Shooting shack construction underway!

popper

Well-Known Member
Only thing we got to shoot was bow and arrow at Oceola (now Roe Bartle). They did give demonstrations of bullet penetration, in the basement of the church! The emphasis was more to indian lore and outside stuff back then. Lots of camping, polar bear style (before polar bear club). Remember finding rocks cause you couldn't pound tent stakes into the ground. Cheat a bit and use matches and white gas to get the fire going in the morning.
GKs in Houston got the shooting badges early on. Tell the master he can't carry and then look for a new master! We support the troup but NOT the BSA org. Was a gal down the block ws in Jr rotc, she practiced batton twirling with a mocked up wood rifle. Think she ended up at A&M. Sidearm when in the 'wild' is a requirement when allowed. School sports events around here carry is verbotten but somebody shot a couple people at a peewee game last week. Nut cases! Local TV is showing a vid of kids released into a room where a gun is 'hidden' and how they find it, pick it up and look at it. Parents are 'shocked', I mean 'shocked'! Dummies don't teach their kids to leave other peoples stuff ALONE. Gun or anything! Parent's room was out of bounds unless invited - but I did try Mom's high heels once! Just saw S.A. had a 450# hog captured on the golf course.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
We shot at Scout Camp in the summer to get out Merit badges. We shot at home all the time, but we didn't have a range available that would qualify as far as actual measured yards, a bench, etc. For that matter, I don't think I ever saw an "official" target until I got to be 17-18 years old. We did a LOT of camping, often up in the High Peaks of the Adirondacks, only a half hour drive from home. We did a massive amount of first aid training but our big thing was knots and rope work. We made our own rope from baler twine. We built pole structures, lashed together dog sleds, bridges, about anything that could be made from scrub pole wood and rope. We did a lot of land navigation training (map and compass work) and attended different churches as a Troop once a month. We served meals at church dinners and bussed tables there. Canoeing, archery, knife and axemanship, campfire cooking, lots of hikes, wildlife tracking, plant ID, etc. Our leaders were a businessman/Korea era Navy vet, a former smoke jumper from Alaska who then ran a ski area, a minister, a logger/sawmill owner/lay minister, a truck driver, a saw mill foreman, a writer of college texts on history/publisher, several miners and a slew of others I've probably forgotten. Different times I guess.
 

Ian

Notorious member
More work yesterday, got the next two end logs scribed in. Probably will be the last work on this for a while, new baby will be here in a week or two and some of the time I'm taking off work for that will be devoted to framing and drying-in the new nursery.

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fiver

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I keep thinking man he needs to back fill that, the wind blowin under there is gonna get cooold.
then oh yeah,,, never mind.
 
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freebullet

Guest
Now you can throw a tent up on there to shoot outa for the winter.
 

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
Ian,
I am really impressed at how tight those log joints are! That Is what I call "super tight Inletting" !
Jim