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coming up on 4, last house was the one I grew up in, had the landscaping there down pretty good, still have to move some of the blackberry bushes over. Will be selling the old place this year, finally got most of the ducks in a row, and have weeded out the drunken squirrels :clown:
 
#24,942 ·
Four years!! I honestly thought it was two.
Will be selling the old place this year, finally got most of the ducks in a row, and have weeded out the drunken squirrels :clown:
What I am about to say is slightly reminiscent "Of Mice and Men." Tell me about the drunken squirrels, George. Did they get into your pyracantha berries?
 
#24,943 ·
That comes from the t-shirt "I don't have ducks, and they're not in a row....
I have squirrels, and they're drunk" !
Actually, the squirrels & I have come to a kind of truce. I put out sunflower seeds in spots away from the bird feeders, and the bird feeder poles have all been replaced with 1/2" electrical conduit. That I spray with Pam. For the most part, the squirrels slide right off !
I thought about white lithium or Moly grease, but I wanted something non-toxic. And Pam works !
 
#24,944 ·
Selling the ancestral home is a big deal. We sold the house we grew up in several years ago. I can't say I miss it much. This neighborhood has become home.
Have I told you about the guy across the street that has some sort of factory in his garage. The city won't do anything about it except serve him a couple of cease and desist notices. So, today, a semi truck pulls up on the adjacent street and parks in the double yellow zone in the center of the road. Then, the neighbor and his employee go out and wheel a giant crate 100 yards to his garage. Real discrete.
I guess the 18 wheeler was too big to come down our street.
 
#24,945 ·
He don't have a Pontiac Aztec in his driveway........does he ??

And I've still got crap at the old place, got some of the machinery moved, but none of the big stuff. Gonna have to hire a machinery mover for the lathe, Bridgeport & the horizontal milling machine. The shear, brake & punch press are small enough for 2-3 guys to handle, which is good, as they're still in the:alex:basement....
 
#24,946 ·
The things we moved with maximum exertion when we were young are part of the reason we move slow now that we are old. Not your job. Not, no more. Let the movers do everything. That way, you can stay ambulatory for longer.
 
#24,947 ·
Yes, at this point in time, the strong backs & weak minds of OTHERS are required !

There are now times I wake up with pain in areas of my body that I didn't even know I owned when I was 18 !
 
#24,948 ·
:fred: Tell me about it. Subcompact pistols are getting difficult to manage. I can still shoot them fine, but I'll know about it the next day. Something will hurt no matter which hand I shoot with. :fred:
 
#24,949 ·
Well, I can't go out & blast 200 rds. of .44 Mag anymore, but at least I can still rattle off 50 or 60 of 10MM at a range session, which is enough for practice with the G29.
With the .22's, it hurts more to load the magazines than anything else, along with dropping the stupid little shells ! On a good hand day, it's not bad, but days like today, when my fingers feel like fat sausages, it's far more annoyance than I care to tolerate for a day !
That's why my 10MM's are nice, I can load the mags without too much problem, except for the last 2 or 3, I do cheat & use a mag loader. Strength, or lack of in the hands is my biggest complaint. So I keep squeezing the rubber balls & work them as much as I can.
(typing is just SOOOOOOOO much fun, fat fingers hit wrong keys T's & Y's a real treat)
 
#24,950 ·
Well, at least you can say that you found something that you can't fix with duct tape.

I only load the magazines with five rounds at a time. It helps me to concentrate. Take five shots. Pop out the magazine. Pick up the brass (because bending over to pick it up, now counts as exercise). Load another magazine (five rounds). Shoot again (and focus grasshopper).
 
#24,951 ·
I like the idea of counting picking up brass as exercise ! But as much as I don't like to exercise, shooting .22's or revolvers with moon clips is even a better idea.....bench rest shooting with a single shot rifle is even better, as I'm sitting down :)

Duct tape MIGHT work, if I taped the gun to my hand (?)
 
#24,952 ·
You know I have a pellet gun trap for my garage. That thing is pretty fun to shoot at with my Crossman 2300S. My airforce Talon kind of splattered pellets all over the garage the couple of shots I put into it. But, if dexterity is an issue, then maybe a .22 is better, and probably more fun.
 
#24,953 ·
The Talon IS rather a bit of over-kill for target shooting................isn't it ?
At least at less than 35 yds.
 
#24,954 ·
The accuracy at twenty five yards is better than my 10/22. And that's with its cheap little fiber optic sight vs the 10/22s scope. I can't fire the Talon into a trap. The shrapnel comes shooting back out of it like a shotgun blast.
 
#24,955 ·
With the Talon you probably need a trap rated for .357 Magnum.
 
#24,956 ·
My trap is rated for .22 Long rifle. I am a firm believer in over engineering.
 
#24,957 ·
The trap I built for pellet rifles got tested in the backyard of our 1st house. With a 158 gr. .357 mag full throttle load. It did 2 complete backflips, but contained the slug without losing it !
No dent in the back wall either.
 
#24,958 ·
Imagine the trajectory that bullet followed as the trap bounced around.
 
#24,960 ·
More like what happens in the neural pathways in Jim Carey's brain.
 
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