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BTW, today is my wife's last day of work. She'll be officially retired this afternoon. She's so excited she could poop a ring around herself.

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Jay, I don't know what the timeline was for Smith going from EDM rifling to cut rifling on model 686s. My shooting partner has one with conventional rifling that shoots better than mine. My 686 is a 4" model and I really enjoy the handling qualities but am aggravated by the relatively poor accu...

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GK, in answer to your question about danger on hikes in the mountains, I think it's pretty minimal. There is a good bear population in the Sandia Mountains where we hike but I've only seen a couple of them at long distance. They become more visible during really dry periods and come down to lower el...

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Our son has been competing in Precision Rifle Shooting for a bit over a year. This involves timed shooting at roughly known distances off of makeshift rests out to about 1200 yards. He shot his elk at 707 yards and I asked whether his PRS shooting had helped him make a one shot kill at that distance...

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Up until about 10 years ago, I didn't have much use for .357 magnums. Since that time, however, I have bought a few of them. Among others I have a Smith 586 and a 686. I don't think the 686 shoots as well as the 586 because the rifling is the EDM style which I don't believe holds cast bullets as wel...

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This morning, my wife and I hiked up a trail on our beautiful backyard mountain. We hit the trail a bit before sunrise and turned around about 2 1/2 miles later at an elevation of 9500' at a point overlooking Albuquerque. We saw only 3 other hikers and a couple of dogs on a chilly 36° hike. What a w...

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Thanks, John! The circle of life. He and his wife have a toddler daughter and another on the way. I hope they enjoy the outdoors as much as he does.

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Thanks, 45Colt!

They are dedicated young men and I'm sure proud of them.

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Our son Victor, who lives in the Ft Worth area and his hunting buddy Cary, who lives in Virginia got together again this year for an elk hunt in eastern Idaho. Cary took his bull first and Victor got his on the last day of the season, if I understand correctly. They hunted hard, were rewarded well f...

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Chicago mayors have a long bloodline of corruption.

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We have ground squirrels here that do a lot of damage. A couple of weeks ago squirrels camped out under the hood of my wife's car chewed through wires costing me $300 to locate and repair wires to the mass air flow sensor. This car is a hybrid so there was certainly potential for a lot greater damag...

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GK, that sounds like a relaxing way to spend a few hours.....nice picture, thanks!

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Our son who lives in the Ft Worth area and his hunting partner who lives in Virginia got together again for an elk hunt in eastern Idaho. Before the hunt they spent a couple of days fishing in western Wyoming. One of those days was spent fishing a lake a bit above 10,000' in elevation. They caught s...

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Dang, I always thought that Cornville was a fictitious place that you and Six joked about but I looked it up on Google Earth and it actually exists! Hey, I learn somethin' new every day.

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The westernmost land action of the Civil War was on March 26 - 28, 1862 in what is now Santa Fe County in north central New Mexico. The Battle of Glorietta Pass favored the Confederates who pushed the Union Army through the pass until they were forced to retreat after their supplies were destroyed a...

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Our son and his hunting partner are headed to their elk camp in eastern Idaho after spending a couple of days fishing near Alpine and La Barge, They caught some beautiful brook trout and cutthroats.

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Wonderful pictures, Jay....thanks!

It sounds like you and Kristy had a fabulous few days at camp and wandering around the region. Nuthin better in my opinion. Good for you!

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My motorcycle riding buddy and I drove (my truck) up to Tierra Amarilla, then turned on US Hwy 64 across the high country to Tres Piedras, stopped for lunch and drove back home through Taos and Espanola. It was a beautiful day. The road tops out at 10,500' elevation and is the only highway in northe...

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I don't believe you can do it, Jay. Spend a couple of days at camp and not work? Highly unlikely, I'd say.

I hope Kristy's vacation time is memorable for you both.

Have a wonderful time!

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Have a good time at camp, Jay. Do you have any particular projects in mind for the day?

Do you miss your Harley?

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I had a #3 years ago but it was so light that the recoil was brutal. I carried it to a gun show and swapped it straight across for a new Winchester Big Bore m94 which I really like. I have found that with cast bullets, when crimped in the crimp groove, reliable feeding is a problem so I crimp in the...

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I have read that Dillon recommends engine oil for their rams.

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Years ago I did a lot of weekend prairie dog shooting, most frequently with a Remington model 722 in .222 mag. I used Hornady 50 gr SX (super explosive) bullets that were reputed to disintegrate at above about 3500 fps. I never tried them in my .22-250 but shot out of my Remington at 100 yards they ...

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The more the government attempts to cover up sightings, the more I tend to believe the sightings are valid.

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New Mexico is the fifth largest state in the country with a population around 2 million. Almost half of those people are in the Albuquerque metro area and the remainder live in far flung towns and villages. That leaves the state with one of the lowest population densities in the nation. Federal land...

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One of the best things about motorcycles is when you're done with them you just park them in the garage. I make fun of my friends who have horses; vet bills, corrals, barns, constant feeding, tack, trailers, horse insurance, (yep, that's a thing), certifications when crossing state lines and I've pr...

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Hey, you be careful up there, Jay! A fall from up there can give you a fair amount of air time. However, air time isn't everything; the sudden stop is.

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I'm happy to hear that your son is living nearby and you're doing things together again, GK. Makes it all seem more worthwhile, doesn't it?

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Jim, I'm confused. You said you drive through Capitan on the way to the Shootist Holiday in Raton. Lincoln is only about 9 or 10 miles east of Capitan.

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Jim, do you sometimes stop in Lincoln on your way back from Raton? I can easily spend half a day just wandering around when I'm down there. It's a fascinating place and about as historically captivating as any place I can think of. The majority of it is unrestored, just like it was in the 1870s. I o...

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Jim, Oso Grill is closed on Sundays and Mondays and doesn't open until 11:00AM. Back in the day it was a soda fountain owned by the English teacher (my most influential teacher of all time) and her rancher husband, Fletcher Hall.

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Jim, thanks for the link. You're right, of course. It was a short story rather than a book. I went to grade school through the tenth grade in the village of Capitan and their tiny library contained some adventure books that I greedily absorbed. A couple of other short stories have stuck in my feeble...

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A book called, "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell is about that very theme. I read it 60 years ago and still remember it well.

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Five or six years ago I gave my son a 4" Ruger Redhawk in .45 Colt and a box of 300 gr RNFP cast bullets in front of 21.5 gr of H110. It was a hard-kicking hunting round at just under 1200 fps and not a pleasant recreational load. He shot a few pigs with it in the Houston area where he lived an...

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38 special, 158 gr machine cast SWC 4.0 gr 231 357 magnum, Lyman 358156 GC SWC 13.5 gr 2400 41 magnum, 210 gr RCBS SWC 17.5 gr #9 44 special, 250 gr RCBS SWC 7.5 gr Power Pistol 44 magnum, 250 gr RCBS or Lyman 429421 SWC 20.5 gr 2400 45ACP, 200 gr RCBS SWC 5.7 gr 231 45 Colt, 250 gr machine cast SWC...

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I hope that happens, Jay. Our kids live about 8 hours away by car. We spend some time together several times per year. We visit them more frequently than they come here but I'm grateful that we are able to catch up by phone almost every day. I'm very happy that they've both achieved stability and fi...

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I'm very happy to see you and your pop still doing things together. I think it's wonderful. Best wishes....keep it up!

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Skeeter Skelton wrote about friendly shooting competitions with Colonel Askins and commented, "as usual, Askins outshot Skelton". He said the same thing about his friendly competitions with Bill Jordan. The outcomes with both were understandable, I'd say.

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I bought a copy of Charles Askins' autobiography. One could buy a new Uberti or a Rossi for less than the price of a new, hardbound book.

I haven't begun reading it yet....should be interesting.

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A friend's neighbor in Pagosa Springs, CO took these pictures a couple of days ago. Amazing that the cat was out in broad daylight!

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Good story, Jay.....thanks! I have a friend who is an oustanding woods rider and trials rider who told me he was riding his Honda XR400 in the mountains on a logging road when he noticed a bear running parallel to him a few yards to his right. The bear poured on the coals and attempted to cross the ...

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On our way in last week the road was washed out, a three foot deep gully with steep sides blocking the way. My motorcycle riding buddy who is inexperienced with ATVs couldn't make it through. Every time he clinbed the far side, he lifted the front wheels of my 300EX and he'd let off the gas and the ...

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Nice story, Barbarossa....thanks!

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My biggest problem was in picking my way through the pointed 6 - 8" rocks, my back tire would bounce sideways off a rock, completely messing up my direction of travel, pointing me to places I didn't want to go. You had mentioned front wheel washout but It didn't appear to be a problem for me; I...

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I headed up to the Jemez Mountains again yesterday with my TW with the intention of finding a water bottle one of my buddies had left behind on our trip up there last week. My more pressing intention was to relocate an ancient Indian ruin that I had found about 15 years ago and had visited twice a f...

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I have a Ruger MKIII and a MKIV on which I did the Volquartsen upgrades as well as put a Tandemkross trigger on the MKIV. I followed the youtube videos too and the conversions worked out quite well. Both triggers are good but not as good as my High Standard Supermatic Trophy.

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Very nice, thanks! You are obviously getting along with your DR-Z very well. Great pictures

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Jay, thanks for the pictures. I'm planning on taking my TW up to the same location to retrieve a lost water bottle on Tuesday. I know I'll be spending more on gas than the water bottle is worth but it sounds like a good excuse to get outta town again.

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Early on Wednesday morning, my shooting buddy, my motorcycling buddy and I went on an ATV ride in the Jemez mountains of north central New Mexico. My goal was to find an Indian pueblo ruin that I had visited a couple of times about 15 years ago but haven't been able to locate again. We didn't find i...

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Very nice!

Thanks for the range report, Savvy Jack!

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