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Post by Bullshop on Apr 8, 2023 11:10:15 GMT -7
Still winter here! This is the view from the reapers roost AM 4/8/23 This is normally when the pasture would be green and would have first spring sightings of rock chucks. Our weather is about a month off. Attachments:
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 8, 2023 11:43:33 GMT -7
This is looking down into the Red Rock river channel from the reapers roost. The snow you see is hard pack. The fresh snow comes and goes but this winter snow is what has been there that thaws during the day and freezes at night so is very hard in the morning , hard enough to walk on but turns to mush late in the day then freezes again at night. Its kind of a trap in that if you go for a long walk in the morning you cant walk back in the afternoon. Am heading out again to try and set up the 800 yard gong. This time I will park in the safe spot and cary the target and stand in. Hard work but it will get me out of my winter jail.
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Post by missionary on Apr 8, 2023 12:59:03 GMT -7
Your winter and our "rainy season" are messed up this year. The weather people here keep saying "El Nino" which is a backwards Pacific current that slams Peru and north with lots more rain. Normally I can get to the villages in March. Heavy rain up high every day. Even rain here in our 8000 ft valley. We are now at 9 inches+ in our backyard. But it is looking much better daily here now. So maybe more sunny days are headed your way also.
Do you have a plastic snow "sled" to load that heavy stuff on ?
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 8, 2023 15:38:00 GMT -7
Out where I put the 800 yard gong is not solid snow but is broken up with some snow and some bare ground. Its too late for the sled but yes we do have one we use for getting fire wood from the main pile to the front door. I did get the 800 yard gong set up today but didnt get to shoot because I forgot my log book for the 38-55 so had no idea how much to raise the sight to get from my 100 yard zero to the 805 yards to the target. Hope to get back tomorrow and bring some help as I need a spotter. Its at the lake where there are camp grounds and fire pits for cooking so maybe we will take the gang and a few dogs and cook some burgers at the lake tomorrow and get in some shooting too. The camp grounds are all empty this time of your so no tourists to have to deal with. Today I carried the five steel fence posts in one trip then back to the truck for the steel target also carried. I wasn't thinking that I really needed six posts one to be used as a side stabilizer but luckily I found a wood post I used for that. Getting the wood post out there made three trips from the road to the target and I worked up a sweet getting it done but I am feeling pretty good about it. Poor Diesel must have thought I was loosing it because by the third trip he was looking at me kind of funny but being the faithful pard he is didn't complain especially since I told him when were done I had some food in the truck.
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Post by missionary on Apr 9, 2023 7:58:17 GMT -7
Where would we be without a faithful dog tagging along. God sure knew our makeup and provided the best.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 9, 2023 14:39:16 GMT -7
Got out today to shoot the 805 yard gong. The mission was a success. We went from a 105 point setting which is the 100 yard zero to a 208 point setting to be well centered on the 805 yard gong. Took a newbie with me today our Daughter Grace's boy friend. He never shot a BPC rife and never any rifle past close range. Once we got the range dialed in and with a little instruction he put several shots close to center of the target. He did good ! Mission accomplished for today. It was too muddy to try for the closer ranges we will need sight settings for but I felt it was a good day getting the longest one dialed in. Some might find it interesting that we are shooting pure unalloyed lead bullets at somewhere between 1100 and 1200 fps launch speed. Some people are absolutely convinced that nothing but a 20 to 1 lead to tin alloy is able to perform with the required accuracy but I think todays shooting proved that a myth. A friend Leo Remiger that writes articles for the BPC news and the American Sharps Shooter as well as authoring several historical books on the buffalo hunt gave me an autographed set of one of his publications called " The Encyclopedia Of Buffalo Hunters " In that I found a mention by a hunter that they used the softest lead they could find not alloyed lead. The reason he said was so that they could recover more of the fired bullets in the buffalo. He said the very soft lead usually would not exit but could be found as a flat disc under the hide on the off side of the animal. I mention this because we look to the records of the buffalo hunters as an example of how accurate those rifles were so to learn that those hunters preferred pure lead was quite a revelation. It was the bench rest target shooters of the day that seemed to prefer alloyed lead and some with some very specific ratio's of mix. For sure pure lead is a very specific non-mix easily repeatable. If I have established that it delivers the required accuracy for long rang gong competition then I will stick with pure lead. We recovered some of the bullets fired today that landing in wet dirt after flying over 800 yards still expanded nicely not a requirement but interesting to know. Oh yea Diesel was there too being a good faithful partner. Could have something to do with the after snack too.
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Post by missionary on Apr 9, 2023 15:34:56 GMT -7
I am also of the opinion to use as soft as possible 1st. 40-1 takes care of alot of my misc. rifle shooting and more so with the Powder Coating. For hunting I want an exit hole. But if I was in need to recover all lead, pure would be a very good choice always. As I have access to a pallet of used truck / tractor wheel weights I am somewhat accustomed to use straight WW for most my semi-auto rifle usage.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 13, 2023 10:50:16 GMT -7
Share the pleasure share the pain. This is the view from the kitchen window this AM 4/13/23 Yesterday was so nice sunny and warm, the river was free flowing and the snow was nearly gone. Today more of the beast ! Attachments:
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Post by missionary on Apr 13, 2023 12:54:13 GMT -7
Wow Dan !! Are you sure your address did not change to North Siberia ?
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 13, 2023 15:38:40 GMT -7
No Mike I am not sure!!! Let me explain. Nearly a decade ago China undertook a huge project to dam the Yangsee river which flooded hundreds of thousands of acres of land. The water volume being held is enough that the weight threw off the earths axial spin its balance and caused a wobble. The effects of this wobble are many but mainly earth quakes and volcanoes but the most dramatic was an axial shift that took place to correct the wobble. This axial shift has actually caused that change in address or more correctly our precise position of longitude and latitude in the earths rotation. The Inuit tribes of the north and the Laplanders that for centuries have used the position of the rising sun as a time piece for their subsistence seasonal timing. They have been telling ours and their governments that their seasonal timing system has changed and that the position of the rising sun is now seasonally different than it has traditionally been. These governments have ignored these indigenous peoples and instead blamed the resultant global weather changes on global warming. Personally I put my trust in those reindeer herders and not in any government but now this is sounding political so I better quit. Suffice to say that yes I think my physical address has changed but to where is unknown.
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Post by lkydvl on Apr 13, 2023 18:22:23 GMT -7
Another cause could be the proven switching of the magnetic poles and the following shift of the geographic poles. This occurs about every 26,000 years. We are in that time frame now. The magnetic poles are moving. The north pole having shifted 200+ miles towards Russia. There is a very good book or three out on the subject.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 13, 2023 19:10:09 GMT -7
But the shifting of the magnetic poles would not change the location of the sun at a specific time of year. That can only be done by an axial shift where that axis on which the earth rotates has shifted. With the imbalance caused by the huge volume of water being held in one location where it had never been before the axis had to shift to counter the imbalance. This is of course just my belief and may be far from the truth. I did start paying attention when China announced the dam project. Since that time the model predictions seem to be proving correct. Its much more simple to lie about the cause of global climate change than to accuse China of being the cause. We can see how that went with the pandemic cause and the sheep believing the lie never seems to be a problem.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 14, 2023 9:43:35 GMT -7
No matter what our present location in the universe the fact is its still cold. Here is a fresh picture as of 4/14/23 AM. Same kitchen window but this one is pointed up at the roofs edge showing its new growth. Usually about this time of year I am surrendering my long johns and lined pants but since this spring has been so deceptive I will cling to those until we see a seasonal commitment from nature. Attachments:
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Post by missionary on Apr 15, 2023 0:44:16 GMT -7
10 years from now you will be telling the G-grand kids,"Young-un I remember the winter of 22-23....."
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Post by missionary on Apr 17, 2023 3:40:19 GMT -7
Hey Dan, Any warm air circulating around your home yet? Rain & clouds have left us. Finally was able to get the 250 to the mountain villages last Wendsday after 6 weeks. Wettest late March and April on our backyard rain gauge.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 17, 2023 7:48:59 GMT -7
We have warmed up some and that new snow is mostly gone but our weather seems like its about a month behind. It sure dont seem like mid April more like early March.
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Post by missionary on Apr 17, 2023 10:04:20 GMT -7
Thanks to God ! May you soon have 75 degrees with bright sun on your roof.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 17, 2023 16:14:10 GMT -7
Our weather forecast for tomorrow 4/18/23 is for snow. From where you are Mike maybe you should try praying in Spanish. On the positive side many of the Ca. transplants are rethinking their move to Montana. I am encouraging them to consider Arizona . Oh yea Mike that reminds me of something I wanted to tell you about. I was just reading something from Utah fish and game department that they are having a problem with an infestation of eastern bullfrogs which for Utah is an invasive species. The Utah F&G is encouraging non residents to come to Utah and hunt bullfrogs. Utah should be like your neighbor when you get moved. I would like to arrange a bullfrog safari myself. Frog is some good eating. My 22 Squirrel or 22 Cooper should be about perfect for a frog safari. I'm getting excited. When I was just a kid I worked out a master plan for successful frog hunting.
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Post by todddoyka on Apr 17, 2023 21:52:58 GMT -7
we didn't eat frogs (bull and green frogs) but they were deadly on largemouth bass.
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Post by missionary on Apr 18, 2023 5:14:36 GMT -7
That sounds like fun !! I think an old .177 Blue Streak pellet rifle would work well also.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 18, 2023 8:26:32 GMT -7
My Dad bought me a Crossman break barrel 22 caliber for the purpose of adding to our food chain. I remember seeing it in the window of a local gun shop and handling it a few times thinking my having it could never be possible. I told my Dad of my desire for it and to my surprise he talked to the store owner a man he seemed to know also much to my surprise. They worked out a deal where my Dad would pay 50 cents per week on the gun until it was paid off. My dad got paid on Thursdays so after work on Thursdays he walked from his work place to the bank then walked the couple blocks from the bank to the gun store. Eventually that beautiful full size rifle became mine and it paid dividends in squirrels, rabbits, and even frogs.
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Post by missionary on Apr 18, 2023 10:56:07 GMT -7
We also have a break barrel... but a Hatsun (turkey) in caliber .25. Big difference what that .25 does over the .177.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 20, 2023 7:19:17 GMT -7
Yesterday 4/19 AM we woke to about five inches of fresh snow. We had to go to town but the roads were real bad, coated in solid ice. Trucks were running the interstate at about 35-40 mph. We were going slower than the trucks letting them go by. When we hit Clark Canyon Lake which is our """ CAUTION WIND """ area a stiff gust of wind made us loose traction and we started drifting sideways. God must have had his hand on us as the car straightened out and stayed on the road. We made it to town and spent the whole day there and on the return trip the roads were pretty much bare and mostly dry. What a change a half dozen hours made in the road conditions. So that is where we are at the moment still cold and our home area still mostly snow covered as of AM 4/20. I recently read two different reports from fish and game in Montana and Wyoming that were about heavy winter kill numbers of deer and antelope due to the extended winter conditions. These reports were to inform of reduced hunting permit numbers for this year.
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Post by missionary on Apr 20, 2023 9:04:14 GMT -7
Thanks to God for His keeping you on the road ! Not good reading about reduced harvest numbers. Maybe God will send a couple elk walking into your backyard at the right time.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 20, 2023 9:13:31 GMT -7
In our prayers I think we must be language specific. In Sweeden what we call moose they call elk. This winter in our back yard we endured a month of terror from a Swedish elk.
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Post by missionary on Apr 20, 2023 15:10:57 GMT -7
I remember you writing about the "on a diet moose". The language issues are facinating. Our home church has a Spanish service. Peruvian Spanish is different. When I preach there the Mejicanos chuckle off and on but understand word differences.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 21, 2023 7:01:53 GMT -7
4/21/23 AM view from the kitchen window Attachments:
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Post by missionary on Apr 21, 2023 9:19:44 GMT -7
Hope ! It is melting.
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Post by todddoyka on Apr 21, 2023 10:35:54 GMT -7
yesterday it was 80 degrees and sunny. i had to cut grass for the first time this year. today it's supposed to 80 degrees and sunny with a little bit of wind. tomorrow it will 45 degrees and rain. the rest of the week it will struggle to 60 degrees.
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Post by Bullshop on Apr 25, 2023 14:30:17 GMT -7
Maybe spring is here to stay this time. Our highs are in the 40's. Next weeks forecast is to reach 50*. Went to town today and Clark Canyon Lake is now about half open water. The ice that is there is dark so very thin now. I could actually see some green starting along the road. Sorry you guys had to put up with me griping and wining about it for so long. I promise I will gripe about something else now. If I start griping that is too hot I want you to hit me and hit me hard.
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