Maggie’s What's Your View II

Ledzep · Oct 12, 2025

The scary part is over... Got everything apart with no drama. Hardinge HLV spindle. Original issue was a chewed up belt. The belt was chewed up because the main motor pulley was broken, but with the pulleys loose, the spindle was still kinda "clicky" which is never a good sign, so I popped the spindle out and got to the bearings to find that it was just dried up grease causing the stick/click. So hopefully still a functioning lathe

91Eunozs · Oct 12, 2025

Finally found the time to re-zero one of my ARs that I just rebarreled.

The red dot was way off, but surprisingly the laser was still dead on ‍

. I don’t remember dismounting the red dot or even changing the adjustment dials when I swapped out the 6.8 barrel for a 5.56, but I must have done so at some point.

We waited until the sun went down and fired up the Nogs, and the IR laser on my gun was dead on/right on top of the readjusted red dot at 100 yards. Only went out to 150 tonight because my knees were done, but my buddies were out at the 300 yard position showing off for half the night! LoL

And they were my ride home, so I was stuck…just got home 1/2 hour ago. Good times though.

91Eunozs · Oct 14, 2025

…and apparently this is what $337.38 worth of “comms gear” looks like:

Ledzep · Oct 14, 2025

Lower belt was all chewed up, went to replace it and found out why it was all chewed up... Got on the Ebay but the replacement was for an early model HLV with a 1" motor shaft (mine is 1.125"). Fixed on an HLV-H at work. "Make yourself!"

hangunnr · Oct 18, 2025

My dad at 90 has decided he’s done reloading so he brought his stock down to the house.
Included was this brick of primers.

Yep, $6.00 a brick……

Snuby642 · Oct 18, 2025

90 years old and finally tossed the towel on the reloading?

Respect!

Snuby642 · Oct 18, 2025

I'm 67 and hands hurt.

Converting 6.5 Grendel brass to 6mm arc is a lot of trimming.

hangunnr · Oct 19, 2025

Snuby642 said:
90 years old and finally tossed the towel on the reloading?

Respect!

He’s a trip, still runs a mail order business and hits all the gunshows he can get to.

Bryan W M · Saturday at 12:39 PM

This was a fun week . Putting new cables on the 7.3 . Little man wanted to help .
Dog was not liking the neighbor so I fixed that . The other neighbor did some tree trimming.

Modoc · 2025-10-26T13:28:36-0400

The last Saturday of deer season.

Looking downstream on a historic mining town in NorCal. This was some of the flatter ground we covered

After we hit 3k+ (>1k meters) in elevation, we were up in the clouds and rain. Visibility was about 15-25 meters with knuckleheads driving 30mph + with their headlights off.

We did find deer, but they were does, fawns, and yearlings. The weather broke a bit after noon and we retraced our route back out because the winds were dropping snags right and left in the burn scars. After 3 fresh falls in 1 mile I said enough.

powdahound76 · 2025-10-26T13:30:10-0400

Wha happen to yer little tree there man?

Cant believe how big yer little guy has gotten!

Baby Sister gonna be well protected by all those big brothers watching out for her.

Modoc · 2025-10-26T13:32:40-0400

@powdahound76 , check the edit

powdahound76 · 2025-10-26T13:53:29-0400

We had some of those a couple weeks ago hunting a burn scar.
Nothing huge falling, but a few.

And climbed over a bunch that were tickling my taint carrying out 100+ lb pack with my good friend’s elk (1030 opening day he dropped it).

My reply was to @Bryan W M and his little guy helping him on the truck.
A good man he is.
Especially being from KS.

Modoc · 2025-10-26T14:03:15-0400

Wildfire Aware

information about the current status and potential impact of wildfire incidents in the United States.

livingatlas.arcgis.com

An arc GIS capture of the AO showing burn peremitters. My deer zones are to the West of I-5. Those were the Mega fires including the Carr fire (2018), Delta fire (2018), French Fire (2004)

The ZZ Top lookalike is one of my older hunting partners Red. Jr. Was home cleaning and reorganizing his work gear after having been out in a Spike Camp for the California Conservation Corps.

California Wildfire History Map

As the climate changes and forest fuel loads aren’t properly managed, California’s wildfire season is changing. See how it has shifted over time in this interactive map.

projects.capradio.org

The last 25 years

. One of the ones East of Redding marked the end of that career. The body said No More.

TurdFerguson · 2025-10-26T18:16:54-0400

Put a couple engines up for sale to finish paying a project at GAP…. Dad collected them for years, sold the collection for mom several years ago. I kept these 2, posted both only planned to sell one. I haven't had interest in restoring engines in years.... Keeping the Briggs FI generator. Sold the old Lindsay air compressor.

Since the GAP project is paid off, guess I will get this generator redone.