Maggie’s What's Your View II

A Buddy and I had to go get some supplies to replace the insulation under the house from the broken water pipe. He sez let's stop by the Legion for some drinks. Ok! But just a couple, we got work to do. ?

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Finished up and ran over to the old stomping grounds to see a couple friends. Stayed a tad late. Ended up doing a late dinner with an angry Wife.?

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Looks like we will have to come back for another visit, the Legion looks like my kind of place...........

Taking Pam back to Singapore next month, last time we were there (except for transiting the airport) was 1981 so expecting it to look a little different. Hoping to get back your way next year but I may have to retire first. Thinking of starting from Fort Worth, drive around as much as we can on the East coast area then Trans Canada rail to your area then take the 101 south and see all the bits we missed due to weather earlier this year.
 
A couple of days ago we had a nice evening with a mild breeze. Thought it would be a good time to check out .22LR drop and drift @ 200. The local range has a large hanging steel ram at 200, sprayed it with white paint, set up the spinner target and flailed away.

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455 in a used X-ray chassis, Gen 1 Vortex PST shooting Federal Hunter Match. The wind picked up, got a little switchy and kicked my ass. Nevertheless, determined a 200 zero (at least at this moment in time) was 54-56 clicks up. I'd like to change out the scope, but the gopher season is coming to an end and I never twist turrets in the field, 50 yard zero and then hold over and estimate for wind.

120 rounds later packed up and headed out to watch the storm front creep in, dumped 4/10ths later that evening. Another quiet, boring evening in Upper Dakota. I'll take it.
 
Looks like we will have to come back for another visit, the Legion looks like my kind of place...........

Taking Pam back to Singapore next month, last time we were there (except for transiting the airport) was 1981 so expecting it to look a little different. Hoping to get back your way next year but I may have to retire first. Thinking of starting from Fort Worth, drive around as much as we can on the East coast area then Trans Canada rail to your area then take the 101 south and see all the bits we missed due to weather earlier this year.


We look forward to your return @barneybdb
We'll have to hit the Legion for cheap drinks n Prime Rib!
 
Looks like we will have to come back for another visit, the Legion looks like my kind of place...........

Taking Pam back to Singapore next month, last time we were there (except for transiting the airport) was 1981 so expecting it to look a little different. Hoping to get back your way next year but I may have to retire first. Thinking of starting from Fort Worth, drive around as much as we can on the East coast area then Trans Canada rail to your area then take the 101 south and see all the bits we missed due to weather earlier this year.

Plan for Georgia in the early fall. We'll show you around a bit and give you a route map through the mountains.
 
That's a big step up!
I was planning on a pst2 at the lowest. Back in January I accidently gave myself a manicure with a wood router at work. Because of the fix I have a spot on my hand that is numb because the nerve got moved with skin to cover my missing thumbnail. They decided that I have a 3% impairment and so I received a payout. That is what I chose to use some of it on.

The reason I chose the razor is because of what I've seen and learned here. I also learned what a POS my other scope is.
 
@LeftyJason I remember your post about the finger. Sounds like a good trade to me.

I was in high cotton with a 700P and shitty scope till I found this place. This site has F'ed many a bank account.
Healing up again. First surgery was Feb 6. Nail remnants came back so 3 months later went back in at the doctor's office to remove it. 3 months later (last Friday), went back in. Should be good this time. Doc says he hasn't had to go back in twice before. I should go into the old thread and update it.
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My thumb before surgery Friday. The numb area is to the right of the scar on my hand and finger.
 
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I didn't see this nest while clearing some brush behind the barn this weekend! I got a thorough ass whooping by some wasps! Looks like Ive got chicken pox
Cant like your pic because i feel your pain. About a month ago i was mowing my yard and ran over an underground hornets nest !:mad: i stopped counting after about twenty stings.....then the other messed up part of my story is, i had to go to work later that evening and be up on my feet all night.....its a good thing im not allergic to bee/hornet stings.
 
Cant like your pic because i feel your pain. About a month ago i was mowing my yard and ran over an underground hornets nest !:mad: i stopped counting after about twenty stings.....then the other messed up part of my story is, i had to go to work later that evening and be up on my feet all night.....its a good thing im not allergic to bee/hornet stings.
I'm laughing about it now because I've since sprayed the crap out of them and then took the tractor and bulldozed their playground! Good thing it wasn't on video though, I'm sure it wasn't my most graceful moment!
 
Thanks mate, definitely going to avoid your winter this time, would have last time except for having to fit in with the grand kids school holidays. Next trip will just be the two of us.

Just remember that winter in the South is way different than winter in the Pacific Northwest. Rarely snows, and we have pretty mild temps
 
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A Buddy and I had to go get some supplies to replace the insulation under the house from the broken water pipe. He sez let's stop by the Legion for some drinks. Ok! But just a couple, we got work to do. ?

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Finished up and ran over to the old stomping grounds to see a couple friends. Stayed a tad late. Ended up doing a late dinner with an angry Wife.?

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Who's angry wife was dinner with?
 
Oilfield generator? One of my son-in-laws used to work on those monsters. Those and NG compressors.
It's one of the 2 main engines on the boat I'm currently working on, I'm a civilian contract sailor for the navy. It's a cat D399. It looks huge but the d399's are pretty weak sauce. Only 1100hp each still dead nuts reliable and easy to work on. My absolute favorite engines to have on a boat are the old GM EMD 2 stroke 645 series with massive blowers imo they have earned the title of world's most indestructible diesel engine

My last boat 303ft long 80ft wide had 4x MTU 8000 series v20 quad turbo engines. 11,250hp a piece hooked to water jets. That thing could do 35 knots with 900 people on it 50-60 cars and 4 semis.
 
Took a little hike today in the Cascade mountains 60 miles from the house.

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Video on the lower portion of the trail.

 
Jamie and the boys made it out last night. Got to watch a couple pulls with cash. Guy just blew a drive shaft in spectacular fashion?
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Jamie wanted some late night wings so
We headed downtown. College town with bars full of douche bags. 3 guys sat at the bar next to use talking about getting rowdy. Then they ordered hard seltzers?‍♂️
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@Sieg Do you fish? I'd love to see some fish pictures.
I grew up fishing the McKenzie River in the 60's, had a couple river boats '75-'95 and haven't fished since. This river also runs behind my house about 400yds away. I got spoiled fishing early when catching big 16-22" native rainbows was common place. I just lost interest, though I walk the river am and pm with my dogs at least 355 days a year. ?

Typical day walking......
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Spent the day at the KS state fair.
He had a blast. He enjoyed the free water fountain the most..
His face looking a the 4H insects was great (couldn't get a picture)

He had a great time fell asleep and got carried the last hour. So much for sleeping on the 3 hour ride home.
 

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Looks like we will have to come back for another visit, the Legion looks like my kind of place...........

Taking Pam back to Singapore next month, last time we were there (except for transiting the airport) was 1981 so expecting it to look a little different. Hoping to get back your way next year but I may have to retire first. Thinking of starting from Fort Worth, drive around as much as we can on the East coast area then Trans Canada rail to your area then take the 101 south and see all the bits we missed due to weather earlier this year.
Let me know when y'all are planning to come back to the U.S. and visit the east coast. I can give you a list of good places to visit.

Eat some chili crab and durian and drink a Tiger beer for me when you visit Singapore.
 
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No pics again.....

My folks are still in CO helping out my brother who shattered his heal.
Took a day and came down to hang out. We had a great church service, followed by amazing BBQ lunch of brisket and ribs with beans, mac n cheese.
My kid took them to ice cream for National Grandparents Day.
We then hung out and played games, talked about guns (duh), and had a quick light dinner before they headed back north.

Great to see them and all of us to spend the day together.
 
I think that’s an exaggeration. Maybe 700, but not 7000. We had a quad turbo v-16 genset that maybe would burn 300 gallons. In a 12 hour shift. 7000 gallons in a semi load. Literally.
My bad guys the 7000 is liters per hr. I messaged my old chief and confirmed. I get it mixed up, going between US imperial and foreign built metric equipped boats will do that. This ancient thing im on now with the two d399 cats is roughly 1800 gallons a day cruising at about 9 knots which is excellent fuel economy for a steel hulled boat.

We were pushing a 310ft long 80ft wide boat with on average 5-700 people on board with full field gear and weapons, 50-60 Humvees, 8x 7 ton trucks, most all the vehicles have armor packages but some were ambulances or soft backs, in addition to 2 armored articulating fork loaders.


The 4x v20's running about 1150-1200 rpm and 4 c18 cats for generators. We burnt some fuel. Generally one turn and burn run on our typical route. we'd blow through 70-75% of a load of fuel
 
Looks beautiful, limiting out that fast sounds like it was fun. I've only ever gotten the chance to bird hunt once for chukar it was a blast.

I could have killed a bunch more, there many flying overhead while i was looking for the birds I dropped. But if you took your eye off the spot they hit the ground, you lost them. It was deep in that corn field.
I love dove hunting. It's the only hunting I do all year.
 
@Srgt. Hulka Is that corn? Grain sorghum?

It's corn. It's first cut corn, that's the reason the weeds are so high. There's corn forever in Richland Parish. It keeps the birds scattered out. But, we had a river behind us, cotton being irrigated in front of us, and a power line that ran right down the middle of the corn field. We had a pretty good spot.

I was actually sitting at the corner of the property of an abandoned house. I was sitting in the shade of a cypress tree.