Please cool down !

[willyp]

Boy-o boy ! I would sure like to go do some shooting but it is too hot and IMHO it is a waste of time. Maybe not if you are a Groundhog hunter but for my cold weather guns it seems to be ?
I have used all of the all temp powders and they do alright  but the rifles still get hot after 2 or maybe 3 shots . The powder does its job ?
My minimum is a 3 shot group for my hunting rifles but i do more like 5 or 7 shot groups to depend on for consistence ?
As to the clean cold barrel theory i have never take a sparkling  clean rifle hunting?  I have never kept track of how my rifles shoot clean ! I would have to say they would be acceptable but i just don't do it !
Back in the day when i listened to my clan from the mountains  and to hit an 8 inch paper plate at 50 yards was good i may have?
I have  Savage,Remington's, Mossberg's  and Marlin rifles.  I have never owned any of the $1000 rifles or custom barreled ones so i don't know about how a  high money rifle shoots.
How about you folks ?

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I have a couple of rifles and loads I want to check out, but I will wait until toward the end of September when the weather cools a bit.  Until then, there is a driveway at camp to work on, wood to split and stack, mowing to do, and tomatoes to pick.  Hot weather is for hot jobs, or maybe just sitting in the AC and thinking about doing them?

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I've been at the range a couple times a week. Yesterday I got soaked in a downpour but I was there long enough for the scope on my Weatherby 30-06 to take a schidt.

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And I would never hunt with a clean barrel and I hate guns where the cold bore shot hits away from the others. I found Rugers to be bad for that.

[Dutch]

Sept 1, 2018 7:35:35 GMT -5 moosemike said:

And I would never hunt with a clean barrel and I hate guns where the cold bore shot hits away from the others. I found Rugers to be bad for that.

Ok, THAT is why I missed a deer last year, it was a Ruger!

[3212]

Don't go badmouthing my little Ruger.Her feelings are easily hurt.LOL

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I just haven't had luck with the model 77's. That's after 5 attempts.

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Yep just wish one year it would cool down early and be in the 60s for a month or longer. Last year it was cool labor day weekend but ended up raining all weekend.

[rem700]

The storms that rolled through today sure did cool it down 

[dennyf]

Cool over the weekend, but rainy. I don't get worked up over center fire rifles until it's cool, fall weather. My 'chuck rifles were ready to go in the early spring, seldom ever had to do much other than kill stuff with 'em, over the summers. Not much of an issue these days.

Had a conversation with a farmer's son last Friday, while up at camp. Was driving over by his dad's beef cattle pasture/hay fields to use my phone, when his son stopped, backed up. He wanted to know why I hadn't killed off all of the 'chucks in their big hay fields like I once did. Told him they'd have to stock some first, 'cause I hadn't seen any there all year.

His grand pap, myself and my huntin' bud, kept the rodents under control over there for many decades. Pappy Milt and my buddy are both long gone. So are the 'chucks, near's I can tell?

This same youngster moved back up there four ears ago, after several years in FL. First time I saw him in deer season, he was freezing his butt off. Shook so bad, could barely hold a conversation. Except for telling me the place was posted. Said yep, I can see 'em and I also have your daddy's permission, just like I always had it from your grand pap.

That's when he figured out who I was, hadn't seen him in years. We're all good to go now.

Always ask his dad anyway, when I see him over there in the fall. He'll look at me, then finally say "I guess since dad left you hunt here, I suppose I have to"? Well, sure. Then I tell him he's getting more like his old man, the older he gets. His dad left very few people hunt deer on that farm and was an unpredictable old coot. Liked me ever since I was a little feller, for some reason?

[Dutch]

People like you Denny? Guess not everyone is put off by your scowls. Lol

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I will say this about the recent spate of hot weather. It was not as much of a pleasure working on the driveway out at camp Tuesday and Wednesday as I remember it being when I was in my 50s. Even at the top of the Laurel Highlands the temperature was in the upper 80s. I know. Yinz on the downslope suffered a lot more, right?

[dennyf]

Hotter than it needed to be, while up at camp. Hit 90 a few days again. Was gonna take another window A/C unit up, since it was also in the 90s over the Fourth. Decided not to. Son wasn't impressed with my decision, as he sleeps in the bedroom without A/C now. Poor baby.

What's this talk of scowling, Amos?

Actually had AT&T phone reception this year at the Potter reunion. Checked my phone late in the day while there, had several hits on Farcebook. First one up, me standing there earlier during the gathering, arms folded and scowling. One elderly cousin's grand daughter had posted it. Asked the girl's granny, how's come no one ever posts pics of me when I'm lookin' happy?

She said when the hell would that be?

[Dutch]

Those people know u to well Dennis

[dennyf]

[timberdoodle]

Well someone got their wish 43 when I got up this morning..still ain't broke 50 yet.

[dennyf]

Tad below 50 here this morning and pouring. Ain't got above 55 so far, still raining.

[timberdoodle]

no rain yet but I guess it's comin flood watch in effect till tomorrow night

[dennyf]

Looked at the weather radar online early this morning and about the only parts of PA not under the rain clouds, were the northern parts of McKean, Potter, Tioga and Bradford. This is becoming a big weather event and with the potential of the new hurricane coming in, might get pretty interesting by the end of next week?

Was out at the club this morning, getting ready for the start of our weekly block shoots tomorrow. Local small streams in our area are already high and rolling. If that storm moves in here at weeks end, ain't gonna be any place for more rain to go. Ground sure as hell ain't gonna absorb any more of it.

[timberdoodle]

Well you can color Northern Bradford in with clouds...just got in from my evening walk in the rain. Have yet to take the Lacrosse burleys off this year. Ran beagles Friday found plenty of water to drink and wallow in. Had bear tracks going through..probably looking for drier ground.

Went for a hike yesterday on 37 saw three real nice bucks still in velvet one woodcock and some turkeys the cooler weather had critters and me happier. No problem finding tracks with all the mud either

[dennyf]

According to my cousin, it's been the wettest summer he can remember in that part of Tioga County. Over labor day he was grumbling about how hard it's been to get hay in. Asked why he was concerned, since he hasn't baled any hay in the past two years?



My field never got cut this year, as of last week. Local "hay boy" did all the other fields around it, then moved his haybine back to his farm to second cut the lush alfalfa over there. I may have to mow a spot for my deer season trailer blind, come November?

Next up, will be grumbles about the corn, since many fields are quagmires and will be for some time. So wet and cold up there last spring, many fields were weeks behind schedule for planting and the corn looked pretty feeble over July Fourth. But the hot weather and heavy rains let 'em catch up in most places since then.

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Have you ever heard a farmer say something like, "Gee, the weather has been just great this year."? I haven't either.

[dennyf]

Well, with several dozen farmers in my clan and having been around 'em for most of my life, ummm NO.

Cousin that lives near camp is six months younger than me. As we're both only chilluns, we've been more like bros than cousins, all our lives. One year at a family gathering, an elderly relative commented that she thought we'd always seemed like brothers. Another cousin piped up, told her one of us hardly ever speaks, the other one never shuts the hell up.

Cousin bro hardly ever grumbles about anything, but for the weather. He gave up dairy farming years ago, was still doing hay until two years ago. Old habits are hard to break.