The Watering Hole

Al the Infidel said:

Never saw the Merc commercial.

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I knew I had it saved somewhere....

No donuts this morning, but there are sprinkles. Sugar sprinkles on homemade butter cream cheese frosting on chocolate fudge cake. Backup reserve of sprinkles for other baking adventures. I'll leave the cake at the end of the bar, help yourselves. Who has clean up duty tonight?

LRS today is a party of five and wind conditions that will build character in yah. Started on the 1000 yard target and stacked two shots on it thus being rewarded with some impact flasher action. Switched over to the.223 Wylde and all off the tank trap barricade. Worked my way up and finished on the 1000 yard steel silhouette w/flasher. Main task shooting off of the tank trap was to practice using my front hand working the front bag onto the barricade. So was only using the one bag which can be a real time saver when shooting against the clock. My OG Game Changing bag is too big for that so have a Smedium bag on its way as it’s replacement. Should also reduce the total amount of weight being packed by one pound. 👍 Heading over to the pistol range afterwards to help build our two gun stages for this Saturday’s five stage two gun event.

And while we were shooting long range, the front office called and said a SO officer was coming over the hill to shoot some of his toys with us, so the range went cold. Turns out he wanted to shoot his grenade launcher to generate DOPE as they get no info as to the different tear gas cartouches they hurl at the bad guys/gals. Was fun to watch him shoot his modern day bloop thingie and afterwards he offered us the opportunity to shoot it too to which I gladly accepted (Shot it at an eighty yard target and nailed it). After that he looked at commented on all of our PRS rifles we were shooting. So I offered him the opportunity to shoot mine (6.5CM and .223 Wylde) and got him on target all the way out to 1000 yards. But wait there’s more! He then offered us the opportunity to shoot his duty rifle being a short barreled suppresed full auto AR rifle, to which I gladly accepted. Our targets are from 600 to 1000 yards, and that rifle only had a red dot sight zeroed at twenty-five yards. So I first shoot it semiautomatic at the 600 yards target, and first shot almost hit it if it weren’t for the ten mph cross wind. Made windage corrections and plunked numerous times, Then flicked the magic switch and shot a bunch of two/three shot burst, and managed to hit the 600 yard target on “full auto”. So happily was able to cross a couple of items off of my bucket list this morning. He had three more rifles, so he shot and I spotted for him again getting him onto target beyond 600 yards with a couple of iron sight AR’s and 55 grain bullets. 😀

Thanks Phil.

59°A, going to 64. Partly sunny,partly cloudy. Back yard still very damp and soggy, but will get mowed today regardless as more significant rain coming tomorrow. We got a few unforecasted snot flakes Wednesday night and a few very light sprinkles of no significance yesterday.

Still acquiring parts for the old '53 Schwinn Panther frame. So far I've gotten a period correct springer fork with headset, crank, and chain guard. Also picked up a stem that turned out not to be correct, but a close replacement stem. Also some new after market handlebars that are close to original in shape and size. Crank will get a chain ring for 1/2 x 1/8 inch chain rather than a skip tooth chain and chain ring. Bottom bracket parts and bearings and the BB frame cups will probably be newer Schwinn.

Still need handle bar grips, seat, seat post, seat post clamp, chain, and wheels. Probably a few other miscellaneous parts I haven't thought of. Oh, I need to find a Schwinn head badge.

Not trying to restore to original, but am trying to use many original Schwinn period correct parts. Will post pics when I receive more parts and start working on it.