so waht ya doin today?

[popper]

65 & sunny, range day. CVA BO did pretty good with new scope. 170PB & 2400. A couple of the 'slow' ones too. Then 30/30, 170 PB. More practice next month. She got her Valentine's auto yesterday, spent the afternoon programming everything and sending selfies to all her GFs. Course the garage door openers stopped working so I got to reprogram most this morning.
Edit: maybe call this bragging but GK scored 3 + an assist in a 5:0 HS varsity soccer game last nite. Not bad for a kid who had open heart surgery before 2 weeks old, plumbed wrong. Add an A student.
Got a bunch of friends recovered from the 'covid', She's going to test with Dove vs Hershey chocolate - tell the difference, you're well.
edit again: dropped 312 dia. cast into the chamber of the CVA, tapped a few times and tapped out. Huge and long freebore but same as carbine. Hits the bore @ 308ish, only markings. Gonna need to PC some unsized to shoot. Been shooting cast sized for carbine @ 3085. Should make a difference.
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[Mitty38]

Shoveled the side walks after taking the kid to school today(he forgot to set his alarm).
Bought some upholstery cleaner, in a scrub can. Cleaned the arms on my chair, wife got rust all over them while sorting Coww's for me(of course, they were already getting pretty nasty from me sitting in it after work).
Then went back to bed to get some more sleep for work tonight.
So when I got back up this after noon, noticed the park manager had the roads plowed for the first time ever this year.
So shoveled the sidewalk, and the entrance to my lean too again. Went and bought some salt. Had a quick shower and coffee and on to work.

 

[RBHarter]

Finally got to shoot the 6.5 Japanese .

Went to Mom's today to get some stuff done towards getting the "new" room finished . She wants a cedar wall , reading , lounging , bench/nook and corner shelves . Moved a bunch of stuff around hauled 2 loader buckets out to the burn pile , sawed up the last bits on the trailer , split a few pieces that needed it .

The old 2020 Coats machine wouldn't break the beads on the 18" wheels . It's only good to 17.5 . I fought the inside bead about an hour on a manual breaker then moved to the tractor ........ So I'll be paying someone to swap them ...... I hate that .....

 

[JWFilips]

Finally got to shoot the 6.5 Japanese .

Sure want to hear about that!!
Jim

 

[L Ross]

With the sub-zero cold coming following a storm starting at 3am tonight/tomorrow morning, I decided to go ice fishing. I hadn't gone since 1/21. Fish are very lethargic. Marked lots of them on my Vexilar but teasing them into biting was another matter. Threw back one small one and kept 7. Water has been rising on the Wisconsin River and the woods are flooded in the bottoms with just enough new ice to get back to where I wanted to go. My butt is tired, very tired. A glass of Old Forester and a handful of Peanut M&M's must have gotten burned off today right? I mean 2 miles on snowshoes first, the a hike through the flooded woods dragging a sled a little over a mile?

 

[Hawk]

L. Ross, nice fish. Black crappie?

 

[L Ross]

L. Ross, nice fish. Black crappie?

Yes, good eye!

 

[Hawk]

Good eating! Flaky and tender!

 

[RBHarter]

JW
It's pretty early yet . Found some promise . Need a .272 sizer . Ammohead is going to fix me up there .
The 280473 @122 gr was a disaster sized .378 12" high and that wide .
Yours I had high hopes for , they might be better if I'd checked them .
I'll try that next time . 277-130 @ .277-132 PC .
The NOE 270-140 @.272-150 gr was the best .
Of course it was a blind one charge look for something to work with load set , 5 rounds , 3 bullets .

 

[oscarflytyer]

Shot the new to me 624 6 1/2" 44 SPC today. With new set of Hogue wood grips that didn't beat my hand. And Skeeter load. I love it, and it loves the Skeeter load. Now to see how it does with 15-16.5 gr of 2400 once I get more 429421s cast! This one may become my fav, at least until I run into a 4"! lol!

 

[Todd M]

Emmett,
Do a search for the time sequence, rather than the dates of publication. It all started in the early 1600s with "Sackett", the telling of Barnabas and the reason for his leaving England, and continued with his American story in "To the Far Blue Mountains". After Barnabas, time skips forward seven generations to the mid-1870s and Tell (William Tell), Tyrel, Orrin, Orlando (Lando), Nolan, Logan, etc.

Thriftbooks.com

In my opinion, those first two are the best Sacketts and better than 85% of the rest of his books. Had read them all by the time I was 16. Nowadays I’ll see one in a box and get the urge. Will go through a good handful before the urge wears off.

 

[Todd M]

It is a model 31-1. 2". Serial is earlier in the range - prob mid-60's gun. Locks up TIGHT. couple dings, but nothing bad/sad. The back of the hammer spur is broken off. The floating firing pin is good. I considered just grinding it to a 'hammerless,' least for the time being. Would be fine and PERFECT for pocket carry!

I have no idea what cost and effort is to replace a complete hammer. School me. $? no brainer?

And last, yeah, paying sticker for a 'broken' gun chaps my tail. They DID say they would sell it OTD for $369. And yeah, I know they are desirable. I even tried the 'do you have ammo' - and then told the kid I KNOW you don't! LOL He didn't even know what 32L WAS!

is the consensus that I can't go wrong at $369? And yeah, really a rhetorical ?!!! I know... AND - I have EVERYTHING to load for it!

Keep me from kicking myself for hesitating...

If I was local, you wouldn’t have to worry about it!!

 

[smokeywolf]

Yep.

There are a series of books (5?) that are collections of his short stories. Also, he wrote an autobiography that tells much of his interesting life. He had been to all the places and did the things he wrote about. If one views him as just a writer of Western cowboy books, they are missing the essence of the man's writings and story telling, and a lesson in American history.

Michael, if you have any interest in California history, there is some to be gleaned from Louis' "The Lonesome Gods"; one of my favorite L'Amour books. And, as you say, all of the landmarks, waterholes and other topography that Louis mentions in his stories actually is or were there.

I just bought a copy of "The Quick and the Dead" (1987 Sam Elliot and Kate Capshaw) on DVD to replace the one lost in our move.

 

[Mitty38]

Got Monument Rock at the thrift store for a Quarter. It is a collection of short stories by L'Amour. It is kind of a travel companion for me lately. Keep it in the truck for waiting rooms and such. About half way thru. Some pretty good short stories in there.

 

[fiver]

stripped the piece of blown out plastic off the high tunnel yesterday and replaced the over portion with some corrugated plastic.
now I have to figure out how to do the ends.
I'm thinking maybe just some ply wood painted black, or some hard board.
one summer and half a winter for 15 bucks worth of plastic ain't gonna cut it, especially since I'm gonna have 7-8 of them to do every year.

I'm gonna dig out the 2 boxes I done last year and turn them 90 degrees to match the one in the walk through garden, I have been watching the internal temps on them and the north-south alignment has an advantage of a full week on either end.
I know that doesn't sound like much, but it extends my season by about 12-13%

 

[oscarflytyer]

... and bought another die set for a caliber I don't even have - yet! 38-40. I figure, with all my other odd calibers, and love for SA revolvers, one is just waiting to show up!

 

[L Ross]

... and bought another die set for a caliber I don't even have - yet! 38-40. I figure, with all my other odd calibers, and love for SA revolvers, one is just waiting to show up!

One? I sold one, (a New Service), an still have 4 left. If I could turn my Rossi .44-40 into a .38-40 economically, I would. For no logical reason at all. It would make more sense to find a .44-40 revolver.

I think this fixation has its roots in my early childhood with my Dad's extensive cartridge collection. He had 1,800 lbs. of ammo in the farm house. Most of it pre-war stuff. When I was a little boy he would line them up on the cracked linoleum of the "dining room", and would I identify them. Western brand dash calibers with the smokeless load's cannelures supporting those shiny, coppery soft point were irresistible.

Maybe psychologists are right?

 

[Ian]

I just bought a copy of "The Quick and the Dead" (1987 Sam Elliot and Kate Capshaw) on DVD to replace the one lost in our move.

Worst color western ever, starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leo Decaprio, that Aussie actor from Master and Commander, and a few other decent actors who between all couldn't save a screenplay which could only be described as "hokey". Please tell me L'Amour didn't write that one.

 

[Mitty38]

Worst color western ever, starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leo Decaprio, that Aussie actor from Master and Commander, and a few other decent actors who between all couldn't save a screenplay which could only be described as "hokey". Please tell me L'Amour didn't write that one.

Not that one, but he did write many screen plays. He wrote the television series Maverick, Made James Garner a house hold name.
This was the only thing I knew him for, before I saw his name on a book several months ago. Picked it up and now I am hooked.

 

[JWFilips]

Westerns...I loved Brando as the "Reg-a-lator" not sure what the name of the movie was ( maybe the Missouri Breaks? )
He Had special feelings for his horse!