What was your prep of the day?

[SOCOM42]

I dragged out my "tactical" 94 Winni from its rat hole and oiled it up.

It is going into my Grand Cherokee along with a couple of bandoliers of silvertip.

It is the cheapest long gun to put in there that I have that is suitable for here and cause.

Yeah I could take a #4 Enfield or a Mauser, but just too long overall.

There is a lot of that demented pro Hamas/Palestine shit going on around here.

Not out here in the woods where I live, but in the big city that I have to go to every month at least once.

Even though the weather is getting warmer, I am going to carry either my Smith 4566TSW or my Smith 1911.

Backup will be a Smith model 60 2" with two speed loaders in pockets.

There is a couple of hundred rounds each of 45, 9MM, 38spcl and

40S&W in the Jeep at all times along with associated spare mags.

[Chiefster23]

Here’s a great prep. Last week I got one of the new Garmin bullet chronographs. This thing is great! Super easy. It appears to be very accurate. And idiot proof so even I can use it. It’s expensive at $600, but very handy for reloading. I have an old Caldwell with the overhead screens that I was using. But it’s such a PITA to use that it seldom went to the range anymore. This new Garmin goes and gets used every time I shoot. I took it to my last 22 benchrest shoot. I used to claim that every last lousy shot was caused by bad ammo. But now with the new chrono I can see that bullet speed is within spec and my bad shots are caused by ME and not the ammo. (I can still claim that bad shots are caused by the hot air currents caused from all the lies and BS the shooters are spewing!). Anyhow, I like the new toy.

Yesterday working up a new bullet load, another shooter had a beautiful Russian Moist Nugget. The stock was beautifully refinished. The gun was reblued. Scoped. Front sight and bayonet mount were removed. Nice gun, and accurate too. Nice gun!

[Mad Trapper]

I'm doing a run up on burn a tire for Greta day.

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The upcoming burn a tire for Greta Holiday Celebration @Mad Trapper s will be an order of magnitude bigger.

[Mad Trapper]

The upcoming burn a tire for Greta Holiday Celebration @Mad Trapper s will be an order of magnitude bigger.

Yesterday was last day of "burn season" in the mASShole, my VT place/state does not have that nonsense......

The trees in the background are 70-80' tall, the big pine that snapped off ~30' up, was >4' DBH, two more big pines you can't see, and all of last years pile that never got torched.

It was a fun day, but no flaming rabbits made a quick exit like in the winter time.....I think some voles may have roasted.

[Chiefster23]

I have an asparagus patch that is well in excess of 20 years old. I get a ton of asparagus shoots every year but they all come on in a short period of time. I’ve tried canning and freezing the shoots but they turn mushy as hell. I recently discovered pickling recipes for asparagus. I tried it with just basic pickle spices as it turned out decent and remained crispy. Now I’m going to try a batch today using dill. I’m only making 2 pints per batch just in case the flavor turns out to be a disaster.

[Michael_Js]

Mine come up in batches...I put them in water in the fridge and they will last for weeks...then I cook a big batch, and eat them as I want Pickling is a great idea!

[stevekozak]

I dragged out my "tactical" 94 Winni from its rat hole and oiled it up.

It is going into my Grand Cherokee along with a couple of bandoliers of silvertip.

It is the cheapest long gun to put in there that I have that is suitable for here and cause.

Yeah I could take a #4 Enfield or a Mauser, but just too long overall.

There is a lot of that demented pro Hamas/Palestine shit going on around here.

Not out here in the woods where I live, but in the big city that I have to go to every month at least once.

Even though the weather is getting warmer, I am going to carry either my Smith 4566TSW or my Smith 1911.

Backup will be a Smith model 60 2" with two speed loaders in pockets.

There is a couple of hundred rounds each of 45, 9MM, 38spcl and

40S&W in the Jeep at all times along with associated spare mags.

Aim well!

[BucketBack]

$67.97 @ KFarts in 1970

[Broncosfan]

Finished turning the hallway closet into a pantry. Started to get it organized. Trying to only fill it when things are on sale. Ordered another whole beef. Expected to not get it until fall. Looks like they will have it ready sometime in June. Working on getting the freezer cleaned out. All of the ground beef left from the last beef will be canned.

[SOCOM42]

Made a wrench today to remove/install the POL valve on propane tanks.

Changing out the POL valves on all my 100 pounders as they become empty.

Installing ACME/POL combo valves in their place.

The old ones are just like the ones on 20# tanks but with a 11-1/2 " fill tube added.

This new type are what the propane companies use to fill 100#-200# tanks.

They don't have to disconnect the tank to fill it.

It has become difficult for me to get them filled without a truck anymore.

This is one of my major projects evolving for this month,

only empty tanks (3) are getting changed over right now.

Next on the list for this coming Friday is a caliper, pads and rotor on one jeep.

After all that, time to work on tractor for a bit.

Ordering 5/16" wire rope for my come-along, 100 feet of it, have all the other hardware, mil surp.

Need it to pull some big trees off my shop roof, came down in a storm, no damage though.

Well, no roof damage, but they destroyed my multi band HF vertical that was sitting dead center of the roof.

That antenna was about $300.00 25 years ago.