Ideally I’d like to have 4 or 5. I already had one that is non operational ATM. That one needs about 3-5 hours of labor and a 25 dollar part.
I never had that issue but never used any brass more than a couple times.
All winter last year. Lots of pics on this thread.
Yeah, wheelers are much more useful. I didn’t blink spending 12k on my wheeler but would have a hard time spending more than 3 on a sled because you just can’t use them that much, even up here.
Thanks, but if I took credit for it I’d be less than truthful. It was the only spot I could find to put it. The sofa it’s on was an heirloom from my mother’s side of the family, and was handed down to the eldest daughter, so my mom got it. My older sister didn’t want it, and my younger sister would just sell it the next day. My daughter doesn’t want it, but my son does, so the tradition is broken. Moms family has documentation of it being in the family in the1880’s. My family chipped in and had it reupholstered as a Christmas present for me a couple years ago. Since my son wants it, we let him pick the material. The upholstery shop that did the work specializes in 17th and 18 th century furniture. They said 1880 is close, but they think it’s a little older.
Not in a Savage 1899/99, five round box mag, lever. The only thing, from being from that generation of fire arm, they shoot the heavy blunt bullets best. My 1926 model 99F in 303 Savage will shoot clover leaves at a 100 yards with a 4X Weaver K4, and 190 grain Silver tips. But, it’s not a bean field gun, it drops 28 inches at 300 yards. A friend found a stash of Winchester 190 ST’s and I bought ten boxes at forty a box. That should last me the duration, but, if I run out I’ll just switch over to cast 190’s. I’ve got several hundred pounds of Mono Type.
My buddy is at his place up in Frostburg MD now. He’s only a few miles from Whisp SkiResort. My kids were at Whisp last weekend and said it snowed every day they were there. Mike has 7 wheelers. Five for his family and two for guests. Now he has3-4 sleds, he’ll probably wind up with 7 of them. If he can use them at least have a dozen times a year he will stay interested. If he only gets to use them a couple times a year he will sell them off and upgrade his bikes.
That's what I had as a kid! Now, it's all plastic, toboggan type sleds.
Get yourself one of these. It's easier and you can carry more per trip.Spent some time at the firewood gym this morning. Wood in racks under the deck. Carry armloads around about 30' and up 7 steps. Good workout for a fella who eats too much! This is a facecord or a third of a cord. Ought to last a month at the current temperature of right around the freezing point, or 2 weeks at -20°C.
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Right but all ammo is sold in RN/FN only because it “could” potentially end up in a tube magazine.
Gotta love bullet nomenclature. 303 take a different diameter than all of the rest of the 30 cal.
Not in my experience. The runner sleds didn't like fresh snow because the runners were so skinny the sled would sink in and the sled would drag. On the hardpack is where they really shined! I had quite a few of them over the years. The small town I grew up in used to set barriers at both ends of the street we lived on and then would only plow that street and not use cinders or salt on it. As kids we were allowed to drag the wood barriers out on the street and shutdown the street and ride our runner sleds down the hardpacked street. Boy, you could really get flying! Mom used to wander where all her candles disappeared to in the winter, but as kids we had to get our runner wax somewhere! Sometimes on the weekends the street would be shutdown all weekend with kids sledding all day Saturday and Sunday. Come to think of it, had it not been the street we lived on I'm sure my parents never would have let me stay out as late they did. Unfortunately, since kids don't go outside much anymore, the little town where my parents still live hasn't set out the barriers in probably 25 yrs. I'm proud to say my kids still like going outside in winter, but since we live in the country and our ground is rather flat, they get me pulling them on plastic sleds with the atv or utv.
