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[hunt4570]

Ummmm I was wondering about shooting shack update, looks like a do over............

My family (brother and sisters) come to the South Carolina Paradise Resort (complete with pool to keep them cool) every summer for vacation, I got the shooting deck done as far as I could before they got here. It was a great hit by the way, nice to be able to shoot and blow stuff up with a roof over our head to keep the summer sun off. I still have the second floor (deer sniper tower) to build but now that they are gone I've put it on hold for a bit to catch up on some other things I need do do.

Here is how it stands right now. One side has a temporary roof on it and the other side has a temporary temporary roof on it. To be finished by deer season.





Oh, and here's a pair of 6" gongs, and the last 2 shots of the day..300 yards.

 

[hunt4570]

yeah I'm thinkin option C is gonna be no good, the Chinook is a 2 rotor copter, you're gonna send too much cool Northern air down South Carolina way. If it cools down below 80 down there, Hunt's not gonna come out of his hot tub and never get that shooting deck finished... Don't you have some thin straight logs you can use as rollers to get that bridge off and across the water. Can you use the front of the tractor as down pressure and roll it across?

Oooooo... yes do plan C.. send some of that cool air down! Just got out of the hot tub a little bit ago.. nice way to start the day!

And the deck as it stands is in the post above.

 

[Oldpath05]

My family (brother and sisters) come to the South Carolina Paradise Resort (complete with pool to keep them cool) every summer for vacation, I got the shooting deck done as far as I could before they got here. It was a great hit by the way, nice to be able to shoot and blow stuff up with a roof over our head to keep the summer sun off. I still have the second floor (deer sniper tower) to build but now that they are gone I've put it on hold for a bit to catch up on some other things I need do do.

Here is how it stands right now. One side has a temporary roof on it and the other side has a temporary temporary roof on it. To be finished by deer season.

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Oh, and here's a pair of 6" gongs, and the last 2 shots of the day..300 yards.

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So wheres the skeet shooting location station, without that I'll withdraw my membership dues.............

 

[hunt4570]

So wheres the skeet shooting location station, without that I'll withdraw my membership dues.............

Here is that skeet shooting "station", under a pear tree in the back yard for shade.


And enjoying a little adult beverage (after shooting)

And trying to pay for the SC Paradise Resort

And a little fire at the end of the day, with of course weenies and smores!

 

[Oldpath05]

Here is that skeet shooting "station", under a pear tree in the back yard for shade.

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Let me guess your a 12 gauge man..... Sheet shooting requires more room then a partridge in a pear tree, I need a bench to put all my 20 ga shells on, gun oil, chokes and 20 cases of sheet. Then we need a coffee and soda machine my favorite bubbly is ginger ale, and dont forget the grill to make fresh ground burgers on and porter house steak and I want fries with that.......

 

[hunt4570]

Let me guess your a 12 gauge man..... Sheet shooting requires more room then a partridge in a pear tree, I need a bench to put all my 20 ga shells on, gun oil, chokes and 20 cases of sheet. Then we need a coffee and soda machine my favorite bubbly is ginger ale, and dont forget the grill to make fresh ground burgers on and porter house steak and I want fries with that.......

Plenty of room in my back yard, even with the pear trees!! (makes great canned pears!)
My shoulder doesn't like the 12 ga real well but I still shoot it sometimes. Also have a 20 ga auto and a single shot 410 that I can use as a long gun or handgun. The 410 in the handgun configuration is a lot of fun shooting skeet with. Here is my daughter shooting it last time she was up.



So go ahead and send those membership dues please.. pretty please!!

 

[VroomVroom]

Lols like fun ahead!!!
I recently got the WC88 and have enjoyed it so far!

Just curious if you bother burning the chips from those things in your home? I guess itç—´ more cumbersome to store and probably does not burn long. But it would be another bit of heat out of scrap wood after junking up the rest

 

[Oldpath05]

Plenty of room in my back yard, even with the pear trees!! (makes great canned pears!)
My shoulder doesn't like the 12 ga real well but I still shoot it sometimes. Also have a 20 ga auto and a single shot 410 that I can use as a long gun or handgun. The 410 in the handgun configuration is a lot of fun shooting skeet with. Here is my daughter shooting it last time she was up.

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So go ahead and send those membership dues please.. pretty please!!

I like 410 I have a 60 year single great on chipmunks, I been using 20g pump on skeet but hoping next year I can get a simi auto 410 with 5 rd mag. The last time shot 12g my shoulder hirt for 2 weeks.

I'll have my accountant from Zimbabwe get a hold you to talk about that $1000.00 membership fee, he'll only charge you $100.00 to make the transaction.........

 

[Oldpath05]

Had my younger son take this video before hands got greasy, the last 6x6s just got drilled, 120 holes with battery drills. I can around 30-40, 3/4" holes with the Dewalt before recharge, I'll accept that and thats with a bit that is wore out. Couple lessons learned in drilling, spade bit is only good for 2", spiral bits are the way to drill deep because they can be backed out in reverse but mine tears out out going through, maybe a new one wouldn't, 2nd thing is it's best to pre-drill with 3/16 from both sides, but on the fresh cut red oak it better to go through with 1/4 then the 3/4, that red oak likes to suck the bit right in, how did people drill holes 60 years ago with no reverse...

Lastly my saw hoses should of been 8' wide instead of 7', but all I had was 2 beefy, 14's to cut in half, when I got to the last 6x6 it was getting tight going down through but since I dont have pool I made it.........

Now it's bolt making time again, and this time I'll use some garbage 6010 electrodes I have since the 11018 made the rebar brittle and welded washer broke off, I think 6011 welds better IMO.

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[Oldpath05]

Well since my son has the welding bench all tied up use the panel to weld on but to do that I need to stretch out the cable. I bought the cable stretchers last year bout time I put them on anyways just make sure I put the grey part on first.