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[Bunk]

Central Texas oos dry. All the spring rain we had made plenty of grass. Now it is too dry to shoot my black powder guns. A single smoldering patch or wad and the whole community would go up in smoke. I will have to wait for rain, but will be watching what goes on here.
Not making smoke
Bunk

 

[Dobegrant]

Same here in Arizona we have had 30 days of 115-124 degrees and no rain for 5-6 months, county wide burn restrictions in effect

 

[Ballshooter]

Using Corn meal and a patch , I never had a smoldering patch or well soaked wad come to think of it with my bear grease lube never burned a patch.

 

[11th corps]

We had this issue in Indiana a few years back. I was concerned about smoldering patches.
It's been dry here this summer, but we have occasional rain to keep things from burning up.

 

[TDM]

Central Texas oos dry. All the spring rain we had made plenty of grass. Now it is too dry to shoot my black powder guns. A single smoldering patch or wad and the whole community would go up in smoke. I will have to wait for rain, but will be watching what goes on here.
Not making smoke
Bunk

Same here in central Mississippi and back home in Louisiana too. One of the driest summers in memory. There’s a big, blocking high pressure system sitting over the south. Brings hot and dry, but also keeps things quite in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[nick_1]

we have by far the wettest summer ever here in VT. we had a bad flood and a bunch of flash floods after the real flood due to saturated ground. fields are too we to get the mowers out on them even when we do have a decent spell of two dry days we can't get the hay in because the ground is too soft to support the machines.. . this bridge was right accross the street from my place.

driving down town.. this was right in front of the fire station before it got really crazy..

hope you guys get some rain! we don't need any more...

 

[Gtrubicon]

I live in Northern California, it’s very dry here. I often wish we could get summer rain to clean the air, nock down the dust on my gravel driveway and keep the fire season a little less threatening.

 

[Bunk]

Using Corn meal and a patch , I never had a smoldering patch or well soaked wad come to think of it with my bear grease lube never burned a patch.

Ballshooter thanks, but I am not willing to take a chance. The 1851 is a convertible (Krist conversion) and can still be used as an unmentionable that dates to 1871.
bunk

 

[nick_1]

I have witnessed large sparks come out the barrel of a 40cal rifle and land in the leaves. I would think larger bores would be even more prone to this. I think the move for you folks is to shoot in a gravel pit with no vegetation.

 

[tenngun]

Was out Sunday for a shoot, a flash from the pan was just unpleasant. Over 90 seems just too toasty to enjoy shooting

 

[Bunk]

Was out Sunday for a shoot, a flash from the pan was just unpleasant. Over 90 seems just too toasty to enjoy shooting

Fayette County Texas 4M my outside in the shade thermometer says 103 and I don't play outside.
I stay inside with a cup of coffee and peruse the forum.
Occasionally making intelligent (I hope) remarks and refrain from snarky ones.
Not making smoke
Bunk

 

[1stnamebassist]

This is driest rainy season I have seen in SW Florida (Ft Myers). I’ve lived here for 28 years now. We are about 10” below normal.

 

[M. De Land]

Fayette County Texas 4M my outside in the shade thermometer says 103 and I don't play outside.
I stay inside with a cup of coffee and peruse the forum.
Occasionally making intelligent (I hope) remarks and refrain from snarky ones.
Not making smoke
Bunk

Boy here in AK we've been thinking perhaps we should start work on an ARK it's been so wet ! I think we have had something like five days without some form of rain all spring and summer !

 

[oldwood]

Sometimes a fellow can't win for loosin'. Got my garden in a week late. It rained for 9 days and when blossoms came , most of the squash , and tomato blossoms got knocked off in the heavy 3" of rain we got.. Perhaps by mid August , some veg.'s might come .

 

[Brazos John]

A single smoldering patch or wad and the whole community would go up in smoke.

Last year in Gonzales, Texas, at the Come and Take It Festival, during the skirmish reenactment, a wad (that shouldn't have been loaded!) started a tiny fire. A couple of Texas Army militia went out, one stomped on the fire, and it splashed like stomping in a puddle! Others ran out, and we started pouring our canteens on the fire, to no avail.
We waved to the spectators, and yelled to bring water bottles. The volunteer militia (spectators) responded, and we got the 20' diameter fire extinguished.
The funniest part of this was, just a few hours earlier, we were in the parade with fire trucks from a dozen different near-by communities, but none of the trucks were here for the skirmish fire.

 

[CaptainVane]

Same here in Arizona we have had 30 days of 115-124 degrees and no rain for 5-6 months, county wide burn restrictions in effect

My son moved from MD to Tempe couple years ago. Loves it. He lives with snakes and scorpions. Been a hundred billion degrees lately there. The boy has lost his mind.

 

[smoothshooter]

Was out Sunday for a shoot, a flash from the pan was just unpleasant. Over 90 seems just too toasty to enjoy shooting

I don’t do ANYTHING outside when the temperature goes over 85 degree’s unless I am getting paid, or it just HAS to be done.
So I am basically in what I call my “Summer Hibernation” from mid-June until about 5 September.
I absolutely hate hot weather. Sweat running down my face and the crack of my %# gets old fast. It’s bad enough here in SW Missouri, but I don’t see how the people who live in MS, LA, SC, TX stand it, especially with all the humidity added.

 

[Edm]

Safer to shoot in the outdoor grass than at a range with astroturf….


Been ok in KY. Hot, but occasional rain. I’m taking Boy Scouts shooting next weekend. Even taking my mortar..

Went shooting with my son last Sat. Was hot..but better than sitting on the sofa

 

[chorizo]

Wore out three knee caps and a pair of boots stomping out a fire I started in CA hunting pigs on our ranch in my youth.

Needless to say, my BP hunting was a spring time green grass adventure after that.

 

[mushka]

Where I shoot here on the desert you couldn't start a fire with a flamethrower, nothing but rocks for about a square mile.
Besides it's already too hot for a fire. 105 today, coolest day for several weeks.


























































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