I wish I would have kept the video, but here in CA we get a shit ton of fires up north and a friend of mine took a vid of flaming tumbleweeds flying across the roads. They literally looked like Super Mario style fireballs!
Lowlight’s wind is no BS
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Also Got caught in that wind east of Colorado Springs this weekend, quote taken from "glass cleaning thread"
Taking some newbies to a 2 day beginner clinic with my equipment, wind was terrible the afternoon of the first day (0-25 MPH gusts), causing enough blowing debris from our 6 oclock to start failing semi-auto actions to one-shot status---had to manually cycle the bolt on 10/22's to shoot. Not a great way of introduction to new shooters who are not familiar with equipment . Hard to focus on learning when the gun is malfunctioning and the breach looks like a sandy beach. The box stock rugers went out first, but were followed by the KIDD's 10/22's within a couple of target strings. Fortunately a good cleaning that night and dry lube got things back on track for the next day. The only rifle that ran 100% was the bolt action CZ455, but you cold tell the bolt was gritty as hell when you cycled it.
actions before cleaning sat night
Day 2 was great until 2pm when mother nature decided to surprise BLAST us with a microburst and sustained winds 30-50 mph (44 is what i measured on the wind meter a few minutes later after initial hit) Wind ripped the EZ-up canopy out of the groudn with 14" stakes, fortunately we were shooting in relays and I was under the EZ-up and grabbed it before it went flying. Those shooting prone on the line took a face-full of dirt. Unfortunately this blast was from our 1 oclock direction. This loaded up the front of all optics and I'm sure the barrels took in debris as well. This weather caused event to be cancelled, right call IMO.
So now I'm stuck with cleaning up the aftermath:
My plan:
1) shake free what I can
2) rinse with distilled water from squeeze bottle to remove debris, let dry
3) cotton swab from center to edge using acetone, not in a radial swirl pattern but straight out each time. Don't get any into seals
Wind was bad, following pic shows one target board lost bottom mounts and is horizontal with the wind, the microburst took out half of the targets from mounts and blew them all over the range.
Taking some newbies to a 2 day beginner clinic with my equipment, wind was terrible the afternoon of the first day (0-25 MPH gusts), causing enough blowing debris from our 6 oclock to start failing semi-auto actions to one-shot status---had to manually cycle the bolt on 10/22's to shoot. Not a great way of introduction to new shooters who are not familiar with equipment . Hard to focus on learning when the gun is malfunctioning and the breach looks like a sandy beach. The box stock rugers went out first, but were followed by the KIDD's 10/22's within a couple of target strings. Fortunately a good cleaning that night and dry lube got things back on track for the next day. The only rifle that ran 100% was the bolt action CZ455, but you cold tell the bolt was gritty as hell when you cycled it.
actions before cleaning sat night
Day 2 was great until 2pm when mother nature decided to surprise BLAST us with a microburst and sustained winds 30-50 mph (44 is what i measured on the wind meter a few minutes later after initial hit) Wind ripped the EZ-up canopy out of the groudn with 14" stakes, fortunately we were shooting in relays and I was under the EZ-up and grabbed it before it went flying. Those shooting prone on the line took a face-full of dirt. Unfortunately this blast was from our 1 oclock direction. This loaded up the front of all optics and I'm sure the barrels took in debris as well. This weather caused event to be cancelled, right call IMO.
So now I'm stuck with cleaning up the aftermath:
My plan:
1) shake free what I can
2) rinse with distilled water from squeeze bottle to remove debris, let dry
3) cotton swab from center to edge using acetone, not in a radial swirl pattern but straight out each time. Don't get any into seals
Wind was bad, following pic shows one target board lost bottom mounts and is horizontal with the wind, the microburst took out half of the targets from mounts and blew them all over the range.
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When I was returning to Colorado from a stint of living in Daytona Beach with my Floridian native eventually to be wife in tow, she saw tumbleweeds blowing across the highway for the fist time in her life. She didn't understand what they were at first and when she finally put it together she stated that "I thought they were only in cartoons.".
We laugh every time tumbleweeds blow across the... 24 years later and it's still funny. ?
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