Life Thread v2.0

Bought a Microsoft Pro 7 for my new job. I'm loving both.

Memories. Getting old 'inhales deeply' to say the least. Miss the days of the OMHW trips to play wherever. Medically an adventure anymore. 2 strokes no residual damage and the heart attack. Weigh in at 204lb and those who remember me I was 'heavy' Infantry. Full blown uncontroled diabetic so just a day by day, what else can go wrong.

Still have my original 68 Special on my 'I love me' wall. went into airsoft for awhile when paintball died out here. Still plink with my KWA K-4 GBB, cheaper than 5.56.

Some familiar names here, some not so much, looks like the old OMHW crew is long gone, but such is

Enjoy your life, the alternative is far worse.

I moved from western PA to SLC, UT in 2008, did a stint in the USMC and went back to Utah at the end of 2013, got a degree in Materials Science and Engineering, and currently work for the air force. Bought a house here spring 2019 and live with a girlfriend and a couple rowdy cattledog mixes. I still try to ski, mountain bike, shoot, and have fun with cars as much as I can.

bravecoward wrote: I don't know when the last time I posted here was but I relocated to Phoenix AZ and have fallen completely in love with the west. I enjoy camping still and bought an 04 4runner for my adventures.

Sold my third gen 4Runner in 2011 and missed it up until I got a 100 series in 2015. Winter months we make it down to southern UT a bunch, but I think once it gets hot this summer we're gonna try to explore more of Idaho. Hit me up if you're coming up out of the desert.

DeTrevni wrote: Other than that, 18" of snow. As a Houstonian, this sucks. Shovelling sucks.

Snowblowers kick ass. My decent sized driveway with 5-6" of snow takes more than an hour to clear with two people by shovel or under ten minutes with just my snowblower.

Finally knuckled down and sent off an order form to the Civilian Marksmanship Program for a Service-Grade M1 Garand. Their Alabama office is closed until next week, but I figure that puts me towards the front of the line when they finally open their mail. Excited, but it can take months to finally receive your rifle the first time around.

Meanwhile, I have a butt-load of rifle parts coming to return my sporterized M98/48 back into a true Yugo-Capture 98k. It's an OG German receiver with OG German barrel, so it's an early "conversion" meaning they just put it in a new non-Nazi stock. After that, the only restorations I have left to complete are the M16 Berthier Carbine (stock and bbl bands) and finish up my buddy's No.4 Mk1 Enfield re-finish.

impulse418 wrote: I've always wanted to shoot a Garand. Om those yugos, did they remove the front sight hood? What's a good reference website on those? The reason I ask is my k98 doesn't have the front hood.

They did, but repros are available from Liberty Tree Collectors for a reasonable price. Just snapped the sight hood back on mine tonight.

A lot of k98s as missing their hoods. Either banged off in storage or import, or taken off by bubba. Captured Russian, Yugo, Czech, etc. usually removed it as well. http://mauser98k.internetdsl.pl/indexen.html has some info that is pretty complete.

https://www.ima-usa.com/pages/search-results?q=k98&page_num=2 also has hoods available.

spydercam wrote: I uploaded some M98cam(2 Gen. of Spydercam i used 2004) footage: M98cam Vid. Need to spend more time, to get all my old Hi8 footage into a short movie. Great time, two legs, much younger, high motivated etc. !!!

Cause the Forum where i uploaded most of my Picture footage is dead. I had to upload them new, i´ve choosen YT at the Moment there are two "BuildsPicsShow" Videos online, i think a third one is needed but later !!!

BPS Part1

BPS Part2

You just have to waste for both vids ca. 10min !

Life has taken me many places from being the obnoxious teenager I was when I joined this forum around the age of 12 or 13. I'm 29 now, 30 is approaching like a hurricane. Absolutely nothing about my life turned out the way I thought it would,

agentwhale007 wrote: Ocasta wrote: I'm 29 now, 30 is approaching like a hurricane. It's pretty much the same except you get hemorrhoids now.

40 is pretty much the same as 30, but with the added insult of arthritis starting to rear its head.

Build that foot mounting Thing i still Need to reduce the top weight alot. I bought(ordered) me an Hometrainer that fixes your bike at the back axle so you can use your outdoor bike. Hope this will bring me faster back to normal !!!