so waht ya doin today?

dale2242

Well-Known Member
With all the hot dry weather we have been having, they have closed the entire national forest and all BLM lands.
That means I cannot get out of the valley to hunt quail and/or grouse.
Deer season starts Oct 3.
A small rain storm moved in last night and it is still sprinkling this morn.
Hopefully this moisture will convince them to open the public lands again.
It will certainly help slow the 160K acre fire in the area.
 

hrpenley

Active 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.

Bah! give me Lovecraftian style horror or Clark's style of science fiction, I'll take wonder or hopeless sole ripping terror over love and depression any day.....;)
 
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Hawk

North Central Texas
Well, crap!
Opened a brand new can of IMR-4350 to reload some 6mm for my brother and as I was pouring some out, out comes a cloud of rust!
Unopened can that I inherited from my Dad.
Date stamp was from 1993, price was $14.95, but still, an entire pound of powder, poured on the lawn!
Luckily, I have three more lbs in plastic containers.
 

Ian

Notorious member
had three pounds of 4198 that did that so I winnowed out the rust dust with a pillow case, ran a magnet over it to pick up the bigger flakes, and carried on reloading. It smelled good, just the can had gone off in a few spots.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
I dug out some 06' yesterday , some of Dad's stuff , and scaled it into lots for the whinny Savage . The TW 52 is a lot closer than the LC 43 was . 1x I guess I must have gotten bored at some point in the last 2 years , decapped it all , and reamed the pockets . It didn't fit the rifle so I grabbed the old set of Herters dies and screwed them the press ......huh , must have been in the RC last . Ran the 57 195.0-196.4 gr through it and had a firm bolt the last half of the cam . I think Dad would agree it about perfect to fire form . I looked for some 4350 or 4831 data for the 230s , 220 is as high as Lyman 43 and Herters go . Good thing , I'd like to say that a 220 at 2500 fps sounds like a good way to break things in a 30 cal and after a recent trials with a 2000 fps 250 in a 45-70 I'm going to explore some other options .

We were offered a full time 5-8s position on 2nd shift for both of us . I don't know if I want to give up 2/12s and 5 day weekends . One of us should though . We don't gain anything but 16 or 32 hr a week and weekends on the weekend , more 1-1/2 time holidays and lose Thanksgiving with family . Lots to think about over the next 16 hr .
 

popper

Well-Known Member
Changed scopes on the AR10 so got it sighted and cast results were normal. Last loading was just too much powder. Load some more. Point & click practice with the 40SW, kept most on target.
 

Mitty38

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Took the AR with me today. Going to lay for coyotes when I get off work till the sun is up. Dairy- free range turkey farmer, I am trying to befriend, for exclusive hunting rights, has 5 yotes that have gotten real brave.
They have developed a regular schedule and are running pack.
This is unusual for yotes, especially this part of the year, around here.
Hopefully I can fix that for him, by the end of the week.They have been crossing a pretty clear,5 acre field, to scout his turkeys.
If I play it right, be patient and keep steady. Pay attention to my yardage markers, I should be able to get them all this morning.
 
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Kevin Stenberg

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I went for my second heart stress test today.
I started talking hunting with the guy that was running the machine that was scoping my heart out. We hit it off perty good. Today i found out he is the head of the department. They injected me with some kind of isotope for the pictures. An i asked what they did with the lead containers that the isotope comes in. Most go back to the manufacturer BUT we have some containers we have been tripping over for a couple years. An THEY asked me if i could use whatever they had laying around. I thought about it for a few (milliseconds) minutes and told them i could probably find some use for them.
I ended up with 200 lbs of medical isotope containers. There were probably 8 that were the shape of a handgernaide that i could hardly pick up with 1 hand.
 
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Mitty38

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I went for my second heart stress test today.
I started talking hunting with the guy that was running the machine that was scoping my heart out. We hit it off perty good. Today i found out he is the head of the department. They injected me with some kind of isatope for the pictures. An i asked what they did with the lead containers that the isatope comes in. Most go back to the manufacturer BUT we have some containers we have been tripping over for a couple years. An THEY asked me if i could use whatever they had laying around. I thought about it for a few (milliseconds) minutes and told them i could probably find some use for them.
I ended up with 200 lbs of medical isatope containers. There were probably 8 that were the shape of a handgernaide that i could hardly pick up with 1 hand.
Well shoot all they would of had to do is put a monitor on you while you was loading them up. That would be your stress test right there. But all joking aside I hope the testing comes out well for you.
 
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CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Great find, Kevin. Makes ya wonder what sort of isotope came in that grenade-form cistern, though. See if it (or you) glows in that dark when you get it home.
 

Rally

NC Minnesota
Good score Kevin! It pays to flirt with those nurses. LOL

Ran traps today, stopped at a sand pit, burned up a box of .38's in the S&W 60-4, and picked up some WW AA 20's. Quite a color show going on here now.
We got about a 1/2" of rain last night with some wind, so picked up a bushel of apples under our trees before I could run the dogs. My dogs eat apples like candy, so I have to beat them to the apples. There aint no way your picking apples off the ground, with Cash on the loose. He thinks it's a game, and has to mouth them all, especially the one your about to pick up. Wife frowns on dog slobber on the apples!
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
broke mine on the apple thing.
they like to lay under the crab apple tree and can have all they want, it doesn't take them long to remember they don't like apples.

took the shotgun for another walk today.
I went up a draw I haven't been up for a couple of years, and remembered why I ain't been up there.
only now it's worse.
took the loop up into another canyon to come back home and seen a grouse on the side of the road so I stopped and grabbed a shell when another vehicle come rolling up on me pretty quickly.
it took me about 2 seconds to recognize it as a sheriffs vehicle.
he pulled up behind me and waited a second then hollered out it's right over here.
I was like crud there must be 2 of them and I only grabbed one shell.
I head shot the first one and headed back for another shell, when he jumped out of his SUV and grabbed a ruger MK-4 off the back seat.
I stopped to watch him take his shot and seen he missed, and was having trouble with either the shell ejecting or another one feeding so grabbed another hull and shot the second one.
I got that one a bit low and made kind of a mess of it but didn't hurt the breast meat any.

he didn't know who I was.
but he knows the wife and the boy [everybody in town knows Cody] apparently the boy mows his mom and dads lawn a couple of times a summer.
 

Rally

NC Minnesota
Rally,
Dog slobber on the apples?
What she don't know won't hurt you!
But she can see all the apple trees from the bathroom window, where she seems to be all the time! LOL

Lamar,
Two of my Labs will eat apples until they crap apples, and not eat their dog food! Cash just carries them around to make sure the Labs don't get "His" apple, but "his" apple can change if the Labs drop one, or I try to pick one up while he is present. He's quite a character still. We have a bunch of Willow around our pond and Cash thinks it's his life mission to chase every bird out of there twice a day. He keeps me laughing.
 
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CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Marie and I enjoyed "A Night In Old Mexico" last night. The film, not the place. Part of 2014 and most of 2015 we lived about 3 miles from the border in Imperial Beach, and Mexico is a lot like a pointillism portrait--better seen from a distance. I spent more than enough time in and near Mexico while working to fully satisfy my curiosity about the place and then some. Wonderful people in a beautiful place governed by poisoners and bandits.