Monday factoid...
 

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:01:06 +0000, John H. wrote:


The 'longest' home run was no more than 650 feet, and that's being most
generous. It was probably less than 550 feet. That's less than 225 yds,
which ain't squat for one who can hit a decent drive. Hell, Lorena
Ochoa, at about 130lbs, regularly pounds them beyond 280 yards.

There's a big difference between a baseball and a golf ball. Although,
I'd still bet on the club.

Monday factoid...
 

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:30:00 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
.. .

I am rethinking - um...attempting to develop a way to effectively say
that I was...er...."incorrect"...no, that's not the word - mistaken -
yeah, mistaken in my belief that I could hit a golf ball further with
a baseball bat than with a golf club.

I'm sure that, Obama like, I can rephrase my original assertion in
such a way that what I was really saying was that I couildn't hit a
golf ball further with a baseball bat than a golf club while not
admitting that I was mistaken about being able to do so leaving the
impression that indeed I could hit a golf ball further with a baseball
bat than a golf club only I can't.

I'll figure it out eventually. :)

You can always have HOPE.

And change.

Let's not forget change.

Monday factoid...
 

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:02:13 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jul 28, 8:01*pm, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:24:00 -0400, DK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"D.Duck" wrote in message
om...
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:18:02 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
om...
Did you know that the artichoke is actually a thistle?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artichoke

I didn't know that.
If you ever tasted one you would be surprised.
I hate atrichokes.

And golf.
Just cuz you can't hit a golf ball further with a baseball bat than I can
with a golf club. 8)

Oh yeah. *Forgot about that.

As much as I like Tom, **this* bet he is gonna lose.

Eisboch

*That's* and interesting wager! *How will the ball be delivered to the
bat? *Tee-ball? *The club will win. *A pitch? *Now you have a challenge!

The 'longest' home run was no more than 650 feet, and that's being most
generous. It was probably less than 550 feet. That's less than 225 yds,
which ain't squat for one who can hit a decent drive. Hell, Lorena Ochoa,
at about 130lbs, regularly pounds them beyond 280 yards.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Nuts with ball games.

I can still group a target at 200 yards, with a .303 brit. Oh yeah,
thats with iron sights too!

Now Tim is speaking my language. :)

Think you could hit a golf ball in flight when it's hit with a
baseball bat? :)

Monday factoid...
 

On Jul 29, 6:41 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:02:13 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jul 28, 8:01 pm, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:24:00 -0400, DK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"D.Duck" wrote in message
om...
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:18:02 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
om...
Did you know that the artichoke is actually a thistle?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artichoke

I didn't know that.
If you ever tasted one you would be surprised.
I hate atrichokes.

And golf.
Just cuz you can't hit a golf ball further with a baseball bat than I can
with a golf club. 8)

Oh yeah. Forgot about that.

As much as I like Tom, *this* bet he is gonna lose.

Eisboch

*That's* and interesting wager! How will the ball be delivered to the
bat? Tee-ball? The club will win. A pitch? Now you have a challenge!

The 'longest' home run was no more than 650 feet, and that's being most
generous. It was probably less than 550 feet. That's less than 225 yds,
which ain't squat for one who can hit a decent drive. Hell, Lorena Ochoa,
at about 130lbs, regularly pounds them beyond 280 yards.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Nuts with ball games.

I can still group a target at 200 yards, with a .303 brit. Oh yeah,
thats with iron sights too!

Now Tim is speaking my language. :)

Think you could hit a golf ball in flight when it's hit with a
baseball bat? :)

Er... maybe, and I dooo mean "maaay-beeeeee" with a 12 ga.

otherwise, I doubt it.

Monday factoid...
 

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:02:13 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jul 28, 8:01 pm, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:24:00 -0400, DK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"D.Duck" wrote in message
...
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:18:02 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
Did you know that the artichoke is actually a thistle?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artichoke
I didn't know that.
If you ever tasted one you would be surprised.
I hate atrichokes.
And golf.
Just cuz you can't hit a golf ball further with a baseball bat than I can
with a golf club. 8)
Oh yeah. Forgot about that.
As much as I like Tom, *this* bet he is gonna lose.
Eisboch
*That's* and interesting wager! How will the ball be delivered to the
bat? Tee-ball? The club will win. A pitch? Now you have a challenge!
The 'longest' home run was no more than 650 feet, and that's being most
generous. It was probably less than 550 feet. That's less than 225 yds,
which ain't squat for one who can hit a decent drive. Hell, Lorena Ochoa,
at about 130lbs, regularly pounds them beyond 280 yards.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -
Nuts with ball games.

I can still group a target at 200 yards, with a .303 brit. Oh yeah,
thats with iron sights too!

Now Tim is speaking my language. :)

Think you could hit a golf ball in flight when it's hit with a
baseball bat? :)


I sure as hell couldn't, but I can hit clays in flight...or even when
they are rolling fast on the ground!

200 yards is a lot farther out than I shoot, since I don't mess around
much with rifles. At the standard pistol range distance of 25 yards,
though, I regularly shoot 4" groups *off-hand* with a 9mm semi-auto, and
if I try hard, I can shoot even tighter groups. At "defensive ranges," I
can do a bellybutton group, which, I suppose, would be the equivalent of
1 MOA with a good rifle at 100 yards!

I've never had an affinity for rifles. Dunno why. When I go out shooting
with my buddies, they usually want to shoot my handguns and I get to
shoot their rifles. Fair trade. My favorite rifle is a Swedish Mauser in
6.5x55 mm. Not much recoil, and damned accurate.

Monday factoid...
 

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:30:00 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
I am rethinking - um...attempting to develop a way to effectively say
that I was...er...."incorrect"...no, that's not the word - mistaken -
yeah, mistaken in my belief that I could hit a golf ball further with
a baseball bat than with a golf club.

I'm sure that, Obama like, I can rephrase my original assertion in
such a way that what I was really saying was that I couildn't hit a
golf ball further with a baseball bat than a golf club while not
admitting that I was mistaken about being able to do so leaving the
impression that indeed I could hit a golf ball further with a baseball
bat than a golf club only I can't.

I'll figure it out eventually. :)
You can always have HOPE.

And change.

Let's not forget change.


Better get used to it...

Monday factoid...
 

Tim wrote:
On Jul 29, 6:41 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:02:13 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jul 28, 8:01 pm, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:24:00 -0400, DK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"D.Duck" wrote in message
...
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:18:02 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
Did you know that the artichoke is actually a thistle?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artichoke
I didn't know that.
If you ever tasted one you would be surprised.
I hate atrichokes.
And golf.
Just cuz you can't hit a golf ball further with a baseball bat than I can
with a golf club. 8)
Oh yeah. Forgot about that.
As much as I like Tom, *this* bet he is gonna lose.
Eisboch
*That's* and interesting wager! How will the ball be delivered to the
bat? Tee-ball? The club will win. A pitch? Now you have a challenge!
The 'longest' home run was no more than 650 feet, and that's being most
generous. It was probably less than 550 feet. That's less than 225 yds,
which ain't squat for one who can hit a decent drive. Hell, Lorena Ochoa,
at about 130lbs, regularly pounds them beyond 280 yards.- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
Nuts with ball games.
I can still group a target at 200 yards, with a .303 brit. Oh yeah,
thats with iron sights too!
Now Tim is speaking my language. :)

Think you could hit a golf ball in flight when it's hit with a
baseball bat? :)

Er... maybe, and I dooo mean "maaay-beeeeee" with a 12 ga.

otherwise, I doubt it.


Could you hit a golfer with a 12 gauge? :)

Monday factoid...
 

On Jul 29, 6:41 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:02:13 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jul 28, 8:01 pm, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:24:00 -0400, DK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"D.Duck" wrote in message
om...
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:18:02 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
om...
Did you know that the artichoke is actually a thistle?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artichoke

I didn't know that.
If you ever tasted one you would be surprised.
I hate atrichokes.

And golf.
Just cuz you can't hit a golf ball further with a baseball bat than I can
with a golf club. 8)

Oh yeah. Forgot about that.

As much as I like Tom, *this* bet he is gonna lose.

Eisboch

*That's* and interesting wager! How will the ball be delivered to the
bat? Tee-ball? The club will win. A pitch? Now you have a challenge!

The 'longest' home run was no more than 650 feet, and that's being most
generous. It was probably less than 550 feet. That's less than 225 yds,
which ain't squat for one who can hit a decent drive. Hell, Lorena Ochoa,
at about 130lbs, regularly pounds them beyond 280 yards.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Nuts with ball games.

I can still group a target at 200 yards, with a .303 brit. Oh yeah,
thats with iron sights too!

Now Tim is speaking my language. :)

Think you could hit a golf ball in flight when it's hit with a
baseball bat? :)

But then again, that would depend on what stage of flight you're
talking about, Tom, after it gets whacked? or while its suspended in
front of you BEFORE it gets "whacked"?

Monday factoid...
 

On Jul 29, 7:03 am, HK wrote:

. My favorite rifle is a Swedish Mauser in
6.5x55 mm. Not much recoil, and damned accurate.

Absolutely! the Ljungman is one of my favorite rifles and the 6.5 is
an all around sweet cartridge.

Monday factoid...
 

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:09:31 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Jul 29, 6:41 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:02:13 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:



On Jul 28, 8:01 pm, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:24:00 -0400, DK wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"D.Duck" wrote in message
om...
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:18:02 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
om...
Did you know that the artichoke is actually a thistle?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artichoke

I didn't know that.
If you ever tasted one you would be surprised.
I hate atrichokes.

And golf.
Just cuz you can't hit a golf ball further with a baseball bat than I can
with a golf club. 8)

Oh yeah. Forgot about that.

As much as I like Tom, *this* bet he is gonna lose.

Eisboch

*That's* and interesting wager! How will the ball be delivered to the
bat? Tee-ball? The club will win. A pitch? Now you have a challenge!

The 'longest' home run was no more than 650 feet, and that's being most
generous. It was probably less than 550 feet. That's less than 225 yds,
which ain't squat for one who can hit a decent drive. Hell, Lorena Ochoa,
at about 130lbs, regularly pounds them beyond 280 yards.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Nuts with ball games.

I can still group a target at 200 yards, with a .303 brit. Oh yeah,
thats with iron sights too!

Now Tim is speaking my language. :)

Think you could hit a golf ball in flight when it's hit with a
baseball bat? :)

But then again, that would depend on what stage of flight you're
talking about, Tom, after it gets whacked? or while its suspended in
front of you BEFORE it gets "whacked"?

Let's say any where along it's flight path.

I ask because I've seen it done - once by a guy with a .325 Winchester
match rifle and another time by the same guy with a .357 revolver.

I don't have the reflexes any more to even think about actually
accomplishing the feat, but back in the day, I wish I had thought of
trying it. :)