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

[Jshooter71]

Good Morning GTA! Up at 0430 CST.....Next Saturday I have our monthly barn meeting, then Sunday after Ch**ch, I’m planning on heading towards Hot Springs, my Mom is moving into her new house. There’s a lot more going on with work too.....

Congratulations on your mom's new house.  That's about a 4 hour drive from you right?

Yes Sir, actually the new house is in Lonsdale, so 3.25 hours, but the way I drive, it’ll still be 4. I’m happy for them, they were in a rent to own that went bad. They invested a lot in that place. This one her husband used his VA loan to buy and it’s a pretty nice pre-fab home on 1 acre.

[Jshooter71]

David & Richard, you fellas stay warm! I’m originally from the Northeast, but I’ve been south too long to deal with that kind of weather. Anything below 32* is freezing. Anything below zero, who’s counting anymore? It is harder though, to keep warm the further below zero you go. But I actually say the same about our summers. Once you go over 100*, hot is hot, too hot.

[Lt. Dan]

...... Anything below 32* is freezing. Anything below zero, who’s counting anymore? It is harder though, to keep warm the further below zero you go.

I feel the same way.  I don't have any "cold" weather gear, i.e. coats, boots, snow shoes, gloves, headgear.  It rarely,  rarely gets below 25° here and to tell you the truth I can't tell any difference between 10° or 25° they're both freezing to me, like you said anything below 32° is freezing. But I agree it's harder, to keep warm the further below 10° you go. I can't imagine temperatures below zero.  Never been in them and single digit temperatures only once or twice a decade.  I've hunted in the teens before and didn't have the appropriate clothing and got really cold.

[Firewalker]

 I love to get all dressed up and go snowshoeing or snowmobiling or cross-country skiing when it's super cold! I think actual air temperature was -47 below zero about 8 years ago in Hibbing Minnesota on a snowmobile trip with friends. We never felt the cold because we had the right gear. The carburetors sure didn't like the weather and the propane tank had to be brought inside so that the propane would turn to a gas from a liquid!

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

I love to get all dressed up and go snowshoeing or snowmobiling or cross-country skiing when it's super cold! I think actual air temperature was -47 below zero about 8 years ago in Hibbing Minnesota on a snowmobile trip with friends. We never felt the cold because we had the right gear. The carburetors sure didn't like the weather and the propane tank had to be brought inside so that the propane would turn to a gas from a liquid!

I got up at 7:05 this morning and made Coffee and did some housework. I'll shoot some airguns this afternoon. I repaired a Drawer Slide in the kitchen that has been meesed up since 1998? I think. We hardly ever open that drawer so it just never was a priority, LOL.

I was born in Minnesota and lived in the northeast corner of Indiana and two places in North Dakota one 5 miles from the Canadian border when I was a kid. Walhalla has about 185 freezing days per year. My brother and I played outside in below zero temp and we built an Igloo, inside of it seemed pretty warm, we usually took of our coats while we were in it, of coarse we still had layers on . 

[Firewalker]

Thank you for the reminder to plow snow up for the grand kids and my son. We call them "snow forts" around here.

I love to get all dressed up and go snowshoeing or snowmobiling or cross-country skiing when it's super cold! I think actual air temperature was -47 below zero about 8 years ago in Hibbing Minnesota on a snowmobile trip with friends. We never felt the cold because we had the right gear. The carburetors sure didn't like the weather and the propane tank had to be brought inside so that the propane would turn to a gas from a liquid!

I got up at 7:05 this morning and made Coffee and did some housework. I'll shoot some airguns this afternoon. I repaired a Drawer Slide in the kitchen that has been meesed up since 1998? I think. We hardly ever open that drawer so it just never was a priority, LOL.

I was born in Minnesota and lived in the northeast corner of Indiana and two places in North Dakota one 5 miles from the Canadian border when I was a kid. Walhalla has about 185 freezing days per year. My brother and I played outside in below zero temp and we built an Igloo, inside of it seemed pretty warm, we usually took of our coats while we were in it, of coarse we still had layers on .

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Thank you for the reminder to plow snow up for the grand kids and my son. We call them "snow forts" around here.

I love to get all dressed up and go snowshoeing or snowmobiling or cross-country skiing when it's super cold! I think actual air temperature was -47 below zero about 8 years ago in Hibbing Minnesota on a snowmobile trip with friends. We never felt the cold because we had the right gear. The carburetors sure didn't like the weather and the propane tank had to be brought inside so that the propane would turn to a gas from a liquid!

I got up at 7:05 this morning and made Coffee and did some housework. I'll shoot some airguns this afternoon. I repaired a Drawer Slide in the kitchen that has been meesed up since 1998? I think. We hardly ever open that drawer so it just never was a priority, LOL.

I was born in Minnesota and lived in the northeast corner of Indiana and two places in North Dakota one 5 miles from the Canadian border when I was a kid. Walhalla has about 185 freezing days per year. My brother and I played outside in below zero temp and we built an Igloo, inside of it seemed pretty warm, we usually took of our coats while we were in it, of coarse we still had layers on .

We made a "legitimate" Igloo out of blocks of tightly pack snow then we got the garden hose out of the garage and watered with a hose to turn it to ice. There was still an ice ring left at the beginning of the next winter.

[Firewalker]

OUTSTANDING!!

....We made a "legitimate" Igloo out of blocks of tightly pack snow then we got the garden hose out of the garage and watered with a hose to turn it to ice. There was still an ice ring left at the beginning of the next winter...

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

Thank you for the reminder to plow snow up for the grand kids and my son. We call them "snow forts" around here.

Hi David.

Here is a snow fort that my grand kids and I made one year.


Best Wishes - Tom

[Lt. Dan]

Good morning GTA.  Woke up at 0430 CST.  I hear the rain already it's 42° now with winds N @ 4 mph. Suppose to rain all day with the high of 50°. Rain accumulation is forecast to be only 1/2" all day so just enough to keep me from shooting at all.

Plans? Hmm.

[maraudinglizard]

Up at 4:30 cst, feed zoo, fix chicken water system, finish assembling the band saw and get it on the pedestal without damaging the head, clean the shop some more. The rain hasn't started yet so I will be able to get some yard stuff done before it does.

[Firewalker]

Up at 5 with my wife, -10, feed the wood boiler and head in for the day. I want to try the older pellets I have in the DAR at 20m to see if they can shoot well at shorter distances.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Mornin...
 5 degrees this morning here.
I get to change another tire today... This time on my truck.
 Last night on the way home from the Lodge I was almost Home and heard a "POP" then the low tire alarm came on and the left rear instantly said "0".
"Fortunately" the road was deep in snow and I limped it home without damaging the rim.
  Would have stunk if I was miles from home, changing a tire along side the road in the dark and single digits.

[Jshooter71]

Good Morning GTA! Up at 0500 CST. I’ve got some rain coming too, about noon. I shot 4 10-shot groups yesterday from 20 to 45 meters with the Parrus .22. I received the new Geo LDC yesterday evening and I want to shoot some this morning to see how it does on the the Parrus, before the rain. I’m not so sure my scope is going to make it before I can get it mounted and zero’d, if it even shows up this weekend. So, other than that, I plan on cleaning up my van and the garage this weekend.

[Firewalker]

Sorry to hear that Scott! Glad you got her home. Any idea why you are getting flats?

Mornin...
 5 degrees this morning here.
I get to change another tire today... This time on my truck.
 Last night on the way home from the Lodge I was almost Home and heard a "POP" then the low tire alarm came on and the left rear instantly said "0".
"Fortunately" the road was deep in snow and I limped it home without damaging the rim.
  Would have stunk if I was miles from home, changing a tire along side the road in the dark and single digits.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Just my luck...
Hoosier Momma had a nail, Last night I musta ran over something because I heard it "POP"

[Lt. Dan]

My Hawke Airmax 2-7x32AO that I plan on trying on my R7 is about a 20 minutes drive from me.  I got this message when tracking my scope this morning.

Your item arrived at our HATTIESBURG MS DISTRIBUTION CENTER destination facility on February 6, 2021 at 1:48 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination.

Now one thing I can say about our postal service is that they are consistently inconsistent.  Based on past occurrences when a package reached this distribution facility this early in the morning four things have happened
1) the package arrived that same day
2) the package arrived the following day
3) the package arrived two days later
4) the package was sent to Gulfport then back to Hattiesburg where it is then sent to my post office for delivery the following day.

So today? Monday? Tuesday? or possibly Thursday.  Who knows.

I will be pleasantly surprised if it arrives today.

[Lt. Dan]

Just my luck...
Hoosier Momma had a nail, Last night I musta ran over something because I heard it "POP"

Sorry Scott. Driving at night it's hard enough to spot a tire hazard on the road, but at night ... in the snow, near impossible to spot.

[Struckat]

Flirting with zero this morning. It’s moving day for son #3. We will get there by the time they are done and will feed them Mommies sloppy joes.

Yesterday was a good airgun day for me. My accuracy with my HW95 continues to improve. I have 1,000 pellets through it, including the first 300 per Hector’s barrel run in. I’ve been shooting the causal matches and finally scored a 200/200 with 9x.
Best I have done prior was a 199 with my HW30.

I am feeling the same confidence with the 95 that I always have with the 30. I hadn't touched the 30 for several weeks just so I could spend more time with the 95.

A Vortek kit arrived yesterday for the HW30. It has between 3,000- 3,500 shots and was starting to make more spring noise as time went on.

The transformation of the shot cycle was nearly as dramatic as when I kitted the 95. Wasn’t sure that I could love my 30 more, but there is no spring noise, just a quick and satisfying “Pt” when fired. That’s the shorter version of the “Poot” the 95 makes.

I will shoot both later today, chasing dots is surprisingly satisfying.

[Jshooter71]

That’s where I’m at sort of with my UTG scope I’m waiting for. When I ordered it Thursday morning, it said Tuesday the 9th. But it shipped immediately and said I’d have it Friday! But I wasn’t counting on it. Then when it got to Kansas City, it said it’d be here today, then Sunday. It left Kansas City at 0237 this morning and now it says it’ll be here YESTERDAY , LOL! It’s all good, it’s FedEx, so it could be here today or tomorrow. If it doesn’t get here til Tuesday, I haven’t been cheated out of anything.