EGG SHOOT RESULTS May 9, 2010 Talk about wind! At times we had gusts over 25mph. But the Eggs stayed upright and the success was had! 100Yd Handgun Ken Cummings took the gold with 15 eggs with 16 rounds 100yd Rimfire Bob Ping ruled with 15-18 100yd Sporting Gordon Guisti
It was a Cummings kind of day! Weather was terrible. Pouring rain at times! I had my secretary put in a request for a nice day, but she screwed up and booked the next Sunday by accident! But thanks to the amazing generosity of Richie of Richie’s Sporting Goods in Westport Ma, (217 Mouse Mill
Off-Set Scope Mount
I have a good shooting buddy that shoots extreme target rifles left handed. He recently lost the use of his left eye so I built a scope mount that allows the use of his right eye while shooting left handed.
This is not a difficult R&R, but it is very cramped at the top of the shock towers. If you have Xtra Large hands, it will be a challenge.
First thing is to jack up the rear of the car and remove the rear tire:
Ball joints. Those little things on the bottom of the front control arms that hold just about everything together up there! When they go, or are worn out the front end of the car gets very sloppy and in some states, you won’t pass inspection. The Porsche 911 uses one ball joint on each control arm. The top of the control arm is located with the strut tower. This makes the job relatively easy as you are only replacing two ball joints total.
You can test for ball joint play by jacking the car up, using a pipe or a crow-bar under the front tire, lever it up and down. There should be no movement. No “clacking” noise. Nice and solid. Of course, movement could also spell bad wheel bearings, but many times you’ll hear bad wheel bearings and bad ball joints won’t make a noise.
Although my 1987 Porsche 911 has less than 50K miles, the front end has felt a bit loose. If I did the standard shock absorber test of bouncing up and down on the front bumper, the car would rebound twice before settling down. Ball joints were also needed so I figured I’d do it all at once. The article on ball joint replacement can be found on this same web site.
Jack the car up and place proper supports under. You are going to be really pushing and pulling on the wrenches and you don’t want it falling off a simple jack.
Note: I did this whole procedure without removing the disc brake rotor, caliber or front hub. It took about 30 minutes per side this way.
There is a quick pictorial in the photo album on how to increase the rear width of your 911 with wheel spacers. http://public.fotki.com/Rbertalotto/vehicles/porsche_911/ ADVERTISEMENT: This web site is part of my income stream. If this article was helpful to you, you might want to throw a few bucks at me via paypal rvb100@comcast.net Not
A Good Source for Photography Supplies I was in the need for some umbrella stand holders and after searching on Ebay and Amazon a Google Search led me to FlashZebra.com. I ordered three “Umbrella Adapters” Item #0041. Ordered on December 29th, had them in my hand January 2. Now that’s quick service. I paid $14.00
I find that as I’m driving around in my truck and spot wildlife to shoot, they tend to stay still as long as I don’t leave the vehicle. Some type of window mounted support was in order. A quick Google search found a number of commercially available sandbags just for this purpose. It also found this article on DIY “Butterfly Bean Bag”. This article is on Fred Hurteau’s fantastic web site on Nature Photography. I highly recommend you spend a few hours over there.
The directions Fred gives are very easy to understand and he even has down-loadable patterns to cut out the material. A couple hours at the sewing machine and you have an extremely serviceable Photography Bean Bag.
I used some heavy duty nylon material that I purchased at the local fabric store, but just about anything would work. Even an old bath towel would do the trick.
I loaded my bags with wild bird food. Sand was just too heavy. My bags weight exactly 11 pounds.
Simply follow the directions and have at it!
