I hate the management here.

You’ve heard of Elf on a Shelf, but how about these…

Dolly on a tamale

I had to sell a few knives to justify buying this one. So glad I did, this Medford Slim Midi Marauder is wicked!

They say that with age comes wisdom. Therefore I do not have wrinkles, I have wise cracks!

@OldSpook
December 7 have always been a sort of holy day for me, even if i have no dirent national or other tie, then that day is of significance to my people none the less, well the few remaining honorable and caring ones of us.
Mind you most other here are clueless even though they are big on things like Halloween and Denmark have for decades hosted the largest outside of the US July 4 celebrations, though that too are now just a small thing as our two countries have drifted apart and many dont care where they come from or where their family members went back in the day.

I just realized, for the first time in many, many years I let the anniversary of Pearl Harbor slip past me without noticing. My father-in-law was on the USS Saint Louise that day. He is gone these past several years. How soon we forget.

If laziness was an Olympic sport I'd try to come in fourth so I wouldn't have to walk up to receive an award!

I just found out the company that makes yardsticks won't be making them any longer.

Latest out of the shop here. Top knife is Walnut with orange G10 liners, not visible in the pic. Next is blue laminate G10 and the last was camo laminate G10, but mostly FDE showing, which is fine. I'll do a leather sheath for the walnut, black kydex for the blue and FDE kydex with a black clip for the last one.

Some pics during dry fit as well as the glue up portion as well... and yes, shop is a disaster. First pic looks like the tip is burned, but was a shadow. Used a brushed/rough finish and then tumbled blades in ceramic media. The FDE knife got a coating of cold blue afterwards to finalize the more 'tactical' look. Looking back at the Walnut, I should have extended the scales a little more and did something else rather than a blunt, straight line... not much I can do about it now. Still turned out pretty. Still need to put an edge on these, as well.

Blanco is a great friend. Always around for everything. Even when you kind of want him to leave.

Did the recycling today

Fun with squirrels

I hate x bows...But a turn in luck...My buddy is giving me his KI Boss 405 when the new limbs arrive Wednesday... He is getting a KI Fatal X....Its a blessing... Money in budget for Pennsylvania 22 pcp...Lots of squirrel coyote fox.and few elusive ground hogs...

Update I hate crossbows!!!!!!!! Ahhhhh....Just setup my buddies KI Boss 405with UTG 130 BDX scope......Spent a day and had it hit the target perfectly at 120 yards.....not as accurate as Airsaber put pretty good......Anyways bow season starts buddies adjusting scope says it moved inches at 20 yards.....I had it perfect... Told him limbs are probably shot.....seen him today limbs spit....had to make contraption to fire xbow with frayed limbs...his third set of limbs...warranty.. But still unreliable..... Crossbow are effective but disposable....

I absolutely love my Airsaber.. It shoots so constantly.. It never breaks... Ahhh I have to go waste my money again on my third crossbow... Wish regulations would change.... Crossbow s are a disposable item sadly.... Airsaber so .much more friendly to use being semi handicap..... My last crossbow I recycled when the limbs broke and no parts available..... Its now a stock for my .510 Texan....

It must be time to spray again. I woke up and walked to the bathroom, slipped on my pajama pants (that were lying on the floor) and whack! I got stung in the ass by a bark scorpion Kinda funny, except for the pain in my ass.

Wall art for the wife

Mug designed for family friend.




Another mug design

And yet another ceasefire!

Got rough grinding done on a new batch of knives today. I call this model the 'SW' after a friend of mine who had one like it and I loved the compact design so I made a template.

These are all roughed out for now. I will heat treat and temper back and then can finish grind and then... hand sanding before attaching scales. After curing, can finish grind the scales and hand sand those. I played around a bit with some different grinds and also different pin sizes. Two of them will get brass bolsters and a couple have lanyard holes in them.

For scales, I'll be using some G10, Cocobolo, Walnut, and will dig through my scale supplies to see what else I might use.

Also throwing up a serving tray I did with resin and maple and a wall plaque for a buddy of mine who is a Marine vet. Finished those last week and have another one that I'm working on. Note that on the walnut piece this was after the initial coat of oil and so that walnut sucked in quite a bit. I've since added several more coats to make the finish more uniform.

...and tossing in a pic of my last two bowls I turned. One was cracked quite a bit so filled in with resin. and finally a pic of my first, and likely last, Karambit. A complete pain to grind. Scales are carbon fiber resin with a CA glue finish. I picked carbon fiber out of my fingers for days. Never again.

Seem like i am also a pretty decent long distance pellet slinger.

After playing a little today with the slugs, and the wind dying down a little, i figured why not try pellets too.
But i did change from 86 M to the even Steven 80 M distance.

Mind you, you still had to pay attention to the wind, at least if you wanted to hold all of your shots on the 2" target.
As it can be seen in the picture that was also true with the slugs.
Also you have to remember my wind indicators are leaves on trees at targets and then the tall grass in the field.

So i paused long range for a hour focussing on 50 M where a shot a 50 yard BR paper, but i am not going to share that as really it was no good at all.
So when the wind had died down a little more i changed to 80 M again for the remainder of my targets, and i quickly learned that the speed i shot 50 M with, it was no good at 80 M.
Actually i ended up shooting the JSB heavy pellets as speeds i dident even think worked for them, but at 80 M it was sort of OK.
Sort off, CUZ i still had the wind to work with and the ever changing POI on my Maverick i have to chase around with the scope.

BUT ! all things considering i am still pretty happy with the 400 slugs and few 100 pellets i spent at the range today.



I still wish i was able to shoot heavier stuff, even if it was just the next up caliber of .22

This was my pig pen a few years back. Think a garden next spring. Took down the fence, electric fence wire and pig house this year.

The dog said, "cease fire"!

New order for local boutique. Acacia wood coasters, bamboo cutting board and the crowd favorite, Yeti type tumbler.