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Homestead projects...

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Been steadily getting things accomplished/squared away on the new homestead here in Miss. Here are few of the projects now complete or underway...

Manroom:

Here's the office/reloading room (reloading side) - decided to go with crafstman cabinets and bench - had to assemble them all - was quite the project... still need more cabinets! Might construct my own this time though...

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Shooting range deck:

Used pressure treated lumber and some surplus cyprus boards left over from the house build for the decking. Got that metal framed bench used from a member of another gun board - that along with 10 pipe clamps (new) and a new wood vice all for $100! The vice alone was worth that! Every once in a while even a blind squirrel finds a nut! :)

Probably going to put a top on this too - I have some old tin roofing for that...

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Trailer improvement:

Here's my latest project - have a little 10' light trailer that I use a lot - definately one of the better purchases I've ever made! But it's not great for getting things like mulch and other loose stuff, so I decided to put some sides on it. Made it so that simply sliding the bottom cross pieces out and removing the top cross pieces (lifting off) would allow for quick removal.

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Used the cyprus boards that we had left from the house construction here too along with some other scrap wood.

Going tomorrow to get some free cotton gin trash (composted cotton stuff) for the garden. We are late getting the garden in and need some of this to go on the yazoo clay that we have...

So far, so good - still have plenty of other projectst do - like a dog house for the now four dogs that we have, a workshop building and shed roofs to put my tractor and implements under.
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How do you like that Mas 49/56 in the first picture?
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Mescalero wrote:How do you like that Mas 49/56 in the first picture?
:oops: :oops: Where? :oops: :oops:
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BlaineG wrote:Man, you have Heaven on Earth, for sure.... 8) 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Right at the junction of the under bench craftsman box and the larger craftsman shelves.
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I'm as blind as Blaine but I see it now. Just sold one for forty bucks.
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Looks wonderful, happy for you.
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loading room looks good it should keep you busy, did you develop your spring as a water source? danny
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Mescalero wrote:Right at the junction of the under bench craftsman box and the larger craftsman shelves.
Man, that hurts my ears when I do that.... :lol:
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tell your wife the shooting deck is a gazebo.
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Mescalero wrote:How do you like that Mas 49/56 in the first picture?
Oh, I like it alot - have 960 rounds of French milsurp ammo for it too - along with 4 mags, bayo, grenade launcher attachment and the rubber recoil pad that comes with these.

While I like it, I have the whole sheebang for sale on the local state gun forum - for face to face $900 for rifle, accessories and ammo... so far no takers.

It's really an extra for me as I have it duplicated several times over - in terms of battle rifles.
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BigSky56 wrote:loading room looks good it should keep you busy, did you develop your spring as a water source? danny
Thanks and nope. The springs are still there but we haven't done anything with them. We were going to have a pond built down in the draw where they are but the taxman bit hard this year... so have to wait!
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Mescalero wrote:How do you like that Mas 49/56 in the first picture?

Wow, totally missed that. I had one, what a train wreck. Glad to hear you have a good one Jac!


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Nothing wrong with mine.
And I have all the parts for another one, but I want to take my time with this one and cut a new barrel
in 6.5x55MM.
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What's the rifle in the left corner?
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CVA mountain rifle (muzzle loader). 58 cal
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kewl, thought it was a muzzleloader of some sort, trigger guard kinda gives it away.
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Need to do some more work on the range... specifically, I want a backstop behind the 25 yard pistol target area. The rifle target sets are downrange and bullets just thump into the ground behind them as I'm shooting down into the draw - drop is about 25'. But the pistol area is at the crest of the hill... going to cut some downed timber up into 6' logs and stack them up behind, two layers.

Went and got the cotton gin clean-out material yesterday afternoon - two loads. Good and composted and free! We spread that on the garden and put the rest in a pile for later.

Plenty to do - have to plant my soy beans and then a bit later, the sweet corn on the food plots. I have the bean area plowed up already and just need to disk it.
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GREAT lookin' shop! I've been bypassing Sears and I need to head over there today. Thanks for the inspiration!
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I do like their shop furniture but there's a lot of assembly... hope you are a patient man.
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BlaineG wrote:Man, you have Heaven on Earth, for sure.... 8) 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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