Good morning! Are you up yet? What's your plans for today?

[JohnnyPDX]

Good morning GTA plans are to stay in today still snowed it. Took Grader yesterday to get us out and we are looking at a few more inches of snow here in the next few days, i already have 2 feet or more of snow on the ground. No airgun shooting outside for this guy. So its back to working on the indoor 1377. Ordered a 18" barrel and barrel band for it so i can improve the accuracy some. Anyone want some snow? Posted some pictures of below.

Awesome. Man-sized tools for a big job.

[Jshooter71]

John, you mean that there are nutria in Oregon? I thought that they were just a southern creature.

I’ve actually never seen one down here, I don’t know if we have them. But in Oregon they’re plentiful, they may even be protected in some areas up there. Pretty sure in the city of Roseburg they were. From what I heard, they’re not indigenous to the USA, they were imported for their beaver like fur and have exploded in numbers. I think they’re from South America, like a jungle beaver-rat.

Yup, jungle beaver rat is a good description. No nonnative species should be protected for any reason that I know.

John, will you take me with you?

Sure, will keep you posted! The iguana hunting has been on my mind for about a year with all the videos I’ve seen. But now I really am going to be thinking about this nutria hunting, too. My in-laws still live in southern Oregon, FIL/MIL, 3 brothers in-law.

[Jshooter71]

Good Morning GTA! Up at 0400 CST, I sort of didn’t want to get up, but knew it was time. I didn’t do much yesterday, I called the office at 0800, no work. I wanted to shoot but figured a call would come in for work and it stayed around freezing outside. A call never came, so I took a couple shots out the door here & there with the Parrus and then went into town. I got my haircut & a couple hotdogs for lunch & came back home. I watched episode 7 of Band of Brothers and took a few more shots with the Parrus from the bench, unsupported from 40-60 meters and got the girls off the bus. Today I have a call for a cooler/freezer in Westville, OK. About 30-40 minutes west. I take those rest days as they come to offset those 80+ hour weeks in the summer, but it’s like being on call, I can’t get too involved doing something if they have a call that drops.

[Lt. Dan]

Good Morning GTA! Up at 0420 CST. Today I get my 1st Covid vaccine injection. Afterward it's going to be cold and the winds will be in the double digits all day. 
 
Yesterday I looked like a clown chasing my targets. Wind gusts kept blowing my targets stands down. I wanted to test the Falcon pellets in the HW50 yesterday but in that high wind it was not happening.


Tomorrow sounds like it's going to be perfect for test those pellets: sunny, high 55°, winds ESE @ 3 mph.

Better half want me to help her hang pictures today.

[Firewalker]

I hope you have no reaction but I would stay close to home for a bit in case you dont feel well after. Good luck

Good Morning GTA! Up at 0420 CST. Today I get my 1st Covid vaccine injection. Afterward it's going to be cold and the winds will be in the double digits all day. 
 
Yesterday I looked like a clown chasing my targets. Wind gusts kept blowing my targets stands down. I wanted to test the Falcon pellets in the HW50 yesterday but in that high wind it was not happening.


Tomorrow sounds like it's going to be perfect for test those pellets: sunny, high 55°, winds ESE @ 3 mph.

Better half want me to help her hang pictures today.

[Coastie]

Busy day. Going to get my last Covid vaccination and then come home and put together my new Weihrauch HW 100 laminate 22 cal. carbine, Hawke Sidewinder 30 SF 8-32x56 scope and Harris Bipod. If everything goes as planned some sighting in later today.

[Lt. Dan]

I hope you have no reaction but I would stay close to home for a bit in case you dont feel well after. Good luck

Good Morning GTA! Up at 0420 CST. Today I get my 1st Covid vaccine injection. Afterward it's going to be cold and the winds will be in the double digits all day. 
 
Yesterday I looked like a clown chasing my targets. Wind gusts kept blowing my targets stands down. I wanted to test the Falcon pellets in the HW50 yesterday but in that high wind it was not happening.


Tomorrow sounds like it's going to be perfect for test those pellets: sunny, high 55°, winds ESE @ 3 mph.

Better half want me to help her hang pictures today.

Thanks David, I've pretty much stayed at home since retiring in June.

[JohnnyPDX]

John, you mean that there are nutria in Oregon? I thought that they were just a southern creature.

I’ve actually never seen one down here, I don’t know if we have them. But in Oregon they’re plentiful, they may even be protected in some areas up there. Pretty sure in the city of Roseburg they were. From what I heard, they’re not indigenous to the USA, they were imported for their beaver like fur and have exploded in numbers. I think they’re from South America, like a jungle beaver-rat.

Yup, jungle beaver rat is a good description. No nonnative species should be protected for any reason that I know.

John, will you take me with you?

Sure, will keep you posted! The iguana hunting has been on my mind for about a year with all the videos I’ve seen. But now I really am going to be thinking about this nutria hunting, too. My in-laws still live in southern Oregon, FIL/MIL, 3 brothers in-law.

Good Morning,

Hi John it looks like Roseburg MAY be target rich after studying some maps I found that were created by a local university studying Nutria.

I contacted one the professors and they required an 'organization' name to use the contact form so I made up... CONED (Citizen Against Nutria Environmental Devastation)

Have A Great Day and let me know when you are in Oregon. Maybe we could chase some sage rats in Eastern Oregon?

[Lt. Dan]

John, you mean that there are nutria in Oregon? I thought that they were just a southern creature.

I’ve actually never seen one down here, I don’t know if we have them. But in Oregon they’re plentiful, they may even be protected in some areas up there. Pretty sure in the city of Roseburg they were. From what I heard, they’re not indigenous to the USA, they were imported for their beaver like fur and have exploded in numbers. I think they’re from South America, like a jungle beaver-rat.

Yup, jungle beaver rat is a good description. No nonnative species should be protected for any reason that I know.

John, will you take me with you?

Sure, will keep you posted! The iguana hunting has been on my mind for about a year with all the videos I’ve seen. But now I really am going to be thinking about this nutria hunting, too. My in-laws still live in southern Oregon, FIL/MIL, 3 brothers in-law.

Good Morning,

Hi John it looks like Roseburg MAY be target rich after studying some maps I found that were created by a local university studying Nutria.

I contacted one the professors and they required an 'organization' name to use the contact form so I made up... CONED (Citizen Against Nutria Environmental Devastation)

Have A Great Day and let me know when you are in Oregon. Maybe we could chase some sage rats in Eastern Oregon?

Wouldn't that be CANED?
 (Citizen Against Nutria Environmental Devastation)

Please send me a membership packet.  I'm interested.

[JohnnyPDX]

First cup of coffee typing.

Citizen Opposing ....
 
Packet is in the mail

[JohnnyPDX]

CANED is better

[Struckat]

Kurt,

We are actually on the south tip of Mille Lacs, a 10 mile long procession of Ice Castles choke us out every Friday so we just head to the state parks for snowshoeing if my wife tires of our property. 

Go shoot a tin, you will feel better!

15 this morning. Glad all the snow is cleared as the temps dropped before dinner, freezing everything. Some of my neighbors didn’t do much and are paying the frozen consequences.

David, I have been  through McGregor so many times on our way north. Beautiful country, oh I miss the homeland.

More work from home today. Getting more than a little stir crazy. Cabin fever affects me more as I get older. Glad to have job and may end up back in the office in the next month or so depending on Governor Flintstone of course.

The last time I went back to the office in June, I was one of very few which left me wondering why am I here?

Maybe I will shoot some today. Maybe I will go for drive at lunch, I don’t know.
I’m bored. That is a bad thing when fighting airgun fever.

Airgun fever, very serious. One minute I want an inexpensive 25 springer, and the next moment I have a Daisy 499b in my cart.

Yes, I better go and shoot what I have to clear my head.

That ice piles up big time, when the wind is right, look out!

-1 here today, coldest so far this winter. No wind is good, but it’s early. Out with the dogs before 5, they don’t mess around and are ready to in right away.

I still chuckle watching Piglet try to do her business while standing on two feet, alternating opposite corners.
She always wants to fool around, and then her feet get cold before the real mission is accomplished.

Yesterday I bought a Daisy 86/70 Safari on the evil bay. It was my first gun of any kind. I think Dad bought me one in 72 or 73.
Didn’t take it with me when I left home and it wasn’t there when we cleaned out the house after they were gone.
Not as common as the RR or 25, and I don’t see nice ones very often. This one may not qualify as nice, but better than what I have seen in the last while I’ve been looking.

More work from home. But next week I get to go to work after hours and be trained fro some warehouse work. I am on the backup list in case the warehouse falls short of people due to #19.

I had backyard drama yesterday. While working I caught movement in the trees out back. I look to see in the neighbors big trees a tree rat war in progress.

Two were defending the nest against four others. They were flying around the trees in continuous battle, with the two defenders always trying to stay above the others. During the conflict the nest was destroyed. One of the two kept frantically trying repair it, but to no avail. Eventually all of them fled, I think they saw the hawk circling above.

It was pretty dramatic and left me with the realization that they act just like humans, or rather, we act like them...

[Jshooter71]

John, you mean that there are nutria in Oregon? I thought that they were just a southern creature.

I’ve actually never seen one down here, I don’t know if we have them. But in Oregon they’re plentiful, they may even be protected in some areas up there. Pretty sure in the city of Roseburg they were. From what I heard, they’re not indigenous to the USA, they were imported for their beaver like fur and have exploded in numbers. I think they’re from South America, like a jungle beaver-rat.

Yup, jungle beaver rat is a good description. No nonnative species should be protected for any reason that I know.

John, will you take me with you?

Sure, will keep you posted! The iguana hunting has been on my mind for about a year with all the videos I’ve seen. But now I really am going to be thinking about this nutria hunting, too. My in-laws still live in southern Oregon, FIL/MIL, 3 brothers in-law.

Good Morning,

Hi John it looks like Roseburg MAY be target rich after studying some maps I found that were created by a local university studying Nutria.

I contacted one the professors and they required an 'organization' name to use the contact form so I made up... CONED (Citizen Against Nutria Environmental Devastation)

Have A Great Day and let me know when you are in Oregon. Maybe we could chase some sage rats in Eastern Oregon?

Wouldn't that be CANED?
 (Citizen Against Nutria Environmental Devastation)

Please send me a membership packet.  I'm interested.

That sounds fantastic, Johnny! Thanks for getting this ball rolling! I sometimes daydream of things that never really come to fruition. But I think this might be something we can really pull off sometime. And my wife and kids would greatly benefit visiting Oregon at the same time. I have at least 2 of my brothers-in-law law that would be down for a hunt too.

[JohnnyPDX]

John, you mean that there are nutria in Oregon? I thought that they were just a southern creature.

I’ve actually never seen one down here, I don’t know if we have them. But in Oregon they’re plentiful, they may even be protected in some areas up there. Pretty sure in the city of Roseburg they were. From what I heard, they’re not indigenous to the USA, they were imported for their beaver like fur and have exploded in numbers. I think they’re from South America, like a jungle beaver-rat.

Yup, jungle beaver rat is a good description. No nonnative species should be protected for any reason that I know.

John, will you take me with you?

Sure, will keep you posted! The iguana hunting has been on my mind for about a year with all the videos I’ve seen. But now I really am going to be thinking about this nutria hunting, too. My in-laws still live in southern Oregon, FIL/MIL, 3 brothers in-law.

Good Morning,

Hi John it looks like Roseburg MAY be target rich after studying some maps I found that were created by a local university studying Nutria.

I contacted one the professors and they required an 'organization' name to use the contact form so I made up... CONED (Citizen Against Nutria Environmental Devastation)

Have A Great Day and let me know when you are in Oregon. Maybe we could chase some sage rats in Eastern Oregon?

Wouldn't that be CANED?
 (Citizen Against Nutria Environmental Devastation)

Please send me a membership packet.  I'm interested.

That sounds fantastic, Johnny! Thanks for getting this ball rolling! I sometimes daydream of things that never really come to fruition. But I think this might be something we can really pull off sometime. And my wife and kids would greatly benefit visiting Oregon at the same time. I have at least 2 of my brothers-in-law law that would be down for a hunt too.

Cool and you are VERY WELCOME. You have great reasons to do it especially since it's a family trip.

I don't have a nutria hunt, yet, and the only way to get one is by door knocking. I hate driving onto people's property because ya never know... dogs are the scariest because sometimes they wait 'till your'e away from the car then do their job. I worked trapping Japanese Beetle for the state a long time ago and sprinted to the car several times cuz I woke a dog. I love dogs but they are bite first then ask questions sometimes.

Anyways, Happy Hunting

[Lt. Dan]

First cup of coffee typing.

Citizen Opposing ....
 
Packet is in the mail

I read where the packet comes with a free tin of AA Falcon 13.43 gr 5.52 pellets and a Starbucks Gift card is that correct?

[Lt. Dan]

Good morning GTA.  Up at 0330 CST. I had to get the pork spare ribs going. Low and slow. They'll be ready by lunch. I have the garbage gathered and sitting curbside. 

It chilly out, 32° chill factor 27° it supposed to warm up to 55° and be sunny with mild ESE 3-5 mph winds.

I have serious plans to shoot today.

Need coffee, must have coffee.

Arm still a little sore from yesterday's Covid vaccination (round 1).

[Jshooter71]

Good Morning GTA! Up at 0400 CST. It’s Friday, and unfortunately I’ve got to skip the chiropractor this morning. It happens sometimes, I only worked 7-7.5 hours Monday, Tuesday & Thursday. Had no work Wednesday. But today being Friday, I’ve got a 2.5 hour ride to Jasper for my 1st call. That’s 5 hours round trip plus fix whatever’s broke. They have 4 units, so it could be a pretty good day to make up for Wednesday. If I can head that way at 0600, it’d be better than if I left after the chiropractor closer to 0800. My chiropractor is awesome, if I ever need to drop in at 0730 on a different day, just because I need to, I can.

[Jshooter71]

First cup of coffee typing.

Citizen Opposing ....
 
Packet is in the mail

I read where the packet comes with a free tin of AA Falcon 13.43 gr 5.52 pellets and a Starbucks Gift card is that correct?

Haha! Yes, yes!

[Lt. Dan]

Good Morning GTA! Up at 0400 CST. It’s Friday, and unfortunately .... I’ve got a 2.5 hour ride to Jasper for my 1st call. That’s 5 hours round trip plus fix whatever’s broke.

Sounds like you're going to have a long day today. Sorry...

When I was at UPS I always tried to skip lunch and get home around 5pm but rarely happened.  Management knew everyone would work harder on Friday to get off early so they would often cut routes and load everyone up. It was usually around 7pm getting home on Friday. 

[Jshooter71]

Good Morning GTA! Up at 0400 CST. It’s Friday, and unfortunately .... I’ve got a 2.5 hour ride to Jasper for my 1st call. That’s 5 hours round trip plus fix whatever’s broke.

Sounds like you're going to have a long day today. Sorry...

When I was at UPS I always tried to skip lunch and get home around 5pm but rarely happened.  Management knew everyone would work harder on Friday to get off early so they would often cut routes and load everyone up. It was usually around 7pm getting home on Friday.

It happens so often on a Friday. The other thing that often happens is what I call the 16-1700 drop. A customer will put in a call late Friday for fear of OT on the weekend. The office closes at 1700 and right before they do they put it on you when you were pacing yourself to get home at a decent time or before dark. Often the customer knew it was broke all week.