Would like to shoot but .......

[Blue68f100]

Rain and more rain. We are so saturated that a little as 0.2" of rain is filling the creek to the max, no room for it to go in the ground.


This camera is setup within 10' of my target. It looks toward the benches behind the tree for protection. The creek/spring branch is ~30 feet to the left of the feeder. I use video cameras as game cameras, this one is 100yrds from my house. I set the alerts to wake me when hogs are coming into the feeder. Then I slip out the back door on my porch to shoot. The solar panel and battery powers some Led lights over the feeder so I don't need anything special to shoot at night. Does not bother the deer as they get use to it as well as other critters (coons). It does take the bores a few days to get comfortable around the light though. Then I have 325gr payload waiting for them via 458 SOCOM.

 

[adcoch1]

Nice setup... Except for the lake...

 

[Blue68f100]

The good thing is the it reseeds fairly quickly once the rain stops. So far I have lost 2 trees next to the creek that has up-rooted due to the soft ground. The first one landed on top of my feeder, taking down the battery and solar panel. Only broke a ear off of the feeder's lid. Another one came down yesterday, on the other side of the creek. Not an area that is easy to get access to. I need to find out what variety of tree it is, ~ 24-30" at the base, nice and straight. I'm afraid it's one of my hickory trees. If so I will be forced to cut it up for fire wood.Don't want it to got to waste. If Oak I may process it if lumber. But in any case will need a bigger chain saw.

 

[dredd]

I feel your pain. Hang in there.

I have been rained out of hunting & shooting for what feels like 6 months.

A lot of us Texas folks have been wet for quite awhile.

We'll be crying soon enough when it goes back to being dry & hot.

 

[Bfh_auto]

You need steel plates so you can still shoot when it's too wet to walk down there.

 

[jeeptim]

Ah!!! How about you shoot from the boat!! Or better yet an innertubes.
It's really good training

 

[Blue68f100]

I have steel targets setup off to the side of the targets. The problem is getting to the shooting benches, 1 (@ 200yrds) has some serious erosion due to moles tunneling. My side routes have standing water as well as my range. Will take 2-3 weeks without rain to dry out. Still have over 100 rounds to test when it drys out.

I'm been working on restoring my boat since earlier this year. Still 2-3 weeks off before it will be finished. Starting to sand/polish the hull after repairing a bunch of blisters from where it was setting on the trailer and 38 yrs of use. I had already replaced the floor and transom, then re-foam between the hull and floor.

btw. Forecast for more rain tomorrow.

 

[fpgt72]

I hear you just last night we got 3.7 inches....and it is not to really stop till next week. Plus it is cold.

 

[jmorris]

That’s a glass half empty way of looking at things. A target stand on an inner tube and you have a moving target system.

 

[Typetwelve]

It has been a terrible May, that's for sure. We had massive flooding, much of the weather is what I define as "unusable", many days with highs in the 50's. 16 out of 21 days this months has been rain. It's forecast to rain Fri, Sat, Sun, and Mon here for Memorial Day weekend, it's been awful.

 

[jmorris]

We have had a lot of rain for sure. We have been needing to bail hay for weeks now but every time it gets almost dry enough, it rains again.

 

[buck460XVR]

Part of life is what nature hands out. Most of the world we know has been shaped by her forces. I feel your pain. My son and I have been working on flood damage done to his hunting property for two years now and we still have a long ways to go. On one of the farms I turkey hunted this spring the farmer was doing all he could to try and not lose any more of one of his fields due to erosion from the excessive rains we have had lately. Kinda a losing battle. Flatland is a tad more tolerant than hills and valleys.

 

[Armored farmer]

We are on rain delay in Illinois too.

 

[fpgt72]

We have had a lot of rain for sure. We have been needing to bail hay for weeks now but every time it gets almost dry enough, it rains again.

Same I am knee high and there is just no way....we are going to have to get at least 3 days to dry out before you move the machines in.

 

[Blue68f100]

The good news is the rain that came through around noon is moving fast ans is almost out of my area. And the forecast last night said NO Rain for the next 5 days. I'm hoping they are correct for once.

Been raining for an hour and 0.25"+ and still coming down. Creek is full to brim, again.

Update: 0.7" total for today.

 

[fpgt72]

I have hit 4+" in the past two days....no rain till around 4pm....then all hell brakes loose. Rain for the next 7 days they are calling for and tonight large hail and real thunder boomers. They say it is going to get warm today....up to about 80....if that happens it will pump energy in and it will get bad....if it says on the cooler side (I doubt it unless it starts to cloud up fast) not so bad.

I have a river running through where I shoot....my bike thinks I have forgotten all about it.....I guess there is always air guns in the basement....but it is to be nice outside.....I want some booming of my own.

 

[murf]

el nino is still here. will be here for summer and fall: https://www.climate.gov/enso

we had snow in Prescott arizona here monday. it has been a wet and cool spring here in the high country of az. hope you guys dry out soon.

murf

 

[crestoncowboy]

Update: 0.7" total for today.

Here in the blue ridge mountains it so dusty its unbearable. Hot, stuffy, and dry. No rain in 3 weeks. Hay being mowed everywhere and no rain predicted. Gardens already dying and being watered, and the last frost was exactly 1 week ago. It's funny how it always works like that.
And btw I have a blue 66 f100