so waht ya doin today?
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Winelover
North Central Arkansas
No deer this AM. Seen three coyotes. Currently one less, running around my acreage.
Dropped in its tracks. MP 250 RNFP solid (20-1) though the throat. Only shot I had............could only see the head & neck. Marlin 1894 carbine.
17.5 grains of 2400, WLP, Starline brass, necksized.
Bullet sized .433 diameter. Conventional ( Lars 2500+) lube.
Dropped in its tracks. MP 250 RNFP solid (20-1) though the throat. Only shot I had............could only see the head & neck. Marlin 1894 carbine.
17.5 grains of 2400, WLP, Starline brass, necksized.
Bullet sized .433 diameter. Conventional ( Lars 2500+) lube.
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KeithB
Resident Half Fast Machinist
Saw a hematologist yesterday. My platelet count is very high. Caught it in a routine blood test. They took more blood yesterday, 12 little vials worth. Prelimiary diagnosis is "non-life threatening leukemia" whatever the hell that means. Started taking a new med, won't list it here. Going back in 23 days to see hematologist again and assess results of blood work.
462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
I donated platelets once a month for 12 years -- 144 units -- till the local hospital figured it was more advantageous to buy platelets rather than get them for free from volunteer donors, and closed its blood center. Donated five gallons of whole blood, too. The best part of the entire 12 years, and what made being hooked up to the machine for two hours especially worth while, was when I was told that a young child received one of my platelet units.
CWLONGSHOT
Well-Known Member
Got a visit today from a good friend.
A couple months back he received a used mold that needed attention. He took ta cleaning it up and summarily fudged it all up scrubbing rust from inside the cavities with a wire wheel on a drill.
Yesterday a neighbor gave him four old molds that have been "floating around his garage for years"... A Lyman 4x cav 452374 a 2 cav 311041 a Saeco 4 cav 058 and an Ideal .490 ball. Don't ya know the ball was near perfect (cause its alum)
All others was covered with surface rust.
Seeing defeat, because of last mold destruction he called and asked for some help.
They really only had one bad spot, inside one cav, of the 041, in the nose.
The 4cav Saeco & Lyman only have superficial rust inside cause someone had them closed tightly in handles. Mineral oil and a tooth brush had a brown slury that wiped off only leaving the patina of corrosion. The 041 also had a bad base thats still bad... I took a wire brush to the scale with blocks zip tied closed. Then a large flat file but I didn't want major surgery. So he is gonna soak in evapo rust tomorrow.
The Lyman 4 cav also had a badly bent sprue plate and damaged block on one end. Disassembly and judicious strikes of my heavy brass hammer and anvil had it back flat in 5/6 strikes, then a file for the burrs on edges from assumed carpenter hammer sprue knocks and stone to true everything dead flat. A small flat file to square block on one end.
All had handles and all handles where near perfect no corrosion.
All molds where put on the hot plate and cast with after a cup of coffee and jabber to allow then to come to temp.
All cast good and dropped proper bullets.
I was rewarded with about 15# of clean ingatized soft lead and four hours of good company with a ol friend.
CW
A couple months back he received a used mold that needed attention. He took ta cleaning it up and summarily fudged it all up scrubbing rust from inside the cavities with a wire wheel on a drill.
Yesterday a neighbor gave him four old molds that have been "floating around his garage for years"... A Lyman 4x cav 452374 a 2 cav 311041 a Saeco 4 cav 058 and an Ideal .490 ball. Don't ya know the ball was near perfect (cause its alum)
All others was covered with surface rust. Seeing defeat, because of last mold destruction he called and asked for some help.
They really only had one bad spot, inside one cav, of the 041, in the nose.
The 4cav Saeco & Lyman only have superficial rust inside cause someone had them closed tightly in handles. Mineral oil and a tooth brush had a brown slury that wiped off only leaving the patina of corrosion. The 041 also had a bad base thats still bad... I took a wire brush to the scale with blocks zip tied closed. Then a large flat file but I didn't want major surgery. So he is gonna soak in evapo rust tomorrow.
The Lyman 4 cav also had a badly bent sprue plate and damaged block on one end. Disassembly and judicious strikes of my heavy brass hammer and anvil had it back flat in 5/6 strikes, then a file for the burrs on edges from assumed carpenter hammer sprue knocks and stone to true everything dead flat. A small flat file to square block on one end.
All had handles and all handles where near perfect no corrosion.
All molds where put on the hot plate and cast with after a cup of coffee and jabber to allow then to come to temp.
All cast good and dropped proper bullets.
I was rewarded with about 15# of clean ingatized soft lead and four hours of good company with a ol friend.
CW
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blackthorn
Active Member
Ah yes, retirement. I retired in 2004, at age 65 after 13 years at my last work that began with my being appointed, at age 52 in 1991, by a Provincial Order in Council, to an administrative tribunal. The tribunal heard appeals from decisions made by the BC Worker's Compensation Board. I started as a Labor interest member and progressed to the position of a Vise Chair several years prior to retirement. Prior to that position I had 33 and ½ years of pensionable employment in the BC Forrest industry. I served as an elected officer of my Local Union and also, during the last 10 years in the forest industry, during slack times I over-saw 8 centers for the BC Federation of Labour and I developed and ran a center (food bank attached) providing assistance to people having problems with a large range of different programs/agencies. I retired with the normal Canadian OAP and CPP pensions (less the portion of my CPP awarded to my Ex) plus pensions from the forest industry and the appeal work. After 6 months of retirement, I was approached to work on a contract basis to help clear-up a horrendous backlog of appeals. I retired again at age 67. We moved to Kamloops in 2004. We acquired 1.8 acres with a modular home, and we had a 30x40x12 foot shop constructed. My shop is built on 2x6 frame, has a 100-amp electrical, telephone, is metal clad, fully insulated and sheet rocked. It is heated by wood and a small electric radiant oil heater. While I enjoyed the work I did throughout my lifetime, I do not miss it even a little bit! I have more than enough activities to keep me busy to whatever degree I choose.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I used to think cutting it off around the Tappan Zee would work. Now I think more like 20 miles north of Albany!I'm pretty sure Billy Joel had a song where one of the lines was something like "cut off New York and let it float out to sea.". He's a Long Islander so I assume he was not including Long Island in that sentiment.
Snakeoil
Well-Known Member
Hey, hey...you're gettin' kinda personal now!
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Matt and I finished off the last of the log pile from last winter today. Got a few very large/heavy pieces that I'll have to move the splitter to tomorrow, but the pile is history. I always find it amazing that a pile of logs 6 feet high when blocked and split doesn't make a pile 6 feet high! It's always a little disappointing. I'll push some stuff around and level things a bit then we can start cutting the scads of standing dead wood we have here. It always seems that every Elm on the place is dying and once the bark falls off they are fair game. We also find that the Ironwood here (Hop Hornbeam is the book name I guess) also dies once it get to about 12-16" through. Marvelous firewood! Just needs a few months dry time. But the big stuff here is Red Oak. I've got a lot of it and much of it is either dead or dying. Once the bark is shedding, you can usually burn the limb wood right off the tree, but the trunk needs splitting and at least 2-3 months in the air. Red Oak holds a lot of water, but it also lets the water go rather quickly. It will even dry down appreciably in winter, though not as fast as in warmer weather. Then there's the hundreds of Grey Birch and Soft Maple weed trees that need cutting. Those become buzz saw wood as it's madness to try and cut small stuff like that up with a chainsaw. KNock them down, toss them on the wagon and pile them for buzz saw processing.
It'll keep me busy over the winter!
It'll keep me busy over the winter!
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Sorry man! You know why too! My SIL lives in Gansevoort, niece in Saratoga. Somewhere between there and Albany would work. Cut it closer to Albany if you want, but you're just keeping more of the problem! Friends in the Catskills don't like my idea either!
JWFilips
Well-Known Member
Well my plan was to go out for deer this morning / afternoon.... after seeing one of the last nice days I realized I still had much work around the yard so I decided to mulch the sat big pile of leaves between our house and my son's. He blew them into a big pile with the back pack and I just felt the need to finish the yards! Took a bit over an hour with my mulching set up on my Troybilt Horse but I got it mostly to dust! Just in time for the big rains and high winds tomorrow! BIL is still laid up with the Covid!
Weather is taking a turn for the worst so probably missed out on the good (read easy) hunting days .... worse days ahead for the next week & 1/2 of our season! Well I will buck it up and deal with it! Got a funny photo to share.......A turkey got too interested in the Cat's on the Ranch!
I call this one ....."can't a cat have his privacy"
Weather is taking a turn for the worst so probably missed out on the good (read easy) hunting days .... worse days ahead for the next week & 1/2 of our season! Well I will buck it up and deal with it! Got a funny photo to share.......A turkey got too interested in the Cat's on the Ranch!
I call this one ....."can't a cat have his privacy"
RBHarter
West Central AR
Got my solid 8 hr sleep . Weird for lately.
Went to Moms chopped up one of the big oak logs , split a couple of the 8-9 rounds and chopped up some little stuff . Long dead just needed cut up .
Dropped off some paperwork, got the kid hooked up to bypass a $40 unavailable clutch lever neutral safety switch .
Ready for bed but the terrible trio won't go down for another 2 hours.
Went to Moms chopped up one of the big oak logs , split a couple of the 8-9 rounds and chopped up some little stuff . Long dead just needed cut up .
Dropped off some paperwork, got the kid hooked up to bypass a $40 unavailable clutch lever neutral safety switch .
Ready for bed but the terrible trio won't go down for another 2 hours.
JWFilips
Well-Known Member
That has been my experience also
When I was finishing up today in the yard. I hear a number of shots from the mountain behind me....Knew I should have been there!
Well the cats are very curious about the turkeys and follow them but then the flock surrounds them and they come running back to safety of the house & ranch!
Now the deer and turkeys duel it out every evening! It is very funny but both chase each other around the yard! First the deer gang up on the turkey's and then the tables turn! The turkey's like to run under the bellies of the deer and really freak them out!
My wife says we are seeing things no humans are meant to see!
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462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Well, at 0430 it was a re-do of early October's 0430 water running down the street from a broken water line awakening. Plumbers made a patch so we have water, and will be back in the morning to dig a trench and replace the line from the meter to the house. Looks like a two-man two-day job.
But, that wasn't the end of the water woes. I loath plumbing work as much as Billy Jeff loathed the military. The main toilet's fill valve wouldn't shut off. Fiddled with it to no effect (crud in the valve when the water was turned back on?) so bought a new one and a new stainless steel braided water line. Spent a good amount of time squeezed between the toilet and bathtub trying to attach the new line till I realized the shutoff valve is 3/8" and I bought a 1/2" line. In the end, I used the old stainless braided line, installed the new fill valve, got it fiddleized to shut off at the correct water level, checked for leaks, and all is good.
Reschedule a follow up appointment with the trigger finger doc, so he can check the thumb he detriggered earlier in the month and give the right index finger a detriggering cortisone shot. I'm going to ask about him shooting the left index finger, too.
Sized the .45-70 brass from yesterday's shoot.
What a day . . .
But, that wasn't the end of the water woes. I loath plumbing work as much as Billy Jeff loathed the military. The main toilet's fill valve wouldn't shut off. Fiddled with it to no effect (crud in the valve when the water was turned back on?) so bought a new one and a new stainless steel braided water line. Spent a good amount of time squeezed between the toilet and bathtub trying to attach the new line till I realized the shutoff valve is 3/8" and I bought a 1/2" line. In the end, I used the old stainless braided line, installed the new fill valve, got it fiddleized to shut off at the correct water level, checked for leaks, and all is good.
Reschedule a follow up appointment with the trigger finger doc, so he can check the thumb he detriggered earlier in the month and give the right index finger a detriggering cortisone shot. I'm going to ask about him shooting the left index finger, too.
Sized the .45-70 brass from yesterday's shoot.
What a day . . .
Tom
Well-Known Member
I heard a biologist explain that critters and fish feed heavily just before a cold or warm front passes over them. Makes sense to me as I always see a lot of deer on the road in the daytime just before a storm. As for fish, the only thing I know from experience is "You should have been here yesterday!"
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fiver
Well-Known Member
some of the best fishing i've had was when i couldn't keep a sinker on the bottom of the lake.
duck hunting is the same way too, but that had more to do with the wind kicking them off the big lake.
i've also got myself into some serious trouble being out there when the big weather comes in.
me and Littlegirl was tracking a big buck back into a section near wyoming a few years back when the snow started coming in.
we caught a good look at him, looking at us trying to figure out where he was going, across a little valley.
we short cutted it over a ridge and dropped down into another little valley and cut his tracks again, it really started dropping those big feather type flakes and we decided to bail rather than push him down into a different draw and try to get a shot when he went up the other side.
that part was just to show that i knew the area well enough.
we circled back up to the ridge where there is a little 2 track for 4 wheelers and instead of turning left where we should have, we dropped off the right side of that ridge 20 foot from where we should have.
when we hit the road we were on the wrong side of the summit, in the dark, 4 miles away from the truck, instead of following the wheeler road almost right to it.
same ridge, just the right side and not the left, made the difference between walking in 6"s of snow for 30 minutes, versus over 2 hrs. in well over a foot.
duck hunting is the same way too, but that had more to do with the wind kicking them off the big lake.
i've also got myself into some serious trouble being out there when the big weather comes in.
me and Littlegirl was tracking a big buck back into a section near wyoming a few years back when the snow started coming in.
we caught a good look at him, looking at us trying to figure out where he was going, across a little valley.
we short cutted it over a ridge and dropped down into another little valley and cut his tracks again, it really started dropping those big feather type flakes and we decided to bail rather than push him down into a different draw and try to get a shot when he went up the other side.
that part was just to show that i knew the area well enough.
we circled back up to the ridge where there is a little 2 track for 4 wheelers and instead of turning left where we should have, we dropped off the right side of that ridge 20 foot from where we should have.
when we hit the road we were on the wrong side of the summit, in the dark, 4 miles away from the truck, instead of following the wheeler road almost right to it.
same ridge, just the right side and not the left, made the difference between walking in 6"s of snow for 30 minutes, versus over 2 hrs. in well over a foot.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Wind picked up overnight enough to wake me. Stars are showing this AM though, so it should dry things a bit. Have some repair work scheduled first off on an very abused bale spear and then hopefully I can either finish up that wood or do a little backhoe work. We'll have to see which way the spirit is leaning.
richhodg66
Well-Known Member
Opening day of the Kansas rifle season, going out soon.