Howard V
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Simply wonderful! Thanks for sharing your immensely fortunate day in beautiful surroundings.
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***August 07, 2022 - August 14, 2022 Weekly Show, Tell, and Critique***
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Bill Borne
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THanks CourtneyHello David! These are great photos, Bill!
remember this David?
At work taking a photo
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Birddogman
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Those really aren't bad at all, Don. Pretty sharp compared to mine. Beautiful mountain lake, BTW.My first digital camera was an Olympus C750UZ in 2003 P&S with 3.5 mp sensor. I was thrilled with it compared to film. Not super sharp, but focused quite nicely.
Don
I found another one taken on a western hunt in 2000 with that Canon Powershot S100:
This one is from another western hunt in 2005 with my first Fuji camera - a FinePix Z1. IQ is a little better but still pretty poor:
Both feature the late, great Maggie.
Modern equipment is so much better and more versatile.
Greg
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Bill Borne
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Nice photos and story Greg You must be proud of yourself!
I find it off that someone brings a baby to it considering all the gun fire?
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I find it off that someone brings a baby to it considering all the gun fire?
On Sunday, we held a Skeet Doubles shoot in honor of our past president (and my good friend), Jack Babb, who passed away recently. We had $500 in prizes, plus lunch for all. There was a celebration of life for Jack in our newly renovated clubhouse, where his friends told funny stories about him. Jack was a real "man's man", so some of the stories were a bit ribald.
Jack's widow, along with his sister, scattered his ashes at Station 8 on each skeet field.
Greg
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Birddogman
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Thank you. I feel good about it.
Birddogman
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Well, I don't have many talents, but I do know who to build and run a business. Ultimately, that's what this is, even though it's an all-volunteer non-profit.
Birddogman
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Ha! You are very observant, Bill. Thankfully, no baby!! That would be a VERY bad idea.
What you are seeing is a cart that folks use to tote their gun, heavy ammunition supply, water, etc, etc around on the very long and hilly sporting clays course. Some people make their carts out of old three-wheel strollers, but you can buy purpose-built ones for shooting that look very similar.
Look closely in the pic below and you will see a homemade cart on the right. and a baby stroller type cart behind a truck on the far left.
Many people these days have fancy custom golf carts and UTV's that they use to get around on the course.
I love to walk and to just carry what I need. That's part of the fun to me, but not everyone can or wants to do that.
Greg
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What you are seeing is a cart that folks use to tote their gun, heavy ammunition supply, water, etc, etc around on the very long and hilly sporting clays course. Some people make their carts out of old three-wheel strollers, but you can buy purpose-built ones for shooting that look very similar.
Look closely in the pic below and you will see a homemade cart on the right. and a baby stroller type cart behind a truck on the far left.
Many people these days have fancy custom golf carts and UTV's that they use to get around on the course.
I love to walk and to just carry what I need. That's part of the fun to me, but not everyone can or wants to do that.
Greg
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Check out my photos at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/137747053@N07/
Dak on cam
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That kind of reminds me of a Munter Hitch discussion. A Munter Hitch is a means of using a carabiner as a rope braking device for climbing. Now if you want to handle it reliably and safely, you'll feed the carabiner from the top, with the rope running in and out of the carabiner in parallel. That way reversing direction does not let the carabiner flop about with the risk of the rope running across the carabiner lock and opening it. Apart from those handling issues, the braking power is a bit less.Ha! You are very observant, Bill. Thankfully, no baby!! That would be a VERY bad idea.
What you are seeing is a cart that folks use to tote their gun, heavy ammunition supply, water, etc, etc around on the very long and hilly sporting clays course. Some people make their carts out of old three-wheel strollers, but you can buy purpose-built ones for shooting that look very similar.
Look closely in the pic below and you will see a homemade cart on the right. and a baby stroller type cart behind a truck on the far left.
Many people these days have fancy custom golf carts and UTV's that they use to get around on the course.
I love to walk and to just carry what I need. That's part of the fun to me, but not everyone can or wants to do that.
Greg
Now basically every other rope braking device has the least friction with this rope arrangement and will want you to put your hand down to your hip for proper braking.
Now the German climber association discourages the Munter Hitch and recommends, if using it at all, to use it in the problematic orientation. The reasoning for that is that it is mostly used by experienced climbers, and inexperienced climbers might watch them for clues about how to use a braking device and adopt the Munter Hitch handling for other braking devices. Which would be pretty bad.
I am not really fond of the idea of abandoning the most reasonable and safe way of operating your rope with a traditional device because it may cause idiots to mishandle their own, different devices because they think staring at other people will teach them enough to deal with their own, different equipment.
Which brings me back to the baby buggy. Seeing experienced shooters cart around a baby buggy might give the clueless the idea that bringing babies to the shooting range is a feasible idea.
In short, the main reason against using a stroller for this purpose may be that it looks like a stroller, giving some people stupid ideas. Not because of any inherent problem.
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Well, I’ve been shooting for many years and I’ve never seen anyone bring a baby out on the range, so that is right at the bottom of my worry list.That kind of reminds me of a Munter Hitch discussion. A Munter Hitch is a means of using a carabiner as a rope braking device for climbing. Now if you want to handle it reliably and safely, you'll feed the carabiner from the top, with the rope running in and out of the carabiner in parallel. That way reversing direction does not let the carabiner flop about with the risk of the rope running across the carabiner lock and opening it. Apart from those handling issues, the braking power is a bit less.Ha! You are very observant, Bill. Thankfully, no baby!! That would be a VERY bad idea.
What you are seeing is a cart that folks use to tote their gun, heavy ammunition supply, water, etc, etc around on the very long and hilly sporting clays course. Some people make their carts out of old three-wheel strollers, but you can buy purpose-built ones for shooting that look very similar.
Look closely in the pic below and you will see a homemade cart on the right. and a baby stroller type cart behind a truck on the far left.
Many people these days have fancy custom golf carts and UTV's that they use to get around on the course.
I love to walk and to just carry what I need. That's part of the fun to me, but not everyone can or wants to do that.
Greg
Now basically every other rope braking device has the least friction with this rope arrangement and will want you to put your hand down to your hip for proper braking.
Now the German climber association discourages the Munter Hitch and recommends, if using it at all, to use it in the problematic orientation. The reasoning for that is that it is mostly used by experienced climbers, and inexperienced climbers might watch them for clues about how to use a braking device and adopt the Munter Hitch handling for other braking devices. Which would be pretty bad.
I am not really fond of the idea of abandoning the most reasonable and safe way of operating your rope with a traditional device because it may cause idiots to mishandle their own, different devices because they think staring at other people will teach them enough to deal with their own, different equipment.
Which brings me back to the baby buggy. Seeing experienced shooters cart around a baby buggy might give the clueless the idea that bringing babies to the shooting range is a feasible idea.
In short, the main reason against using a stroller for this purpose may be that it looks like a stroller, giving some people stupid ideas. Not because of any inherent problem.
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Dak
I have, however, seen idiots bring a leashed puppy bird dog out to the range to “get them used to gunfire”, resulting in a dog that will run five miles back to the truck to hide underneath the moment a shot is fired in the field. Pups must be very carefully and gently introduced to gunfire. Once a dog is gun shy, it’s almost impossible to cure.
I guess there are idiots in every field of endeavor.
Greg
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Bill Borne
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Oh thanks for the info!!! Makes sense!!!
What do I know? Last time I was on a shooting range was when I was a kid and my father took me to a NRA Range in NJ
--What you are seeing is a cart that folks use to tote their gun, heavy ammunition supply, water, etc, etc around on the very long and hilly sporting clays course. Some people make their carts out of old three-wheel strollers, but you can buy purpose-built ones for shooting that look very similar.
Look closely in the pic below and you will see a homemade cart on the right. and a baby stroller type cart behind a truck on the far left.
Many people these days have fancy custom golf carts and UTV's that they use to get around on the course.
I love to walk and to just carry what I need. That's part of the fun to me, but not everyone can or wants to do that.
Greg
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Dak on cam
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Well, it's how humans learn. One just hopes that they've gotten enough self-control and reflection by the time adult strength develops that they are able to constrain the damage of their ignorance, whether temporary or terminal.
When I did my substitute service at a home for mentally handicapped adults, we had one tenant whose mental development was frozen at the level of about a two-year old due to brain damage at birth. He weighed about 300lbs of the muscular type (not like a body builder type, more like a construction worker). And he could get rather aggressive. I think that some time after my service there, they returned him to a closed ward because he became impossible to handle. It would have been like keeping a fully grown male gorilla as a housemate.
To get back from the excursion: of course there are idiots in every field of endeavor. And more often than not, they are in the majority. But our social protocols and laws and development has engineered a lot of remarkably effective kludges to keep the damage they will cause at bay.
I hear a lot about a lack of respect towards teachers in school these days. In a distant past, they were your ticket to survival. They still are, but it has become easier not to notice until it is too late.
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Exactly what I thought as soon as I saw them!
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Well, look pretty good to me!
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Last year my RX10 started showing serious signs of balsam separation between the front lens elements. I gave it to our middle school granddaughter to play with, or get into something more serious with me. She's turned her interest completely to the iPhone 13 acquired as part of her family plan.
It kind of breaks my heart to see this beautiful camera in a bad way. I believe it's around $400 to repair the problem. The camera is otherwise in very lightly used condition, and could serve well for many years. What to do?
Well, this afternoon I took it out on the street in nearby Cedarburg, WI just to get something going with it again. what a sweet handling camera this is. And even with its problems that Zeiss optic is wonderful. These are all jpegs from raw+jpeg pairs. They hardly needed any work to look just wonderful to my eyes, as I remembered what the scenes looked like.
These lower resolution copies were sent with a text to our granddaughter, in the hopes that she might see how much more a camera like this can do creatively than a phone. For just today, I'd like to send this camera in and get it back into tip-top shape for its worthy potential as a future working camera.
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Bill Borne
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Not sure about that Don. I had the RX10, maybe still have it ..but I'd put the money to fix it towards an RX10 IV!
Bill Borne
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Hmm, I got my second booster and my arm hurt all next day. Then 100% normal
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