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the obsrver said:
What is everyone working on? I have been laid up for awhile with an injury and am getting pretty bored out of my mind. It is spring and time to rock and roll, so it is taking a toll on me. Help a brother out and tell me what you all have been up to.
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Well then get better soon! Was bored once in life, not happening again!
Here? Fitting leather holster. Tying up loose ends. Lot of yardwork. Thinking of creative ways to get rid of moles. Wondering if landmines might work? Am kidding.... Obviously barring that, wondering if thermal vision scope on a 22 might work? Maybe good excuse to get one? Sort of lame excuse, but? :) Things are worse than armadillos tearing up yard.
 
A curly maple chest/trunk for my living room. I found a guy selling rough cut stuff with a good figure for $6.50 per board foot. I'll take that price and run with it right now. It's fun to actually break out the table saw, jack plane, and planer and really finish the lumber. It's tedious but it adds a lot to the feeling of having made something.

I hope you recover soon.
 
First up is a 3 light sliding glass door ( the 2 outside doors will slide, the center door is stationary.) I got an excellent deal from a wholesaler on the door as it was apparently for a project someone never got to so it was deeply discounted. Then ban boards and the frame for a large deck across the length of the back of my house. I'm holding off on everything except the 2x10 ban boards right now due to the cost of lumber. Then I have to move a window in the wall adjacent to where I am installing the door ( I should mention there is currently not a door where I am putting the 3 light slider so it will require a temporary support wall and framing in with a header). Then I will be ready to side the house. Eventually the deck is going to stretch out to the small landing I built on my workshop/shed so I have to design it modularly.


Other than that I'm just waiting for the ok from the wife to spend more money on gun parts to finish my AR pistol and figure out what to do with one of the 2 stripped lowers sitting in my safe. Probably not happening soon. Well, I will finish my pistol here in the next couple weeks I imagine, one way or another.

Get well soon brother.
 
Well, since we sold our house and moved into a apartment type place, I want to build a bookcase, but as of now I can’t do anything, I am waiting to have surgery done, during our move I pulled a groin hernia, so the bookcase will have to wait. But other then that, just waiting for good dry weather.
 
I just got a M700 .223 bolt gun rebarrelled with a 1:7 Wylde REMAGE barrel to handle heavier bullets, and both mil-spec & commercial ammo better than with the original 1:12 varmit barrel. Just waiting for some new rings before re-zeroing it.
 
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Im in the process of remodeling my kitchen and I've already removed 20ft of wall to open up the space and installed a couple of 14in LVL's into the ceiling to carry the span. I've had the cabinet's delivered a couple weeks ago and I'm storing them until 2 weekends from now when I can install them.

As for firearm projects I'm in the process of putting together another AR-10 and I have all the pieces except for the handguard and gas block which I've been trying to track down.

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I've also threw this .223Wylde together recently with a complete Aero M4E1 lower.


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the obsrver said:
What is everyone working on? I have been laid up for awhile with an injury and am getting pretty bored out of my mind. It is spring and time to rock and roll, so it is taking a toll on me. Help a brother out and tell me what you all have been up to.
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Digging holes for trees and shrubs in the back yard for the wife. All I want for Father's Day is for someone to break into the garage and steal my shovel, lol. This Oklahoma clay is no joke!
 
10mmLife said:
Im in the process of remodeling my kitchen and I've already removed 20ft of wall to open up the space and installed a couple of 14in LVL's into the ceiling to carry the span. I've had the cabinet's delivered a couple weeks ago and I'm storing them until 2 weekends from now when I can install them.

As for firearm projects I'm in the process of putting together another AR-10 and I have all the pieces except for the handguard and gas block which I've been trying to track down.

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I've also threw this .223Wylde together recently with a complete Aero M4E1 lower.


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Nice project there 10mm
 
Early riser ( 3 - 4 am ), scald a large mug of Rishi Indian Chai with milk, relax with that while waiting on Dawn to show me her crack, with the mockingbird giving song (which he has through the night, do they ever sleep during the nesting season?), then slip out the back to view the deer, turkey, (that hen was right at the porch step this morning) and huge red hawk hanging out, and the crows going verbal as they leave the scratch pile. Then for sport, thin the squirrel population at the bird feeder from off the back deck ( .22 handgun ). With such a rough start to the day I hit the recliner for a breather before rolling eggs, onions, pepper, tomatoes and lettuce into a warm tortilla; then there's the decision to be made of a half cup of coffee (sorry cowboys, I gotta have cream & sugar) or another cup of chia. Since I'm all energetic now, I grab the MacBook Air, ease back into the recliner (with a good view toward the pond and barn), check this forum, email, (to hell with the news, not interested in Hellywood, sports, false & fake news which, really, should be labeled entertainment) and, sometimes the reading gives me the drowzies so I'll hit the switch and tak'er on back to relax my eyes a bit. Since the mail runs early, I take my exercise to the end of the drive and see what bills need pay'in. And afore it gets too late I rush to the front porch swing to check the green in the leaves, the white in the clouds and the blue in the sky as the sparrows chitter, the wren sings and the doves coo. Life in the fast lane is hell, the day is rolling on, I need a breather but there are pieces in the safe that need fondling, lubed, zeroed and appreciated and nobody's going to do it if I don't! Won't bore (pun?) you any longer with the rest of my day (and all I'm working on) but you can see why I'm ready to hit the sack around 18:30 and falling asleep to my theme song by Willie Nelson: "I don't have to doooo......... one damn thiiiiiing........... that I don't want to dooooo".............................
 
Well I had planned on a garden, some range time, maybe a little camping, finish a couple things on the house remodel, but it is looking like it might be another month before I am moving around very well.
I have been ordering some fire arm stuff to improve a couple things, but wow you have to watch out as the price of a bunch of stuff has gone up. I was looking at a scope and it has gone up over $100 this past year and it was not a high dollar scope anyway.
This is my favorite time of year and so this whole thing is really starting to get to me. I just thank God the weather has been kind of crappy, otherwise I would really be chomping at the bit.
Everything got pushed back and after a year of stupid in this country, we were hoping to take a little trip as soon as masks were not required. Oh well, everything for a reason and all, just have to wait a bit longer.
But hey I get to be on here more talking to you all, so it isn't all bad.
 
Annihilator said:
Well, since we sold our house and moved into a apartment type place, I want to build a bookcase, but as of now I can’t do anything, I am waiting to have surgery done, during our move I pulled a groin hernia, so the bookcase will have to wait. But other then that, just waiting for good dry weather.
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Just curious ..... but this didn't happen during the "cock fighting" practice you were bragging about, did it? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
C. Sumpin said:
Early riser ( 3 - 4 am ), scald a large mug of Rishi Indian Chai with milk, relax with that while waiting on Dawn to show me her crack, with the mockingbird giving song (which he has through the night, do they ever sleep during the nesting season?), then slip out the back to view the deer, turkey, (that hen was right at the porch step this morning) and huge red hawk hanging out, and the crows going verbal as they leave the scratch pile. Then for sport, thin the squirrel population at the bird feeder from off the back deck ( .22 handgun ). With such a rough start to the day I hit the recliner for a breather before rolling eggs, onions, pepper, tomatoes and lettuce into a warm tortilla; then there's the decision to be made of a half cup of coffee (sorry cowboys, I gotta have cream & sugar) or another cup of chia. Since I'm all energetic now, I grab the MacBook Air, ease back into the recliner (with a good view toward the pond and barn), check this forum, email, (to hell with the news, not interested in Hellywood, sports, false & fake news which, really, should be labeled entertainment) and, sometimes the reading gives me the drowzies so I'll hit the switch and tak'er on back to relax my eyes a bit. Since the mail runs early, I take my exercise to the end of the drive and see what bills need pay'in. And afore it gets too late I rush to the front porch swing to check the green in the leaves, the white in the clouds and the blue in the sky as the sparrows chitter, the wren sings and the doves coo. Life in the fast lane is hell, the day is rolling on, I need a breather but there are pieces in the safe that need fondling, lubed, zeroed and appreciated and nobody's going to do it if I don't! Won't bore (pun?) you any longer with the rest of my day (and all I'm working on) but you can see why I'm ready to hit the sack around 18:30 and falling asleep to my theme song by Willie Nelson: "I don't have to doooo......... one damn thiiiiiing........... that I don't want to dooooo".............................
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Well said, my friend. Definitely living the good life.
 
the obsrver said:
I would like to build an ar9, but I obviously do not know where to look for parts. Everything I find makes the cost to where I may as well buy a complete one.
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Here too. From what am seeing, most everywhere it's not a great time to be building anything much. Hard finding in stock parts at reasonable cost. The one big usual advantage of building anything is getting more of exactly what's wanted instead of the prebuilt's "you got this now" type thing.

But, look around once have list and do comparable against what wanted and what's built too? Maybe surprised sometimes at how close prebuilt ones come close sometimes? Weigh your wants against prebuilt's there may be savings, but maybe not too? Saw one the other day at a LGS that was very close to my choices. Couldn't check out closer, far too many people in front of me at counter. If there when go back and things check out? Who knows?
 
Just got done with a 12-week surgery recovery myself, so I can sympathize with your situation. My recovery limited my mobility, so all of my projects had to be done at a workbench or desk. The majority of my handguns now have night sights, anything with a frame that accepts different grips now has new grips, and all of my guns are cleaner than they have ever been before. All of my bladed tools are sharpened, and my tool drawers are all organized.

The minor gunsmithing projects helped to pass the time, but now that I'm recovered I have to sight in about a dozen guns. There are definitely worse problems to have.
 
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