so waht ya doin today?

[L Ross]

My young neighbor, (20), that I often shoot with, stopped over last evening to do a little off hand shooting. Our time was limited so he just brought a Winchester 9422 XTR with barrel mounted open sights. I took an old Marlin Model 80 DL with the factory receiver sight. We shot 4" diamonds and prairie dogs at 80 yards. We both shot surprisingly well and had fun. We went through 20 targets twice.

Walking down to the range my friend told me, "I wish I had bought more .22 ammo when I could get it." I had badgered him until he and his father each bought a case of Aguila Super Extra, and he had bought a few bricks of Blazers at Wal-Mart. Like a lot of us rural dwellers who can identify their small number of neighbors by the pickup truck they drive at 1/4 mile, we woefully under estimate the number of people in this vast country. My young friend was surprised that with the ammo companies running 24/7 all of their production is immediately snapped up. I on the other hand am old enough to have seen this scenario before. I resisted the urge to simply give him some ammo and some primers. (I taught him not only to reload but also to cast.) There is plenty of time to help him out if this pinch goes on too long. Besides, in the 8 years he's been hanging out here at Thorn Hollow he has shot up hundreds if not thousands of rounds of my ammo. I always considered it a small price to pay to encourage a fellow shooter/reloader. I sure hope his future in the shooting sports world is not as bleak as I fear it is.

 

[fiver]

well something sure has all the Geese in a tizzy this morning.
I'm positive the early local season hasn't started yet, so I'm guessing 1-2 farmers are cutting wheat already.
a couple of the fields I drive by to go out to my dove spot is looking awful ready already but a few are looking like they need another full month at least to get there.
whatever it is has had them all up and going a squawking and honking towards the Lake since daylight.

 

[Ian]

I prefer................If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

Ditto.

Is there a shortage going on again? That's too bad. I'll top-off again during the next glut, be that next February or in another five Februaries.

 

[Ian]

Fixing a rut-roh. Customer confirmed liquid gasoline is NOT compressible.

 

[Rick]

Oopsie . . .

Had a friend that didn't know he needed a fording kit and sucked water into his diesel, had 4 or 5 of them rods that looked much worse than that.

 

[462]

I prefer................If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

Hmmm . . . if I'm still bound by my Air Force oath, as some organization believes, am I still bound by the secret clearance I had?

Regardless, I'm not giving out any numbers or amounts. Neither the NSA nor the Chinese need to know.

This site is super-duper secure, right?

 

[popper]

Head still flat? Surprised the piston survived.

 

[Ian]

It's a Hemi. Head is fine.

 

[S Mac]

Oh, those pesky leaky injectors.

 

[Ian]

Made by the lowest bidder. Of course it's #7, rear driver's side. My neck loves me today.

 

[L Ross]

Made by the lowest bidder. Of course it's #7, rear driver's side. My neck loves me today.

That's okay. With all of the neck trouble you've had it must be a blessing to be able to work it it at all.

 

[358156 hp]

 

[Mitty38]

Have not told this for years but....
Did that to an 82 Chevette, once. Was the shop parts runner.
This was in 88, Was just out of tech school. Did not realize they made a diesel Chevy car. They had just started putting those unleaded fuel only tags on the cars. Little yellow tag, Diesel only looks a lot like little white tag, unleaded only, when you do not bother to read it.
Practice was to use the drained gas from salvaged, wrecked cars and such in the shop cars. So grabbed a couple gas cans and filled it up.
Chevette did not fair as well, as that Dodge.
Lets just say boss was not happy when he got back from a conference. Only real job I was ever actually fired from.
My career as an Auto Technician, after 2 years of schooling, and getting SAE certified, lasted about a week and a half. I was black balled.

 

[RBHarter]

Had to go to Ft Smith today ..... Have to come back tomorrow . Hit Savers and the pewter imps smiled and said here take these home . I'm thinking about $2 lb maybe less 2 big plates , 2 smallish bowls , both thick bases 1 with heavy handles . It all scored easy all over too no fake handles .
Good day so far .

 

[popper]

Wasn't going to do this to you guys but, 7 staples! She says her toes tingle when she sees it.

 

[S Mac]

Too much information popper.

 

[Mitty38]

Wasn't going to do this to you guys but, 7 staples! She says her toes tingle when she sees it.

Ouch,

 

[oscarflytyer]

MItty - the Chevette story is hilarious! Almost spit my drink on the laptop!

Ian - not been following this thread for awhile - but damn! The engine pic is cool (albeit ugly!), BUT - means you are back at it. Great News!

 

[oscarflytyer]

and... what nonsense have I been up to last cpl days (not "today," as took cpl days to 'put it together...")

So... $125 later on ~1o lbs of vintage (95% unopened) powder, and $70 on another 2K primers (never go bad/can't have enough...)

And, THEN, there is the mold "situation!" my gunsmith bought a stash - above and wood ammo box of molds. 21 molds/~10 handles. I JUST wanted to cherry pick 2-3. But NO! He wasn't having it/insisted on selling as a lot... So, me thinks, take my 2-3/sell rest/easy $. So I drop more than I wanted to, but knew I could part with and make it back.

Well.... So much for the "Good Idea Fairy!" ESPECIALLY after I REALLY started looking at the molds! 110% flip flop! I am keeping all but 4-5! There is a Saeco 225 grn WC, a BUNCH of old Lymans and Ideals! And some REAL classics, and couple discontinued. These things don't grow on trees... And what I pd for the lot didn't really kill me, so... I just can't part with a bunch of these, at least until I try them and don't like them.

ps: During my research/googlefest on them, this guy from here named Ben kept showing up in the searches too... He seemed to know something/have experience with a few of these. I may need to figure out who this guy is and pick his brain (lol!).

 

[Ian]

I'm back at it, yes. Monday was the first day I didn't think about me neck one time all day until nearly bedtime. Tuesday was good until I lifted that head off and I've been puffy/swollen ever since and keep swallowing involuntarily because it feels like a large marshmallow is lodged in my throat. Same thing happened over a week ago when I strained it picking up something heavy.