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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #175122

The weather radar app I use shows the storm chasers but I don’t recall seeing a Lance.  I’ll look for him on there next time.

The initial batch of storms went by to my NW so I just stayed home during that bunch.  We had a strong storm with some pretty good winds and a lot of lightning come through just after dark so I went out to watch.  I have a spot about one mile north of my house where I have a great 270* view from the south all around to the east.  When I got there it started dumping rain and I had maybe 1/4 mile visibility during the flashes.  The road I was on doesn’t have ditches so water collects on the road intersection and in about ten minutes I was sitting in shallow water.  I also have a small home weather station and I kept checking the wind velocity on it and at one point it quit showing any wind so I thought maybe it had broken down.  When I got home there was no wind.  It had gone from upper 20mph to zero mph is seconds.  This morning I am showing 1-1/4″ in my gauge and the majority of that fell in just a few minutes.

Nothing but rain, lightning , and wind here but the folks in the northern states caught hell again.  The ham radio sky warn chatter was still going on over in Missouri when I finally went to bed.  Last I heard there was over 144 tornado warnings yesterday.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #175117

It’s been a wild springtime here weather wise.  Yesterday was a pretty nice day but Wednesday I was out spotting for the area sky warn system.  We just had periods of heavy rain and wind but the folks to the north of here in the Olathe area had tornadoes.  Today it’s more bad weather and we are under a flood watch until tomorrow with more rain and wind coming today.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #175067

It looks like it might rain on ya.

Years ago a friend of mine helped with restoring the turkeys here in SE KS.  They took hold and we had LOTS of turkeys but since the fur prices fell there aren’t many active trappers around.  The turkey and quail population has dropped off dramatically around here.

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in reply to: Rainy Day Projects #175056

Those shafts are slightly under 5/16 so the nocks look too big and yes the dot is grain alignment.

The fl. green paint is Rustoleum and I’m disliking that brand more every time I use it.  That is about the only brand that the local Home Depot and Wally world will stock.  It just doesn’t dry very or adhere very good at all.  The Orange is Krylon and I won’t have any problems with it.

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in reply to: Trouble with the Website #175000

WOW, that’s a pretty hard hit.

I never got into the Meta, Tik-Tok, and other stuff.  I have a cousin who was a federal investigator and he said there was too much underhanded stuff with them.

I was a BMX (Bicycle Motocross) photographer for 14 years and I do have a Facebook page that I used to post the race pictures on but that’s about it.

Yes, thanks again Robin.

Dennis

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in reply to: Trouble with the Website #174967

Thanks Robin for your work keeping the site alive.  Too many have gone down the FB path and I don’t follow them anymore.

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in reply to: Projects #174891

A couple of other projects I’ve got going are this little Osage selfbow.  It will make a kid bow if I can get that skinny tip built up.

One of my cousins who is more like a brother asked if I would make him a light draw weight bow.  I loaned him a bamboo backed Osage to play with and started thinking about what to make.  I decided to use Curly Tiger Maple laminations with a Hickory core covered with .040 clear glass.  For a long time I have pondered on what to do to give this a special touch and it finally came to me.  He has always been a Beagle fan and has three of them so I made some riser overlays and set them up in my laser engraver.

The Curly Tiger Maple and Hickory

The back of the riser Overlay.

The belly overlay.

After final tillering and measuring the final draw weight I’ll laser engrave those specs just below the squirrel.

Now I have to clean up the pile of stuff off my workbench.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #174846

That sounds like a pretty dangerous situation.  The Hoar frost we have had around here is just the spiky looking frost on stuff.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #174838

I looked at the pictures and just thought you had a pet wolf at first.  I had about 4″ of snow about a month ago and that’s the most here all winter.

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in reply to: Smith Cobra Broadhead ???? #174801

I remember seeing some of those but don’t remember where.

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in reply to: Anyone Into Gold Melting and Archery? #174799

I’m just a crude amateur Raymond.  I have done some knapping but my wrists just won’t let me do it.  The next day after doi8ng any of it I can barely move my hands.

I also have done a LOT of lead casting through the years making bullets, jig heads, and fishing sinkers.

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in reply to: Smith Cobra Broadhead ???? #174785

I’ve never heard of them Richard and like you said a search only showed mechanical heads.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #174653

7* this morning with a -10* wind chill.  We got about 3″ of snow from Friday night until this morning.  Thankfully we were lucky and didn’t get any ice this time.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going On 2026 #173161

I think winter is finally setting in here in SE Ks.  22* right now with a stiff northerly wind.  I used to work for the big electric company here as a substation journeyman and was out in this stuff every day and a lot of stormy nights.  Before I retired I was used to the cold.  Now I’m glad I don’t have to be out in it.

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in reply to: Anyone Into Gold Melting and Archery? #173106

Sorry for the late reply Richard.

Most knappers refer to that as an Ishi stick.  It will give you a little more leverage on forming the flake then you use a smaller tip for the fine finish.

Here’s some of my tools.  I have some longer ‘sticks’ that I made from Delrin plastic.  All of the flakers have a copper tip and the black ones have an allen wrench screwed into the back end to use replacing the copper tip.

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