Tractor Stories

Great news! The fellow who sells and makes run Nancy’s long arm quilting machine and robotics (quite a challenge) came to the house to help Nancy get the robotics working right. He asked whether I wanted help getting my Farmall Cub running and said he would look at it right after he was done with the robotics. Well, he did and began tracing through possibilities. He noted that the choke linkage was not working and the choke was one full, there was water in the carburetor bottom, there MUST be an on-off switch, and once all that was set right, the Cub started and I drove it in the yard. The light circuit fuse is blown so when I replace it, maybe I will have head lights too. Apparently I had simply been flooding the engine if I had any spark at all. I am most happy.   Emily came down and brought two rifles to hunt deer. She got a license last evening and we hope to get to the range before Friday afternoon. Going to get cold here about Thursday morning and colder still for a few days ...

November 6, 2010, was opening day for deer hunting in the part of Texas where I live. I shot two small does from a field near Lampasas. The rifle is a CZ 550 in 6.5X55 millimeter Mauser caliber. I loaded the cartridges with 140 grain hunting bullets. This first deer dropped immediately. The second and smaller deer ran about 70 yards after being hit, then fell over. One thing I do is check beyond the deer to make sure there is no other animal or house in line with the bullet after it passes through the deer. November 13,  I decided to load some 30-06 ammunition so  my daughter will  have some to shoot a deer or five. I used a premium Nosler 150 grain ballistic tip boat tailed bullet, Lake City MATCH brass, which was unfired, CCI primers for the Garand, and IMR 4895 powder. Obviously, these can be used in a Garand since that powder is the original Garand powder (new, of course). I made her fifty cartridges so she will have plenty for the range to sight in and have fun, and ...

Today I made a trip to the Temple Gun Club to shoot my new Kel-Tec RFB. RFB stands for Rifle Forward ejecting Bull pup. It uses FAL metric 20 round magazines and shoots .308 Winchester or 7.62X51mm Nato rounds from an 18-inch barrel. The overall length is 27 ½ inches and it weighs about 8 pounds. The RRFB comes with no sights; however, it has a Picatinny rail for mounting sights. I put a Barska 3-9 scope with red or green cross hairs. I do not know how to put the sling on the RFB as there were no instructions with the sling, and the manual refers to those instructions. About 120 rounds later, I love this little rifle! Recoil is much less than one gets from a bolt action rifle. The accuracy is still unknown since mostly I shot Wolf ammo and that is not very accurate. Initially I had a lot of problems. The rifle would not pick up the next round and usually would not lock the action open after the last round from the magazine. Once I looked in the manual, I found the answer. The gas port ...