so waht ya doin today?

[fiver]

I just piddled around the yard all day.
got the last of the shelves put up in the green house, and counted wood to make the roof bracing for this winter.
the back yard sort of needs mowing,,, but the grass in the garden area is like 8"s long and all the dandelions I hadn't been seeing decided to come up and bloom last night.

if the weather was half decent the Bee's might be out and about making use of the flowers out back that are in bloom.
well,, until the snow blows through this weekend.
on the bright side we are only a month away from last frost.

probably upsize the pots on a bunch of plants tomorrow, and put up a pole to run an extension cord out to the green house from the 4 wheeler shed.

 

[RBHarter]

I've been "looking" for a SS 300 BO to ream with a PPC reamer and use 6.8 mags in for a x39 AI with the fast twist . I have a load I used to use in an SKS that ran a 200 gr around 1600 fps but could be readily slowed down and probably be receptive to the NOE 230 I have on hand too .

 

[Pistolero]

Mowing this afternoon (Wed). Been so wet we are almost two weeks late. Makes for a
horrible job, have to double cut and still really ragged. We'll eventually catch up.

Got the new Star .431 sizer, finished up and running, now to get some castings big enough to make
.431, many molds only throw .430 or so.

 

[Bret4207]

What's needed here is some 70 degree plus weather, or warmer, and about 3 breezy days. I will probably attempt to hack down the jungle we laughingly call "the lawn" at some point soon...assuming I can avoid the ponds! I did get the hydraulic cylinders for the 420 crawler put back together last week, have to find the hoses for them and mount them. Still have to dismount one of the blade arms and straighten it, hopefully, in my Harbor Fright 20 ton press. I think I can do it, gonna be close for fit though. I don't know how much 1 1/2" solid steel take to bend, but I'm hopeful.

Daughters new horse gets here tomorrow, got gates to hang on a corral today, still need to figure what I need for haying parts, got a truck at the garage I need to check on, some fence to run and the sheep need moving again. If I counted right, and that's a BIG if, there should be 58 lambs running around out there as of this AM, including 3 set of triplets now. The little buggers are hard to count on a rocky pasture. They can be sleeping behind a rock the size of a football and you'll never see them, or they can get horsing around and you end up counting a few twice. So 58, giver or take 2 or 3. Less than 10% loss so far, and that's not terrible for a cold wet year. We really need some heat to get the grass growing though!

Had to write a short treatise on an up coming tax issue for the tiny FB community oriented page I run, one of 3. In a town of less than 900 souls a tiny little FB page can get the news out faster than you'd believe. Anyway, I get the thing all set to publish, I accidentally touch something and KAPOW! Half the stupid post is gone. Youse guys know I can get wordy, verbose and drone on endlessly when offered the chance, and there was a lot of text lost, with witty phrases, clever comparisons and it was all filled with irrefutable logic and undeniable charm. Things like that just roast my goose. 1/2 an hour wasted! Timesavers, that's what modern technology brings us. I don't recall the old Olivetti or Remington Rand ever making a few paragraphs simply vanish!

 

[Winelover]

Free Hazmat on $149 or more, two days only, at Natchez. And yes they have AA1680 in stock (8# at $141.10) and lower than PV ($167.95)

 

[L Ross]

Oh boy, the majority of my shooters arrive today and a bunch of rain is promised. This may turn into a gun show, buy, sell, trade, and give away weekend. I know there is a Bren Gun coming for show'n tell. I may get a change to buy a Remington Model 25, in 25-20. I know there is a German combo 8x48 Steyr and 16 ga. coming to go on the table.
Then there's biscuits and gravy Friday breakfast, homemade whole wheat/buckwheat pancakes and maple syrup Saturday breakfast, and BBQ chicken and ribs for Saturday supper. Bunch of friends and neighbors invited. Campfires in the evening with whisky and cigars, oh man I can hardly wait. Oh, we might even shoot too. I got my zeroes yesterday afternoon and that all went well until the 200 yard rams. My range in in a narrow tapering valley, it was 79 degrees and sunny with a great thermal up draft if those turkey vultures were any indication. The range slopes from left to right fairly steeply and has two good humps in it at 100 and 150. I was shooting two different groups depending on how hard the wind was blowing at our backs. The wind flag were showing contradictory info. Eley target ended up getting the nod over Wolf Match Target. I'm shooting a Winchester 1913 High Wall Special Sporting Rifle rebuilt by Wyoming Armory, with a Lyman 20X STS on it for the first time as my eyes are just not precise enough with the tang and aperture sights against younger guys shooting scopes. There were two of us that used to be our thing, trying to out score scopes with irons, but sadly those days may be behind us.

 

[Hawk]

Free Hazmat on $149 or more, two days only, at Natchez. And yes they have AA1680 in stock (8# at $141.10) and lower than PV ($167.95)

Winelover,
Will definatly order an 8 pounder of AA1680 today.
Thank you very much for the heads up. Guess I need to get on their email list!
Now I need to find other uses for the AA1680, since I'll have a lot of it.

 

[fiver]

375 win, 300 BO, any of the super mag cartridges, the 25-20, X39, 223, it will shoot cast in any of the 30 cal rifles pretty well too, just use 4227 data. [airc it was 22 or 23grs. I was shooting in the 0-6]
the 22-250/220 swift will take it just fine for 'lower velocity' 2100-ish stuff.

I could go on, but I started replacing it in some spots with 2230 for pressure reductions.

 

[Hawk]

Ordered AA1680 from Natchez.
Powder on sale and free Hazmat! Wahooo!
Thanks again.

 

[popper]

Was to go to Mom's today but 2 sprinkler Co guys showed up. One wanted 400$ to fix the pipe, other 3K$ to fix pipe and dig drainage on the side of the house. Gotta call another tree Co. So I annealed and sized another 400 308W brass. Got 1300 to go.

 

[Ian]

Spending a second hour sitting at Discount Tire since they can't seem to follow instructions and do what the note I handed the punk at the counter asked them to do. Today has been Incompetence Thursday. Three orders of parts from different dealerships got delivered to the shop while I've been sitting here, can hardly wait to get back and find out how many of the parts are wrong, missing, misboxed, mischarged, etc. This morning, not a single thing I ordered went right. Spent 45 minutes yelling at the uniform guy, yelling at his boss on the phone (the one who keeps making promises to fulfill contract that the driver can't deliver on), and so forth.

 

[Hawk]

Hope you didn't rail too much at the delivery guy.
Not his fault. He just delivers the box they hand him.

 

[462]

The area's only gun store has been sitting on a large cache of reloading related items, for a family whose father is in ill health, and I've been checking weekly to see if any of the stuff has been displayed for sale.

Today I hit the jackpot -- powder at $10 per pound cash, no tax!
Four pounder of Unique
One pounder of H110
One pounder of 2400

I've got my eyes on some other stuff, but will have to wait till next week.

 

[Ian]

I never give the delivery people a hard time unless they screw up something themselves (forget a part on the counter three cities away, bring me someone else's order, etc.), and even then not too bad because we all make mistakes once in a while. However, the the uniform delivery guy is responsible for shortages, replacements, garments lost at the plant (today's issue), and anything else involved with servicing our account. I went back to January and found five weeks this year that there hasn't been a problem that I had to spend time discovering, sorting through, and making him fix, so yeah, I tore his everloving head off, then gave his boss the same dose on the phone. I'm sick of it.

Got my tire situation sorted, only cost me another hour's pay at work. $#&&^@ mental midgets. As a business, ALL they do is change tires, that's it. Not complicated. Why do they suck at it? I should have taken the spare that they put the wrong tire on (and didn't balance) back and just thrown it through their plate glass window. If the lobby hadn't been full of innocent customers I might seriously have done it.

 

[462]

Ian,
In my working life incompetence started in the early 1990s, at least here. But wherever you find it, it is here to stay, what with the ill-educated and lazy whose lives revolve round hand-held electronic gizmos.

 

[Ian]

When consequences are removed, that's what you get. Those clowns still got paid, both times. Kid at the homestore who couldn't identify or find an unlabeled 2x4x8 in the computer system so he could sell it to me got paid, too. I'm quite sure he also got paid while being trained, although I'm not sure whose fault it is that the training failed so badly. Incompetent employees are a reflection of their management more than anything.

 

[fiver]

Incompetent employees are a reflection of their management more than anything.

we have a winner.
this apples to most everything, just change out the words employee's and management for the particular situation.

 

[Pistolero]

When I am complaining to an individual who has not done anything, but will be the
carrier of my rant back to the company, I am very careful to, multiple times, point out that
I am not at all upset with them personally, but I am very upset at their COMPANY, and then
explaining exactly why I am unhappy. I always close with another repetition that I am not
upset or blaming them personally, but I do expect my comments to get back to management.

And I tend to ask questions rather than just rant. Like when the car dealer 'turned my rotors' on the
front brakes and they went from a low frequency pulsation to a high frequency pulsation and a
visual inspection showed a horribly bad surface finish with terrible, deep tool chatter marks. When
I called back to the service manager who had handled it and complained, he said, "OK, no problem,
bring it back and we will turn them again." My comment was, "OK, exactly what will you be doing
differently this time? A different technician? A different tool? What are you doing so that I would
have an expectation of a different outcome this time?" After about 5 or 10 seconds of silence on the
other end, he said, "How about I replace the rotors with new ones." My comment was, " I am not angling
for new ones particularly, but I DO expect the brake pedal to not pulsate, and if that is the only way
you can solve that, then OK." Under warranty, and I didn't yell at anyone, just asked some pointed,
informed, specific questions.

it seems useful to ask them how they intend to fix the problem and to prevent it from repeating
itself next time. For some this opens entire vistas of new concepts where they may never have
mentally wandered otherwise.

Bill

 

[Winelover]

Went to Discount Tire to get a tire plugged, on my way home from work, years ago. Puncture wasn't in the sidewall. They said they wouldn't/couldn't do it. Left there and went to a family run independent in a bad part of Detroit. They fixed it with no issues. They wouldn't balk repairing a sidewall, either................just put a boot in. Never did business with Discount Tire, again.

 

[Winelover]

Got a second email promotion from Natchez, yesterday. Buy eight pounds of certain shotgun powders and get a one pound or a 14 ouncer, free. Didn't check if it could be used with the free HazMat promotion..............I'm flush with powder.