we really get to shooting again. Over the winter, we shoot. Our IDPA matches don’t go away and most winters, we get some practice time in, especially since Christmas usually means new guns to play with. However, usually starting in mid-February, we really get cranked up again and this one is no exception. Starting on Saturday, we have our monthly IDPA match (and the weather report thus far is favorable). Then we have a steel challenge match. Then we have a practice weekend. That is followed by a work weekend and IDPA classifier. Then our monthly IDPA match followed the next weekend by a steel challenge match. The first weekend in April is a USPSA match. We finally take a weekend off to get ready for the state IDPA match followed by a quarterly CMP match. Maybe that’s why I like spring so much better than winter, more recoil therapy.
Cricket will be shooting her first classifier in March. She is ready to shoot the state IDPA match. She is excited. Bugaboo wants to start shooting the matches with a .22. I’m not sure we can work that out. Unfortunately, despite her incredible strength, the M&P 9 is still a little much for her. She loves shooting it but I’m not sure she’s ready for all the movement involved in a match. She still needs a lot of work but she’s feeling left out. Thankfully, she will be able to shoot the steel challenge matches with a .22. Also, I’m hoping they’ll be doing the Sporter match with the CMP match in April. She loves that match.
Sunshine, guns and friends. What better way to spend a season!
This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 and is filed under Children, Global Warming, Guns, Weather.
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Instead of being 38*F and cloudy, it’s 50.5*F and sunny. Yippeee!
Yesterday, we spend the beautiful day cleaning the deck and burning boxes from Christmas. We are ready for spring. In the past, we have grilled all year round. This winter, not so much. I have cooked inside more this winter than I did for the two years prior combined. I’m looking forward to global warming coming back to Alabama. I think the weather girl said this morning it’s been weeks since we’ve gotten up to the average high. We are supposed to be in the low 60s this time of year. There’s been days when we’ve been half that.
We named the puppy. She loved chasing snowballs so our black puppy that has feet big enough for a great dane is names snowball.
More later, boss showed up.
This entry was posted on Monday, February 15th, 2010 and is filed under Chaos, Global Warming, Pets, Weather.
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I spent Wednesday in Georgia touring our project with the head scientist working on it, a co-worker and a gentlemen from another company that does the same thing. He was very impressed. One of the things the company I work for prides itself on is going far beyond what is required by regulations/law. I had never had the tour before. It was a great learning experience. However, it was cold. It was 36*F at Noon when we finished the tour and there was a 20+ mph wind. I was mostly dressed for it. I did forget my had and I do not have good warm gloves. That will be remedied. But, being out in the fresh air, walking miles of stream really helped my mood a lot.
Yesterday, I was just all out with meetings and trying to schedule a variety of trips for my boss. I never really had time to think about anything. Today, we have SNOW!! It has been snowing since 7 am and continues still at a heavy wet pace. I’d say we have more than 2 inches of accumulation now. It is very wet and and since it is 34*F, it is melting some also. However, tonight’s low is predicted to be 21*F. That means this very wet snow is going to be ice and lots of it.
We are having loads of fun in it. We are learning how to make snowballs for fights. You pack them too tight and they hurt. I caught a large heavy one in my low back. The lightly packed ones are fun because they explode on impact. If you can manage a high chest hit, they get a face full of snow. We’ve made several snowmen. One is about 5 ft tall. The others are smaller. Cricket made a snow horse.
The little puppy who is still nameless is loving it. Forrest, our 5 year old lab mutt just seems to think it is another day even through I don’t think he’s seen this in his lifetime. We had a light dusting last winter.
I’m hoping the power stays on but if it doesn’t, we’re prepared. And, there is chili and cornbread for supper.
This entry was posted on Friday, February 12th, 2010 and is filed under Global Warming, Weather, Work.
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It’s still very cold here. Our water was frozen this morning. I guess these days of highs just above freezing have not allowed the crawlspace under the house to warm up. Last night’s 15*F low was more than the water could handle. DH is home making repairs.
The forecast is for warmer weather toward the end of the week. Highs in the 50s and lows in the upper 20s. I hope they up those a little since our monthly IDPA match is Saturday. The trigger on my M&P9 has been lightened a little more and I am anxious to try it out in a match.
This entry was posted on Monday, January 11th, 2010 and is filed under Global Warming, Guns.
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Cold weather sucks. I’m a southern girl. I like the warm summer sun. The diesel engine in my truck takes forever to get warm. I’m just getting warm when I get to the office, 40 minutes from home. I also have a new “gun” to shoot and it’s really hard to have fun at the range when it is 29*F with winds over 15 mph. DH shot my new .22 conversion kit a bit a day or two after Christmas to make sure it worked well but we have not had a chance to put 100 or 200 rounds through it. It’s too cold.
One good thing I discovered about kittens though is they make good foot warmers or belly warmers or ear warmers. They get shots tomorrow.
This entry was posted on Friday, January 8th, 2010 and is filed under Global Warming, Guns.
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It was supposed to snow here tonight. It didn’t. It rained. If it’s going to be this friggin’ cold it’d been nice to have some fun and a day off. But, it’s just a cold rain.
This entry was posted on Thursday, January 7th, 2010 and is filed under Global Warming.
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It’s weird to see a swamp covered in ice. Many of the ponds are mostly covered in a thin sheet now. I’ve never seen it. We get cold for a day, not two weeks.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 and is filed under Global Warming.
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Another very busy day at the office. We are feverishly working because the end of this week looks like it will probably shut down the Southern U.S. and that’s where we are and work.
That’s just ridiculous to me. Snow will be nice. We haven’t had snow in a long time. My concern is they are predicting rain, then snow which says to me snow on top of ice. The ground is cold enough. All the puddles on the sides of the road and in fields were iced over this morning. Usually the ground here is too warm for that. My other concern is for about 48 hours, the temp is to be below freezing. Even the high is below freezing. And the winds . . . . Also, did you notice the Fire Weather Watch. The air is so dry that you can feel the moisture in your skin evaporating.
I live in the South for many reasons but one is I don’t like cold.
This entry was posted on Monday, January 4th, 2010 and is filed under Global Warming, Weather.
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We had a wonderful New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Plenty of family and friends around with a nice roaring fire. We needed it and still do. I’ve been watching the news. I know most of you are colder than we are. But, we are not used to temps this cold and this dry. We are under fire warnings. It seems like it’s been raining non-stop for 4 months and now we are under fire warnings. The air is super dry.
The cold weather has kept us inside doing a lot of cleaning out. We’ve made one trip to Goodwill and need to make two or three more. Bugaboo has been great about giving up old toys. We got a huge box out of her room. I wish the stuffed animals were so easy.
This entry was posted on Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 and is filed under Global Warming.
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We shot our montly IDPA match on Saturday. The day was forecast to be cold, windy and miserable — but no rain. The morning was beautiful. Sunny, light clouds and very little breeze. Despite that, my shooting was awful. I shot DH’s Springfield. I used to like that gun but the last two matches have not been good for me. And I thought it was me, that my shooting for the day was off. I know it was last month. But, as the clouds moved in and the wind picked up, we moved to a tactical rifle match. Now, I have never shot my Bushmaster in a match. I’ve done little more than sight it in. But, I had a fairly good match. I missed a couple of required headshots as the light got bad. I loved shooting the bowling pins once I realized that I was shooting over the top of them. Once I put my sight right even with where they were sitting on the table, they fell — boom, boom, boom. Unfortunately, my scores are probably not going to reflect how well I feel I did because I had a magazine issue on one stage where after about 6 shots, it wouldn’t feed. I should have just dropped it and moved on but I didn’t. 120 seconds for a 50 t0 60 second stage. Then I had those missed required head shots. I had fun though. I’d like a front grip of some sort and to practice more to get used to holding the gun to my shoulder and firing for 2 minutes straight. By then end of the longest stage (our last), my arms felt like jelly.
Cricket shot both matches with us. She used a 10/22 for the tactical rifle stage. She, too, had some magazine issues but with a 4 power scope was putting three holes in the paper you could cover with a pencil eraser. She also did great with the bowling pins, even at the distance they were from her. She had a lot of fun. It is not the most practical gun for that unless we get some higher capacity magazines. 35 rounds isn’t enough and she’s not used to reloading that gun on the clock. She’s used to using that gun for CMP Sporter matches.
We tried to get Bugaboo to shoot with us using the 10/22 but when the weather got so miserable, she decided to stay snug in the clubhouse and read. I can’t blame her there. I was miserable when we got done. I was dressed too warm for the early part of the day and my feet got sweaty. When it turned cold they felt like bricks of ice.
I noticed one thing, a lot of folks needed batteries for the rifle match. I like my peep sights.
This entry was posted on Monday, December 21st, 2009 and is filed under Children, Global Warming, Guns.
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