L Ross
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All I can say is skin the pig, don't bother scalding and scraping. Make lots of sausage, and don't forget the head cheese and scrapple.
so waht ya doin today?
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That Kimber 30-06 was picked up expressly as a donor for a 7x57. Turns out it really likes the 150 Interlocks, it’s the only bullet we’ve tried. He took an antelope doe with it in October and now this piglet. Last I heard he was looking at the Lilja profile that matches the factory contour to the front of the forend and then straight to the muzzle to give it a slight forward balance. He says no way it’s staying 06, he wants a 7x57
L Ross
Well-Known Member
When I built my dream gun in 1990, I went with a 7x57, but he does realize there aint a spit's worth of difference between 'em doesn't he? I think any hunter could hardly tell the difference from a 6.5x55 to a 7 Remington magnum, with every thing in between, in real life, on real animals.
Ian
Notorious member
LRoss, sounds like a day in heaven to me.
I started in putting the new cylinder head on one of those little pos toy things Jeep calls a "Renegade" today. Fiat engineering still sucks as badly as it always has, SMH. Anyway I'm tired and still not finished. Nice salad and scratch-made chicken Alfredo for supper, migh just have a scotch myself in a bit if the boy stays asleep and the cat in my lap will let me up.
I started in putting the new cylinder head on one of those little pos toy things Jeep calls a "Renegade" today. Fiat engineering still sucks as badly as it always has, SMH. Anyway I'm tired and still not finished. Nice salad and scratch-made chicken Alfredo for supper, migh just have a scotch myself in a bit if the boy stays asleep and the cat in my lap will let me up.
JonB
Halcyon member
Today, I seen a funny statement on another forum, in reference to today's Virus.
"That moment you are worried about the elderly, and you realize you are the elderly."
I replied,
"Today, I had a phone conversation with my 89 yr old Mom. She canceled an eye doctor appointment, because she was worried about her younger Brother (78) who was gonna drive her to the appointment"
"That moment you are worried about the elderly, and you realize you are the elderly."
I replied,
"Today, I had a phone conversation with my 89 yr old Mom. She canceled an eye doctor appointment, because she was worried about her younger Brother (78) who was gonna drive her to the appointment"
Just got a picture of the other side of that Kimber showing the real reason it was purchased for the donor.
He bought it used, wouldn't eject. I replaced the ejector and cleaned out a burr in the slot to get it working. There was about .050 difference in the length of the two ejectors, don't know if the previous owner had gotten rough with it trying to get it to work or what. Anyway, it's getting ready for a new 7x57 barrel and a VX3i 3.5-10 scope.
This makes three Kimbers he has. Classic Select .257 Roberts with better wood than the -06, 308 Classic with the darker wood, and the -06. All under MOA with my handloads. The 150 Interlock load in the 06 wasn't even worked up for this rifle, but for his JC Higgins M50(FN M98 action). Nice set of rifles!
He bought it used, wouldn't eject. I replaced the ejector and cleaned out a burr in the slot to get it working. There was about .050 difference in the length of the two ejectors, don't know if the previous owner had gotten rough with it trying to get it to work or what. Anyway, it's getting ready for a new 7x57 barrel and a VX3i 3.5-10 scope.
This makes three Kimbers he has. Classic Select .257 Roberts with better wood than the -06, 308 Classic with the darker wood, and the -06. All under MOA with my handloads. The 150 Interlock load in the 06 wasn't even worked up for this rifle, but for his JC Higgins M50(FN M98 action). Nice set of rifles!
Mitty38
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Went to a grave side funeral for a dear friend.Motercycle vs drunk driver.
Full deal was planned. But virus.Only flowers was the grave banket.
So grave side small groups of people 6 ft apart from each other. No obit, just invite only.
Preacher reading 23 Psalms from a megaphone 10 feet away from everyone.
No Paul bearers. Everything set up when we got there.
Immediate family of deceased sitting 6 ft from foot of casket, wearing black surgical masks while small groups that came together viewing, one small group at a time. Shouting condolences to the family. One at a time.
Would be comical if it was not so sad.
No gathering after. Just a digital chat room meeting. $20 visa donations into a special account in Lue of the usual thing.
Thing is, I think me buddie would have preferred it that way, he was kind of a strange bird
Full deal was planned. But virus.Only flowers was the grave banket.
So grave side small groups of people 6 ft apart from each other. No obit, just invite only.
Preacher reading 23 Psalms from a megaphone 10 feet away from everyone.
No Paul bearers. Everything set up when we got there.
Immediate family of deceased sitting 6 ft from foot of casket, wearing black surgical masks while small groups that came together viewing, one small group at a time. Shouting condolences to the family. One at a time.
Would be comical if it was not so sad.
No gathering after. Just a digital chat room meeting. $20 visa donations into a special account in Lue of the usual thing.
Thing is, I think me buddie would have preferred it that way, he was kind of a strange bird
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freebullet
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Sorry about your friend, Mitty.
I would prefer no funneral. Would rather folks go do something I'd enjoy. Shoot, hunt, fish go have fun & remember me there.
I would prefer no funneral. Would rather folks go do something I'd enjoy. Shoot, hunt, fish go have fun & remember me there.
Mitty38
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Don't really matter to me, what folks do when I die. Whatever makes the feal better, I guess. Just do not want to see them going broke to do it. That's why we are buying our own plots with opening and closing, then will be getting a stone when that is paid for, and so forth.[/QUOTE]
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Told the family I don’t want a plot in a cemetery. Cremation followed by a family vacation to spread some of the ashes on the mountain we elk hunted on. Maybe some in Wyoming where we hunted antelope. The rest on the old hill pasture where I grew up and spent years happily quail hunting. Who wants to hang around a cemetery with a bunch of dead folks
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
The local gun store's owner and his one employee are BUSY! Yippie, skippy, for the owner!!!
Went there to buy a pound of CFE 223, for Ruger American testing, and two helpers (un-paid volunteers?) were allowing only five people in at a time. No wonder, too. After I was admitted, the four ahead of me were deciding on which gun to buy then finally making a buying decision, or doing the paperwork for their already decision. A young lady bought a SIG P238, one guy was agonizing between a Mini-14 and an AR-15 before settling on the AR, another guy took no more than three minutes to give his nod to a Glock in .45 ACP, another one bought the most butt ugly bull-pup I've ever seen, either in person or in pictures, and paid for it with a very tall stack of cash, but I didn't see what the last guy bought.
Oh, the ammo shelves -- 24' long by 3' high -- were just shy of being empty.
When I left the store, there were four guys standing in line.
The Chinese flu has those who didn't think self-protection was at all important, suddenly changing the views and now having to endure standing in line. I'm thrilled that they are buying guns in California, but what was their ill-logic for not buying one till now?
Wait, I know: they think their neighbors are going to rob their toilet paper . . . but they will still go sleepless while having to wait the 10-days before they can pick up their guns.
Went there to buy a pound of CFE 223, for Ruger American testing, and two helpers (un-paid volunteers?) were allowing only five people in at a time. No wonder, too. After I was admitted, the four ahead of me were deciding on which gun to buy then finally making a buying decision, or doing the paperwork for their already decision. A young lady bought a SIG P238, one guy was agonizing between a Mini-14 and an AR-15 before settling on the AR, another guy took no more than three minutes to give his nod to a Glock in .45 ACP, another one bought the most butt ugly bull-pup I've ever seen, either in person or in pictures, and paid for it with a very tall stack of cash, but I didn't see what the last guy bought.
Oh, the ammo shelves -- 24' long by 3' high -- were just shy of being empty.
When I left the store, there were four guys standing in line.
The Chinese flu has those who didn't think self-protection was at all important, suddenly changing the views and now having to endure standing in line. I'm thrilled that they are buying guns in California, but what was their ill-logic for not buying one till now?
Wait, I know: they think their neighbors are going to rob their toilet paper . . . but they will still go sleepless while having to wait the 10-days before they can pick up their guns.
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Mitty38
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Yep, they were thrown in with a lot of their stuff. However I did not get one when I ordered my. 311 sizer. I figure They must have stopped that within the last year or 2.
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L Ross
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Weather forecast has rain in it for the next couple of days, so even though I could still feel effects of cutting, lifting, and splitting wood yesterday, I figured we had better cut another tree today. I had my beady eye on an 80 ft. red elm that the bark fell off of last year. For whatever reason this was never a good morel tree. The wind was right, and I had one narrow lane to drop it without damaging a bunch of other trees. Dropped it right on the money, except, it got hung up. Drats! Well I got the tractor and a long chain and cleared a trail through the prickly ash and after a couple of tugs it came crashing down between two old t-posts and only taking a 6" limb off a black locust on the way down. Boy it is nice and dry and sound as a dollar. Didn't split too bad, a little stringy but not miserable.
Got a bunch of it blocked, split, and stack yet this afternoon. Sue and I washed down some analgesics with a dark and stormy and are in serious relax mode right now.
I wanted to shoot this evening while it was nice and the wind had dropped, but I just don't have the energy and my arms have the strength of used pipe cleaners right now.
Got a bunch of it blocked, split, and stack yet this afternoon. Sue and I washed down some analgesics with a dark and stormy and are in serious relax mode right now.
I wanted to shoot this evening while it was nice and the wind had dropped, but I just don't have the energy and my arms have the strength of used pipe cleaners right now.
Gary
SE Kansas
Had something to do with hazmat stuff.