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Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Love the people as well. My brother (brother of a different Mother) is Mex and his first born is my God Daughter. Got married in Mexico at the age of seventeen. Good folks.
 

JonB

Halcyon member
Marie and I enjoyed "A Night In Old Mexico" last night. The film, not the place. Part of 2014 and most of 2015 we lived about 3 miles from the border in Imperial Beach, and Mexico is a lot like a pointillism portrait--better seen from a distance. I spent more than enough time in and near Mexico while working to fully satisfy my curiosity about the place and then some. Wonderful people in a beautiful place governed by poisoners and bandits.
"A Night In Old Mexico" has been mentioned a couple times now. The title seemed familiar, but I didn't recall if I had seen it? I had to Utube a trailer of it, to remember that I did see that...yeah, that's my kind of movie.
 

Kevin Stenberg

Well-Known Member
I never realized we have so many deer around my house. I the last 2 days 1 of our 2 trail cameras took 160 pictures. Yes many deer had multiple pictures. But the wife and i look for differences in each deer we see.
In the 2 days we have seen 3 bucks with 3 to 4 points . 2 bucks have 6 to 7 points. The 7 pointer by far has the longest tine length of any bucks seen. 4 bucks have 8 to 9 points. One of the 9's has a very tall rack but doesn't go too far forward, and another 9 has horns that are very low but are very far forward. An finally the big boy showed up. We only have 1 picture of him but it is a selfy looking straight at the camera. He is an 11 pointer with 2 very promanant points. One brow tine has a sticker on it. And one main tine has an S curve to it.
 

JonB

Halcyon member
Yesterday, my friend tells me he broke the handle on his push mower, and wondered if I could weld it. I'm not keen on welding other peoples junk, so I suggested to just find a replacement handle from a junk mower...it seems junk mowers can be easily found.
Well, he wasn't pleased with my suggestion, and he left and went to his job/work.

During the day, while I was driving around town, I spotted a pile of junk at the street curb near a house ...framed art, lamp, chicken wire, fake Christmas tree and ect...it looked like leftovers from a garage sale, people often put out stuff like this for Free. There was a push lawn mower in the mix, but there was no "Free" sign, but I stopped anyway, I knocked on the door, no answer. The mower's safety engine brake cable was disconnected, so I could not pull the starter rope, to see if it had compression, but besides a year's worth of dust and a mouse nest sticking out of the air cleaner area, the thing looked like new...Oh and the handle seemed loosey goosey...but some of those $99 mowers come that way, LOL. anyway, I figure WHAT THE HECK, I'll take it...and I load it up and bring it home, thinking I'll just remove handle for my friend and junk the rest
...BUT it looks so nice ;) ...so I figure I'll try and make it run first.

First, I fix the safety engine brake cable, engine has real good compression...soooooo, I drain the stale gas, clean the mouse nest out, clean the air cleaner, remove blade and sharpen it, by the looks of the underside, it hasn't been used this summer...dry and rusty.

I checked the oil, it looked real clean, but it was low, I top that off. I fill the fuel tank with some questionable gas that another friend gave me to use as cleaning fluid ...Now this gas looked and smelled good, but that friend that gave it too me said he just bought it and it didn't make his mower run, so he thought it was bad...honestly, I question his abilities, but I wasn't gonna try it in anything I valued and I figured this junk mower was the perfect test candidate.

I pushed the primer bulb on the carb, and pulled the rope, the thing fired right up and ran like it was brand new, I tested it out on part of my lawn, it does a beautiful job ...so I guess I won't just give away the handle. But what do I do with another lawnmower? I have 3 others that I prefer.
 

popper

Well-Known Member
Kev, what's with the 2nd stress test? Hope it wasn't the ramped treadmill test. Chem induced test is all I can do anymore. Bout fell off the treadmill one, knee locked up. Doc keeps saying 'just a few more seconds'. Yea, right.
Roofer said they were all plastic jacks so no luck. Those isotope canisters are good alloy but I like the 32#rs.
 
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JWFilips

Well-Known Member
Cast My Shooting buddy Ed up another 400 Pieces NOE 413-215 Wadcutters from his mould.
He tried them out this morning and the shot great! Figured while I still have some of the soft alloy in my post probably should looad up the pot again before I forget the mix! That should keep him going for awhile!
 

Kevin Stenberg

Well-Known Member
Popper The second test also was a drug induced test. Glad i don't have to do it again soon. Tests came back not so good. But i don't see the doc. for another 2 weeks.
JW my mind isn't the best. When the pot is cooling off i put an ingot of whatever is in the pot on top of the pot, so i can remember what is in it
 
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hrpenley

Active Member
I went for my second heart stress test today.
I started talking hunting with the guy that was running the machine that was scoping my heart out. We hit it off perty good. Today i found out he is the head of the department. They injected me with some kind of isotope for the pictures. An i asked what they did with the lead containers that the isotope comes in. Most go back to the manufacturer BUT we have some containers we have been tripping over for a couple years. An THEY asked me if i could use whatever they had laying around. I thought about it for a few (milliseconds) minutes and told them i could probably find some use for them.
I ended up with 200 lbs of medical isotope containers. There were probably 8 that were the shape of a handgernaide that i could hardly pick up with 1 hand.
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Hell ya, those should be 100 (well at least 99.95+%) pure soft lead, medical grade is the best stuff, the can't have any other junk in it since it's radiation shielding.
 

Mitty38

Well-Known Member
GOT 3 of those yotes when I got off work. Two got away, totally my fault.
Layed in wait. till 7:30 and they came prancing down the field with the morning sun. I should have waited a little longer before starting to shoot. Two went to the brush on the first shot. Three were close together and if I had waited a bit longer, I would probably had them all in a line, as the other two looked like they were trying to push something back to their friends.
I would like to tell you all 1 bullet,1 kill. But it was more like 7 bullets 3 kills.:embarrassed: Then 4 complete misses.:rolleyes: I TEND TO GET IN A HURRY WITH A SEMI AUTO AND IT BITES ME IN THE BUT EVERY TIME.
Left the 3 lay where they were, not market for those hydes this early any who. Did not want to go down and get the area scented with human.
The two I missed, were younger ones, so they may be dumb enough to come back in the morning. If so, I will finish the job. Make a farmer happy and maybe be allowed to put up a blind, and feed, for deer this year.
 
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Mitty38

Well-Known Member
Mitty,
Sounds like a win, win for both you and the land owner
I HOPE, I have been pestering this farmer for 3 years.
My best, previous,hunting spots, either the owner died or sold out, years ago.
He is real close to the house, and the terrain he has, is easy to get around on for me. I have been driving hundreds of miles during deer season to be able to hunt, these last 10 years or so.
 
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Ole_270

Well-Known Member
Hope it works out Mitty, makes me appreciate my own situation. I live on 12 acres that border thousands of acres of brushy hill pastures to the west and have a field wrapped around my house that this year was in corn. It's already no-till planted to wheat and that's about 4" high. This is where my younger Grandson got his first doe a couple weeks ago during youth season. There's thousands of acres of bottomland crop fields stretching off to the east that draws them out of the brush. I can watch the parade most nights from this computer chair by the window. Also have an 80 about 11 miles away that is mostly creek bottom timber with about 20 acres of cropland, right now in 2nd crop beans. That's where I got my muzzleloader doe last week.
 

Mitty38

Well-Known Member
Have a lot of wildlife around me but it is either owned by the county.Or small farms where the owner has feed plots and hunts his own.
Then across the street there is always Rabbit squirrel turkey, or deer. Usually count at least 5 or 6 deer or see a rafter of turkeys, as I am going out or coming in from hunting.
Local dirt bikers, trash dumpers, drunks, and the disrespectful trash that have lived in my trailer court, over the years, have ruined any chance of hunting permission from the owner, for me.
 
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Rally

NC Minnesota
Yesterday, my friend tells me he broke the handle on his push mower, and wondered if I could weld it. I'm not keen on welding other peoples junk, so I suggested to just find a replacement handle from a junk mower...it seems junk mowers can be easily found.
Well, he wasn't pleased with my suggestion, and he left and went to his job/work.

During the day, while I was driving around town, I spotted a pile of junk at the street curb near a house ...framed art, lamp, chicken wire, fake Christmas tree and ect...it looked like leftovers from a garage sale, people often put out stuff like this for Free. There was a push lawn mower in the mix, but there was no "Free" sign, but I stopped anyway, I knocked on the door, no answer. The mower's safety engine brake cable was disconnected, so I could not pull the starter rope, to see if it had compression, but besides a year's worth of dust and a mouse nest sticking out of the air cleaner area, the thing looked like new...Oh and the handle seemed loosey goosey...but some of those $99 mowers come that way, LOL. anyway, I figure WHAT THE HECK, I'll take it...and I load it up and bring it home, thinking I'll just remove handle for my friend and junk the rest
...BUT it looks so nice ;) ...so I figure I'll try and make it run first.

First, I fix the safety engine brake cable, engine has real good compression...soooooo, I drain the stale gas, clean the mouse nest out, clean the air cleaner, remove blade and sharpen it, by the looks of the underside, it hasn't been used this summer...dry and rusty.

I checked the oil, it looked real clean, but it was low, I top that off. I fill the fuel tank with some questionable gas that another friend gave me to use as cleaning fluid ...Now this gas looked and smelled good, but that friend that gave it too me said he just bought it and it didn't make his mower run, so he thought it was bad...honestly, I question his abilities, but I wasn't gonna try it in anything I valued and I figured this junk mower was the perfect test candidate.

I pushed the primer bulb on the carb, and pulled the rope, the thing fired right up and ran like it was brand new, I tested it out on part of my lawn, it does a beautiful job ...so I guess I won't just give away the handle. But what do I do with another lawnmower? I have 3 others that I prefer.

You could always put it out by the street with a FREE sign on it!! LOL
 

Joshua

Taco Aficionado/Salish Sea Pirate/Part-Time Dragon
For the entire COVID-19 shut-down I have been saving my “taco money”. Fun fact, if you save for six months and don’t spend your money on tacos, you can buy a brand new Marlin 336Y in 30-30. I will not tell you how much I paid for it, suffice it to say, I paid too much. The buyers remorse has already begun to set in, and the fact that it is a Remlin doesn't help any.

I realized on the drive home that this is the first new gun I have ever bought. I have never bought a new car. I don’t like spending more than I should for anything. To put this all into perspective, they overcharged me a months worth of tacos! I can’t even comprehend what it must feel like to drive a $50,000 dollar new truck off the lot. At least in four years I might be able to sell this little carbine for as much as I paid for it today.

The short version of this story is that I bought my first lever action today and I'm pretty happy about it. Even though I spent too many tacos on it!

Josh
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
lever action rifles are never a bad buy.
I only sold one and that was because I had 2 identical model 94's in 45 colt an 44 magnum.
I sold [okay traded for a model 94 in 32 Winchester] the 45 since I also had 2 model 92 rifles in 45 colt and a model 92 carbine to go with them.
the model 94 in 44 broke up the pair of 92's in 44 mag, and complemented them by giving me a carbine option.

well I didn't go hunting today.
I walked waaaaaay too far yesterday and my legs were fried some this morning.
the wife's youngest brother come to town today with his family and her older/younger brother will be here tomorrow for the G-Boy's birthday party.
 

Mitty38

Well-Known Member
Farmer texted me and ask if I was going to be out there in the morning. He wants to take his tractor and bury the yotes I got. Then let the cows out in that pasture, while he is doing fence repairs on the other pasture.
Told him go ahead. I will give it a few days and see if the other two come back or not.
Will probably stop by and help. Then just relax the rest of Sunday.
 
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hrpenley

Active Member
I have been thinking about a 30/30 myself, was that or 45/70 but since I got the .450bm the 45/70 seems kind of redundant and expensive (at least for target shooting) of course, I have a 308 also which makes the 30/30 kind of the same but its a little cheaper than the 308 I think, haven't reloaded for 30/30 or 45/70 but I do know the 45/70 is a powder hog