Back after a long absence

Doc Hoy · August 17, 2018, 06:16 AM

This thread will add nothing to any of the discussions ongoing and may well be removed, which I would completely understand.

I have been away from the forum since kitty was a cat. But I had the occasion to post yesterday and I just wanted to remark how nice it is to see some of the members handles, those I remember.

I retired from University and started a food service business about four years ago and it takes all of my time.

I clean, exercise and lubricate my pistols and rifles but none have been fired for more than three years.

Some of you will remember (I hope, fondly) my handle and some of the contributions I made.

Anyway, Howdy

Tnx,

Doc

**4V50 Gary** · August 17, 2018, 11:16 AM

Welcome back DocHoy.

noelf2 · August 17, 2018, 11:43 AM

I was wondering where you runnoft to! Welcome back Doc.

OutlawJoseyWales · August 17, 2018, 01:56 PM

Welcome back Doc, we've been missing you. Sometime this year, someone posted a link to your whereabouts and told what you were doing.
Everytime I see a Dade City gun show sign I think of you on this page.

OJW

Doc Hoy · August 17, 2018, 03:27 PM

for the warm welcome.

Bishop Creek · August 17, 2018, 03:44 PM

Great to see you back Doc! I still use one of your Walker loading lever retainer clips.

Doc Hoy · August 17, 2018, 04:07 PM

I think that given the time to make those clips from either brass or steel, I was getting about a buck and a quarter an hour.

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Which is about twice what I am worth.

bedbugbilly · August 17, 2018, 05:09 PM

Hi Doc! Good to hear from you again. I saw where you and your wife had started a restaurant and if I was anywhere near, I'd surly stop in and have a cup of coffee and whatever the day's special is as I'm sureties' good! Surly miss your posts but things change as we get older, new pursuits after retirement but just remember you are fondly remembered by many! Our best to you always and hopefully you'll be able to make some smoke at some point along the line. Best wished to you and your wife and for success in whatever your undertakings are!

Jim

Doc Hoy · August 17, 2018, 06:01 PM

Yes....Food service business is doing okay. Staying extremely busy with it. And having a lot of fun.

Fingers McGee · August 17, 2018, 06:35 PM

Great to hear from you Doc. Welcome back. Don't be a stranger.

Doc Hoy · August 17, 2018, 07:55 PM

Still very busy with food trucks, restaurants, catering and such. I am going to make a concerted effort to read and join in the posts.

Hellgate · August 17, 2018, 09:54 PM

Doc,
Glad to see your name back up in lights. The food service business is a tough one & I can see how it would occupy all of you. Glad you were gainfully (we hope) busy and not out due to sickness like so many. Welcome back to the world.

TemboTusk · August 17, 2018, 10:21 PM

Welcome back! I see you failed at retirment!!! Hard to sit still and do nothing. Good luck with the business!

Stormson · August 18, 2018, 12:48 AM

Hiya Doc!

Nope I wasnt here when you where, but when I first started in BP I read EVERYTHING... Recognize ya nic from some of ya great earlier posts and glad to see ya back though!

Sure hope ya get a break to give those smokepoles a decent workout soon! I know what its like having intermittent range time.. sucks big time...

Anyway... Look forward to anything ya have to add, and glad to meet ya!

Buck twenty five an hour huh? Hmm... If I ever get a Walker Ill probably hit ya up LoL!

Beagle333 · August 18, 2018, 03:38 AM

Welcome back Doc! I hope that you do get to hang around from time to time here. Your contributions are very valuable and your knowledge of the workings of the six shooters really made a difference to me when I was trying to learn how to keep mine shooting and even improve them as well.

Doc Hoy · August 18, 2018, 04:15 AM

Thanks all a ya.

**4V50 Gary** · August 18, 2018, 06:39 AM

I'm going to have to make my own flapping lower Walker jaw fixer. Time to get out the micrometer.

denster · August 18, 2018, 09:35 AM

Welcome back Doc! From another failed retiree.

Tidewater_Kid · August 18, 2018, 10:59 AM

Welcome back Doc! My love of Springfield Trapdoors came from reading your posts. I still am having fun with them thanks to you.

Doc Hoy · August 18, 2018, 07:46 PM

Many thanks friends.

August 17, 2018, 06:16 AM	#1
Doc Hoy Senior Member Join Date: October 24, 2008 Location: Naples, Fl Posts: 5,440	Back after a long absence This thread will add nothing to any of the discussions ongoing and may well be removed, which I would completely understand. I have been away from the forum since kitty was a cat. But I had the occasion to post yesterday and I just wanted to remark how nice it is to see some of the members handles, those I remember. I retired from University and started a food service business about four years ago and it takes all of my time. I clean, exercise and lubricate my pistols and rifles but none have been fired for more than three years. Some of you will remember (I hope, fondly) my handle and some of the contributions I made. Anyway, Howdy Tnx, Doc __________________ Seek truth. Relax. Take a breath.

August 17, 2018, 11:16 AM	#2
4V50 Gary Staff Join Date: November 2, 1998 Location: Colorado Posts: 21,831	Welcome back DocHoy. __________________ Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt. *Molon Labe!*

August 17, 2018, 11:43 AM	#3
noelf2 Senior Member Join Date: April 14, 2008 Location: Stuart, VA Posts: 2,473	I was wondering where you runnoft to! Welcome back Doc. __________________ Liberty and freedom often offends those who understand neither.

August 17, 2018, 03:27 PM	#5
Doc Hoy Senior Member Join Date: October 24, 2008 Location: Naples, Fl Posts: 5,440	Thanks old friends for the warm welcome. __________________ Seek truth. Relax. Take a breath.

August 17, 2018, 04:07 PM	#7
Doc Hoy Senior Member Join Date: October 24, 2008 Location: Naples, Fl Posts: 5,440	Talk about manpower intensive! I think that given the time to make those clips from either brass or steel, I was getting about a buck and a quarter an hour. . . . Which is about twice what I am worth. __________________ Seek truth. Relax. Take a breath.

August 17, 2018, 01:56 PM	#4
OutlawJoseyWales Senior Member Join Date: August 18, 2010 Location: Florida Posts: 237	Welcome back Doc, we've been missing you. Sometime this year, someone posted a link to your whereabouts and told what you were doing. Everytime I see a Dade City gun show sign I think of you on this page. OJW

August 17, 2018, 03:44 PM	#6
Bishop Creek Senior Member Join Date: March 20, 2011 Posts: 566	Great to see you back Doc! I still use one of your Walker loading lever retainer clips.

August 17, 2018, 05:09 PM	#8
bedbugbilly Senior Member Join Date: November 19, 2009 Posts: 3,287	Hi Doc! Good to hear from you again. I saw where you and your wife had started a restaurant and if I was anywhere near, I'd surly stop in and have a cup of coffee and whatever the day's special is as I'm sureties' good! Surly miss your posts but things change as we get older, new pursuits after retirement but just remember you are fondly remembered by many! Our best to you always and hopefully you'll be able to make some smoke at some point along the line. Best wished to you and your wife and for success in whatever your undertakings are! Jim __________________ If a pair of '51 Navies were good enough for Billy Hickok, then a single Navy on my right hip is good enough for me . . . besides . . . I'm probably only half as good as he was anyways. Hiram's Rangers Badge #63

August 17, 2018, 06:01 PM	#9
Doc Hoy Senior Member Join Date: October 24, 2008 Location: Naples, Fl Posts: 5,440	Thanks 3Bs Yes....Food service business is doing okay. Staying extremely busy with it. And having a lot of fun. __________________ Seek truth. Relax. Take a breath.

August 17, 2018, 06:35 PM	#10
Fingers McGee Senior Member Join Date: March 19, 2008 Location: High & Dry in Missouri Ozarks Posts: 2,113	Great to hear from you Doc. Welcome back. Don't be a stranger. __________________ Fingers (Show Me MO smoke) McGee - AKA Man of Many Colts - Alter ego of Diabolical Ken; SASS Regulator 28564-L-TG; Rangemaster and stage writer extraordinaire; Frontiersman, Pistoleer, NRA Endowment Life, NMLRA, SAF, CCRKBA, STORM 327, SV115; Charter member, Central Ozarks Western Shooters Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision see things as they are, not as they should be. Ambrose Bierce

August 17, 2018, 07:55 PM	#11
Doc Hoy Senior Member Join Date: October 24, 2008 Location: Naples, Fl Posts: 5,440	Thanks Fingers Still very busy with food trucks, restaurants, catering and such. I am going to make a concerted effort to read and join in the posts. __________________ Seek truth. Relax. Take a breath.

August 17, 2018, 09:54 PM	#12
Hellgate Senior Member Join Date: November 18, 2010 Location: Orygun Posts: 869	Doc, Glad to see your name back up in lights. The food service business is a tough one & I can see how it would occupy all of you. Glad you were gainfully (we hope) busy and not out due to sickness like so many. Welcome back to the world. __________________ With over 15 perCUSSIN' revolvers, I've been called the Imelda Marcos of cap & ball. SASS#3302 (Life), SASS Regulator, NRA (Life), Dirty Gamey Bastards #129 Wolverton Mtn. Peacekeepers (WA), former Orygun Cowboy (Ranger, Posse from Hell)

August 17, 2018, 10:21 PM	#13
TemboTusk Senior Member Join Date: June 30, 2012 Location: Anaheim, CA Posts: 139	Welcome back! I see you failed at retirment!!! Hard to sit still and do nothing. Good luck with the business! __________________ ...You will experience a giant “BOOM” and will disappear into a cloud of flame, smoke and debris. It will be awesome! www.TemboTusk.com

August 18, 2018, 12:48 AM	#14
Stormson Senior Member Join Date: February 11, 2014 Location: Mountains of SouthWest VA. Posts: 193	Hiya Doc! Nope I wasnt here when you where, but when I first started in BP I read EVERYTHING... Recognize ya nic from some of ya great earlier posts and glad to see ya back though! Sure hope ya get a break to give those smokepoles a decent workout soon! I know what its like having intermittent range time.. sucks big time... Anyway... Look forward to anything ya have to add, and glad to meet ya! Buck twenty five an hour huh? Hmm... If I ever get a Walker Ill probably hit ya up LoL!

August 18, 2018, 03:38 AM	#15
Beagle333 Senior Member Join Date: January 7, 2012 Location: Auburn, AL. Posts: 2,332	Welcome back Doc! I hope that you do get to hang around from time to time here. Your contributions are very valuable and your knowledge of the workings of the six shooters really made a difference to me when I was trying to learn how to keep mine shooting and even improve them as well. __________________ . . . Have a Colt and a smile.

August 18, 2018, 04:15 AM	#16
Doc Hoy Senior Member Join Date: October 24, 2008 Location: Naples, Fl Posts: 5,440	Thanks all a ya. __________________ Seek truth. Relax. Take a breath.

August 18, 2018, 06:39 AM	#17
4V50 Gary Staff Join Date: November 2, 1998 Location: Colorado Posts: 21,831	I'm going to have to make my own flapping lower Walker jaw fixer. Time to get out the micrometer. __________________ Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt. *Molon Labe!*

August 18, 2018, 09:35 AM	#18
denster Senior Member Join Date: April 24, 2010 Location: Ohio Posts: 581	Welcome back Doc! From another failed retiree.

August 18, 2018, 10:59 AM	#19
Tidewater_Kid Senior Member Join Date: July 3, 2005 Location: Alabama Posts: 925	Welcome back Doc! My love of Springfield Trapdoors came from reading your posts. I still am having fun with them thanks to you.

August 18, 2018, 07:46 PM	#20
Doc Hoy Senior Member Join Date: October 24, 2008 Location: Naples, Fl Posts: 5,440	Again.... Many thanks friends. __________________ Seek truth. Relax. Take a breath.

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