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in reply to: Ron LaClair #159577

Same here Richard.

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in reply to: Browning Backpacker I #159534

If you’re referring to the little camper I built it does great.  I’ve towed it to the Twin Oaks shoot, on out to the Smoky Mountains, and down to south Texas.  Finished weight was 880#’s and you barely know it’s behind you going down the road.

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in reply to: Browning Backpacker I #159442

Today’s shot after a light wipe down with steel wool and spraying coat #4.

 

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in reply to: Browning Backpacker I #159430

First coat of Helmsman Urethane Spar Satin.  Not perfect but it is a 49 year old bow.  It looks way better without that gray crap that was on it.  Now I have one more limb to finish.

 

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in reply to: Browning Backpacker I #159423

Been working on the Backpacker bow when I get some free time.  I’ve got the riser to the almost ready to spray point.

I’m afraid to sand too much around the specs or the decal areas.

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in reply to: Browning Backpacker I #159248

Been pretty busy and had to set the Browning aside for a little bit.  I spent 12 days in Texas from the 11th to the 21st in the hottest weather I’ve been in for a long time.  Six days in South Texas helping on border watch operations in 95 to 101* temperatures and then in West Texas to hunt varmints.  Daytime there was  102-109* and all we hunted was shade.

I did get back to the bow and got a coat of finish one limb.  It took two tries on spraying the finish.  My first attempt was with Rustoleum polyurethane.  Big mistake there and had to sand it down again.  I had one fisheye spot that is a result of some of the Rustoleum  not getting completely removed that I’ll have to touch up.

Initial finish doesn’t look too bad.

And the fisheye.  That’s not a crack, it’s a small scratch I didn’t get sanded out.

More work to be done.  With all the rain we had there won’t be any finish being sprayed for a while.

 

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in reply to: Whatch Got Going 2022 #159220

Congrats on your retirement and welcome to six Saturdays and a Sunday.  I worked as a substation journeyman and  retired four years ago from the big electric company here in Kansas.  I sure don’t miss all the stand by and call outs.

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in reply to: Whatch Got Going 2022 #159205

I spent 12 days in Texas This month.  Six days, plus one day travel, in the Falfurrias area on border watch OPS then five days at my cousin’s place in east Texas to hunt pigs.  Temperatures were 95* on up to 109*.  About all we did at my cousin’s place was hunt shade.

I did take a hike through the canyon one morning when the temp dropped down to the low 90’s.  This is a deer and pig trail, mostly pig tracks.  Jumped two pigs about 100 yards from here and gave one a serious headache from about 20 feet.

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in reply to: Browning Backpacker I #159075

I got the gray paint? off of the riser last night and now have to work on the limbs.  Then comes the sanding all the little nicks and scratches off of all of it.

I decided to do some work on the leather case today.  First was a good scrubbing with saddle soap to get all the dirt and mold removed and then an application of mink oil followed by a good rubdown.  Looks pretty good.

This thingamajigger was inside the side pouch.  I decided years ago that if I was going to pull a trigger it would be on a gun.

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in reply to: Whatch Got Going 2022 #158993

It was a wild night of weather here in Ks.  The wind has been blowing hard for several days and yesterday was no exception.  I didn’t have any damage here last night.  Got some hail around 3am but it was small and just made noise.

The town of Andover to my west got hit pretty hard just before dark.  Lots of videos out of the tornado that ore through town.  Surprisingly, there have been no reports of any deaths or major injuries.  Lets keep those people in our prayers.  This is the second time that town has been ravaged by a tornado.

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in reply to: Fred Bear Sports Club ??? #158739

The Bass Pro in Springfield, Mo has a lot of the memorabilia set up on display.  It a real good history display.

My youngest daughter was kind of amazed at the number people I told her I had met in some of the photos.

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in reply to: Strange Problem – Headaches from New Bow #158607

Do you have silencers/dampeners on the string?  I have a bow that shot good and put a set of beaver string silencers on it.  It was like shooting a different bow after that.  That might help some.

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in reply to: Whatch Got Going 2022 #158605

Sorry to hear you lost the hives Robin.  I imagine the winters are pretty hard on them.  Did you insulate the hives and put some food in with them?  I lost one hive this winter.  It was the last swarm I caught and they just didn’t seem as energetic as the rest of the hives.  I set them up for the winter with sugar cakes and winter patties and they did eat most of that but still died off.  Don’t know for sure what happened to them.

A guy posted a video on Youtube where he thought he lost a hive from freezing weather and dumped them out onto a board.  As the sun started warming them up they slowly started moving again and 95% of them recovered.

The temperature here has been going up and down and the bees aren’t swarming just yet.  80* one day and 35* two days later.

You can use about anything to mold bees wax.  Muffin tins, Dixie cups, and I’ve seen guys use ice cube trays.

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in reply to: Strange Problem – Headaches from New Bow #158589

I was thinking along the lines of hand shock being the culprit.

One of the first glass laminate longbows I  made from a Bingham’s kit had such bad hand shock it would almost loosen fillings in your teeth.  I tried grinding down and replacing the tips thinking that lighter tip overlays would help but nothing I have done has helped.  You didn’t happen to sneak in and get that one out of my shed did you?

After shooting that one for a while I gave up.  It was just too painful.

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in reply to: Whatch Got Going 2022 #158514

I don’t know about the bees wax being a different consistency in other geographic areas but it will be varying shades of yellow.

Any toilet bowl wax I have seen is way too sticky and you need to mix some paraffin or bees wax to it to stiffen it up.  I have just used straight bees wax for a long time.   I also use it as a blade lube on my bandsaw.

I haven’t used it as a bullet lube yet but I will when I cast the next batch.  The batch I made from a recipe on a shooters forum made a sticky mess.

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