so waht ya doin today?

Mitty38

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Well I have heard Some avid hunters, call more than one deer, deer's, Fact, in My pars of the Dutch infiltrated Ohio deers is commonly used.
It is also lists in some newer dictionary's as an acceptable plural, along with deer.
Course us country dwelling Ohioans have a language all are own.
 
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Ian

Notorious member
never saw the movie and arrived multiple times to read the book, never got past the second chapter. Never saw True Grit, either, but am familiar enough with both stories and characters as they are so classic as to be virtually part of our culture. I did watch Gone with the Wind once, tried reading the book, git nowhere fast, it read like a Bronte sisters novel, as boring and depressing as Faulkner and not nearly as interesting. If I'm going to read depressing drama it will be Hemingway or Conrad.
 

JWFilips

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My Shooting buddy Ed is running low on Small Pistol primers so he has switched over to his 41 mags because he has lots of Large pistol primers!
He likes to shoot light target loads and had A NOE 413-215 Wadcutter mould that he bought from Al quite awhile ago & never opened it so I offered to cast him up some bullets with his unused mould. After Cleaning and 3 heat cycles I started casting for that big 3 cavity mould! Drained my pot in Less the 1/2 hour!
Then I cooled the pot a bit and through in all the sprews and out casts. Brought the pot up to temp.... Recleaned the mix and cast until the pot was near empty!
Ended up with 296 Wadcutters for him to shoot. He wanted soft alloy so the average weight was 220 grains About 10 BHN

NOE 401-215.jpg
 

JonB

Halcyon member
This morning, I spent 4 hours trying to fix a leaky carburetor on a small snow blower (leaks when not running, but doesn't leak when running). Carb still leaks, but not as bad. I bought used 3 years ago, and it leaked like this when I got it, and have just been just been putting off working on it. anyway, I'm glad it has a fuel shut-off valve.
 

CZ93X62

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This morning, I spent 4 hours trying to fix a leaky carburetor on a small snow blower (leaks when not running, but doesn't leak when running). Carb still leaks, but not as bad. I bought used 3 years ago, and it leaked like this when I got it, and have just been just been putting off working on it. anyway, I'm glad it has a fuel shut-off valve.
Is the body cracked, or is it a gasket issue? I remember toward the end of the carburetor era while I was still turning wrenches that a carb's throttle plate arbors after 30K-40K miles would invariably start sucking air and mess up mixtures. Look at EVERY possible wear point on anything that moves. Look also at float level, might be riding a bit high or stuck full-open.
 
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JonB

Halcyon member
The carb body looks new, this honda snow blower is about 5 years old, and hasn't been used very much. It has a plastic float with no way to adjust it, needle looked good, so did the rubber seat...as best I could see.
 

JonB

Halcyon member
Oh yeah, no throttle, this thing is designed to start and run at one speed (like a generator). The governor kicks in under a heavy load.
 

CZ93X62

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Ah. If floats themselves screw up, it is usually the opposite problem--saturation or leak-in, causing the float/needle to restrict flow rather than increase it. Gravity-fed fuel, I assume? Any idea of leak-out location?
 

CZ93X62

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Sent a PM. If it runs well once you start it, I would just close the fuel gate valve and call it good when the job is done. That's our method.
 

L Ross

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Robert Duvall is one fine actor, for certain. I have trouble picking a favorite role he played. There have been a bunch of them. Strangely--I have never seen a minute of Lonesome Dove.
Read the book and let your mind fill in the blanks.
 

fiver

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I have the lyman version of that NOE mold.
kind of a big 358091.

accurate enough for sure in the 41 and it makes nice round holes.
I put it on top of 8.5grs. of unique which maybe sounds a bit stiff but [shrug] I ain't heard no complaints from either the black hawk nor the Hunter model.
 

fiver

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well.
oh yeah, forgot what I done today for a second there.
tore the Banana mint out of the green house, it wasn't supposed to make it through a winter here but nobody bothered telling that to the plant.
it not only survived it started putting in a root system cancer would envy.
anyway it's out.
then I did something else, but forget what it was, then I was gonna go fishing after looking at a boat my neighbor wants to sell me.
he wants practically nothing for it [from me. the trolling motor on it would cost more than the boat] but it's way too big for me to deal with, and really unpractical for most of the fishing I do.
I could use it to tow my other boat around the lake I guess.

the wind was kicking up so I decided to go bird hunting again.
I decided I'd go up the draw where we had seen the wolves a couple of years back which is a bit further away so I was just a touch late getting there.
I managed to pull one bird down up near the back of the bowl before running into a Bear down on the lower trail I wanted to walk on the way back out.
I was in some thicker stuff dropping down a little 20-25' drop off onto the cow trail near the bottom when I run into him.
I kind of had nowhere to go but straight across the hill about 10 foot above him before I could drop down the last few feet without falling down the hill.
I first heard him woofing and digging then seen him on the other side of a little buck brush and dropped straight to my butt to stop me from sliding down the hill and running straight into him.

I kept the bird, he kept on going with whatever he was digging after, and we went our separate ways after a tense couple of minutes.
I was positive he could smell me and the bird blood I had on my hand plus the still very warm bird I had shot maybe 5 minutes before in my pouch.
 

Joshua

Taco Aficionado/Salish Sea Pirate/Part-Time Dragon
How many bears could birdshot kill if birdshot could kill bears!
Say that ten times fast!
 

fiver

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usually I pull the plug and keep the last 3 shells as water dropped ww alloy 8mm size Buckshot.
Bears ain't a big worry so much, it's the Wolves I have seen up there that I sweat.

pretty much that whole range has bears all through it and they aren't really any trouble unless you get in a spot like I almost did or have to deal with a sow and her cubs.
 

CZ93X62

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Black bears are furry asshats. They aren't so bad if you have a Crown Vic or Impala with a push bumper to help herd them, but unarmored they are a bit more daunting.