so waht ya doin today?

JWFilips

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I guess we are going to be getting what you folks out west are going through!.... Tonight in to Sunday! But Most of the precipitation was left with you so we are only looking for 4-6 inches and ending in freezing rain ( Parfait!)
Last Night it was different...could not sleep ...thought the front windows were going to be blown in! 35 to 40 mph sustained winds! Very scary!
Thought we would be having roof and siding damage from the sounds all night! But I guess we beat it one more time!
 

Tom

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Spent last night and this morning trying to skirt a storm. Partial success, only caught the leading edge. Today, got a warning on channel 19 of black ice 2 miles ahead of me. It was the most perfect coat of ice I've ever seen. No spots, just looked like the wet pavement I'd just been on. Two trucks passed me.(they didnt get the memo, I guess.) A couple miles up, they were in the ditch and median with a few others.
At this point, I'm only going 20mph and tried to get into a parking area. Nope, that ain't happening. No steering at all. Ended up in the ditch. At least in the ditch, I had steering and drove back up to the pavement. Somehow got straightened out and parked on a wide shoulder. I waited an hour and a couple plow/salt shakers showed up. Waited 30 minutes and managed to get up into the traffic lanes. The road was good after that, but 40 mile's further and the wind kicked up to 40 sustained, gusting to 65. One truck blowed over on dry pavement. I'm pretty light, 60,000 lbs. Made it to rapid city and called it a day. Fighting eye fatigue all night with a ground blizzard, a bit of black ice, then really severe crosswinds today really kicked my patutti.
All's well that ends well, but it was a bit tense.
 

Rick

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Staff member
Glad you made it alright Tom. Was in the Teamsters for 34 years so know exactly what your saying. I was pretty lucky though, managed to spend most of my time in SoCal.
 

Tom

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Thanks, Rick. Imagine the tule fog, santa Anna winds, with some slick stuff thrown in for the cherry on the top.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Nice day today. Some elements of living in Kalifornistan remain pretty nice, and the winter climate is likely in First Place.

That character Buckshot called about lunchtime and wanted to do a gunshop crawl. Well, OF COURSE! He rolls up to the house in his new Ford Ranger pickup, so I got my first ride in the critter. DANG--that little truck gets up and honks it on. I didn't think you could get that kind of snap out of a 2.3L four-banger, maybe the twin turbos enable that. Rick says it is rated for towing up to 7,600#. Alrighty, then.

First stop was at Turner's Outdoorsman in San Burn A Reefer. GREAT NEWS--Kalifornistan has approved the new-series Colt Python for sale in the People's Republic! Rick has already put down a deposit to get one--"If it's good enough for Rick Grimes, it's good enough for me." I guess this has something to do with the series "Walking Dead". I just work here. For my part, I am just happy to see Colt making guns again. Maybe the resurgence of the Python is Colt's answer to the Dirty Harry/44 Magnum/S&W cult following of the 1970s. I would like better info on internal mechanism before I plunk down 1500 bones for a 357 Magnum handgun. They are beautiful machines, for sure--but so are Alfa Romeos and Saleen Mustangs. The only other thing of mild interest was a nice-shape Colt Official Police x 4" x 38 Special @ $500.

On to ASK Defensive in Redlands, and I had forgotten about a golf-club-handle demooner tool that one of the counter guys mentioned having for me. There it was--so the other half of the moonclip foofahrah has been resolved; I have the CCW installer gizmo already enroute from Dillon. Life Is Good.
ASK is becoming quite the reloading center. All kinds of bullets for sale, more powders, and three Dillon machines set up as demos. I watched 2 CZ firearms go out the door in 20 minutes on DROS pickups--CZ-527 x 223 and CZ-75B x 9mm. The shop still has a bevy of Bergara bolt rifles on hand, and I don't dare pick one up--lest it go home with me. In 243 caliber.
 
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358156 hp

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We never did get the rain in Lincoln, it was finally removed from the forecast line by line until all the deadlines passed. We were above freezing until dark, and a good portion of the snow melted away. Tomorrow is supposed to be below freezing all day. This is going to be messy.
 

fiver

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you won't regret buying a Bergara.
if they'd get on the stick and make one in 25-06, a 6.5 that goes 2800+ fps., or 257 Weatherby I'd probably be in some trouble around tax time.
 

Brad

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We never did get the rain in Lincoln, it was finally removed from the forecast line by line until all the deadlines passed. We were above freezing until dark, and a good portion of the snow melted away. Tomorrow is supposed to be below freezing all day. This is going to be messy.
We had plenty of freezing mist. No real rain that I know of but I didn’t look once I was home for good.
sat will be a mess with icy roads and wind, wind, wind. At least the ice on top of the snow stops drifting.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Tom, I've seen some black ice just like you describe. I hit it and knew enough to try to get to the shoulder. Almost made it but slid into the ditch. Couldn't get enough traction to quite get out. I imagine it's embarrassing enough to have your truck in the ditch. Try a Troop car, in broad day light, while every one else seems to be running studded snows and points and snickers as they whiz by at 8-10mph! After that, I started carrying chains.

Cold day yesterday. Our barn is a cold barn and the goats were not happy campers. Decided to run to town to get some protein blocks for them. Gotta say, I really, really like the Burb. Yeah, it needs some tweaking, but jeeze what a nice truck. Oldest boy was over and I took him and youngest girl who was home from school. Dropped him at the garage to bring home his Moms Wrangler. It was a bad starter BTW. Picked up the last 2 blocks at TSC and got a couple spare keys made for the Burb. Came home and brought 3, well, 2 1/2 trees up to the wood pile. Lost a tire chain and that took an extra 10 minutes of farting around to be able to get traction enough. And that was after spending an extra 45 minutes trying to get the old Ford tractor to start. Like a dummy I forgot in cold weather, (it was 6F), you have to step on the clutch to get her to start. So I ran the battery down and ended up having to take Mothers Jeep down a rutted tractor path to jump it. First time that been in 4wd that I know of! Got that going and drug the wood up. Gordy was home by then and he and Matt told me they'd get more wood to the house. Okay, so I go and try to get a round bale for the horses. That was another 20 minutes on my knees heating up the Massey enough to get the hydraulics working, and that's AFTER it just had a fresh hyd oil change! Gonna have to look at the pickup screen when it's warmer. Got a round bale and headed out into the pasture. Couldn't get out of some ruts and broke through the ice. Stuck solid. By then it's getting dusk. Gord got the Ford and we just barely got it out. At least the stock all had plenty of hay because it was supposed to be below zero F last night. Got in and got the message oldest daughters surgery went well and she was doing fine. That was a relief! slept like a dead man.

We're supposed to get 6-10" today and tomorrow. Not sure when the girls are coming home, but I'm hoping it's early enough to avoid most of the snow.
 

fiver

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they changed the insides on those colts.
I didn't pay attention to what they changed since I'm not buying one.
but I did hear they changed the internal arrangement some.

dunno what I'm doing today, diin'tdonuffin yesterday except arrange some of my fly tying stuff into a new box I picked up.
that box would make a pretty good little tackle box if it wasn't clear.
I'm pretty sure that UV light would destroy it in like 2 years.
then again it was like 6 bucks and has 2 trays, I might see if they got another one next time I'm down in Pokey.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I meant to thank you all for the well wishes for my daughter. She's home and SWMBO is also home. She just beat the snow by 1/2 hour or so! She's sore but we're hoping this works and fixes whatever it was that was screwed up.

Got the old Willys plow Jeep out of the fence row. Haven't had to use it this year yet. Old girl started right up with a couple shots of ether. Sadly, the right front tire has crapped out on me. Walked around like an idiot trying figure out where I was going to source a 6.50-15 snow tire on a Saturday afternoon, on a 3 day weekend, just ahead of a snow storm. The it finally dawned on me I have another equally pristine Willys CJ5 sitting in another fence row awaiting a clutch and wiring harness. With Gords help we got the tires switched out for a decent ( in He Who Farms With Junk type terms!) tire. Strapped the chains on and threw an old curtain on the remains of the seat (just springs) and she's ready to roll. Odd thing with this old beast- most generator systems if you remove the battery you have to polarize the genny before she'll show a charge. This fine old gem invariably will start charging as soon as she starts running. Odd, but odd in a nice way.
 

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Jon B--I have looked at a few videos on Youtube regarding the new Pythons, and the presenters all paint rosy pictures of the roll-out. 'Mmmkay, if you say so' was my thought. I don't want to be one of Colt's beta testers right after roll-out. I waited about a year before buying my first L-frame S&W in late 1981. If I decide to snag a Python, I will likely follow that regimen. The examples that companies send to gunwriters likely are NOT mass-production units. If Hickock 45's experience is an example of Colt QC, you will pardon me for not being surprised.

Fiver--One of the propaganda sequences I watched involved Ken Hackathorn at Gunsite with a 4-1/4 inch Snake Sample. The revolver ran well in the video sequences, which was nice. Some things the narrators pointed out were the smoothness and steady D/A pull tension of this new action, vs. the "stacking" of the old Colt V-spring actions. That kinda confirms your info. Also, they pointed out the trigger's form has a shallower bow to it, longer curve radius might be a better description of the condition. Finally, the grip frame remains unchanged from that of the original Pythons, so they (and I) surmise that I-frame Colt aftermarket grips will fit up.

Colt is trying, at least.
 

Hawk

North Central Texas
My brother came by today and was relaying a story that a friend at work told him. He was saying this guy was telling him about a rifle scope that had night vision but only cost about $500.
He said he couldn't remember the name of the scope but it was a 3 letter name.
I haven't heard about this, and it seems like this is too good to be true.
Does anyone know what he's talking about?