Recent content by karl_h

Exact thing happened to me around 2002. After attempting to talk to neighbor about their cat killing songbirds off my feeders I knew it was a lost cause. The conversation on their end went so bad I wanted to just SSS on them. I trapped their cat, dropped it off at the animal shelter. I left...

First, people on this board talk about night vision with a broad brush lumping true light amplification NV with digital camera NV. True NV, atn sucks so bad it is not even funny, I have used second gen ancient military units that are orders of magnitude better than ATN's current crap. A lot of...

@birdie Even if AOA replaces the allen head bolts, if they aren't grade 8 or equiv. in metric, replace them when you get it back. Do yourself a massive favor and buy at least one high quality allen wrench, talking matco/snap-on/ etc. quality, nothing you can buy in a box store. It is...

Your profile says you live in TX, if that is the eastern part of TX and you lived there decades ago, you could have bought a good condition real scuba compressor for no more than 1500(probably a whole lot less), not 3000+. Neighbor two houses down when I lived in Dallas in the early 70's was...

You could keep an eye out on craigslist for a very small trailer that can be towed by virtually any vehicle out there, and build a box to protect the compressor from junk blowing in the wind. You could probably do it for under 500 dollars including having a light duty tow hitch added to a...

If you have a vehicle suitable to tow but don't have a trailer, you can buy extremely sturdy hitch carriers that can take several hundred pounds. Of course, your vehicle must have a hitch capacity(not tow weight, but vertical weight) that exceeds weight of carrier+cargo by a good safety margin...

@Trucker3573 , Glad your window is back to normal without costing an arm and leg. These insulators were huge high voltage insulators, not like the ones you see on distribution lines in neighborhoods, they were well over a foot in diameter and weighed a ton.

I got into reloading in my 20's solely for the savings and availability. I have quite a few obsolete/low production calibers in my collection. In the last few years with the crazy cost increases, I added a couple standard rounds I load for solely on cost. I hate reloading, it's...

I shot myself in the forehead when I was 21 with a 22lr. Ran across a big pile of old ceramic insulators from a high power power line deep in the 1,000+ acres I used to hunt with exclusive access, well techically the owner's son had access but he lived on the west coast and this was in SW Va...

Same here, but it has been a long time since I could find a steak worth buying to grill at home at a price I'm willing to pay. I do know two places that have good looking beef in limited quantities, but 32 a pound is too much. Literally going on near two decades since I've had an actual top...

If you go used, you can get the focus range you want without sacrificing image quality for very little more than what the cronus cost you. For instance right now someone is selling a zeiss LRP S3 4-25x50 with the mil reticle on snipershide for 1750. Won't save you any weight, maybe an ounce at...

I lived just outside of Dallas TX as a young kid from '70-'75 and never saw one, lived in the suburbs. I saw a couple horned toads in TX on family vacation in Big Bend national park where I became intimately familiar with a massive prickly pear cactus when my tour horse threw me and ran offf...

You just have to try, I have never used mine anywhere but my house and once took it to a friends place with open fields a few hours away. Only took it there to see if there was a difference between mine and his. There wasn't. That friend on the other hand, has used his at a commercial indoor...

@francisfaustino , downrange readings on a labradar may or may not be worthwhile info, it depends on the location you are using it at and how far downrange you are interested in. At 100 yards like you mentioned, I don't believe even shooting off a cliff with nothing within 100's of yards to...

Sorry you got burned by them. No offense, but seriously, do your research before buying an optic. It is so easy. The company called US Optics is not the company of the same name from california many years ago, they went out of business and the current company bought the intellectual property...