essential non-gas-wasting travel was required. Here are the targets. Trying to hit a 12 gauge shotshell hull from about 30-40 feet is quite challenging. When you hit a shotshell hull with a .22 hollow point, they frequently fly as far as 50 feet! Beer cans can fly as far as about 10 feet. No shortage of these targets on southwest deserts. Here's the history of the pistol!!! Red sight bridge. Slide just below. Yellow barrel. Green frame. The [new!!!] pistol shoots GREAT! Finally! S&W is highly recommended for really great reputability. Hey, we all make misteaks. Fixing mistakes and moving on is most important. S&W corrected its mistakes. A NEAT COMPANY! One of the guys at S&W asked, "How many rounds do you shoot?" Response, of course, is "What?" All for $154.99 plus several 500 round bricks of .22 shells. And look what happened!!! 22A was being sighted in when Burlington Northern Santa Fe detective spotted bill through his binoculars [Williams statement] about 1/2 mile away. Williams visited to find out what was going on. Williams took driver license number because he said he needed to show management he was doing something. We nice time BSing about guns. Williams was probably screened to BNSF for personality profile before being offered job. But you can probably guess, when people carrying guns meet you want to make sure both are reasonable chaps. Here's looking northwest from Wildhorse mesa. That's mount Taylor. Grants, NM is just to the left where the mountains meet the horizon. Large trucks can be seen on I40. It will be interesting to view this scene five years in the future if the Peak Oil people are right! In the 1940s and 1950s, a Shell geologist named M. King Hubbert observed that the production from any given oil field follows a bell curve, with annual volumes increasing until half the oil in the field is depleted, and declining thereafter. Basically, the bottom oil is harder to extract. King reasoned that production from all U.S. fields would follow a similar curve and predicted in 1956 that total U.S. oil production would peak in the early 1970s. His analysis caused a furor and was widely disparaged, but proved correct. "Hubbert's Peak" entered the lexicon of oil analysis—one of the great geological I-told-you-so's. Forty-nine years later, a growing number of noted geologists and industry analysts suggest that the global oil supply may now be topping out, a claim that has been met by skepticism from yet other geologists and economists who say higher prices will spawn both more discovery and improved recovery from existing fields. Whoever [bill is exactly 45 days younger than Saddam ... but hopes to outlive Saddam, dubya helping, of course] takes the photo may have to bicycle to this spot then. Here's wildhorse mesa looking east toward Los Lunas, NM That's a BNSF train heading west. Here's a digitally-unedited jpg of the main town. On I40. Here's approaching Albuquerque at about 16:15 on I40 starting down Nine mile hill. When this 75 mph is replaced by a 55 mph sign, then perhaps the government may be getting serious about considering gas/diesel efficiency. Grey rabbit got fairly good mileage considering it was travelling at about 75 mph much of the trip.