Cliff R Posted August 31, 2021 Report Share Posted August 31, 2021 Thanks. I use Brake-Clean here to degrease before heating them up and then again after the warming process if any oily residue bleeds to the surface. Never tried the Cerakote deal. My 450 Bushmaster below was the first AR platform I've camo'd. Have done a few muzzle loaders and shotguns in the past but never really played around with patterns and using leaves and ferns like I did on the 450. Really happy with how the 450 came out. Will be doing one of my 308-AR's in the next month or so before we head out West Elk hunting...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff R Posted August 31, 2021 Report Share Posted August 31, 2021 "Money in your pockets brother 🍺🍺🇺🇸" You reach a point in your life where you have to decide when to stop "grinding" (paying chit off and staying ahead of the tax man) and to start enjoying what time you have left. I see so many people work their asses off right up to the end then don't get to enjoy any of it. I had a BIG reality check this year as I lost two close friends who just retired. They both had big plans, had saved and sacrificed for decades, then GONE before they could do any fun chit. I reached that point this year. Winding down the carb business and retiring from the CSI job at the end of the year. I've been doing it slowly as I stopped doing carb restorations two years ago. All my employees have left so it's just me doing everything and I'm taking more and more off my plate every day. Currently doing mostly parts sales, only working Monday-Thursday in the shop and not taking in any more work. I'm still going to do some "cash and carry" stuff to support some of my expensive habits, like building AR's and such. Otherwise just going to enjoy what time I have left........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted September 1, 2021 Report Share Posted September 1, 2021 (edited) 17 hours ago, Cliff R said: Thanks. I use Brake-Clean here to degrease before heating them up and then again after the warming process if any oily residue bleeds to the surface. Never tried the Cerakote deal. I'm close, for the Cerakote process. I soak everything in Acetone overnight, day before painting/spraying. I rack it all before it gets into the "Acetone tub." Next morning, I pull each set of racked parts out, hang them, gas-out in the oven, and they go directly from the oven to the painting/spraying rack and get shot with the paint. After a minimum of 12 hours in Acetone, I've never pulled anything from the gas-out that needed to be redone. So it's on to the spray after that. In the 2014~2015 era, I was sandblasting the hell out of parts, to perfection - took them down to raw aluminum, before Cerakote. I realized that was stupid. Leave that Type III hard coat annodize on there, and spray Cerakote right over it. If it ever wears through the Cerakote - then it has to get through the annodize, before it gets to the aluminum. These days, I just scuff high parts and overall with a mean abrasive pad, and into the Acetone they go, racked/wired up. I'm glad that you're winding down, Cliff - you deserve it, brother. Good for you. Edited September 1, 2021 by 98Z5V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff R Posted September 1, 2021 Report Share Posted September 1, 2021 Thanks, I'm liking not working so many hours, leaves time for fun stuff! I can see where it would be beneficial to leave the factory coatings and Cerakote over them. The key to success would be getting all the oil out of the pores of the base material. Heat is your friend with these things for sure, plus a good degreaser....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted September 1, 2021 Report Share Posted September 1, 2021 This has been a tough couple of weeks. Wife's best friend her twin sister is not doing well with cancer, my cousin Elsa who is my age was doing great in remition for breast cancer it's come back with a vengeance and spread everywhere but her brain so far, at 53 Buda has succome to diabetes. He didn't take care of himself and it was an ugly end. Now I finished this home project I want to also enjoy the time I have left. Lucky to have made it this far down the road. 🍺🍺 Best wishes to everyone, not easy getting old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DNP Posted September 1, 2021 Report Share Posted September 1, 2021 Wow man, I’m sorry to hear all that. Prayers for Elsa and your wife’s friend along with condolences for Buda. Diabetes is tough to manage and I see a lot of folks just pushing through it without the care and willpower it requires. Just eating what they want and shoving in more insulin to “cover” it. We can’t live their lives for them, but it sucks to see them getting destroyed. Diabetes is a nasty animal and just kills everything in the body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted September 1, 2021 Report Share Posted September 1, 2021 Thanks brother, diabetes doesn't have to be a death sentence but as individuals we are responsible for our decisions we make. Elsa and I are the oldest and the same age of our respective families. We are nearing the end of our immediate family ties. Cycle of life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff R Posted September 2, 2021 Report Share Posted September 2, 2021 (edited) Just a reminder about the "cycle of life". Few reading this get to see how folks end more than I do. (CSI for the County for 16 years ) Just ran a case last night where a 24 year old hung himself because of a bad break up with a girlfriend....UGLY. Anyhow, I see WAY too many folks leave this place too early because they spend most of their adults lives on some sort of "body abuse program". The ones on the FULL body abuse program leave here much sooner. That's tobacco, alcohol, drugs, poor nutrition and little if any exercise, cardio, etc. When you are young you can abuse the chit out of your body and bounce right back like it never even happened. After decades of abuse your body will reach a point where it's had enough and you can and most likely will develop issues in one form or another that will lead to either a very poor quality of life or life-ending, or both. I see 30-50 years olds ALL THE TIME succumb to their long history of being on the "full body abuse program". Some of these are folks I've known for many years. Just lost a really good friend two years ago who drank like a fish and smoked like a chimney. He developed COPD about 7 years before his death. He reached a point where he'd smoke a cigarette then step outside and literally cough a lung right on the ground! When he finally got his composure he'd go do a breathing treatment.....WTF? I asked him one day about it and he very quickly snapped at me "fuk-it, gotta die of somthin". Well two years ago that time came as a pieces of tar dislodged from one of his arteries and went to his brain. He fell in the living room and never made it to bed. His wife found him the next morning paralyzed on one side of his body and unable to speak. Three hours later in the ICU the doctor told them that he might be able to save him, but even if they did he would never walk or speak again. Unable to speak the doctor asked them both yes or no (one squeeze on his wife's hand or two) whether to take him off life support. Without hesitation he squeezed his wife's hand once........he was dead in 15 minutes...... Is that the way you want to leave this World, and 20-30 years before you should have?.........FWIW..... Edited September 2, 2021 by Cliff R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RacerX Posted October 20, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 (edited) Thanks everyone for your input. Here is how mine came out. It was Cerakoted in the following colors: Patriot Brown, Magpul Foliage Green and Cerakote Desert Sand Edited October 20, 2021 by RacerX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armed Eye Doc Posted October 20, 2021 Report Share Posted October 20, 2021 2 hours ago, RacerX said: Thanks everyone for your input. Here is how mine came out. It was Cerakoted in the following colors: Patriot Brown, Magpul Foliage Green and Cerakote Desert Sand It turned out great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsquared Posted October 21, 2021 Report Share Posted October 21, 2021 Looking pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted October 21, 2021 Report Share Posted October 21, 2021 Very nice 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magwa Posted October 25, 2021 Report Share Posted October 25, 2021 On 6/16/2021 at 12:30 AM, 98Z5V said: That is a bad a$$ looking rifle those colors would work here .. wow nice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff R Posted November 3, 2021 Report Share Posted November 3, 2021 Looks amazing. Love the attention to detail and leaving some parts in the original finish. I apologize for the late response, have been busy with other things and absent from the Forum for while. One of them was selling my Silverado 3500 Duramax to our local dealer. FIRST time in my life I actually made out messing with a dealership. I bought a "driver" to replace it till things settle down some. Went deer hunting two weeks ago Sunday and had a big fat doe on the ground within an hour. My "pet" wild Turkey was waiting for me this morning. Finally got a frost here last night, late in coming but at least it will kill of the ticks and some of the undergrowth. I can't remember having flies, ticks and other insects around so late in the year.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted November 4, 2021 Report Share Posted November 4, 2021 Glad you are well brother good shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff R Posted November 8, 2021 Report Share Posted November 8, 2021 Thanks. I passed up several bucks that morning including the one in the photo below. These days I'm looking for a 100-130 pound doe to put meat in the freezer. My buddy Mike bagged him Saturday morning. I'll take another doe and a small buck in the next month or so. This year we have WAY too many bucks so need to thin them out a bit........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff R Posted November 30, 2021 Report Share Posted November 30, 2021 Got my "small" buck this morning. He chased a doe down thru the woods a little after 8am. I actually shot him coming straight at me on a good run at 60 yards. The doe was only about 10' from me when I touched off the 450 Bushmaster. It piled him right up. The last three deer I've taken with the 450 never took another step. There was no exit wound, will look for the bullet when I finish up the processing...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armed Eye Doc Posted November 30, 2021 Report Share Posted November 30, 2021 What are you using for ammo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff R Posted November 30, 2021 Report Share Posted November 30, 2021 Hornady ballistic tip 250 grain. Right out of the box. I bought a case when I bought the Bushmaster upper and have plenty left....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cunuckgaucho Posted November 30, 2021 Report Share Posted November 30, 2021 Looks like you had a great day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff R Posted November 30, 2021 Report Share Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) Yep, didn't hunt more than about 45 minutes. The deer were really moving good yesterday. I pushed a big buck out of the creek bottom walking in, he was right where I wanted to set-up. Too dark to get on him and he was moving too fast anyhow. Saw 3 does about 2 minutes later, they came running down a fence row and clear thru the woods without stopping. About 20 minutes after that a doe came in from my left with this buck chasing her. She made a hard right turn about 80 yards out and was literally going to run right over me but stopped in her tracks when I dropped the buck. She didn't even run off while I poked around looking for the 450 brass. As soon as I found it and started toward the downed buck she took off. I went and got the side-by-side to pull him back to the shop. Samson went along as he loves pulling pieces off a downed buck. A herd of deer came in on us while we were field dressing him. Samson chased them clear out of sight then came trotting back all proud and chit. That's the easy part, then the processing begins. I had him skinned within half an hour, cleaned up and will hang till tomorrow. I do all my own processing as I'm NOT fond of having my deer lay in a pile of deer at some processing facility with the stinky hide on it for several days before they get to it. I like them gutted, skinned, cooled down and hanging within an hour of hitting the ground. That's the important part. Not sure if waiting a few days before processing makes any difference or not. I grind them up and vacuum seal in one pound bags. Everyone loves it, but most of the time we do NOT tell visitors that the dish they just devoured was made from deer burger!........ Edited November 30, 2021 by Cliff R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 nice buck, looks well fed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unforgiven Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 Outstanding brother Cliff 🍻🍻 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98Z5V Posted December 2, 2021 Report Share Posted December 2, 2021 8 minutes ago, sagebrush said: nice buck, looks well fed Ohio deer. They're always "healthy" and fattened up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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