Thanks to all for your prayers, encouragement and kind wishes. We find a delay of one day is necessary for the health of our crew, but this will allow us to make a final test load of two pounds and load one more bullet into the Suburban and also refine our shady spot tarp and it's poles and sisal, hold-down ropes. We all believe that using nylon line has always been our mistake in trying to set up shade tarps in windy conditions. Nylon stretches about 90% more than sisal, so we figured maybe that is what lets everything loosen-up and eventually fly away.
We bought several tie-down straps from our local scrap metal dealer and we can use the extra time to experiment with them to avoid trouble on the highway. This trip to the range is 90 miles each way and is a good test of our method of securing the load. We still have to finish our stake bed sides on the trailer for the trip to Montana. Except for loading the trailer, everything else is done and our reservations are confirmed. We will have to learn how to use the new company camera on the way to Montana and on Thursday and Friday before the shoot. The old, (6 Years), Cannon, point-and-shoot, is just about shot.
Test firing on Monday!
Mike and Tracy
