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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
School called yesterday morning insisting I take my daughter to have her "broken arm" xrayed. It had been paining her Monday, we all figured she pulled a muscle wrasslin' goats and she had a brace on. Went to the school nurse to get some Motrin and the nurse went off the deep end about her "broken arm". So, off to the ER we go, and yes I was PO'd. Met the crabbiest old RN I've seen in years and a nice PA student and her overseer. No, of course the arm isn't broken. Threw my whole day off. She had another dr appt at 4pm in one of our larger surrounding towns an hour away, but at least I got to go to Harbor Freight and get a 17 lbs digging bar with a tamper on the end for fence posts. Got home and chased horses. I'll be fencing today.
L Ross
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Oh boy, eyes. I'd never been to the eye doctor until I was in my late 30's because I noticed floaters and didn't know what they were. A couple years ago I had a weird flashing grid in my vision that went away in 10 minutes, I called the eye Dr. and got an appt. in a month and she told me it was an ocular migraine and no big deal. I have had good vision all of my life, and for 65 yrs. old still do.
Yesterday, all of this eye talk got my thinking, so I took the Remington Model 6 Boy's Rifle out to shoot the chickens at 12 1/2 yards with CB shorts and I wore my reading glasses. Holy cow, the front sight isn't a fuzzy little ball leaning to the right after all! As long as I did my part most of the chickens flipped off the rail.
Next experiment. I have a 1913 vintage Winchester 1885 Sporting Rifle that I had Wyoming Armory rebuild. I've been shooting it for years and while it has scope blocks on it, I stubbornly use a Hoch tang sight and an aperture front sight and I average 3 or 4 chickens out of 10 offhand at 50 yards. On a day where the light is perfect and all is right in the world I get 5 or 6. Yesterday I had been out string trimming for a couple of hours and my arms were fatigued, but I wanted to shoot and try a Lyman 20X Super Target Spot on the Winchester. The rifle has a 3 weight barrel and is fairly heavy and the Lyman only added more. I wasn't expecting good scores but after getting a good 50 yard zero I went to work on the chickens.
First bank of 10 yielded 6 knock downs. Arms were a little tired but I reset the targets and tried again. I got 8! Ran the first 6 in a row. I know, I know, you can't hit what you can't see, but darn, a rifle just looks so clean with a tang sight on it. I guess concessions must be accepted. I should have known. I have a 6X Fecker on the Ballard in my avatar, but I rationalized that was 200 yard shooting and everyone was shooting scoped. At 20X those chickens don't look like sparrows anymore.
Yesterday, all of this eye talk got my thinking, so I took the Remington Model 6 Boy's Rifle out to shoot the chickens at 12 1/2 yards with CB shorts and I wore my reading glasses. Holy cow, the front sight isn't a fuzzy little ball leaning to the right after all! As long as I did my part most of the chickens flipped off the rail.
Next experiment. I have a 1913 vintage Winchester 1885 Sporting Rifle that I had Wyoming Armory rebuild. I've been shooting it for years and while it has scope blocks on it, I stubbornly use a Hoch tang sight and an aperture front sight and I average 3 or 4 chickens out of 10 offhand at 50 yards. On a day where the light is perfect and all is right in the world I get 5 or 6. Yesterday I had been out string trimming for a couple of hours and my arms were fatigued, but I wanted to shoot and try a Lyman 20X Super Target Spot on the Winchester. The rifle has a 3 weight barrel and is fairly heavy and the Lyman only added more. I wasn't expecting good scores but after getting a good 50 yard zero I went to work on the chickens.
First bank of 10 yielded 6 knock downs. Arms were a little tired but I reset the targets and tried again. I got 8! Ran the first 6 in a row. I know, I know, you can't hit what you can't see, but darn, a rifle just looks so clean with a tang sight on it. I guess concessions must be accepted. I should have known. I have a 6X Fecker on the Ballard in my avatar, but I rationalized that was 200 yard shooting and everyone was shooting scoped. At 20X those chickens don't look like sparrows anymore.
Ian
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12 hz. flashing "afterimage" in central vision, had it for a few minutes at a time once or twice a day for years and I was 30 something seeing my third retinal specialist before I finally got the migraine explanation. Must have been two or three dozen MDs of various sorts I'd asked about it over the years and nobody had a clue other than telling me it's "blood pressure" or just shrugging. I figured out the exact frequency by playing with a variable frequency strobe light in the physics lab in college.
Sudden onset of floaters or lighting-bolt flashes of light is always cause for immediate appointment with eye MD because both are indicators of potential retinal tears or detachment, and time is of the essence to minimize the damage. Had a shop owner friend years ago who was walking across the shop and suddenly noticed his eye was "filling up with ink", turns out his whole retina let go from the bottom up in about 30 seconds. Emergency visit to eye doc got it stapled back down with a laser right away and saved his vision.
Sudden onset of floaters or lighting-bolt flashes of light is always cause for immediate appointment with eye MD because both are indicators of potential retinal tears or detachment, and time is of the essence to minimize the damage. Had a shop owner friend years ago who was walking across the shop and suddenly noticed his eye was "filling up with ink", turns out his whole retina let go from the bottom up in about 30 seconds. Emergency visit to eye doc got it stapled back down with a laser right away and saved his vision.
uncle jimbo
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I want one of these. Couldn't afford to shoot it much, but it would be fun.
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Milkor USA Offer Army Trade-In M32 40MM Grenade Launchers For Sale -
Milkor USA have announced a small batch of original US Army trade-in M32 revolving 40mm grenade launchers are available for purchase. Of course being 40mm launchers the M32s in civilian hands must be registered as Destructive Devices.
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Hawk
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Raining here like a cow peeing on a flat rock!
Will start cleaning the house today. Getting ready for my annual Fuzzy Brothers Mothers Day BBQ. (I've got a beard, hence, fuzzy brother)
This will be the 35 year in a row that I have had one.
Brisket, sausage, home made BBQ sauce, potatoes salad, baked beans, pea salad, deviled eggs, home made rolls, cole slaw and banana pudding.
We are expecting 35 to 40 people this year.
You would be suprised how many people have never had deviled eggs before!
Will start cleaning the house today. Getting ready for my annual Fuzzy Brothers Mothers Day BBQ. (I've got a beard, hence, fuzzy brother)
This will be the 35 year in a row that I have had one.
Brisket, sausage, home made BBQ sauce, potatoes salad, baked beans, pea salad, deviled eggs, home made rolls, cole slaw and banana pudding.
We are expecting 35 to 40 people this year.
You would be suprised how many people have never had deviled eggs before!
Ian
Notorious member
Here too, exactly the analogy. My Dad used to say that.
Ian
Notorious member
The problem with the 40mm stuff isn't so much getting it transferred as a DD on the ATF Form 4, it's the fact that EVERY SINGLE GRENADE has paperwork, a transfer fee, and tax stamp. Yup, wait a year or two and pay $200 each. The smoothbore 37mm "signal device" is much more practical...but I don't think they made revolver versions.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Deviled eggs and Swedish meatballs, 2 pot luck favorites of mine. I usually eat way too much of both. We don't make either here at home.
My eye related migraines almost always result in tunnel vision. Anyone else get those?
Got a mess of fence posts pulled. They're going right back in the ground after lunch.
My eye related migraines almost always result in tunnel vision. Anyone else get those?
Got a mess of fence posts pulled. They're going right back in the ground after lunch.
About the only cooking my crazy M.I.L. does anymore is @90 y.o.,she makes me deviled eggs. They really aren't anything special but heck,that's ok....
When we go over there she's got 1/2 dz eggs done up,making 12 "halves". Has them wrapped and pkg for travel. Everytime,the plate never leaves her house,haha.
When we go over there she's got 1/2 dz eggs done up,making 12 "halves". Has them wrapped and pkg for travel. Everytime,the plate never leaves her house,haha.
Pistolero
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Basically, Ian, they have worked out a way of making them illegal without making them actually illegal.
Love deviled eggs, my Mother made great ones, taught my wife. A MUST HAVE at Thanksgiving and other special
dinners.
Take care of your eyes. Other than modest nearsightedness correction, slight astigmatism correction, my eyes
were fine. 20/20 to 20/15 my whole life. At age 63-64 the roof fell in. Fighting with glaucoma and had cataracts
out. Miracles of modern medicine, no doubt, but if I could have one wish, it would not be for money, fame or
a Ferrari or a Hellcat.....it would be to have my 30 year old eyes back on a permanent basis. Hell, I'd even be
thrilled with my 55 year old eyes!
OK Bret.....why pull one and put it back? I am certain you are not just doing it for the "fun" of it. Moving a
fence?
Bill
Love deviled eggs, my Mother made great ones, taught my wife. A MUST HAVE at Thanksgiving and other special
dinners.
Take care of your eyes. Other than modest nearsightedness correction, slight astigmatism correction, my eyes
were fine. 20/20 to 20/15 my whole life. At age 63-64 the roof fell in. Fighting with glaucoma and had cataracts
out. Miracles of modern medicine, no doubt, but if I could have one wish, it would not be for money, fame or
a Ferrari or a Hellcat.....it would be to have my 30 year old eyes back on a permanent basis. Hell, I'd even be
thrilled with my 55 year old eyes!
OK Bret.....why pull one and put it back? I am certain you are not just doing it for the "fun" of it. Moving a
fence?
Bill
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Floaters? Doc says they are my 'homeless' friends. Son had bad migraines, tunnel vision was sign of onset. Then he would puke and it's gone. His GS teacher wouldn't let him go to the boys room so he projectiled on her. Only time I got it was at 30k-ft and take off the O2 mask.
I get the jagged lightning stuff all the time. Mostly floaters and lightning are slight sluffing of the edge of the retina. If you get the 'curtain' effect, run, don't walk to Doc.
Wanted to go to the Mother's Day party at Mom's place but nasty weather and traffic. An hour on the toll road isn't fun.
I get the jagged lightning stuff all the time. Mostly floaters and lightning are slight sluffing of the edge of the retina. If you get the 'curtain' effect, run, don't walk to Doc.
Wanted to go to the Mother's Day party at Mom's place but nasty weather and traffic. An hour on the toll road isn't fun.
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CZ93X62
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I need to 'look in' here more often.
Who the H uses a muzzle brake on a 22-250?? C'MON, MANG.
Marie and I did a little day trip out to the low desert a few days back. This time of year, our part of the state gets coastal overcast that lasts much of the day and makes things a little gloomy. Later this week, we are supposed to get rain with that overcast. The remedy for this gray-day bit is a trip east into the deserts. Once over the Passes, the gray crud is gone and bright, sunny conditions prevail. Wind, too--but ya gotta break eggs to make souffle, am I right? The wind dissipated as we continued east on I-10 past Palm Springs, temps were getting toastier as well--it threatened to break 100* in Indio, but not quite--it got to 99* and no higher, so the locals stayed in their sweatshirts by City Ordinance. So compliant, those desert denizens.
That day's trip had the idea to clear Marie's head out after 4 days of nutbar dysfunction on the part of her professors (Microbiology) at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa, CA. Marie retired from teaching 2 years ago on account of the dysfunction in the K-12 public schools system in CA, and some of that same disease has permeated the higher education and vocational education realms as well. I despise bullies in any form, and seeing bullies that destroy peoples' dreams with their bull^%*$ and nonsense really grinds my gears. I saw it in my university years, hated it then, and watching it again being inflicted upon my wife......I better just shut up, and leave it at I have no use whatsoever for institutions of higher learning or for a lot of the people that staff them.
Another reason for heading out was to check the status of the desert flowers' "superbloom" that we have been enjoying almost weekly since mid-February. Most of that is about over with, though desert mallows are blooming now and are just beautiful. The palo verde trees and the ocotillo are in bloom, and this is a sure sign that summer heat isn't far off. It was during this little survey of our that a road which had been closed since mid-October after a DOGMATIC flash flood was recently opened--and within the past few hours, it appeared. Box Canyon Road runs from its I-10 interchange/offramp to the town of Mecca near the north end of the Salton Sea. It has a surreal appearance in places along its route, kind of an other-worldly vibe to a lot of it. Google the term "Box Canyon Road" and some interesting info pops up, especially an aerial video shot on 10/13/18 by Bob Andersen of the flood damage to the Road.
All better now, and certainly not the first time the Road has been in need of flood repair. Most years, the flash floods just wash over the roadway--leave some sand and rocks laying around--and call it "good". Well, when you build a roadway in a desert dry wash there are some down-sides to the practice. And in most years, the County Road Department runs a sweeper and plow to clear stuff off the pavement and opens the road back up in a day or three. Not so, this time around--and the County did it right. All-new pavement for 8 miles, and nicely finished. 6-1/2 months to rebuild 8 miles of highway......not bad at all.
Who the H uses a muzzle brake on a 22-250?? C'MON, MANG.
Marie and I did a little day trip out to the low desert a few days back. This time of year, our part of the state gets coastal overcast that lasts much of the day and makes things a little gloomy. Later this week, we are supposed to get rain with that overcast. The remedy for this gray-day bit is a trip east into the deserts. Once over the Passes, the gray crud is gone and bright, sunny conditions prevail. Wind, too--but ya gotta break eggs to make souffle, am I right? The wind dissipated as we continued east on I-10 past Palm Springs, temps were getting toastier as well--it threatened to break 100* in Indio, but not quite--it got to 99* and no higher, so the locals stayed in their sweatshirts by City Ordinance. So compliant, those desert denizens.
That day's trip had the idea to clear Marie's head out after 4 days of nutbar dysfunction on the part of her professors (Microbiology) at Crafton Hills College in Yucaipa, CA. Marie retired from teaching 2 years ago on account of the dysfunction in the K-12 public schools system in CA, and some of that same disease has permeated the higher education and vocational education realms as well. I despise bullies in any form, and seeing bullies that destroy peoples' dreams with their bull^%*$ and nonsense really grinds my gears. I saw it in my university years, hated it then, and watching it again being inflicted upon my wife......I better just shut up, and leave it at I have no use whatsoever for institutions of higher learning or for a lot of the people that staff them.
Another reason for heading out was to check the status of the desert flowers' "superbloom" that we have been enjoying almost weekly since mid-February. Most of that is about over with, though desert mallows are blooming now and are just beautiful. The palo verde trees and the ocotillo are in bloom, and this is a sure sign that summer heat isn't far off. It was during this little survey of our that a road which had been closed since mid-October after a DOGMATIC flash flood was recently opened--and within the past few hours, it appeared. Box Canyon Road runs from its I-10 interchange/offramp to the town of Mecca near the north end of the Salton Sea. It has a surreal appearance in places along its route, kind of an other-worldly vibe to a lot of it. Google the term "Box Canyon Road" and some interesting info pops up, especially an aerial video shot on 10/13/18 by Bob Andersen of the flood damage to the Road.
All better now, and certainly not the first time the Road has been in need of flood repair. Most years, the flash floods just wash over the roadway--leave some sand and rocks laying around--and call it "good". Well, when you build a roadway in a desert dry wash there are some down-sides to the practice. And in most years, the County Road Department runs a sweeper and plow to clear stuff off the pavement and opens the road back up in a day or three. Not so, this time around--and the County did it right. All-new pavement for 8 miles, and nicely finished. 6-1/2 months to rebuild 8 miles of highway......not bad at all.
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
We'll be locked in the coastal overcast mode till sometime in September. Usually, the sun breaks through round 1:00 or 2:00, for a few hours. The gloom keeps daytime temperatures in the 60s and the overnights in the low 50s, which is just about perfect.
Pistolero
Well-Known Member
Good video. Wiped out the road for a long way, for sure.
Last Sept we came down through Tehachapi, then to I-10, got off at Indio, and worked down and ran
111 on the east side of Salton Sea. Then to Brawley, and headed east towards Yuma. The Cayman
was not a vehicle where I was looking for dirt roads to explore! Not that kind of trip. Maybe in the
4Runner.
Bill
Last Sept we came down through Tehachapi, then to I-10, got off at Indio, and worked down and ran
111 on the east side of Salton Sea. Then to Brawley, and headed east towards Yuma. The Cayman
was not a vehicle where I was looking for dirt roads to explore! Not that kind of trip. Maybe in the
4Runner.
Bill
