so waht ya doin today?

[462]

Took the New Vaquero and New Model Blackhawk, both .357s, for this morning's range session. The Vaquero's plinking load is a very light dose of Herco and the Lee 358-158 RNFN, so went through a box of those. Nobody wanted to buy the Sierra 158 JHPs that I had for sale, so shot test rounds of Bullseye, Herco, and Unique. It was difficult to decide if the gun preferred Bullseye or Unique, so there's more testing to be done.

Took a wrong load, for the Blackhawk, 13.5-grains of 2400 and the above Lee bullet, so only shot 15 of those. Kind of weird, it likes 13.0 and 14.0, but not 13.5-grains.

Sitting here watching an unseasonable, rooftop level fog waft up the street.

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

Not cast bullets but archery. I got my meat deer tonight. I am not ashamed of intentionally taking a faun for my meat source.
Now i have to wait 2.5 weeks to help the wife fill her tag. That will be a mature Doe to satisfy the grandkids for a day with dried meat. Imagine teenage girls dividing up all the jerky i can give them by the ounce. Thats them.

 

[Mitty38]

Got the aulternator on the car, finally took about 15 minets. Then went grocery shopping. Made home made pizza tonight and watched Blazing Saddles.
Going to try to get to bed early tonight. Need to take wife to the gastroenterologist. That is usually an all morning thing,
But I have $50 and Harbor freight is just around the corner from her doctors maybe an airbtank anither $4 plastic ammo box ??

 

[Ian]

I just cleanly parted-off a piece of 5/8" O-1 round bar with my mini-lathe, in one shot, with no steps. Small victories, small victories.

 

[Rally]

Rally, Fiver wanted you to see this.

Thanks Little girl. Should teach him to post pictures, even I can do that. LOL

Lamar,
It looks to me like "somebody" has been tearing that dam apart and stacking those sticks on the bank (right in picture) and probably more than once. Looks like they have been taking them out of the dam at the farthest end of the dam from the camera, or opposite shore you took photo from. Look at some of the photos I've posted and several have large piles of sticks at one side of the dam. Image someone with a pair of knee boots on pulling/raking sticks from that far end of the dam.
I'm just guessing, but it doesn't look like the beaver have much to build dams from, and I'm guessing not much mud or clay to sure them up. Those beaver are really forming "filters" to catch the debris coming downstream, which seals the face of the dam to hold more water/ higher level. Looks like there is some mud on the face of the dam, but the shoreline looks like high sand /rock content, so probably not real good for retaining water. Give them beaver some floating bog, muskeg, and foot long swale grass, and they would flood that whole valley! LOL

 

[oscarflytyer]

M1 Garand loading in progress. When completed, prob ~400 rds. I have 200 HXP cases, and all consistent. Also a lot of brass from my cousin/CMP I am sure. Paid no attention as I was There is brass from '52-'56, AND some DM 42 headstamps! Took out the new to me RCBS primer pocket swager dies and ran all the non HXP stuff through it, then they primed very easily. Not loading for accuracy, just for "go bang" load during this time. If I can hit the steel plate at 100, will be happy.

 

[L Ross]

Spent a few hours out in the shed putting things away that can freeze. I bought an electric pressure washer so it can be brought into the house without the dangers of a gasoline engine in the house. The tank sprayer got emptied of the glyphosate mixture and hung on the wall.
My Hudson Commercial Bak-Pak 4 gallon sprayer broke on me while I was spraying for Asian Lady Beetles. So after emptying out the Permethrin mixture I disassembled the pump unit. Next I identified the part in a diagram on Hudson's site. Then something truly pleasant happened. Customer service person, Debbie! What a delightful, cheerful, competent, helpful, and easy to understand. Another plus was Hudson sells an entire assembly including the part I needed for about 5 1/2 bucks!
Cleaned out the small 1/2 gallon sprayer I ended using to finish the Lady Beetle problem, and that was that. The gal at the recycling center saves 2 1/2 gallon kitty litter jugs for me. I can take waste oil back to the recycling center in them, but they also work good to hold the mixed herbicide/pesticides that are inevitably left over from jobs. Those jugs have good tight fitting screw lids so they don't stink. I can bring those into the basement to prevent the mixtures from freezing.
About 3 more hours of cutting splitting and stacking ought to finish up the syrup cooking wood and I hope to do that today. Maybe I can work on clearing out a big enough spot to move the hot rod to for Winter.

 

[fiver]

yeah they are down in a valley and all that is down there are willow [alders I think] bushes.
they have a system of those little 4-5' wide stick piles all through there.
the dams are getting more efficient this time of year as the cows walk through the creek and the leaves from further up work their way down.
pretty ingenious system they have going.

and your right it won't take too long to flood out the area they are in, up further another family unit has a similar set up going on and the water up there is just a foot or so from the road now.

over in another canyon when the water got backed up to the road instead of tearing the dam out they went in and widened and raised the road in a few spots.
they allow trapping in the area, but nobody takes advantage of it [especially during the winter]
pretty impressive really, that little stream is only 2' wide and maybe 6"s deep during normal water flow.

 

[popper]

Surprise in the mail today - I can get a job for 30.37$/hr. 63,177$ a year! Wow. Got the letter from (Ashley - a gal?) USN recruiter! Left as E5 so should be 150K by now. Wife asked if she could join too. And bring our walkers.
Time eat my PB sandwich and go vote.

 

[L Ross]

Well the firewood project took 3 hours almost exactly to the minute! Done, cleaned up, saw dust saved, trailer parked ta da! Perfect workin' weather, and perfect runny nose weather too, buckskin gloves took a beatin'.
A few Bergara B-14 .22 mags showed up in the FEDEX truck just as we were finished with the wood. Logically I should function test them and use a silver Sharpie and put my name on them. One of the places I shoot a ELR match at the Bergaras are thicker'n flea on a Summer rabbit.
Gotta run to town to pick up sunflower seeds and peanuts for my growing flock of birds.

 

[runfiveslittlegirl]

Thanks Little girl. Should teach him to post pictures, even I can do that. LOL

He doesn't have anything to take the picture to begin with hah

 

[462]

Surprise in the mail today - I can get a job for 30.37$/hr. 63,177$ a year! Wow. Got the letter from (Ashley - a gal?) USN recruiter! Left as E5 so should be 150K by now. Wife asked if she could join too. And bring our walkers.
Time eat my PB sandwich and go vote.

Take it, Popper!
But, remember it's a 24-hour-a-day job, though room and board is included.
Can't remember my E-5 monthly pay the last 9-months of my four-year stint, but as an E-4 in Viet Nam with overseas and hazardous duty pay it was $315 tax-free. That's less than 44-cents per hour. The SOS and mystery meat was good, though.

 

[CZ93X62]

I might sell my soul for well-made SOS. Love that stuff, as my expanded girth will attest.

 

[Brad]

SOS? Hell no, I am not eating that stuff again. Hated it as a kid.

Got a pot of swc cast for the 44 special. They are already powder coated. Working now on getting a thousand or so 358 swc coated for my wife’s 686.

 

[JWFilips]

Nothing new with me ....But My cats were taking it easy on the wife's lap

 

[Rcmaveric]

Finnaly got my bullets feeder and case feeder working reliably on my Loadmaster. Bought the micro components to start learning computer code so I can turn my Rasberry Pi into press monitoring computer. I want add a GUI under the camera feeds. Been reading Python documentation and GPIO documentation. Dont even know enough about it to know how ask a question for help. Havent been shooting or fishing at all this year. And won't be able to till summer next year. Deploying again soon.

 

[L Ross]

I might sell my soul for well-made SOS. Love that stuff, as my expanded girth will attest.

Let's talk SOS, okay? As a kid my Mom made it with Armour dried beef, I loved it then and still do. When I was 9, I had a baaaad bout of pneumonia and ended up in a small town hospital. The next day they served dried beef SOS just like Mom's, I ate every bite and promptly barfed it up.
I have heard some folks say their experience with SOS was that it was ground beef in the milk gravy, (bechamel sauce), of course sausage gravy on biscuits is similar. Another favorite is asparagus in a bechamel on toast with grated medium cheddar.
Having had a draft lottery number of 244 in 1973 I never experienced SOS in the military. What is Uncle Sam's version?

 

[CZ93X62]

i wasn't in the service, but Dad's SOS contained equal portions of beef hamburger and pork sausage. The gravy was made with a little milk, flour, and the meat drippings. Sometimes cilantro, celery, onions (red or white) might show up, depending on what was sitting in the fridge or How The Spirit Moved. Like Duesenbergs or 32/20 WCF chambers, no two batches were ever alike--but all were filling and delicious.

Marie's method is similar, but when asked for details she said something in Spanish about "Need to know and right to know", and that I have neither. 20 years into our relationship and I am just now learning that SOS recipes are compartmented national security information. I had no idea.

 

[Hawk]

Marie's method is similar, but when asked for details she said something in Spanish about "Need to know and right to know", and that I have neither. 20 years into our relationship and I am just now learning that SOS recipes are compartmented national security information. I had no idea.

My wife, Diana, was reading over my shoulder.
She said damn right.
The more she hears about Marie, the more she likes her!

 

[462]

Air Force SOS ('67-'71) was made with chipped beef.