Sunday, May 25, 2008

Extended basepads are safety equipment

During a steel shoot I had to do a reload. Ended up catching a part of my palm between a magazine basepad and the frame. This would not have happened if I had an extended basepad on the mag, and my hand would have been held an inch or so away from the frame.

This was the first time I used the medical kit I have kept in the trunk for the last two or three years. It was nice to have.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Thursday, May 15, 2008

A big day - Food Dehydrator

My food dehydrator showed up last night, so this morning I ran out and picked up a bunch of food to dry. We have some apples (pink lady smith, granny smith), sweet baby carrots, pineapple and mandarin oranges, and one tray of apple sauce hoping that it comes out something like a fruit roll-up. So far so good, but it sure does take a long time for these things to dry.


A big day - Tent

This is sort of a jumble of images, and I am not sure how the formatting is going to come out but lets give it a shot anyways. My new tent showed up today. It is a Marmot Twilight 2p. Setting it up was easy without reading the manual. BTW the manual is on a tag inside of the packing bag. There were some features that made this very easy to setup. First the posts are all connected as one piece, it is then also labeled "Assemble with this side up". The pole tips and grommets are also color coordinated. Very nice. The fly is solid, and have the benefit of having a small window at the head of the tent so you can see the sky without going out. There is a good deal of storage internally in side and head pockets, as well as a hanging mesh.

I will be giving it a shot in the next few nights to see how it works out.