so waht ya doin today?
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Somewhere around 90% sure the ADL223/H4198 vertical stringing is..... well,me. But that is a loaded (ha) statement. It IS a dedicated varmint rig so ice any thoughts of $$$ free recoil stocks,dragging around BR pedestal rests,yadayda. Nope,this rig will always be full body contact,run whatcha brung sort of affair. So been digging around re reading on vertical and horizontal displacement. The gun shoots 10X's from a deep clean,1st shot,cold bore H4198 55g load @2800. With what amts to zero horizontal...... groups. Below is a screenshot from the famous '87 article written on the Houston warehouse,300+ yard indoor private range..... and would suggest folks read it. It's very easy to find online. Notice,though it's not about vertical vs horizontal,the opening of the second paragraph...... I found that particularly interesting as I've had a cpl threads on engraving and this 223 ADL.
Yesterday afternoon I went over to John's new 57 acre digs to give him a property warming present (kinda like a house warming present). I gave him a sign that reads . . . "Private Road - Dead End - No Turn Around" because he now owns the road and the property on both sides.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
RB, gonna take a lot longer than a week to get your green wood down to kiln dried moisture content. The outsides, yeah, the inside will still be wet. Unless you mean to bring your shop heat way up and add some forced ventilation.
Got started on a couple "undone" projects yesterday now that it's warm enough more or less to really work outside. Years back when we got here I had part of my barn roof covered in steel. A few years later I had most of another part done. A few years later I need the other half of what wasn't done...done. And through all this I left my machine shed with shingles and it's roof has rotted away. Shingles suck. Just my opinion, but up here at least, they are useless. So now I'm having to tear the roof off the machine shed. When I say "I", I mean my boys, my daughters new boyfriend with the piercings (seems like a nice kid actually), or any other fool that happens to wander by and can be coerced/bribed into helping. We've jacked the soggy part of the roof up and the back (windward) half has to come off. It's a cruddy job to do. The lesson in all this is that cheaping out and not having all the barn roofs done at once was really, really stupid. The machine shed comes first while oldest boy is still here, he'll be on the road all summer till snow. The barn roof will be an Amish job. There is always a crew of young Amish guys with good balance ready to do these jobs for not a whole lotta money.
The transmission in the little Escape isn't acting weird now. ??? Maybe the trash in in the filter. I dunno, it'll die soon I'm sure.
Today is goat and sheep worming day! My wife chose to take a bunch of clothes to the Salvation Army store 50 miles away rather than hand around for that. Huh...
Got started on a couple "undone" projects yesterday now that it's warm enough more or less to really work outside. Years back when we got here I had part of my barn roof covered in steel. A few years later I had most of another part done. A few years later I need the other half of what wasn't done...done. And through all this I left my machine shed with shingles and it's roof has rotted away. Shingles suck. Just my opinion, but up here at least, they are useless. So now I'm having to tear the roof off the machine shed. When I say "I", I mean my boys, my daughters new boyfriend with the piercings (seems like a nice kid actually), or any other fool that happens to wander by and can be coerced/bribed into helping. We've jacked the soggy part of the roof up and the back (windward) half has to come off. It's a cruddy job to do. The lesson in all this is that cheaping out and not having all the barn roofs done at once was really, really stupid. The machine shed comes first while oldest boy is still here, he'll be on the road all summer till snow. The barn roof will be an Amish job. There is always a crew of young Amish guys with good balance ready to do these jobs for not a whole lotta money.
The transmission in the little Escape isn't acting weird now. ??? Maybe the trash in in the filter. I dunno, it'll die soon I'm sure.
Today is goat and sheep worming day! My wife chose to take a bunch of clothes to the Salvation Army store 50 miles away rather than hand around for that. Huh...
fiver
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throw them all a bunch of tobacco and wait for them to settle down from the buzz.
they will all be too green at the gills to give you any grief.
looks like you got a porcupine there BW.
if you roast them whole over an open fire you don't have to deal with the quills, and they stew in their own juices.
pretty good pork like substitution too.
you don't even have to shoot them [probably better if you don't] just bash them straight on, on the nose, with a large stick or board.
come to think of it that same method works real good on turkeys too, a 3' long chunk of 2x2 is pretty handy.
they will all be too green at the gills to give you any grief.
looks like you got a porcupine there BW.
if you roast them whole over an open fire you don't have to deal with the quills, and they stew in their own juices.
pretty good pork like substitution too.
you don't even have to shoot them [probably better if you don't] just bash them straight on, on the nose, with a large stick or board.
come to think of it that same method works real good on turkeys too, a 3' long chunk of 2x2 is pretty handy.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Yeah, they will. The worming component in tobacco is what one of the wormers I use/used is made up from. The worms become resistant to a specific wormer as time goes by and generations of worms live and die, you never kill them all. So every few years we have to switch wormers around. Nothing beats rotational grazing to cut down worm loads, but sheep will graze any patch of ground they can find no matter how many worms are there. Gotta keep up on it.
uncle jimbo
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Got the rest of the wheel weights all sorted today. Was a nice day, so I sat on the patio and done it there. 
Ian
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Stretched and spliced fence today, so happy to have an extra hour of life back in the afternoons to get stuff done. Got that whole run finished now, tee post clips on and everything tidied up. Time to make the corner and come back down the long slope to the road 320 feet, lots of tee post holes to bore in solid rock, whoopee. At least the line posts are all set and done for that run.
fiver
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your getting there.
I finished up the cold frame top this morning then took just the top off the box in the garage and put it out back about where it's gonna go.
it might help melt the snow there.
anyway I figured since I had all the stuff out and the tools sitting there I might as well just build the other top.
I got the frame all done today and can start on the plastic cover on Monday.
woulda got started on the plastic today but I got wrangled into smoking some chicken legs for dinner.
tomorrow I'm going down to shoot some Trap [well see if I can still shoot] it's been a while, and then to [corn beef and cabbage] dinner at Littlegirl's place.
I finished up the cold frame top this morning then took just the top off the box in the garage and put it out back about where it's gonna go.
it might help melt the snow there.
anyway I figured since I had all the stuff out and the tools sitting there I might as well just build the other top.
I got the frame all done today and can start on the plastic cover on Monday.
woulda got started on the plastic today but I got wrangled into smoking some chicken legs for dinner.
tomorrow I'm going down to shoot some Trap [well see if I can still shoot] it's been a while, and then to [corn beef and cabbage] dinner at Littlegirl's place.
Pistolero
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Warmer to day. Working with a new to me S&W Model 18. It shoots high at 15 yds, must
be sighted for 25. The ground is so soggy I have been just putting a target on the fence where the
bullets will go into the ground and shooting from the concrete parking pad. If it stays sunny for a
few days, maybe I can get out to the 25 yds spot with the backstop and not make it a mudhole just
by walking there.
That is excellent, waco. Awesome.
Bill
be sighted for 25. The ground is so soggy I have been just putting a target on the fence where the
bullets will go into the ground and shooting from the concrete parking pad. If it stays sunny for a
few days, maybe I can get out to the 25 yds spot with the backstop and not make it a mudhole just
by walking there.
That is excellent, waco. Awesome.
Bill
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Nice Waco.
I have a like new 541S Remington that sits unused since the big 22 drought back a few years. Bought it used off a LGS friend...... he had two,one was the T,fat barrel and the one I bought. Had already gotten past the whole fat barrel "everything" phase. Lovely rifle though and stupid accurate with better/best quality ammo.
Was at a,reasonably famous gunstore outside of Warrenton Va. -Clark bros. Been going in there since the early 1970's with my dad and brother. This must've been in the mid 90's..... go over to the used scope display nosing around looking for a scope for the 541. Here they sit,all these big fat....used high end scopes. This was when larger objectives were taking off. And couldn't give away anything with less than 50mm lense.
Over to the side is this little,brite blue Burris. It's a 4x32 German post reticle. "Can I see that one"...... pick it up and it's minty mint. Before even asking my bud behind the counter if he knew what this was ...... he breaks in with "yeah,funny ain't it"? with respect to yard sale price and how nice it was. Told him what I was putting it on and he gave me the proper Redfield mounts..... we both were sort of laughing about it. Beautiful rig.
I have a like new 541S Remington that sits unused since the big 22 drought back a few years. Bought it used off a LGS friend...... he had two,one was the T,fat barrel and the one I bought. Had already gotten past the whole fat barrel "everything" phase. Lovely rifle though and stupid accurate with better/best quality ammo.
Was at a,reasonably famous gunstore outside of Warrenton Va. -Clark bros. Been going in there since the early 1970's with my dad and brother. This must've been in the mid 90's..... go over to the used scope display nosing around looking for a scope for the 541. Here they sit,all these big fat....used high end scopes. This was when larger objectives were taking off. And couldn't give away anything with less than 50mm lense.
Over to the side is this little,brite blue Burris. It's a 4x32 German post reticle. "Can I see that one"...... pick it up and it's minty mint. Before even asking my bud behind the counter if he knew what this was ...... he breaks in with "yeah,funny ain't it"? with respect to yard sale price and how nice it was. Told him what I was putting it on and he gave me the proper Redfield mounts..... we both were sort of laughing about it. Beautiful rig.