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218BeeKeeper

He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
Your a Savage man. I came accross a model 23 sporter in 25/20 the other day. It's been refinished and the metal was buffed to the point the markings are almost unreadable. But, the bore is spotless and I think it might be a good shooter. Guy wants $200.00 for it. Should I just pay him and be happy, or should I dicker with him? WOODS
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey 218 are you? A bee keeper I mean.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Drop me an email please. I'm wondering what you think a model 20 Barreled action is worth.

    Woods
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Shouldn't a more appropriate name be 218apiarist....then wear a smoking jacket while sipping a cognac with a fine cigar....
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    don't know about the smoking jacket, but I bet 218 could do the cognac and cigar. In the U.S. beekeepers seem to call themselves beekeepers. Probably a touch of classy humility.
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  • HighballHighball Member Posts: 15,755
    edited November -1
    Perhaps he keeps a 218 Bee..a fine,old,quiet,150 yard honey of a cartridge.... And he knows I want it..but he is keeping it all to himself....[This message has been edited by Highball (edited 09-01-2001).]
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  • legn4legn4 Member Posts: 481 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think he is a stinger alright.But he ain't no 219.
    Work'n like a dog all nite
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  • shaneshane Member Posts: 882 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I do believe Highball has it.
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Well boys,ol` .218 is all the way to Kissimmee,that`s a long way from home,my ears was itchin` ,so I figured somebody was thinkin` bout me,that`s very sweet. It aint honey that i`m here sellin` , and Highball ,them bees are stayin where they b`long.Big Rem,I,m stayin` with my nephew this weekend for the gun show ,not a drop in the house,nor a Cohiba to be found.legn4 you got that last part right ,and nor would I want to bee.Well boys I hope none of your teams played a FLA. team today,cause if they did it wasn`t purty.
    HOW `BOUT THEM `NOLES???[This message has been edited by 218Beekeep (edited 09-02-2001).]
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Hey Rem,this isn`t a smokin jacket I`m wearin`,it`s about the corny`est lookin yellow and black plaid shirt That I`ve ever seen though,I`m sure I wouln`t be caught dead in public in it . Smokin jacket? ,the only thing that comes to mind is that dude in the movie SEVEN YEAR ITCH ,playin Rockmoninof(???) ,and fallin` all over Marilyn Monroe.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Today ones profession tends to get a facelift by giving it a new title....garbage collector is a "sanitary engineer", carpenter's are "environmental habitat technicians", and librarian's are "data information managers". Now a beekeeper should be known as 218apiarist....this gives one the impression of an Allistair Cook type individual retiring to the library in his silk smoking jacket, sipping cognac, and enjoying a fine cigar while listening to Bach.....not sure the name change will work for you though, you need to come up with an English accent in your posts....Although I was trying to be helpful, guess I better stick to something I'm good at....like mowing the yard and washing the dogs....then that would make me a "domestic horticulture manicurist specializing in animal husbandry" [This message has been edited by Rembrandt (edited 09-02-2001).]
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Alright,I aint no real beekeeper,nor any of those things Rem suggested.Now boys,keep in mind that Rem is quite a joker,that part about animal husbandry for example,we all know that aint legal,and he`d never really do it. Hey ,did I tell ya I`m out of town,yeah,I`m up here in Kissimmee,it`s next to Orlando.I`m at my nephews house,I got up before them,can`t find the coffee maker,hope he can find it,after all he is a P.I.
    HOW `BOUT THEM `NOLES???[This message has been edited by 218Beekeep (edited 09-02-2001).]
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Of course, the original consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes was known to smoke cigars upon occasion, drink Cognac (when there was no whiskey or port around) wore a smoking jacket betimes, and when he retired to the south downs he was in fact a beekeeper. Not a bad role model all things considered. Maybe 218 and his nephew could team up. The nephew could do the detecting and 218 could specialize in the Cognac and Cohibas...Hey, and maybe Rembrandt could bee the apiarist!
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  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just read that the 218 Bee was a semi hot lever gun cartridge developed by Winchester in the 1930's to give lever guns a chance to keep up with the .22 Hornet. Was it a successful cartridge or like my .40-82 too little too late? Beach
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    He Dog, I better shy away from that apiarist position....been stung too many times. But I would be pleased to join all of you in the study for a spot of tea and a good conversation....(smoking jackets are optional).
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Most satisfactory my dear Rembrandt. Perhaps we should make that a spot of tea in a white tail camp? (smoking jackets in hunter orange required)
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    He Dog,Rem,HighBall, legn4,shane,and beach, maybe a good cold mexican beer or two now and then,and we could retire to the study,for a cuban coffee,cigar if you like,but ya gotta cut out that fag talk.I`ll show you boys my Savage M-20s in 250-3000 & 300 ,my 99s,and maybe I`ll even show ya my Bees. I`m still in Kissimmee,fixin to drive 3 or 4 hours home,I`d better leave now ,I enjoy the backroads, as long as I can see.Check ya later tonight,from home. .218
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Well,I made it home at midnight,got a late start,made 4 stops for burger/fries,coffee,twice for ice cream,all that in 200 miles.If you think thats bad, you should ride with me from down here in south west fla to my place in west virginia sometime.Rem,He Dog ,if my good friends in WV ever got wind of me wearin` a smokin jacket,smokin cigars and sippin cognac,well,my days of fittin` in would be over.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Beekeep, guess I better come clean....I don't drink or smoke, and I don't have a smoking jacket....just wasn't enough money for those things and guns too.....so there you have it, I'm just a wanna be "sophisticated country gentleman" hiding behind a computer listening to classical music. Just something about the way the English go hunting, dressed in fine tweeds and a nice side by side for a day in the country. Seems so refined.Beekeep, your country humor posts kinda remind me of Jerry Clower, one of my favorite country comedians...[This message has been edited by Rembrandt (edited 09-03-2001).]
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Rem,I`m gunna look like the ol` boy if I`m not careful.If you like ol` Jerry ,you`d have really liked my uncle ,Bubba Williams,any time we had a get together,(like after a funeral,when we would all go to somebody`s house and eat etc.,as is tradition down here)he`d have us crackin`up. He died a couple of years ago,and there was no one to make us laugh after his funeral.But we did talk about guns.[This message has been edited by 218Beekeep (edited 09-03-2001).]
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hmmm....Cohibas. I haven't had one of those wonderful cigars since I was in Panama a few years ago. *sigh* I've never been a liquor man but ev'ry couple years a truly fine cigar is a wonderful thing to enjoy.
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    idsman75,I used to go to this little cuban place,they made the best roast pork sandwich ever.Behind the glass, in the meat cooler,there were always Cohibas ,some with the ends all messed up,just scattered around.The guy just didn`t care,he sold out and moved back to Miami.Man them were good sandwiches.
    HOW `BOUT THEM `NOLES???
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    For anyone who did not know ,I am not a beekeeper,Highball had it right,I Keep a couple of rifles in .218-Bee.Rembrandt,on the other hand could not resist the temptation to paint a portrait of this Everglades swamp rat as a fine english gentleman wearing a smoking jacket,while sipping cognac, and smoking a fine cigar.......Rem.,your imagination took you as far away from reality as it has ever been!
    Will the last reb to leave flarda,please bring the flag?[This message has been edited by 218Beekeep (edited 09-16-2001).][This message has been edited by 218Beekeep (edited 09-16-2001).]
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    218 - at least you aren't known as 220Swifty [grin]!
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  • NEEDCOLDNEEDCOLD Member Posts: 134 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There'a a boat paddled by a Mossberg every day somewhere....with or without a smoking jacket. Just someone forgot the gas and oar. Sometimes you just gotta say "sh**t!"
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have no problem using a Mossberg for a boat oar.....but if you have any plans to use a Browning Superpose for water propulsion, let me know, I'll gladly trade you a Mossberg for it. Besides, a fine Superpose goes better with my smoking jacket....
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Hey Iconclast,.218,220,anythin` but the one in between!!,Know what I mean?? NEEDCOLD,where were you doin` all that paddlin` anyway? Also, I saw what ya wanted ta have done ta bin Laden,man all I can say is I`d never want ta be your enemy,glad ya took that joke about the oars so well!!!!!! .218
    Will the last reb to leave flarda,please bring the flag?
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    To whom it may concern:

    The second post on this thread is
    where it all began ~The Smoking Jacket Club~

    Congratulations Rembrandt..and everyone involved

    Bee
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And a more disreputable collection of outlaws and miscreants was never assembled! I am in complete awe at the magnificence of it all!

    A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ....Since this was started, you've come a long way Sir Lord Beekeeper...I'm happy to say I had the honor of knowing you before you became famous for those "Bee's" and "Smoking Jackets"
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Rembrandt:

    The feeling is mutual,
    thanks for everything.

    Now it seems one of your
    finest portraits was on
    a thread by our friend
    simonbs,titled "Albino Alligator"

    Let`s see if I can find it.

    .218

    Did sombody say somethin` about bees?
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  • hillbillyhippiechichillbillyhippiechic Member Posts: 97 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What an amazing memory you have, Beekeep! It must be preserved with all that Cognac!

    PEACE..., through superior firepower.
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    What an amazing memory you have, Beekeep! It must be preserved with all that Cognac!

    Ha,ha,ha!!!,That`s very sweet of you,hip!

    I pulled up that thread for you..thanks for askin`
    about the jackets.

    .218
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