You know you live in the country if......

[Microbeman]

You know you live in the country if......

The Big City vet in the fancy suite of offices wants to charge $185 to put down yer dog but you drive 20 mins away to the nearest small town and the country vet in the little old house wants only $42 AND gives you a free 20min consult to evaluate whether it's really necessary!

You know you live in the country when the vet comes to your house to put down yer dog in front of the fireplace, helps you bury her after and sits by the fire for a drink. Then you pay him with an ounce of good herb.

 

[Rocky Mtn Squid]

No Explanation Needed

No Explanation Needed

RMS

 

[Mr Jay]

Seeing a roadkill deer is reason to slam the breaks and pull a U-turn on the highway to grab it before anyone else does.

You can stand on your porch in the morning in your underwear drinking coffee, fire three shots, and listen to the whole valley respond in kind.

When you run into tourists in the forest they act scared as hell and you forget you're carrying.

The fucking elk ate the cabbage again.

 

[Mr Jay]

You might live in the country if you deer hunt on your deck in a lawn chair.

Very much this!

Balcony overlooking the apple orchard. Steadied the rifle on a cannabis branch even.

 

[St. Phatty]

if you come to find that making a deer fence for every single fruit tree is not such a big deal, and if you start hacking space in the blackberries for new fruit trees because you're tired of building deer fences.

 

[St. Phatty]

How many of you folks have an opinion on Tangent Ogives vs. Secant Ogives ?

It's taken me a long time to get to like the Sierra 30 caliber 150 grain Full Metal Jacket. There's a tangent ogive and a section of shank AHEAD of the cannelure, so if you crimp at the Cannelure it makes for a LONG bullet.

 

[Bud Green]

You know you live in the country if......

You drive up to the one single gas pump at the little country store that's 4 miles from your house, and you fill the tank of your 4X4 vehicle..

And when you walk inside to pay, you have to tell the guy that you pumped gas, and then he asks you "How much did you get?"

....

 

[flylowgethigh]

LOL, I have to go further out in the country to get non-jokenol gas. They know my truck, and turn the pump on. Old guy and his wife at the register use binocs to see the big dollar numbers, but they can't see the cents on the small wheel.

 

[St. Phatty]

LOL, I have to go further out in the country to get non-jokenol gas. They know my truck, and turn the pump on. Old guy and his wife at the register use binocs to see the big dollar numbers, but they can't see the cents on the small wheel.

you mean, higher octane, or gas without alcohol ? ( or both ?)

I was looking for the Country Living thread.

I had a Country Living time at the shooting range today, using the 300 yard targets.

Most of the time we live with being 3 to 12 inches down at 300 yards. With 110, 130, 150, & 165/8 grain bullets.

I was pleasantly surprised to see a 180 grain bullet - with the same powder & amount - be the "best of the best" in terms of bullet drop at 300 yards. Down 3 inches at 300 yards.

It's WIERD when the heaviest bullet has the least bullet drop at 300 yards - with the same amount of powder.


Some of the guys are getting ready for hunting season so they have 5 bags open with 5 quality rifles sitting right there.

 

[flylowgethigh]

I meant the little country store that has non-ethanol 87. I test the gas, and it is clean and dry. Old guy is proud of his good gas, and charges accordingly. If things got like they were in 73, I would have supply from this old guy.

I want to hear more about this load. I load my own .308, and have shot a 25 cent quarter at 300 yds. That hunting rifle has a cheaper scope on it now, zero'd at 200 yds. 155 Lapua target or hunting soft tip. Military tracers are pretty close, so the ballistics are about the same.

I was mowing out back by the woods today, and mamma doe and baby came from the farm field next door and ran across kinda leisurely. They seem to want me to see them cross, because it happens a lot lately. I put out a fresh white salt block, and a mineral block. While people do shoot a lot around here, I like to quiet things down for fall. Makes my woods more of a sanctuary.

 

[St. Phatty]

I want to hear more about this load. I load my own .308, and have shot a 25 cent quarter at 300 yds. That hunting rifle has a cheaper scope on it now, zero'd at 200 yds. 155 Lapua target or hunting soft tip. Military tracers are pretty close, so the ballistics are about the same.

I was mowing out back by the woods today, and mamma doe and baby came from the farm field next door and ran across kinda leisurely. They seem to want me to see them cross, because it happens a lot lately. I put out a fresh white salt block, and a mineral block. While people do shoot a lot around here, I like to quiet things down for fall. Makes my woods more of a sanctuary.

I needed to mow out back by the woods today.

saw 5 deer yesterday, and 3 today. There must not be any mountain lions around (knock on wood).

they were all over one of my compost spots where I planted corn, sunflowers, and a few potatoes, on top of the compost. They have eaten everything except the corn.

Something is also eating the dirt & roots around the edge of the garden spot. I have to wonder if that is Quail. I've never seen them do it, but there's a lot of Quail, and something is eating the dirt back to the bases of the plants.


As far as the load, it's Reloder 7, 35.8 grains, that is the magic load that has me scratching my head. 2.32 Grams, 2.5 cc.

I use a balance beam scale. I prefer the powders that have BIG GRAINS, like IMR 3031 or Hodgdon H1000. Then each kernel weighs about 1 milligram.

I used a fast burning powder, Accurate 2200, with the 180 grain bullet, and it went into mild-over pressure. Blew out the primer, added an extra edge to the bottom of the brass.

So now I'm trying that same powder & weight, with 130 grain bullets. It works OK, but not 'like magic', yet.

It would be fun to have a barrel with pressure sensors planted every few inches to see what is happening.

 

[Zeez]

I use a Dillon 650 progressive. For the 45s its 200gr SWCs with Bullseye powder. Nothing like big clouds...... Its especially good when I have to requalify on an indoor range. Use somebody else's paper, leave some big holes and a room full of smoke. They can't get me out of there fast enough.

 

[St. Phatty]

I use a Dillon 650 progressive. For the 45s its 200gr SWCs with Bullseye powder. Nothing like big clouds...... Its especially good when I have to requalify on an indoor range. Use somebody else's paper, leave some big holes and a room full of smoke. They can't get me out of there fast enough.

Back when I was using the digital scale, I emailed Federal to ask what the tolerance is on the loads in their 5.56 bullets.

I figure they have automated equipment etc.

They did not want to answer the question.

I figure their automated equipment has to be capable of +- 1 milligram.

 

[Zeez]

Back when I was using the digital scale, I emailed Federal to ask what the tolerance is on the loads in their 5.56 bullets.

I figure they have automated equipment etc.

They did not want to answer the question.

I figure their automated equipment has to be capable of +- 1 milligram.

I have a few books. In the end I think its mostly about burn rate, pressure and barrel harmonics for your gun. I'm into air rifles too and its very similar.

Proprietary info with big liability. They'd never tell you.

 

[flylowgethigh]

A couple little grains of Varget moves the digital scale.

I agree, the gun/shooter make a mass, and how consistantly you can make the shot the same as the others is important for grouping. A tight action and bedding is really important also.

Hell, in a ,match I will use up all the time allotted, and leave the bolt open to prevent heating the next round while it is in the hot chamber. I quit matches when I figured out I didn't know who the other people were, and did I want them to know I could shoot. Not a chance. A national level shooter brought me to my first local match. They wanted the entrants to pre-pay, or their score wouldn't count. I paid cash that day because I didn't want them to know who I was, won the match in .308 class, and thought shit... No prize, and I tipped my hand. Next time I barely hit the target, on purpose. And quit that nonsense.

My favorite is a .44 lever gun. 11 grains shotgun powder and a 240 gr hollowpoint.

 

[CosmicGiggle]

..... If things got like they were in 73, I would have supply from this old guy....

Yeah, the gasoline crisis, I remember it well.

If you lived in the city it was hard to find a gas station that hadn't just run out of gas or had long lines and was about to run out, but out in the country every station was open and you could fill up your $3.00 limit twice a day or more!

 

[Zeez]

I got a new one for protecting the garden. It would be too tough to explain capping someone over some weeds. This is an uptown 'paintball' pistol with a 12gr CO2 cart and 8 rounds in the mags. It shoots rubber coated steel balls and vicious pepper balls through a rifled barrel.

I could have just let the dog gnaw on em but it peasant hunting sounded too cool.

 

[St. Phatty]

I got a new one for protecting the garden. It would be too tough to explain capping someone over some weeds. This is an uptown 'paintball' pistol with a 12gr CO2 cart and 8 rounds in the mags. It shoots rubber coated steel balls and vicious pepper balls through a rifled barrel.

I could have just let the dog gnaw on em but it peasant hunting sounded too cool.

could always let the chickens chew on the burglar.

 

[Bud Green]

You know you live in the country if......

You know where to hide the bodies....

..

 

[Zeez]

could always let the chickens chew on the burglar.

They are vultures in disguise. They'll eat anything. Probably finish him off by morning.

Always good for a laugh when they wander over by the road and try to cause accidents with the tourists staring at them.