so waht ya doin today?

[Mitty38]

Well Boy and I finished Weed eating at the house and the club.
Then just finished doing some fitting and modifications to my wife's Western Field 22.
Cut it down 1&1/2 inches at the stock.Free floated the barrel and beaded it. Made a relief notch in the stock to make loading those .22lrs easier with a scope on it. Also ground a little off the bolt handle so it would stop banging the low mounted 4x30 scope. It polished back out well, was stainless steel.
Need to find, or make a new butt plate for it. The other one is not original any way and had been cobbled by the last redneck that owned it.
Just screwed the old one on for now. Going to have to take it out and see how it shoots and feels for her.
Then I can spiff it up an put the shine to it.
Might have to take another bit off the back. It is a 1/4 inch longer pull then the last one I cut down for her. Just if I go any further I will have to get into some major re-sculpting of the stock.
Now that it is done thus far she is saying she wants it black with a flash suppressor.
I am thinking drill the threads out a steel AR 15 flash hider then pin it the end.
Then get out the Krylon, for the wood, who wants to look at a beautifully marked, black walnut stock anyway???. Why not it was only a $75 back corner of the gun shop find.
I just love fiddling with old catalog guns. Cant devalue what no one wants.

 

[462]

Shot a combined 150 rounds through the .357 Blackhawk and the Vaquero, this morning. Fun stuff.

Looks like my county will be among those to be affected by the state dictator's announcement of House Arrest, Part 2. I reckon the range will be re-closed. Not fun stuff.

All the Chinese flu stuff has me completely baffled. Will the contradictions, lies, chaos, unrest, insanity ever end?

 

[waco]

Sizing the 700+ rounds of .44 200gr RNFP Bullets I cast and powder coated Sunday with my brother. These are for our lever guns. He has a Rossi 92 and I have a 1894 Marlin. Using a custom .433” push through size die. Dummy rounds chamber and feed like butter through both rifles. Thanks again Brad. You the man.

 

[JWFilips]

Actually had a job today so went to the studio to shoot 4 hours of English equestrian stuff! Kind of nice for a change!
Came home uploaded the files and went downstairs to do some more Wad Cutter casting...This time I got about 200 pieces.
For supper my son brought over a pot of Cabbage and Noodles he made ( Polish.... Haluski) He probably cooked up a few gallons of it!
His Grandmother got him hooked on it since he was a child! Nice to know he still uses Grand Ma's recipe! ( got to be a pound of butter in it!)

Took out what I Finally think, is the last marading wood chuck this evening! CCI Suppresor Hp's!
Dropped where he was hit! This guy was 25 + lbs ( at the expense of my gardens)

 

[Rally]

462,
IMO, no, no matter the outcome of the election.

Jim,
That Haluski sounds good, especially with the pound of butter.

I've been loading shotshells the last couple days. Some Activ hulls I got in a deal last summer. Mostly 20 gauge, part once fired, but also 107 new hulls. I've been moving the box around for almost a year now. My youngest grandson will shoot them up.
Should have a new granddaughter tomorrow. Doc told my daughter he would induce labor tomorrow if she doesn't have it tonight. That's eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. I must be getting old!

 

[Ole_270]

Had internet problems yesterday and this morning so had to call in and get some help. When I finally got outside it was cooler than expected with a north breeze. Huh, guess I'll smelt that range lead I've been accumulating. Didn't stay cool long enough. When I finished at about 1:30 I was having to lean well away from the half propane tank smelting pot to keep the sweat from dripping in. Oh well, netted another 140 lbs of good clean range lead that's been averaging .4% Sn, 1.4% Sb. This batch had a little more cast in it, but also some .410 slugs someone had been trying out.

 

[Mitty38]

Think a fellow I know local may have an older MEC. I may Just be able to get cheap, like maybey my no longer used Lee .243 die set cheap.

 

[Ian]

I finally had enough energy to actually start in on my light-duty, indoor, air-conditioned, quiet, recovery project. Didn't get much done as I tire out/space out in just a few minutes but I was at least able to keep going back to it over and over all day. Finally reached an impasse that required a trip to Harbor Freight for some moving dollies. Got two of them and put under my late FIL's black powder range box, got it all cleaned out and organized, combined my stuff with his, put a coat of furniture polish on it and rolled it under the reloading island out of the way, so now that an all my sundry BP items finally have a home. Two strong men and a small boy might be able to actually lift it and carry it through three doors to put in the back of an SUV or pickup one day, but for now all that stuff is at least together, safe, and out of the way.

Then I realized I don't have a .30-'06 resizing die. Dammit. And I REALLY need a steel .45 Colt sizing die, or *GAG$$$$!!* a Redding dual-ring die. I'm getting really close to finished with all my reloading systems, a few more bugs to work out and excess stuff to purge and I'll have it where I want it for a long time. Once I get the shooting shack completed I'll put most of my extra crap in there where it can get used. The third batch of carefully selected extra crap is going in the garage workshop in the Colorado house.

 

[Joshua]

@Ian, I could have sworn that you posted recently that you didn’t have a 30-06 and weren’t planning on getting one any time soon. So why do you need the die?

Josh

 

[fiver]

oh he has a 30-06... a very nicely chambered 30-06. kicked myself for not doing it too until I got that Bergara then I didn't care.
it's that other guy whose name starts with a B that ain't an American.

 

[Ian]

One with the bolt on the correct side for hunting kinda fell in my lap. My RCBS GMM die is mysteriously exactly 5mm too short. Hmph.

 

[Mitty38]

Blaser Jagdwaffen???

 

[fiver]

jagdwaffen pretty much means hunt rifle.
if you buy an R-8 you get laughed at [in some circles]
they are accurate rifles though, and their F-3 shotgun is one I wouldn't mind owning [as if I could afford one]

 

[Mitty38]

Only $9000 to start. You could sell your Bronco. Oh maybe 8 of your Bronco's.
And I am fretting over spending a buck 50 on an old shot gun to make a Korean war trench clone out of.

 

[creosote]

Ian, redding makes a steel 45 die.
I just ordered a set from Graf.
Will find out the dimensions in a week or so. Got it for my new fa 454. My wrists already hurt.

 

[Winelover]

The annual range membership fees are pretty steep too, bumping $4K this coming year. TANSTAAFL.

Maybe time to move out of that high rent district!

 

[JonB]

Day 21:
I haven't been upstairs (reloading room, casting room) since before the surgery, until today. I see some 45 cal bullets on the table, I'd like to size and lube them, but the garden is just hitting too hard, to spend time sizing bullets. Raspberries, gooseberries, and cherries. Green beans starting too. But first, I gotta do some PT on the knee.

Gun Range:
I don't have one in my back yard, but the one at the club (5 miles away) gets maintained exclusively by myself and one other club member, except for the mowing, another club member likes doing that, there is about 2 acres to mow and he does it with a small rider. The club is building a shooting shelter, but that has been put on hold, since Covid has canceled all our fundraisers. Money will be tight for many other things at the club also. It'll be interesting to see how our lack of income gets handled in the near future? ...I suspect a dues increase, hopefully if that is the case, that the increase will be temporary.

 

[fiver]

increase? temporary?

I don't know if they do it there or not but you can get Grants from the NRA to upgrade your range.
they helped build our two bathrooms.
they are like the out houses you see in a state park or whatever, all cement and such, but much better than a blue room and wheel chair accessible.

 

[popper]

At least Ian has some acreage to go with the range fee.
Rest of us just enough to mow and water. Was out at the bench this morning, thinking - maybe cast some? Maybe load some? Looked at the supply under the bench, thermometer on the wall. Guess I'll just try to go empty some cases tomorrow.
Decided to upload newer firmware in Mustang amp. dang, fender tone app won't connect now. Oh well.

 

[Ian]

Just got back from Dr's office in the big city. Neck drain is out, final pathology report is in, and I got a clean bill of health. I had an infection brewing and the tissue holding the drain tube stitches in let go last night in the shower so I had to sort of cram the tube back in enough to regain bulb suction and tape the geezus out of it to make it to my appointment today. That infection had me worried but it's only around the hole and Dr. didn't expect any complications at all.

(wheeeewwwww.......................)

It's finally over. Couple weeks to ease back into a normal diet and get my strength back and I'll be almost normal again. Dominant eye is still on the maybe list, we'll have to see how the nerves being affected by the drain tube heal before I'll know if the focal acuity will fully return.