What did you do today

[Bishop Creek]

Nice shot (pun intended)!

[Clydesdale4x4]

Still a nice pic. I bet that 105 is loud even with blank charges.

Thanks, and it's welded to inop. So Casey, my friend and a Gulf War vet, has made an electric canon to fire the blank that slides down the barrel, iron deal. The drab-colored boxes in front of the plaid-clad bloke control the trigger, which is attached to the rope plaid is pulling.

[Hawg]

That is so cool. What's the charge?

[Clydesdale4x4]

I'll ask; he's one of my closest friends (the guy in the safety green).

[Dave Shooter]

Local club's veterans hunt.  I didn't use blackpowder, but it is a 100 year old shotgun.

[Captainkirk]

How cool is that??!!!

[Clydesdale4x4]

That is so cool. What's the charge?

1/3# 3F Pyrodex

[Clydesdale4x4]

Local club's veterans hunt.  I didn't use blackpowder, but it is a 100 year old shotgun.

Looks like good times were had by all. Well, maybe not all... 

[Clydesdale4x4]

Who's in Phoneix? Pros Cons of being there? Love it? Hate it? why, for both counts.

[Miguel Loco]

Lived there for a couple years before I moved southeast of Tucson, still spend a bit of time in Phoenix though. Typical big city, traffic, people etc. Hot for 4 months + a year, the rest of the time it's great. Arizona is a great state. You can pretty much pick what climate you like. Middle part of the state is mostly pines and mountains. Phoenix area is desert, mostly flat. Tucson area is mountains.....you can go from desert to alpine with a 30 minute drive.

Housing in the Phx area is on the lower end of big city prices. So that's always a plus. If you have any other questions....let me know.

[Clydesdale4x4]

Lived there for a couple years before I moved southeast of Tucson, still spend a bit of time in Phoenix though. Typical big city, traffic, people etc. Hot for 4 months + a year, the rest of the time it's great. Arizona is a great state. You can pretty much pick what climate you like. Middle part of the state is mostly pines and mountains. Phoenix area is desert, mostly flat. Tucson area is mountains.....you can go from desert to alpine with a 30 minute drive.

Housing in the Phx area is on the lower end of big city prices. So that's always a plus. If you have any other questions....let me know.

Thanks Miguel.

[Clydesdale4x4]

And My file was yet too big. Uggh. I thought I had the resizing thing down. Back to the drawing board...

[Clydesdale4x4]

A Buddy of mine is making Whiskey Smokers (e or no e, you be the judge, I have no dog in that fight).
He is also a photographer but thinks I outshoot him when it comes to product photography...

IDK about all that, but... Mike's Leather, that Weird Brasser, and my railroad tie knife all make cameos in some of these.

Google link to bloopers, outtakes, and "studio set ups".

This has been a fun project.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Jsba22BTxsSZ2mdk8

[Clydesdale4x4]

Haven't touched that holster in a year, things I noticed...
A: I need to condition it, it's hungry;
B: I need to assemble these three guns I have and go shooting.

[Dave Shooter]

Picked up a new bottom feeder rifle.  But, more to y'alls interest, picked up lead from a gentleman who was giving it away.  He'd advertised on a local forum 200+ pounds of wheelweights, and it was.  Some already in ingots and some still as weights.  He was getting rid of some of his late father's stuff, apparently an avid caster and reloader and the gentleman was not a reloader.
It gets more interesting.   He asked "Do you use powder?".  Well, yeah.  He pulls out a sizable box and says to take it.  I look inside, eyes get a little big, and say "oh, let me give you something for that" as I'm reaching for cash.  He says "no, Ive got plenty of money".  It was 30 POUNDS of smokeless powders, mostly still factory sealed.  Stuff like IMR 4895, 4064, 4759, 4227, Alliant 2400, H110.  Guys, I'm a sinner, but I'm feeling mighty blessed today.