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12 years 5 months ago #24157 by OleCowboy
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magi wrote: I lived and worked in Alaska for 11 years... Was a pipeliner.... Worked outside...
I never went shooting at more than 25 bellow...... And didn't have a simi auto out there..... Probably not the best choice other than a simple blow back gun....
I would wipe every thing dry and use some graphite on certain areas..... I never had a problem..... and at 45 bellow and colder should not make much deference in mechanical function.... Metallurgy maybe.. Yes....... When you came back in... Condensation would develop on all the metal parts.... You would have to strip down and wipe everything dry.... a hair dryer helped......
There were products coming out at the time... Silicon and Molly based lubes... But I never used them....
I worked 6 years in Prudhoe Bay......and 20 bellow with no wind was a nice day..... I will tell you.. When your out in these temperatures.. You can't be standing around..... You need to have everything to be ok... And you eat a lot.... You convert a lot of energy.... Then if the wind comes up.. It gets real bad........
In the 11 years... Working project by project... 5 years in the interior and 6 years in P Bay... I only missed two days of work because weather on the projects I was on... And one of those days because of rain and mud... And one day I almost shut the gang down because of wind....but didn't... We were awesome......

Then you might have noticed if you saw the show and that part of it that he was dressed VERY lightly. I have spent a lot of my life out in the cold (which I HATED ever moment of it) and IIRC that part fo the show it was about -33 or less. He was dressed like it not even freezing. His boots were think and lightweight, pants looked like almost jeans...but then maybe its just me and I get cold when it drops below about body temp, LOL...

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12 years 5 months ago #24158 by OleCowboy
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magi wrote: I'm not going to watch it.......

Give it a shot, I may be way off base. His clothing might be some high tech stuff I don't know about, blood all over you may be they way they hunt up there???? You lived there, I have been there many times but never really lived there. I would like your take on it...

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12 years 5 months ago - 12 years 5 months ago #24159 by jtallen83
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I thought the clothing looked a little light for the conditions myself, must be all new "high speed" fabrics :whistle:
I love the deep cold, it keeps the riff-raff away, no offense meant Cowboy! :usa:
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12 years 5 months ago #24160 by magi
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You are so right...... After we would wrap a job up... My buddies and I would go to Alyaska ski resort to play.... and if it was 10 below or colder we would have the mountain to ourselves.......

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12 years 5 months ago #24161 by magi
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OleCowboy wrote:

magi wrote: I'm not going to watch it.......

Give it a shot, I may be way off base. His clothing might be some high tech stuff I don't know about, blood all over you may be they way they hunt up there???? You lived there, I have been there many times but never really lived there. I would like your take on it...


I'll see if I can find it..........

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12 years 5 months ago #24162 by OleCowboy
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jtallen83 wrote: I thought the clothing looked a little light for the conditions myself, must be all new "high speed" fabrics :whistle:
I love the deep cold, it keeps the riff-raff away, no offense meant Cowboy! :usa:

LOL you mean I am riff-faff...not sure I have ever been called that, been called "scooter trash', red neck, cowboy trash, military trash and now I am gonna add riff-raff to my list of HONORS...LOL

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12 years 5 months ago #24163 by Siscowet
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magi wrote: I'm not going to watch it.......

I agree with Cowboy, watch it once and give us your perspective on it, as you have the experience up there.

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12 years 5 months ago #24165 by magi
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well... i could only watch some clips online.. 5 or 6..... but those folks are the real deal..... one thing that impressed me as different from 25 35 years ago... was the natives.. the ones i saw online... seem to be doing better... they have a lot more guns than most used to...... the eskimos in my time mostly used 222's for every thing from rabbit to polar bear...... and on big game i never agreed with that..... but they were poor and 222 was cheap and better than a spear...... i want to see the whole thing now....

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12 years 5 months ago #25021 by jtallen83
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Siscowet wrote: I caught a few minutes of " Life Below Zero" on the Nat Geo channel the other day, and one of the guys living in the bush was hunting Caribou with either an AR10T with a 26 inch barrel or the RRA Varminter with the same. He missed one when his firing pin froze! Because it was too cold. I am guessing the lube he had wasn't up to 45 below zero. He got the next one though. A nice shot, looked to be about 300 yards.


I caught an episode tonight, he said it was an AR-15 in .223, must get good shot placement on those Caribou!

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12 years 5 months ago #25023 by faawrenchbndr
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Had to work on a plane one night in Alaska,.....47 below zero.

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