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MAGA my ass! The first and biggest problem are people who don't give a jolly ole damned about anything except themselves and why others won't hand everything to them on a silver platter. I'm mostly talking about my own family. I am in my 80s and my wife is not far behind. We have had to shovel our own snow twice today because our daughter and son-in-law are too busy thinking for themselves and their pets. We have 4 grand children (all young boys in 20s and 30s) who can't get off their lazy asses long enough to even consider someone might appreciate some help. What’s a family for anyways? Just a waste of good oxygen. In the mean while I’ll hire someone to come snow blow us out, because family is useless.

End of rant.

Ross
WoodWelder
Hello,
This is Dr. Phil McGraw! :LOL::ROFLMAO:

Most times, we can't rely on folks to do the right thing and we sometimes have to swallow our pride and just come out and ask for help?
In addition, they may have always known you to be a gidder done kind of guy and if things need to be done you have always relied on yourself?

Now that you have hired someone to shovel, did you offer to pay your grand kids first? The reason I ask, your grand kids might have come out and offered to do it for free and were totally unaware that their granddad is now in need of help????

Something to ponder!
Peashooter
I am not happy about how my own family treat the elderly, that be my little sister and her 3 children.
Now i visit my mother 2 times a week, to do some shopping ASO for her, i have even been pushed wayyyyy past my boundaries and had to change her diapers.
Now my sister like me do live a 40 min or so drive away, but her oldest daughter live just 5 minutes away, but they only visit the old lady once every 2 months or so.
Today as i left mom gave me a scare, so i said " i will see you Saturday when i get back " and she said " yes if i am here at that time "

I am personally very very happy i have not fathered any children, and have a lifetime of practice in being alone, CUZ there is no doubt i will die alone too, not that i would want anyone there to hold my hands or such, i think death like so many other things, like getting a phone call is a private thing.

I am no spring chick myself, but there will be no elderly people lacking anything when i am around, so i assist where i can, and if there is a need some day with someone bothering a elderly, well we will just have to see in my flying double drop kick still work, and if i can land it without breaking something myself.,

I am still ashamed that when a kit there was a little old lady living at the forst floor where we lived on the 2, and there was 3 floors in total so 6 apartments, well no one noticed little old Miss Sorensen having been dead for weeks.
That kind little old lady deserved more. :oops:

How people / societies treat elderly - sick and animals in major gauges for me on how to respond to those / that person
tibor
just one word..dissapointing,sorry I wish I was close.
DOWN FOR THE COUNT!

Yupper, I got the "Crud" going around, Ill be closed for business today and tomorrow as I sleep and heal.

If you have work being done by me, please give me a couple days grace.

Firewalker Airsmithing
Peashooter
I can not recall when last a decease had me down for the count, i guestimate at least 3 decades.
The annual flu epidemic / season here in Denmark, i might get a little runny nose or if its really bad a little sore throat, not enough to keep me in bed of course, or running to the pharmacy.

I dont get it myself i live about as unhealthy as you can, salad for instance, i only get that in burgers.
Ezana4CE
It's that season. Take care of yourself.
Man, what nasty winter weather, there might be frost on my windshield!
Peashooter
Yeah it is nasty.
I had a layer on my car Sunday, but fortunately i did not need the car before it melted, CUZ it was the nasty black ice frosting and not just a little fluffy frost or snow.
rsfrid
That's ash! 🫢😂
SpindleB
SoCal has ash, NorCal is clear
We have put a severe dent in the pest populations at my friends place, we have not seen a rat in over a month, and mind you my friend have a CCTV camera on the bait all the time.
Mice also only come one at the time, and their luck my friends ancient NV scope are mot made for seeing so small animals at 25 M distance.

I was dialed in just fine, but then come mouse and i was like 20 mm off to the left, fortunately the mouse was pointing Right, and i was going for a head shot, but just made a center mass hit, that did made it keel over, my friend finished it off by shooting blind CUZ he cant really see it.

I like the look of that new Macavity MA8 rifle :cool:

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This MIGHT be worth following. Let’s see if it lives up to the hype.
TerryE1
I wonder if they're at SHOT show this week?
Getting set up for the weekend, it is impressive how much charging i have to do even if i dont shoot a Daystate digi gun.
Charging two 18650 batteries for IR light and UV light - Charging AAA batteries for chronograph - Charging Sekmet gauge on rifle, and finally also charging the NV 500 scope just in case.

Trump card on the Charging front though is charging my new power bank with the new wall charger.
Those 27.000 MAH are soon charged.

Not that it is very much needed these short cold days, but come summer the need will very much be there, CUZ i can shoot all day.

I have learned the NV500 scope it will not charge on any of the two USB C ports, but the one flashlight i have tried on there was fine, phones will also charge on there just fine but my old phone only take 20 Watts tops, and this brick can deliver 140 watts X 2.
Everything charge on the one USB A port.

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Now i just need to restock the ammo, CUZ even if Saturday will probably be all firewood work and target assembly and setup, maybe try and choke the oven a bit more on the " air intake ", as it is still eating firewood pretty fast.
Then Sunday and a lot better weather, lead is going to fly.
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Another quickie order from the shop. Gotta love being the "go-to guy" to get things done. Got a call on Saturday night, asking if I could turn this around by the next Saturday. Supplier came through with the material and the laser-man got lucky with design and prototype.

The feet in picture is a bonus for my airgun buddies 😜e79ea496-7753-4966-a5ae-8c0e4f92aae7 (1).jpg
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Peashooter
That is about the temperature Danes have now towards our former friends the Americans
There is a few good videos on youtube with a Danish MEP telling the new president.
Be careful though we Danes have actual free speech, so fair warning.
Mr.H
Frozen gravy........
this ain't normal in these parts !!

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since 11:00 its been doing this!!
i'm less than 1.5 miles from the Gulf of America and in 65 years, i ain't never seen this much here.
my cattle are all in the low ground and under trees.
24 degrees they say for the next 18hours.
oh well, life is good...... 🧑‍🌾
gendoc
i've had my backhoe out working the local roads and driveways clearing snow with the front bucket.
working with county workers and equipment as much as i could.
Ezana4CE
That's a lot of snow man! Damn. I hope y'all don't have many issues with ice as it melts and runs off.
WoodWelder
Worst part is, no snow tires or chains available down there.......The best you got are all season tires and they are total garbage.
Hand lead lapping and Air Lapping sucessful..My barrels are now shooting NSA slugs and .222 52 grain spire points...With slugs the bores need to be perfect smooth uniform.. I miss custom barrels like Benchmark Barrels...But when you have more time than money ..Lead lapping barrels a option..from our grandfathers generations...old school
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In fire arms it is called fire lapping..In Airguns Air-lapping i guess..I fully clean my barrels and then take lapping compound and put on slugs..Shoot through your air rifle..It really does work on rough production grade barrels..You can start with 120 grit than 240 grit,and 340 grit to finish up..You have to fully clean inbetween different grits.. Im getting my best results hand lead lapping my barrels first and finish them up with air lapping.. David Tubb makes a proven fire lapping system for powder burners ..So yes it works if you dont have a real quality barrel than is lapped after reaming and again after rifleing.. I drilled and reamed 1000,s of production grade barrels that were rough....Know im learning to make them smooth and uniform... When i built and shot benchrest powder burners good barrels were cheap..I used to buy Benchmark 28inch stainless countered blanks for $230.00...
Ezana4CE
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Nice!!!!A factory Airforce 4500 psi super valve!!!! I want one to buy the valve and tank an upgrade my .510....I have 100 lbs of .510 650 grain spire point boat tails .5 B.C......Yeah!!!!!
Its been cold here. I been hand lead lapping barrels..Air lapping them after..Casting Slugs..And finally good results...A TESLONG Digital borescope is amazing!!!Best $25.00 i ever spent...I had a hawkeye borescope was a $1000.00 back in the day ..TESLONG much better..,Stay warm AGN Friends
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Just finished watching a 2 year old 3 part DOKU on the life of Abraham Lincoln.

It was nice to learn a bit more about a person i largely only knew by name, and of course a few scattered hall mark events.
Also a remider of the Danes history which in the same years suffered a great setback by the hands of those pesky Germans when they took a huge chunk out of the southern part of our nation.

So back then the Americans win the south, Danes lost the south, though after ww1 we did get a little back, though we was offered it all.
L.Leon
President Lincoln was our greatest President… He presided over the nation when Americans were literally “killing“ fellow Americans… Our nations darkess moment… None of the present day political vitriol approaches the discord and death that occur during the American Civil War…🙏
Peashooter
Yeah Abe seem like tough act to follow.
I think Denmark had some nice kings, and some really - really poor ones, at one time the entire country minus a town or two was pawned away.
And the country also was a lot larger.

I dont think we ever had a truly great leader after the abolishment of the monarchy here
Okay i am officially totally bummed out.
Went to my stoprage today to grab a few CDs to compile some more MP3 mix tapes for the car, and to my out right horror and disbelief i found out that my CD collection is all but a fraction of the vinyl collection i in my almighty youthful stupidity sold ( many 100 kilos of vinyl )

So pretty much all the old stuff with scorpions / Judas priest and many other i never required on CD,,,,,,
So right now i sit here in front of the computer on youtube listening to Judas priest 1976 album Sad wings of destiny and feel pretty sad.
And a credit card in my back pocket that is just itching to be used,,,,, and i do think i will have to cave in.
Not least as right now The ripper started to play and my head start to go back and forth with the hair that is only .177 long so no shaking of that.

I can not believe i have diluted myself for so many decades 😟

On the + side, i can still air drum to all of those tracks we played in the youth centers music room in the early 80ties.
SpindleB
700 LPs
6600 CDs
All CDs on my NAS in FLAC and 50% of the LPs ripped, cleaned and FLAC.

-- Matt
Peashooter
Thats not bad, even if i am just interested in the old stuff, though some of the new also work for me.

I am sin after sin now and Jawbreaker,,,,,, OMG i have lost many liters of sweat behind the drums playing that one.
Rob_in_NC
If you are finding them on YouTube and are handy with Google, you can search for programs that will rip audio from a YouTube video and then burn what you like. I cant speak to the 'ethics' or legality of such, and nor will I confirm or deny that I have done that.... but if I had, I'm sure it was very easy to do and a great way to expand your collection.
Oh, gosh, what ever shall I do? Gmail just notified me one of my accounts is 50% full: 7.49Gb of 15Gb.
I guess I better do something in the next 10 or 15 years before it fills up.
If only my night vision camera supported fast charge, CUZ then with new stuff i would be able to charge it in ( /me snap fingers )

165 watts in the charger, but cable only support 140 watts.

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But at least when my new power bank arrive ( +27.000 mah just enough for TSA to allow it on planes )
Well i can charge that fast too, and if not in the car it do also come with a 165 watts gan wall charger

240 watt total discharge available on power bank ( 2 X USB C and 1 X USB A ), sadly my " old " laptop do not support USB charging it need a stupid old school barrel plug to be charged.

PS. In a long summer days worth of shooting, lets just say my phone do not have very much juice left in the end of one of those days if the chrono have been in use all day, even if 100 % charged when i start slinging lead.
But that is no longer a problem 😁
Peashooter
I tested my phone on the charger, it is a old snapdragon 8 phone ( xiaomi MI9 ) and in MAX turbo charge mode it peaked at 20 watts :ROFLMAO:

If i am not mistaken current high end phones will charge wireless at 50 watts, and i assume about 100 watts on a wire.

Fortunately due to my intense phone hate i do not use / need fast charge, i normally charge on a 2 A charger in the car
Who remembers the glory days of USENET?
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Peashooter
/me not been around the internet that long or should i say in the early days maybe frequenting other places.
I got online in the late 90ties, eagerly awaiting flat rate ADSL, CUZ i knew with a pr minute payment it was going to be expensive.
Did game C&C and red alert on a acquaintances dual ISDN line, taking turns to play a match on his computer. Handle viking.66

/me remember IRC
I also remember all kinds of nasty stuff on local News servers

ICQ for comms with friends
SpindleB
Well, I'm from a little before then. Had an email address for 6 months or so in 1979 (USAF).
Then went to work for a company that had a pair of T1 lines in 1980 (1.5Mb each)
My first USENET post was in 1981.

Yeah, News Servers and Groups were mostly unmoderated and anything went.
The wild wild west of the internet.
It sure was a lot of fun.
Rules were pretty simple, take responsibility for yourself, if you don't like what someone wrote, don't read it or ignore it.
Just got my 3D printer set up. Any idea what I'm printing?

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Peashooter
Dat be AR15 grip
Ezana4CE
Zero, unless it's a 3D printed garter for the missus. And I'd think that would scratch the hell out of her.
It is funny how things work in other places.
Take for instance this tracking update on a parcel from China.

"
International flight has arrived

Jan 12 2025 07:06 am

· Padborg, Capital Region of Denmark, DK "

I very much doubt that a international flight arrived in Padborg, CUZ while there is a airport there, also one of the 3 "race tracks" we have in Denmark.
Then the runway is just 1000 M long and i sure as hell never heard of any Dane going on holiday on a plane from Padborg.

Second. " Capital region of Denmark "
Padborg is on the Danish / German border in the Jutland part of the country ( that be the sane part of Denmark )
And it is just about as far from our vile capitol as you can get 225 KM as the crow fly or 325 Km if you want to drive between the 2 places ( mainly the E 45 and E20 motorways )

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Very unusual i went to bed early, and fell asleep in only 2 hours, resulting me getting out of bed at 4 AM
So had some time to kill before i grabbed my gear and headed for the shot shed.
Being the smart guy i am i TXTed my M8 saying i was leaving home soon, and so when i arrived at his place 50 minutes later, the diesel heater was humming in the shed, which was nice CUZ just below freezing.

I then got a shock opening the door to the shed, CUZ most of the floor was filled with firewood, so we had to sort and stack that before there was room at the 2 benches, so we did, and also cranked up the wood burning oven.

So today’s session was a bliss and great fun was had dispatching the 400 13 grain slugs i had brought with me.
A little windy though so at 125 yards some times a pellet would land 4-5 inches from your aim point, but other times,,,, bang on. 🎯 amd ,most often acceptable inaccuracy.
Firewalker
I've been banging on the keyboard all day, I envy you today!
I'm doing another Avenger re-ringing today. Lovely day, awful guns. I'd sure like to see some better materials used in these guns.
They ARE coming for us!

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Peashooter
Danes disarmed forever, and in 2012 when they got wise on PCP airguns, they was instantly thrown in with regular firearms, so to get a .22 and up Air rifle you have to take a hunting license, learning things by heart that you can not do with your air rifle CUZ that would be illegal.

Guy in video will see no counter argument from me, CUZ while a bit crazy i can spot insanity easy, and if anything we should do more about insanity in our countries.

PS. i am amazed we have pitch forks here, CUZ that was largely what farmers used rebelling last in 1534 when farmers was pretty much just slaves of the land lords and higher ups in Denmark.
Not that it changed anything, it was still poop until " modern times " hence why so many Danes went to America when they got the chance, CUZ fat chance here.

The issue not even on the agenda here, that’s how whipped Danes are today, a sad shell of their former great self.

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