Did anybody do ANYTHING today?

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mailman

Discussion Starter · Mar 14, 2016

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I did!! For the first time in a couple years I went trap shooting. After about a 20 year lay-off four clubs are getting together to revive the Hangover Trap League. I shoot for the skeet team at one of them so what the heck. Today was the first shoot and happened to be at my club. There's a total of eight shoots, two at each club, and a shoot-off. $2/week/shooter goes to prizes, so I don't think many ringers are going to spoil the fun. All four of these clubs are just around the north end of Seneca Lake from me. Three are within 10 miles and one I've never been to is maybe 30 miles down some beautiful country roads. I hope spring gets here because the top-down Mustang is ready to roll!

I don't think I ever posted a pic of my home-made custom trap gun. I found this in a little Mom & Pop gun shop when I was killing time at the Waverly NY Auto Auction. Paid $200 NIB never fired. It's the Nat. Wild Turkey Foundation raffle gun from 2007 made by H&R. I put the custom pad on with a spacer for some extra LOP, not a bad do-it-yourself effort, if I must say so! I added some serious weight in the stock, those H&R's kick like mules! Got a hammer extension, an IM choke, and I load really light 7/8 oz. loads.

First station today I missed three birds, then nailed 18/20 the rest of the way. I kinda forgot how to float the birds. Ended up with a 37/50. I'll take it. I had a blast!.........................the Mailman

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billwnr

· #621 · Aug 4, 2016

I had 16 lbs of Clays delivered today and I'm headed out for some skeet shooting this afternoon.

jac63

· #622 · Aug 4, 2016

Hi light of my day was a new lunch bucket delivered from Amazon. This one is big enough to pack a real man size lunch to work. :lol: :lol:

Kannoncocker

· #623 · Aug 7, 2016

Plan for today is a recovery ride (which means start slow, taper off), then catch up on cleaning some guns. On Friday, I had spent the morning with some new additions to my Arsenal, the Stag AR and a LC Smith from 1947. It's a 26" barreled 12 that's in nice shape, maybe re-blued. Quick, sweet, very effective even in my hands. Makes me think Churchill knew what he was about, and I can't wait to try it with real birds. I feel guilty saying this, but I already like it even better than the 16 gauge Elsie.

The recovery ride will be the aftermath of yesterday's 50.78 mile slog through 93 degrees and thick humidity. The last 3 1/2 miles, though, were in a thunder bumper and cloudburst. In the heaviest rain, I descended a 38 mph hill and passed by a policeman who looked so concerned I thought he'd stop me before I dropped it. Fortunately, he'd have been required to get out in that, too.

cdb1097

· #624 · Aug 7, 2016

Kannoncocker said:
Plan for today is a recovery ride (which means start slow, taper off), then catch up on cleaning some guns. On Friday, I had spent the morning with some new additions to my Arsenal, the Stag AR and a LC Smith from 1947. It's a 26" barreled 12 that's in nice shape, maybe re-blued. Quick, sweet, very effective even in my hands. Makes me think Churchill knew what he was about, and I can't wait to try it with real birds. I feel guilty saying this, but I already like it even better than the 16 gauge Elsie.

The recovery ride will be the aftermath of yesterday's 50.78 mile slog through 93 degrees and thick humidity. The last 3 1/2 miles, though, were in a thunder bumper and cloudburst. In the heaviest rain, I descended a 38 mph hill and passed by a policeman who looked so concerned I thought he'd stop me before I dropped it. Fortunately, he'd have been required to get out in that, too.

I have been caught in those drenching cloudbursts, getting completely soaked, luckily I carry my iphone in a waterproof bag.

cdb

RudyN

· #625 · Aug 7, 2016

Yesterday, I had a nice two hours of black belt training. Will be going for my second degree in November if I survive the training. [FACE WITH STUCK-OUT TONGUE AND WINKING EYE]

cdb1097

· #626 · Aug 7, 2016

Family reunion on the wifes side today.

cdb

jer901

· #627 · Aug 7, 2016

cdb1097 said:
Family reunion on the wifes side today.

cdb

haha - those are SO much fun! :wink:

jac63

· #628 · Aug 7, 2016

The wife and I went out for lunch after church and before driving an hour and a half to pick up the CZ 82. Before we left the restaurant I called my friend to make sure the meet was still on for the gun pickup and unfortunately he had been called in to work. So no CZ 82 as yet.

But we did have a nice lunch at a new to us establishment and did not make a long drive for nothing.

jac63

· #629 · Aug 8, 2016

Had an interesting Sunday evening/night. I ended up in the emergency room with a blood sugar level of 583. I apparently have been having classic symptoms of diabetes for the past couple weeks and didn't realize it. After several hours and multiple bags of IV fluids they got it down to 316 and let me come home. I have had annual physicals and blood checks for years and never had a blood sugar above 92 until now. Anyway apparently I am now a diabetic and have a new way of eating to learn. :x I am thankful that for now they are talking diet and oral meds to control it. I guess it's true that getting old sucks but it still beats the alternative.

cdb1097

· #630 · Aug 8, 2016

Heading home

cdb

double20

· #631 · Aug 8, 2016

Finished the steps on my wife's deer blind yesterday. I had one additional step to add and then painted them. Used flex seal around the windows as there was some slight leakage last week when it was raining. Put out some sugar beet crush by the trail cam to see if we can get some better/closer pictures before season. Bought the wife a crossbow to use this archery season and got it sighted in. Her compound bow was marginal at best for deer hunting (35 lb draw weight and only a 22 inch draw length) and wouldn't even be legal in some states (although it was here in Missouri). The new deer blind doesn't lend itself to shooting a vertical bow (windows too small and arm hits back wall when drawing). New for this year, Missouri is allowing crossbows for archery season so with the crossbow she can still archery hunt out of her new blind. Archery season is only about 5 weeks away so hopefully we'll have one on the ground shortly after that.

Old_Diabetic_100

· #632 · Aug 8, 2016

jac63 said:
Anyway apparently I am now a diabetic and have a new way of eating to learn. I am thankful that for now they are talking diet and oral meds to control it.

Sorry to hear you have been diagnosed with diabetes. I was diagnosed 6 years ago and went onto insulin 3 years ago. Wish I'd have gone onto insulin sooner. Shooting up is no big deal these days. The needles are so fine you can barely feel a thing.

As well as checking my blood glucose level first thing in the morning and before meals I do check it before I drive and before I shoot. Going 'hypo' or getting close to going 'hypo' is not conducive to producing a good score if you are into any serious competitive shooting.

cdb1097

· #633 · Aug 8, 2016

Back home, now to go pick up the pups.

cdb

cdb1097

· #634 · Aug 8, 2016

We are only 17,980 posts behind Big "B". :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

cdb

casonet

· #635 · Aug 8, 2016

Was driving home from Scheeles today and decided to stop at a place that I've been driving by for over a year but never stopped to check out. It is called "The Outlaw Cigar Company" and it is located at 135th Street and Metcalf Rd. in Overland Park, KS. Figured that they might sell a nice selection of cigars and I wanted to pick up one to smoke while I mowed the lawn this afternoon. I went in and my jaw dropped. Not only is it a cigar shop, the place was filled with large over stuffed leather chairs with men and women sitting in them and chatting while smoking stogies! This place is huge; maybe 15,000 square feet and it was filled with cigar smokers having a great time. The walk in humidor is probably over 1,000 sq ft and filled with every band of cigar imaginable. So I picked up a couple of Montecristos. They serve food but no alcohol because they aren't allowed to do so, but I was told that I could bring my favorite beer, wine, or liquor and they sell set ups. There were televisions everywhere for viewing sports and the place was filled with the wonderful aroma of cigar smoke. There is even a group of smokers that talk shotguns and hunting. What a discovery. Next time the wife is out of town, I'm going to spend an evening there, then wash my clothes before she gets home.

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cdb1097

· #636 · Aug 9, 2016

Worked in the basement today.

cdb

Riflemeister

· #637 · Aug 9, 2016

Went to a luncheon with 18 members of my high school class and their spouses today at a restaurant/gift shop called Maggie Mays in the big city of Miller, MO. It's something the class has been doing several times a year since graduation in 1959. They also have a weekend gathering at Branson every fall, but I generally can't make that because of my hunting schedule. My wife went to one of her school reunions and said "never again", and adopted my class as her own. Great group of guys and gals, but we're definitely the rowdy group of old farts you try to avoid in restaurants. I just can't figure out how everyone else got so old, and I haven't changed a bit.

cdb1097

· #638 · Aug 10, 2016

Riflemeister said:
Went to a luncheon with 18 members of my high school class and their spouses today at a restaurant/gift shop called Maggie Mays in the big city of Miller, MO. It's something the class has been doing several times a year since graduation in 1959. They also have a weekend gathering at Branson every fall, but I generally can't make that because of my hunting schedule. My wife went to one of her school reunions and said "never again", and adopted my class as her own. Great group of guys and gals, but we're definitely the rowdy group of old farts you try to avoid in restaurants. I just can't figure out how everyone else got so old, and I haven't changed a bit.

If they had Bodie and Rebel to keep up with they would be as young as you :!: :!: :!: :!:

cdb

67galaxie

· #639 · Aug 10, 2016

I finished planting milo along the creeks and oak bottoms finally! Too many cypress knots and too soft black soil to use a tractor so that means hand raking the soil. Woohoo! Dove and geese fields are done. Feed turkey and quail year round. Now for the ducks

Yornoc3

· #640 · Aug 10, 2016

I went out early this morning and picked an icecream bucket almost full of Blackberries before I got rained out. We're supposed to get 2-3 inches of rain today and tomorrow, so I had to get'em before they get knocked off. Should be some Blackberry Jam as a result

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