I'm gonna do it again......

 I have never gone to the range to have a good time..... I always just go and sight in and I'm done. Not fun just something I have to do before I go hunting.

Monday was different... I had an absolute blast. I went to sight in my 6.5 PRC and the new Rossi 22 mag semi auto, and as long as I was going to be there I shot my 222 also. 

So the PRC was bore sighted at the gun shop that put my scope on. Needless to say it was way off at 100 yards, so after alot of shoot and clean and scope adjustments I got to this....

 I had a blast sighting this gun in, that's the fun side. The bad side is I sent about 100$ downrange 😖😢.... but it was still fun. 😍

 

Next up was my triple deuce, I walked the target down to 100 yards, and sent a 3 shot group left of center. After a couple adjustments and more money downrange I had it OK. (not to ruin the surprise but I'm going back again next week to get all of them EXACTLY where I want 'em.)  

 

Now the Rossi took the stage....WOW😲. I sold my Savage 22 mag bolt action and bought this Rossi semi auto.... Why?? 

Well I originally wanted a semi auto (15 plus years ago), however I quickly found out that the 22 mag auto was a unicorn. They had a really hard time making it run without jamming issues, and the ones that did figure it out were WAY out of my price range. So I settled on the Savage bolt, which had issues of it's own.

 

7 years ago I started hearing some hub bub about the Rossi 22mag getting the feed jams worked out and how reliable this gun was. I waited.... read the reviews and waited.... then this year it sounds like the coon prices will be up.... I know, what's the correlation?? Well that 22mag was my coon gun. After reading a bunch of reviews I decided to sell my Savage and buy this Rossi. I took my scope off the old mag and dropped it on the new one, not bore sighted, just dropped it on the pic rail and tightened it.

These were the first 10 rounds downrange.

😲😲😲😲 while adjusting it, the rounds tracked R to L.

Thought it was good enough to move up so off to the 50 yard range....

😲😲😍🙉 I cannot tell you how tickled I am with this gun. It ran flawlessly and was heaven to shoot, absolutely one of the best buys I have ever made.🙉😲😲😲😱 

 

Honestly writing this and I still can't wipe the smile off my face. So I'll go back Monday and send some more rounds downrange and fine tune all of them. I couldn't do it last Monday because I ran out of time, I shot from noonish 'til close at 5. 

 

Tuesday I went fishing on the pontoon until my neighbor was ready to pull it out. It was the first time loading it on the trailer he bought, it went on really good and very easy. 

Yeah there's no pics of fish for a reason... I'll let you figure it out. Hint:🙅🐟 

 

I had a pretty good week, hope it was good to you. 

Be safe. 

Well....????

 I didn't really do anything this week, just kinda hung out and relaxed. Didn't get any big projects done, or for that matter any small projects. I did get my mouse baits set out, and on Tuesday I did go fishing, but other than that.... really nothing.

It was everything I thought it could be. 

 

Darnit

 Well I didn't do a whole lot this week but I did get the decoy trailer cleaned out and got the wheeler put in it. Ready to go duck hunting... now all I need are some ducks and gooses and season to start. I was going to get a before and after, but when I remembered I was already halfway done. I wanted to go fishing with my neighbors kayak but I tweaked my back on Tuesday when I cleaned out the trailer, (thankfully it was near the finish line) so I really took it easy on Wednesday. I'm hoping I'll be able to get out next week, it's quickly coming to the end of fishing season for good for this year. 

So, not a whole lot for this week... 

I did however forget these pics from last week so here ya go....

🦌😁🦌😁
 does and fawns...

WOW

 I gotta say I'm gonna pat myself on the back a little bit and let you know that, I killed it. 

This week, not only did I get the boat put to bed, meaning, lower unit oil changed, both engines spark plugs cleaned, cylinders fogged, oil changed in the 4 stroke oil, oil topped off in the big motor, and the trailer bearings full up with grease. Oh, yeah my fishing poles drags backed off, all spool tensioners backed off, and reels covered with plastic. I've even got my first lineup ready for coho season in April, and that was just Monday. Tuesday totally different day took it easy, did a little bit of running here and there. I still need to change my fuel filter and I will be doing that next week. I did, however, get out and go fishing with my neighbors permission and kayak...

Wednesday I went out and removed an obstruction that was in the view of my game camera, chatted with my landowner for about an hour came home and did even less than I did on Tuesday. Now, we're at Thursday, getting ready to go to work. Got my duck breasts baconed baconized and fixing to put Em in the grease

 Next week, not sure what's gonna happen. I am going to change that filter and I will probably go dove hunting again. 

Had a good day.... still quiting

 Well, I couldn't find anyone to go to Lake Michigan with yesterday so I made it a me day. I wanted to be up and out by 2am, what actually happens when you don't set your alarm is you get up at 4am. I didn't have a whole lot to get ready, so I mosied around the house, had my coffee and left out for the lake around 5am. Since I knew I had all day it was a pretty realaxing drive, not in a hurry but putting a plan together. When I got to the launch, I was getting my boat ready and realized I didn't bother to get a fishing license😲. So I got on my phone (which I hate doing😠) and bought one, as it turns out I really didn't need it...... If anyone asked for it, I would've told them I was only washing lures, not fishing. That would've been very truthful, I hammered away at it all day from around sunnup 'til sundown before I called it a day and a year. I did have alot of company on the water, they were not helpful in my attempt to find fish however.

I turned out to be a pretty good day, it got pretty windy and cappy at times but I stayed pretty close to shore. The wind was out of the east which was where shore was, so the further out I went the worse it got, and I didn't want to get bounced around all day.
 

If I would've at least caught one I would've probably tried one more time but as it turns out.... nope. So I'll get the boat put to bed, along with my gear 'til next year.