On US 20 looking at and from the Niobrara River Bridge on the Cowboy Trail near Valentine, NE. Gorgeous Country. I am headed up to Little Bighorn which will likely bring me to tears.
Yeah what fun!
Sold my Hellcat two years ago. That thing was a beast. Really wanted to take the $$ and get a Mustang GTR. But chose to get back into shooting.
My little girl had her eye on the Hellcat as her first car and cried when I sold it. Probably will get her a Miata so she can learn to drive right.
We turned around a few times to chase this one down for pics.
DC 3 in pickle lake northern Ontario, still flying chips and pop to the Rez. Engines have been converted.
Wings on the smoker to celebrate my youngest daughter no longer being addicted to the pescatarian life style.
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Spring Creek Pro Nationals yesterday. 
Sadly Thunder Valley is done after this season.
What????? Why???
We were there in 2021. Great place for a race but lord almighty was it ungodly hot!
So Thunder Valley is shutting down along with Bandimere….
Sad sad sad
Sad sad sad
Any idea why?
Commies
Not really sure, and morons developing super close to Bandimere is likely part of it.
Right up to the other side of 470.
Perhaps city (Morrison) making permits tough?
Either way, icons of the area and away they go…..
I had a Thompson Center .50 Hawken rifle back around 1976 and man it was a shooter. Unfortunately, I let my hunting buddy buy it years ago. I decided I wanted another one only to find they stopped making them in 2012. Apparently, there are no newer rifles, so I went online and found this rust bucket "new old stock" kit barrel in Oregon, but the bore is perfect just surface rust on the outside.
Then I found a used stock in Arizona, that was in good condition but had some rash and dents. Luckily, I found a new ramrod also in Arizona, which should be here today...
After three days of draw filing, sanding, scraping varnish off, and bluing I knew I was close. Did I mention polishing brass? I was able to rework those parts into a nice gun. I don't know why Thompson covered up the nice Black walnut with the varnish/stain they used. I think it looks much better with just a few coats of hand rubbed oil.
Now where is that ramrod.....
Then I found a used stock in Arizona, that was in good condition but had some rash and dents. Luckily, I found a new ramrod also in Arizona, which should be here today...
After three days of draw filing, sanding, scraping varnish off, and bluing I knew I was close. Did I mention polishing brass? I was able to rework those parts into a nice gun. I don't know why Thompson covered up the nice Black walnut with the varnish/stain they used. I think it looks much better with just a few coats of hand rubbed oil.
Now where is that ramrod.....
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Glacier NP. Massive glacial valleys. Hard to believe these glaciers basically collapsed and all melted in 1500 years. By my math ice melted at up to fifty feet a year but five on average.That’s A LOT of heat!! Much more than today. Had to read two books on local geology as the displays in GNP had zero on the glaciers that formed the park. Or how life moved up into these valleys in just a few centuries. Hell of a story to tell and zip on it or the massive glacial floods. Really sad the Park service can’t tell it. One of the pics shows the terminal moraine of the new glacier from little ice age just above Logan Pass. Really scary to think that the ice age is going to start again at some point. 
The TC rifles were popular, very well made, and absolutely accurate. After assembleing the rifle and furing a few caps to insure the barrel was dry and clear I made this first shot at 50yds with 70 grs Pyrodex Select and a Speer round ball. I like it!
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McNeil River Refuge in Alaska
ETA: A little background, this refuge is across the inlet from Homer, Alaska in southcentral. It’s a lottery system to get a spot to view bears for four days. Al. Department of Fish and Wildlife guides you to the viewing areas. Other than that you are restricted to camp. Your personal tent, no electricity, purify your own water and most people eat dehydrated food since you fly in on a Cessna 180 or beaver. Found it a bit confining; having said that, it will warp your view of bears in Alaska. Bears sleeping 15 feet from you while you eat a PB&J sandwich? Normal. White wolf comes within 50 feet of you? Normal. Walking between a sow and cubs? Done that. I think the bears view humans similar to a seagull.
ETA: A little background, this refuge is across the inlet from Homer, Alaska in southcentral. It’s a lottery system to get a spot to view bears for four days. Al. Department of Fish and Wildlife guides you to the viewing areas. Other than that you are restricted to camp. Your personal tent, no electricity, purify your own water and most people eat dehydrated food since you fly in on a Cessna 180 or beaver. Found it a bit confining; having said that, it will warp your view of bears in Alaska. Bears sleeping 15 feet from you while you eat a PB&J sandwich? Normal. White wolf comes within 50 feet of you? Normal. Walking between a sow and cubs? Done that. I think the bears view humans similar to a seagull.
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Found these today.
Guy working at the store was telling another customer these won’t work in 270 or 243 they are too hot for those . Lol
I spoke with the other customer.
First shots out of my new PRS center fire trainer. 
My wife and I up early to wash and dry the wagon before the sun gets high enough to hit the paint.
Why do you chalk it?
Those blue chalks have rollers that prevent the water and power washer hoses from getting hung up on the tires as I move around the car.
Interesting. If you’re going fishing, always take air hose with you as they catch on everything
Spell chock prabably striked agin
At 7:30 I never imagined it would take 8 hours to set my new tub in place.
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Amazing times, you guys are missing out
So, time for a new fuel pump or???
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Damn that's clean. Don't see many of that era that aren't rotting away with rust.
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Thank you. She is immaculate as far as body goes. Needs some TLC overall, but she is a nice rig. I nicknamed it the “beater”. A pic of the interior cause it’s clean as well
@roostercogburn98
You did it wrong you are supposed to cut a hole in the bed to replace fuel pump. More better if you use cutting torch and liquid nail to put it back…
You did it wrong you are supposed to cut a hole in the bed to replace fuel pump. More better if you use cutting torch and liquid nail to put it back…
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That was my first choice. I got voted off the island quick though
Very clean old truck. Those and their like all rusted out and died in our neck of the woods years ago.
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Thanks, I agree, it is super hard to find one these days. The old farmer that kept this one in his barn was wise
Yup, @mikeshaw2 , Range 4.
A jammed hazard light turned into tearing my dash board apart to fix it…. Fucking tacoma…
