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I used to be able to hurt the ears of people for a few tables around. Problem was it hurt my ears too! I had a half or three-quarter speed break that almost always pocketed balls so I rarely used a full power break. Even now if I use a full power break the first couple of balls tend to hit a...

My stroke was smooth as silk in my dreams and I never missed a ball. I was a one trick pony as a general rule. People played cards better, fooseball, pinball, air hockey I could usually hold my own at but didn't dominate. However, on a pool and most particularly a snooker table, not even...

True Dat! Any action you got after drawing the big ball was gonna be the best in the place, maybe somebody they called in. You draw that big ball and people would gather around to watch too. If you drew that thing three feet or more and got shape you were announcing you were something special...

I liked the big ball. I have heard some top players did too. It was the eight hundred pound gorilla on the table. It could give a level of cue ball control that was sick! You could squeeze past a ball with it and the ball would rock out and back leaving the cue ball locked up where jumping was...

I was about fifteen when I started reloading too. Remember the six dollar Lee set-ups? One of those, a seventeen dollar powder scale because I didn't trust the scoops, and I was in business! Later I had two Dillon 550B's one set up for small primer and one for large. Cranked out a lot of the...

Damn, never thought there was something I could help you with. I could go through half of that for you like it was pocket change, take the strain off your mind. If the money still doesn't seem to be going fast enough I will introduce you to my ex! Now about the practice and how many balls...

Funny, I was watching Deano in a Matt Helm last night. He was driving a sixties T-bird that would flash messages across the back of the car. Those huge tail lights would flash messages corner to corner when he spoke into a mike. I couldn't help thinking we could do that now! Hu

Bear in mind that I don't know jack about climbing but from what I gathered he was free climbing but he had rope so he could climb without his supplies getting in the way or unbalancing him. He had reached the top then was rappelling down to his supplies. I think the plan was to spend the night...

Reminds me of flying Delta. They started off as a crop dusting company in the Mississippi delta and they are still flying some of those planes! I got on a Delta in Dallas bound for New Orleans. Last leg of a trip to Hawaii. I happened to get a seat over the wing and once we were in the air I...

I played my way through college. It was a damned brutal three weeks! About prices, around LSU a draft beer was a dime to a quarter in a twelve to sixteen ounce cup. LSU and the cops put the heat on places having nickel beer nights, said it encouraged overdrinking. Who would have thought it...

Always wondered why they called the over/under rifle and shotgun combo's drillings but not an over/under shotgun. I always kinda wanted one and had I got the right six numbers I might have. I did own a few over/under shotguns and the last one was great. Not expensive, a Browning, but it fit me...

I hope that thing has a bayonet mount, wouldn't want to be unprepared! Hu

One of those guys just fooled himself in Yosemite. He made it to the top then was moving supplies. They think he rappelled further than he had rope which I have to admit must have caused a cartoonish "oh she-eee-it" moment on the way down. Hu

Moving the grip hand forward and shortening your stroke is another option. I call it bunting and playing almost always on nine foot tables I find the easiest way to adjust to seven footers is to bunt. I humbled a short track specialist with my cue ball control, finishing the session with a...

Speaking of breaks and things that annoy me, smoke breaks. When it isn't specified I have seen players take multiple smoke breaks in a single match, usually to try to slow the other player's roll while regrouping themselves. Restroom breaks for biological functions are what they are. To ice the...

Funny thing, most people don't realize that snooker is more like bar table pool than a nine foot table. You get down in the killing field and you are playing on a three by six area the vast amount of time. Then when you run out of reds you usually run the same "drill" on the number balls, they...

Many many years ago I found a table that always had cheap action going, twenty-four/seven. One of the players was Joe. Old Joe or Gentleman Joe in recognition of the old sport coat he wore. He might have owned the place. If not he lived nearby or had a bird dog in the place. Every time I came in...

As long as both players are on the same table I don't care about table specs. My opinion, pool corners on a nine foot table should be 4.50" to 4.625". A bit bigger might attract more recreational players, tighter, better players and those with delusions of grandeur. The dimensions shouldn't be...

New gray seemed OK to play on if a bit offputting. It looked dingy by the time it was broken in. Looked due a change when it was two months old. I could play on it, didn't if I could avoid it. With old eyes I favor blue over green. I don't like the look better but I have to admit that I can...

On second thoughts, I think Uncle Phil might be my man! Hu