whadja do today?

[dbl612]

I am surprised your outfit doesn't have anything like this, aside from the tracks left from Jared's new Panzer they make the job a good bit better with any grinder.

jarrods panzer- i love it definately a weapon!

 

[dbl612]

I am suprised you think our 'outfit' can not handle your little problem.
Jeff :msp_tongue:

jeff, how do you handle the incessantly incredible extremely beautiful days? one after another, after another, after another as you drive on and on till the wheels fall off from one beautiful location to another. LOL.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

The trees look about 75 and of course when they say the boom is 80 feet they mean when its straight up in the air which, when doing tree work, is only good for jumping out of it.

But what I am, chopped liver? I could have saved you all that rigamaroll with the lifts, filled your ears with complaints, dissention, and vulgarity and clumb em right and proper while you stood around acting like a Rockerfeller.

I called you, but you sounded busy. JLG 800s lifts dont go straight up. When it is fully up and extended you are still clear of the base of the machine. I did have the lift the whole way up fully extended.

 

[mattfr12]

I called you, but you sounded busy. JLG 800s lifts dont go straight up. When it is fully up and extended you are still clear of the base of the machine. I did have the lift the whole way up fully extended.

They are big money down here the gas drillers drove the rental market through the roof. An 80 foot would cost me over 1500.00$ a day.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

They are big money down here the gas drillers drove the rental market through the roof. An 80 foot would cost me over 1500.00$ a day.

Around here they are $700 a day including pickup and delivery.

 

[mattfr12]

Thats not very many bullets. That looks like about 2 hours of fun. I got many thousands of rounds loaded up. At one point, I have nearly 8000 ak rounds, but i sold them off when they were super high priced a couple years ago. You should get yourself a progressive reloader. I can reload 400-500 40 s&w rounds a hour with mine.

Here's my ammo shop in my basement.the last picture is the 338 next to 300 mag.

 

[jefflovstrom]

jeff, how do you handle the incessantly incredible extremely beautiful days? one after another, after another, after another as you drive on and on till the wheels fall off from one beautiful location to another. LOL.

You are right, it is tough.
What is 'incessantly'.?
Anyway, I love it here, but it cost a lot to live here.
Jeff

 

[lumberjack333]

Thats not very many bullets. That looks like about 2 hours of fun. I got many thousands of rounds loaded up. At one point, I have nearly 8000 ak rounds, but i sold them off when they were super high priced a couple years ago. You should get yourself a progressive reloader. I can reload 400-500 40 s&w rounds a hour with mine.

Can never have enough! .22 is back ordered in a lot of places up here now too... Gotta keep the stockpile up!

 

[treemandan]

Here's my ammo shop in my basement.the last picture is the 338 next to 300 mag.

I don't shoot very often so I got the dry boxes and use dessicants. Don't really feel like making my own. How do you do that anyway? Do you have to buy everything? That's not really "reloading" then is it? That's just making your own. And to save your spent shells? Sounds to much like work. And give me a break Jared, I only just started collecting bullets 2 months ago. The stuff is hard to come by and I try to limit myself to 100 bucks a week.

 

[dbl612]

You are right, it is tough.
What is 'incessantly'.?
Anyway, I love it here, but it cost a lot to live here.
Jeff

incessantly- on and on almost to the point of annoyance. (maybe i spelled it wrong, sorry)

 

[jefflovstrom]

incessantly- on and on almost to the point of annoyance. (maybe i spelled it wrong, sorry)

Don't be redundant,,
Jeff

 

[mattfr12]

I don't shoot very often so I got the dry boxes and use dessicants. Don't really feel like making my own. How do you do that anyway? Do you have to buy everything? That's not really "reloading" then is it? That's just making your own. And to save your spent shells? Sounds to much like work. And give me a break Jared, I only just started collecting bullets 2 months ago. The stuff is hard to come by and I try to limit myself to 100 bucks a week.

The reason is for accuracy shelf ammo is garbage for consistency. It's a hobby I don't really do it to save money more to make precision. Every cartridge fitting exactly the same as the next thousand.

I cast my own pistol lead but stuff like powder I buy in 5 to 20 pounds at a time I haven't bought primers in a decade and will probably need nothing else for at least another decade. A severe primer shortage hit a while ago and they where unavailable at times. I bought enough to last the rest of my grand kids life.

We do long range stuff I shoot a lot of 338 lapua 338 edge

 

[2treeornot2tree]

The reason is for accuracy shelf ammo is garbage for consistency. It's a hobby I don't really do it to save money more to make precision. Every cartridge fitting exactly the same as the next thousand.

I cast my own pistol lead but stuff like powder I buy in 5 to 20 pounds at a time I haven't bought primers in a decade and will probably need nothing else for at least another decade. A severe primer shortage hit a while ago and they where unavailable at times. I bought enough to last the rest of my grand kids life.

We do long range stuff I shoot a lot of 338 lapua 338 edge

I used to have a Armalite Ar50. You wanna shot a big bad ass round, shoot a 50 BMG. I shot a crap load of rounds out of it, and then sold it to a Navy pilot from North Caralina. I got almost what i had in to it, so it was a good time to unload it. You only get around 1500 rounds out of a barrel on those guns. It was fun shooting a 2" thick metal plate at 1000 yards. The api rounds would poke the tip out the back side of the plate. It sounded like someone hit a gong right beside you when you hit that plate. There was no mistaking if you hit it or not. Kinda wish i keep it, but everything is so darn expensive for them now. I rememeber going to the range before and spending $500 (100-150 rounds) in one afternoon on ammo, now even with reloading your looking at aroun $8 a round.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

The reason is for accuracy shelf ammo is garbage for consistency. It's a hobby I don't really do it to save money more to make precision. Every cartridge fitting exactly the same as the next thousand.

I cast my own pistol lead but stuff like powder I buy in 5 to 20 pounds at a time I haven't bought primers in a decade and will probably need nothing else for at least another decade. A severe primer shortage hit a while ago and they where unavailable at times. I bought enough to last the rest of my grand kids life.

We do long range stuff I shoot a lot of 338 lapua 338 edge

Not only that, but i can reload 1000 rounds of 40 s&w for around $110.

 

[mattfr12]

I used to have a Armalite Ar50. You wanna shot a big bad ass round, shoot a 50 BMG. I shot a crap load of rounds out of it, and then sold it to a Navy pilot from North Caralina. I got almost what i had in to it, so it was a good time to unload it. You only get around 1500 rounds out of a barrel on those guns. It was fun shooting a 2" thick metal plate at 1000 yards. The api rounds would poke the tip out the back side of the plate. It sounded like someone hit a gong right beside you when you hit that plate. There was no mistaking if you hit it or not. Kinda wish i keep it, but everything is so darn expensive for them now. I rememeber going to the range before and spending $500 (100-150 rounds) in one afternoon on ammo, now even with reloading your looking at aroun $8 a round.

Did you ever check the ballistics out on the 338 lapua i fell in love with it after a few years. we started out with 50's moved to the 408 and stayed with the 338. i have a 50 but its gunsmith built no manufactuer. Stiller tac 50 action and a hart barrel i do believe.

My 338 is a tac 338 action with a broughton 9-3 canted lands barrel, all free floating barrel with a jewel 2 ounce trigger. on a mcmillian stock. i havent found anything that compares to it. the 338 lapua and 50 carry a very similar tradjectory obviously the 50 has a little more smack but we are able to get the 338 to go a little farther.

On a 50 we had to use pieces of almunim (pop can) under the rear sight rail to get enough moa to get past 1600 yards even with a night force 100moa scope. the best rail we could ever find was 200moa.

heres the 338 before i put the night force on it. was built by economy gun smith in sweckly pa ill dig the 50 out before i go to work today and try and stick a pic up we never really used manufactured guns do to limited twist in the barrel to shoot the super heavy bullets you needed alot of twist to get them to stabilize or they would get a wobble at some extreme distance. a 9 on a 338 is about as far as you can push it before barrel pressure gets to extreme.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Did you ever check the ballistics out on the 338 lapua i fell in love with it after a few years. we started out with 50's moved to the 408 and stayed with the 338. i have a 50 but its gunsmith built no manufactuer. Stiller tac 50 action and a hart barrel i do believe.

My 338 is a tac 338 action with a broughton 9-3 canted lands barrel, all free floating barrel with a jewel 2 ounce trigger. on a mcmillian stock. i havent found anything that compares to it. the 338 lapua and 50 carry a very similar tradjectory obviously the 50 has a little more smack but we are able to get the 338 to go a little farther.

On a 50 we had to use pieces of almunim (pop can) under the rear sight rail to get enough moa to get past 1600 yards even with a night force 100moa scope. the best rail we could ever find was 200moa.

heres the 338 before i put the night force on it. was built by economy gun smith in sweckly pa ill dig the 50 out before i go to work today and try and stick a pic up we never really used manufactured guns do to limited twist in the barrel to shoot the super heavy bullets you needed alot of twist to get them to stabilize or they would get a wobble at some extreme distance. a 9 on a 338 is about as far as you can push it before barrel pressure gets to extreme.

I dont know why you have so much moa. You shouldnt need anything over 20 moa maybe 30 moa to get out to 1600 yds with that scope. i had a black diamond scope and 20 moa and i could get out over 1300.

My 300 win mag has almost the same trajectory as a 50 bmg out to about 1100 yds. I went with a 300 win mag because you have alot better selection of bullets then with the 338

 

[mattfr12]

I dont know why you have so much moa. You shouldnt need anything over 20 moa maybe 30 moa to get out to 1600 yds with that scope. i had a black diamond scope and 20 moa and i could get out over 1300.

My 300 win mag has almost the same trajectory as a 50 bmg out to about 1100 yds. I went with a 300 win mag because you have alot better selection of bullets then with the 338

B.O.A.R.S barrett optical ranging system will dial in around 75 MOA 1400-1500 with a 50bmg most high end scopes only have 100.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

B.O.A.R.S barrett optical ranging system will dial in around 75 MOA 1400-1500 with a 50bmg most high end scopes only have 100.

it also depends on what bullets your shooting.

i know on my AR50, i had a 20 moa rail, and my scope had 48 moa of adjustment. I could adjust the scope from right on at 100yds to right on at 1000 yds with no problems.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Cold and really windy today. Decided to do inside work, maybe some paperwork and play with the kids.

 

[deevo]

Cold and really windy today. Decided to do inside work, maybe some paperwork and play with the kids.

Same here, crap load of snow over night here! Tired after slugging pine log rounds yesterday into the trailer and dump. Notch and drop Ash job tomorrow, weather is looking a bit better. Wish winter would end sooner than later! Jared wish you were closer, one massive pine stump left on the one pine we removed, would love to see a grinder like yours eat'r up! My 252 would take forever doing it, so I am not even going to bother! Be a $400 stump easy.