I found the problem with the stringing shots!!

[Jim Tarleton]

Glad you found the problem, Jim. It almost sounds as if there's something wrong with that particular trigger assembly. A rough spot on the tip of the sear?
Anyways, I've had to start wearing reading glasses, with my contacts, since last year. Tried bifocal contacts, but they're too much of a compromise at both ends. They actually work by having the center section for close-up, and the outer ring for distance. You have to wear them for a couple weeks to re-train your brain as to how it iterprets the data from the eye! Couldn't get used to them.

I took it apart this morning. I can see a straight little line on one side in the wood. When I tightened the receiver screws, the receiver would be in a nine line bind. The nice part is that I made the changes/checks everyone suggested, and I suspect the rifle is more accurate as a result.

I am still a little uncomfortable wearing glasses all the time. I have worn reading glasses for years, but this is different. I still have some other body parts that need rejuvenating.

Jim

[Kent Allen]

Jim,

My continuing problem with shooting with open sight is the front sight seems to grow hair. Target seems in focus - rear sight picture in focus - front sight looks like I am trying to align the bristles of a tooth brush!

I had an uncle who was a real jokester. He would have added the following to my above comment. "I gave up on using open sights, I use the sound shot technique - I hear a sound, and shot toward the sound". He would have never done that, but he could sure tell make people believe he was serious.

[bonacker]

Jim,
Glad you solved the problem. Yes, one's vision changes slowly, darn that getting old stuff. I'm sure I need new glasses as I find myself getting closer to the computer screen to read all these wonderful replys. I've worn glasses since I was 6 and I still hate them at times!
Cheers, Don

[Jim Tarleton]

Jim,
Glad you solved the problem. Yes, one's vision changes slowly, darn that getting old stuff. I'm sure I need new glasses as I find myself getting closer to the computer screen to read all these wonderful replys. I've worn glasses since I was 6 and I still hate them at times!
Cheers, Don

I was born blessed with 20-10 vision. When I as a kid, I had a friend who wore glasses, and I always wondered what he actually saw. I oicked out a lone tree in a field on which I could see individual leaves from the fence. I figured as long as I could see those leaves, my eyesight was OK. A number of years ago I had a chance to go visit that tree, Some peckerhead had cut it down.

It has been a while since I could see an individual leaf on a tree at any distance. I spent an hour in the woods yesterday just looking at stuff. Mold on trees, colors of little things. Bugs, birds, whatever. It was interesting.

Jim

[limazulu]

I never would have thought a trigger would cause shots to string. Thanks for posting the results.

As far as glasses go.... Many, many years ago I had a job transfer. As I'm driving around the new locations I tried reading the street signs. By the time I could read them it was too late to make the turn. Since I had to get a new drivers license I figured I'd better get my eyes checked. Sure enough, afterward I could see the leaves and not just the forest.

I guess that hog (pig?) you had trouble with a few years back would be alot easier to deal with now.

[Jim Tarleton]

It was the trigger housing binding against the stock that caused the problem. If I tightened the rear screw I was "bending" the receiver.

Know what you mean by those street signs.

Jim

[PeteDavis]

Nice rifle sir. I'd like to shoot it if I am down Burgaw way. Meanstwhile, I got a stone cistern to build in this hole in my yard. I'll post a pic, if'n I live to completion. Signed-PD, Appalachian American

[Don W]

Pete, Your rock work is always great.

I had this project, about 35 years ago. I had to pick up, load, haul 120 Mi., unload, sort out, place (trial & error) for fit. No rocks were cut. There is a two rock layer, below ground level, that is the foundation. No morter was used. All rocks are just dry laid. I still have a large assortment, left over, stored in my back yard. ~ the only rock project I have ever had.

DW

[Jim Tarleton]

Pete, what happened to your other cistern?

Jim

[PeteDavis]

Don-

That is a killer dry wall. I like flat rock, I like big rock, tight dry joints like you have there, and I like curves. Great job. Any flint in your leftover pile? (Pedernales point pic attached).

Jim-

This is my second cistern. The first is 3200 gallons, fed from the roof and gutter system-that's my bath and dish water. I have a jet pump in the house I think you saw that system. It works great and that cistern at 6' deep, has never drawn down more than 12" in six years of usage. Rain keeps it full. I built that one in '95.

This second cistern (it will have a nice rock face) will be fed by a spring up the hollow about 100 yards. Always runs but a pencil lead in the summer. It's going to hold right at 4000 gallons. I'm putting a Lehman's stainless hand pump in it for potable water, and the over flow and gravity draw-off will go to the garden. After I pour the cap (7"), I'm going to pull 5" of dirt over it and turf it over like an old Normandy bunker. Make a great elevated archery platform and rifle bench too.

I brought in 50 tons of soil for a new start last fall. I'll try to avoid posting any giant cabbages around here! When it comes to water, it pays to have a back-up. Most people don't even know where their water comes from! We're heading into dry times, boys.

PD