Cunuckgaucho

I'm sure somewhere someone is blaming it on climate change...

Local ski hills closed, to warm to even make snow. Pretty much tee shirt weather at work. Not looking good for the snow pack which feeds the streams and helps keep the trees fro becoing forest fire wood.

Something going on with cranes locally. This one happened this morning( no injuries) The yellow crane in background is what it's suppose to look like. Then four days earlier, this one happened and the fact there was no injuries was surprising as it happened on a Friday afternoon right beside a major road.It was in the procces of being dismantled. You can see part of the boom hanging off the side of the building along with the damaged windows where it hit the building. We have 3 on site so guessing there will be some dscussions at work tomorrow.

Do you reload? https://shooterscalculator.com/recoil-calculator.php Here's a recoil calculator and you can pre run some numbers( bullet weight,velocity) and then develop a load factoring recoil. Maybe develop one load for range practice and something a little hotter for hunting .

Ouch, bet you woke up pretty stiff and sore the next day. As bad as it was it could have been worse so here's to a fast and complete recovery.

Last time the Canadian government spent money for something like this weas 1959-61 building a shelter for politicians in Ottawa. Typical politicians only thinking of themselves, seems kinda pointless surviving when the rest of the country along with the military will not exist. Just after the 14 min mark is my world right down to Saint Barbara.

That was more a refrence to his squirrel dog and their fun together and although following your great post is unrelated 😁

Happy 39th from the wet coast

Mean while on the Rez...

I was waiting for him to pull somethinng out of his dreds

You could always claim you ordered a bunch of hardware for the kitchen cabinets and the supplier screwed up and sent the wrong order

Made me remember this...

Agree, I have a ways to go. Even though I hit the land mile, I need to be able hit it on a consistant basis. Playing out to 2k gives me a lot to work with to develop my game. For economics and practice with easier availible ranges,looking at .22 ELR.

We'll get the distance Mike, it's just seeing if they land where we need them to land. For me it's going to cross around the 1800yd mark. So what is the going rate on the market for a used kidney theses days?

Nicely done brother

Nice looking pistol, I like the two tone and the grips. Once this trudeau BS gets sorted out and I can buy pistols again .45s is what I'll be looking at first

On paper the 6.5PRC gets out there doing just over 1000fps and looking at approximately 24mils of drop but as they say... the proof is in the pudding. Picked up 200 bulllets(Hornady 6.5MM 147GR) and a couple pounds of H1000 this morning. We'll see how the 147s work,seems Berger makes a 153.5 long range hybrid but it'sa matter of finding some to try out.

The shooting isn't the issue, it's being able to function durring the day... there is only so much clothes I can take off and nobody want to see that. Well after the trifecta... brotherhood, shooting and the food everything else is sprinkles on the whipped cream For me every trip is a great learning experience that ups my game in leaps and bounds.

The one that makes me cringe is seeing feet on the dash with an airbag equipped car.

It certinly is, I really like it in the spring. Somehow surviving the summer might be questionable...

Must be nice, short sleeves and no thought of wind chill. Just a couple months to go

Douglas "recoilless" submachine gun In 1969, a Canadian designer, Clifford N. Douglas, developed a highly unusual submachine gun which was billed as a "recoilless" SMG. This gun was unique in several ways, and acted as a testbed for some interesting concepts that were never fully fleshed out. The method of eliminating the felt recoil of the gun was achieved by having the bolt and barrel fixed together by a spring. When the gun was fired, the bolt would blow backward as expected, and the barrel would blow forward; the central spring connecting the two would then pull them back together, meanwhile the gap that had temporarily been opened would allow a new cartridge to be loaded into the breech from the magazine. Through this system, the impact of the bolt was barely felt by the user due to the force of the barrel acting against it. What the Douglas did not, and could not, eliminate was the force exerted by the energy of the bullet as it left the barrel, and thus there was still some "muzzle climb" with the Douglas SMG. Therefore what the gun was really designed to achieve was optimal comfort for the firer, rather than eliminating all recoil outright. Indeed, the Douglas could be fired with one hand with significantly greater ease than a standard blowback SMG or machine pistol. The operating principle of the Douglas submachine gun. The other significant feature of the Douglas submachine gun, besides the unique operating mechanism, was the magazine. The Douglas employed a "bullpup" layout in which the magazine was fed in from behind the trigger. The magazine designed for the gun was a tubular helical type, of a similar fashion to the much later Russian PP-19 Bizon SMG. However the magazine was not operated by a spring and follower, but was driven by the movement of the bolt (this can be contrasted to another Canadian experimental SMG, the SAL Model 2). The cartridges in the magazine sat in a spiraling fluted cylinder which was rotated by a sort of screw-type shaft protruding from the front end of the magazine. When the bolt came back it would engage with a series of "teeth" on the shaft and force a ? rotation of the cylinder. This would push a the current cartridge out of the magazine opening and a new cartridge would be elevated to the top of the magazine. When not loaded into the gun, the magazine shaft could be locked in place by a latch to prevent it from rotating unintentionally. The helical magazine(50 rds) The Douglas submachine gun was evaluated by the Canadian Army in the late 1960s or early 1970s, but it never advanced past an embryonic prototype stage. One imagines that the system used by this gun, while technically innovative, was probably not particularly reliable compared to a standard blowback operation.

Thursday was the worst -4F with windchill and lucky me working on the water front outdoors. Irony is my official job title is Inside Wireman which it turns out has nothing to do with indoors or outdoors. By monday we'll be back to normal for this time of year( low-mid 20F) and by weeks end above normal temps and rain. Very little snow so far which isn't good, a poor snow pack means a dry summer and forest fires