At least I don't have to shovel it...

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Brandon

Member
Man, it has been HOT!

Been running 112-113 the last few days!

Sure makes it hard to get the ambition to go to the range after work, I have quite a bit of loading I would like to get done, but my "man cave", ie reloading room, is in an unconditioned space.:mad:

'Course, maybe I should use that as a weight-loss program!

An hour a day, load some rounds and shed some pounds!:D
 
Brad

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
We haven't had the heat, yet. We have had enough rain to make it humid.
Makes it hard to get motivated to shoot when you sweat just loading the trial to head to the range.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
We have guests in, from Arizona, one of them wanted to learn to shoot handguns. So yesterday morning, I broke some out. It was around 84 degrees but humid. Before we hit the 100 round mark.....he decided he had enough. We were dripping wet.
 
Brad

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Those Arizona guys don't have a clue what humidity is. Nothing worse than taking a shower and never really getting dry afterwards.
 
KHornet

KHornet

Well-Known Member
I sweat at about 65-70 degrees. Healthiest climate I ever lived in was in Alaska. Have always regreted not going back permanently.
 
yodogsandman

yodogsandman

Well-Known Member
I'd rather cast all winter. It's no fun casting with a hot pot in the summer at all. Watch where that sweat drips...
 
KHornet

KHornet

Well-Known Member
I hate mowing grass, but love blowing snow. (Should have retired in Alaska) With that in mind, the next door neighbor and I went halfs on a riding mower. He is about as happy as a hog in slop, and I am kind of pleased. Will pay for the thing in one season compared to the cost of hireing it done. Both of us are in our mid 70's, and even a self propelled mower was bothering our backs. He is mowing about every 6 days, and lets me on the thing once in awhile. I will have to blow show when there is an accumulation maybe once every other week or so. Yep, I don't have to shovel it, and when I am finished, I can come in, dry off, cast, load etc. Sort of a best of two worlds deal from my prospective.
 
waco

waco

Springfield, Oregon
It's been 90+ here for the last week and for the foreseeable future. We are pretty lucky not to have too much humidity here in the great Pacific Northwest though.
 
Ian

Ian

Notorious member
Come to central Texas, we have 105' summers AND 90+% humidity, best of both worlds!

We have a house in SW Colorado too, been there in the winter exactly ONCE. We use it for rent income in the winter, for those who seem to find enjoyment shoveling snow and chipping ice.
 
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9.3X62AL

Guest
I now live 4 blocks from the surf 2 miles north of the Mexican border. The hottest I've seen here since October is about 75*.

I spend most of my life in the heat, much of that in deserts. My first duty station--Indio, CA--routinely hits 120*+ every summer, and if you are in the Coachella Valley's eastern half the humidity runs 50%-80% much of the time. Delightful. I recall driving past a time/temp sign at Monroe St. and SR 111 one August day enroute to beat......."4:35 P.M........128*". Aw, jeez. I no sooner arrive in beat when I got called to assist in a multi-car collision at The Veldt and SR 111, about a dozen cars were sliding as if on ice in 125* temps because a restaurant's grease traps backed up and flowed onto the highway surface. 2 hours of directing traffic around that mess in wool pants and body armor was a real day at the beach. FWIW, kitchen grease and vegetable oil on hot asphalt pavement gives a friction coefficient much like that of wet ice on Teflon. Surreal, those cars sliding around like Minneapolis in January. I do hope my wife's career fortunes keep us right where we are now. Education administrators move around a lot these days.
 
KHornet

KHornet

Well-Known Member
Hate heat! Sweat at about 70 degrees! As said often before, I should have retired in Alaska!
 
C

carpetman

Active Member
Weather pretty mild here, but we did have a farmer plowing his cornfield. Got so hot the corn started popping and he thought it was snowing and froze to death.
 
C

carpetman

Active Member
Khornet, I'm with you on Alaska. I was stationed there for what was to be 4 years. I already had planned on extending as long as possible. Went to work one day and got the sad news that our shop was closing down. Only there two years and tried the remainder of my career in the Air Force to get back up there, but never made it.
 
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