Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[WoodAbuser]

Good Morning All, Hope everyone is doing well.

 

[svk]

I have not ever used the all copper bullets before. I hear they work quite well.

Back in the days before the Internet I had bought a box of 30 caliber X bullets but then I read somewhere that you had to use different loading data because they were longer than the traditional lead and copper bullets and therefore caused more case pressure. Since the Internet wasn’t available And I didn’t want to spend $30 to buy the Barnes reloading manual for one loading, they were shelved and lost somewhere in space. They are probably floating around in my garage somewhere, or ended up at my exes house lol.

As I mentioned before I’ve always had good luck with Nosler partition and Hornady soft points. And I’ve had bad luck with Nosler ballistic tip so I’m not using those anymore.

 

[MustangMike]

I believe the Hodgdon website and Nosler website will both provide reloading data with the copper bullets.

The Barnes bullets are not bad, because of the "cut out belts" and allow they use the date is pretty much the same, but the Hornady solid bullets seem to increase pressure fast. With all copper, I try not to use maximum weight (to reduce bullet length), ie 168 grain 30 cal instead of 180 grain.

My ballistic testing with the Barnes sold me on them. Hopefully, the loads you got with the gun have the recipe!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I think I've mentioned in here before, that I started shooting the .338-06 in the 70's and ended up building a .338-06 dedicated brown bear rifle right after that, I never had to do any altering from 30-06 to .338-06 to get any of them to feed/function properly. Anyway, here it is,

I had switched it to clip fed, but I never liked it as it's just something else to lose and worse yet, in everyday use, the clip requires a shorter OAL in bullet seating.

Anyway, I haven't shot this rifle in years.

SR

Edit in: I had to correct my statement to "clip" fed.

 

[MustangMike]

Nice gun. A drop box magazine will not have the same problems as a clip fed rifle.

 

[MustangMike]

I meant to say the Barnes website, not Nosler!

Nosler will not show Barnes bullets!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Nice gun. A drop box magazine will not have the same problems as a clip fed rifle.

Thanks, it's been a good rifle, and has literally put tons of meat in my freezer, 250NP's and 275 Speers really puts the bigger big game down!

I switched it over to clip, still no problems, no matter magazine fed is the way to go for me.

SR

 

[farmer steve]

@LondonNeil. Sorry to hear about the death of the Queen. She was a great lady.

 

[JustJeff]

Treated myself to a birthday gift yesterday…270 Weatherby mag with a 30 mm long distance scope.

I wanted a flat shooting rifle set up for long distance shooting for a long time and didn’t want to separate the Redfield 3 to 9 off of my dad’s 7MM Weatherby (as to keep it in the condition he left it) to upgrade so this is perfect.

My ex (who is the poster child of frivolous spending) always gave me a hard time because I bought a birthday gift for myself. Call me shallow, but I’ve been called worse lol.

Came with 50 rounds of 130 grain Barnes TSX bullets.
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That's a sharp looking tool!

 

[stillhunter]

So I "saw" a few large branches on the ground that broke off from a HUGE willow oak months ago in a yard downtown and the house was not occupied. There was caution tape and police tape around the mass of branches and I drive by it ever day going to work and coming back home. So had the day off and I decided to go and get up the limbs. I put on a long sleeve Hi-vis shirt and a hat to look legit and went to cutting.....



Then I sawed as fast as I could and took a load home....

I cut it up in the driveway....
Stacked it and went back. A truck pulled into the parking lot and 2 guys got out and walked to me as was about to start the saw. They were there to survey the big oak and a few other trees to take some branches off them. I told him I'm cutting limbs for firewood and he was fine w that so I cut the rest and left.

The tree is HUGE!


Most of the big limbs were on the concrete and I had to cut carefully and flip them to finish the cuts.

 

[svk]

Pretty soon I’ll have to bust out the reloading desk again and start reloading. I got a bunch of 06 and 08 rounds this spring including a bunch of modest loads for my Garand. Need to do up some 243 and 7 MM 08 for the kids rifles.

We have an early deer hunt from October 20th to the 23rd for the kids. The area where my cabin is buck only but we did apply for doe permits around my house and family property.

 

[JimR]

I hate Beech trees. After cutting down at least a dozen of these I decided that I hate them. There are way too many branches on them. They are a pain to drop in a thick forest due to the huge spread of the branches. They get hung up on everything. Lastly you have to be darn careful when cutting any branch on the lower half of the trees. They act like springboards and will come back and nail you in the legs. The only safe way to cut them off is 5 - 6 feet off the tree trunk and let the stub spring. Then cut that part off the tree trunk. I'll be glad when I get all if these down. I think I have about 40 - 50 more to go.

 

[svk]

For those of you know who know vehicles…

If an 04 Chevy pick up with a 5.3 is having erratic oil pressure readings and is spiking up to 80 psi, would that be this pressure sending unit?

 

[chipper1]

For those of you know who know vehicles…

If an 04 Chevy pick up with a 5.3 is having erratic oil pressure readings and is spiking up to 80 psi, would that be this pressure sending unit?

Probably the step motor in the gauge cluster, which needs to be changed. We have a local guy I use for rebuilding the whole cluster, he's cheap (125 a couple yrs ago) and he does all of the step motors and the lights.

The sensor/sending unit could be bad, if you replace it you also need to replace the filter under it while you're in there.
Didn't we talk about this before.
And where's @MechanicMike at?
Language alert .

 

[svk]

Funny, when the shop did this on my Yukon, they pulled the intake.

 

[chipper1]

Funny, when the shop did this on my Yukon, they pulled the intake.

Didn't I post a similar video before too.
Did the sensor/sending unifix the Yukon.

 

[Cowboy254]

@LondonNeil. Sorry to hear about the death of the Queen. She was a great lady.

Indeed she was. An amazing lady and a great loss.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Nice gun. A drop box magazine will not have the same problems as a clip fed rifle.

I have two Sako L61R's that belonged to my dad. One in 06 the other in .338. they are both older than I am. He gave me the 06 when I was 16, and I got the .338 when he passed. Both are great rifles. However I retired them a few years back because I can be hard on rifles and I was constantly wiping them down every night on my hunts because of the salt air environment on the Island. So I bought a couple stainless Savage's. Also in 06 and .338 I can beat the piss out of them and not be as nearly concerned about it like
I am with my dads Sako's.

Anyways, I like the trap door magazine's on the Sako's and never had an issue with them. The Savages both have detachable box magazine's. I Stihl haven't made up my mind on the detachable mags. The first thing I did was order a spare for both rifles though. I do like the fact that I can carry a loaded spare mag in my pocket rather than loose bullets rattling around. I had to use a piece of the plastic cartridge holders that come with boxes of factory ammo to prevent cartridges from rattling in the pockets when I hunted with the Sako's. Also, a spare box mag makes for much faster reloading if need be. I haven't had to experience a fast reload yet. Not when it really mattered anyways, but a friend of mine did on a bear that charged him. I do remember him saying he really didn't like how long it took to reload the trap door mag when the bear was Stihl trashing around after three or four hits from a .300WM! Thats the only downside to a trap door mag that I can see. Is the slower reloading.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Well I couldn't sleep so I got up early this morning and thought I'd post a couple pics of some severely worn chains. Worn to the point of becoming dangerous. In fact, one of them parted on me the other day while making a face cut!



Now I haven't parted many chain's! Only two that I can remember, maybe three. This one parted at the splice. Possibly due to too much pressure to fast when I spun it, but Im not sure. Im thinking it's more likely due to the insane torque and horsepower my Modified 661 makes!!! Anyways, on a more serious note. If you look closely. You can see the thinning of the drive links. This is 3/8 .50g, I typically always run .63g but with the shortage of light weight bars right now. All I could find at the time in 32" was Stihl LW bars in .50g so I took what I could get. Begger's can't be choosers! However, as you can clearly see. The drive link isn't what parted. The side strap did. Witch would also be the same thickness on a 3/8 .63g chain.

This is a different chain that hasn't parted "YET", and it won't because I've chosen to stop running it before it dose part!
If you look closely at the drivers and straps on this chian. You'll see a tremendous amount of ware compared to a new chain.
Just something to be aware of.

Also, the bar is Stihl in great shape. Witch tells me its getting plenty of oil, and it should be because I've got the oiler cranked all the way open!

And yes, I know the gullets need removing. I've already removed them twice on both chains! I will take them out again if and before fir some reason. I end up using these chains as back ups.
"If" I run out of good chain, and can't get another spool. Hopefully That won't happen!

Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

 

[Lionsfan]

I hate Beech trees. After cutting down at least a dozen of these I decided that I hate them. There are way too many branches on them. They are a pain to drop in a thick forest due to the huge spread of the branches. They get hung up on everything. Lastly you have to be darn careful when cutting any branch on the lower half of the trees. They act like springboards and will come back and nail you in the legs. The only safe way to cut them off is 5 - 6 feet off the tree trunk and let the stub spring. Then cut that part off the tree trunk. I'll be glad when I get all if these down. I think I have about 40 - 50 more to go.

Be thankful, those top-heavy, twisted up Beech trees are top-shelf firewood. I've seen how hard some of these guys work to get there hands on stuff that I wouldn't give a second look.