so waht ya doin today?

[Intheshop]

Ordered my new "cast bullet" hat off ebabe.

"PING" ...... the sound of a well tuned cast rifle rig,if anyone asks.

First time I noticed it was 15? years ago.... bought a 308 R700VS,the one with the HS precision stock..... for 200$ and two scopes from a bud who was going through a "big D". I bought it over the phone. Anyway, the throat was/is so long you can't find it with a 200g jb. I bought it for the action,so wasn't all that upset..... just helping my buddy out.

So as a last ditch effort before attacking it with a brrl vise I loaded up a 311041.....shazam. Match made in heaven,bragging groups first time out with 4759...... off a Harris bipod,pretty much free recoil @1800 fps.

The thing that stood out,after wiping the $hit eating grin off was the.....

PIIIIIIING that the Harris leg springs made at the moment of cutting one loose. Nowadays I hear the FP spring PING on loads that are in tune. Sounds shloppy,coming through the plastic stocks if the load is off.... hard to describe when,if you shot it and know what to listen for,it's pretty durn obvious.

 

[Bret4207]

Steam rolling off all the sugar houses in the area now. Cold night, warmer days bring on the sap run. It's one of those things I was always going to get into but never did. My sugar bush is mall but I imagine it would be more work than I could handle. But it means spring is coming, just another 6 weeks!

 

[RBHarter]

Bought the sawmill , Ms landed a job , I can work all the weekends I want for cash too ......atll kind of cut into me getting anything else done . Math says that the mill should pay for itself someplace between the stair case and kitchen island base . Ms will be a confirmation dietary consultant to a Dr and a kitchen manager at a resurrected breakfast/lunch house that's been off line about 10 yr . They need a remodel guy for 10 cabins so I'm looking good there for a yr or so , they hired my Mom to pull wire and do plugs and switches and as a helper for me ....... Hell of a thing .

 

[Todd M]

I miss boiling sap. Was a lot of work, but nothing quite like sitting round a wood fired evaporator and shooting the evening/night with old friends. Buddy I grew up with is one of the largest if not the largest syrup producer in Indiana.

 

[fiver]

boiling sap?
tree sap is okay for fluxing a pot of alloy and for rubbing on the handle of stuff you want to hang on to.
it can even be thickened to fix a hole in a canoe.
other'n that it just makes a mess of your stuff.

 

[Pistolero]

Yes, I went to Clark Brothers many years ago with a friend of my father. I drove
past it maybe 15 years ago, but didn't stop. A real old school gun store.

And as to boiling sap - I did that for about 15 years with a friend, but he had to give it
up when he hit 82, just too difficult to get up and down the hills with the buckets. Who
knew that you can make maple syrup in Kansas? He had to move to an assisted living
home in another city to be near family and I have lost track of him.

Bill

 

[freebullet]

I'd want the hat to say THWACK! Sound I hear most when cast hits our wood backed paper targets.


Work, work, & more work. I have come to the realization that I hate & should eliminate from my life all dually trucks.

 

[CZ93X62]

I have come to the realization that I hate & should eliminate from my life all dually trucks.

Twice-wheels have their place, I am sure. Just NOT on my life. The 11th Commandment states categorically that 80% of all flat tires occurring on any vehicle so-equipped shall occur on the inside-dual tires, though they make up only 33-1/3% of the wheels on said vehicle. If that isn't Our Creator chastening us for our vanities, I don't know what is.

Two days later, I am still a little peeved at how LAMELY I ran the P-226 during quals on Friday morning. No flippin' doubt--I need to shoot more. A LOT MORE. The 686 x 4" went very well--those revolver skills seem a lot less perishable than the Kabuki Theater bit required to make the bottom-feeders do their magic. Targeting was good, hits were where they needed to be......just not smooth and "2nd nature" like they should be (and were).

 

[Pistolero]

Yep. Shooting skills are perishable. I plan on spending more time on the range this summer
than the last few.

Bill

 

[Brad]

I would like to shoot but this is the road I usually take to that range.

 

[Pistolero]

Yikes! I was able to shoot in my back field today, the ground is just barely good enough to walk on
and not leave muddy footprints in a grassy field.

Bill

 

[Brad]

I have never seen flooding this bad or widespread in this area. The Missouri has flooded worse but not the other rivers in the area at the same time. Numerous towns are cut off by road with bridges and highways washed out.

 

[462]

Yep, record snowfall is usually followed by record flooding.

 

[Brad]

And a rapid thaw with ice dams doesn’t help matters. We melted better than a foot in a week. Some of that melt was assisted by 3/4” or so of rain. Frozen ground doesn’t soak up any moisture either.
Luckily the light snowfall in the upper reaches of the MO basin means no real fear of excess water from upstream.

 

[freebullet]

What most don't realize is that Nebraska has the most river miles in the union, at over 79,000 river miles in the state iirc.

Also, I'm blocked from a couple jobs without a 3 hour detour. It'll come down quick.

 

[fiver]

our water pretty much ends up in the great salt lake.

the water on the north side of the highway runs north into the snake river.
weird to have a stream shoot straight south towards a river then make a right hand turn to the west drop down a canyon and make another right hand turn to the north [when it could continue on to the south and catch that same river again] then turn back to the west 80 miles later but that's how it works.

it's double weird to have the big river run north towards that stream [from a natural lake] then bend around a mountain to the south, but the two just don't meet up.

 

[462]

Our fishing and camping reservoir/lake is still releasing more water than is flowing in from the last rains, and now the Sierra snow melt.

 

[Ian]

My range awas perfect today. Calm, sunny, dry, 65 degrees, and unoccupied. I spent the day trying to loosen my fillings with a hammer drill.

 

[CZ93X62]

Every day of the last 4 days has been postcard gorgeous here. Temps into the high 70s, stuff kinda drying out a little. More rain set for Wednesday through Saturday, though.

 

[fiver]

bleh.
it did get up to about 45 down in the valley today, I remembered to take the flannel jacket off when I started sweating.
I think we just barely broke 32 up here in some spots, it was getting a little chilly when the sun went down while I was unloading the truck.