Casper is a nice city sometimes the people drive crazy, but I've seen worse in Denver. I still have several spanner wrenches for that work. About 45 years ago I was working on a steam turbine scraping in the 16-inch bearings, I got them blued and fitted to at least 80 percent, the GE rep asked me if I knew how to pick the fine dirt and grit out of the surface of the bearings without damaging them. I said I did but he still reached in his pocket pulled out a penny and showed me how he preferred to clean them. I kept a few pennies in my toolbox just for that, the old copper ones worked well, but I had some annealed copper disks the size of a penny for it also. I had some stamps for punching holes in shim stock as well but when I was getting ready to retire a few people decided to help themselves to some of my tools, but one of the younger guys that I taught a lot collected them up from a couple of guys after I left for me.
Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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In the early 70's I had a Kabar folding knife that was designed like the Buck 110 knives. When I first got it, it was sharp as any that I had ever had, and it held an edge for a long time and a lot of usage. When it got dull however it took a lot of time and effort to put an edge back on it, I still don't know what kind of stainless steel the blade was. So then today as I was putting an edge on one of my blades made of 52-100 bearing steel I was reminded of that blade and how long it took to put a good edge on it. I use several different grits of stones, 260, 320, 600, and 1200 then go to a ceramic to polish the edge and refine it. When I make a blade, I want the main body of the blade pretty polished, but the tapered part of my blades aren't polished really fine as I don't want that portion to be clingy, by forming a vacuum on the things being cut so I leave it as ground with my 320-grit belt. The actual edge however is polished to get all of the fine notches out of the blade material, so it isn't like a micro saw blade. Just some more ramblings and my thoughts about other things then coyotes. The type of edge that I put on a knife depends on what I intend to use it for. For slicing meat and other things like leather it will be polished and extremely smooth, for cutting rope or cardboard I leave the edge with a rougher finish like a 600-grit stone. So, if I'm going to open hay bales it stops at 600 grit. But if I'm using it in the kitchen it goes to ceramic, if I'm cutting leather for a project, it gets ceramic but if I'm working and will be cutting rope or opening box's I stop at 600 grit. But if you get the one I carry for every day it's highly polished.
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This is not and I don't intend to make it a political site, or a religious site, but we all have been affected by someone who has been or is in the military and Armistice Day now known as Veterans Day, is tomorrow so that we may show our respect for those past and present, who have made our nation what it is. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the war to end all wars ended. We are so blessed to live with the freedoms that we have at this time, but they weren't free for others gave their lives for them. I have lived in countries that were under martial law and in countries that were ruled by the military. I've been to communist ruled countries, and I am truly glad to have been born in the United States of America and able to continue to live here. May God bless us all and may we all learn about the history of our great nation and what it took to become the country that we are.
Amen Dave! I think if they would go back and actually teach the history instead of the crazy stuff they are in its place, we wouldn't be having near the problems right now.
I got the machining done on the upper receiver. drilled and tapped the bolt carrier group then ceracoated and cooked the receiver. mounted the 20-inch 1;9 twist Wylde barrel after lapping the barrel nut extension, this morning, put the handguard on with a low-profile gas block. I timed the muzzle break and installed the suppressor. Mounted the scope and it's ready to go to the range for sighting in. I think it will do just fine for a coyote gun running some 55 grain Sierra HPBT's and some 62 grain soft point bullets.
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Why did you drill and tap the BCG? I haven't seen a need to do that before. I'm down with all of your other steps - doing the same stuff myself. Thanks.
I made it a right-side charging bolt carrier group. I machined a charging handle that threads into the bolt, and a slot for it in the receiver. The charging handle on the rear can be used if a person wants to but is mostly just there to block gas if you have any blow by. I do make some filler plugs for that reason as well that get a screw to hold them in place.
I remember you mentioning that earlier. Thanks for the detail. I've been working with a couple of Gibbz side chargers (Left side). Having gassing issues that are all my fault. On the trail of success......
It works, another male that makes seven of the last nine males. pretty heavy on the male to female ratio. He is two, maybe three years old, nice long well pointed canines, the molars showed a little tartar. He would run around the forty-pound range and had a lot of black in his coat.
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My wife and I went to her sister and brothers-in-laws the other day. We went in and I was taking my coat off when my wife's sister said to me you need to buy a coat that fits you, your sleeves are too long and it's too big in the shoulders. I smiled at her and said no it's just right for me and what I use it for. Again, she said no it looks like crap on you it doesn't fit you at all. I smiled at her again and said that's okay I don't wear it for dress and going shopping or dress up occasions and things like that it's a work coat. A normal person would have let lay at that I believe but not her. She again said something about it. So, I being me and not wanting to argue any I said OKAY here is the deal, I can tell by what you say that you have never worked out in 20 below temperatures with high winds, raise your hands above your head and see what your sleeves do now kneel down and put your hands on the floor what will your sleeves do then. Now put a sweatshirt on or a down vest and see how well you can move around in your well-fitting coat. Then go outside and do it in the wind and cold for a few hours come back and tell me how much too big my coat is after that. I don't have cold wrists and can get more cloths on under it and still move well to work all the while keeping warm. She hung her head a little and quietly said oh I see what you are saying that it's not too big for what you use it for. She isn't a bad person she just thinks that everyone should think and do as she does. A time and a place for differences, and we hope to continue to grow as we grow older.
In 1997 I broke my neck at the C-5, C-6 level so then in early 1998 I had a fusion of it and was healing up from it when denning season rolled around. I was out checking snares on a guy, so I stopped in at the helicopter pilots house for a visit and coffee he lived 65 miles out of town. As we were visiting, he asked me what's the stiches in your neck for, I told him, and he said yeah, I know your wife told me you weren't supposed to be out doing this **** and you defiantly weren't supposed to be shooting a shot gun from the helicopter. I smiled at him, and he said your wife told me you would never tell me that, but can you spot for me? I told him that I could, then he asked do you think you can find dens from the air. I said yes, I would think so. So, we arranged for him to set down and pick me up the next day at such and such ranch. We got off the ground just a little after sun rise, with the old standby gunner, went over and picked up the rancher that was having problems to give us directions to the pastures he wanted hunted. As we were flying in to the first pasture, I told the pilot there's the den he circled it and asked me if, I was sure. I told him yes so; he dropped me off and said they were going after the adults. I took eight pups out of that den, and they dropped one off for me to check to see how many pups she had given birth to. About that time, I spotted a coyote curled up near a sage brush radioed them and got them on it they came in low and slow and were right on top of him before he broke and ran. Another well trained older coyote that had been hunted from the air before maybe shot and lived through it, a good example of seeing one that is laid up hiding not moving but something just wasn't as it should be a sage brush cancer, that I just got lucky and saw. We gathered up and went to the next pasture, were I spotted a coyote duck into a small sagebrush filled draw, got the pilot on it we got her downed, dropped me off and I went back up the draw to where she had been laying when I first saw her. I laid down and started looking around and in the bottom of the draw saw her den hole. I had checked her and saw she had six pups, and that's the number I took from that hole. Aweek later the pilot called me to say well so and so said he wouldn't pay me fo the pups saying it was Neil that took them not you. The pilot asked him who the he11 is Neil and the rancher told him the guy you had with you that found the dens, the pilot told him that's not his name his name is Dave. He had me mixed up with my brother I told the pilot, it would be okay I would give him the pay as I was working for him not the rancher that day. It was a good payday fourteen pups at 50.00 each paid for a little of the cost of flying the helicopter. and it probably saved the rancher a lot of lambs also paying for him to pay us.
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Ive had a great fall with my special elk permit. I took this bull at 749 yards, a deer at 778 yards in a 22 mph wind, and now back to coyote hunting! #7 so far.
I have to admire the light color faze coyotes you get up there windypants ! Thats a nice bull you got as well, and the work begins after the shot, but even that's a pleasure in good country. Kind of an unusual antler on the right side adds a lot of character to it.
