Postal Shoot?

[Double D]

Okay I will have to say his three shops  do have more square feet that my whole house.

[Cannoneer]

Actually I do have a fairly well equipted wood shop , I just need to weld up a bit more organizational shelving to get it back on line .  I remodeled /rebuilt -added on to shop and still am organizing the various shops in to order.  I will have  (after 40 years of poor guy status) 3 complete shops . Machine shop , wood shop , and mechanical shop all in one cobbled together building . Great for Retired , now "Landed Gentry" folks . 

Okay I will have to say his three shops  do have more square feet that my whole house.

Sounds exotically spacious!   I've got a small work space in the back room of the basement that my better half refers to as my cave, although I do also have half a side wall where my reloading bench is, and I've got a whole wall of the garage where I can work if I move the car out.

[Cat Whisperer]

Okay I will have to say his three shops  do have more square feet that my whole house.

That makes spring cleaning easier for one of you.   

[seacoastartillery]

     We just learned something about our chosen site for shooting the SAMCC course.  Not only have we found quite a few pieces of old .30-06 brass, all dated 1942 and 1943 in our travels there, around the old Infantry Small Arms Range, but we also learned that before the land of Camp Hale, near Leadville, Colorado, was ceded to the National Forest Service in 1966, there had been two brief E.O.D. cleanups of the area and what they found surprised even an old Infantryman like myself.  Apparently, their training was very complete in that it included firing (this list is derived from the types of fragments or unexploded ordnance found on this site which is now on the Nation Historic Register), everything from M-1 Garands to 3.5" Bazookas, 60mm Mortars, (Mike and I found some fragments and a fin assy. from one 25 years ago), a larger anti-tank rocket, (the CIA trained Tibetan troops here in 1964 or 1965 and perhaps used Russian ordnance), 20mm cannon shells, several types of land mines, etc.

     So I guess we were pretty lucky we did not find any of those dud mortar shells or forgotten land mines the hard way when we dragged my 275 pound, 4" Bore, 1797 mortar around with a chain, behind my Subaru Hatchback in 1979.  Probably a good thing that we mostly stuck to the roads!  The last and most complete ordnance survey was done in 2002 and 2003 and it yielded a further 14 items of unexploded ordnance!

     I doubt that learning this will deter Gary from going up there with us, after all he has a "suspicion about ammunition" which is what keeps you alive during these chance encounters!!

So, anybody else wait until almost the last minute to fire this SAMCC course??

Gaskill?  Have you been practicing day and night with that beautiful Double-Banded Brooke you made?  Come on, show us a target, we want to know what we have to beat.  We know we can't beat Double D., but we aren't sure about you.  Show a target, a good one, no sand-bagging, George.  Come on........please?

Tracy and Mike

[Double D]

Got up this morning went to let the dogs out and they wouldn't go.

[Cannoneer]

"Jingle Bells" 

[seacoastartillery]

     Brrrrrrrr.   750 miles south of you it's a balmy 67 degs F., DD.   Nice talking to you today, and you didn't complain about the weather a bit.  Very stoic of you, I must say.

Tracy

[GGaskill]

Show a target, a good one, no sand-bagging, George.  Come on........please?

I have been trying to build the Marsilly carriage for the Brooke but just can't finish it fast enough.  However, I remembered the comment about Southpaw's carriage and decided to whip out something that would hold the barrel so I could shoot it.  So I plan to fire my targets Sunday after our high power rifle match.  No idea how well it will group.





Note the liberal use of drywall screws.

[Zulu]

Got up this morning went to let the dogs out and they wouldn't go.

Wow!
95 degrees here today.  I've said it before.  At least its a "wet" heat.
Zulu

[Double D]

Hurry and get to shooting you guys...

Just so you know, I will be keeping your scores and establishing you handicaps for next year.  Low score this year means big score next year!!!

[GGaskill]

Low score this year means big score next year!!!

Does that mean we have to use the same gun next year???

[dan610324]

what ??
have your wife been out shakin the down pillows before you wake up ??
you got to buy some new now , they leak to much down 

and the barley grain aint harvested yet ??
is this normal up there ??

I think we got short summers here , but thats nothing against what you seem to have .

[Double D]

Barley is still green, and it is a bit early for snow even for us.   Just checked and my tomatoes aren't even wilted.  

[Ex 49'er]

Got up this morning went to let the dogs out and they wouldn't go.

Wow! Winter in September?

[Double D]

It's not called winter up here, it's just the last day of summer.

[Cannoneer]

Some serious wet here, range called on account of rain! Last open window of opportunity tomorrow morning; prayer to St. Barbara.

[Double D]

Deadline change to a October 1 to accommodate procrastinators and weather! 

[Double D]

NOTE: Because of snow in Montana in September, deadline has been Extended.  Shoot no later than midnight Sunday September 26, 2010.  Postmark no later than October 1, 2010.

[Cat Whisperer]

Histerically accurate!   (Wartime expedient.)   

Show a target, a good one, no sand-bagging, George.  Come on........please?

I have been trying to build the Marsilly carriage for the Brooke but just can't finish it fast enough.  However, I remembered the comment about Southpaw's carriage and decided to whip out something that would hold the barrel so I could shoot it.  So I plan to fire my targets Sunday after our high power rifle match.  No idea how well it will group.





Note the liberal use of drywall screws.

[Double D]

I think George got a deal on drywall screwss

[RocklockI]

George i hope you win something so that carriage makes the calender ! I hope it groups as well as it looks .....  

Mike , Tracy and I just shot our targets today at camp Hale , it is a very peacful place in the mountians .

I shot 34 on both targets ,Mike did better on one and not as good on the other .

I shattered a pool ball on a sheet on granite wall .   This was with the south bend 2.25 cohorn mortar . It shattered some stone as well .

Then I shattered a molar on a deli sandwich ..... OUCHH ! Four seemingly large pieces old tooth decided to just fall out of my head ......

Back to the government dentist   ...... This wont hurt a bit !

Gary

[gulfcoastblackpowder]

It's not called winter up here, it's just the last day of summer.

We never have winter in Fl...it just starts to get comfortable...then gets hot again.

Then I shattered a molar on a deli sandwich ..... OUCHH ! Four seemingly large pieces old tooth decided to just fall out of my head ......

Back to the government dentist  ...... This wont hurt a bit !

I know your pain Gary!

I had one of my molars shatter on a peanut while eating kung pao chicken a few years ago.  It was excruciating for about 3 weeks, but the pain eventually went away.  It's come back again a few times, and the little bits of tooth left have progressively gotten smaller, but I never bothered to get it pulled.  Went to a surgeon once who wanted to pull all my wisdom teeth, but never went back.  Should get it done sometime, but I hate dentistry.  Hope it goes well for you.

How about some pictures from your shooting/targets?

[Double D]

George i hope you win something so that carriage makes the calender ! I hope it groups as well as it looks .....  

Mike , Tracy and I just shot our targets today at camp Hale , it is a very peacful place in the mountians .

I shot 34 on both targets ,Mike did better on one and not as good on the other .

I shattered a pool ball on a sheet on granite wall .   This was with the south bend 2.25 cohorn mortar . It shattered some stone as well .

Then I shattered a molar on a deli sandwich ..... OUCHH ! Four seemingly large pieces old tooth decided to just fall out of my head ......

Back to the government dentist   ...... This wont hurt a bit !

Gary

So you say, post the targets in the postal sticky!

[1Southpaw]

how is it for repeatability ?

Get er done  works in most cases 

[RocklockI]

I have learned that due to some ....... errors ..... the #1 cammera teams ,#1 pics may or may not have worked ?

So here are some I took .


We found a likely spot in the Camp Hale site .

Here is our shooting bench .


Tracy is aimming .

It didnt do him much good ....


The french 75 didnt fire the course as it was taking too long . It did however fire balls into the hillside . LOUD !

I gave Morko a workout a got a couple of hits out of three on the leftside cardboard at 22 yds.

Here is the 1660 VOC gun that all three of us used to shoot.


second look ,just because I like to look at it !

Gary

[seacoastartillery]

     The targets have been shot and scored except for mine.  My targets were shot at.  But anyway, they will be posted in the sticky thread on this topic later on.  Sometimes the journey toward the goal is more interesting than the results.  So, without more blather we bring you along on a Saturday in the Rockies.

Mike, Tracy and the Captain


We took Colorado 91 over from Copper Mountain to Leadville, going over Fremont Pass and passing the Climax Molybdenum Mine on the way.




The Climax Molybdenum Mine, an open pit mine, ate half the mountain over the last 90 years or so to get at that silvery, slippery metal which strengthens steel and lubricates moving parts very well.




Headwaters of the Arkansas River.  George, this is the actual 'Put-In Point' for sail and motor boats destined for all points south and east.




We changed roads at Leadville and went north on State route 24 about 8 miles to this point, the entrance to Camp Hale National Historical Site.  The 10th Mountain Division and other Infantry units trained here in 1942 and 1943 for the Invasion of Italy.




According to some survivors of this high mountain training and European WWII Campaigns this entire flat bottomed valley was normally so choked with coal smoke from railroad engines that breathing was difficult.  The wood smoke from the huge bread baking ovens didn't help any.




We found a nice spot surrounded by cliffs and aspen groves near the Camp Hale small arms range, but out of the wind a bit.  Tracy aims the Loverenz Gun here without much effect on the target.  I think I shot an 11 or 12 (highest target, the other was untouched!)




Gary aims, Tracy observes and stands by the fire extinguisher ready to attack any hot fuse on grass events, should they occur.




Mike loads the .50 cal Loverenz Gun.  We used 35 grains of FFg and a swaged .490" dia. ball, no patch.  Target was at 22 yards, exactly.




Mike grins as he poses with his winning target, a 35 score; Gary, very upset about being aced out by one point appears to be going postal at the Postal Match...................not really of course.

[Double D]

I hope you guy shot two targets for a total 12 rounds, 6 rounds in each target...it takes two targets for entry.

[seacoastartillery]

Sure did, just posted a few on the Sticky Postal Shoot thread a few minutes ago.

Tracy

[Double D]

There is  reason the South Africans get down on their belly's to aim the guns.   

Looks like you guys had a good time shooting....that's the real purpose of the drill!

[GGaskill]

That looks like a candidate for a broadside gun for your sailing ship.



That looks a little shallow even for my canoe (artillery installation to be shown in a future post.)