Spring is finally coming to Maine!!!

[Picher]

Almost all the snow has melted in the Central Maine area...Augusta to Waterville zone!!!

My rifles are itching to fire a few rounds downrange on my "new-ish" 200 yard range, which may get extended to 300 or more...according to my Son, who owns the field access road it's on. I had to move the range, due to a neighbor harvesting trees beyond my "impact boulder" in the middle of our Son's blueberry field. I don't see the value in a longer range than the 200 that I set up, but I'll humor him. Besides, he's got the front-end loader to move boulders and create the multiple target distance backstops.

I'm getting pretty excited to fire on the range. Last year, I just fired a few rounds to check deer season rifles prior to the season.

Hope you folks are getting excited about Spring shooting season too!!!

 

[dh1633pm]

I feel the same. Light winter in Central New York. Although it did snow last week. Got back from a vacation in Tennessee to 33 degrees and a new truck that was dead to the world. Gave new meaning to found on the ……. Can’t wait to get out to shoot a little and enjoy the coming good weather. Enjoy yourself. My wife says our next vacation will be Maine.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

Sounds good! Here in sunny Central CA it kept raining practically every week for the past three months, and some access roads in the foothills aren't in the best shape right now -- with luck things will improve in a few weeks and I can finally play outside too.

 

[Picher]

Yeah, you folks in CA and FL may not understand our need to get out of the house, after a long, cold, snowy winter and fire a bunch of rounds downrange. The road to my family range is finally about free of snow and the road is drying up well. I hope to be able to drive down and use the range in a few days.

 

[dh1633pm]

At least until the Spring rains come and make the roads muddy. Can't wait to get out more. Shooting in the winter isn't the most fun. Cold hands, lost brass, and hard to reach targets.

 

[.45Coltguy]

Out here in the Ca. deserts, the dirt roads dried pretty good after all this rain. Things are starting to look good. Looks like later in the week for some desert adventure.
Shooting in the high desert just works for me.

 

[ECVMatt]

We actually had kind of a crazy winter here in CA. Lots of flooding out in the deserts near my home and roads washed out. However I was out there last weekend and it was absolutely beautiful. The whole desert is green with huge patches of spring flowers. It will only get better over the next month. I am planning on being out there as much as possible.

Now go get those varmints, Picher and enjoy the new range! And of course we need photos!

 

[N555]

Now the problem is mud season, then when the soil dries out it will be blackfly season.

 

[Gordon]

My first real outing in Calif. this year starts today with my Grandson. We have two electric fat tire bikes racked on back of my Camper shelled pick up with bedding in back. We are going to a friends ranch to ride around the wildflower super bloom that is happening in the Panoche Hills Ca. He has his little High Standard Sentinel 4" .22 pistol which I hold for him until he is of legal age in 7 years more, and I have my .357 Sig P226 in a chest holster , just in case . We are just riding around the fields on farm trails , eating packed in Subways . We will return to the Ranch before our batteries run out and recharge them overnight in the Bunkhouse we ae staying in a couple nights and eating with the Ranch owners family. Life is good. Returning to my still snowy place in Oregon in May. Happy Easter !

 

[Seedy Character]

My brother lives in Lincoln, Maine. His first winter away from Texas.

Range trip? 85° yesterday. Our Spring comes with 60 mph winds. Makes shooting groups fun.

 

[CCSIG]

Here in northern Nevada it's finally beginning to look like spring, but we still got some snow yesterday. I can hardly wait to venture into the back country and spoil a few ground squirrels' day. Would sure love to visit Maine someday!

 

[d2wing]

Snowing here. Lake still covered with thick ice. GGRRRR.

 

[12Bravo20]

Here in Missouri we went form winter to summer with bouts of fall mixed in. Plus it has been pretty windy for the last couple of weeks with 20-25 mph average wind speeds. We have a severe storm rolling in tonight then cold weather for the next couple of days before the next warm front moves in.

 

[Picher]

I feel the same. Light winter in Central New York. Although it did snow last week. Got back from a vacation in Tennessee to 33 degrees and a new truck that was dead to the world. Gave new meaning to found on the ……. Can’t wait to get out to shoot a little and enjoy the coming good weather. Enjoy yourself. My wife says our next vacation will be Maine.

We don't call Maine "Vacationland" for nothing!!! Weather here in the Summer is fantastic! Coastal Maine is the biggest draw, especially when folks want to escape inland heat waves! The coast rarely gets hotter than about 80 degrees, though springtime is a bit wetter than inland, where I live (Central Maine...close to the Capital). When the coast is rainy/cloudy/foggy many folks come to the Augusta/Waterville areas for warmer/brighter weather and shopping!

 

[Bartojc]

We don't call Maine "Vacationland" for nothing!!! Weather here in the Summer is fantastic!

Picher, it is truely God's country. I spent some time snowmobiling central Maine around Moosehead Lake/Rockwood up to Baxter State Park and Mt Katahdin. Its beautiful even in the Winter. Was up In Caribou one year too, but much different landscape up there with large potato fields.

Your climate is similar to my home in MI. We too are happy spring is coming. Hoping to shoot outdoors soon.

_jeff

 

[Picher]

Picher, it is truely God's country. I spent some time snowmobiling central Maine around Moosehead Lake/Rockwood up to Baxter State Park and Mt Katahdin. Its beautiful even in the Winter. Was up In Caribou one year too, but much different landscape up there with large potato fields.

Your climate is similar to my home in MI. We too are happy spring is coming. Hoping to shoot outdoors soon.

_jeff

As the weather warms, where I live in Central Maine is nicer than either the mountains or the coast. Roads are better than farther North this time of year. Yesterday, my wife and I took a nice ride from the Waterville area, through Skowhegan and to Bingham, just for a ride. Had a wonderful lunch at the Heritage House on Rte 201...the "main drag" in Skowhegan (not to be missed when visiting the area). Then went to the sewing machine store, where the wife got a "new and improved" Singer. It's only her third sewing machine that is being used at home,...and at a sewing center in Vassalboro, where women make new clothes for themselves, the needy, and friends, especially kids. (She probably sews 30 hours a week.)

 

[jak67429]

It is officially mud/pothole season here. Had the junior team out Sunday for first practice. needed high boots just to set steel at 20 yards.

 

[d2wing]

We don't call Maine "Vacationland" for nothing!!! Weather here in the Summer is fantastic! Coastal Maine is the biggest draw, especially when folks want to escape inland heat waves! The coast rarely gets hotter than about 80 degrees, though springtime is a bit wetter than inland, where I live (Central Maine...close to the Capital). When the coast is rainy/cloudy/foggy many folks come to the Augusta/Waterville areas for warmer/brighter weather and shopping!

Sounds like a great place. Northern Minnesota is a little like that. Around the many lakes the population is many times greater in the summer. Nothing special about where I live near the cities. It is cold here, around 30 F. today. 2 years ago it was 80. They are having a blizzard now in my hometown up North today. But the cold weather is supposed to end after tomorrow. Enjoy Picher.

 

[Picher]

Here in northern Nevada it's finally beginning to look like spring, but we still got some snow yesterday. I can hardly wait to venture into the back country and spoil a few ground squirrels' day. Would sure love to visit Maine someday!

Might as well visit Maine, almost everybody does, especially during the summer months when it's so nice here and so HOT in more southerly states.

 

[Savage30L]

85 degrees and sunny (and very windy) here in central KY. I tilled up spots in the garden where I'll transplant my lettuce seedlings and set some onions next week.

The range at our gun club is down in a low spot at the head of a holler. It's a mud hole in the winter; now is about as early as we use it without getting 5 pounds of mud on each boot. I hope I can make it to the range next week, as it's supposed to be sunny all that week.

 

[jmr40]

My wife and I visited Maine last summer and will be going back next month for a few days. Not just Maine, but we drove from GA and visited several spots going north, then a different route going south. We were at Baxter State Park during mosquito season. Then spent a few days at Acadia while in Maine.

We do a long road trip somewhere each summer and our 15-year-old granddaughter usually goes with us. She had a conflict last summer so we're going back with her.

Shooting weather is the opposite here. In a couple of months, it will be almost too hot to shoot except before around 10AM. I've had to keep the truck running with the AC on and place rifles in the cab between strings to keep the barrels cool on hot days here. I usually bring at least 3-4 rifles and will rotate shooting them to keep barrels cool.

I prefer winter since it is less crowded. It will often be in the 20's or 30's at sunup and that's too cold for many here. Just about right for me and I have the range to myself.