My wife's word is all I need. Her word has been good in 47 years of marriage, I haven't any reason to doubt it now.
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My wife's word is all I need. Her word has been good in 47 years of marriage, I haven't any reason to doubt it now.
It is unusual that I see a thread like this, I had to think about whether or not I would post on this thread. I have been keeping my personal situation quiet and among very close friends, but...in...
Forum: Rimfire Area
That is funny Don! Harry is the only legend in this game so far...just the other day he slew 21 of them buggers!
and...to top that off with a cherry...he did it with an old Savage MKII sewer pipe...
Forum: Rimfire Area
My range is a complicated range to figure wind calls...so,
I have been thinking a lot about a 'method' where I can combine the 'wind call' for the first 50 yards with the call from the last 50...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I like the convection oven because it circulates the air mass and helps to dilute hot spots around the glowing heaters.
Those radiant heaters really scald the PC if you set your tray too close. I...
Forum: Our Town
Sounds like a good challenge. Practice the scenario with some scrap first & when your ready...clean, clean, clean the metal you intend to TIG.
Forum: Rimfire Area
A FRIEND OF MINE HARRY TOBIN shot a fly off his backstop target last week at 50 yards, first shot . . . he got pretty excited about that & told me about it, I thought that was pretty cool and I sent...
Forum: Casting Equipment
I had a PID that only read out in centigrade, no option for Fahrenheit so I put it in my convection oven...a Chineee'liar oven it was...
https://i.imgur.com/RGY2YhJm.jpg
I used a kitchen analog...
Forum: Rimfire Area
I have that vane swivel for the Kestrel adapted for this larger anemometer and ready to go next time out...it will swivel 180º on the vane so I can see the numbers however the wind is blowing.
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Forum: Rimfire Area
I don't know...sorry! I bought it built already. The owner passed and the family sold it. I don't even know the barrel maker. I left a note for the family asking questions about the build but I don't...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Now that I can read the wind with more resolution, I've decided to add POA(s) to each target on my notepad. I hope to eventually develop a scale of POA offsets for direction and velocity of the wind....
Forum: Rimfire Area
I ran that new meter side by side with my other one this morning. What a difference, the new one sits there spinning and showing wind as slow as .2mph while the other doesn't spin until somewhere...
Forum: Rimfire Area
Here is an exciting upgrade I have been waiting on to arrive...I believe it's capability to display very low wind values is going to make me a better observer & doper of the wind.
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Forum: Rimfire Area
(It's been a busy spring around here, haven't posted anything in a while...haven't been on the range for a while either...)
"I watched the first 15 rounds on my 'sighter spots' rise into my line...
Forum: Our Chapel
I'm sorry to hear you lost your brother.
Try to remember that life doesn't end just because you leave this rock. The next stop is so much better...I have a brother there also.
Forum: Our Town
Well...it prolly ain't the first time porthos, but you were wrong! :bigsmyl2:
Forum: Our Town
Like You...I had to install ATV tires on the rear of mine too... pulling this vac. on hills it wouldn't put the HP to the ground, it just spun.
The tires they come with are easy on the grass...
Forum: Our Town
I'm glad you warned me about them John Deere's, I've been pulling this chopper/vac around since 2017 and haven't realized yet...that I can't do it!
https://i.imgur.com/zXGa19Ml.jpg
You do have...
Forum: CB Loads / Military Rifles
Much appreciated information. I'm going to re-think leaving my 14 & Carbine to the kids?
Forum: Casting Equipment
Around 350ºƒ / 400ºƒ will get keepers generally in the first cast...the first cast will have it up to temp. immediately.
https://i.imgur.com/bg5Nk9vl.jpg
Forum: Casting Equipment
Looking a little further than just getting your equipment set-up, consider the type/shape of the ingots you intend to make and how you will feed whichever furnace with them...don't forget efficient...
My first was the Mp-452-200 ... such a fine crafted mould! "Be sure to post your testing, they're going to be great!"
The cup points make huge shrooms...
https://i.imgur.com/CtetNVwm.jpg
The...
Forum: Casting Equipment
Here's how your Lee size die will set-up on a single stage press. (I added a spring over the post that is about 1/4" taller so that my shaky old hand wouldn't have to follow that post up to the die...
Forum: Our Town
None of these models are going to run maintenance free...you have to do that or even the most expensive, most desired units will self destruct from lack of attention.
I've got a 12 year old (I think...
Forum: Special Projects
Now that's a nice little cart...like the door & drawers, here they'd keep the sawdust off everything in there.
I used to rent bottles in SoCal where I contracted, just tell them what size and what...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |