Monday Morning

Mornin boys...
67 here high on RUGER Mt this morning.
Got to go in 2 hours early this morning. Should
be the last day of this foe awhile.
George, hope you catch all you want to today.
I'm going to take some comp time soon and see
if I can catch a few.
You all have a gooden today and GOD Bless...


Donnie

Good morning, GoGo. Charlie, I'm checking off another Monday and keeping my fingers crossed about being able to retire within a year. It's 71 in Louisville, going to 90 with a good chance of thundershowers today. Yesterday hit a blistering 97 degrees.

The NHRA Hot Rod Nationals wrapped up their 4-5 day annual meet here yesterday. I don't know if attendance was down or what, but I didn't see that many custom rods tooling around town, as I usually do.

Charlie, I don't know what to say about your not-vacation to Hatteras, except that I sure wish you had better weather. With both fishing and hunting, you're gonna have a certain number of bad days, so at least you go several of those checked off. Maybe that means your late summer and fall fishing on the bay will be a whole lot better.

Y'all have a good'n and be safe out there. And don't forget our friend Tom (TAJ45) as he gains strength and gets his legs back under him after that bad fall.

Good morning all...at the shop and first thing was serious weed spraying of the parking lot and around the building. Used a year long killer this time, sprayed once before and next rain it started coming back up...not sure what it was but not good enough.
I was here at the shop yesterday doing some cleaning and drug out the old SA200 Lincoln welder and fired it up and blew it off. It is going up for sale here real soon as its a big heavy machine that I don't use so it will free up some room.

I got my power washer at the house and need to spray the garage to get the loose flaking paint off the block so it can get a little makeover before winter. I also need to paint the small barn and trim in some places as well.

Well off to get back to work it is already just plain nasty hot and humid.

Morning gang! Hope this finds all doing well. I had a great weekend, ended up going to the range Saturday, did some serious load development for 45/70's and ended up shooting nearly 100 rounds with some help from a buddy! We were shooting a 1st year Marlin 1895 guide gun, a Wessington and Richardson made by H&R , and a Browning hi wall. The Marlin an H&R both had scopes, on them and with some cast 355g HP's I had made shot very well, into less than 2" at 100yds for 5 shot groups, the ones I had shot as cast, just moly coated shot 5 into 1.5"a t 100, will be definitely be looking into this more! These bullets were mot sorted by weight either. The load of the day was a pretty hot load using 300 gr Hornady HP's, and they shot a ragged hole from both the Marlin and the H&R, both with 2x7 scopes, the hole being about an inch long, for 5 rounds, now that is putting them in their with a big ole slug. We also shot some weighed cast 405 grs, an old standby load, that grouped in about 11/4 inches at 100 yds. The Browning Hi Wall shot a ragged hole at 50 yds with open sights and put three shot groups into 1.5-2.00 inches at 100yds with open sights, for 4 different loads!!! This was the sleeper, and it has fine iron sights, but may be going to put a good peep sight on it to really see its potential. I have decided that I am going to deer hunt this year with a iron sighted 45/70 of some sort!! Remember those in need of prayer, buff out!