Excellent day, today. I’ve been working on the thrasher, our 2005 Ford Escape with 150,000 miles on the odometer. A replacement Optima battery had been ordered from Amazon, after receiving guidance from that site’s replacement parts compatibility feature. The price was $34 less than the same product at Wally’s. The old battery was pulled, the…
308 Winchester – Pistol Handload Data
Warning: Bullet selections are specific, and loads are not valid with substitutions of different bullets of the same weight. Variations in bullet length will alter net case capacity, pressure and velocity. Primer selection is specific and primer types are not interchangeable. These are maximum loads in my firearms and may be excessive in others. All…
The Ruger Hawkeye Hunter in 308 Winchester
November 15, 2019 I’ve been thinking about loss of memory lately. It is a topic of discussion on many TV shows from dramatic productions to the evening news, so it is difficult to escape. Most every adult has a brain fart every now and then and each occurrence tends to expand with age. One day…
Browning’s X-Bolt Hunter Spring was in the air... and so was I
10/21/2019 So I was walking the woods behind the shop and, when I ran out of trail, I began to walk along a stone fence to avoid the brush. Camera in hand and stepping over a fallen branch, a moss covered rock under my back foot gave way and gravity unfriended me. Thinking, but non-athletic,…
Ruger American® Rifle with Vortex® Crossfire II® Riflescope A rifle with serious Fall potential
When my wife and I moved from California to Maine, it didn’t take long to figure out it was time to put some toys aside as they were not suitable for Maine roads, Maine weather or Maine parking lots. So out went the cars with German and Italian names and Japanese and American motorcycles, and…
