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This repeater will be relocated to a mountain ridge with the antenna mounted on a 5 Foot square steel pan when I am convinced that the solar panels will maintain the battery well enough to supply power through the night.

There were a couple more Gen 1 Camaros but my camera locked up.

I hate roundabouts!

A handful of cars this time, there was a promise of rain but we wanted to get them out on the road anyway.

This was at the Mountain Home Exit. the only real place I got us lined up. There were two more behind me.

A few of my favorites at the show. There were many more but my camera locked up.

The Equipment: 1861 Springfield Manufactured in 1862, Barrel By Whitacre's Machine Shop, Winchester, Va. David Whitacre is not only a machinist, he is an artisan. He provided a 40 1/2" barrel with 1:72 twist and progressive depth rifling. The rear sight is a perfect copy of the original, the front sight is dovetailed and quite tall. I am no marksman, My eyes aren't as good as when I first had them lasered. It is hard to see where the top of the black front sight is. It needs a bright spot at the top. I knew that it would likely shoot low with that tall sight. I picked my POA at the top of a rectangle 4x4 1/2" rotated 45° and got lucky a couple of times. I think I probably have the windage set pretty close but will need to work with a benchrest and be able to locate the top of the sight to adjust the elevation. The Load was 60gr 2f Schuetzen Black Powder and 512gr home cast Minié ball lubed with beeswax and lamb tallow. I try to remember to tip the musket to the nipple side when loading. That doesn't always happen and the result may have been a hangfire on the first round. The passage had been cleaned with a pipe cleaner before loading. The 7th round was difficult to ram but for some reason, the 8th wasn't so bad. I was wrong about round #4, it hit about 4" low and on center.

1861 Springfield Project: I can shoot it, make it go bang, feel it kick, smell the black powder but the rifling is so bad that I can only place shots in the general neighborhood. I suppose that isn't abnormal for a musket that's more than 1 1/2 centuries old. A new barrel is currently in the machine shop.

This will pin an aggressor's T-Shirt to his hide. That's gonna sting!

I think this Bushnell Prime Model 119932 is going to work just fine in my application. Lens fogging is one of my worst problems and the sensors, LEDs and lens may be packed with snow this morning. I am concerned that in a breeze, the foliage will constantly trigger my camera.

Dogs at play. I edited and spliced together a bunch of 10 second clips. One clip shows what happens when the sun gets low, we discuss the camera being triggered by branches moving in the wind and I visit it in pitch darkness in the last 20 seconds. This camera model doesn't have the versatility of the #119932

The Bushnell Prime Low Glow Game Cam will capture 4-legged critters. I set it up for 45 sec. clips and it ran all night with a 16 GB card. As the card gets close to filling up, the clips are reduced to 1 second and less. I have installed a 32 GB card and I believe I'llrece the clips to 30 seconds. It captures 2-legged animals as well. It has a 0.3 sec. trigger and I think it is often triggered by a leaf or some airborne trash.

No sweat, throw in the right leg, plop it while making sure the hat clears, pull in the size 12 left boot, reposition, shut the door, get strapped in, ignite, launch. Sometimes I knock off the hat and that left boot can be a problem

Everyone should appreciate a "Thumbs-Up." During this road trip, I got two thumbs-up and a big smile from a passing blonde. Some guy in an early 50's Chevy pickup with a healthy motor and an even bigger ego had to show me what he had. Betcha I coulda smoked him. Some woman in a BMW wanted to race me up Cabbage Hill but I wouldn't play her game.

Just a collection of photos from the party.

This truck was holding me back and there weren't a lot of straight stretches available to make a pass.

This truck was holding me back and there weren't a lot of straight stretches available to make a pass.

Just a drive-by during Rrrumble's first cruise. This machine has multiple mode settings like "Sport, Tour, Old Guy" and you can even set it to "Teenager." It can get squirrely! I think it broke traction when I punched it to pass a truck at 55 MPH. I think I had a bit of fishtailing in "Tour" mode.

Just a drive-by during Rrrumble's first cruise. This machine has multiple mode settings like "Sport, Tour, Old Guy" and you can even set it to "Teenager." It can get squirrely! I think it broke traction when I punched it to pass a truck at 55 MPH. I think I had a bit of fishtailing in "Tour" mode.

I used a Uberti copy of the 1847 Colt Walker to test my Corned Black Powder. After the puck had dried for nearly a week in a window that got plenty of afternoon sun, I broke it up into smaller chunks and ran it through an antique coffee mill. The grind looked pretty course so I passed all but 40 gr through the mill again. It still didn't appear to be as fine as GOEX fffg, With40gr in each load, I fired the GOEX fffg the 1st round. The 2nd round was my coarse grind, the 3rd round was a finer grind but not as fine as the fffg. The 4th round was GOEX again just for reference. I believe that you can see my coarse grind was the best in the Walker, I'll have to run the same test in an 1851 Navy and an 1858 Remington to see if my course grind is still best for the smaller, lighter loads. Note muzzle flash difference between rounds 1,4 with commercial powder and rounds 2,3 with my grinds. My powder is definitely burning too slow.

I used a Uberti copy of the 1847 Colt Walker to test my Corned Black Powder. After the puck had dried for nearly a week in a window that got plenty of afternoon sun, I broke it up into smaller chunks and ran it through an antique coffee mill. The grind looked pretty course so I passed all but 40 gr through the mill again. It still didn't appear to be as fine as GOEX fffg, With40gr in each load, I fired the GOEX fffg the 1st round. The 2nd round was my coarse grind, the 3rd round was a finer grind but not as fine as the fffg. The 4th round was GOEX again just for reference. I believe that you can see my coarse grind was the best in the Walker, I'll have to run the same test in an 1851 Navy and an 1858 Remington to see if my course grind is still best for the smaller, lighter loads. Note muzzle flash difference between rounds 1,4 with commercial powder and rounds 2,3 with my grinds. My powder is definitely burning too slow.

Just the "stay" command. He won't go near the street anyway because it exceeds the limits of his electronic fence collar.

Headed toward Winnemucca but will turn Right onto Hwy 140

Hunter is an adventurer, he never wants to miss a moment of a road trip. Even in the wee hours of the morning, he struggles to stay awake. He especially loves when a ground squirrel or a rabbit crosses the road. He is special!