Maggie’s What's Your View II

Packing corn on a beautiful NE evening.
 

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If you ever get the chance, fly out of Talkeetna around the alaska range when you are up there.

Beauty beyond words.

Also, flights out of Merrill Field (just over your shoulder) can be taken around the Chugach through their Flight School as a first lesson for very inexpensive.
Done that a couple times.
 
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Edit: I thinks he's a 6x5 after further review. I don't think this is the 6x6 that's been hanging out around here, I think it's a different Bull I'm not familiar with.....


Thought I got a good angle on the Herd Bull to be able to see his Rack, but no. Dammit. He's a stud. Dandy 6x6 that lived through the 1st Bow Season. You see the skid Mark's in the road at the beginning of the video? That's because this spot is coming outta a corner and the Elk hang here all the time around midnight. This entire stretch through here is covered in skid Mark's for good reason.

Elk Destroy Vehicles and will Kill You!


 
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Years ago as a green deckhand, I saw a 12V93 lose its governor at the Dutch Harbor fuel dock. That was a noise I'll never forget right before it came apart! Boat just settled to the bottom. Was a Marco boat if I recall correctly.


That's never a fun time I've been witness to a few run aways myself. When I was fresh out of high school working in the gulf of Mexico on oil rig support boats we had a 3306 cat generator do the same thing. Someone had put the shutdown assembly attached to the governor back together incorrectly, as soon as the assistant fired it up it to put it online it essentially ran away and scattered.
 
If you ever get the chance, fly out of Talkeetna around the alaska range when you are up there.

Beauty beyond words.

Also, flights out of Merrill Field (just over your shoulder) can be taken around the Chugach through their Flight School as a first lesson for very inexpensive.
Done that a couple times.



I'll cop to being guilty of having posted this before.........

But, watch this vid closely, starting about 9:00 or so.........just spectacular. the Beaver tracks and tracks and tracks.......and then, it doesn't........

Thanks E ! (y)(y)(y)
 
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That's never a fun time I've been witness to a few run aways myself. When I was fresh out of high school working in the gulf of Mexico on oil rig support boats we had a 3306 cat generator do the same thing. Someone had put the shutdown assembly attached to the governor back together incorrectly, as soon as the assistant fired it up it to put it online it essentially ran away and scattered.
When they go, they go. It's not like blowin you're powerstroke, ask me how I know.
 
Early snow this AM in North Idaho.

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If you would, please keep it there for about another 45-60 days. There's several million acres of corn, sunflowers and beans over here that need to meet a thresher. Not to mention I've several things that need pushing through before the snowblower needs working.

Thank you for your cooperation.
 
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Early snow this AM in North Idaho.

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Me out shoveling sunshine in north Phoenix today.

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Every year when it cools off the wild donkeys come down out of the hills and the mountain lions follow them. This is far from the biggest kitty track that I have seen but bigger that I would want to play with.

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One of my riding gloves for scale.

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This week's forecast is for 20-100% rain every day for the next 5 days. So yesterday mid-afternoon figured I'd better beat the rain and get some trigger time. All my long range rocks are in mud zones, so the local range it was.

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Ran 80 rds through the AR and 30 in the AI. My AR offhand shooting leaves much to be desired. The AI hammered nice 10 shoot groups @ 200, of course. Turns out the forecast was right, 9/10ths since early AM today, still sprinkling.

The Child Bride starts insurance chemo #3 tomorrow. We had hoped that 2 would be enough, our oncologist thought different. We trust him so chemo it is.

@Dirty D, sure wish we had big kitty's around here. ND does have a lion season, 10 cats statewide and a short season for bobcats, trapping and shooting. I have never seen a lion in the wild, maybe someday.
 
That's the Nightforce Headquarters from the top of the Palouse.
US Optics is based out of Kalispell MT now, aren't they? I sure hope Countersniper isn't an Idaho company...

US Optics moved to Connely Springs, NC earlier this year. They consolidated all of their companies under one roof, and it's a very large roof.