anyone here still shoot

[ulav8r]

I looked at Numrich and saw that there were quite a few differences between the bolt assemblies of the Belgian and Japanese T Bolts.  The magazines and trigger assemblies were also quite different.

[Flynmoose]

I added to my friend's future lead mine yesterday. It was a CZ527 22 Hornet, Ruger #1S 218 Bee and T/C Encore 221 Fireball day. The 221 Furball was the star of the show, with the 22 Hornet close behind. I need to try some different loads for the Bee, that's part of the fun anyway. I miss shooting with friends at the club I belonged to before my move back home, but I have access to this range 24-7. I can shoot targets and ground squirrels in season and coyotes at night. Covid caused the cancellation of our 1,000 yard "TV" shoot, hope to have another in the spring. They don't use actual TVs anymore, substituted a large heavy steel plate instead... less mess.
Keep shooting and stay safe!
Bill   

[VA Rifleman]

Wanted to start a thread about a old sailboat I’m working on. Nothing braggadocios. It’s a 40 year old 17 footer.

Can’t post a sailboat pic. Back to politics.

[gene_225]

Can’t post a sailboat pic. Back to politics.

Why not?

[VA Rifleman]

Good question. System let me post one photo from the phone, then gave me the finger.

Asked for help in the forum support area. Sort of quiet there but Matt does this for free, so I take that into account.

[BUGEYE]

Wanted to start a thread about a old sailboat I’m working on. Nothing braggadocios. It’s a 40 year old 17 footer.

Can’t post a sailboat pic. Back to politics.

I can try if you can email it to me. rghargis@gmail.com
But I only post "pretty" pictures.

[Lloyd Smale]

very cool

  Yes, but they aren't designed the same, also there's plastic in them now... 

  Here's another Belgium made, Browning 22 of mine,







  DM

[gene_225]

It is pretty.

[Drilling Man]

  Thanks guys...

  Here's another one of my favorites,



  Anschutz builds one of the nicest LH 22's sold today...

  DM

[DEACONLLB]

That little Browning was a sweet little gun in late sixties $69.95 and tax wish i had Bought one then. I opted for the Browning BL22 same price now each one at gun shows are near 500.

Deaconllb

[VA Rifleman]

Wanted to start a thread about a old sailboat I’m working on. Nothing braggadocios. It’s a 40 year old 17 footer.

Can’t post a sailboat pic. Back to politics.

I can try if you can email it to me. rghargis@gmail.com
But I only post "pretty" pictures.

Bug. Wanted to acknowledge your gracious offer.
Boston Whaler made pretty boats. Even ones with sails.
Thanks
Va.

[BUGEYE]

Wanted to start a thread about a old sailboat I’m working on. Nothing braggadocios. It’s a 40 year old 17 footer.

Can’t post a sailboat pic. Back to politics.

I can try if you can email it to me. rghargis@gmail.com
But I only post "pretty" pictures.

Bug. Wanted to acknowledge your gracious offer.
Boston Whaler made pretty boats. Even ones with sails.
Thanks
Va.

Yeah, I have a lot of books on sailing and whaling from years ago and the Boston Whaler is an old and almost foolproof design.
Rowing, sailing, many men made their living in a BW.

[Lloyd Smale]

ive never seen a boston whaler sail boat but if its made as well as the 25 foot outrage i just sold then its surely a fine boat. In a couple years i plan to pick up a smaller one. maybe a 17 or 19. Something that i can use in smaller lakes along with being capable out on lake superior.

[Drilling Man]

That little Browning was a sweet little gun in late sixties $69.95 and tax wish i had Bought one then. I opted for the Browning BL22 same price now each one at gun shows are near 500.

Deaconllb

  My brother had both, a semi auto and a lever, this was back in the 70's...  I ended up with the semi auto (pictured above) and I always wanted the lever he had too, as it did have nice wood and shot well, but he would never sell it to me.

  When my brother was nearing the end of his life, I was still trying to buy it off him, but he said his son would get mad, as he was getting all of the guns when he passed away.  WELL, the dirt had hardly even settled on my brothers grave, and the son had sold nearly all the guns, including the lever...  I never heard about it until later.

  The son worked at a hock shop, so you know what happened!

  DM

[VA Rifleman]

ive never seen a boston whaler sail boat but if its made as well as the 25 foot outrage i just sold then its surely a fine boat. In a couple years i plan to pick up a smaller one. maybe a 17 or 19. Something that i can use in smaller lakes along with being capable out on lake superior.

Lloyd. I like that size as well. Something a person can trailer and keep at the house during the off season. Your Outrage is a bucket list boat. Very nice.

This boat is a 1980 5.2 Harpoon. Built by Boston Whaler and designed by C&C who built some of the fastest sailboats of the era. We often kayaked on local rivers but getting a little old for the limited options, once downstream. (Safety)

Considered small power boats and wouldn’t mind one but thought sailing would be more relaxing with a lower entry cost.

Wanted something I could trailer, had plenty of room and could be sailed singlehanded. Fell in love with the 5.2 Harpoon. Larger sailboats can be found cheap around here but the costs really add up with the slip, pulling, bottom cleaning, storage on the hard during winter and maintaining all the systems.

It’s a pretty little boat with nice lines, a covered bow, huge cockpit, self bailing and built like a brick crap house. Refinished the mahogany and drysailed it at the house, stepping the mast and checking the rigging. Everything is there and in good order. Been running the old Evinrude 4 hp outboard. Needs some carb cleaning and the impeller replaced as who knows how old it is. May just get a 2.5 hp Suzuki. The aux propulsion comes in handy as all of the launching ramps are in secluded coves.

My nautical timing is off, what with being fall and everything. Haven’t sailed since the Marine Corps days. Those navy dudes had the best job in the service, running the Pamlico sound marina at MCAS Cherry Point. They offered sailing classes on 16ft Rebels with the fast boats being 19ft Lightning’s.

I’m pretty rusty so taking sailing lessons with a really good skipper on Smith Mtn Lake. No collisions or drownings yet so going well.

Anyway, just another retired guy with small dreams of small sailboats.

[BUGEYE]

I have a little sailing experience.
A buddy and me used to trailer his 16' Hobi-cat to Tampa and sail.
We were putting up the mast mast one day on the beach, with a storm about 20 miles out to sea, and lightning hit the mast.
I was standing between the pontoons backed up to a cable and it hit me in the butt. (felt like a hammer hit me)
My buddy was up on the trampoline and it hit him in the top of his head.
We went on our hands and knees to the car and drank beer until the storm came and went and proceeded to finish the boat and headed out to sea.
We'd tack out about 5 miles and then turn with a high wind behind us, get it up on one hull and throw a rooster tail like a speed boat.
Sailing is the REAL way to boat.

[VA Rifleman]

Dang Bugeye. Lightning is wicked dangerous on the water. Could of damaged the mast....

Just kidding. Glad no one got hurt!

Back in the day, we took a canoe out exploring the swamps and creeks that were maybe a couple miles from the runways at Cherry Point. We had to cross a couple logs that looked like someone placed there to keep people out. So naturally we found a way across the logs. Beer was involved and I think we used the term “Ramming Speed”. Not long after, we  found a unopened parachute. Just breaking the surface with small trees growing out it.

To this day, I wonder if there was a body underneath and regret not reporting it.

Never sailed a Hobie Cat but they look like a ton of fun. If anyone interested, checkout the videos of the current America Cup boats. 50 knots!!!

[BUGEYE]

Dang Bugeye. Lightning is wicked dangerous on the water. Could of damaged the mast....

 we  found a unopened parachute. Just breaking the surface with small trees growing out it.

To this day, I wonder if there was a body underneath and regret not reporting it.

You'd probably still be having nightmares if you'd lifted that parachute.
But don't ya wish ya had??

[locust]

i have not been shooting for two reasons . been working on a cabin .have hung something like 4400 bf of T&G pine mostly by my self its 99.99 done till the garage gets built .the other is i did get the gun to shoot really good last year so there has been no reason to continuing  shooting . but i did just order a new gun ,thinking its 6 weeks out .

[VA Rifleman]

You'd probably still be having nightmares if you'd lifted that parachute.
But don't ya wish ya had??

Aye Bugeye. Pretty much only one way...chutes leave airplanes.

Can still picture. OD in color, slightly bulging and tightly packed with no pilot deployed. Became part of the bank of a 8 to 10ft wide tributary that few power boats would enter. Been there a long time

Should have reported it up my chain of command. (H&MS-32). Many regrets.

[nw_hunter]

I like to shoot at least once a week in the summer, and as often as the weather allows the rest of the year. Not much on shooting paper unless I'm sighting in. I love the steel targets and even plinkin cans with my air rifles. One advantage to living in this large wilderness, but Liberal state of Oregon is a lot of BLM and other state and federal land to shoot on.

[Lloyd Smale]

one of the coolest whalers ive ever seen was when i was at little creek va in the service training. It was owned by a navy chief. He had a 11 foot whaler with a home made (nicely done) center counsel  (not a tiller boat) and had two down riggers on it and about a half a dozen poles stick up. It looked kind of like mine in miniature. Guy said he could work either downrigger from the drivers seat. I saw that guy go out even is some pretty bad weather in the Chesapeake. What really got me hooked on them was after my accident and the year in the hospital they put me at a coast guards station in north chicago for 6 months. We had two bigger rescue boats and a 25 foot whaler we used for rescue cases and a 13 foot whaler we used mostly for a rec boat. It had a 25 hp merc on it. One of the guys at the station that i became friends with after a couple beers one day suggested we take it across lake michigan. So we gassed it up grabbed an extra tank and headed across lake michigan to benton harbor with just a compass, a radio and some beer. Made the trip over bs'd with the guys at the cg station and headed back about a 1/2 hour later and got back just before dark.. Now id never even consider heading across lake michigan in any boat under 16 feet unless it was a whaler. Wasnt a perfect day that day either. We were in 2-3 foot seas both ways. those little 13 and 14 footers are sure sweet little boats.   

ive never seen a boston whaler sail boat but if its made as well as the 25 foot outrage i just sold then its surely a fine boat. In a couple years i plan to pick up a smaller one. maybe a 17 or 19. Something that i can use in smaller lakes along with being capable out on lake superior.

Lloyd. I like that size as well. Something a person can trailer and keep at the house during the off season. Your Outrage is a bucket list boat. Very nice.

This boat is a 1980 5.2 Harpoon. Built by Boston Whaler and designed by C&C who built some of the fastest sailboats of the era. We often kayaked on local rivers but getting a little old for the limited options, once downstream. (Safety)

Considered small power boats and wouldn’t mind one but thought sailing would be more relaxing with a lower entry cost.

Wanted something I could trailer, had plenty of room and could be sailed singlehanded. Fell in love with the 5.2 Harpoon. Larger sailboats can be found cheap around here but the costs really add up with the slip, pulling, bottom cleaning, storage on the hard during winter and maintaining all the systems.

It’s a pretty little boat with nice lines, a covered bow, huge cockpit, self bailing and built like a brick crap house. Refinished the mahogany and drysailed it at the house, stepping the mast and checking the rigging. Everything is there and in good order. Been running the old Evinrude 4 hp outboard. Needs some carb cleaning and the impeller replaced as who knows how old it is. May just get a 2.5 hp Suzuki. The aux propulsion comes in handy as all of the launching ramps are in secluded coves.

My nautical timing is off, what with being fall and everything. Haven’t sailed since the Marine Corps days. Those navy dudes had the best job in the service, running the Pamlico sound marina at MCAS Cherry Point. They offered sailing classes on 16ft Rebels with the fast boats being 19ft Lightning’s.

I’m pretty rusty so taking sailing lessons with a really good skipper on Smith Mtn Lake. No collisions or drownings yet so going well.

Anyway, just another retired guy with small dreams of small sailboats.

[VA Rifleman]

Those 13’ Whalers were legendary. Boston Whaler sailboats never took off back in the day but have a strong following today. Some call BW Harpoons, “The Mercedes of sailing dinghy’s”. 

The two cyl 4hp Evinrude runs like a top after cleaning the carb. Dreams of fair winds while waiting on spring.

[Drilling Man]

anyone here still shoot

  I sighted in my old 7 express Remington, if that counts...

  DM

[Mule 11]

I believe it does. I’ll be sending some down range in my encore 375 win and Savage ml 2 as gun season is around the corner. I check zeroe every year before hunting. 1 time I shot my crossbow and the bolt stuck in the top of my sawhorse. Some gremlin messed with the dial a range. I think it was 1 of my nephews or there leftist dad...

[locust]

one upper came , then Tuesday another is supposed to be coming , kind of late for this year hunting adventure   

[VA Rifleman]

Rifle season starts tomorrow. Bench rest match Sunday.

[Mule 11]

one upper came , then Tuesday another is supposed to be coming , kind of late for this year hunting adventure

What?

[BUGEYE]

Is this your boat??

[VA Rifleman]

Hey Bugeye. That looks like Guzzi’s boat!. Mines just a little 17 footer. Let me try a pic from the net that’s smaller then the IPhone pics.

Unsinkable BW construction. Just the right size with plenty of room. Broad beam. Little cudy. Fast for a centerboard boat. Support’s small outbound. Perfect for day sailing.

Small sailboats are cool. Inexpensive, fun and sort of relaxing unless one screws up, then multiple failure modes.
 
If I go dark come summertime, check VA boating accidents. Lol

Apologize for thread drift. Should be in another area.