Here are some pictures of dads new shooting range aka our new property. Today is not going to be a long post because I am running late for my birthday dinner. So here are the pictures!! Have a good night!!
Hey Guys, Tim here. Tonight is the big "party: for K.S.. She posted this for me in about 1 min.! Pic.# 1,Kimmie on the Bob Cat,She cleared most of our land herself! Pic.#2 My 67 yr. young friend Loyd (on the backhoe)). He is a true friend. (Red Feather, He is my other friend w/a 54/177. Pic. # 3 is my "beater" work truck. Within those 3 toolboxes you will find most any tool I need to fix your house! Dam shame I cant say that about airguns! Pic.#4 is just about getting it done! This post did not go as I had planned,but,It is a start to opening a new chapter in my familys life. Thanks for all the support guys. Tim. P.S. Ill bring this one up from the archives from time to time to update. Most all my sub contractors are airgun nuts as well! (I dont hire them unless they own at least one airgun!) LOL.! Wait till you see my framing crew! They all have "China" guns!! Russ will kick me off for sure!! Tim.
Tim:
I'm so pleased to see the pics of both your new range and the closeness of your family. I'm starting to think of you and yours' as a currently shining example of the possibilities envisaged by our Founding Fathers when they embarked on the 'Great Experiment' in freedom.
Kimmie Sue reminds me so much of my (2nd & current) wifes' youngest daughter and the apple of my eye who was always ready to pitch in enthusiatically in mutual endeavors or engage in 'fambly' hugs. Treasure her or 'Grandpa' will berate you. Tom
Boy, those pictures look like you live on the edge of an Endless Forest. Or in the middle of one haha.
You have a great family and friends, m' friend.
Harv
ps if you see someone's name in blue to the left of their post, you can click on it and email that person privately.
ppss Here's a blog I write. The first three posts are numbered 1 through three with the first post you see when you open the link being the third installment of something a little more detailed that I'm writing. Other than that there are many pages of places I've ridden and things I've seen by way of two wheel and an engine. Its a scooter oriented blog but I do talk about the other bikes I own and ride.
Hey Harv, Man this is too funny, Ive been riding bikes for almost 40 years! Ive had them all! Just sold our family dirt bikes a few years ago. We had our own MX track on my Mom&Dads farm. Weekends were WILD out there w/ as many as 30 bikes at a time! Last road trip was to the Fla. Keys. Made that one twice in 2 months time. "Yammie" YZF 600-R (not R-6). Most fun I ever had on a bike! Recently sold my Harley. I was in a pretty bad crash,(my fault). I am lucky to still be alive,Man upstairs was really looking out for me that day. Only bike I still have is my little 1977 Yam. R-D 400 two stroke twin. Thanks for the e-mail, I was too intimidated to call you at first, I only have high school ed.,,dont know anything about politics,& not nearly as much about airguns as I seem to get credit for here. Bikes?? Ok we must talk! Thanks Harv,Ill call you! Tim.
An old friend still has one. We took that thing apart so many times that.. well you know the story (wink). When we had to we boiled out the carbs. Right there in the kitchen! His grandmother used to scold us with a twinkle in her eye.
Sorry to hear about the wreck. I'm glad you're still with us that's for sure Tim.
Once again the affinity for similar pursuits rears its' head! Many of the same people are attracted to similar hobbies. Those of us in airgunning for a long time also tend toward firearms and competitive shooting, model airplane designing, building and flying, flyfishing and flytying, motorcycling, (both road and competition) auto racing--both as fans and competitors, and other highly technical pasttimes. (I've been guilty of virtually all of them at one time or another with the majority still taking up all of my 'spare' time)
Ain't it fun?
I took the little '74 Honda CB-200 down the hill today to survey damage from this weeks' flood. I rode it down into the streamside meadow just upstream of the bluff for a closer look. Mistake! The ground was still saturated. Shoulda ridden the TL-125 but I wanted to ride on the highway also---which I did. I did make one satisfying discovery----at 68 I can still ride a motorcycle in impossible traction conditions, that make it seem like you've mounted a drunken snake, without paddling like a Harley rider on gravel.
Last time I made that mistake was with a long-departed Toyota P/U. That time I had to get the neighbor to drag me out with his tractor. The 'Lil Honda, even on street tires, brought me out jes' fine. Though I did hafta turn on an outside faucett to wash all of the mud off when I got home.
All that plus I got the turd-polishing done on a B-18 today and got it temporarily reassembled to check firing behavior. I'm pleased. Used it as a test-bed for some ideas I'm entertaining using on the refurbed M-34 I recently bought. If the M-34 improves even a whet as much as the test-bed it's gonna be a sweetie! Tom @ Buzzard Bluff
Tim Harv
I to rode many yrs dirt, still ride but now ride TRX 250R two stroke quad.
allso I build racing engines Small block chev. I build all the engines for
are own cars, Two ST. Stock, one Late Model, Two A MODS. From 500HP to 755HP.
My one son won USRA NAT. CHAMP Two yrs ago.
Ray
Hey Ray,thats some big power! Nice to hear you spend time w/family and enjoy a hobby together that is way beond my financial reach. Im shure from your post like me you are sad to see the demise of of "2 stroke" engines. To me they are like spring air guns,simple,dependable,&very powerfull! Im saddened to see the fall of 2 strokes. I love the smell of 'bean oil"! LOL. If Evenrude can do it w/ the new "E-Teck" 2 stroke outboard boat motors,(meet & even exceed EPA regs.) With a lighter more efficiant engine,Why dont M.C. companys follow?? Nothing to do with airguns! Sorry Russ! Tim.P.S. Put me on a YZ 125 on a DRY track against someone w/ eqal skill on a 250 "thumper",,,I WIN every heat!! LOL! tim.
Seems like we here all have simaler interests as Mr.Tom just posted! Mr Tom I also am a certfied scuba diver.Also Im a certified pilot. R.C. planes!I have 6 of them & 2new "JR" 4 chnl. radios. This has nada to do w/airguns,sorry Russ.& by the way Russ thanks for "helping me out" last night,I owe you. Tim. P.S. for shure Im "certifyable"!! Tim.
< Im shure from your post like me you are sad to see the demise of of "2 stroke" engines. To me they are like spring air guns,simple,dependable,&very powerfull! Im saddened to see the fall of 2 strokes. I love the smell of 'bean oil"! LOL. If Evenrude can do it w/ the new "E-Teck" 2 stroke outboard boat motors,(meet & even exceed EPA regs.) With a lighter more efficiant engine,Why dont M.C. companys follow?>
It could be done Tim----'cept for one salient factor. The 'Great State Of Kalifornia' has decreed that 2-strokes must go---reality be damned! Frankly I don't know if the Evinrude V-Tec technology would translate well to air-cooled motors---I highly suspect the even temps of water-coolingt is a contributing factor in making it possible. (another hobby---reviving vintage outboards)
Just to keep this post legal subject-wise-----since it has been determined beyond reasonable doubt that a spring-piston gun derives a significant part of the power it produces from combustion of minute amounts of the petroleum lubricants and further considering that the cocking stroke is manually applied then should we consider that the power stroke involving combustion makes it a 1 stroke internal combustion engine?
Makes sense to this old motor-head. Tom
Tim
Every one of the kids had a dirt bike by the age of 6 i would take them riding most every sunday had to, four against one lol.
Far as dirt cars, all payed for by sponser money, i do motor and set up. the boys work right along side me. i want to slow down a bit, they are throwing
a fit. im lucky my kids did not go far from home, i see at least one every day.
Must be making sure i dont run away from home lol.
Take care from our house to yours
Ray
Hey Mr. Tom,at this point Gov.has not taken away our right to fly our OSB R.C. planes!! lol.! Soon we will loose our right to even those diminutave little engines. Man thats sad. Wait till "big brother" catches on to the advances in airguns! Mark my words,,its coming! We have free rain right now,but gov. will shut us down!Of course they will start out at 50 ft.lbs. Once they get that foot in the door, soon we wil be held to the 12 ft.lb. acepted in other places. Oh its coming my friends. Better buy your "ring a ding" airgun now! Tim.(mark my words)
Tim wrote:
<Wait till "big brother" catches on to the advances in airguns! Mark my words,it's coming! We have free rein right now, but gov. will shut us down! Of course they will start out at 50 ft.lbs. Once they get that foot in the door, soon we wil be held to the 12 ft.lb. acepted in other places. Oh its coming my friends.>
You are 100% correct my friend. And never fear----'Big Brother' had had his eye on everything we do for a long time. Only the glacial slowness of the bureaucracy has prevented it to date----or waiting on the 'right' incident to open the door. The latter I suspect. Some years ago now a self-admitted federal spyware expert detailed to the BATF was a frequent visitor to the old Airgun Letter board. Without ever actually admitting anything it was fairly obvious that he (a fellow shooter) was issuing a veiled warning of federal interest in our sport. Hardly surprising in light of some of the big-bore, magnumitus and moderator activities in airgunning.
We are our own worst enemies! It borders on mindless to think that Big Brother will fail to notice .50 ca. airguns making hundreds of ft/#s of energy. Or that he will long ignore moderators on airguns that violate virtually every provision of an act to control silencers that is so strict that an empty paper towel roll could be defined as a silencer by the court under the terms of existing law.
So long as we sailed under regulatory notice with our Crosmans, Benjis, etc. we were fairly safe from federal regulatory intrusion. But anyone who thinks that BATF and 'Homeland Security' (cough, choke, gag:o() are going to long ignore our excesses is hopelessly ignorant. Tom @ Buzzard Bluf
I sure hope not! This is not England or South Africa or whatever. We do have something very powerful called the NRA, of which many celebs and politicians (or ex- ones) are members of. This is why I pay my annual dues and this year I will write to them to fight any up-coming laws against airguns and make them aware that many cities, towns and counties are classifying airguns as firearms, thus preventing millions of Americans to enjoy them inside their home as well as in their back yard like we have done for almost a century.
Support the NRA so they can lobby for us. The other very impotant thing you can do is to NOT vote for local politicians that are against owning guns. Always find out where they stand, at least with hunting rifles before you vote for them. If we don't take some actions and precautions, who is going to do it for us?
just this week the Supreme Court took the case of Washington, DC to ban all firearms and guess what DC lost. the pendulum is coming the other way, soon that law in DC will be obsolete and unconstitutional
READ THE NEWSPAPER's
warren
PS: we are ok for now but the anti gun people will not rest, I will not blink for my rights
and remember "it's 30% the gun and 70% the shooter"
----is a long way from a done deal. Don't jump naked yet! Decision yet to be rendered---may drag on a while. Don't get your hopes TOO high!
All who worship at the NRA shrine should be asking themselves why they have NEVER brought a definitive 2nd Amend. case to SCOTUS despite the millions, perhaps billions of $ collected over the years for 'emergency' 2nd Amend. defense. Bear in mind that bureaucracies NEVER eliminate the problem which they are created to address---to do so would give them no reason for continuing to exist. Sorry for the reality check. Tom
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