In the Ear? Really???

[Packrat 6]

SEE! i knew you'd ignore or evade all the questions.

Gee, sure sorry you couldn't hear the music since we rehearsed that for 3 sets and then took about 5 cutting sessions before we were happy with it. As far as the voice over, that wasn't me singing, just some drunk that was passed out there along the lake and agreed to sing it for a couple of beers. My Brother does appear in the video, but I'll leave it up to you to figure out which one he is. BTW it wasn't really written for you, and it was rehearsed and filmed back in August before I ever decided to take ov....contribute to this post.

My main contribution to the entire thing except for words was I was playing the background lead Guitar and of course picking out the girls....First criteria was they had to be willing, and then further agree to play a part in the video. Good thing my wife decided not to go to the rehearsal. I'm sure by now my voice would have been several octaves higher. I mean really, you got to sleep sometime!

Besides to enjoy it, you don't need the music, just watch the girls!....Two of those girls were only 17. Starting to understand why you spent 6 years in High School! You could have probably stayed a little longer if you hadn't been bartending on the side at the place where the Principal did his drinking, and had to throw him out for getting unruly! Yeah, we know, he only expelled you for spite! I've heard the story, so get off it and move on.

Yep, sure sorry you couldn't hear it..! Gee, too bad!...Smirk... WHAT! PeeWee Herman is out of jail already?

Packrat

 

[Packrat 6]

Here I re-posted it so you could watch it from youtube with my brothers band.

 

[Packrat 6]

Screwed up and double posted

 

[Packrat 6]

oooppppsss Double post ...How do you delete posts?

 

[Packrat 6]

Remember this was ABOUT you , not TO you!.......

 

[djones]

my attention span is not what it used to be. by the time i get to the end of one of your posts, i've forgotten what the questions were. would be helpful if you numbered them and presented in pop quiz form.

the only one i remember is what did i do with the little oinkers, and i think you already know. yea... i'm THAT guy!!

now a question for you...

you seem to know a lot about me... studied at a&m, bartender, and what i look like naked. it's almost as if we've dated. so, i have to ask... are you (or do you wish your were)... a woman???

 

[Packrat 6]

No, and No thanks!...Never been around central Texas, just threw out enough wild accusations on the thread and you bit on several. Sort of like Fishing, throw out enough hooks and bait and sooner or later you'll catch a fish. Have you been feeling scaly lately?

As far as what you look like naked, you keep mumbling about your age, and well, WE ALL look like that naked anymore.......ROFL

My Brother sent me the final cut and video on the song, so just thought I'd harass you a little, since you'd been complaining about 60 year old women ignoring you. This may come as a surprise, but don't feel lonely. Guy down the street was complaining that he was only being paid attention to about once a month by his wife and he's only 45. I told him that he was lucky because I knew two other guys she had cut off altogether.....

As far As Bartending, not often that you get to hear about a 22 year old High School Junior and usually they have too much pride to drive Domino's Pizza around so it had to be something that: 1) You could work at at night, 2) paid a little more than driving that Pizza around and 3) Allowed you to ply the girls with Alcohol that you picked up from all the undrunk glasses during an evening.

Mainly basic deduction and a Wild a** guesses!

Besides, you have to remember, I was a child prodigy! By the age of 6, I could recite the entire Gettysburg Address word by word and Abe Lincoln couldn't do that until he was 54!

Anyway it's late, so later

Packrat

 

[Packrat 6]

Well, it looks like the mountain lion is back. i walked out onto my rear patio this morning and found 1/2 of a rabbit laying on the edge of the artificial turf we use as a doormat. Now just to satisfy djones, am posting a picture.


Now the feral cats in the neighborhood occasionally catch a mouse of lizard and leave the remains out in my backyard, but have never had something this big left, and half gone. The whole front half of the rabbit is gone and that's a lot of stuff for a feral cat to have caught and eaten. Course then I could be wrong. I know they can catch rabbits, but eat half of a full sized rabbit?

Well, got to get the stuff out and see if I can get it. Whether it's a mountain lion, or a Feral cat, got to find out what's doing this. Guess it could be a yote, but why come into a completely enclosed backyard to eat it and leave half? haven't seen any feral cats big enough to jump a 6' wall carrying a full grown rabbit either.

Anybody got any experience like this?

Pasckrat

 

[Brewer]

Alright!! you get to check out the accessories.

 

[Packrat 6]

Yep, got the tools to use now! Going to have to get with John when he comes home. He'll want in on this since a Mountain lion is on his bucket list and he just missed one last time. Think this time we'll use subsonic rounds and suppressor's on the rifles. No sense waking up the neighbors.

Guess it could be a bobcat, but never seen one around here, but doesn't mean their not here!

Anyway got to wait for John to get home tonight!

Packrat

 

[Brewer]

I'm probably just as excited as John is!! take some pictures with the dead cat and the rifle so I have something to put on my screen saver!!

 

[Packrat 6]

OK, want to continue where I left off with the modified bullets that caused so much trouble at the range. We left early sunday AM and went down towards Nogales and lo and behold there is actually a lake down there! I hadn't seen that much water in one piece since crossing the Colorado River coming back from Washington in August.

Apparently the lake had been there for years, but was so contaminated with Mercury from gold mining in the area that Fish and Game had drained it, dug out about 20' of silt from the bottom, relined it and then filled and re-stocked it. Lake was so new, the fish were still learning how to swim! Lake is about 200 yards across and 600-700 yards long with parking at the South end. Anyway, we got set up and waited until the Physicist and the Mathematician arrived then John aimed at a rock cliff face that ranged out at 596 yards.

Fired off one shot, the same thing happened as at the range with the horizontal tornado effect except being over water, an instant fog bank appeared from us to the target. The two Scientists didn't say anything, just took notes. When it cleared up a little John took his second shot..same thing except the fog was a lot denser from the previous water vapor in the air. John looked at me and asked me where I had set the scope and I told him I had zeroed it with the bore before leaving the garage for the range Saturday. He said "Not possible", that he had aimed both time at a white spot on the cliff face both time and both times it had hit dead on with no bullet drop. The other two guys just took notes. I think that working in a classified atmosphere all the time, just naturally made them non-talkative. Anyway, John counted out the clicks on the scope, and counted back halfway for both elevation and windage so he was sure it was zeroed again and said he wanted to do one more shot as soon as the fog died.

About a half hour later it cleared up enough that John aimed, fired an with the same effect and an instant fog bank. We started packing up and the guys came over and asked if we minded if they took the 13 -14 bullets that were left, with them. Said no, and they said they were going to stop by where they worked on the way home and they'd get back to us later. They took all the information on the rifle, scope, bases, everything and left. we followed a couple minutes later after I asked john where the bullet had hit. He just looked at me blank faced and said "Same place, no bullet drop". Anyway it was time to leave since the lake level had gone down about a foot and a half and both the frogs and fish were giving us dirty looks.

We went on home and I got back to my main preoccupation of hassling djones about his hogs and about 8:00 the door bell rang and it was the two scientists. They said that they had stopped by their work and since it was a weekend, they could access the small wind tunnel which was normally busy during the week. They had pulled the bullet out of one of the cartridges, epoxied the bullet to a stand and put a set of sensors around the bullet. then they started up the machine and when it had hit Mach 3 had released a smoke agent into the wind stream so they could see what was happening with the bullet.

What they found out was that basically there were two shock waves generated by the little Titanium ball at the head of the bullet. The main shock wave caused the turbulence raising both the dust and the water vapor and ran back from the ball at about a 45 degree angle from the line of flight for about 15' in a circle around the bullet. The secondary shock wave ran back at about a 30 degree angle from the line of flight, closer to the body of the bullet and in effect actually acted like the leading edge of an airplane wing creating a zone of low pressure around the bullet. Since the bullet was spinning, these shock waves encompassed the bullet in a complete circle. the thing that had them so interested was that the sensors along the sides of the bullet registered NO pressure along the bullet sides. That the secondary shock wave was creating a vacuum along the side of the bullet and that the only friction being generated on the entire bullet was caused by that little 3 mm titanium ball at the point. when I asked them what that meant, they said essentially that a bullet fired in space, in a almost total vacuum would continue on forever until it encountered enough Helium and Hydrogen atoms to slow down out about 5 light years from the point of firing. They were saying that except for the titanium ball, there was no friction on the bullet, so it could go for quite a while before slowing down. Anyway, I had to sign a release so they could continue their research with the remaining bullets, but I still have 30 Titanium pins left.

Before they left, I causally asked what they had done with the powder out of the bullet and one said they had dumped it outside in an ashtray in the smoking area. When I commented that "Boy, that's going to be a surprise for someone who throws a lit cigarette in it", they got a horrified look and said they had to leave right now!

My question is simply, do you think there is any market for something like this?

Packrat

 

[djones]

...haven't seen any feral cats big enough to jump a 6' wall carrying a full grown rabbit either.

Anybody got any experience like this?

Pasckrat

packass,
i haven't seen a cat jump a 6' wall but i saw a pig jump over a haybale... or at least he almost made it

 

[djones]

i'm not convinced that rabbit was dead. once i thought a pig in the back of the truck was dead until i mentioned something about breakfast sausage. you should have seen him scramble to get out of there!!!