This week was I spent a lot of time trialing my Sawyer Bucket Kit and enjoyed the success. Most important thing in putting the kit together is screwing the Sawyer on TIGHT. If not strong enough per instructions use a pair of pliers or channel locks.
Spent some time testing an 80% lower. I am very happy to report that it worked great. I installed a complete lower parts kit and stock/buffer tube. No extended testing but it shot great. The lower came from 80-lower.com.
Here are a few pictures:
……and a picture of me while on the range testing the 80% lower.
So – what have you done this past week?
JR
Been hitting the sales and using coupons to add to our stockpile. We were lacking in the fruit department. Overall just getting more organized around the house in case we have to grab and go.
Went to retreat location this past weekend. Cut firewood to restock woodshed, mapped trails and security locations, continued training with family. All in all a great time to be in the woods
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Getting the drip irrigation going in the garden. Wonder why I didn’t do this long ago. Really works great. Have a number of smaller, not small, trees on the ground from a clearing operation I did a couple of weeks ago. Seems like every summer I end up splitting wood. Expanding the chicken yard to allow for larger flock. Will add a section for the guinea hens. They are natures answer to bugs, flies, slugs, spiders, ticks, snakes and rodents. Once up a size, I’ll let them free range in the garden and the rest of the homestead. They also act as an alarm. Anything they don’t recognize gets they upset and start their alarm. Not a very active week. Diabetes has me down from my once norm of 12 hour days to 4 hour days.
Garage sale time – found a couple of cases of various size canning jars, a water bath canning pot with lids and rings. Added some Flour, Salt, Sugar, Honey, Spices, Yeast, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Powdered Milk and Vinegar. Added 10 gallons of water, ordered a Sawyer bucket kit and 5 cans chicken and 5 cans tuna. Added 1000 rounds of 7.62X.25. Raining here daily curtailing outdoor activities. Keep Looking UP!
Getting together new guys tear off, blow out bag (CAT, decompression needle,Israeli bandages, chest seals, penlight, quickclot roll, scissors, scalpel & blades, naso tube) and adding to med tools/supplies (needle holders, hemostats,sutures, needles) also waiting for help to get the new 410W solar frame up on the battery house roof. Planning tower/pole for 400W wind turbine trying to get one of the out buildings independent of power/water. Adding night sites to my .45 and extended bolt release to one of my shotguns. 200 training .300BLK and 400 .308 for storage and Long distance 1000M bucket list goal. Seems like a lot, but things are kinda stagnant really.
Its finally time to start moving plants outside to the garden as well as getting direct sows into the ground. Went to Wal-Mart Friday and found bricks of .22LR they’re still scarce around here so I picked up one brick and 40rds of 7.62X39
added rile and 00 ammo.. added canned goods, added seeds, added for cold weather garden seed, completed roof, gutter and 320 gal rain catchment. I wanted to catch the planned rain storms this week. lots of garden stuff.. weeds,, I HATE weeding.. Planting 3 sisters this week. (no I didn’t kill nuns) 🙂 It’s what they call planting corn beans and squash together.. The corn grows up and the beans crawl of the corn and the (squash or pumpkins are ground cover … Prepping the missuses car for her road trip.. Lots of reading and learning about snares.. (thanks to JR), Doesn’t sound like much I suppose.. this whole working thing is really cramping my preps. OK .. back to hot house .. a hand augured well is next .. that ought to be a hoot.. and AFFORDABLE DC Deep well Pump.. man!. Need my own water to be off county supplied water. and watching silver for a low spot .. to pull that trigger again..
We still aren’t organized (the boy’s moving plans have hit a major snag), but I finally cornered my daughter and made her help me document our food stores!
Great Photo John-emergency preparedness remains a disciplined state of mind. We are
never perfect on this subject. Being a deep woodsman, there is so much available to
augment family security in bushcraft. There is an encyclopedia of home-made and valuable information on You-tube. For instance, building highly effective fish traps, etc.
I kindly recommend Paul Kirtley, UK, on bushcraft.
Best Regards Friends
Jim-Member Live Free
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We spent the weekend at our second location, testing out sensor lights we installed last trip. Tested new car beds for the dogs. Road tested newly repaired Jeep Cherokee; works great, but still some lingering suspension issues. it bottoms out too easily at high speed on rough highway.
Oh, and we saw ‘Night of the Comet’ on the big screen in PA.
Indiana Joe if it’s a XJ check the springs are sagging, I ended up just recently put Monroe ride adjust sensi-tracks on the back and it has stopped the bottoming out. I also am getting rid of the 235’s & going back to the 225’s (standard rims) for better handling & MPG. The 235’s were also rubbing against the plastic fender when bottoming out.
Thanks for the tip! I will look into the springs.
Practiced with my fairly new Sig P229 (9mm) putting several rounds through it. This is the third time I have shot it and I am not happy with it. I have a Sg 45 caliber that I love but not the 9mm. It is the trigger pull that I don’t like; too hard to pull. Does anyone have any advice on this or know of a reliable website where I could order a new trigger with less pull? Perhaps should have placed this on the Q&A weekly, sorry.
Fred – Are you referring to the initial double action pull as the issue or the lighter single action pull?
Lighter single action pull.
I would suggest taking to a gunsmith and asking about it. You may be able to do a little work with a file/stone to smooth it out but beyond that either SIg themselves or a competent gunsmith. I had a Sig 9mm – different model – hated the trigger pull. Wasn’t heavy just long.
Thanks JR.