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We are lucky enough to be able to be well out of town and on BLM and FS less than 1 hour from home. It has been a year of well above average precip w/ lots of snow in the mountains. The growler and I have decided to follow the spring blossoms as they ascend from Great Basin and Mojave Desert zones through the Transition Zone and into the Alpine as temps rise through the spring into summer. We plan on spending at least every other day out hiking, looking for critters and hanging out.

Spent some time today loading the 4Runner up w/ folding table and outdoor recliners, steel targets and stands and miscellaneous gear and toys for full days out. It doesn't look like we will make our usual spring multi week safari through the mountain west but we will make the best of what we have close to home. If this continues I will have no excuse for not being a better shot and in better shape come fall.

Good thread, folks making the best of tough times.


mike r

work work work

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Tested the new remote social distancing shooting apparatus with three previously unfired 17 HMRs and a 22 Ruger Wrangler. Bench 100%, Savage B17G 100%, Savage A17 uhhh, very accurate but not semi-auto, Rossi uber RB17 bolt action is not even a single shoot - then I dropped the mag and lost the spring, so there's that... Ruger wrangler, big targets are good, it's left about six and down six at 30 feet yet a fun little phucqker..... To hell with the governor!

That chair is awesome.

laughing!

I am supposed to make an uber three-legged shooting bench stool, but gots a set of these with the house last year... Comfy and stylish.

Spent the afternoon prepping .223 cases and loaded 100 rounds.
It would have gone a lot faster, but I had to remove than danged primer crimp on
the Hornady Frontier ammo I was using......

Prepping brass, reloaded a couple hundred rounds, shot up a few. What’s not to like? Oh, and road the Honda 4-wheeler through the woods for a while.

Swapped hay spear for the bucket on the feeding tractor bright and early and roaded it a couple miles to an elderly friend’s place. Used a chain to jerk an old half rotten gate post out and then scraped off 2’ of dirt that was under the fence from decades of plowing the field on one side and grading the road on the other so I’d have a level work surface.

Dug out the bottom that broke off the post when I pulled it and dug another posthole so I could put in the 6” pipe H brace I welded up for him to replace the broken post and restretch his fence. Rotten bottom of the old post was full of scorpions I discovered when I grabbed it to haul it out of the hole, luckily I escaped being stung. Cemented the new posted in place and skipped down to the pond to wash the cement out of my mixing bucket.

While I was there I figured I might as well try a cast or two since I just happened to have my bass rod. Third cast I got my only bite and landed a 6 pounder!

Cleaned house with the wife when I got home and then took the boy back to the bass ponds for a boat ride. Big girls are in the shallows getting their beds ready, caught 3 more over 5 pounds and broke off a monster right at the boat. Caught about 20 little ones too. Not a bad way to spend a day.

Watched grandson, will mow yard after he goes home.

Let a turkey walk the back yard this AM.

I'm not a turkey plucker. On Sunday.

Started the necessary task of rebuilding half of my back deck... The other half is only 3 years old, but this part is well over 20... Had to do it anyway, but now with walk-in traffic banned it gives me time to git-r-done... In my younger days I would have had it completed in two days.. But now - it'll be four+... Hard on the back and knees...

Dammit, man.

Finished pressure cleaning and re-sealing driveway and walks.















Kinda lazy today. Foot was keeling me. plantar fascia ligament acting up from wearing Jeebus sandals - Birkenstocks.

Found out I’m spoiled from loading pistol ammo on a Dillon pistol press
Loaded 400 rounds of 30 carbine using a Rock Chucker.
Would’ve loaded another hundred but ran out H110.

Meat Loaf
Creamed Corn
Green Beans
Fried Okra
Mac & Cheese

Reviewed my taxes, wrote my checks to US Treasury, researched COVID-19 and construction sites, and had our traditional Sunday night pizza night with my family.
Oh, and bought a Varmint stock for my new T1X .17 Hummer....