Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[muad]

Off today, thanks to our Veterans. If any are reading, Thank you for your service to our nation!

Hoping to get a few loads of wood in today. Have plenty bucked up down in the woods from last weekend, just need to get the splitter and trailer down there.

Will share some pics if I get'er done. 24-25's bay is almost full, maybe 1 or 2 trailer loads left, then it's on to a couple "orders" I have for some wood.

 

[WetBehindtheEar]

Hey Fellas - long time lurker.
We have a gravel lot where our city foresters drop off wood that is cut back from trails in our arboretum (giant city forest). Usually it's willow or poplar but all cut to *approximately* firewood length.
Sometimes, they'll drop cherry or hvbw, and sometimes its oak. Usually its stuff that's obviously been on the ground for months, possibly even years.
Yesterday, I rolled by and they had dropped a MOUNTAIN of firewood-length oak. Granted, much of it was punky on the outside but it was all barkless & cut to length. I went home & got my 5x8 single axle trailer & loaded it up. Pics when I get home from work.

 

[WetBehindtheEar]

Re:acquiring ammunition-
I'm definitely in the "5 rounds to sight-in, 1-3 rounds for the season" kinda guy.

Anybody have a good recommendation on a substitute for Winchester Ballistic Silvertip 30-06 in 168grain? My Model 700 really likes it & I'm pretty deadly with that round.
None of the stores around here (Farm & Fleet, Cabelas, Mills Fleet Farm) carry this. I've gotten it from Midway USA in the past but they're out of stock.

 

[rarefish383]

Any saw logs in the mix? It'd be a shame to waste something that big as firewood if there were.

I put 3 nice saw logs on my trailer to take to my neighbor in WV, he has a nice Bändmill. Thinks it's a Wood
Land.

 

[muad]

Local Rural King has had more ammo lately than they have in the past two years. Prices are coming down also. Picked up 1000 rounds of Augila 40gr Copper platted .22LR for $.067/round before tax. Cheapest I've seen in a while for good .22LR. Picked up a K for pops also.

About a month ago they have .38spl at $.40/round before tax. I bought all they for pops and I to run in the Henry's. It was just a plunking load, 158gr lead projectile IIRC. Federal brand. 9mm, .45ACP, and .223 are still high IMHO.

I talked to the kid behind the counter, and he said they even got in some .450Bushmaster, and it was only $29/box. That's almost down to pre-rona/election levels where it was $27/box. Online a month or so ago, it was $40/box. I snagged some at Fin Feather Fur for like $35 or $37 a couple months back.

Not saying I don't agree with your local GS owner, just sharing what I'm seeing locally.

This ain't cheap, but Barne's TSX projos perform very well.

https://www.sgammo.com/product/30-0...-hollow-point-barnes-tsx-federal-ammo-p3006af

 

[JustJeff]

Re:acquiring ammunition-
I'm definitely in the "5 rounds to sight-in, 1-3 rounds for the season" kinda guy.

Anybody have a good recommendation on a substitute for Winchester Ballistic Silvertip 30-06 in 168grain? My Model 700 really likes it & I'm pretty deadly with that round.
None of the stores around here (Farm & Fleet, Cabelas, Mills Fleet Farm) carry this. I've gotten it from Midway USA in the past but they're out of stock.

I had a rifle that hated Winchester ammo but loved Remington Corlokt. Just have to try different loads to see what your particular rifle likes best. Doesn't seem to make sense why groups from one load can be covered with a silver dollar and others look more like a shotgun pattern [emoji23].

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[WetBehindtheEar]

I had a rifle that hated Winchester ammo but loved Remington Corlokt. Just have to try different loads to see what your particular rifle likes best. Doesn't seem to make sense why groups from one load can be covered with a silver dollar and others look more like a shotgun pattern [emoji23].

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Thanks for the advice. My experience (CorLokt vs Winchester) is just the opposite. I wIish had the time (& $$$) to try four or five different brands of centerfire ammo. Opening day is next weekend & sight-in is this coming Wed. I've got enough for this year (15 rds) but next year will be tricky. I understand that failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

 

[WetBehindtheEar]

Hey Fellas - long time lurker.
We have a gravel lot where our city foresters drop off wood that is cut back from trails in our arboretum (giant city forest). Usually it's willow or poplar but all cut to *approximately* firewood length.
Sometimes, they'll drop cherry or hvbw, and sometimes its oak. Usually its stuff that's obviously been on the ground for months, possibly even years.
Yesterday, I rolled by and they had dropped a MOUNTAIN of firewood-length oak. Granted, much of it was punky on the outside but it was all barkless & cut to length. I went home & got my 5x8 single axle trailer & loaded it up. Pics when I get home from work.

As promised, the rounds are stacked two-deep by 8' and the other, smaller stack I gave to my neighbor who helped load the trailer.
The other two pics are of the wood pile.

 

[svk]

Local Rural King has had more ammo lately than they have in the past two years. Prices are coming down also. Picked up 1000 rounds of Augila 40gr Copper platted .22LR for $.067/round before tax. Cheapest I've seen in a while for good .22LR. Picked up a K for pops also.

About a month ago they had .38spl at $.40/round before tax. I bought all they for pops and I to run in the Henry's. It was just a plunking load, 158gr lead projectile IIRC. Federal brand. 9mm, .45ACP, and .223 are still high IMHO.

I talked to the kid behind the counter, and he said they even got in some .450Bushmaster, and it was only $29/box. That's almost down to pre-rona/election levels where it was $27/box. Online a month or so ago, it was $40/box. I snagged some at Fin Feather Fur for like $35 or $37 a couple months back.

Not saying I don't agree with your local GS owner, just sharing what I'm seeing locally.

From what I can tell, almost all of the ammo is ending up in large markets. We have nothing up here for most calibers outside of .223 and 9mm and what is available for other calibers is triple price.

Guys in Minneapolis are saying things there are the same way you are describing.

 

[svk]

Re:acquiring ammunition-
I'm definitely in the "5 rounds to sight-in, 1-3 rounds for the season" kinda guy.

Anybody have a good recommendation on a substitute for Winchester Ballistic Silvertip 30-06 in 168grain? My Model 700 really likes it & I'm pretty deadly with that round.
None of the stores around here (Farm & Fleet, Cabelas, Mills Fleet Farm) carry this. I've gotten it from Midway USA in the past but they're out of stock.

I’m very partial to nosler partition. Also no complaints with Remington core lokt

 

[chipper1]

We have nothing up here for most calibers outside of .223 and 9mm and what is available for other calibers is triple price.

What else do you need .
I've seen the prices on everything but the 9 and 223 continue to drop in price even online. Some of the more specialty rounds(like personal protection/competition) even in 9 and 223 have started to come down.

 

[JustJeff]

Thanks for the advice. My experience (CorLokt vs Winchester) is just the opposite. I wIish had the time (& $$$) to try four or five different brands of centerfire ammo. Opening day is next weekend & sight-in is this coming Wed. I've got enough for this year (15 rds) but next year will be tricky. I understand that failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

It's funny, my Winchester liked Remington ammo and your Remington likes Winchester ammo...it's almost as if they're in cahoots!

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[Wombat Ranger]

This thread is a bit of an eye opener for me. Where I live we drive pickup trucks into the mountains with chains, straps, cables, & blocks to scrounge deadwood, preferably of the standing variety.

And I've never even heard of ATV hours. What I hate is those stupid 25 thousand dollar neon colored golf carts all the city faggits bring out and drive around drunk at night down my 2 mile private road. Making me chase them down to tell them to stay out. They all go away after labor day though. Life is good in the winter.

 

[woodchip rookie]

This thread is a bit of an eye opener for me. Where I live we drive pickup trucks into the mountains with chains, straps, cables, & blocks to scrounge deadwood, preferably of the standing variety.

And I've never even heard of ATV hours. What I hate is those stupid 25 thousand dollar neon colored golf carts all the city faggits bring out and drive around drunk at night down my 2 mile private road. Making me chase them down to tell them to stay out. They all go away after labor day though. Life is good in the winter.

In alot of places we dont have to go into the woods. Trees come down everywhere.

 

[Brufab]

Local Rural King has had more ammo lately than they have in the past two years. Prices are coming down also. Picked up 1000 rounds of Augila 40gr Copper platted .22LR for $.067/round before tax. Cheapest I've seen in a while for good .22LR. Picked up a K for pops also.

About a month ago they had .38spl at $.40/round before tax. I bought all they for pops and I to run in the Henry's. It was just a plunking load, 158gr lead projectile IIRC. Federal brand. 9mm, .45ACP, and .223 are still high IMHO.

I talked to the kid behind the counter, and he said they even got in some .450Bushmaster, and it was only $29/box. That's almost down to pre-rona/election levels where it was $27/box. Online a month or so ago, it was $40/box. I snagged some at Fin Feather Fur for like $35 or $37 a couple months back.

Not saying I don't agree with your local GS owner, just sharing what I'm seeing locally.

Was it a century arms k?

 

[SS396driver]

This thread is a bit of an eye opener for me. Where I live we drive pickup trucks into the mountains with chains, straps, cables, & blocks to scrounge deadwood, preferably of the standing variety.

And I've never even heard of ATV hours. What I hate is those stupid 25 thousand dollar neon colored golf carts all the city faggits bring out and drive around drunk at night down my 2 mile private road. Making me chase them down to tell them to stay out. They all go away after labor day though. Life is good in the winter.

Caught two citiots on ATVs on my property yesterday with crossbows. They were setting up a tree stand on my back property. They insisted they were on state land I pulled the keys off their quads and called DEP ,they came and escorted them off my property . The bastards took down two of my signs and made a path through my stone wall . The wall is my property line with my neighbor so they came across his field to my property. My neighbors has 30 acres that boarder state lands.

Have them wandering around all summer into hunting season . Winter is very peaceful here.

 

[GeeVee]

This thread is a bit of an eye opener for me. Where I live we drive pickup trucks into the mountains with chains, straps, cables, & blocks to scrounge deadwood, preferably of the standing variety.

And I've never even heard of ATV hours. What I hate is those stupid 25 thousand dollar neon colored golf carts all the city faggits bring out and drive around drunk at night down my 2 mile private road. Making me chase them down to tell them to stay out. They all go away after labor day though. Life is good in the winter.

Too Funny, I live on the beach, and my town has turned into a golf cart haven, so I have to deal with drunk yuppies NOT EVEN stopping for stop signs, blaring cuntry pop out of the speakers (they can't have a conversation), and giving motor vehicles the stink eye for being motor vehicles on the road. I always have one trailer or the other in tow, and my ASV does not like being crowded. The worst part is after dark, they let their teenagers drive them- unlicensed- music changes, and they use the sidewalks alot.

The side by sides? Fortunately, my ranch is private enough I dont see them, and the fire breaks are camera-ed, and the retiree who owns so much of the land around and behind me, is both grouchy and "don't give a ****" and rich enough to set a wet carpet on fire with $100 mbiulls as kindling, that he would take care of any of them ********. They are self limiting at least. They figure they can submarine them, and go through anything. They can't, wind up getting towed back to their trailer, and then you don't see them for weeks or more.

 

[MustangMike]

I had to post my Upstate property yesterday after getting reports of a guy coming through my property with a side by side to go hunting.

Years ago there was a group of hunters on my property (2 vehicle loads) and after numerous requests, they would not leave (they tried to tell me that they had permission from my father).

I finally got sick of it, went up to one of them and told him I was going to my cabin to have lunch. If you are not gone by the time I am done, your vehicles (which were parked on my property) will look like Swiss Cheese.

After lunch, they were gone.

 

[Brufab]

Caught two citiots on ATVs on my property yesterday with crossbows. They were setting up a tree stand on my back property. They insisted they were on state land I pulled the keys off their quads and called DEP ,they came and escorted them off my property . The bastards took down two of my signs and made a path through my stone wall . The wall is my property line with my neighbor so they came across his field to my property. My neighbors has 30 acres that boarder state lands.

Have them wandering around all summer into hunting season . Winter is very peaceful here.

That's crazy and pretty brazen. I never walk on property I don't own or have permission to be on. Don't want it to be where I'm buried. Not all guys are as nice as you.

 

[SS396driver]

Have had the guys claiming the owner gave them permission . I have permission from both neighbors to be on their property . I usually say " oh Bill or Jim gave you permission ?" Niether the correct names 99% of the time they say yup.