Displaced Texan

Kind of an amusing morning…I thought some of you hunters might enjoy this… Our new house in Texas backs up on a nice little grove of live oak trees, and there are quite a few deer back there. Earlier this morning I was having my coffee on the back porch, watching ‘my’ deer in the yard. Literally 10-15 yards away from me. Kind of relaxing. To put it all in perspective, the last pic is a full view from my patio into the backyard. The deer really are close to the house. I had 3 bucks, and 2 does hanging out, pretty oblivious to me. A ‘basket rack’ (high tines but not very wide) 8 point, a 4 point, and a spike buck were all sniffing around the does. I couldn’t grab my phone fast enough, but the 8 point put his head down and charged the spike, who wasn’t having any of that! He ran off with his tail tucked. The 4 point is watching intently, I doubt he’s going to tangle with the bigger buck, but when the rut kicks into full swing, that might be fun to watch! We also have a MUCH bigger buck that hangs out here too. Big 8 point, with a pretty wide rack. He must be sleeping in this morning. I imagine there will be a fight between some of these bucks soon. If I can capture it on video, I will. Kinda neat to watch deer politics.

We have about a dozen that pass through our backyard at various times of the day. That big buck beds down right behind our house, literally 25’ from my porch. Wife (and the community regulations) say I can’t shoot them. That’s frowned upon, I guess. Damn it.

Lol. And those deer are at my house in the suburbs! I think the deer at the ranch should be about ready to rut. I need to get out there in the next couple of weeks.

These two guys are 25’ from my house right now. I think there is gonna be a fight.

I’d rather not burn down my ranch, thanks.

We can get a hog hunt together any time. No seasons, no bag limits. Take all you want, don’t bring ‘em back. Deer, probably next fall.

Dropped off the barrel to a local gunsmith to be cut down to 20”. I plan on getting busy on the wood this weekend. I’m just going to sand it all down to bare wood, and put a simple oil finish on it. K.I.S.S., as it’s just gonna be a beater trunk gun.

Sat on the patio this morning and rubbed down the receiver with oil and steel wool, and removed the surface rust. All while watching a big 8 point buck sniff around some does. It’s clean enough for my purposes, I won’t bother with rattle canning it, I’ll leave it as is. I’ll get to work on the stock later.

Meat to bun ratio is important.

Im bound and determined to bring this old shotgun back to life. I received the parts I needed from www.gunpartscorp.com, and went to work. About 15 mins of fiddling around got it all together, and it seems to work properly. I replaced the forend, as the original one was cracked. I could have probably repaired it, but the original replacement part was only $25. Why not. Tomorrow, I’m going to take it all apart again and clean the snot out of everything, and steel wool the surface rust off. I’ll also sand the stock down and fill the dents, dings, and chips. I’m not going to do a fancy finish on it, maybe a little stain and an oil finish. Keep it simple. That will make a nice little Sunday morning project while I watch the bucks chase the does in my backyard. I haven’t researched a smith to cut down the barrel to 20” yet. That’s a problem for another day.

Holy crap!!!!!!! They damn well better be taking care of that!

I know you could use a simple A2x flash hider, you might be able to use a standard A2, not 100% sure about that. There are tons of devices out there. Check SureFire as well, they may have something suitable for your purposes.

While you are blocking mags, I am unblocking them. Just for reference, this is how my Pmags were done. Baseplates were epoxied on, and pinned. Also unpinning AR stocks.

I’ll PM you

Are you using a moving company?

Ain’t that a surprise. A liberal shithole that’s run by a liberal idiot. And they have a violence problem. I’m sensing a pattern.

Nah, just was thinking of building another 14.5” carbine

Couldn’t have had that barrel for sale a week ago, could you?

Joe is a pervert who should be in jail with his depraved son.

Irony much, Alec?

Looks like a 1911 and a High Power had a kid! That’s sexy as hell.

No receipts required, don’t worry about it. I brought in several guns when I moved here from Texas. I don’t have receipts for what I bought while living here either .