[cdb1097]

No shooting, no bicycling, today, winds 15-25 sustained, and increasing to 30-40 by the afternoon :!: Guess I will just work in the basement.

cdb

 

[tbeaux]

Working on a new set of kennels the past few days.

 

[jer901]

Working on a new set of kennels the past few days.

Those are going to be outstanding - glad to see you got the roof on. I guess getting Curtis and me out of your hair let you get back to work. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[mailman]

I'm scheduled to shoot the 2nd round of the Hangover Skeet League today. I've got two other shoots already scheduled this weekend and this league lets you shoot Sunday A.M. or Thursdays from 5-8:00 P.M. What with today being an ethnic holiday, I hope the club is set up for shooting and not a party. I've never been to this one before.

What I'm also preparing for is how NY State has a huge Stop-DWI program running any time they think people might be having fun. It's supposed to be rain-free today so I'm going to run the Mustang GT to the club. I won't touch a drop, so I hope I don't get "profiled" by some over-zealous Seneca Co deputy on my way there or back. If I was ever stopped for 'suspicion' of DWI and no other reason, I know I'd be one uncooperative, mouthy SOB. As the comedian Ron White says, "I knew I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability!"...................the Mailman

 

[Riflemeister]

I took Bode out to Spring River Hunts of Kansas yesterday for a workout on birds. Phil the owner said he had some chukar that were still flying pretty good so we worked those. I'm still making Bode stay absolutely steady until the bird flushes, and a couple of the chukar got up and ran a bit before flying, which was really a test for the big renegade. Phil had a collar controller, and when I went in to flush the bird, he took over and any indication of movement was stopped in his tracks. I used my #7 nickel plated wild quail handloads on those large birds and it did a great job. One bird got up wild and got out quite a ways before I shot and ended up making it to the fence line with probably just a couple of pellets in it. Bode went for the retrieve and by chance the bird got up and flew back to give me about a 30 yard crossing shot that ended his escape attempt. The others were all one shot, one bird.

I'll really be glad when Bode gets over whatever jealousy thing he has going over the pup and gets back to just doing his work the way he knows it should be done. I've got two more hunts before the season ends and I'll try just taking one dog on each hunt and see if that is the solution. When that big sucker is on his game, it is almost magical the way he can clean a field of birds. Wish me luck.

 

[Yornoc3]

It sounds like you'll have him spiffed up in no time. He'll be back on his game.

 

[cdb1097]

Put dryloc on one of the basement walls, put in another temp light, hydraulic cemented some pipes. wind gusting up to 30MPH today.

cdb

 

[cdb1097]

Baby sat the Gavmaster today.

cdb

 

[Riflemeister]

Work day at the Joplin Rifle and Pistol Club's gun range today. It seems like on work days, no one under 60 years old ever shows up. Just a bunch of us old pharts cleaning up debris and rebuilding target frames. Seems like anything downrange is going to be shot to pieces, must be that AR-15 spray and pray crowd. The old adage of "one shot, one kill" just doesn't appear to hold any meaning for the younger crowd.

 

[mailman]

I shot the last skeet match of our winter league this morning. Not good!! I hope I find my game for the shoot-off next month. So tomorrow I'll try my hand at SC. By the time I'm done I'll have shot trap, skeet, & SC all within the last four days. With all that shooting, you'd think I'd break more clays than I do??!!......................the Mailman

 

[cdb1097]

Bought $1,868 in landscaping trees, bushes, and annuals. :shock: :shock:

I could have had a V3, and a couple hunting trips to Mo with Riflemeister :!: :!: :!: :!:

Now I have to plant all that stuff :roll: :roll: :roll:

cdb

 

[barrelsquared]

Wow Cdb, those must be some large trees! Good luck with all that.

 

[cdb1097]

Wow Cdb, those must be some large trees! Good luck with all that.

3 trees, about 15 feet tall :roll: , 28 bushes, and a lot of annuals :!: :!: :!:

cdb

 

[maggs01]

Wow Cdb, those must be some large trees! Good luck with all that.

3 trees, about 15 feet tall :roll: , 28 bushes, and a lot of annuals :!: :!: :!:

cdb

LOL. That reminds me of a conversation that I had with an old hunting buddy last fall. I hadn't seen him for a few years and we were catching up at a funeral. He was explaining that he's doing some "care-taker" QDM on a 180 acre plot. The owner wanted an orchard (20 or so trees).. My buddy laughed and said.. "At our age, we better be planting some 5 footers, so that we can enjoy them soon."

That just made me laugh...

Maggs

 

[maggs01]

I spent the morning at breakfast with my young friend that I took hunting a few years back. He's home from military school (Norwich) for the week.

We shot 8 bullets through the .243 and the .30-06. It was a great morning.
Maggs

 

[leftieD]

Went trap shooting on Friday. Shot some experimental loads I made up out of some of the 500 NOS clear Cheddite primed hulls given to me. The "brass" on them was tarnished and the plastic is a bit dull so I know they were old hulls. So I tried using up some PT1210 wads that I purchased some time back, when BPI was out of PT1205's, hoping at the time to figure out how to make up some 7/8 oz shells from these 1 oz wads. Didn't work out. Then BPI discontinued the complete PT line of wads and so these things need to get used up. Figured I'd load up a few and test the freebie hulls and so I loaded a few of the clear Cheddites with the full 1 oz the wad was designed for and added a couple/three to my vest to try out. Don't know if I misread the load data or if the old primers are off, but every one of them sounded like a poof when shot.

Shot some of the same wads in Remington Game Club hulls were they are 7/8 oz loads and do work quite well (with new primers) and smoke birds from the 16 yd line. Best part of the day was the large box full of picked up once fired Gun Club hulls from policing the field when we were done. I also got a few Federal Red White and Blue top gun hulls that I might save for trading material when I get enough for someone that loads them.

 

[67galaxie]

Took a father and daughter turkey hunting for the GA youth season before work. Gal got to see one fly over her off the roost and hit the ground running. Busted! Three birds were taken out of our group. Going to take my nephew in the morning to a personal hot spot. I can't wait!

 

[Riflemeister]

Went trap shooting on Friday. Shot some experimental loads I made up out of some of the 500 NOS clear Cheddite primed hulls given to me. The "brass" on them was tarnished and the plastic is a bit dull so I know they were old hulls. So I tried using up some PT1210 wads that I purchased some time back, when BPI was out of PT1205's, hoping at the time to figure out how to make up some 7/8 oz shells from these 1 oz wads. Didn't work out. Then BPI discontinued the complete PT line of wads and so these things need to get used up. Figured I'd load up a few and test the freebie hulls and so I loaded a few of the clear Cheddites with the full 1 oz the wad was designed for and added a couple/three to my vest to try out. Don't know if I misread the load data or if the old primers are off, but every one of them sounded like a poof when shot.

Shot some of the same wads in Remington Game Club hulls were they are 7/8 oz loads and do work quite well (with new primers) and smoke birds from the 16 yd line. Best part of the day was the large box full of picked up once fired Gun Club hulls from policing the field when we were done. I also got a few Federal Red White and Blue top gun hulls that I might save for trading material when I get enough for someone that loads them.

Sounds like your Cheddite hulls were straight wall and your Remington hulls were tapered. The straight wall hulls need a larger diameter base on the wad to properly seal and prevent powder migration past the wad. I got in a hurry one evening and loaded some 20 ga Windjammer wads in some 16 ga hulls to shoot skeet with the next morning. Big time "POOF" on all those shells although I did break a few clays while salvaging the hulls.

 

[Kannoncocker]

Wind today is NW at 21, gusting 29. So, of course, I rode the bike. Never again.

 

[cdb1097]

Wind today is NW at 21, gusting 29. So, of course, I rode the bike. Never again.

When you are on a bicycle, the entire world is uphill, and into the wind :!: :!: :!: :lol: :lol: :lol:

cdb