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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Two Steps!!!
« on: April 06, 2020, 04:01:21 AM »
YAY for Two Steps! - another year notched on yer gunstock! Hope you have a "bang up" birthday!

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Two Steps!!!
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2020, 05:08:53 AM »
Happy birthday sir!

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Two Steps!!!
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2020, 06:09:29 AM »
Happy Birthday Al!   :applaud
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Two Steps!!!
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2020, 07:18:26 AM »
Hey, Happy Birthday partner. :yessir:
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Two Steps!!!
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2020, 10:07:19 AM »
Happy Birthday, Al  :toast :shake
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Two Steps!!!
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2020, 01:06:44 PM »
Happy  Birthday , Two Steps!  :toast Many  Happy  Returns !!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Two Steps!!!
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2020, 05:09:46 AM »
Happy Birthday bud.....this is the last one you're going to have this year, so ya better get it right!

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Two Steps!!!
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2020, 08:16:26 AM »
Thanks folks...had a nice calm birthday...just how I like ‘me.  Wanted to go fishing, but the wind thought we were in Kansas so I nixed that idea and practiced the art of Proper Chair Sitting...I think I have it down pat  :bl th up
Thanks again guys  :toast :shake
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Two Steps!!!
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2020, 04:53:34 PM »
Poor old Al, started out with a rifle gun but after he notched his stock with each year, he's only got a long barreled pistol left.  Happy Birthday, Al
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Two Steps!!!
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2020, 11:43:09 AM »
Yep....and that’s one really short handgrip too!!  :P. Pretty soon I won’t have anything but a front sight John  :toast
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Two Steps!!!
« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2020, 05:12:13 PM »
Hey there ya old fossil, sorry  missed this, hope you had a good one, hows things down there in Mayberry? staying away from the WUHAN?
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY Two Steps!!!
« Reply #11 on: April 12, 2020, 07:40:12 AM »
Doing well Jim...hope you are.  Like I told Russ...this is the best Birthday I’ve had this year!  Things here in the Sandhills are about the same as ever...take care up there in the top left corner  :toast
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