The Watering Hole

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Rhody

Discussion Starter · Apr 17, 2022 (Edited)

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WELCOME TO THE WATERING HOLE

A stress-free place to gather and share whatever is on your mind! A fun place of mutual respect where you can hang your hat, vent, relax and shoot the bull for a while!

Happy Easter to all who celebrate that faith.

To all others, Happy Spring!

Easter symbolizes a new beginning, so it is fitting that TWH has a new beginning as well!
Along with RFC, TWH has been remodeled!

Actually, it can be anything you imagine it to be!

I am happy to announce that due to the increased bandwidth of the new RFC, there is no longer a need for the weekly closing and re-opening of TWH!!! After 10+ years of weekly "flipping" we now get to keep the doors open continuously! My sincere thanks to our moderators, especially Sophia, for making this possible!

I would also like to thank all the members who have kept this boat afloat for so long! We have become like family here, and now have a permanent residence!

While we have many long-time members who have been enjoying the company found in this amazing virtual bar, we also welcome all new folks. Jump right in! The first drink is always on the house and Veterans always have an open bar!
Al The Infidel (Tubby Slayer extraordinaire) is the bar manager.

So, let's get this re-opening celebration going! Set 'em up, Al! Drinks all around!!!

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W8LON

· #4,941 · 11 mo ago

I usta follow a lady around at last job with my TIG torch recovering 1/4-20 broken taps. It was a forty hour a week gig for months on end. Never could teach her how not to break taps. Burn tungsten in and pull from torch collet and spin out, easy peasy other than grinding another tungsten. Works on 6-32 screws and taps as well.

lesptr

· #4,942 · 11 mo ago

Rosscoe said:
Rub it in. Actually, I just think it's my mouse acting up?

Get a cat.

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W8LON

· #4,943 · 11 mo ago

It’s an eighties thing!

Bicycle Wheel Tire Car Sky

Dont mind being a few decades behind myself after going through the sixties phase and seventies phase.

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nfcracin

· #4,944 · 11 mo ago

dlong said:
Don’t know what possessed me but I decided to scrape and paint a small eave on the roof of the TV room. Gotta be 100 degrees in the sun, but I got it done. I’ve been staring at the peeling paint for a few years. I little lipstick on the pig, so to speak.
All showered and ready for barbecue time at BILS and SILS house.

I think someone got lost again.

Al the Infidel

· #4,945 · 11 mo ago

Met new very long winded neighbor to be sorta, except the Finn forgot her name and I never heard it.

She's no longer employed by NSA since she didn't want to be mask and vax enforcement and transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers. Said she will find out the true scoop on the dam upstream and bug em about the outdated 100yr flood mark. She's getting dinged flood ins. because of the loan. 9 dogs but wants a chain link fence? Yuck!!

Hooked up the batt charger to the bilge pump, no power. Trudged back uphill to the shack deck and hit reset and back to the boat, viola!, don't have to trudge back up and inside and hit reset on the outlet its scabbed from.

Coolish 71 off the big lake.

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Szumi

· #4,946 · 11 mo ago

Time to go out and czech the coals to see if it is time to grill. I'm getting hungry.

I'm surprised she never got a feel for when a tap is tired. Was she hand tapping or using power?

TD1

· #4,947 · 11 mo ago (Edited)

dbmjr1 said:
It's probably just the NSA checking out your hard drive.

Range went well. I broke about three quarters of the targets I shot at.

The Zastava M-70 has six rounds through it, and one plate kill with another hit but not fallen.
Put it away before I lost more brass.

I was able to run the plate rack twice in a row with the CZ. Things are getting better. Have to aim 9 o'clock on the plate, so more sight adjustments are in order. But it's getting better.

No mist, but a steady light rain.

Good range report, Don. Food for thought, them particular CZ‘s have a trigger travel kinda sorta like a revolver so hopefully da trigger is being pressed straight back and not inadvertently scrunched to the left particularly seeing that you be a right handed pistol shooter. 🤔

Got up early and with the program with some house and yard spiffing up and then playing catch up with a few odds and ends reloading that needed to be attended to. That last effort included pulling some bullets on a tentative PCC load and reloading them to what seems to work better ie with a smidgen less powder. 😀

As much as I’m poo-poo with a carry optics pistol, I’m getting my 34 ready for just that exercise. Mentioned earlier that I’ve been volunteered for just that task so why not plus a carry optics pistol combined with a PCC seems to be the hot ticket now when it comes to two gun events. 😀.

dbmjr1

· #4,948 · 11 mo ago

TD1 said:
Good range report, Don. Food for thought, them particular CZ‘s have a trigger kinda sorta like a revolver so hopefully da trigger is being pressed straight back and not inadvertently scrunched to the left particularly seeing that you be a right handed pistol shooter. 🤔

Got up early and with the program with some house and yard spiffing up and then playing catch up with a few odds and ends reloading that needed to be attended to. That last effort included pulling some bullets on a tentative PCC load and reloading them to what seems to work better ie with a smidgen less powder. 😀

As much as I’m poo-poo with a carry optics pistol, I’m getting my 34 ready for just that exercise. Mentioned earlier that I’ve been volunteered for just that task so why not plus a carry optics pistol combined with a PCC seems to be the hot ticket now when it comes to two gun events. 😀.

You're right in that I tend to prefer straight pull triggers with hammer fired actions. ( He says with a soulless plastic pistol by his side ) .
Pivoting triggers require a bit more thought when launching pews.

mdew

· #4,949 · 11 mo ago

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Howdy all

Been a couple weeks since checking in, seems all the farmers I work with decided to spray their soybeans the last week it was legal and threw one in that cut wheat on Friday in Abilene KS putting me home after 9:00 pm. Attached a couple amber waves of grain photo, as we ran to beat the rain.

Throw in a good friend of mine’s sister passed away and a trip across the state for a funeral. She left a special needs adult behind that my friend and his wife have been caring for until they get social services into action.

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TD1

· #4,950 · 11 mo ago (Edited)

dbmjr1 said:
You're right in that I tend to prefer straight pull triggers with hammer fired actions. ( He says with a soulless plastic pistol by his side ) .
Pivoting triggers require a bit more thought when launching pews.

Maybe there’s a Taran Tactical Innovations, Sand Viper in your future, Don. 😀

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W8LON

· #4,951 · 11 mo ago

Szumi said:
Time to go out and czech the coals to see if it is time to grill. I'm getting hungry.

I'm surprised she never got a feel for when a tap is tired. Was she hand tapping or using power?

Either way it didn’t matter if the clutch was set on a cordless Milwaukee or hand tapping, snap! She insisted on using the drill bit recommended by the tool crib guy which was undersized for what we were doing. Sixty to ninety pound SS deck plating in machinery areas of ships. If the ship was upside down and plates fell to the overhead you had a major problem that didn’t warrant a 95% thread of the screws holding deck plates.

My pups want to be outside watching and listening to fireworks. No fear of loud noises.

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Al the Infidel

· #4,952 · 11 mo ago

Babybacks nekkid on the grill were un-Efly delish.

Finn's tater salad with green onions and a nilla cake with nilla frosting was really good too.
So, a pontoon anchored beside me 50' away this evening like we were old time buddys. While the gals waded on the sandbar and played with the dogs one of the guys caught a nice size keeper walleye. What?? 30min he caught a small bass, buds took pix between swigs and then threw it back. All I got was a pike bite off and a sore back. Better to be lucky than good I guess. They did play some good old tunes to pass the time though.
Was gonna light off some more boomer works but the skeeters put the kibosh on that, the filthy animals.

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aztarget

· #4,953 · 11 mo ago

Goodnight Gigi, Sophia, Jetgirl, Al, Rhody, Don, mdew, wook, blackwolfe, Alum, GF, Sail, TD, Szumi, COW, Wayne, Gobb, Ranger, Hawkeye, Atonic, W8LON, Darkest, pans, efly, Phil, TinCan, Greggie, Mike, Rock, dlong, Gerald, M92, AZ, Tricks, Brent, jnyork, OldDave, nfcracin, GP, JDWin, Whip, RichJ, squirrel, syfr, JVStalin, zenaca, 404, Wade, koonta, acheyj, vlnbyr, rosscoe, arjay, Flys, wr, labratt, RonL, 1917, Carrij, Mikey, JimWY, Johnny, rj, Rick, calibrian, Lt Crunch, Bugeye,Gobbler, DrGunner, Tiger-ock, LASTSHOT and all the rest.

Sleep tight :sleeping
Those no longer with us. Mayor, Ron, Dean, Marilyn, Noremf and David. We will meet again.

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W8LON

· #4,954 · 11 mo ago

G’nite, Frank!

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aztarget

· #4,955 · 11 mo ago

If you are wondering no I am not doing well. Don't worry no suicide issues. Just have trouble putting things in place and remembering that I am worthy.

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wookness

· #4,956 · 11 mo ago

Got to the club @ a polite 9:10, one party was already there and others arrived just behind us. Think we must have been protected going out as a horrible wreck took place up in front of us at 70 mph. A presumed landscaper had failed to secure the trailer hitch or hook up his safety chains when a bump or imperfection, something, caused the trailer to become detached w/its yard equipment riding on the wire side panels. It was a substantial trailer but wasn't carrying a mower that I could determine. Six vehicles were involved in a NASCAR like melee. Two crew cab pickups flipped, one multiple times and ended up against the concrete NJ turnpike barrier to the rt. totally destroyed w/one upside down and the other on its side, after skidding against that barrier some yards. The other four vehicles were major messed up. There was a brindle pit bull in one of the pickups. It got out unscathed and was standing w/its lead attached to its collar when we could see whot had happened. The last of the on its side pickup's passengers was crawling out of the broken rear window opening at that moment and the passengers in the upside-down crew cab were getting out thru the broken and distorted door window openings. Somehow, all had survived! Others had stopped in front of us to assist. I did too, but once I determined there was nothing we could do, I snaked on thru the wreckage and saw the landscape trailer sitting there on the rt., some yards down from the wreckage rt. of the inside lane and probably no more than three feet from that concrete NJ turnpike barrier! That's when my reconstructive lightbulb went off; it looked undamaged! And I do have some experience in accident reconstruction... for whatever that's worth. Back to the story, get the bride situated to order her breakfast and the rest of us go off to shoot sporty clays. We decide on shooting the green course. It had been changed since yesterday! Our primary target setter had anticipated that folks would be shooting daily thru the holiday weekend, and so he got w/the program and changed everything last evening after the club closed! It was a nice surprise in some ways, not so much in others. Some stations saw major revisions while on others it was subtle, but they were all changed from the day before. The second target on station 11 was one that received minor revision. Turned out, I had solved it w/hindsight last evening and broke the darned thing w/o effort today. Today, it was angling a skosh closer, perhaps by two degrees, perhaps by less. There were other presentations where I was back at ground zero, but it also was in part from becoming tired and the 'eye' thing I've been tilting at and jousting with coming fully into play. I'd just as well have a 'white flag' load when I get the short end of that stick. I was shooting in the high 80% range prior to that kicking in. Finished in the 70% range. It happens, these days more frequently than I'd like. The heat and crappy air: it don't help. We stopped at noon, went off site to the S about 2 miles for some TexMex for lunch. Don's been there. There was another major traffic accident near the club in the N bound lanes of the Interstate, so it was total grid lock, stopped. It's possible to get back to the club w/o having to get on the freeway. We did that but it still took a while. We saw two totally burned and crushed fairly newish four door pickups being towed away from that accident scene. There were more than just those two vehicles involved. Get back to the club and the wimmin are done. Their only desire was to chill, so I get three glasses and a bottle of cab and let them discuss secret stuff w/lots of hand signs and conversation and laughter while us guys think we should go and assault some skeets. High scores were not in the cards, but we shot two boxes anyway. It was really hot by then. Can ya say 102 A? All that I can say, for me, is that when I get tired and can't get a hard & clear focus on a target, is that the result may be shy of my expectations... much, if not most, of the time. Oh, and while we were shooting there was yet another wreck on I 35E just N of the club where at least one of the vehicles caught fire. We could see the smoke. Local media didn't cover any of those wrecks as they didn't involve fatalities. They did cover a single vehicle fatality N of Ft. Worth near the old Denton highway that took place earlier in the morning, tho, and another involving a motorcycle where one of the persons on it was killed by an individual in a truck who has been charged with 'intoxification manslaughter'. Back to the club, the 30 target helice race went off as usual w/perhaps 20 participants. Race was won by the current World Champion, who is 15, now. And they had a 'scramble' set up on skeet field two. It's a game similar to 'Make a Break'. We didn't participate in either of them.

note: found myself in a high wilt mode whilst typing this report, so took a break and slept for several hours; the sun and heat had taken its toll. Now, have been up to let Jack out.

We stopped at a fav. place for Marsico's on the way home as we'd both an appetite and I saw no reason to have the bride cook. In all, a long and fun day was had.

Will be going back to the club and meeting the same group for lunch and then we plan to go shoot the orange course until we have had enough. It's forecast to be 102 A again today, so will have to pace ourselves and drink plenty of water.

Y'all be careful and mindful of your surroundings, especially in traffic and have a great Independence Day!

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Al the Infidel

· #4,957 · 11 mo ago

aztarget said:
Goodnight

REVEILLE REVEILLE daylight in the swamp Ole Timer.

Just putting on my jacket to go and waste some of Jack's MM ammo when the rain began. Hmm, check radar Al. Oh well. Pulled the flags as I dunno if the chi-com ink is waterfast and its looks like I'll be indoors for the First n Last flip o the week.
Speaking of; quite the open wheel flip and splat, yesterday?
My #18 lost yesterday in the lefty righty race.

54ºF

nfcracin

· #4,958 · 11 mo ago

White Flag of the united states Flag Flag Day (USA) Event

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Rhody

Discussion Starter · #4,959 · 11 mo ago

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY EVERYONE!!!

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Rhody

Discussion Starter · #4,960 · 11 mo ago

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It's been a nice weekend so far. Date with prettyblondechick went well. It was another marathon starting at 6:30pm Saturday and wrapping up at 2:30pm Sunday. We had a blast!

I stayed home last night and chilled out in my back yard by the fire pit with my niece, Lots of neighborhood fireworks kept us entertained. Some folks sure did spend a lot of $$$

The owner of the HVAC place (my boss) is coming by today to give me an assessment of converting this house over to gas from oil. The old oil tanks are getting a bit corroded, and the oil fed boiler is ancient. There is already gas coming into the house so it would be easy to install a gas fed boiler. It would be much more efficient.

Other than that, I plan on taking the old jeep out for a ride with American and Gadsden flags waving!

Enjoy the day all!

R

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