What did YOU do today?

[Jim Oaks]

My wife has this thing for clocks... yes I said clocks.

1000 sqft house... 10 clocks.

It's fall back tonight... so I changed batteries in the smoke alarms and set all the clocks.

My 12 year old humor wanted to edit your post and remove the 'L' from clocks.

 

[Uncle Gump]

My 12 year old humor wanted to edit your post and remove the 'L' from clocks.

Well... you wouldn't be...

Never mind...

 

[SenorNoob]

Finished mowing the yard and cleaned the mower up for winter.

Sealed up the vents in the foundation that I think allow my water lines to freeze when it gets really cold. (Yes, I'm aware that cold here is nothing compared to you guys up north. But I have problems when the high is below freezing for more than 3 days.)

Found the source of the burning smell on my bike.

Exhaust hanger broke and dropped enough to start melting the rear tire. It's all good now.

Fixed air pressure in mom's car tires, checked the fluids, and cleaned out her cabin air filter.

Oh, and put my registration sticker on.

 

[racsan]

went & picked up 8 bags of softner salt, its up to $10.25 for a 40# bag now. met my daughter & her family for a late lunch/early dinner at a new place in her town. Then stopped on the way home for a little bingo at a fire station fundraiser near where I live then back home to vacuum seal up some pork & hamburger for the deep freezer.

 

[Jazzer]

^If you have a Menards near you, they have 40lb bags for less than $5.00

 

[rumblecloud]

I've been working on replacing the negative battery cable on the Ranger for about a week now, working on it a little at a time when I had time. You'd think that would be a simple hour job: Pull the old one, attach the new one at the post and the other end at the starter. Attach the ground cable to the radiator core mount and done. Cept there are four grounds and one of them is tied to the negative battery cable and anchored to the frame with a circular rubber coated clip behind the spring. You can't even see it let alone get to it. And of course the bolt that holds it in place is rusted to hell. It also sits right next to the brake line so grinding it off is a bit touchy.
Off comes the fender and the fender liner so I can see and get to the bolt with a cut-off wheel and die grinder to punch a new hole in the frame --- what a PIA.
But it's ready to be put back together now so I'm kinda happy about that.

 

[JoshT]

The vice jaws with the original.steel jaws lying on top.

That looks familiar. I think I've got either the same one or the next size down (4" jaw) here at the house. Was actually a "freebie" from work. Guys out here have a habit of destroying vices. I couldn't tell you how many broken vice jaws I've seen over the years. Rather than having a proper press they clamp stuff in a vicen then proceed to pound on it with a sledge. On this one someone managed to break the jack screw, but the jaws were good. They stuck it on top of the lockers in the mens room and it sat there for years. One day when we were cleaning up the building getting ready to move to a different hangar, the vice ended up in the trunk of my car.

Ordered and got the parts to repair it, but will probably get the body stripped and powder coated before I reassemble it. Then I'll need to build a work bench or something to mount it on. It won't be free when I finish, but a damn sight cheaper that I'd have bought an equivalent new vice for.

 

[JoshT]

Today I basically wasted a day, but it was a good waste of the day. Drove out to the hunting property last night, stayed the night and went into the woods this morning. It was about too warm ffor comfort and I didn't see anything. Got out of the stand at about 10:30 to find that dad had gotten two this morning. We got those cleaned, packed up and went home.

I'd have liked to get one myself, but the shape that dad is in he didn't need to stay out there any longer and he would have if I did. Doesn't really matter to me if I don't get one. I like the eating, but don't care much about the hunting. I mostly go because he enjoys it, but it would be nice to have something to show for the money I spend on club dues and time I spend out there.

There's two months left to go and weather will get better, so there's still time to get some more meat in the freezer.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Went hunting at my brothers first, over an hour standing where I thought I would see a 3 point (6 point for you guys east of the rockies) with no dice... then wandered through the woods and saw a doe then another doe and a buck following it that turned out to be a small spike, had his forehead in the crosshairs for a long while deciding... then went to my normal hunting grounds with a buddy, didn't see anything for a couple hours but ended up seeing about 10 deer, had a fork in the crosshairs but he darted out half a second before I could get ready...

Oh, oddly enough that I bought the arbor press yesterday, today one of the pins on my sling swivel on my hunting rifle disappeared and it's a cheap sling that has sewn in swivels not replaceable easy so I got home mid day and installed a roll pin with the arbor press... realize now I need to take the collar off the one end so I can index the handle easier...

 

[JoshT]

3 point (6 point for you guys east of the rockies)

What, do y'all only count one side over there? If that's the case what do you do with a non-typical (when both sides aren't a match)?

 

[Uncle Gump]

What, do y'all only count one side over there? If that's the case what do you do with a non-typical (when both sides aren't a match)?

That's pretty typical out west. Even antler restrictions in Michigan state 3 or more points on one side. They do score the overall though...

 

[JoshT]

That's pretty typical out west. Even antler restrictions in Michigan state 3 or more points on one side. They do score the overall though...

We have antler restrictions here as well, though they might not be as strict. In GA you're allowed 2 bucks per year and one must be "4 point or better on one side". Might be an atypical 7 point or a typical 8 point, but we call it what it is, not what one side is. One that dad got yesterday was a 9 point, had an extra tine on the left.

 

[scotts90ranger]

What, do y'all only count one side over there? If that's the case what do you do with a non-typical (when both sides aren't a match)?

whichever is bigger...

It used to be more complicated but a couple years ago spikes became legal, before that the verbiage said something like one side with a visible fork...

The black tail we have over here are different than the tiny white tail you have over in other parts of the country and the antlers don't get near as crazy as the mule deer, I've been to one of the bass pro shops that had a museum of atypicals and some of those are crazy...

This is the last weekend of season, ends Friday. This morning so far I saw two deer hauling ass away from something (perpendicular from me at about 200 yards) while I was standing in the middle of a field next to a reelgun (irrigation) then walked into the woods where I saw some yesterday and apparently one saw me but I didn't see it since I heard it stumble to get away about 75 yards away in some timber...

 

[JoshT]

The black tail we have over here are different than the tiny white tail

You might need to change you perspective on what a whitetail is.

Google searching puts weight for mature blacktails being 140-200 lb for bucks and 90-130 for does. Granted those numbers were from a Washington state and they can get bigger.

The 9 point that dad got yesterday was 190lbs live weight. I want to say that the 8 I got last year was similar in size, but I'd have to check the logs next time I'm at the property. Both of the 10 pointers that he mounted in the past were 180lbs dressed, so probably around 220 live weight. These were by no means the biggest deer in the area. They aren't even the bigest that have come off of the property we hunt. Just the biggest that we gotten an opportunity to shoot at.

The doe he got was a small one, about 95lb live weight. Most fall within the same weight range as your blacktails. We've gotten many over the years were at or exceeded 130lbs. He probably would have let this one walk if the buck had stepped out first, but that didn't happen and there was no deer left in the freezer since we didn't really get to hunt last year.

Sure, Florida has some pathetic sized whitetails, they should probably be considered another subspecies. Don't know what the coastal regions and plains states are like. Size varies by region, but those anemic deer aren't a good example of what a whitetail can be. Many Floridians leave the state to hunt because of it. That's actually a problem for us here in GA, we loose a lot of leases and hunting area due to Floridians coming up and being willing/able to pay a lot more than we can afford.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Hunting here in Illinois is a rich man's sport too.

Even southern Michigan has gone that way. Luckily northern Michigan still had several million acres of publicly accessible land to hunt for free.