56Sierra

On 12/5/2020 at 10:24 AM, _Wilson_™ said:

very interesting bucket looks like an international brand cable pull trip dump, with a swivel base ? 

International Harvester.  It's a snow plow from my 1969 Cub Cadet 105.  The cable attaches to the blade tilt lock and allows me to dump the bucket with a yank of the cable.

On a side note:  Boeing just recertified the 737 800 Max as safe to fly.  If one of these lawn darts in there will be no shortage of scrap aluminum for our beer cans.😳

2 hours ago, Freedomflyer said:

Picked up this Browning White Gold Medallion .325 WSM with Leupold 4.54.5-14x50mm stainless scope.

I had to look that caliber up.  Holy Bull Elephant!  That cartridge has nearly 4,000 ft lbs of energy 😳  Sure is a pretty combo too.

Thanks to all the good folk here for the warm welcome.  My Dad told me to surround myself with the most intelligent people I can find.  He said they may not make you look smart but after a while you will be.  So, that's while I decided to hang around. 

The last picture is of my wife and mistress and me.  The mistress was sold and I bought my wife a new toy.  It's also a two seater.🤣

My 97 was purchased 8 yrs ago.  I bought the pre-scratched model.  It required new ball bearing in the rear end and new rear brake cables when I got it.  Someone had welded some sort of plow mount on the front that has been the basis for multiple attachments. 

This years acquisition was the very nice 95 for my wife.  We made a dog box to haul the fat and happy old Yellow Lab.

Dan signing in from Coshocton Co. Ohio.  Currently own two running TRX300FWs,  95 & 97 as well as a junk 98.  I started working at the Honda Corral in Wintersville OH. in the early 70's at the age of 16.  My first day there was spent changing knobby tires and been twisting wrenches ever since.  In 1978 I took an entry level position in the Communications & Signal dept on Conrail and early retired on the same rail line in September 2018.  Multiple moves with different companies and positions later I retired as the dept. head on the same line I hired on.  

Hondas motorcycles owned are too numerous to mention.  Currently own a Honda Element,  45hp outboard,  1011 Harmony rider, string trimmer, 1989 Pacific Coast and of course Beauty and the Beast.

Making your own rifle stock ain't as hard as you'd think.  For years this has been on my list of things I've wanted to accomplish in my lifetime.  One thing that has kept me from doing it was the time involved and the cost of a decent piece of wood.  Being retired all I needed to do was to find a piece of dead tree.  Keim Lumber in Charm OH has a very nice selection of reasonably priced pieces of lumber and for $38.00 I found a piece of Ambrosia Maple large enough to make 6 rifle stocks two of which would be nice wood, too decent having a few worm holes and two fair quality with only a small amount of striping and more worm holes.

This one was made using the decent wood having some marking and a few worm holes.  The only power tools used were the drill press, band saw and  few passes down the barrel channel with a table saw.  Rifle is my Savage FVSR in 22LR.  Scope is a BSA 3-12 Mil Dot side focus Midway clearance special from a few years ago.

I turned 64 three weeks ago and was reminded of the Beatles song.🙄

7 hours ago, Bighanded said:

pretty much sums it up Sierra.

I'm sure there will be many approaches to gun control in the coming couple years here. wish it weren't the case, but I had always figured we'd see things swing back towards the Clinton era ban..either because of a bad social shooting (nother Sandy Hook kind of thing) or just a major power shift in our govt.

Stocked as much as I thought was reasonable..and then stocked more...happy with what's on hand, and grateful to the "me" of the last several years that went ahead and filled the extra 50cal cans, and bought extra mags. Able to turn my attention towards other hobbies right now instead of chasing boxes of bullets.

Yeah, the other hobbies.  When I retired my home office became my reloading area.  I could even open the window behind the desk and test loads out to 50 yards.  This was my wintertime sanity keeper.  This time every year we'd set up two presses and start loading Christmas presents for one son.  He likes to unload 30 rd mags as fast as he can on his AR when he comes to visit so each year he gets 500 rds of .223 for Christmas.  Not this year, I'm afraid.  My primer supply is down to 6,000 split evenly between small rifle and large rifle.  Problem is I use small rifle primers much more often than the large.  I even use the CCI 400s for the 9mm.  For 22LR, I'm good for busting up dirt clods and tin cans but my target ammo is almost gone.  I was just about to get another case of CCI Standard Velocity when the SHTF so I'm down to about a brick of that.  One of my 9mm has a 22 conversion kit so I'm able to keep somewhat in practice.   You know what's sad is if asked, many of us would say we don't have the ammo reserves we'd like to have but if the media found out a quarter of what many of us had on hand they would flip their lid and call us all sorts of unpopular names.

Last month the reloading equipment got boxed up and put away for better days.  Another hobby I've had for many years is remote control aircraft and building plastic models.  Since some of the quad flyers have ruined the RC hobby for anyone that flies anything I don't fly my planes as much as I used to so it's back to building plastic airplane models for a winter pastime.

This week is gun season in Ohio so 4wheeling in the woods isn't the nicest thing to do to the hunters on adjoining lands so that's out this week.

Oh grand.  Another angle exposed.  Being early retired and not 65 we had to buy our own heath insurance after COBRA ran out.  Hint:  We didn't find it through the ACA.  In order to make it reasonably priced our plan has exceptions and plenty of them.  Legally drunk and you get hurt?  No pay.  Racing cars, bikes, ATVs etc and you get hurt?  No pay.  BUT! No where are firearms mentioned anywhere in my policy.   Not even if I shoot my eye out with a BB gun.  Get shot?  They pay.  Health crisis?  Yeah, right.

On 11/27/2020 at 6:02 AM, Fishfiles said:

Did any of you'll read the article  came out of  the " might soon be " new administration , it is about  a preposed $200 per year gun tax  , also a tax on magazines over 10 shots , reading in between the lines , it is really a registration fee , would guess so they know who has the guns and where to come and get them , also mentioned was if you are caught with a unregistered  gun or high capacity magazine , it then it would be a felony and the gun/mags  confiscated -----also read that mags over 10 shots are going to targeted as being illegal in legislation  and manufacturers required to quit production of them for the civilian market , also mentioned was flat out outlawing mags over 10 shots ---wish I would have saved the link to the story 

Recently the CA ban on high capacity mags has been ruled unconstitutional by I think a Federal Court.  Their decision was based on it being so difficult to get a firearm without the HCM that it infringes upon the 2A.  Ears tuned in to see if it is appealed and if so when it gets heard by the SCOTUS.   At that point if the SCOTUS rules in favor or 2A rights the rest of the states should follow suit quickly.   Remember the SCOTUS ruled the ACA couldn't impose a "tax" on those not having health insurance.  Now with the SCOTUS being a conservative majority I'm not too concerned anything will happen.  Now, if I could just get some primers....

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/9th-circuit-rules-californias-ban-on-high-capacity-magazines-violates-the-second-amendment