so waht ya doin today?

[Rick]

Hmmm. I'd prefer to remove a sprinkler before I'd remove a 16 year old live oak, but that's just my bias
towards trees, esp live oaks showing I'm sure there is more to it than that. Bill

Pretty much what I thought too. I would do without the sprinklers completely before removing the oak. It will only take 16 years to replace the tree at which time ya could have a 32 year old oak. But that's my bias too I guess, I bought this place largely because of the old growth oaks.

 

[Intheshop]

Been having a streak of good luck on Ebay making "offers".....

Got some of my favorite Easton arrows yesterday for like 1970's $$. Got a made in USA,BMW golf shirt (for bow shooting) for 1.99$ and what this post is about..... an LL Bean goretex lite rain jacket for a very low offer.

It's raining today so am practicing shooting bows...... in the rain,in the new...rain jacket. Just interesting,folks seem to only practice on blue bird days? Or when the wind is calm....

 

[Intheshop]

Dang,got a message from Ebay about my arrows,from the seller basically saying....over the top how much they appreciate the business and all?

OK,considering the fact that we're a bunch of low ballin pro shooters that will do whatever it takes to feed the habit,sure.... thanks?

 

[Intheshop]

But anyway,back to how this applies to CB's......

About a month ago...... we(the family) were at a,stupid secret hideaway proshop archery facility. We were there,besides the convenience to shoot 3D at their range,to just hang out with each other and get some practice in. Generally when an LGS or pro shop has a range we'll spend some $$ just to keep it all real......

So,I buy a finger tab.....

My regular tab is a long since discontinued leather tab. It "was" pretty famous back in the day. I got a few of them,whatever. But when it rains..... and here's where it applies to shooting cast.... it will drop shots after about an hour of being in the wet. So I break out the,gotta purchase sumthin from the pro shop tab. Dang if it doesn't "like" shooting in the rain?

 

[Intheshop]

So,do you practice in the rain? What have you learned?

 

[462]

We have a cluster of six coastal live oaks in our yard that have to be 150-years old, and others in the neighborhood are even older. Neither the neighbors, nor us, would ever consider getting rid of them. Now, cypress tress are another matter.

 

[Hawk]

Well, The Fuzzy Brother's Mothers Day BBQ was a great success.
Weather was sunny and a perfect 79 degrees.
Had about 35 people present and no hard feeling, stabbings or shootings!
Had some left overs of everything except the banana pudding. It went fast. About four gallons of it and it was all gone in ten minutes.
Always nice to get the family and friends together for a day to relax, catch up with each other and eat some good old fashion comfort food.

 

[CZ93X62]

Bret--Jello Shooters amuse me. I'm glad that Capstick didn't partake of the practice--I don't think that Death In The Long Walk-In Reefer Unit would get much traction as a book title.

Mother's Day and a couple May birthdays got celebrated yesterday at our house. I had been feeling flu-ish most of the day, and it hit like a ton of bricks last night. Miserable with body aches, and couldn't sleep worth beans until I took 2 extra-strength Tylenol about 0245 hours. Aches receded a lot, but still feel like [BLANK]. Spending most of the day in bed, and doing the right things to stave off this [BLANK]. Yucky.

 

[waco]

Just FL sized 100 new pieces of Starline .308 brass. I have several good cast loads anywhere from 1600fps to 2600fps
I'm going to try and get a good load for this 500 pack of 175gr tipped SMK bullets using Varget. Looks like 41.6gr might be the one. Time to load up ten and go testing.

 

[Tom]

I've seen videos of people shooting jello. 30 years ago, I saw Gallagher performing in Reno. He used his sledge o mattic on some jello. The jello hit us at over 100 feet away. Sledge o mattic wins, hands down.

 

[Ian]

Sounds like what I had about two weeks ago, Al. Mine started with hay fever symptoms for a few days and turned to terrible aches and medium fever. Hopefully yours breaks quickly like mine did and doesn't turn into a chest cold.

Worked until 3 today, went to OB appt. with wife and toddler, on to supper (out), came home and did front brakes, shocks, and suspension snubbers on the Tahoe. Found out both front hub/bearings are about to be toast and both inner tie rod ends are knocking back and forth with about 1/8" of play in them. It's only another $500 worth of parts , good thing I don't have to pay anyone about six hours in labor to replace them and reset the toe-in. I'm starting to feel like Bret.

 

[Pistolero]

I wonder if you know any parts guy that might give you a break on prices, Ian?

Unless that is already the 'break on a price' price. How many miles to get a Tahoe to
that condition?

Used vehicles are always a bit of work to bring back up to spec, IME. Although I must say my
4Runner just needed fluids in all the parts to be OK....well and a new gas cap a month after I
bought it. It made the light show on the dash go away.

Bill

 

[Ian]

200K. I'm working my way through the pattern-failure stuff and re-doing some common failure items that weren't properly addressed when repaired previously. Intermittently stuck-open thermostat, for instance.

That IS price-break prices. I could spend half that on econo-grade parts but I'd be doing the job again in a year. The front brakes I replaced were practically new as it turns out, good ceramic brake pads and new rotors, exact same O'Reilly parts that I got to replace them. Problem is the doofus who installed them put the outside pads with two wear indicators on the inside where the single-indicator pad is supposed to go, so the extra wear tab was jamming up against the caliper stand and causing drag/overheating/warpage. I could have had the rotors machined, but $15 each plus the hassle didn't make since when I could put new ones on there for $44 each. Gonna try and do the rears tomorrow, the shudder is atrocious and I can see the pads are getting thin.

 

[Pistolero]

Agree that a lot of the time it makes no sense to turn rotors, as cheap as they often are. I did
have one turned on my 4Runner. Down to steel on one side only, slight scarring, very light cut to
clean up, so it made sense.
A lot of 'wore out' for 200K, it would seem, but sometimes they see harder than normal service,
rough roads, heavy loads, etc. i figured those might already be the good prices. Oh well, it will
last a good while once it is back in shape. And like you say...labor is free.

I figure that in my life I have probably saved an easy $40-50K in labor charges doing my own work
since about 67 or so. more than 50 years at it had to save close to a grand a year with routine
maintenance and a number of complete engine overhauls, transmission changes, body work,
new convertible top, lots of brake and wheel brg jobs and tune ups back when that was common.
Three or four paint jobs, replacing windows and windshields, rewelding seat frames and reupholstery.
Carb rebuilds, installing crate motors, new radios, ...... pretty much every part of a car. In the last
couple of decades with a lot of Hondas, a lot less, but each job saved more $$ as prices for labor
are so high now.
Not even including the work I have done for friends for nothing. Radiator and water pump in a
friend's Toyota PU, then an alternator in same last year, but he helps me with my Smith bbls and such.

Bill

 

[smokeywolf]

Mrs. smokeywolf's brakes on her Chevy truck went 200,000; would have gone at least another 20K. Just did the tie rod ends on her truck about a year ago. Two fuel pumps.

Never had the time to do all of my own repair and maintenance, but did much, if not most of it, as I couldn't stand the idea of paying someone else as much or more than I made in my own job.

 

[Bret4207]

I think it depends on where you live. No matter where we go it's twisted, curvy, off camber turns and hills. I have to say the roads in the mountains where I grew up are much better than most of these in the "flatlands". My F350 came used with oversized wheels and tires and a lift kit. I thought I could find a set of stock wheels for $20 or so and pull the lift kit. Oh no! Stock wheels are running $40-50 EACH and pulling the lift kits meansn ew this and that according to my mechanic. I know nothing about them, so I'll take his word for it. So I live with huge freakin' tires that I'm sure put a lot more torque on everything underneath. When my oldest daughter was living close by she was going through brakes faster than her brother. Every curve she'd nail the brakes, it adds up. Then, for fun, throw in the fact we spend 6 months of the year driving in a salt water solution and you have a perfect recipe for keeping Rock Auto and NAPA in business. One of th e big businesses up here is getting "southern" used cars. Mind you, southern means Pa or Jersey, not Georgia or Arizona. Even Vt. uses less crap on the roads than NY! But, divorce is a lot more expensive than putting up with it, so here I am.

Ian, used cars are like kids- there is always something wrong with them, but most of them turn out alright if you put enough love into them.

Freakin' cold and soaking, saturated, thinking-of-building-an-ark wet here. We opened up more of the barn for the sheep and lambs last night and drove them all up to the barn. Had some late afternoon newborns I was really concerned about. Couldn't get the sheep to go in the barn! The lambs wouldn't cross the standing water and the ewes would go in and then back out to find their lambs. We're talking 50ish lambs that would run back out fo the barn if you did manage to get them in. A real cluster! So we got them up on on old feed mounds where the round bales had been so they at least weren't standing in water. It was stressing them way too much trying to move them inside. I figured for sure I'd have a couple dead lambs this AM, but to my surprise they all appear to be out there and walking. Tough little buggers, lambs. Supposed to be 34-36F here tonight with the possibility of snow. Going to be a long night no matter what.

 

[Winelover]

FYI, Powder Valley is running free HazMat on orders of $149 or more...........just for today.

 

[Hawk]

FYI, Powder Valley is running free HazMat on orders of $149 or more...........just for today.

Only on Hodgdon, Winchester and IMR brands of powders.
I need some AA1680 and I don't remember their ever having free Hazmat on Accurate Arms powder.

 

[L Ross]

Well my first shooter arrives this afternoon, I'm mostly ready. The majority will show up early afternoon Thursday, then the fun will begin. Today is supposed to be dry and sunny so I'll stand all the targets up on the rails and let them warm in the sun and paint them this afternoon. I'll also mow the range today or tomorrow for that neatly groomed look. Want to check on morels before I get too busy.

 

[Winelover]

Only on Hodgdon, Winchester and IMR brands of powders.
I need some AA1680 and I don't remember their ever having free Hazmat on Accurate Arms powder.

Just a minor inconvenience. After you make the first $149................you can add all the Accurate powder you desire.

Or primers, for that matter. When I buy, I buy in bulk.............preferably 8 pounders. Adds up fast. BTW, I like Accurate powders, also. But not exclusively.