BrianK

Welcome to the forum!

Welcome to the forum!

Not unusual for us for March... 10" of snow yesterday and in the 30s -20s last night. Today and the rest of the week in the 40s so we'll lose alot of what fell. Good riddance to it. I'm ready for spring weather and shooting, I have lotsa shooting to do, and developing loads and reloading.

If you plan on getting a laser you might consider the following. Green is in part of the spectrum that human eyes operate best in (yellow/green). If you plan on a laser you really want the laser to be green so that you can pick it out easily from the background clutter or a light level that is marginal (too bright). But an optic, if it's set up correctly is "right there" when the rifle or shotgun is shouldered. There is no searching for the red dot in the optic. Different colors allow you to easily collimate the laser to the red dot. If you have both the same color it's much more difficult to know which is which. So boiling it down, red dot in the optic, green for the laser. Of course if you'll never have a laser on the firearm it's not an issue, but now is the time to decide and buy only once. I've been considering one of the prism type red dots and have heard nothing but good things. Please get back to us to let us know how you like it. BTW, I haven't dropped the hammer on one yet.

Sorry to hear about the goat, that sux. Good that your outage was short lived Shooterrex. Well, they forecast our weather correctly (central Maine 60ish miles inland). When I woke it was snowing hard and by the looks had been for a few hours. It's still snowing hard. I haven't been outside to check the accumulation, but from what I'm seeing it's the "worst" storm of a very unsnowy winter, we've had much worse in years past. The coast may see power outages during this due to their wet snow clinging to power lines and high winds predicted there, but I'd be very surprised if we have an outage where we are, our snow is too fluffy. Plus the storm is too gentle for an outage for us, so far anyway.

Well, that sux about the winds and outages. If I was runnin' the lineman I'd have them sit it out until the winds die down otherwise it'd be like peeing into the wind. DNP, I'm surprised you see snow at all in San Diego. No way would I have ever thought that.

Snow today (central Maine), but the outside temp' is up to almost 30°F (heat wave!). Sure it was forecast, but at this time of the year it has always struck me as being a waste of time, kinda like snow or rain over the ocean, and snowing here just to be a PITA. It's not going to last because of the angle of the sunlight. If I remember the forecast we'll get snow every other day for at least this week. When I refer to the season changes "fighting it out" this is what I mean. At this time of the year the moist air from the south clashes with the Arctic air and this is what we get. A few years ago we got 2 blizzards in one week, days apart, during the seasons fight for supremacy.

I probably ought not be such a cheapskate and buy more commercial subsonic loads to try in mine. But as the gent in the video states it's just too expensive.

Just MHO, but that would make for a really interesting rifle. But one question, why not make a new upper and have both? Just curious, no judgement.

I tried reaming them many years ago and got some primer pockets that turned out oversize. I have no idea how that happened but it must have been me. That prompted me to get the Dillon tool. That was decades ago. The thing paid for itself LONG ago. And despite mine being all manually operated it's very fast!

Rsquared, that's not cold for you? More cold for us today. When I got up at 0630 I looked at the thermometer and it was -3°F. It's 20° now at 1115. The indoor wood rack is getting low so at some point today we'll need to get more inside. Looking at the extended forecast the cold will moderate 'til Tuesday but remain in the 20s during the day, normal for us at this time of the year. Tuesday snow then Wednesday it'll go into the 40s. That pattern is normal; precipitation, then the air mass changes. Typically in March we start the melt into spring and we call that mud season because the frost comes out of the ground and the ground is soupy. As the frost clears from out of the ground the water soaks in and the ground firms up. This year might be a short mud season because the frost may not have gone very deep this year. We'll find out very soon.

Cold the past few days and will be for at least a few more. Running the wood stove because of the quality of the heat. We love burning wood over the oil furnace or even the heat pumps.

I lost 50# but I did it by not eating carbs, or very few carbs. I counted them to make sure. I didn't do it overnight nor did I intend to. Fast weight loss means it's unsustainable in most cases. I had many reasons for entering ketosis and my Dr. fessed up the last time I saw him and told me that he agreed with all the reasons I gave. He continues to tell me to kepp doing what I'm doing. Easy to do 'cause I never felt better.

Heck, you're doing great too. 👍 I know I've come a long way since I started my therapy 3+ years ago. Back then I had a hard time walking in my dooryard w/o calf pain that would bring me to a halt. Just today I got my app't for another vascular study to find out just how much I've done. I was getting 33% blood flow in my right leg and slightly more in my left. I know it's not 100% but it IS better today. I don't think they allow cameras in the gym. Maybe I can get one of the folks behind the desk to do it for me so that they know I'm not intending the biden routine. Whoops, sorry, no prepubescent girls so it can't be bidens routine.

I don't think this is the first time they tried this. I seem to remember a push in this direction maybe 20-30 years ago and it didn't work back then. Here it is again, what a surprise, huh? A different bunch of anal sphincters but the same idea from out of the freedom stealing catalog.

Stay warm SB ! Last week or so we were teased with warmish temps and did lots of melting but it was just a tease to make us think we were going to get an early spring. In Maine? No way! Snow here today also Sagebrush. Not much though and that's good, but it's cold. When I woke up it was 20°, not more than 1/2 hour later it was 14°. We've been hovering there ever since. I have no idea what the wind chill is, but the wind is gusting, or it was. It'll be colder tonight and more snow is forecast. At these temps I use the heavy duty heat "system" called a wood stove. It delivers steady heat with no short term fluctuations. But it delivers too much heat if it's much warmer outside. Cold for the weekend is also predicted. I have no idea when the cold will break. But the sun is getting higher in the sky and is delivering warmth, so the battle between cold and warm will begin in earnest in the next month or so. We can also get the worst weather of the winter as the moist southern (Gulf of Mexico) air collides with the cold arctic air and dumps on us. But the end of winter isn't far away. Yipppeee! In years past I liked winter, not so much anymore.

Thanks. The biggest difference between rowing when I was a child and now is the moving seat as found in racing hulls. As a child it was just a rowboat and the seat was stationary. Now I can add leg muscles to the stroke. Thanks for the thought to help me get it right. This is not a complaint, I like having no one competing for time on the rowing machines, but I wonder why more folks don't use them? "My" gym has 6 of them and I've only ever seen one other person using one. Again, not a complaint, just curious. The other part of my rehab is the treadmill that is Rxed for me (1.8mph @ 15% grade at this time) and there are times when I wonder if I can find one to use and they must have at least 20+. They're very popular when right outside is a place where the scenery sorta changes. After I max out my Rxed treadmill rehab I plan to walk out there when it's not hot or icy cause the real world is more difficult than the treadmill for some reason I can't fathom. Maybe the moving belt vs non moving pavement? IDK

Ha, 50 years later! Don't I wish!

I have no doubt that you'll get squared away. FWIW, I absolutely HATE raking. Yes, it's lots of labor. Every year we have a leaf drop, same as you do in Wisconsin. I let the mower handle any "raking". I maneuver the discharge to blow it into my forest. Edit: Yes, that looks like my stroke unforgiven. I rowed a great deal as a child and brushed up on it 2 weeks ago to make sure I was doing it correctly today, 50 years later. My biggest problem is throttling back my mind. I want to speed up too much and that's not what it's about. So I keep track of the spm and keep it between 16-18. Nice and leisurely but effective. I never started to sweat in cardiac rehab, but I do a little when rowing. I'll get better.

How'd it go Sisco? Still going slow here but doing more each time. Now I rest for 2 every 5 minutes, and I row for 10 minutes. I'm liking the rowing machine and working all of my body. At the hospital all of the exercises worked either the legs or arms and that's it. Still working on the walking; 1.8mph @ 15% grade. It's slow going to get the circulation rerouted but I know how far I've come so I continue. It took me over 3 years to get to where I am so it's not an overnight sort of thing. Went to the gym 2x this week and maybe again tomorrow weather permitting.

I love 300BLK. Did my research and built my own. It runs supers and subs, but, and here's the catch, I handload for my gun. I tried the S&B subs they mention and they just won't function the gun reliably. Supers? If a 300BLK doesn't run with supers just give up, they all do, or at least should. The fly in the ointment is if it'll also run subs as they correctly asked. But build a gun to run subs and it's probably not going to run supers the way it should. But handload and you've got it. At least that's the way I see it and that approach worked for me. Or one could try various loads until a load or loads are found that work reliably. If one needs a crash course in 300BLK it's found here: https://www.300blktalk.com/forum/index.php Everything you wanted to know about 300BLK is there somewhere. Its where I got my info for what I built and I came away with the understanding that I might need to adjust the pressure curve of the ammo to make it work with subs. That's my way of saying don't ask me, instead go to that site to find and learn what you need to do for what you build. Is it worth it? They got it 100% correct that it's a niche cartridge. But on the 300blk talk forum you'll find folks who use it for all sorts of things, including hunting. It isn't a bean field rifle, but used within it's capabilities it works fine. It didn't exist back when I was hunting, but knowing about it today I wish I'd have had it back then. FWIW, my 10" build is a HD gun for exactly the reasons they give. But I don't use subs for HD for at least 2 reasons. IMO they are the wrong load for indoor use. I shoot an 85 gr copper (Maker) @ 2300fps for 1k ft/lbs out of my 10" barrel. Yes, it wears a blast can but that doesn't make it quiet it just stops the pain of the eardrums from concussion. It does keep the firearm shorter. OK, why supers and not subs? A SD gun should ideally have stopping power and that begins at about (if my memory serves me) at around 2000fps. Below that the best we can hope for is that the bullet expands, dumps it's energy to produce trauma, and allow bleed out. The worst, and here's where a sub comes in, is that a tiny hole is drilled, maybe many tiny holes, and a slowish bleed out happens. That could allow a perp plenty of time to do more evil, and stopping that was the entire purpose of deadly force in the first place. At least that's my thinking on it, with absolutely no real world experience and I hope I never get any. That's why I use Maker 85s, they have stopping power, dump a huge amount of energy, produce a perfect 3 pointed mushroom, and gel tests tell me that they'll penetrate about 6" and remain inside with no exit. If I didn't use the 85s I'd use a 110-125 grain bullet, probably a varmint bullet to make sure I got expansion if it was copper jacketed lead at the relatively low velocity we can expect from a short barreled 300BLK (2k fps or lower). IMO, there is no reason to have a long barreled, meaning 16", 300BLK. That just defeats the entire purpose of the cartridge but lots of folks have them and it's one way to get more velocity than I can never hope to get from my shorter barrel. I trade velocity to gain a smallish firearm. OK, a bit more re: subs... There ARE bullets that expand reliably at subsonic velocity. I haven't tried them yet but they look promising. I shoot cast for subs and IMO are a no-no. Those cast bullets, and many others intended for more velocity and their tougher jackets is what I base the above comments on.

Today in the low 40s (central Maine) bright sun and not much wind, a mild gust now and then. It's a nice day for outside chores. I picked up some cut wood from a tree that blocked my driveway 2 months ago and reloaded the inside wood rack. Normally I use the truck for that, but it's kaput and no one at the Toy' garage is smart enough to diagnose an engine that isn't running so It sits on the lot awaiting being traded for a new truck. It's either that or pay $100/hr to have them tear the engine apart looking for what I think is a pollution control problem. That dealership used to have good mechanics but covid hit and now the good ones have found better paying jobs (so I was told). When will my new truck show up? No one knows. Back to weather. Some sort of snow is forecast for later in the week. Again, no truck; since it has the plow my neighbor will take care of it if we get enough accumulation to be bothered with it. On a bright note, yesterday was also a decent day so I sorta sighted in the 10/22 SBR that got the new barrel and parts a month+ ago. I use it for steel challenge and it should be close @ 40ish yards. I'll fine tune it in a month.

After getting mine I've been looking at those Sagebrush. How do you like it? Can you compare it to a manual trimmer? Sisco, I never burned anywhere near that amount of wood in a season. But in my younger days I absolutely loved getting out into the forest and working up our winter heat. Back then we could easily see -35°F, today not so much. I won't light the wood stove unless it's going to be cold enough to justify that amount of steady heat. We love wood heat because it's so steady, the closest we come today is the heat pump. The worst is the oil furnace with it's constant up and down and either being too warm or too cold.

We were getting spoiled thinking an early spring was here (Maine). The temps had been climbing and it was in the mid 50sF yesterday. But we're headed back to winter weather and temps. Heck, it's only February and we can still get anything including the worst weather of the winter. The warm days sure were nice while they lasted though! The forecast says northern Maine can get up to 12" of snow in the next 24 hours. I don't envy them. I've grown to hate snow.

Yeah, I agree. Text makes it somehow more dangerous. Ridiculous! The politicians who wrote that law are a bunch of anal sphincters! Welcome to the forum Lefty308.