so waht ya doin today?

[dale2242]

Having worked in the timber industry, I`ve seen too many chain saw wounds.
They are extremely nasty and don`t heal well.
Buy some saw chaps boys.
I finally got all the garlic planted.
10 rows of it 30ft long.
That should satisfy the garlic needs of all the cooks in the family and friends.
My nephew gave me at least a cord of mixed, sawed and split firewood.
I have been working on getting it in the woodpile and covered before the rain starts.
After having some crappy luck with the blue Harbor Freight tarps to cover my wood pile, I bought a thicker silver one.
We`ll see if they last any better than the blue.
I place the old tarp over the new ones when I cover my wood pile, hoping it will protect the new one from the UV rays.
Another hot, dry week for the opening of deer season.
I am hoping for some rain later in the month.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Gas jumped here to, today, from $3.31 to $3.47 per gallon.

I saw 2.95 yesterday morning!!! Stopped on way home from Visiting wife last evening, and it was 3.05!

 

[KeithB]

It’s about $3.40 - $3.50 here depending on whether you buy from independents or name brands.

 

[Glaciers]

I saw 2.95 yesterday morning!!! Stopped on way home from Visiting wife last evening, and it was 3.05!

Yeah I do remember the good old days

 

[popper]

$475.00 for flowers Nope, my fumble fingers. 37$ fee added to cost.

 

[Snakeoil]

My Dad was not one to ask for help. He walked with a cane that was really a fancy walking stick that was his Dad's when he worked in NYC. Everyone carried one as a self-defense item. Pop would not buy a real cane because then he would have to admit that he needed one. So, I stop by one day and the cane is in the corner. I notice it is chewed up. Closer inspection reveals a chainsaw had been gnawing at it. I asked my mother and she said Pop was trying to cut that old scrub pine out front. He was leaning on the cane with one hand and using the saw with the other. Something happened, the saw got away from him and the cane saved his leg.

Talking to Pop about it would have resulted in a giant shouting match. So, I kept my mouth shut, cut the tree down, and cut it up and then took the chainsaw home with me.

A guy I shoot with was a logger when he was younger. He and his brother were in the woods. Butch was on a dozer and the brother was cutting wood. Butch happens to look over and his brother is staggering towards him with his chest cut open. The saw kicked back and opened him up like a can opener. Butch said he never stopped the dozer. He jumped off, carried his brother to the truck and set some kind of land speed records down the logging road to get him to the hospital. He survived. He actually recovered nicely, but has some nasty scars according to Butch. But they go nice with his other scars. In Viet Nam he was in an artillery unit. An outfit was being overrun and they were lobbing shells in as fast as they could load them. They were not swabbing out the barrel. Butch's brother was a loader. Another guy came up to give him a break and his brother went over to the ammo pile and was opening cases and carrying ammo over to the gun. A round got stuffed in the breach and would not go home. Everyone yelled to get back because the knew what was coming. It cooked off and killed the gunner and the loader. Butches brother got blown up too but survived.

I'm not sure I would ever want to stand very close to Butch's brother.

My nemesis seems to be gas powered hedge trimmers. I have been bitten at least 3 times. One time required stitches in my knee. No brakes on mine so it coasts down when you let go of the trigger. Complacency was the primary cause.

 

[Mitty38]

Went down to the gun shop today for a little coffee and chat.

Young fellow ticked me off a bit when he said there is no way that I am shooting. 12 BH self cast, pan lubed with no check at 1242 fps. With no isues. Pulled up the Lyman digital manual on his phone and it says you must use straight linotype. They wrote the book so... (The "book" also says I should be pushing 1400 fps but I am not.)
Claimed both me and the fellow who clocked my bullets were telling wives tales.
So the fellow with the chronograph and I. Went home got our stuff .Then headed to the range, to meet up with the village idiot
We had a small audience show up as our argument had gotten a little heated.
We became the afternoons small town entertainment.
Mr Idiot brought his tester. I pulled a random bullet from a cartridge he chose, to show him the lack of a gas check and that the only lube used was my pan lube.
My bullets at that point were testing at 11BH with his tester. They test 12 with my pencil test.
Stubborn fellow would not admit being wrong. Said that the crono must be wrong, or the bullets have a hard core?

Learned a lesson. It's not worth waisting good ammo just to prove a point. People are just going to believe what they want anyway.
I can not Believe I let this fellow get my blood pressure up over this.
Well at least the fellows at the club got some free entertainment.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Sorry for the agravations Emmitt!!

If I could, first off I need respect the person for there opinion to "bother me". It helps when dealing with some personalities.

Personally I get quite a kick outta such situations. "Kids" believing they are "smarter" then customers cause they on that side of the counter.
Some years ago, I took a job in a gun shop some years back. Owner was a friend and "help" was a problem he was having difficulties with. Nothing real bad but attitude and bad apple spoiling the bunch kinda stuff. I was to be the manager. I went in as a customer for a couple days during the first week and worked after hours with owner. Funny, one guy who fancied himself manager actually ask me to come work for "HIM"!! (In the gun shop) A couple others where very polite and helpful. But one was the problem and given just a lil rope, hung him self.
You should have seen the looks on a number of these "kids "" the following Monday when I was introduced as there boss.

The bad seed was asked to leave before lunch and remaining staff shaped right up and actually became pretty good employees.

CW

 

[JWFilips]

Mitty, When I was first introduced to shooting cast pistol bullets everything had to be Commercial Hard cast at BHN 18! size to bore!
I broke with that when I started casting my own and went .002 thousands fatter and got the bhn down to11/12!
They told me I would have a leaded bore! Well...that is when I stopped getting leading and my accuracy improved! Those guys never were convinced so I started shooting Low Node Rifle to avoid awkward moments and me getting my BP sky high! Soft and plump means better shooting ( and more exciting women!)

 

[JWFilips]

For tonights sup,had Stuffed roasted Poblano Chillies! not really on a Mexican kick but trying to use up stuff I have!
Used my two biggest Chillies & stuffed them with left over spicy chilli, rice and left over Taco tongue meat! Ran out of Mex Cheese so substituted Sharp Provolone which was a great subsitute! However these Large peppers were way hotter than the smaller ones and I sweated out the meal! Had to eat some dark chocolate afterwards to get my mouth back! washed down by 2 Hamm's!

 

[Bret4207]

I think gas was $3.83 last I got some.

Never, ever bother arguing with an idiot when it comes to cast, reloading, guns in general. I've gotten to the point I just tell them they don't have the vaguest idea of what they are talking about and leave it at that. Not a single one of the gun store experts have ever cast or loaded home cast. It's always "I used some HARDCAST Silver Bullets and they leaded the barrel so it was like a sewer pipe when I got to 150fps!!!" or some such nonsense. They are usually the same guys that have the latest magnum whatever and think a great group is 3" at 50 yards. They're idiots and not worth your time.

Got some little jobs done and repaired the muffler on Matts truck because apparently the tattoo covered brain trust at NAPA can't tell the difference between a muffler for a Blazer and an S-10 Blazer. I told him to go to the place I shop at and not NAPA (Not A Parts Authority), but I guess he's got to learn the hard way. I heard him tell the freak with the giant ear lobe holes it was an S-10 Blazer too!!! And they wonder why people order on line...

There was one story I read in a logger magazine we used to get back in the days when I was in the chainsaw biz where a guy was on a skidder and somehow a stub came up and impaled him through his chest and out the back of the skidder seat. This guy was able to reach a saw, start it, cut the stub off in front of him, back the skidder away then drove down to the landing and out to the highway where he stopped traffic and got someone to get him an ambulance. I don't want to mess with a guy like that, not one little bit!

 

[Snakeoil]

Emmitt, Schuetzen guys never use GCs. I have never asked them about hardness. They will be at Wilton soon. Will try to remember what hardness they are shooting. Might be all over the place.

 

[RBHarter]

Brett and Fiver .
It is likely a foray into foolishness but it's been a back burner idea for long enough that the paper bugs shouldn't be too many .

I've long thought that if a guy hunted deer in the grouse lands or rabbit for that matter that there should be a means to "just slip in a shot shell" . Chucker , blue/ruffed grouse , and sage hen seasons ran concurrently with deer season and the last season I hunted in Nevada I shot a few ducks on beaver ponds between camp and the deer .

After a little thought about what I was writing, it's almost thread worthy .

 

[462]

Touched up the kitchen cupboard doors, thereby ending the kitchen cabinet re-do. The smile on my wife's face more than made the project worth while.

She's been taping a paint chip on different areas of the bedroom walls for the last three days. She says she likes it, but I'm not convinced she does. Till she decides that project is on hold.

 

[Bret4207]

Brett and Fiver .
It is likely a foray into foolishness but it's been a back burner idea for long enough that the paper bugs shouldn't be too many .

I've long thought that if a guy hunted deer in the grouse lands or rabbit for that matter that there should be a means to "just slip in a shot shell" . Chucker , blue/ruffed grouse , and sage hen seasons ran concurrently with deer season and the last season I hunted in Nevada I shot a few ducks on beaver ponds between camp and the deer .

After a little thought about what I was writing, it's almost thread worthy .

Ah! Well, that is where the drillings and Savage/Valmet 24 types come into their own. But it you can figure a way to do it, I bet it will make an interesting thread!

 

[fiver]

i just shoot them with the deer rifle.
we do cast our own bullets you know.
the trick is to know where your cast bullet goes at 25 yds. versus your jacketed bullet at 100.
body shots work if your speeds are kept down, a 30 cal 120gr. bullet at 900 fps is just a slightly quick smaller diameter 38 special load.
base of the neck is the easiest place to hit them.

the thing about your post was i got to thinking about 410 loads with a cast bullet in those revolvers and the T/C barrels made for the dual cartridges.

 

[Cadillac Jeff]

Gased up my Dakota today 4.05 a gallon.

 

[fiver]

i haven't seen below 4 bucks for regular 85 octane gas since the last presidency.
4.31 or 4.29 is what our signs here say.

 

[Ian]

Went down to the gun shop today for a little coffee and chat.

Young fellow ticked me off a bit when he said there is no way that I am shooting. 12 BH self cast, pan lubed with no check at 1242 fps. With no isues. Pulled up the Lyman digital manual on his phone and it says you must use straight linotype. They wrote the book so... (The "book" also says I should be pushing 1400 fps but I am not.)
Claimed both me and the fellow who clocked my bullets were telling wives tales.
So the fellow with the chronograph and I. Went home got our stuff .Then headed to the range, to meet up with the village idiot
We had a small audience show up as our argument had gotten a little heated.
We became the afternoons small town entertainment.
Mr Idiot brought his tester. I pulled a random bullet from a cartridge he chose, to show him the lack of a gas check and that the only lube used was my pan lube.
My bullets at that point were testing at 11BH with his tester. They test 12 with my pencil test.
Stubborn fellow would not admit being wrong. Said that the crono must be wrong, or the bullets have a hard core?

Learned a lesson. It's not worth waisting good ammo just to prove a point. People are just going to believe what they want anyway.
I can not Believe I let this fellow get my blood pressure up over this.
Well at least the fellows at the club got some free entertainment.

And people wonder why I never took a certain somebody from the other side of the continent up on his offer to stop by my place with his M42 Oehler chronograph so I could "prove" to him the things I posted about. It's just a narcissist's tactic to further discredit dissenting opinions, not an opportunity TO LEARN HOW TO DO IT THEMSELVES. Heaven forbid they find out they've been wrong all along and benefit from it.

 

[JustJim]

Cut 21 Ash blocks today. Then split and stacked them. I was tired and got careless with the chain saw and have a slice through my dirty old jeans, through the first layer of left hand pocket but not through the paper towel folded in it, the inner layer of pocket, my underwear or leg. Both of us are tired.I used the heating pad while Sue was cooking Supper and she has it now.

Broke my neck back in '01, crushed the radial and ulnar nerves on the left side. A couple-three years later I was trimming brush in the yard, working low, and my left arm just "went away": no feeling, no control, and the chain saw was still running. I managed to pivot into it, came out with cuts from my left knee to my hip. A buddy--my boss at the sawmill--looked at the mess and took away my chainsaw. He still has it. . . .