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Dental Work
4205raymond
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My daughter, Heather the horse lady had the dentist in today to check Butterfly her youngest horse. Good grief! That's her in the ditch putting water pipe to her barn before winter set in. Horses must be in her DNA. I had several relatives in Virginia as a youngster that were horse breeders.----------------Ray
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That’s cheatin’ ,,,,,,, using an electric ‘float’ ,,,,,,, 🤣
I hope you can see the serving tray hanging on the wall in one of the barn rooms. i suppose it is a little crude and i made it with a ball peen hammer in shop class in eight grade. It disappeared about fifty years ago and has a horse head in the middle. One day when Heather was showing me her new barn I got dust in my eyes when i saw it. Heather started to cry and told me she always knew that someday she would have a special place for it. --------------------------Ray
Yes, I see the tray ,,,,,,,, what a great momento !!
The horse in the picture is Butterfly the youngest the day Heather brought her home. Heather studied animal husbandry in college and her quarter horse Hoopie went to college with her. Hoopie was a jumper and Heather was a competitor. Eventually it got to be too expensive and Heather had to give it up. I hauled that horse everywhere with my Chevy with the six banger in it. It was more of trailer pushing instead of me pulling with that six banger.
Eventually Heather gravitated into Physical Therapy. Today she has realized her dream. She lives and breathes horses.
Hope I did not hog up too much space on the Forum. -------------------------Ray
That horse looks like it feels the same as I do when I go to the dentist.
Awesome post. Horse people, are some of the best people in the world. Most of my local friends are horse people. Donna had horses until about 15 years ago. She stopped riding and it became too expensive , just to own a hay burner. Oakie
Forgemonkey, sounds like you are right. Way my daughter describes it, like using dremill tool to sharpen my chainsaw instead of file. They sedate the horse a little with a shot in the mane.---------------Ray
Oakie, you got that right. Horse people just nice people. About 15 years ago saw a gun cabinet on Craigslist down in Jersey. My hunting partner of 55 years (now deceased) and i went to get it. It was a large horse farm and lady had sold all her Dad's guns. She could not find base of cabinet. I gave her $75 for top of cabinet and hauled it away. Six months later she found the base buried in another barn and called me.
She would only charge me $25 for it which made up her original price for the whole cabinet. It is solid oak and when I got it home and pulled out a drawer there was a business card inside that read Ray's Gunshop. There is a reason for everything. ------------------------Ray
Between the float and the speculum, it’s about a $4000.00 rig !!
And that "little shot in the mane" makes all the difference in the world. We did it once on a horse without the sedative.
Never again!
The gas in the picture should be coming out both ends of the horse.
Also if a rider.
Is that a dozen of the same model shotgun all lined up in that cabinet?
I think I recall he collects model 37's.........
Yep, just a small sample of my 37's. Have them all. Many of the rare ones in duplicate and triplicate. Those are all 12ga. in that cabinet. Empty box, no inserts, no paper work, no tags , fair condition yesterday on Fleabay $190.
Stoeger list a 28ga Red Ltr. with 32" barrel in his early catalogues. Never seen one. Don't know anyone that has either. Have a handfull of 20ga with 32" barrels. Winchester Dave has one but no one can afford it I guess. I think it is deliberate. He want's it in his casket when he checks out.😀
They used the 12ga. with bayonet at Kent State so i am told. I never have been able to figure what the large "A" stands for on belly of Red Ltr receivers. Never have seen one stamped US Property. Most of the old timers at New Haven are long gone. ----------------------------Ray
Very nice, Ray! Pretty neat to zero in on a model like that and go after them all..... And the cabinet is great too!
I have one model 37. A 16 gauge given to me by my grandfather.
Did not mean to stray from horses to guns but here is one more. A fellow from Montana sold me this cabinet. He was a builder came down to Slate Hill, NY right after bust in 08. Had a beautiful home on large property and about five car garage. He put the custom made cabinet on Craigslist and a relative took his pre-64 Win back to Montana. Someone beat me to his house and took the base of the cabinet. It was made in Montana out of Ponderosa pine. His wife was very upset because the kids were in NY and he thought he was going to make a lot of money here and it did not pan out. Can't remember how much i paid for cabinet but was a bargain. Owner said he just wanted some more room on his moving van and he helped me load cabinet on my truck. Said he hated Socialist state of NY and "I am going back home to Montana where I belong" Board at bottom was to keep my best friend in the whole world Willie from taking a leak on butt stocks when he was a pup. Most are 12Ga. and 16ga starts at far right. Safe on floor is a Army payroll safe from WW1.
A couple pictures of "Willie". I miss him so much. --------------------------Ray
A great thread Ray. Thanks for sharing with us.
Heather finally finished re-doing her deck. She made the little flower boxes out of boards that horses chewed on or pushed off. The Amish built her little barn in the rear and the pastures are behind it. ---------------------Ray
Is that in Virginia, Ray?
My wife was a horse lady. When I met her, we bought a couple of quarter horses. That's how we landed on this 33 acre piece of heaven. That turned into cows and 7/365 work.
Watching Yellowstone one night, I jokingly said "I think I'll get myself a horse."
Her words :
" Go right ahead, but you'll break your neck and I ain't taking care of no horses."
Jim, I sure wish it was. It is near the Village of Stamford in upstate Delaware County, NY. Really beautiful up there. Mostly dairy farming up there. I helped my daughter buy a nice horse trailer to make the transition to Kents Store, Virginia very close to where Karl use to live. His daughter taught in the Fluvanna HS. The winters are long and brutal up there in NY and they are tired of it. Making the move to Virginia and getting the horses set up down there and remodeling my house down there, selling two properties is a major, major undertaking.
I missed the window about 10 years ago and had to choose between taking care of Diane and making the move. Then i lost my little dog Willie about two months ago. He was my back up system and I was going to bail and take Willie with me to Virginia. My daughter is a Angel sent from Heaven and together we kept Diane out of a Nursing home. Diane passed a few days before Christmas last year at home
holding my daughter on one hand and my son on the other hand. I had three dogs in my life before Willie but nothing in my whole life hurt like loosing Willie. I know I should move on and share my love with another but nothing could ever take Willie's place. I understand how Ken feels about Buddy.
I will attach a few pictures of Virginia property. -----------------------Ray
Carry me back to old Virginny...
I could live ot the rest of my days in a house like that.
When you get back down here, I'm commin' to see ya. Bank on it.
Jim, Sounds good . There is a sun room on back of house. Back lot has extra septic, 10 x 20 shed that Amish in Rural Retreat, Va built and a deep well, tel line, and safety switch that I wired which would be great for RV.
My good friend and neighbor on the left has a rifle range to left of my shed and i can use it anytime. I let him shoot deer in back of my property and he puts them in bucket to his little tractor and scoots them to his barn. Makes it so easy and my body hurts all over just thinking about all the dragging I did in the Adirondack Forest Preserve upstate. ----------Ray
I been to Rays gun shop a couple of times. He drilled, tapped and installed a rail on my S&W 41 mag
Oakie, Amazing that card with same name as me stuck in drawer, Actually it was stuck behind drawer. I made a little mistake. The tag reads "Ray's Sport Shop, Inc., North Plainfield, NJ. (201) 561-4400. Dealer in Firearms, Archery, Hunting and Fishing Equip." Does this sound like same person?
Cabinet came from Hardwick,NJ ----------------------------------Ray