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No Sh*t VLB?? Dude you are Royalty!! I have spotted another Gibson's still around....can't recall where but as soon as I saw it joked with the wife that we had to move there.

MY folks lived in Kerrville but sadly passed away these last few years. That Gibsons was Mecca for me. I bought my CZ40P pistol there years ago for something like $250.
When we were changing scopes on Dad's CZ rifle I had to break the original rings that were loctited on. We went there thinking what are the odds they would have rings for a CZ. Gun counter guy looked around and said sorry. As we turned to leave I saw a few more rings on a hook and the very last one was for a CZ so I picked them up. As a result Dad got to hunt a few extra years. Epic place.

My sister lived until this year in Center Point right next to the cemetery and on the same road as Camp Verde. They had 20 acres and we hunted white tail and a lot of axis there. She is moving to Medina to be near my nephew- so fricking lucky.

Her husband's grandfather was a very popular old timer and his grandfather before was first sheriff of the county.

Damn, it’s your birthday, thanks for arranging the eclipse, not everybody has the influence to do that 😎

Now…. if you could just pass on a word about the weather……

Supposed to be cloudy here (central Texas). Their selling moon eclipse glasses on Amazon. Why????

Definitely good people there for sure. What's interesting is (at least on my end of the family history), the owners surname is Kemp. Not sure how the Gibson's name came about. I'm sure I'll learn one day, that information predates me by more than a few years.

You and Happy Camper already make your own with Dr Mercola? LOL

Good in you Rio ! And Happy Birthday!!!

Humm. I'm not remembering those declarations for previous solar eclipses.

Gibson’s was a chain discount store down here back in the day. I imagine they just kept the name on the store. I always shopped and bought ammo at the Gibson’s on Burnet road in Austin. Theey sold all their centerfire rifle Norma brand ammo @ $4.97 a box! Regardless of cartridge! 🤣

Yep. Gibson’s was a chain store owned by the Gibson family. It was definitely the best Sporting Goods retailer in the 1960’s and 1970’s, along with all the other stuff they sold. They made Walmart look like schitt.
Unfortunately, Walmart won the chain store wars about 1986 or so.
There’s still a Gibson’s in Weatherford, TX, too. May be a few others in other states, too.
The few current stores left just kept the name “Gibson’s”

They’re not owned by the original family.

Birdwatcher, You can be assured the weather will clear i will send my request in the morning. Rio7

👍🏻 tks

You can put your zip code in to see what the coverage will be in your area...(if any)

https://www.univision.com/especiales/noticias/infografias/2024/eclipse-solar-2024-en/

Thanks Barry.

They’ve reduced the probability of rain here to 10% for tomorrow. Still supposed to be partly cloudy. Eclipse is supposed to be 97% coverage of the sun, here.

Mike, who was the Comanche “Medicine Man” that told the tribe to stare at the sun all day ??? Seems like he was at the 2nd Battle of Adobe Walls ?
And the one that didn’t get along with Quanah Parker, too.

The thought did occur to me that with a couple of Leatherface masks and chain saws you could prank that nice retired couple pretty well 🙂

No worries, they’re from New Jersey, it ain’t like they’ll be packing handguns.

Isa-tai, or “Coyote Droppings” depending on who you ask, the bulletproof medicine guy. Him and Quanah became rivals in tribal elections later on.

Sources have it the Sun Dance was not a traditional Comanche ritual, the radicals tried it that summer in search of spiritual mojo at a time when their world was falling apart, one would guess it was supervised by their northern plains friends ( it can be presumed much of what went on on the Indian side of the Frontier never was told to our guys).

Reports say Quanah wanted to go after the hated Tonkawa who, in addition to scouting for MacKenzie, were still eating people, but he got outvoted and they attacked Adobe Walls instead.

Do ya think T rump will look straight up at the sun without the glasses like in 2017?

Could be, I didn’t have any glasses at all during the total in Oaxaca in 1991, neither did my friend. I can still see pretty good 33 years after the fact. We have since lost touch, last time we talked was maybe 1995, no mention of vision damage on her part either.

No mention of blindness epidemics following eclipses in historic times either. I don’t doubt you can damage your retina if you try but I believe the danger is overblown.