so waht ya doin today?

[Brad]

Wife and I went to a bunch of antique stores. Passed on some pewter, way too much $.
Saw a Lyman 310 tool, in box, for 38 special. No way I would pay 95 bucks for one. Not sure I would pay 10?
Also saw a Lyman 450, practically new, in a somewhat abused box. It was 100 bucks.
Came home empty handed.

 

[waco]

Someone once told me to get a Star, you won't regret it. Took that advice. They were right.

 

[358156 hp]

I hunted with recurve bows with my dad when I was younger. Then we bought compound bows.
Alway thought recurved bows were much more elegant.

Another issue with compound bows is that no matter which one you get, it will be obsolete within 18 months. Some of them lose value much faster than cars do.

 

[Brad]

Someone once told me to get a Star, you won't regret it. Took that advice. They were right.

Didn’t buy the Lyman because I don’t need a second one collecting dust.

 

[Brad]

This shows the flooding around Bellevue where I live. My house is quite safe as we are on the bluffs well above the river. You can see some wooded draws near the oxbow bend in the river. I live near the southern most end of those draws. The oxbow is the area where I shot my first deer as a high school kid.

 

[Rally]

Are there man made levies on both sides of the areas pictured. Looks like some of that was pretty low ground at one time.

 

[Brad]

Levees on both sides of the river. A few breached just south of me.
What flooded is, amazingly, the flood plain. People keep wanting to build there. Many don’t have flood insurance because it can be expensive.
Most of the city I live in is on the bluffs above the river, the low land is on the far side. The oxbox that flooded is all low land and floods with some regularity.
Mother Nature doesn’t give a damn about what we build, she takes what she wants.

 

[Pistolero]

Been really pretty nice here for about a week. I think Spring has finally actually sprung, thank
goodness.

This was one PITA winter. I keep hoping for all this global warming to kick in and just can't seem to
find it around here.

Took out my M&P 45 this PM after the gun show to do the first real accuracy test. A friend that I haven't
seen in a couple of years went with me to the GS, and was telling me a friend of his had one and it was
too inaccurate to shoot IPSC head shots at 28 yds. Never really shot a group with mine, just
practicing some. So, I setup at 20 yds, put a target up on the fence and sat down on the parking pad and
shot a 10 rd magazine, using my "two eyed" shooting method. My eyes are getting pretty bad, but I am just
fine with this. 4.8 TG, Commercial H&G 68s that had been left in trunk on hot day, lube melted them into
solid glob. Had to drop the box on concrete a few times to break them loose and run them thru the Star to relube
with LBT soft blue, so part blue crayola and part LBT soft blue. Rem brass, used, Rem 2 1/2 primers in the Dillon
550. .469 TC and 1.250 LOA. I will take this. And there is an extra shot in that center cluster somewhere as a
double. It was about to rain, and about 5 pm, very overcast, so not great light which hurts me a lot more these
days than it used to.



Some knucklehead pulled one high, and they are about 4-5" high at that range, It hits about right with 230 JHPs that
I have tested it with previously, with the idea being more a SD gun than a target gun.

These run about 875-900 from a 5" 1911, should be pretty similar from this gun, a full sized, not the compact version.

For any not familiar with the IPSC target, the head is a 6x6 square. So not hitting it a 28 yds.....I don't think I would have
any trouble, using a neck hold, bottom edge of the head.

Bill

 

[Ian]

It was balmy and drizzly here as predicted so I succeeded in my only plan for the day which was to sleep in, a small victory these days. Chilled out with the wife and baby most of the day and entertained an afternoon guest for a bit. Then back to the probably foolhardy project of making the new sow's ear Lee 4-hole progressive into something that will load rifle cartridges. Got the PTE die finished last night and this evening got the auto-pro disk measure set up with the riser and converted to drop 35.8 grains of RX7 with double disks, then notched the sleeves of the Forster benchrest seating die and Lee FCD so the bullet would clear them as the shellplate indexes, and I'm just about ready to take it for a real test drive.

 

[Ian]

And you can spare me the "shoulda bought a Dillon 'cuz it works out of the box" routine, already caught a blast from my buddy this afternoon about that, LOL!

 

[Brad]

Wow, you did have the sliding stems. The Lee was obviously made short for pistol cartridges.
Ian, if you bought a Dillon you would still modify half of it anyway,

If anyone can make it work you will be that guy. Nice work.

 

[Bret4207]

Great minds think alike . . . . Was just sitting here thinking that very thing.

You guys got a mean streak a mile wide, ya know that?!!!


Yesterday was just filled with stress. Just one of those days. No rhyme or reason to it, it just happens. Oddly enough my 15 yo daughter was around me most of the day, just being a 15 year old girl. Huh. We need a few hundred billion to study this phenomenon. Did get out in the woods and get a little more wood. We're cutting standing dead Elm as the pile is gone. Used the crawler and oldest son had the tractor. Easy as pie.

Heard a theory the other day some here might have an opinion on. We have a burn ban here in NYS that lasts about 2 months in the spring. It's something that came about 4-5 years back, right about when the tick population ballooned. Guys theory is many people used to burn back the grass and weeds into the wood line up here. He thinks it killed the ticks around homes. I'm not sold, any thoughts? As with all the people buying Guinea Hens on the basis "they eat ticks around the house", I don't get it. I've never gottena tick around the house or in the fields. I get ticks in the brush and woods.

 

[Rick]

You guys got a mean streak a mile wide, ya know that?!!!

hehe . . . What can I say? Grass is already green, got flowers blooming, rose bushes leafed out, It's that time of year. BTW, today will only get to about 70 degrees.

 

[Winelover]

Lawnmower prepped after the last mowing of the Fall. Gas ran out of system, oil changed and filter cleaned, so it's ready for Spring. Twenty plus year old Honda, never fails to start on the first pull. Already use the weed wacker, three times. Weed wacked the 100 yard shooting lane and two ATV trails on the new acreage.

 

[RBHarter]

Went to a 6hr job try out yesterday for a buck an hour increase .... Appearently people that will show up and actually have some idea what their doing and will do it without continuous micro managing are hard to come by down here ....... I thought that was what you were supposed to do . You take jobs that you know how to do and learn new stuff . People you actually like are a bonus ...... Looks like it will be a $3+ increase . So off to write a proper notice to some folks I don't mind for a job I hate .

Have to drop off some tools and unload part of a truck to get to some of mine I need .

Mowers ....... The clover had a few 65°+ and sun days and exploded in the yard Ms mowed that last weekend it'll likely need it again next weekend . Mom's place is almost due again which means I have to finish some dirt work around the pond and the yard edges there .

 

[fiver]

I was watching something on the TV about Ticks out in field grass a while back.
I figure they are gonna hang out wherever their best chance for a meal is, if there are a lot of them on the bushes some of them will move out to the grass.

now there is something you don't see everyday..
we had a pretty good hard frost last night and it's snowing this morning.

 

[358156 hp]

Meanwhile in Nebraska, it's raining again. I'm alternating between laundry and trimming 223 brass on my Hot Rod Gracey. All it really needed was "more power".

 

[462]

We just ate two of the world's best cinnamon rolls -- something we do about three or four times a year. They are the size of a large salad plate, probably are rated at 3000 calories, and guaranteed to make us two-pounds heavier tomorrow morning.

YUMMY!!

 

[blackthorn]

Wednesday, Mar 20, loaded up the summer tires and a spare set of rims for trip to the shop to get the snow tires off and new summers' on. Got the old summers mounted on a spare set of rims so now the tires from the truck and utility trailer are the same. Came back in the house and about an hour later felt something in my hair---dang tick! Now I do not know where it came from as the yard is very short of grass/weeds, but there it was. Those things are hard to kill! I tried pinching it and then tried squashing it against the end table with my thumb and it just kept on crawling. Picked it up in a tissue and flushed it.

 

[Rick]

Not possible to crush them with just your fingers, fingers are too soft. Get them between something hard and a finger nail will crush them. Most of the ones I get are either flushed or I flick my bic and toast them. Hold the flame on them for just a few seconds and they pop like popcorn.