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Cabin fever - what do you do?
« on: February 17, 2007, 02:12:45 AM »
From One Look Dictionary:  noun:   intense nervous anticipation (Example: "In a fever of resentment")

So what do you do - snowed in for months!  If I was back in Iowa, I'd show you pictures of us getting the beer-can caliber mortar out and getting out on the frozen river and shooting with and into the wind.

What do y'all do? 

(DD & I are planning something!)


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Re: Cabin fever - what do you do?
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2007, 04:49:19 AM »
Hey what about....naw let them think about what we may have up our sleeves!
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Re: Cabin fever - what do you do?
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2007, 07:34:15 AM »
DD - some options include 15 each 7/8x4 and 5 each 7/8x6 and a bunch of .314 x 1-3/4.  Occasional pieces of 1" (short) and larger (all shorts).  A few pieces of about 3 and 4" x (range from 1" to 3" long).

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Re: Cabin fever - what do you do?
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2007, 08:45:07 AM »
7/8 inch is gonna be an awful short barrel... ;D
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Re: Cabin fever - what do you do?
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2007, 08:50:43 AM »
Quote from: Double D on February 17, 2007, 08:45:07 AM
7/8 inch is gonna be an awful short barrel... ;D

7/8 diameter x 4 or 6" length.  ;)
some bigger (1" 1-1/2")
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Re: Cabin fever - what do you do?
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2007, 09:06:41 AM »
ah, I knew that, really , I did!
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Re: Cabin fever - what do you do?
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2007, 10:17:40 AM »
Dug through some more, found some 2.5; 3.5+ and 5" rounds - no more than 3" long though. 
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Re: Cabin fever - what do you do?
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2007, 10:40:48 AM »
Actually I go outside and paint a trailer.  It's 85 degrees F here (global warming, Santa Ana winds from onshore to offshore). 

The shipping on those 5" rounds is going to be pretty high.  Too bad they won't fit in the post office flat rate boxes.   ;D
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Re: Cabin fever - what do you do?
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2007, 10:52:28 AM »
Quote from: GGaskill on February 17, 2007, 10:40:48 AM
Actually I go outside and paint a trailer.  It's 85 degrees F here (global warming, Santa Ana winds from onshore to offshore). 

The shipping on those 5" rounds is going to be pretty high.  Too bad they won't fit in the post office flat rate boxes.   ;D

It's snowing here and too cold to get out and shoot. 

If it was Iowa it wouldn't be, but for Virginia it is.  (There is a much stronger strain of cabin fever there.)

The big flat rate box for $8 and  change will easily hold the 5" pieces.  AND I got 56 of the allowable (70 lbs then) pounds into one a few years back.


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Re: Cabin fever - what do you do?
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2007, 07:21:43 PM »
When it's comfortable in the shop (it was in the 80's here last weekend), I make stuff.



.50 cal (actually 33/64 bore), about 1.5" at the fattest and 13" long.
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Re: Cabin fever - what do you do?
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2007, 12:59:39 AM »
Here in Massachustts, it's about zero F right now. We had a high of 18F yesterday. My workshop is an outdoor shed with no heat, so I'm spending as little time outside at possible.

Yesterday I melted some wax and mutton tallow indoors on the kitchen stove to make some black powder pistol wads. Mutton tallow does not smell all that good, so my wife won't let me do that any more. I'm running out of things to do that don't involve freezing to death or geting evil stares from you-know-who. My 5 year old son is ready to snap as well.

However, this is a normal New England thing... most people are ready to loose it every yer at this time.

Warmer weather is just around the corner I think, but for right now I'm not seeing any of that global warming. My only hobby right now is throwing wood into the wood stove every time a commercial comes on the TV set.
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