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HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« on: September 17, 2025, 04:17:20 AM »
YAY for No Powder! - another year notched on yer gunstock! Hope you have a "bang up" birthday!

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2025, 07:16:39 AM »
 :toast happy Birthday Tom, have a good one... :toast
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2025, 09:19:13 AM »
HBD No Po. Way to go! Shoot a gun, have some fun, and do it again next year!   :toast
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2025, 02:36:22 PM »
Happy Birthday, Tom!! make some smoke! Eat some Cake! Have a great Day!1
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2025, 09:22:14 PM »
Thank you fellows. Didn't have any cake here, so I took the other advice you gave me and wet to the range. Just had to see if that 80 grain powder measure I got off of Beaverman still worked as good as it did the last time I used it.  I'm happy to report it sure did.


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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2025, 03:09:45 PM »
Happy Birthday, Tom.  Hope it is/was a good one.
Yep, that beaverman makes some good stuff, but I didn't know it helped you shoot better.
Maybe I better talk to him about some good juju on something.
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2025, 04:07:16 PM »
Thanks John. I agree that perhaps you should talk to Jim. With that measure and the powder horns I bought off of another gentleman on here, I'm almost certain to have a successful deer season. And I'm glad you had a nice trip.


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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2025, 09:19:28 PM »
Happy happy birthday.
 Hope it's a goodun
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2025, 09:42:00 PM »
Appreciate it Kevin.


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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2025, 08:17:51 PM »
WHOA!!!  Where was I when this was posted?  It sounds like the day was a good 'un, wish you many more.

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2025, 08:56:15 PM »
Thanks Kees. It was fairly good one. And if I stick around to have many more, you've got to stick around to keep wishing me Happy Birthday. Deal?


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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2025, 12:26:05 PM »
 :toast HBD  :toast  :yessir:
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2025, 02:35:48 PM »
Thank you Jim.


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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #13 on: September 24, 2025, 02:44:33 PM »
Thanks Kees. It was fairly good one. And if I stick around to have many more, you've got to stick around to keep wishing me Happy Birthday. Deal?

You bet, Tom!  When we got married, Carol told me I have to outlive her, and her family has a history of living into their upper 90s.  I'm older than her, so it looks like I have to be a centenarian!  :laffing

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY No Powder!!!
« Reply #14 on: September 24, 2025, 03:33:12 PM »
Kees,
My mom always claimed that she would live to be 100.
She really disappointed me by passing when she was only 95.
So, I guess it is up to me to make it to 100.
Heck, I only have 20 years to go.  No problem.
All I have to do right now is get past this darn case of the Chinese flu and I will be set.
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