Recent content by Foxtrot1
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Anybody Buying Yet? Where’s the Bottom?
We've lost 6-7 major mills across the region since spring. Both fiber and dimensional lumber sawmills. Pulpmills continue the trend of moving offshore. We haven’t protected the market to try to keep it here, while dimensional lumber imports get tariffs to drive their price up. With the loss of...- Foxtrot1
- Post #6,221
- Forum: Money and Finances
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Anybody Buying Yet? Where’s the Bottom?
Can't really say what this means as far as long term implications, but the forest industry is in free fall in the wood basket of the world. Just lost another large mill in the region yesterday. In meetings with dealers, they expect equipment foreclosures to skyrocket in the next 60 days...- Foxtrot1
- Post #6,218
- Forum: Money and Finances
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What are you currently reloading?
Prepping for upcoming safari. 9.3x62 with nosler 286 grain partitions and 7x57 with 175 grain partitions. Both at roughly 2450 fps (20" barrel on 7x57).- Foxtrot1
- Post #557
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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Lipsey’s Ak Bush rifle- 9.3x62
Ramshot big game works well with heavy bullets in the 9.3. Here's John Barsnes data from reloaded mag. Loads are hot. They are pushed to 30-06 pressures so work up slowly. -
Gunsmithing lessons
1st 2 groups with factory Norma whitetail 150 grain ammo @100 yards. A little testing with other brands or some loading development for handloads and these would tighten up. I think its gonna work out for her. -
Hunting Rifle Triggers
Most of my rifles have timeny triggers set to either 1.5 or 2.5#s. I like a slightly heavier pull on my rifles set up for close range, like my 9.3x57- Foxtrot1
- Post #29
- Forum: Gear, Gear Deals & Gear Talk
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Gunsmithing lessons
The stock was shortened, thinned, then pillar bedded. It got a new recoil pad and a brass insert to stiffen forend if she uses a bipod. I finished the metal with wheeler cerama coat. I made a redneck oven out of a 50 gallon drum. It worked pretty well. Wood was finished with marine grade... -
Gunsmithing lessons
This one has taken me a couple of years to finish, working on it off and on. Started life as a 1908 mauser barreled action I got off gunbroker for $220 and an old fajen stock off ebay for $70. My friend Ann is on the smaller side, so guns never fit her. I wanted to build her a rifle that's... -
History....
For the vast majority of human existence, feeding your family meant sticking one of these into a large angry animal. A good friend knapped these as a gift. Clovis, Folsom, and some other paleo styles. Holding them is awe-inspiring, realizing how these points were revolutionary in their day...- Foxtrot1
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- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Tubes off grinder or vacuum sealer for ground meat?
What chamber vac are you using? We are looking at upgrading our sealer- Foxtrot1
- Post #10
- Forum: Recipes and Wild Game Cooking
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US and Israel attack Iran
And now there's talks of "liberating Cuba"- Foxtrot1
- Post #99
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Cementum aged critters - Let’s see them..
Just got the results. 4.5 years old- Foxtrot1
- Post #280
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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What are your 2026 Outdoor Plans
March-Hog hunt in TX May- plains game in South Africa Pending draw results: TN sandhill crane Wy pronghorn/fishing trip AL deer hunts If I scrub on the draws, maybe great lakes salmon or steelhead or Canada walleye/ pike fishing? Depends on who's interested- Foxtrot1
- Post #56
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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2026 sasuage and processing thread
I fermented it roughly 30 hrs before smoking. That lowers the pH and gives summer sausage its "twang", also prevents listiria. So the smoking does pasteurize and stop that process. After smoking the hanging dries it, which increases salt content. Between that, pH, and curing salt it becomes...- Foxtrot1
- Post #97
- Forum: Recipes and Wild Game Cooking
