Warmed Up A .22

It's been a long layoff from shooting our rifles, so I set up the gong at 100 yards today and gave it a workout with one of the 10/22's®. We have our Appleseed rifles zeroed at 25 meters, and I was guessing that they would hit about 5' low at 100 yards, so after the initial magazine I dialed it up 5.  That was pretty close, but 6 minutes up seemed pretty well perfect. It felt good to shoot again, and the rifle behaved well except for one magazine that needs to have the spring tightened up a bit. The last several groups are from sitting, and on the final one I emptied the magazine on one breath..

Giddyup!

Back To The Old Grind!

Hope You Had A Happy Equinox!

Hickok45's Deep Thoughts

We haven't visited Hickok45 for quite a while.  I figure most firearm aficionados subscribe to his YouTube channel, and don't need my help finding him...But, this is a good one, and I want to make sure lots of people see it.  I might add five or six views with this little blog, so here it is.

Not My Victrola...

I have spent most of my life listening to music from 1900 to the early Thirties, plus a lot of classical music, but there was most of a decade when I listened to Country Music most days at work. It just sort of fit in with mechanicking on oilfield trucks, and coal mining machinery. I practically became an expert on Country, but that all came to a halt when I fell into my current job, where I am out in the woods, or writing at a computer. This song by Earl Thomas Conley is one of the best, and it pretty well marks when I quit listening to Country every day. YouTube is a treasure, letting you go back and hear the oldies.

Weekend Steam: More Video About The General!

Crankin' It Up With Our Old Buddy Brat

Listen close, and if you can figure out all the words to the final verse, please write them in Comments!

Sarah Has A Date

 The weather was beautiful, the ground was soft, and it was a great day to hunt for fragments. Susan found most of the pieces of Sarah Romine's marker last year, and last Sunday she found the piece with the year of her death.  We think this stone is on Sarah's grave, but there is no base to match it to; only the sunken ground where someone was buried. These pieces are legible because they have been in the ground, protected from the weather for much of a century, and they will have to be re-buried after a small marker is set to document this grave.

They should all be as lucky as Sarah.  This little pile of bricks was under a stone that has been removed from its grave in the first row next to a farm field. Yuccas and Easter flowers show that people are buried here, but most of the markers are gone.

Some of them are stacked up and the locations for them are lost to the ages.

This base is just barely visible, but at least it still marks a place.  Most of the stones in the Rawls' Cemetery are marble, and many of them sat in sandstone bases. Some, like Sarah's were just placed in the ground with no base. Tractor-mounted mowers performed most of the destruction in this cemetery more than fifty years ago.  We have been beating back the jungle a bit, cutting trees, and marking the rows. Many of the people buried here still have family in our neighborhood, but the descendants, for the most part, are blissfully unaware that their family heritage has slipped away.  Susan gets inquiries from people occasionally for help in finding relatives buried near us, and it is gratifying to help others who are interested in genealogy and family histories.

Ruger's Auction To Benefit Honored American Veterans Afield

This week, Ruger is offering a handy little Ruger® New Model Single-Six® .32 H&R Magnum. This little beauty was built in 1986, and returned to the factory. It has the short, 4 5/8" barrel that makes Rugers handy for packing.  100 % of the proceeds will go to benefit Honored American Veterans Afield.  This revolver will sell mid-day, Wednesday, March 18, 2015.  Click Here to read the entire description, and to place a bid.

$785

Tuesday Turbo Boost

Happy St. Paddy's Day!