Whatcha doing today wandering thread .
Posted: 27 May 2022 09:50
Well every sub-5,000 member forum with 20-30 regular posters should have one of these threads . Just a casual took the kids to the zoo , had 12 hr smoked pork loin for dinner , got a new dog kind of thing .
We went to a rendezvous of sorts last weekend . It started out as a BP shoot with originals repops of mostly 1849-1860 model pistols sprinkled with Towers , Fowler's , Hawkens , Pennsylvanias , and a Brown Bess . No costumes just hanging out shooting and sharing , stories and tall tales , with a little rye after dark in the spring and fall .
Now it's basically 10-12 of us , run what ya brung , 4 days of social detox mini vacation with gobs of onsite smoked meats , sunburns and campfires .
This go around was on a 175 acre property co-hosted by the hosts daughter who really should be a member of that forum . 3 yr ago 7.5 pregnant she killed her biggest buck to date , no glory story there just an old 98 in 308 whatever . Last fall same stand she killed a 250# black bear boar with a 58 cal flintlock . She says it was pretty exciting for a few seconds when it didn't go down and started a charge back towards the stand . I guess speed loaders aren't as helpful as you'd like when the Minie' loaded easy but you're having trouble hitting the flash pan ....... The bear folded up at 30 yd so the excitement was for not .
As for the weekend . A smoked ham from the hosts hog trapping on the property on Friday and a butt on Saturday .
I shot more RF than I've shot combined in probably 15 years in 3 days . My granddaughter shot my Dad's Win 67, 67A , and Marlin 917 a lot burning up about 4 boxes of the 10 yr box/bench/truck huh' I didn't know I had any of that accumulated 22 LR . I think the guys , we're all basically grand age , got almost as big a kick out of her blowing up assorted beverage containers filled with water as she did . That little 17 HMR , I get it now . Wholly cats at 100 yd a pop can doesn't stand a chance and that 17 gr bullet is still a grenade .
3 weeks before Rondy my truck puked the motor . 2 weeks later the replacement shredded the transmission ........ I doubt the 00 4.6 with the blown mains transmission is an E40D that will talk to a 302 EFI . Back to the 320k mile Explorer ......
I got my Dad's Dad's M70 06' dressed up a little . It was suffering being 75 yr old and hunted a lot basically anything resembling finish coating on the stock was gone and that high ring 5? mm objective scope had to go the medium hight and 8x40 are better but I think it'll work in low rings which would make the rifle both more useful and a lot more fun to shoot . It weighs about 10# so I think it's going to damp the recoil from the paper patch 172 gr 301618 and the RD 312-165 NOEs nicely , even with a full case of H4831 .
Your turn .
We went to a rendezvous of sorts last weekend . It started out as a BP shoot with originals repops of mostly 1849-1860 model pistols sprinkled with Towers , Fowler's , Hawkens , Pennsylvanias , and a Brown Bess . No costumes just hanging out shooting and sharing , stories and tall tales , with a little rye after dark in the spring and fall .
Now it's basically 10-12 of us , run what ya brung , 4 days of social detox mini vacation with gobs of onsite smoked meats , sunburns and campfires .
This go around was on a 175 acre property co-hosted by the hosts daughter who really should be a member of that forum . 3 yr ago 7.5 pregnant she killed her biggest buck to date , no glory story there just an old 98 in 308 whatever . Last fall same stand she killed a 250# black bear boar with a 58 cal flintlock . She says it was pretty exciting for a few seconds when it didn't go down and started a charge back towards the stand . I guess speed loaders aren't as helpful as you'd like when the Minie' loaded easy but you're having trouble hitting the flash pan ....... The bear folded up at 30 yd so the excitement was for not .
As for the weekend . A smoked ham from the hosts hog trapping on the property on Friday and a butt on Saturday .
I shot more RF than I've shot combined in probably 15 years in 3 days . My granddaughter shot my Dad's Win 67, 67A , and Marlin 917 a lot burning up about 4 boxes of the 10 yr box/bench/truck huh' I didn't know I had any of that accumulated 22 LR . I think the guys , we're all basically grand age , got almost as big a kick out of her blowing up assorted beverage containers filled with water as she did . That little 17 HMR , I get it now . Wholly cats at 100 yd a pop can doesn't stand a chance and that 17 gr bullet is still a grenade .
3 weeks before Rondy my truck puked the motor . 2 weeks later the replacement shredded the transmission ........ I doubt the 00 4.6 with the blown mains transmission is an E40D that will talk to a 302 EFI . Back to the 320k mile Explorer ......
I got my Dad's Dad's M70 06' dressed up a little . It was suffering being 75 yr old and hunted a lot basically anything resembling finish coating on the stock was gone and that high ring 5? mm objective scope had to go the medium hight and 8x40 are better but I think it'll work in low rings which would make the rifle both more useful and a lot more fun to shoot . It weighs about 10# so I think it's going to damp the recoil from the paper patch 172 gr 301618 and the RD 312-165 NOEs nicely , even with a full case of H4831 .
Your turn .