so waht ya doin today?

[Ian]

@Hawk , I have an older (6-7 years?) Blue Book if it would help. I find most pricing on common, no special guns to be well below the market value since the 2007-onward perpetual gun insanity. Pick up the latest here forest than $50: https://www.amazon.com/41st-Blue-Book-Gun-Values/dp/1947314173

 

[462]

Kevin,
My wife's knee replacement doc said no kneeling on it. She's followed his advice for almost five years, now.
Cool irony: Her replacement was under way as Trump was being sworn in.

 

[Cadillac Jeff]

Wife is doing well, off the ventilator & recognized her sister & I both---she has the best care in this part of the state !
thank's guy's

Jeff

 

[Hawk]

Ian,
I would appriciate it if you would look up a listing for a pre1970 Remington Model 600 rifle in 243 caliber?
I've got a good idea for everything else.

 

[fiver]

great news Jeff.

tired.
walked too much, froze half to death, got wind burn.
didn't see jack.
gonna give it another go tomorrow.

 

[popper]

Hoping for a fast recovery without complications Jeff.

 

[CZ93X62]

That is GOOD NEWS TO READ, Jeff!

 

[CZ93X62]

Marie and I did our weekly sanity preservation trip to the low desert today. We went out north of I-10 between Red Cloud Mine Road and Eagle Mountain Mine Road, on the road before 9 A.M. First order of business was 200 rounds of old ammo I'm firing and scrapping the brass--some of it is 30+ years old with Vishnu Only Knows how many reloading cycles on. It's tired, and needs to be recycled. We split that up among 3 guns--the 686 x 4", the Bisley Blackhawk x 7.5", and the Henry Big Boy steel. This was Marie's first time with the HBB, and she LOVES IT.

That consumed about 2 leisurely hours. Temps weren't bad, about 93*-101* with some shade and light breeze. On our route inbound, we kicked up more than a dozen coveys of Gambel's quail, probably 200+ birds all told. We continued to do so throughout the day, after wrapping up the shooting activity. Most of the rest of the day we spent Jeeping around on roads and trails in canyons and pediments between Eagle Mountain and Chiriaco Summit. We found a HUGE cholla grove on a trail off Hayfield Road, and roamed around some country looking for a geo-cache named "General Patton's Staff Car". No luck on that search, I'm sure its condition in this extreme environment after 78 years is not concours d'elegance level. This area served as the headquarters for armor training right after WWII started well into 1944 to instruct our soldiers how to kick Erwin Rommel's aspirations. There is a nice museum of WWII armor and associated equipment from that era on display next to the Chevron Station at Chiriaco Summit. The chow is pretty good at the restaurant, too. Visit Novenber-April to avoid the blast-furnace summers in that area. 120* F is an every-year occurrence thereabouts.

Cold drinks secured at Chiriaco Store, we did out usual circuitous return home down Box Canyon and its weirdly-shaped rock and uplifted strata throughout its length. You should see Box Canyon after Chiriaco--if you are a fan of 50s science fiction films, you'll recognize some of the landforms easily. That done, we went to the Salton Sea to see the sun slipping behind the mountains at day's end. 98* at sundown (5:50 P.M.), humid, and the algae in the water is poisonous. Such a lovely place. Eight degrees cooler, and the locals will get their layered clothing out.

 

[Winelover]

This 7 point, came through the back, while I was eating lunch. It's the same one with the strange antler configuration, I posted the other day on the scrape.



If I didn't see him rubbing on a pokeweed bush, I would have thought his forehead was a bloody mess.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Friday wrap up!!

I need to stop and find a make shift steel pot for lead smelting. I also need proper fittings for gas. Pipe threads are different ???? 3/8 too big and 1/4 too small. It dosnet appear tapered and its brass. Thousands of hydraulic fittings here and not one works... I bought a new hose but its a 5/8 flair fitting and thats not a size used in our hydraulics.
This is all for a Pennsylvania made plumbers burner.

CW

 

[L Ross]

Kevin's thread about a concealed carry gun, for his daughter, and Jon B's. reply, got me to thinking about the local range's handgun shooters.

I've noticed an increase in the number of handgun shooters, since the first of the year, and especially since the range reopened, after the months' long house arrest. While that's all good, particularly in California, several things really stand out.
One, is their age. A great majority of them look to be no older than 25.
Two, is their guns. All of them are black 9 mm semi-autos.
(Apparently, one and two are tied together, and not for any logical reason that I can fathom.)
Three, is their lack of safe gun handling practices, and a seemingly total ignorance of how to remedy a failure to function.

Revolver shooters all seem to be at least 40 years old, and the occasional single-action shooters appear to be in their 60s.

Is it different in other parts of the country, or is it another aspect of modern society that baffles me?

The firearm of choice for younger shooters does not surprise me at all. There is no nostalgia, no long awaited hunting trips, no small game on their table as they grew up. No shooting mentors in their families. No recreational target shooting for fun.
To a lot of new gun owners these guns are all about shooting "People." Their knowledge of safe gun handling comes from TV, movies, and video games. Little wonder there are so many anti gun members of the public.
This is no longer Atticus Finch reluctantly taking a needed rifle off the rack and protecting the town from a rabid dog. This is more akin to society throwing its hands up in frustration for several decades and allowing civilization to degrade to the point that frightened good citizens feel they need to be armed to be safe. At the same time a segment of society have so demonized guns and gun owners, that the new demographic of gun owners feel a little "dirty" and scorned by friends and family.
The only thing I find "good" about this current situation is the possibility that some eyes and minds have been opened. The raw and startling realization that the thin veneer of polite society is just that. That laws and onerous regulations that these people have blithely voted for in the past to control those nasty "gun people" are now coming back to bite them in the posterior.

 

[JonB]

Jon are you able to kneel with pressure on the fake knee? I either have to lay on the ground or bend at the waist to reach anything on the ground.
GB would be my suggestion also.

My surgeon said I shouldn't kneel on my left knee (fake knee) and I responded to him, that I haven't knelt in 20+ years, so it's not my go to move, LOL.
Both my knees have been bad for 20+ years.
Also I had Osgood-Schlatters disease in both knees when I was a child...it went away when I was in my late Teens, but came back in one knee (my Right knee) when I was in my mid 30s.
So I've never really been able to kneel on my knees without pain.
I am lucky I've never had back problems. Most of my gardening is done while I sit on my butt in the grass. That is another reason why I designed my garden into raised rows, rows only as wide as I can reach across while sitting on grass. Also it's low ground which will flood and hold water for a week or so, from a heavy rain event (like 3 or 4 inches), now the grass covered swale holds the flood water and the garden surface is above the "flood-line". Also, no more slugs eating my tomatoes

 

[JonB]

Last year, about this time, I got my toes smashed by this MFer, when the
tongue jack "popped" off (dang that useless springy retention ring).
Most, but not all, of the toe nail bruising-purpleness has grown out.

Yesterday, same thing happened, except I was lucky that my toes were
6" away from where the tongue landed.
BTW, in the 16 years I've owned the dang deal, the Jack has Popped off a half dozen times.

So instead of reassembling the Jack, as I've done in the past,
I went and replaced the old cheap Harbor Freight jack,
with a New heavy duty jack.
No springy retention ring on this one, it has 4 large bolts holding the pivot point together.

 

[gman]

Ian,
I would appriciate it if you would look up a listing for a pre1970 Remington Model 600 rifle in 243 caliber?
I've got a good idea for everything else.

Until Ian chimes in check your messages I sent you some information.

 

[Hawk]

Thank gman!

 

[462]

Hawk,
Blue Book of Gun Values, 2010 edition:
100% $475
98% $365
95% $290
90% $220
80% $200
70% $180
60% $160
No age breakdown given, though it does stated 94,086 were manufactured from 1964 to 1968.
Though dated, I hope it helps.

 

[Hawk]

Thank you.
I hope I didn't violate forum rules by requesting proprietary or copyrighted information.

 

[Rick]

Thank you.
I hope I didn't violate forum rules by requesting proprietary or copyrighted information.

No, don't think so . . .

 

[Mitty38]

Last year, about this time, I got my toes smashed by this MFer, when the
tongue jack "popped" off (dang that useless springy retention ring).
Most, but not all, of the toe nail bruising-purpleness has grown out.

Yesterday, same thing happened, except I was lucky that my toes were
6" away from where the tongue landed.
BTW, in the 16 years I've owned the dang deal, the Jack has Popped off a half dozen times.

So instead of reassembling the Jack, as I've done in the past,
I went and replaced the old cheap Harbor Freight jack,
with a New heavy duty jack.
No springy retention ring on this one, it has 4 large bolts holding the pivot point together.

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View attachment 17647

Yep, sometimes you just got to blow the dust off some of that moldy money.

 

[462]

I started carrying some of the 16' 2"X6" deck joists from the garage to the patio, but called eight of the 16 good enough, when the temperature passed 80. Don't care how cool the temperature may be, I'm still not touching the 16' 4"X6" beams.

Out of sheer curiosity, and knowing what the answer would be, I called the local gun store and inquired about the availability of a .308 AR 10. The owner and I have an excellent rapport, so he didn't laugh too hard nor too long.