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Umberto CZing in...

Umberto

Umberto

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I've lurked enough and thought it time to introduce myself. I'm known as Johnny West on other forums as well as Big John. I see a lot of folks here from other forums that I'm familiar with and particularly like this forum as it is more outdoors oriented.

I'm into cooking, wine collecting, hunting, fishing, travel, knife collecting; Buck, Blackjack, and Randall, and shooting: sporting clays, skeet, and battle rifles.

I'm without a dog now but love Labs and springers and pretty much any dog that hunts.

I did 21 years in the Army, Army Reserve, and AGR. I've been an LPN working nursing homes, ER, hospitals, and home care. I also have taught high school special education resource room for 5 years and currently sub teach till they tell me I can't. That about covers it.
 
My late brother was a citizen of AK, lived all over and flew news crews covering the the Iditerod. His pictures of the bar in Nome were interesting to say the least.
 
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My father was Czech. I'd love to have one of their African rifles but my days of going on safari are past me. I've too many pistols, if there is such a thing, and never got into the CZ products. I have been to Brno but had no time to check out their facility.
 
Hi Umberto.
Good intro. Thank you sir, and thank you for your service. :tiphat:
Welcome to the party. Enjoy and post often. :thumb: :D
Cheers! :beer:
 
Umberto said:
My father was Czech. I'd love to have one of their African rifles but my days of going on safari are past me. I've too many pistols, if there is such a thing, and never got into the CZ products. I have been to Brno but had no time to check out their facility.
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My father escaped Czechoslovakia when the Germans were heading toward Russsia and Russia was coming to meet the Germans!

I love the CZ products too. Especially their O/U shotguns and their CZ75 pistols. Never got to Brno, mostly traveled through what is now Slovakia from Bratislava up to the northeast. Never got into Prague, etc.

Glad to have a brother of a different father here :clap:
 
You'd love Prague and Karlovy Very. I could spend a week in Prague and take my time with museums, cathedrals, and restaurants. I've been 6 times but just for over nights or day trips.
 
Umberto said:
You'd love Prague and Karlovy Very. I could spend a week in Prague and take my time with museums, cathedrals, and restaurants. I've been 6 times but just for over nights or day trips.
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One of my friends just spent 3 weeks in Prague and said he loved it.

Its one of those "Bucket List" locations I plan to get to one of these days.
 
I want to get back and also do the Camino in Spain, before I get too old.

One can't see it all in euro unless you are Rick Steves.
 
Well I'll be darned......:biggrin:

Been wondering about this new guy Umberto...

Now I know :smile: who he is...

Welcome to the other side of the world...:wink::whistling:

Regards, Kirk
 
Umberto said:
I want to get back and also do the Camino in Spain, before I get too old.

One can't see it all in euro unless you are Rick Steves.
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Meh, I am not a fan of Spain, well I loved Barcelona. But the residents of Barcelona don't claim to be from Spain, they claim to be Catalonian.
 
Umberto said:
My father was Czech. I'd love to have one of their African rifles but my days of going on safari are past me. I've too many pistols, if there is such a thing, and never got into the CZ products. I have been to Brno but had no time to check out their facility.
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Umberto,

I have a few CZ and Brno rifles. One of my favorite one is here..

http://www.forumsforums.com/3_9/showthread.php?t=46111

I don't shoot it much, I have 3 .22 Hornet rifles, this and a M70 Win and a 527 CZ Lux. :smile:

Regards, Kirk
 
Welcome Johnny, glad you made it. Anyone who loves labs is OK with me. My last dog was a black lab, she loved squirrel hunting in the back yard, but for some reason she left the rabbits alone.

I also loved hunting and fishing, but when my adopted dad died, who taught me how to do both I kinda lost interest. My gun collection consists of a couple cap and ball pistols, a 50 cal. flintlock, and one blunderbuss.
 
Hey Johnny West! Welcome to FF. I'm JoeV on the food forums, and we've exchanged posts. Glad to have you on board, and feel free to post food porn here. Have a slice of some old fashion white bread I made the other day. It's got lard in it for the shortening instead of butter, and I fermented the sponge for an hour, then three rises. Mmmmmmmm....
 

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Umberto,

I have a few CZ and Brno rifles. One of my favorite one is here..

http://www.forumsforums.com/3_9/showthread.php?t=46111

I don't shoot it much, I have 3 .22 Hornet rifles, this and a M70 Win and a 527 CZ Lux. :smile:

Regards, Kirk
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"I have more guns than I can shoot and not all I want." I think that's how that saying goes.

My favorite rifle and the one I shoot the most is a Ruger #1 25/06 with varmit barrel. You know about my .300 Win.

I have Browning's and Model 12's like you have CZ's. I'm ashamed to say I have no idea how many shotguns I have. When I travel to hunt pheasants I usually take a half dozen and use a different one every day, depending on the weather conditions. I'm not afraid to loan them as long as I'm there, too. My dedicated duck and goose gun is a H&K Camo Lion but also have 2 3" B-25's and a BSS I use, too. I'm looking for a quality single barrel trap gun and I'll be happy.
 
MrLiberty said:
Welcome Johnny, glad you made it. Anyone who loves labs is OK with me. My last dog was a black lab, she loved squirrel hunting in the back yard, but for some reason she left the rabbits alone.

I also loved hunting and fishing, but when my adopted dad died, who taught me how to do both I kinda lost interest. My gun collection consists of a couple cap and ball pistols, a 50 cal. flintlock, and one blunderbuss.
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I have a TC .50 cal. Hawken and have not shot it since 88. I probably should get rid of it but then I wouldn't have one. Before my dad passed he molded a life time supply of balls and maxi balls and still have original cans of Pyrodex.
 
Melensdad said:
Meh, I am not a fan of Spain, well I loved Barcelona. But the residents of Barcelona don't claim to be from Spain, they claim to be Catalonian.
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I've not been but my #3 son has walked the Camino and i'd like to do it, as well. He did the 500 miles in a month. I figure to walk a bit longer. LOL

I do make a good paella.
 
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Hey Johnny West! Welcome to FF. I'm JoeV on the food forums, and we've exchanged posts. Glad to have you on board, and feel free to post food porn here. Have a slice of some old fashion white bread I made the other day. It's got lard in it for the shortening instead of butter, and I fermented the sponge for an hour, then three rises. Mmmmmmmm....
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Mmmmm, lard. I have three packages of leaf fat in the freezer I need to bake up for lard. I'm not sure what to do with it as I cook too much for my vegetarian son. I was thinking of putting it out for chickadee but it's pretty expensive bird suet.

I've got the butter and grapefruit marmalade for that bread. TX
 
Mr. Liberty-: I had a black Lab in the late 60's and 70's that would retrieve anything I shot, squirrels and rabbits were no problem. He'd run a rabbit just long enough to get it going, I'd shoot and he'd retrieve and he did all this naturally. The only birds he hated to retrieve were woodcock, as they taste so bad but after spitting them out several times he's get them back to me. It was hilarious to watch. In his later years he started pointing birds, quail and pheasants. I and always wished I'd gotten a puppy out of him but it wasn't to be.

I'm thinking of getting a smaller dog but not until I'm totally retired.
 
Umberto said:
"I have more guns than I can shoot and not all I want." I think that's how that saying goes.

My favorite rifle and the one I shoot the most is a Ruger #1 25/06 with varmit barrel. You know about my .300 Win.

I have Browning's and Model 12's like you have CZ's. I'm ashamed to say I have no idea how many shotguns I have. When I travel to hunt pheasants I usually take a half dozen and use a different one every day, depending on the weather conditions. I'm not afraid to loan them as long as I'm there, too. My dedicated duck and goose gun is a H&K Camo Lion but also have 2 3" B-25's and a BSS I use, too. I'm looking for a quality single barrel trap gun and I'll be happy.
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Love them M12 Winchesters too. I have three of them, a pre war trap, a military riot/with Cutts compensator, and a field gun with a very low serial number.

My Pheasant gun for longer ranges is a M3200 Remington special trap. Used to be full and full, but the lower tube is opened up slightly to improved/modified. For Steel shot only area's I have an Italian Marrochi with 3" chambers and a chome bore...

Ya gottta come hunting some time.:biggrin: We fainally have some birds to hunt..

Regards, Kirk
 
I had a 3200 Skeet and sent it in to Remington for Competition wood and they put the most gorgeous wood on it you ever saw. A guy I knew wanted it and I doubled my money but now wished I'd never of done that. It was my pheasant gun and really did well with it. I've not found another. I heard the sporting clays guys are buying up the 3", trap, and pigeon guns. I never see them at the gun show anymore.

I'm happy with my B-25 3" F/F, though.

We should take this private but I have to fix dinner in a few.
 
Welcome to here, John.
Glad you found it.

Enjoy the many forums in which you have interests.
You are really cut out for a forum like this.

My nearly 7 ft tall, friend.

Jeepers! :yum:
 
I have a Browning over and under skeet made in Belgium. The man who owned it lived at the beach and kept it in a closet. When he passed his son brought it to my husband. It was a mess but I could hold it steady. At 6' with my long arms most rifles are too heavy for me. I talked him into buying it for me. We took it to a hobby gunsmith to see what he could do. Did not recognise the gun when he gave it back to us. He charged only $20 because he loved working on a magnificent old piece.
 
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