Report On The Range

[Sir Henry]

I ordered some rimfire spinner traps and put them together today. I’m thinking of putting them out at 25 yards when the snow melts. The 11x11” traps are not challenging enough at 25 yards and even those at 50 yards aren’t all that hard to hit.

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This trap is at 25 yards. The traps at 50 yards are buried in the snow. I will need to elevate them from three to four feet to keep them above the snow. The one in the picture below is designed to have a paper target attached but I need something more challenging without having to walk to the target in the winter.

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[fortyshooter]

Man...when does the snow melt around there?

[Sir Henry]

Man...when does the snow melt around there?

Some years March. Some years April. Some years May. Currently there is still three feet on the ground.

[North Country Gal]

Actually, almost never in March, over here. March is still a winter month in the north woods. Have never seen the grass on our lawn till well into April.

[BigAl52]

Id need to pop that 50 yarder with the 357 just to knock the snow off of it

[Sir Henry]

Actually, almost never in March, over here. March is still a winter month in the north woods. Have never seen the grass on our lawn till well into April.

I’ve only been here for part of last winter and this will be my first complete winter so I don’t have a lot of history. I bet all the snow won’t be gone till May this year. These pictures were taken a week before Valentines Day and on Saint Patrick’s Day. At the peak the snow was almost covering the sculpture in the foreground.

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The snow had completely buried the one heart that you see in this picture and I didn’t see it when I pulled the hearts.

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[Headhog]

Gene you're a brave man living in the frozen Tundra. You seems to be enjoying every moment of it and finding new ways to have fun. Keep on keeping on.

Paul

[North Country Gal]

Very common for us to have one big snowstorm first half of April, so don't get in a burry about the snow melting.

[Hatchdog]

Gene, are those two bullet traps with the circle and duck spinners for airgun’s or rimfire? I tried to find them online but could only find the pellet version. My neighbor wants to put a small rimfire range at his place and I thought those would be fun. Thanks.

[Sir Henry]

Gene, are those two bullet traps with the circle and duck spinners for airgun’s or rimfire? I tried to find them online but could only find the pellet version. My neighbor wants to put a small rimfire range at his place and I thought those would be fun. Thanks.

They are for rimfire. Disregard the description and click on the rimfire box.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BJPKJT ... title&th=1

[Sir Henry]

Very common for us to have one big snowstorm first half of April, so don't get in a burry about the snow melting.

Say it ain’t so! The neighbors tell me one year it snowed the middle of June and almost everyone lost crops that year.

[Sir Henry]

Gene you're a brave man living in the frozen Tundra. You seems to be enjoying every moment of it and finding new ways to have fun. Keep on keeping on.

Paul

Yes I’m embracing winter although I’m ready for spring. Currently it’s 28F which isn’t bad however the wind is howling.

[North Country Gal]

Very common for us to have one big snowstorm first half of April, so don't get in a burry about the snow melting.

Say it ain’t so! The neighbors tell me one year it snowed the middle of June and almost everyone lost crops that year.

Not every year, of course, but fairly common. Actually had our biggest snow of the winter at 18" one April, five or six years, ago.

Yeah, I had one old-timer tell me about the year it was snowing for the 4th of July parade.

[Sir Henry]

Very common for us to have one big snowstorm first half of April, so don't get in a burry about the snow melting.

Say it ain’t so! The neighbors tell me one year it snowed the middle of June and almost everyone lost crops that year.

Not every year, of course, but fairly common. Actually had our biggest snow of the winter at 18" one April, five or six years, ago.

Yeah, I had one old-timer tell me about the year it was snowing for the 4th of July parade.

Our last big snowfall here a few weeks ago was 16”. Timms Hill is a 3x3 mile hill about 500 feet above the rest of the area and always gets more snow than just a few miles away. The forecast is for 2” in the next 24 hours. I’m finding that happens about twice a week.

[Hatchdog]

Gene, are those two bullet traps with the circle and duck spinners for airgun’s or rimfire? I tried to find them online but could only find the pellet version. My neighbor wants to put a small rimfire range at his place and I thought those would be fun. Thanks.

They are for rimfire. Disregard the description and click on the rimfire box.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BJPKJT ... title&th=1

Thanks Gene, sometimes I can’t see the forest for the trees.

[Mike_S]

Gene you're a brave man living in the frozen Tundra. You seems to be enjoying every moment of it and finding new ways to have fun. Keep on keeping on.

Paul

Yeah - what Paul said!!!