Sisco

I use FB for keeping in touch with my spread out family, it is more like being in a conversation than emails, plus some local sportsmen groups. Used to be an avid AR10 T member, but like JT said, it is about dead. Use twitter to follow some friends in overseas hotspots, less censorship than FB. Mainly this has become the internet place I hang out on.

Our family in Idaho say they are having dust storms its so dry. And they have never seen that before. I guess there is absolutely no moisture in the soil for quite a ways down.

Mag for what its worth, they have pulled just about every able bodied fire fighter and private loggers from this area and sent them out in some cases with some of their heavy equipment to Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington to help fight the fires.. A friend with his own logging business is out there with his whole crew for the last month.with no schedule when he is coming back home. Told me to find another source for firewood this year, as he won't have time to log any.

Just picked up a retractable stock for an AR15 $49 and an M4 size 4 rail forend, $19, plus 220 more rounds of ZQ1, 49 1/2 cents a round. I am poor, but supplied.

Back when I was a kid, we would go camping in the Black Hills and those B- 36's would go over us at about 12,000 feet. When they changed their propeller pitch, Holy Crap! What a sound!

Mag will keep you and your family in our thoughts and prayers,along with our family members in Lake Chelan WA and Bayview. ID. They all have been evacuated one time or the other in the past month. The worst ever.

The Minnesota Air National Guard used to have a YF12 parked at their small aviation museum at the Minneapolis Airport. Took my son there years ago, you could walk around and actually touch it. The YF12 was a prototype fighter based on the SR71 that never got produced. It was impressive. Since then it got moved somewhere in the country to another museum. An amazing class of aircraft. Someday if things calm down internationally I would like to visit the outdoor museum of the Red Army Air Force in Moscow. Doubt that ever happens though.

Tried something new. Red Oak, because I have 6 cords of it laid up, and nothing else around right now. It is a strong smoke flavor, so I cut the wood back a bit and used lump charcoal as well. Temp was 260 for one hour to kill bacteria, then back down to 210-225 for a 12 hour smoke. We had a group my wife belongs to with their husbands over last night, and the smoked fish and pork was a hit. Got some left for myself thank goodness. Now I gotta go catch some more fish to smoke.

The smoker has got a workout the last couple of days. After

Nice set up Blue like that fore end.

It finally hit Ashland Wi. All AR's marked down. A DPMS 308 patrol rifle, normally $914, now $699! Don't need but almost bought anyway. Did score on more ZQ1.

If your a chevy man, you could put this at the foot of the bed.

Normally I use brown sugar in the brine, but we were out, and maple syrup is too expensive to make to dilute in the brine, so I tried it this way. It gives a nice,muted sweet flavor to the fish that matches up well with the salt and the pepper. I will try it again.

Pretty straight forward. Salt, black pepper, and bay laurel leaves. Then I did a light coating of maple syrup and some more black pepper before putting it in the smoker.

98z, for when your working on your 500 and want to stop and grill a steak.

Not really grilling, biut I got four Chinook filets out of the freezer, brimed em and smoked them today. Before and after pictures.

Got ya covered. And for boring evenings in the hidie hole.

Wetncold, found your sinks.

Blue bathroom? Man your in a red state! Wait a minute try this.

In an effort to get in touch with my more sensitive, artistic side, I have decided to open the above business. Attached are some samples of my work and creativity. To book an appointment, just dial 1-800- real man and ask for "Mr. Sisco".

Just checked two wally world's yesterday. Nothing up here on clearance, and lots of 5.56 AR's on the shelf. They did have Turkish ZQ1 5.56 Ammo 850 rounds in an ammo can for $457. That is 50cents a round almost. Too expensive for my blood. I did buy the last two 20 count boxes of ZQ1 7.62x51 for $9.93 each .

Getting back to that service rifle competition thing. I may be mixed up here, but the Army Marksmanship Unit has been using Armalite AR10 National Match rifles for a number of years. If they can use them, I assume civilian competitors could as well.

Thanks guys, hope all of you get some range time soon. Speaking of ranges, a couple of things. After the moly coated bullets, I pumped some old 1975 era Indian Army surplus I have through the AR10, and damned if that stuff wasn't a lot more accurate than the last time I used it! I am thinking that there is residual effect on the bore from the moly coating on the bullets. I don't know how long it lasts, but I am going to forego cleaning the bore and find out. Also, after spending time in Minnesota this winter and finding out what it is like to live in a state with hardly any shooting ranges, I recently volunteered to be on a Wisconsin DNR Advisory committee working to promote shooting range construction and maintanence trhoughout the state. We need more, not fewer opportunities to shoot in safe places. I hope I can help make a difference.

The son came home so we hit the range with the AR10T carbine. And a bunch of 45's. Had the chance to try out some of those HSM Moly coated 168 gr BTHP's . They are just as accurate in the carbine as in the rifle. Had to let the wife use my cell phone so I didn't have a camera, but some of the groups were one big ragged hole at 100 yards. I am impressed enough I am going to hoard my remaining stock and start looking for more. 45' s were as fun as 1911's always are.

Nice. It's a,shooter. Good looking too.