Recent content by ShootingArts

A pair of 84's certainly isn't bad! Certainly far better than I have ever done. I have probably set a high number in games in a row won but I was usually gambling and trying to keep the other player on the table. My race is run and I will never see 84. At a guess I might have ran about half...

If you can't trust them they aren't friends, they are acquaintances. I think I have said it in this very thread, I thoroughly enjoyed the company of the con men and shysters. I never made the mistake they were friends though. Some tried to get over on me for years, they hated thinking there was...

I rode a little bit of offroad motorcycle just playing. My brother had left a 350 Harley behind when he joined the army. One day I was jumping a half height levee after watching Evel Knievel in a movie. Thought it was pretty cool using the near side of the levee as a ramp and the far side as a...

Never been a smoker so I just adjusted my beer intake. An extra beer now and then to make up for no cigarette time! Hu

Don't feel too bad. I had a one ton truck. Put it in front of a friend's house on the highway to sell. Somebody he knew slightly wanted to test drive it. The test drive was closer to ten miles, he went by some truck scales. Left it and the keys there. Since he left keys and all they told me I...

Most of my gambling was done in a fairly small loop, less than a hundred miles from home, so I tended to know how the tables played. It might be a strange table but it was the same brand and in the same room conditions so it upped the odds of making a kick or bank off of a point. It wasn't a...

I used to play the points in general a bit. The working area is a lot bigger than most think. The shot into the point of a side pocket and across to the far corner pocket isn't nearly as hard as it seems. One of those things I might spend five or ten minutes a session practicing just so I don't...

Doesn't matter the huggers that did look mighty fine then no doubt are blue haired old ladies. I was thinking about some girls that were mighty fine in the sixties and seventies, if still kicking they probably look a wee bit different! Ran into a little girl from those days. She had not only...

I don't know where you got "icing" from. The carb had a cracked throttle body and the new one hadn't came in yet. Still timed in third with almost no practice. Had a big wing on that late model in those days. A bit more wing than I needed with the mid engine. The back of the wing was even with...

Every year a bullseye pistol shooter came to the range and practiced all day every day for two weeks. He said by that time the gun fired when the sights were on the bullseye, no thought involved! I did my thinking before the starting buzzer myself. A typical stage for one match was six shots...

A quick sad story: I built a new car. A '67 Camaro, big block chevy that was basically mid engine after stretching the rules to the limit! Several years in the build and about ten thousand, a lot of money then and over twice what the car cost new. First night out I had a carburetor acting up and...

Yeah, I forgot about the special carts Diamond uses. Speaking of noises, they put mikes on the players chests at a video taped event. The mikes were right where most players chalked and turned up high. Sounded like a gravel crusher! There are ball returns and ball returns. Some are annoying as...

The class actions I have been involved with the lawyers got all the money. Hundreds of thousands total. Close to a thousand I was burned. After a few years the members of the class action lawsuit were sent a letter. Send reams of documentation and they would send you a five or ten dollar coupon...

You could get out a hammer and chisel and write this on a rock! Few top players are good teachers, particularly in their competitive years. It takes a different mindset, almost a different personality. In threads where it is relevant many people hold on to the belief that they aren't going to...

I don't know but here are my suspicions. Drop pocket tables are quicker to set up and take down. Drop pocket tables never get a ball hung up in a runway either! Just as an extra, easier for old farts to retrieve balls from drop pocket tables than from ball return tables. Hu