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11 years 4 weeks ago #29784 by BigN69
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Wasilla, Alaska. Starting to get wintery here. Shooting goes on though.

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11 years 4 weeks ago #29785 by Siscowet
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BigN69 wrote: Wasilla, Alaska. Starting to get wintery here. Shooting goes on though.

Went through there years ago on the way to Telkeetna. Nice country.. Wintery here in northern Wisconsin. Good amount of snow south and east of us. Low of 26 high of 36.

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11 years 1 week ago - 11 years 1 week ago #30448 by jtallen83
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The leaves are starting to turn here in central Mississippi, 60's and sunny B) . Looks like Louisville MS. will be my temporary home till Christmas anyway. I'm finding lots of gun shops but no public ranges in the area. I'll be in Cherokee Alabama after the holidays and found a few ranges close by there. I'll also be on "long term" travel so I'll get an apartment there, most likely in Muscle Shoals.
That means I get to set up for reloading as well. :twothumbs: I'll have something to do with all those evenings and weekends!
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11 years 1 week ago #30449 by Siscowet
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jtallen83 wrote: The leaves are starting to turn here in central Mississippi, 60's and sunny B) . Looks like Louisville MS. will be my temporary home till Christmas anyway. I'm finding lots of gun shops but no public ranges in the area. I'll be in Cherokee Alabama after the holidays and found a few ranges close by there. I'll also be on "long term" travel so I'll get an apartment there, most likely in Muscle Shoals.
That means I get to set up for reloading as well. :twothumbs: I'll have something to do with all those evenings and weekends!

Ask at the gun stores about where the locals shoot.
Up here leaves left two weeks ago after a late Fall. One day left to finish my winter wood supply. Fired up the wood boiler a week ago. Next Saturday, deer season!

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11 years 1 week ago #30452 by jtallen83
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I've been asking, everyone has a relative with a farm. I was invited to the local police range but it is pistol only and 25 yards. I may end up there with my P938 just to smell some burnt powder but it will be a hassle coordinating with an officer to be there, I don't want to impose too much on the hospitality.
I'm going to keep asking everyone I run into, somebody is bound to invite me to shoot on their private land, I hope :pray:

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10 years 11 months ago #31949 by Siscowet
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Just dug out from 18 inches of snow, am I beat! Now temperature is dropping like a rock. -13 by Saturday morning. The South never sounded so good.

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10 years 11 months ago #31950 by OleCowboy
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Ahhh TRAFFIC: Yep driven down Sunset Blvd and Mulholland Dr, the streets of Paris, Bangkok, Madrid, Munchen and Rome, along with Fairbanks, Seattle, NYC, Dallas, Boston and a jillion more. The worst: Miami maybe 2nd place, but the worst is DC. Sat in traffic on the beltway for as long as 11 hrs and never moved. But drivers are not all that bad. Bad drivers, then its a toss up between Miami and Scottsdale....


“I was running down the road trying to loosen my load”...

It was 3:15 and I am west bound on Frank Lloyd Wright a dual lane with center traffic divider, 45 mph speed limit Blvd approaching the 100th street intersection with lights and turn signal. I am enroute COSTCO for some shopping. I approach the intersection with green light and at about 50 yards or so a big black ’94 Caddy 4 door sedan is making a u turn and got confused or making a left turn and got lost, because its sitting across both lanes at a dead stop.

I move from the right to the left lane in hopes that the Caddy will move, it doesn’t, and I am considering jumping to the other side of the road if there are no oncoming cars. The bad news is there is an oncoming car so that lets out that option.

I stand on the brakes and my 37" Goodyear MTRs lock up faster than Michael Jackson having a Boy Scout Troop sleep over and the Sheriff is knocking at the front door, and the Caddy still has not moved.

I am sliding thru the intersection faster than Barry Bonds into home plate when hear a crunch and see an explosion of glass. My airbag did not go off.

I hit that Caddy on the outer edge of the rear tire and on into the rear quarter panel. The big Caddy’s rear window explodes like a bomb on a Baghdad street. The Caddy slides sideways from the impact of my Jeep and I keep driving pulling over about 15 yards down the street in the bus stop lane.

I run back to see who and what is in that Caddy and if anyone is hurt. The Caddy has only one occupant, a woman that most likely started her driving career for the 3 wise men. It goes downhill from there, she is near blind in one eye, an ain’t got the other one and its not her lucky day. [NOT kidding about her only having one eye, I guess at 92 you are lucky to be alive]

I ask if she is alright and she asks, "where am I? By now the ambulance and Scottsdale finest is arriving on the scene and I turn it over to them while I check out the big Caddy. From the Caddy’s perspective, it was bad day at black rock or another demolition derby lost. The rear is caved in, the trunk is crushed, door window broke and back window blown out. The rear axle is not sitting straight and has been moved over to the drivers side a good foot, in short the car is un-drivable.

The police asked me if I was driving the other car and where was it? I point to my Jeep and we all head towards it. We walk around front to survey the damage and to their amazement and my surprise, there is none!

I head on to COSTCO.

Update: Her insurance company totaled the Caddy, the police took away her drivers license and I did not file a claim…no real damage, no claim, the woman had enough problems as it was.

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10 years 11 months ago #31951 by Siscowet
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Your right about Washington. Whenever I am in that town I get a major delay from a presidential motorcade, or some biggie. Once Bush, Once Obama, and once Karzai. I have given up. I take the metro subway now straight from the airport, and either use that or walk everywhere I go.

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10 years 7 months ago #36357 by MrMarty51
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:sleep: WAKE UP, WAKE UP THREAD, TIME FOR SOME MORE POSTICATING. :busted: :rotfl:

OK, Mine innernet is sporadick, Mine landline`s deader~N~ a dead horse.
Might get this post in, might not, I`m`a hurrying. :rotfl:

JT : Private propity ???? come on over, We gots miles an miles of BLM, Forest Service and state run lands, Practicng on P-Dogs is fun.

O~L~Cowboy, Nice Jeeeep.

Sisco : Didjuh get warmed up and dug out ?????

Did I ever tell Youse Guys that big city traffick scares the carpies out of Me, YUP, Makes Me absolutely freakin scared.

UHHHHhhh, Did`nt get to make My Docs. APPT. over to Billings, roads was nasty bad after the rain, ice and snowstorm, Nope, Just warnt wurth the risk.
Besides, I had to call the utilities repair company to come over and get My furnace to running, durn thing quit, house was down below 65* whan I awokened. OOOOHHHHhhh Man, do`nt take long to get dressed, even when itis only 65*.
Welp, see if I can get this through. :whip: :busted: :rotfl:

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10 years 7 months ago #36359 by jtallen83
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Hope your staying warm there MrMarty, 62 was the low here last night ;)

If I ever transfer to central lands division I'll be taking you up on the P-dog hunt! Only saw it one time when I was a kid and it looked like a blast, I was pissed cause I was sure that 8 was plenty old enough to shoot the little critters :whip:
Good luck at the Doc's when you make it! :thumbs:

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