200 yards standing with the 25 LBT
I shot 4 groups at 200 and 212 yards standing with a rest on the garden gate today.
With a 70 yard zero, the drop is 83.5 inches and the 4 MPH wind blows the bullet 7.7 inches.
Each group was identical 3 shots into 7 inches. They still go thru the metal at 212 yards and have 66 FPE of energy which is identicle to a 25 ACP.
Regards,
Roachcreek
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What kind of adjustments if any do you have to use when using lighter rounds??
Is that what you’re using for you 200+ yard shots?? 60gr?? If you have her zero’d at 70 yards… Does that mean you are only using the 60 grainers for the zero-ing and the 200 yard shots??
GTBJ, I’ll let you know when the cherry is down. Chanterelles, oh yeah! I got a bunch of Black trumpets last fall, dried most of them. The morels our here were wiped out by Feb. warm and dry. Harvested a bunch of Shiitakes second week of March…WTF?
Friggin grapes blooming in March! Had a twenty-eight degree frost recently, needed wind machines and hired choppers stirring the air. We lost some Nebbiolo grape flowers, but they normally need thinning. It’s raining green peaches, too…crap.
RC, that gun of yours…you know mastodon are extinct, eh? Since the climate is warming fast, that cannon might be handy when the dinosaurs bust out of the genetics labs and seriously trash your garden.
I like plum for pork the best. I smoke cooked a roadkill cotton tail the other day on an open fire with hickory, and, that sob was as juicy as Trons vajayjay 😆
Madrone, like mesquite is wicked high in compression strength, great for stickbows with a little deer or elk leg sinew on the back…strawberries will be ready soon, way to go charlie
Awesome Charlie, I admire your lifestyle my man! 😉
First time I ever saw anything like that was was when I was 17, under the covers with a flashight on the girl who lived on a neighboring ranch. She only had one date before I met her, the Oregon National Guard. I put a smoked ham up her and pulled out the bone and called her resleeved.
Benneboy, our cuttings are max about 3×8 inch in diameter, so too small for what I like. What looks like a outhouse in this photo was my smokehouse. It was 4×6 foot by 8 feet tall, you can just see a stove on the ouside with the chimeny going into the smoke house and entering just under a 4×6 foot expanded steel shelf where I lay my meat to smoke.
I used apple wood, as I had 7 apple trees that were to high in altitude to bear fruit consistantly, but had a lot of branches that were 100 years old to prune, and I got any apple wood I could find other places.
I smoked to cook meat, I don’t like dried meat, so I smoked turkeys and elk roasts mainly.
Regards,
Roachcreek
Being an Easterner, what is madrone; is it the same as bearberry Arctostaphylos)?
I’m getting ready to cut down a 60 ft. Black Cherry which is in a future roadway for a new greenhouse. If anyone is interested in some of this for smoking wood, let me know (PM). I’ll be shipping some to folks for turning stock and carving, but plan on cutting a pile of 4-inch rounds for splitting into smoking wood. It’s great for pork, turkey and fish.
Just want to see it put to good use. Had a 3.5 ft. diameter rot in the woods because it was surrounded by creeks and wet ground, no way to get to it, pity that.
I do believe it is called a bear berry tree in other parts away from the pacific coast, the berries are edible and not to bad tasting either 😉
when you come across a patch of dead/down, and rotting ones and it’s a wet time of year then start looking around on the ground for both golden and black chanterelles 😉
the goldens are a bit more common when pines are around as well
and the blacks chanterelles… also called black trumpets
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also….. I may just be interested in some of that cherry wood for a little project or two I have in mind 😉
let me know when you have it down, and if you could slab a small round, spray it with a hose, and take a pic or two, I’d sure appreciate it :18:
you know,
dont take too many and disappear on us… :11:
Being an Easterner, what is madrone; is it the same as bearberry Arctostaphylos)?
I’m getting ready to cut down a 60 ft. Black Cherry which is in a future roadway for a new greenhouse. If anyone is interested in some of this for smoking wood, let me know (PM). I’ll be shipping some to folks for turning stock and carving, but plan on cutting a pile of 4-inch rounds for splitting into smoking wood. It’s great for pork, turkey and fish.
Just want to see it put to good use. Had a 3.5 ft. diameter rot in the woods because it was surrounded by creeks and wet ground, no way to get to it, pity that.
I do believe it is called a bear berry tree in other parts away from the pacific coast, the berries are edible and not to bad tasting either 😉
when you come across a patch of dead/down, and rotting ones and it’s a wet time of year then start looking around on the ground for both golden and black chanterelles 😉
the goldens are a bit more common when pines are around as well
and the blacks chanterelles… also called black trumpets
also….. I may just be interested in some of that cherry wood for a little project or two I have in mind 😉
let me know when you have it down, and if you could slab a small round, spray it with a hose, and take a pic or two, I’d sure appreciate it :18:
Man tell the workers to save some pruning’s from the grapevines. That’s some nice smoking wood!!!!
Nice shooting!!!!
Smoked meat and fish…yum.
Being an Easterner, what is madrone; is it the same as bearberry Arctostaphylos)?
I’m getting ready to cut down a 60 ft. Black Cherry which is in a future roadway for a new greenhouse. If anyone is interested in some of this for smoking wood, let me know (PM). I’ll be shipping some to folks for turning stock and carving, but plan on cutting a pile of 4-inch rounds for splitting into smoking wood. It’s great for pork, turkey and fish.
Just want to see it put to good use. Had a 3.5 ft. diameter rot in the woods because it was surrounded by creeks and wet ground, no way to get to it, pity that.
NICE !!! :thumb:
They have just discovered a thing about Madrone.
We had a huge fire here called the Bisquit fire a few years back. It got up to 2200 F and killed everything, or so they thought. It turns out the old Madrone root wads lived thru the fire and are putting out shots again.
When the mature trees look like they have died , they are just redoing themselves again, so no need to worry about killing all our madrone when you use it for fire wood.
Only thing I don’t like about it, I cooked on wood for 14 years, Madrone does not split as fine as Ponderosa pine for cooking or kindling.
Regards,
Roachcreek
it’s also great to cook over as well as run in the smoker, that mixed with a bit of apple is all i use to smoke with. now it’s manzaneda and what ever else I can get my hands on…
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This rifle is a dedicated slug gun. Roachcreek cut off the choke and did a custom lead in specifically for these slugs/bullets.