What'd you do today?
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Topic: What'd you do today?
Posted By: Eville
Subject: What'd you do today?
Date Posted: 21 May 2016 at 12:26pm
I finished up my bull bar project. The last thing I want to have happen on my trip is to hit a deer in the middle of nowhere and get behind schedule so, I had this bull bar made by the guys at SuspensionMaxx (also because it looks cool). This thing is beefy. Made from 3/8 plate and 2.5inch DOM, 1/8in walls and weighing in at 80 pounds. I also had them add a hitch receiver so I can winch myself out of trouble in the years to come. So I primed it and coated it in Monstaliner roll-on bed liner. Good stuff.  Then I grabbed an ice cold Eville and got to work on installing it.  Installation was a pain. I had to remove the plastic part of the bumper, drill out the existing holes in the frame to make them straight so the bolts would fit. Then I had to do a little Dremel trimming on the front fascia to get the spacer blocks to fit. It all fit together extremely snuggly so putting the bolts through requires vigorous rocking and jiggling of the bar. I also added 4 LED pods from Rigid Industries on the front, so I can see wildlife easier at night when I'm in the middle of nowhere alone (again also because they look cool). Thankfully the lights went in a wired up with a lot less trouble.  ------------- 
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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 22 May 2016 at 3:41am
| Was planning on changing the tires on the motorcycle, ended up hitting a meeting then going mountain biking. Holy moiy am I outta shape, and also wrecked. Don't think I broke a rib, but still hurts to laugh or cough. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 22 May 2016 at 6:00pm
| Got a puppy on wednesday. He needs more shots so we aren't supposed to socialize him yet. He sure is a puppy and we have to wait a month before we can start taking him to training. He is the cutest puppy ever. He is a leonberger mix, but we aren't sure what his mix may be. I hope he gets to at least 150 lbs. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 22 May 2016 at 6:54pm
My weekend "Honey Do" list. My wife is still feeling the chemo and stem cell transplant so everything is on me and my sons. After dinner, going to work on this.
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 22 May 2016 at 6:58pm
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My brother in law and his girlfriend came up to visit on their way to Howe's Caverns, and she's reserving us VIP tickets to the USS Intrepid museum this summer- she works on board, and I've been meaning to get there for YEARS...just never have. Then I got rid of a TON of old baby and kids toys from where it had all been stored in the garage. Fixed my lawn mower, and headed off to work for the first 12 hour shift of a three month summer stint where the students are on vacation. We've got three months of training, taking it easy, and barbecuing until the village department calls us to assist with something. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 22 May 2016 at 6:59pm
Reb, You have to do the Kamikaze experience when you go to the Intrepid. I am not going to spoil it for you, just go do it. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Reb Cpl wrote:Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 22 May 2016 at 7:00pm
I just bought this:  I've been collecting the paints I need for it slowly over the last few weeks, and needed a new spray gun. The number of hobby shops around here is disappointingly small. Also- best wishes to the Mrs. as well as the rest of the family. Stuff's not easy on anyone. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 22 May 2016 at 7:02pm
Noted, thank you. My oldest son is getting to the age where we can start to do cool stuff together, so he and I are stoked about the trip. My wife and youngest are still 'meh' but we're gonna drag them along anyway. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 22 May 2016 at 7:06pm
Thank You Reb. The little guy sill love the Space Shuttle interactive. Tons of things for him to climb in and through. Enjoy the train, good luck keep little hands from it!  ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 22 May 2016 at 8:22pm
Fun fact, I was a Leonberger for 3 years. -------------
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 22 May 2016 at 11:02pm
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 23 May 2016 at 11:42am
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In Leonberg, nonetheless. -------------
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 23 May 2016 at 2:54pm
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Reb, you clearly purchased the wrong model kit. That one specifically says "Big Boy" on it..... ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: deadeye007
Date Posted: 23 May 2016 at 6:09pm
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I sat on my butt, drank beer, and played a computer game. I had to stay up until 0600hrs to get myself back on schedule for the work week. ------------- Face it guys, common sense is a form of wealth and we're surrounded by poverty.-Strato |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 23 May 2016 at 6:38pm
 ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 23 May 2016 at 10:21pm
My son will do most of the work. They still don't let me use the glue. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 25 May 2016 at 11:42am
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Played Elder Scrolls Online until WAY too late this morning. Got to work at 8:30am, did normal work things for a couple of hours. Went to radio station to record an advertisement, now back at work and bored out of my skull. Next up: make it until 5pm, then repeat. ------------- 
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 26 May 2016 at 12:46pm
| I went to a spring to swim yesterday and got water in my ear. It's still there and I'm trying to get it out. |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 26 May 2016 at 4:53pm
Rubbing alcohol? |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 26 May 2016 at 7:55pm
| I just jump with my head tilted until it finally comes out. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 26 May 2016 at 9:41pm
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Walk down a big flight of stairs with your head to the side. Today I went out and got some more things for my road trip; oil, anti-freeze, spare fuzes, tire plugs, fix a flat, shop towels, and a compass. I also switched from Sprint to Verizon and got an iPhone 6s. Glad to be done with the Samsung. I haven't told Sprint that I left yet. I'm just waiting for the right time to tell her. -------------
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 29 May 2016 at 10:42pm
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Going through stuff my dad brought home from grandma's house. Found a Schebler DLX 124 carburetor, which my research says came from a 1940 Indian 4 cylinder. I've been trying to find an example of one for sale to determine the value, but no luck. Similar models have been in the $1,200 range though. -------------
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 30 May 2016 at 9:52am
  Edit 25m, 15-22 bulk HVHP. Was her first time with real bullets ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 01 June 2016 at 9:05am
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Southpaw huh? How'd she do with the brass ejecting across her nose? Had a hell of a weekend this week. Friday we had some occupational and speech therapists come by to evaluate our son. He's got a speech delay and a couple of other minor delays in his development. Luckily, MD is one of the best states in the whole of the US for that. He gets free therapy to help out with that stuff. Well, I say "free" but in reality, I probably pay higher taxes than most people on this forum (NJ excluded) and that's where the services come from. That said, parenting is a frikken horror show when your kid isn't progressing along the standardized chart. You get everything from "well, he may have a hearing disorder" to "you might want to get him screened for the autism spectrum." Mind you, two days later, the kid is saying some simple two word sentences which mean he's progressing much more quickly with speech now, and he's having a mini language explosion with new words coming every day. I understand that it's the job of the screening folks to look for potential problems, but honestly, I just want to tell them to go "eff" themselves for making me second guess everything my son has been doing the past week. Takes the joy right out of parenthood. Because of that, my memorial day weekend, which is usually good and relaxing was nothing but a huge ball of stress for me. I'm hoping to hit the skeet and trap range this Saturday to blow off some steam. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 01 June 2016 at 7:08pm
Our oldest also had a speech delay and we did what's called "Early Intervention" in NYS- the same program you're probably enrolled in. With the right therapist, it can make a WORLD of difference. We had one that he responded well to before we moved from Schenectady, then when we moved we were assigned another woman who used 'facial prompting' which was basically touching his face and moving it around for him. He, and my wife and I, rejected that quick. The last woman was a godsend, and he turned a corner almost every time she showed up for a session. We too went through the "well, he might be on the spectrum" - don't let schools or anyone talk you into anything until the intervention or speech therapy runs its course. Schools are more than willing to classify kids at the drop of a hat in order to bolster their numbers and rake in the money. I hate to say it like that, but there are places which have made classification into a business. Good luck...although be forewarned. When they have a speech delay, they make up for lost time. He never shuts up now. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 02 June 2016 at 1:01am
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She was ok with it. I was a little worried about OOBD which isnwhy she shoulda had her glasses on but took them off betwwen strings and I'm sorry to say I didn't notice. I also went for speech therapy and a form of occupational therapy and while I may have some odd mannerism and Rainman style recollection of the most bizzare minutiae I turned out ok. ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 02 June 2016 at 12:53pm
| I'm probably going to go to the swimming pool in a little bit. |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 02 June 2016 at 8:38pm
| I had today off and I did nothing. I showered at 3:30 so I'd be clean when the wife came home from work. I have tomorrow off and I have a few things to do. Gotta get more rocks for a backyard project, grocery shop, meal plan for the week. I'm probably going to try to hit up a range and put some rounds through my pistol too. Should be a good Friday. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 02 June 2016 at 10:13pm
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Yesterday I drove to Omaha and saw The Book of Mormon which was outstanding. Today I drove through the Badlands in South Dakota and stopped at Mount Rushmore. -------------
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 04 June 2016 at 12:00am
| I officially have a mortgage now. Most I've ever been in debt. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 04 June 2016 at 12:23am
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Today I stopped at the Crazy Horse memorial, the Little Bighorn battlefield, and am spending the entire night in the Butte, MT. -------------
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 05 June 2016 at 9:44am
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Yesterday I went golfing for the first time ever. 18 holes on a difficult course is not fun. ------------- 
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 05 June 2016 at 10:22am
I'm getting a lot more comfortable shooting handguns. Friday was the first time at the range that I was actually confident in the shots I was taking. Still have to work on the first double action shot out of my beretta... which is the one shot to the left. Now to start saving for something that I can conceal better than a full size 9mm. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 05 June 2016 at 7:57pm
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For the first shot, don't look at anything but the front sight post. bring the gun up to your face so the hammer is on your cheek and you are looking at the front site and have it on your target. Then, in a smooth motion, push the pistol forward away from your face, keeping focus on the front site only and the front site on your target. Simultaneously, squeeze the trigger smoothly so that it breaks and fires at the same time that your arms reach full extension. This is called "railing" (tee hee). You can get the gist of it from this dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsoX26OhDCY -------------
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 05 June 2016 at 9:34pm
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It's funny... the first few times I shot, the double action shot was the most dead center shot I had. Now that I'm getting "better" that's the one that starts to drift. I tried the whole focus on the front post thing, but I can't seem to see the target at all then. I just need to get out more and shoot more rounds. I'm eyeing up a glock 26 now and I'm not sure if I want to sell the 92fs to get it or not.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 06 June 2016 at 8:55am
Yup. That's pretty typical that that your DA shot is the flyer. Once you get the SA shots in group, you'll want to go back and work on that DA control again. After all, it's the most important one in a defensive situation. I've gotten to the point with my PA-63 that the DA is center, but slightly high. Which I'm okay with as it puts it right in the collar bone area when aiming center mass. After that, everything else is right where it should be. I've done a couple of dump-and-run drills with it too (as in, dump the mag and high tail it out of there) when the range will allow it. I'm less accurate, but still all center mass, so I've got that going for me..... As for what I've been up to:
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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 06 June 2016 at 9:23am
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80% lower? I'm so sorry you live where you live that requires that. Speaking of... Got some trigger time on my Sig MCX. They were right, the stock trigger is pretty horrendous. Have been looking at upgrading to a Geissele SD-C  |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 06 June 2016 at 11:38am
Those are made on my company's EDM's and Waterjets. ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 06 June 2016 at 8:33pm
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Primary Arms runs 20% off specials on those fairly often. -------------
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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 06 June 2016 at 9:41pm
Thank you for that! |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 06 June 2016 at 10:19pm
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Saturday: "Fixed" my broken power steering by removing it. Installed a bidet. Comedy show. Sunday: Broke my car again driving in the canyons, goes to the shop wednesday... Today: found this gif from 2007 in a folder on one of my old hard drives  |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 06 June 2016 at 11:19pm
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Spent last night in Calgary at "4 Diamond Award" hotel that didn't even have free WiFi. Drove to Edmonton today and staying at a much less fancy hotel with free WiFi. Driving to Dawson Creek tomorrow. -------------
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Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 08 June 2016 at 7:48pm
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^^ I'm in Edmonton JERKFACE! Anyways, you have a beautiful drive ahead of you, Gas is expensive north of Dawson Creek, fill up in Fort St. John, and again in Fort Nelson because you will pay close to double at some places north of Fort Nelson. Make a point of stopping at Muncho Lake - they have great cabins for rent - and for sure stop at Liard Hot Springs just north of that. I'm jelly, I love it up there.
http://www.northernrockieslodge.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.northernrockieslodge.com http://www.tourismnorthernrockies.ca/places_liardriver.php" rel="nofollow - http://www.tourismnorthernrockies.ca/places_liardriver.php ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 08 June 2016 at 10:21pm
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Spent the day at my first sales presentation with the CEO of the company, my district manager, one of our sales guys, the VP of marketing, and one of our head dietitians. I was just there to take care of the food and look pretty. Sales pitch was to a school we've been trying to get into for 20 years, but the head honcho is a bit of a pitbull and seems to keep making the same mistakes with their dining services companies over and over. 10 years and 4 different companies later, they're finally coming to us. Frankly, I'm not sure we want this one. Whoever winds up becoming the director there is eff'ed on the employee end of things. School employs all the cooks. Not a single one of them (not even the newest dishwasher) is making less than $16/hr with full benefits 401k, etc. After all the OT for functions, they probably make more than the managers do. Sucks for whoever will be there as there's little to no recourse for counseling and/or terminating problem employees since they're employed by the school and not our company. It's like dealing with a union, but worse because there are no common expectations or rules. If it were up to me, I'd walk away from the table, but it's a big name school around here, so we'll likely stick to it. Otherwise my wife brought the plague home with her from the damned rugrats in her building at work. Massive sinus infection just in time for me to have to work a 12 hour day Saturday and then turn right around and deal with driving a bunch of kids to the Appalachia Service Project regional HQ in southern WV. I hope it's a quick virus, otherwise it's gonna suck. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 08 June 2016 at 11:15pm
I filled up between Ft St John and Nelson. The price per liter wasn't listed at the pump. Right now my credit card statement says $157 USD for 34 liters. I'm hoping that the bulk of that is pre-authorization. We will see though. I bought a 5L gas can here that I'm going to fill up before leaving Ft. Nelson as a last resort. Oh well. -------------
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 09 June 2016 at 8:49pm
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I worked a 12 hour shift, then went home, picked up my 3 year old son, and made a 2.5 hour drive to NYC. When we got there, we dropped off a box, turned around, and drove 2.5 hours back. I was nearly 30 hours between bedtimes, and when the coffee, 5 hour energy drinks, and AMP wore off, I crashed and spent 12 hours in a coma-like sleep. Why did I do this? My wife runs an etsy shop where she sells handmade toys and the like. A woman who is an event coordinator for a pretty swank company contacted her and asked for 10 pieces of product to be overnighted to NYC. Trouble was, they asked this at 3PM, and anything you're shipping has to be out by 5. My wife had 4 of the product in stock already, and tried like hell to make the deadline, but it wasn't going to happen. Rather than miss out on tapping into a pretty big client AND an order worth a few hundred bucks, we gambled and asked the woman if we could hand deliver it by noon the next day. They agreed, and I took a long, long drive. ------------- ? |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 10 June 2016 at 1:04am
| You truly deserve that world's best dad coffee cup. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 10 June 2016 at 1:57am
She let me sleep for 12 hours. We're square. ------------- ? |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 10 June 2016 at 11:36pm
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If it were me I would have left the kid at home because I would have been driving recklessly. I'm sure a 3-year old on a 5 hour road trip is a pretty good sleep inhibitor though. I made it to Whitehorse tonight. Took Johnny's suggestion and stopped at Liard Hotsprings. Outstanding stop. I didn't stay long, but I smelled like eggs when I left. Unfortunately that wasn't enough to repel the mosquitos when camping that night at Watson Lake in the Yukon. Also, I'm pretty sure there was a hornet nest or beehive at my campsite. I noticed a few hornets flying around, but it wasn't until I laid down for the night that I noticed the constant buzzing sound. Honestly, I would rather have a bear at my site than hornets. -------------
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Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 11 June 2016 at 9:50am
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I forgot to mention that last Friday was my last day at work, I officially retired from the ratrace/oilpatch; my wife and I are headed to Comox on Vancouver Island soon as our house sells here. Feels weird; onto the next stage of our lives! ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 12 June 2016 at 11:22pm
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 13 June 2016 at 12:03am
Me too  -------------
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 13 June 2016 at 9:18pm
| I'm piecing together a road trip from Milwaukee down to Dallas to visit some of the wife's family in October, and tossing around the idea of picking up an AR, which if I want to do now will probably mean selling my handgun. |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 14 June 2016 at 5:47pm
| I found out a former coworker and his boyfriend were killed in the massacre in Orlando. |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 14 June 2016 at 6:34pm
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Holy crap that's awful Whale. We had a few locals killed as well who I've probably bumped into around the area. I went to work today and not much else. I went hiking in the Whites over the weekend and managed to injure myself and enjoyed 10 hours of limping over very rough terrain after. I took a sick day yesterday. Here I am proud that I managed to not to gain weight over the winter as my body now seems to want to do and pulled a hip flexor on one side and jammed my knee on the other, just in time to go back to a summer of leading hikes. I suppose this should be good motivation to keep a decent fitness routine and not neglect flexibility exercise this summer. I also bought a new set of hiking boots since the ones I wore don't provide stability to my scrawny ankles or have a decent heel cup. I have the worst blister of my life and it's the easy painful issue I developed on the whole hike. |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 17 June 2016 at 10:23am
Came home early from work yesterday, wasn't sure if my town was going to be evacuated. Being born in Phoenix, this whole natural disaster thing is completely foreign to me  Finally installed the Geisselle trigger on my Sig MCX. And I also found out yesterday the Orlando shooter used the same weapon system. That was kind of awkward... Usually I'm up to date on what those mass murderers use, but at this point it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if it technically wasn't an AR-15. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 18 June 2016 at 10:50pm
But did that realization give you "temporary" PTSD? Because apparently they kick like a howitzer and sound like bombs going off if you're an uninformed reporter for a NY rag. Of course, I'd expect nothing less from the NY Daily News.... As for me, I spent the last week down in rural West Virginia with Appalachia Service Project repairing the homes of those most in need. We were assigned a simple sub-floor inspection and install, but what we got was a can of worms. The house is from the 1920s or 30's and was built (due to the inexpensive nature of the method) using "post and beam" construction techniques. Of course, over the years, things have been added on here and there (you know, like electricity and running water) so it's tough to get a read on what you're dealing with until you open it up. At some point in the 60s, someone sheet-rocked the walls and by the 80s had installed vinyl siding over the original exterior. We didn't know all of this before hand. We took up the carpet in the laundry room where we were to do the job. One layer of shag (not tacked) over one layer of berber (not tacked) on top of 1/4" low density foam for a "pad" which was randomly stapled to the sub-floor. Except, the sub-floor wasn't really the sub-floor. It was 3/4" quarter-sawn white oak tongue-and-groove hardwood..... and it was destroyed by termites sometime in the past. That made me nervous from the get go. Demoed the affected areas to get a look at the joists underneath. More damage. What's more, the band-joist on one side of the room was at a 25* angle (meaning the wall was coming down) half of the foundation was gone (like, not farking there)and the other exterior wall was so termite damaged at the floor level that it would move 4" outward with the slightest push. We now had to pour a footer and install a support pier for the double rim joist where the foundation was missing. We then had to "kick" the roof to prevent it from coming down on us while we removed the bad band joist piece by piece and replaced it with new pressure treated lumber. But! When we removed the old band joist, we had to saw through the exterior wall to get to it. Turns out that the exterior walls are just 1/2"x6" planks nailed to the box rafters at top and the box joists at the bottom (band and rim). There was then a thin piece of brown paper, and then the original interior walls which were 1/2" bead board. That's right. 1" thick walls with ZERO insulation. What's more, cutting the exterior planks meant that the wall that WAS stable was now no longer tied into the structure of the house. That meant we had to figure out some way to get it all tied back in. We then had to go in and replace the two bad joists with new ones, but all the "good" or reparable joists were all mill-sawn lumber, so they were completely out of dimension, even with each other, so crown-matching them was a real PITA. We finally got everything in and hung properly, laid the OSB for the sub floor, and put nailers around the bottom of the walls to tie them back into the structure with 2-1/2" screws. We then had to frame new interior walls in front of the nailers so that insulation could be added, and to give the structure more rigidity and support. Finally got everything framed and up by Friday with insulation in on most of it. So much for a simple floor job! At least they won't fall through the floor when doing laundry anymore. They'll also have a warmer and dryer house thanks to us. Next crew to come in will do drywall and finish the floors most likely. Bastards don't know how lucky they are we got to that stuff before them..... Might go back in late July to help with the "button up" weekend where they finish out unfinished projects. ASP is a pretty cool group. If you get a chance to join in on one of their projects, I highly recommend it. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 19 June 2016 at 12:18pm
| I bought a Smith and Wesson M&P 15 sport 2 on Friday. Waited 30 minutes at Cabelas waiting to be helped by one of the gun counter guys and just while I was there I was the 6th person buying that AR. Can't wait to get out to the range with it. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 20 June 2016 at 12:17am
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Tallen, sounds like a pretty cool project. I've been giving Sports Authority all of my money during their going out of business sale. I picked up a new set of ski goggles, some base layers, a couple pairs of ski pants, a new pair of ski boots, a set of irons and a driver. Oh yeah, and they have all guns and ammo at 20% off so I picked up 3 new ones. Got a Tikka T3 Lite in 300WSM, a Taurus Model 65 in .357, and went back today for a Benelli Nova 12ga. -------------
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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 26 June 2016 at 1:01am
 I bought one of these..... Scope not included |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 26 June 2016 at 2:54am
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I went to an Andrew W. K. show. Absolutely amazing.
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 27 June 2016 at 2:48am
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Can I touch you? Got some decent glass on my hunting rifle. Went with a Leupold VX-R 4-14x40mm, 30mm tube, Ballistic Fire Dot reticle. I don't know how spot on the ballistics markings will be since 300 WSM is not one of the calibers listed in the manual, but if it's way off, I've always been more of a Kentucky windage guy anyway. Here's my pickups from the last week Taurus Model 65 .357  Tikka T3 300 WSM  Benelli Nova 12ga.  I also hiked Mt. Baldy here in Eagle River   -------------
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Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 29 June 2016 at 12:21pm
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What caliber, Impulse? ------------- Innocence proves nothing FUAC!!!!! |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 30 June 2016 at 12:40am
| 6.5 😃 |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 30 June 2016 at 1:43am
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very nice -------------
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 30 June 2016 at 6:28pm
Primary arms has all Geissele products 25% off through July 4th -------------
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 30 June 2016 at 10:25pm
| I'm back after I locked myself out of the forum by trying to change my email address after I saw I was a mod. Horray! Thanks papa tallen. |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 01 July 2016 at 10:43am
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Dammmmmmmn it. I got impatient and ordered a gessiele trigger directly from them a few weeks back. But not mad, worth every penny and got a sweet swag bag. Now I'm deciding whether I want to go mil or moa, and which scope. Leaning towards either the Vortex Razor HD II or Night Force ACTR. Also the math involved with calculating ballistics really makes me wish I had paid more attention in school, because I have always struggled with math :( Another mod?! We need an uprising! Join me fellow plebs! ( I won't uprise if I get my third star  ) |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 01 July 2016 at 7:58pm
| I'm getting unreasonably excited for my October trip to Texas. We have a "free" (a few cases of beer and some sausage) place to stay for the week with some of my wife's favorite family members. The guy... her 2nd cousin or something... is on a swat team down there and I'm hoping I can convince him to take me to a range... or drive a bearcat. |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 02 July 2016 at 11:32pm
| Woke up to find a napkin under my wiper asking to buy my car, waiting for the kid to confer with his dad and call back. Asking 8k non-negotiable, either I get paid or I keep driving my sweet car, win/win. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 03 July 2016 at 4:48am
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Yo, where in Texas, PCF? ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 03 July 2016 at 10:24am
| DFW area. They live in Lewisville. |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 04 July 2016 at 1:29pm
| Bachelor party coming to a close after a weekend in Miami and Key West. Was a successful party. |
Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 04 July 2016 at 4:01pm
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Got my 300 WSM zeroed at 100m yesterday. Only took 20 shots and a very very sore shoulder. At a mere 6.4 pounds before the scope, that thing kicks like a something that kicks really really hard. I'll be investing in a recoil pad. -------------
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Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 06 July 2016 at 7:24pm
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My wife and I have officially retired; I had a seizure (epilepsy) Christmas 2014 and had 3 months off work and lots of time to reflect on how great life is. During this time my awesome dad passed away and it cemented how life can slip by so fast so we decided to bump up our plans. It was tough as I had a great job in the oil-patch, employee owned and the best job I've ever had; my position was application engineer for the gas compression side of our company. My wife also had a great job, however she loves the Island and the laid back pace of life there so she was game We are moving to Vancouver Island which is truly a slice of heaven, and we are leaving Friday, we are renting a place on Kye Bay - http://www.kyebay.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.kyebay.com - for the rest of the month while we look for a place in Comox. Happy Summer!
Edit - Post of my Dad, playing his 1959 Gibson J45; I have this guitar now.:  ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 06 July 2016 at 9:31pm
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Got back from my first real vacation in four years. My wife and boys and I spent a few days on the Gettysburg battlefield, and I might be getting back into reenacting after three years out of it. My oldest son is starting to show a little interest, so we're going to feed it a little and see where it ends up.
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Posted By: Eville
Date Posted: 06 July 2016 at 11:50pm
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Congrats on the retirement Johnny! -------------
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 08 July 2016 at 9:37pm
Oh, Sure... 40 minutes from where I live and you don't even try to get in touch with me.... Jerk... Never mind the fact that I was out of town from the 2nd until yesterday evening, you still should have shot me a PM.... ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: deadeye007
Date Posted: 09 July 2016 at 3:12pm
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I put in a new, gas counter top stove. I hope I don't blow up... ------------- Face it guys, common sense is a form of wealth and we're surrounded by poverty.-Strato |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 10 July 2016 at 7:04am
We didn't know we were going until last minute to be honest, and this was a 'test the water' trip for us as an entire familial unit- the last time we'd gone on vacation, our youngest hadn't even been born yet. Next year, we're planning on spending more time down there, and I have to get down to PG county to visit a friend of mine who's a firefighter down there....so we'll have to schedule a meet up for sure. Provided you're not out of town again.  ------------- ? |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 11 July 2016 at 7:51pm
Firefighter in PG? What is he, a masochist? PG is soooo laughably underfunded compared to the surrounding counties that you kind of have to have some sort of self-loathing to work as a first responder there. That said, apparently PG has a great shooting center. Trap, skeet, 5 stand, and sporting clays right next to Goddard Spaceflight Center. Give me a heads up when you come down. This way again. It'd be fun to finally meet face to face. If you want to head south to visit Antietam or the Monocacy, we could meet you there, or we could drive to G'burg as well. Restaurant selection is better in Frederick and Hagerstown. Or we could even meet half-way in Westminster. Cool college town with some killer restaurants and pubs. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 12 July 2016 at 9:46am
| I would love to visit your neck of the woods one day. Mostly Gettysburg and the Smithsonian museums. |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 16 July 2016 at 1:07am
| Flew back to LA from a conference in Wisconsin, nice place. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 16 July 2016 at 2:16am
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I had my local gun shop order me a Smith and Wesson M&P9 Pro Series 5. I want to get into run-n-gun shooting. After a load of research, I feel 9mm in production division will be the way to go. I'm excited for it. Next I'll be looking into belts/mag pouches/holsters. Then reloading equip. And this will all still probably be cheaper than a "tourney level" paintball setup... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 16 July 2016 at 9:43am
Meh... it's alright here.
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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 17 July 2016 at 9:12pm
| Went to my first adventure motorcycle group ride thingy. Ended up breaking a rib. Bye bye HSA account. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 18 July 2016 at 7:34am
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Acquired my motorcycle license thru the MSF. -------------
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 19 July 2016 at 7:30pm
Funny, I went and got my motorcycle learner's permit yesterday. I'm signed up to do a course that runs Thurs-Sun. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 19 July 2016 at 8:48pm
It's fun. Very non judgmental and excellent if you have never sat on a motorcycle before. The class time was somewhat pointless. My state offers it free so I'm going to sign up for BRC2 and maybe ARC if I ever get a bike Edit: my GF tagged along because she wanted to. She was nervous about being the only girl and it was 60% female -------------
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 20 July 2016 at 9:18am
Sounds like the hunter safety course I went to a few years ago to get my hunting license. 60% women looking to either start hunting, or use the course as the prerequisite class time for their handgun purchasing permit. Never saw more pink camo in one place in my entire life. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 22 July 2016 at 12:21am
Mine is through the Harley dealer. Since it seems longer than a normal BRC course I figured it'd have some extra learning, but the first day was mostly eaten up by touring the dealer, then we barely got through the most basic stuff like controls and gear. Feels like they're trying to get you to buy stuff from them, but since I paid $0 for the course I'm not complaining. Found out that dealer has a dyno, which is interesting. |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 22 July 2016 at 10:46am
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Dang, I wish my MSF class was free but it was still worth every penny. What kind of bikes are you guys getting? |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 22 July 2016 at 12:39pm
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Finished all the major work on the Hoosier hutch I've been refinishing over the past several months. Just have to wait on some hardware to come in and move the pieces for final assembly (attaching to the top to the bottom). ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 23 July 2016 at 10:52am
Mine was free. I had a newish Suzuki TU250 which I liked. GF got stuck with a beat up Kawasaki 250 cruiser that had been dropped many times. -------------
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 25 July 2016 at 1:40am
| We had new Street 500's, not bad. Also had a few bigger bikes kicking around to test on since my state has some stupid tiered licensing with motor sizes. |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 26 July 2016 at 9:45pm
| Finished up my sporting clays summer leage tonight. Shot 2 43/50s. Those put my average for the league just over 40. Pretty happy about that. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 July 2016 at 12:58am
Nice! I'm hoping to join an informal wobble-trap league this fall. Get ready for some pheasant hunts before the cold weather sets in. Have a bid in on a new-in-box CZ Ringneck 12ga SxS. Auction ends tomorrow. I really, really, really hope I win this one. It's a 800-dollar gun. My max is something like 330. After that, it's just not worth it for me. Here's hoping it doesn't spike too much at the last minute. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 27 July 2016 at 6:34am
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Excellent. My buddy has a CZ o/u. I think it's the redhead. Shoots really nice, although it slaps him in the face a bit. I'm really excited for the winter 5 stand league again this year. I think last year they said they had almost 500 people in that league. I will shoot a 50 soon... and I also want to shoot a perfect round of skeet. I should be able to. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 July 2016 at 8:51am
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Yeah, I'm hoping I get it. SxS should be a bit less aggressive on the cheek slapping due to the barrel config, but we'll see should it come into my possession. There was a Redhead on the listing too, but it was .410, and going for waaaaay more than the various Ringnecks that were listed. Besides, I like being the only guy with a SxS at the range. Everyone else is either shooting auto loaders, 870s, for O/Us. I love walking out there with my old 1920's double hammer-gun and shooting a perfect round of trap or wobble. I suck at skeet though. Part of it is probably that I'm shooting right barrel full, left barrel modified for the fixed bore chokes in that side-by-side. Yet another reason I'm looking at that Ringneck. Auction ends at 8PM tonight. Keeping my fingers crossed. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 27 July 2016 at 9:37pm
Awww snap! Bought another gun today. Didn't get the Ringneck. Hit $400 towards the end once you factored in the buyer's premium. Add shipping and FFL transfer on top of it and it was going to be $500. Still a steal for what was originally a $1200-$1400 gun when it was brought out, but too rich for my blood. So instead, I stumbled across a Montgomery Wards Western Field 600A ERI which is a gussied up Remington 878 with nice checkering in premium wood for the stock and forearm, and some decent engraving for a store brand arm. She's in nice shape. Most of these were modified choke, so it should work for pheasant, chuckar, and trap/skeet as well when I'm not rocking the SxS hammer gun.      ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |