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Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
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Maybe but who knows. I was quoted for the job and that was the price... I do know my 6.0 is a special version of the 6.0. It takes different Plugs and every oil change is 25$ more cause of the special filter & extra wt of oil. (7 wts) I know its a torque monster. I go up all but the steepest grades never shifting maintaining curse speed easily. I was pleasantly surprised with the trip. The first time I towed my buddies 26' Donzi fishing boat 2x a year. He used to use his pops Tahoe with a smaller 305 and it labored the whole trip especially on hills. It also gets about 12mpg towing or empty...

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Ive been told they are good towing engines. Problem is mine doesn't run well enough to tell yet! The GM is a single cab with an undersized flat bed that could be modified to a serviceable unit for towing as I really want/need a deck over trailer, be it pintle hitch. goose neck or 5th wheel. I bought if for Gordon before he turned to the Dark Side, now I have 2 trucks.The Ford is a crew cab and rides much, much better but has the 351. It tows okay, but it's not perfect either. choices man! Too many choices, and all carry upsides and downsides!
 
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Snakeoil

Snakeoil

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Well, I had to spring for new spark plugs for the outboard on the boat. The plugs in the engine were only 29 years old. Nothing seems to last anymore.

Developed a skip as I was headed across the lake to see some friends of my wife who rented a place on the east shore. Turned around and went back rather than find myself on the other side of the lake with a dead engine. I had a spare set of NGK plugs that acted up shortly after putting them in back when I originally bought them. Took out the originals and put the NGKs in and it ran better, but skipped at idle. But it was good enough to go visiting.

Did a search for local autoparts stores with the right plugs. Hard to find since they are surface fire and made specifically for 2-stroke outboards. Found Champions (which I prefer) at O’Reilly’s in Bridgeport and just came back in from putting them in the engine. So much easier to work on big outboards than those friggin’ I/O units. Might take it for a test ride after we eat dinner.

Still pisses me off that I only got 29 years out of those OEM plugs. They were Champions, too.
 
oscarflytyer

oscarflytyer

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Gun Show (table vendor) weekend. Scored! Traded into a 1916 Winchester 92 in 44 WCF. Marked US TVA and a (rack) number on stock. No paperwork, but don't care. I think I may be able to document the TVA ownership when I see the guy I know has a Mdl 12 and M1 Carbine that were TVA stock. Regardless. Thrilled with the rifle, one of my fav calibers, in great shape for 105 yrs old and can't wait to shoot it!
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
oscarflytyer said:
Gun Show (table vendor) weekend. Scored! Traded into a 1916 Winchester 92 in 44 WCF. Marked US TVA and a (rack) number on stock. No paperwork, but don't care. I think I may be able to document the TVA ownership when I see the guy I know has a Mdl 12 and M1 Carbine that were TVA stock. Regardless. Thrilled with the rifle, one of my fav calibers, in great shape for 105 yrs old and can't wait to shoot it!
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For use by TVA security guards?
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Had kind of an unusual day. I got her dog pen done but it was just too hot for me to do much in the way of physical labor outside. So I decided to file several years of documents I had scattered around related to my Town Board job. Stumbled onto one document that indicates the town has a substantial amount of $$$ in an investment that I can't find anywhere else in any of my paperwork going back several years. I had seen the document before at some point, (it was handed out to us by the book keeper), and asked the guy who's supposed to know everything about the $$$ end of things about it. He claimed we had nothing like it. I don't think anything crooked is going on, but I think this has slipped through the cracks somehow. It's a crap load of $ IMO, but probably small potatoes to bigger towns. Anyway, at least now I can show him the paper and see if he's aware of the account. It's got to go somewhere and matures next year, so it could have been been out there for 20-30 years and no one who was on the board then is here now. Be interesting to see how that one plays out in an open meeting!
 
Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Well I went over to a old gun show buddy who happens to be a Savage collector, of course he adds Winchester levers, Martini’s, Marlins, in there as well, but Phil always has some interesting goodies around on his table. Last show I asked if he had any 38-55 brass at home that he’d part with. Calls me up a couple days later and says he has 2 boxes of CIL brass. Well I’m interested in that as CIL brass as it is the long 2.120 length brass. I have one box so I thought I’d add this to my 38-55 stash. Well I’ve never been to Phil’s house, unfortunately I was on a time crunch so just had a moment to explore his reloading gun chamber. What a mess! I say that in a good way. Cases of primers, a bunch of 4 & 8 pound jugs covered with 1 pound jugs thrown on top, if I had to guess probably 300 plus pounds of powder, tons of brass. Shelves stacked with all manner of reloading components and equipment. 3 safes of long arms on and on.
Anyway he has the 38-55 brass 20 once fired, 20 new and a almost new LBT 350 250 LCFN 2 cavity mold with RCBS handles. Said $100 for the mold with handles. When it was all said and done for $140 I got mold with handles, 40 long 38-55 pieces, and he threw in 2 boxes of 348 Winchester brass to sweeten the deal.
I’m happy, but the 350-250 bullet might be a challenge to work in the 348 for COL. Will have to see, I’m thinking that it will use all the .450 length of the neck and then some. We’ll see.. couple of pictures.

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Mitty38

Mitty38

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Borrowed one of those Amazon electric coolers, for my room. From my brother. Don't get stuff ice cold, but keeps it about 50 degrees. So cold enough to mAke a difference.
Now I do not have to wait for hours to get a cool drink of water, or get an aid to bring one of my sodas from the community fridge. Plus I can now store a few more healthy things to snack on. Like baby carrots, cheese and deer summer sausage.
This will make my quarentine time, and the rest of stay here, much more bearable.
 
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Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Glaciers said:
Well I went over to a old gun show buddy who happens to be a Savage collector, of course he adds Winchester levers, Martini’s, Marlins, in there as well, but Phil always has some interesting goodies around on his table. Last show I asked if he had any 38-55 brass at home that he’d part with. Calls me up a couple days later and says he has 2 boxes of CIL brass. Well I’m interested in that as CIL brass as it is the long 2.120 length brass. I have one box so I thought I’d add this to my 38-55 stash. Well I’ve never been to Phil’s house, unfortunately I was on a time crunch so just had a moment to explore his reloading gun chamber. What a mess! I say that in a good way. Cases of primers, a bunch of 4 & 8 pound jugs covered with 1 pound jugs thrown on top, if I had to guess probably 300 plus pounds of powder, tons of brass. Shelves stacked with all manner of reloading components and equipment. 3 safes of long arms on and on.
Anyway he has the 38-55 brass 20 once fired, 20 new and a almost new LBT 350 250 LCFN 2 cavity mold with RCBS handles. Said $100 for the mold with handles. When it was all said and done for $140 I got mold with handles, 40 long 38-55 pieces, and he threw in 2 boxes of 348 Winchester brass to sweeten the deal.
I’m happy, but the 350-250 bullet might be a challenge to work in the 348 for COL. Will have to see, I’m thinking that it will use all the .450 length of the neck and then some. We’ll see.. couple of pictures.

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That pic of the CIL box brings back memories. We had lots of CIL ammo and brass back in the day. Good stuff!

Nice haul!
 
Bret4207

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Grey and cooler here this AM, should start raining any minute now and cool things down more. I have to unload all that roofing...
 
Rick

Rick

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Going thru another one of those Bambi deprivation periods over here, haven't seen a one in a couple of weeks now. When I do it will be a doe, a 15 minute drive from John and I have seen maybe 3-4 bucks in the last several years. Somebody needs to tell John's bucks the girls are over here.
 
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richhodg66

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It's always strange to me how thin they look this time of the year. I know part of it is their coats aren't as thick but in Winter time here, we have fat deer. Always amazing to me how thick the fat is one one when I butcher it out. One would think it would be just the opposite.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Been so dry here, not much for them to eat. Food plot dried up a month ago. Plowed it under twice, since then. Need to do it again, before I plant. Want it seeded, before the end of the month. We have precipitation forecasted for the next three days. Thinking of plowing after that event..............ground is almost like cement.
 
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richhodg66

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Here in Kansas, they live in milo and soybeans and then Winter wheat. The deer around here are likely better fed than beef cattle.

It's been dry here too, honestly, I'm glad. We had three years in a row of essentially flood years and it's nice to have a spell where it doesn't rain four inches a day 366 days a year. I have a honey hole tree stand in a big locust on public hunting land. Right on a pathway/funnel point between a feeding area and a bedding area. That tree is normally about 60 yards from the shoreline of the lake, The stand is about 20 feet high, went out after the water receded and the water level had come up to within about 8 feet of the tree stand, so that tree sat under water for the better part of a year. Haven't been back in to check in a while, I hope the tree is still alive after all that.

Another thing it did was kill off all the under brush which then grew back with a vengance and it was too thick to even get in there. Now with this drought, we are set up for serious wild fire danger, I'm surprised it hasn't been a lot worse.
 
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