so waht ya doin today?

Jager - Seen/recognize Bill Oyster. Bet that is the one I was thinking about. And why I was surprised at the $1500 you mentioned!

Still sittin on my arse heallin this knee...

Waiting for a nicer day to wring out the CVA BO. Roads dried out so kid gave me the filet B.D. dinner last nite, not many at restraunt. Most of the snow went south of us. Talked to bro on his BD last nite, he sounded much improved, finally got 4th chemo straightned out, one more to go then try to figure what is next. Tumor wrapped around esophogus artery so no surgery. He put some chicken in the micro for dinner. Not twins but same B.D. Doc thought little bro would be same but he always was a little stubborn. Sat thru outdoor soccer game Thurs and back was really bad Sat, getting better. She went to two Sat and about froze. Guess HS sports have to get games sched when they can.

Got relieved late last night , we didn't get to bed till 0130 . Wasted the morning but the front end parts are all here for the 01' super crew F150 . Did a little shopping paid off a bill .

Currently oozing into my comfy chair .

An associate from another forum to whom I lent an MP 462-420 PB/HB felt bad for losing my box . So when he sent it back he included 1000 ea Hornady 375 , Lyman 8mm , and Ideal 25 cal gas checks .
He was showing off a new 788 in 30-30 AI and talking about the new Leopold 3-9 that replaced the Weaver K8 . I said if you're going to just toss that old Weaver I've got a home for it ....... There's another box on the way . I think I have some pretty substantial forward paying to do this year .

those Ideal checks can be kind of a pain to get on, but they sure shoot good.

My local friend and occasional shooting pard wants a .223 bolter. This morning, I let him shoot the .223 Ruger American. He's not one to get excited, but as we walked back to our vehicles he was excited.

Now it's a matter of what, if anything, is available. The local gun store is closed on Monday, but he called and left a message.

In the meanwhile, because brass and bullets are unobtainable, I'll be giving him 100 pieces of each and an extra loading block I made. Gotta' keep his appetite whetted.

Mitty38 said:

That's my problem right now, out of small pistol primers. Also out of. 233 bullets. Have small rifle primers and 233 primed brass, but no more bullets.
Ordered a. 223 Elvis mould, but Arsenal is having issues right now so may be 2 months before I get it.
I am new to reloading, as in since 2017. So the primer issue never crossed my mind.
So lucky after the. Obama. 22 shortage. I bought 10000 rounds of. 22 and have kept them rotated. So currently, I am just shooting a lot of. 22 and shotgun to keep my ammo stash up for the other guns.
I have been casting since it is winter. Even though I can not load anything now. At least I will have plenty of cast, powder coated, bullets for when I can.

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I’ve been thinking about buying a mold for 22 cal for the past 15 years or so, thinking...

oh yeah,,, come on Ohio St. ... all 6 of you.

Just watching this.

day log 2496 of being locked up with the 3 drunken monkeys.
the wife is about to tear up the flooring in her bedroom and lay down new plywood.

she spent about 5 hours on the phone with customer service from Dish today to finally fix the little box in there [that I fiddled with for a good 2 hours on before giving up]
I guess she has finally watched all 3-400 of her rom-com's on the DVD player and was missing Dr.Phil.
anyway the lady that was helping her now has a mixed western/80's valley girl accent instead of an Indian one, so you all are welcome.

My wife spent two hours on the phone, last night, talking to a Comcast Hispanic-accented-English speaking customer non-service rep. Evidently, converting from non-HDTV to HDTV is not as easy as disconnecting one box and hooking up another. She and some other non-service rep will putting the boxing gloves on today.

I did the television service thing for 14-years, so I'm not completely ignorant of the concept. What I don't understand, though, is what if a customer doesn't do cell-phone? Like me. The guy had my wife doing this and that, with her cell-phone, and they and an automated woman's voice were going round and round but getting nowhere. Does the cable company no longer dispatch a technician to climb a pole, check connections, fiddle with the box, and fix the problem?

Duke and I don't do TV, but we won't be able to relax till my wife can watch that one particular channel that she can't.

oscarflytyer said:

Jager - Seen/recognize Bill Oyster. Bet that is the one I was thinking about. And why I was surprised at the $1500 you mentioned!

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My brothers got back to me: when Wuhan put an end to the course in Idaho they were headed for, they started looking again. Found some guy, somewhere up in British Columbia that had space/hadn't completely shut down until further notice. We got talking about other subjects and issues and I didn't get any further info.

Other than that, when they realized the course in Idaho was toast, somewhere along the timeline of looking for a replacement course, as they narrowed it down, the original course contact name and info got electronically tossed.

I was mildly surprised at how much interest exists in taking courses in building bamboo rods. There aren't a lot of people fishing 'boo these days to begin with. But when I did a non-EvilGoogle web search to see if the name of a class in Idaho would pop up, I was buried in numerous pages of results. Maybe I shouldn't have been so surprised; very, very few hunters using centerfire guns hunt with cast bullets - and yet, here we are, complete with a very nice selection of custom mould makers as well as the corporate products.

It would appear to me if you have a bucket list to build 'boo rods, you do it the way my baby brothers did: you just sit down and methodically go through the alternatives open to you, the cost, the reputation, availability, location, etc. and then choose. The biggest danger appears to be regularly going down rabbit holes each time you hit an interesting website... like cast bullets... it can cost you hours of your life!

Bamboo Rod Making Knowledgebase

fiver said:

I have a real old [100 years anyway] bamboo rod 'kit' that needs a total rebuild, I doubt it's worth the money to get it done, but it was given to the wife's grandpa and I kinda would like to teach the G-boy how to use it.

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Poking around looking for info for Oscar, I stumbled over a surprising number of individuals who offer 'boo rod restoration services as opposed to bigger 'boo rod companies with employees like Sweetwater Rods. Some have gone from being barely known individual craftsmen to being well known within the tiny little world of 'boo rod affectionados.

So you could look for one of them, ask for an assessment and pricing (as close as they can guess) and go from there.

Here's one as an example as you're considering a rod restoration (and I just stumbled over him, I know nothing else about him other than his name regularly pops up as being an expert and artisan). His home page below has more fascinating history of the golden age of American bamboo rod making than it does information about him. He's in Arkansas.

Bob Nunley, Rodmaker
Repair, Service and Add-on Prices

Again, just an example of what I found and wandered through on the Web; there are more than just a couple of people out there doing 'boo rod restorations. Prices obviously vary.

Fly fishing with a bamboo rod is akin to hunting with patched roundballs in a flintlock front-stuffer. Esoteric stuff. (AS IF bullet casters have room to talk......)

My wife called Comcast, this morning, and was told that the HD box the guy at the local store gave her, yesterday, was the wrong one. GRRR!!! One would surmise that, within the first few minutes of last night's two hour phone marathon, the non-service rep would have realized it was the wrong box. Perhaps that's too much to expect from an employee who is trained to read from a script, and constantly puts the customer on hold while he refers to a troubleshooting flow chart.

Anyway, my wife exchanged the wrong box for a supposed correct one, I hooked it up and let her run through the setup program. Miraculously, everything works as designed and she has the extra channel she wanted. She's happy. Life is good.

My son ordered a blank knife blade from waterjetknives.com. I went to the shop with him this morning to direct him in the building process, and it’s all new to me so I’m winging it, which is what I do best. He’s putting a cherry handle on it (from a tree I cut down in our back woods) and I’ll have him rough finish that before he starts on the knife edge so he has something to hold on to.

Question for steel workers here: Do we have be careful about heating the steel up (if we use a grinder) and changing the hardness? I don’t work with steel, woodworking is my hobby and know next to nothing about steel...

yes, you either need to do the work then re-temper it, or be very careful to not remove the temper on the parts you work on.
[if it has been tempered]

I read a very good magazine article from like 1909 or thereabouts on how a Bamboo rod builder made rods, then I watched that little documentary on the rod builder up north of me, he followed the same step by step instructions the builder in the magazine had outlined a hundred years ago.

Thanks Fiver! I was debating on using a file to put the rough edge on it which is what we’ll do now. According to the site, it supposed to be good knife steel so I don’t want to mess it up. I have an 8 inch water stone grinder that we’ll use to put the finish edge on and of course this runs cool so temper won’t change.

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My wife spent two hours on the phone, last night, talking to a Comcast Hispanic-accented-English speaking customer non-service rep. Evidently, converting from non-HDTV to HDTV is not as easy as disconnecting one box and hooking up another. She and some other non-service rep will putting the boxing gloves on today.

I did the television service thing for 14-years, so I'm not completely ignorant of the concept. What I don't understand, though, is what if a customer doesn't do cell-phone? Like me. The guy had my wife doing this and that, with her cell-phone, and they and an automated woman's voice were going round and round but getting nowhere. Does the cable company no longer dispatch a technician to climb a pole, check connections, fiddle with the box, and fix the problem?

Duke and I don't do TV, but we won't be able to relax till my wife can watch that one particular channel that she can't.

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Just keep some water near by. Grind a small amount dip in water. As long as does not show color you are fine. Small amounts, water cool, if you can feel heat to the point it gets uncomfortable to hold with bare hands,stop and let it cool, all the way.
Take your time it will be ok, rush it, then you need to reharden and temper.
I have made tools and blades out of spring steel and only had issues when I rushed.

I had another crimson face moments today. We went to the Dr. to check on my new Migraine meds. After he was done with that i asked about a recent Gout pain i had. He wanted to check out the problem foot. I took my shoe and sock off. An i put my foot up on his knee and he started examining my toes. And he asked me what is this. Some how a live primer had stuck to the bottom of my foot between the toes and fell into his hand during the exam. I didn't say anything to him or my wife. But i thought to myself that i had just saved 3 cents.
I then had to explain how primers are used in reloading.