Weather

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Watching the local news talk about potential tornadoes south and west of me. They show the map and it is right on top of the range. Sure hope the covered firing lines don't get torn up too bad.
Time will tell.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Well south of Des Moines.
Will wait and see what happened at range. Won't get out til Friday at soonest. Sure that someone will post news on website if issues.
 

Ian

Notorious member
I looked at the IR and there are a couple of really ugly black spots there. One's practically covering the whole state of Indiana, hope Keith & Co. are fairing OK.
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
Brad, I hope you don't lose your covers at your range, but, I have to say, tornado country looks just a little better than earthquake country to the Mrs. and me right now.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Brad, I hope you don't lose your covers at your range, but, I have to say, tornado country looks just a little better than earthquake country to the Mrs. and me right now.
We have you beat when it comes to people, or lack there of.
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
We like it that way. Half the states population lives in the Omaha metro area. Out west we have places like Cherry county, larger in land mass that Connecticut but with less than 6000 residents. What isn't to like about a person per square mile?
The Sandhills region is full of counties with similar population densities. Most of that land has never seen a plow.
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
We're still workin' on this place to get it ready for a "FOR SALE" sign in the front yard. For the sake of getting out quicker, we're going to forgo a lot of updating and sell below comps. Not counting mortgage payment, costing about $500 more per month to live here, as opposed to Northern AR.

My better (much better) half has fallen in love with a 3,000+ sq. ft. house on 15 acres in a neighboring county to Rick and Winelover. It would be easy to fashion a 100 and even 200 yard range. Lots of (unfinished) basement space for a machine/hobby shop.
 

Ian

Notorious member
Don't piddle around too long. I've buried three friends just this year who were almost done finally getting all their $&#@ together so they could settle into retirement.
 

KeithB

Resident Half Fast Machinist
I may live forever then 'cause I'll never have my **** together and I never plan on retiring. And I'm finally working for the best boss I ever had!
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
I may live forever then 'cause I'll never have my **** together and I never plan on retiring. And I'm finally working for the best boss I ever had!
I have heard that you will never be worked harder than by your current boss.
 

358156 hp

At large, whereabouts unknown.
We like it that way. Half the states population lives in the Omaha metro area. Out west we have places like Cherry county, larger in land mass that Connecticut but with less than 6000 residents. What isn't to like about a person per square mile?
The Sandhills region is full of counties with similar population densities. Most of that land has never seen a plow.

According to local government- Nebraskas estimated population is 1,932,549. Our three largest counties (Douglas, Lancaster, & Sarpy) total 1,015,081 population. The rest of the state adds up to about 917,468. We have 12 counties with total populations under 1,000. 25 Counties under 5,000, 28 counties under 10,000, 10 under 20,000, 13 under 50,000, and only 1 county with about 60,000. It is just my luck that I live in Lincoln (Lancaster County), a suburb of the University of Nebraska which has the fastest growing population in the state, Lincolns population is growing at about twice the rate of Omaha (Douglas & Sarpy Counties). No wonder it's such a pain to find a place to shoot anymore (back on topic). We're not too worried about refugees from Kalifornia coming here and taking over, most of our cities don't have a Starbucks, or a McDonalds!
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
And they wouldn't like driving 50 miles to get gas each week.
We are truly more similar to Wyoming than Iowa in most ways.

I have been in the Sandhills where you can stand on the tallest hill around and you can't see a fence, a road, a tree, or any signs of human activy. Took some mighty hardy folks to settle there.
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
Another reason you'll not need to worry to much about Cali transplants. Several years ago I bought some land in NW Montana, the real estate guy said every year it's the same thing, folks from FL buy in June and there's a for sale sign on it in January.