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Just starting to add the honey supers, as of this Saturday. will be about a month before we extract, and have capping wax.
Continue at TB please.
 
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:) Al

Here is some plans for a heavy shooting bench if you have a use for some.

 
 
This is what I use for a back stop. Works good with my 300 Win Mag even at 25 yards. I olny have a 125 yard range at home here. The cabin is different, the sky is the limit since there is a couple of miles of breach to shoot on.
 

 
The tires are filled full of sand. Can reclaim the lead to make fishing sinkers or cast bullets with.
 
:)  Al

Ok Fellows I have you down for the above stated amounts. I also understand that if you find it cheaper else where You will buy it there.

I did some checking at the post office. They have what they call flat rate boxes in two sizes. Contents of either of those boxes ship for a flat rate of $8.10.
I asked another beekeeper in our club how he ships his wax and such. Wax in the flat rate boxes, the small one will hold about 6 pounds, the big one holds 16 pounds he said. He still ships his honey UPS as they don't break the jars ever.
 
:)  Al

QS I'll add you to the list but I would like to know for how much. Supplys are limited.
 
gitano. shipping for 10 pounds comes to 20.19 please allow 6 oz minium for packaging.
Cal your shipping cost from 48446   here.
http://postcalc.usps.gov/
 
{ :- )  Al

:) Will have a quanity of bees wax for sale near the end of July 2006. Price is $3.50 a pound plus shipping. Shipping will be at your request other wise I ship USPS flat rate.
Prices are going up for nice clean wax. For example::
http://cgi.ebay.com/2-lb-PURE-BEESWAX-from-HONEY-GLOW-FARM_W0QQitemZ8272160955QQcategoryZ28119QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
 
Order early as supplys are limited.
:) Al

A 50:50 mix of windsheid fluid and rubbing alcoholworks great too.
 
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I like the whole family of 308 cartridge calibers. I would pick the 243 my self if it were on the list for this poll. :D Great round for every thing from ground squirrels, wood chuck, crows, youtes and deer. :) As for a sissy round, I have harvested more deer with one shot that dropped in their tracks than a friend with has with his 308.He normally requires 2 shots. He expects the noise and the fact he is using a 308 to scare they all to death.
Since the 243 was left out of the poll I would take the 260 as my next choice, and the 7mm-08 as my third choice. I have 2 rifles in 7MM-08, a 700 Remington mountian rifle, & a model 7 Remington.
 
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Honey bees will stay in one hive forever as long as there is no disease that kills them off. Or the mites don't get them and they have enough winter food.
When they get to crowded they will send about half the colony with the old queen to find a new home. If you have had them in there for several years and they are still alive you do have some thing special. Vorroa Mites are killing nearly half the colonies of bees each year. Those that are not treated that is. Isn't to many wild colonies left in the USA any more so your are special and have found a way to fight off the mites.
Thanks for the welcome too.
 
:)  Al

[The Germans also had an in-line flintlock design as early as 1738."]

First, I got this little article from one of the countrys leading sports magazines called Sports Afeild. I never heard of a white muzzle loader before, nor does the article mention them.
I did not intend to start a fire nor throw gasoline on one already burning. I was just attemping to keep the side lock people from flameing me.
The article does not mention caps in the first inline designs but "The Germans also had an in-line flintlock design as early as 1738." is what the article did say. Note Flint lock.
Like I said the inlines just lend them selves to updates better.
 
:) Al

Check this place out for a nice used rifle. Many have scopes with them.
http://www.williamsgunsight.com/808usedrifles.htm
 
These people are good to deal with too
http://www.bullocksguns.com/
I bought a great  shooting used Ruger 77 in 220 swift for less than $300.00 from them.

No I won't tell you to buy some thing else than the 223 you said you want.
 
:)  Al

This is my first muzzy a T/C 50 cal. Hawkins I built from a kit way back in the 70's. I stopped shooting it in the late 80's due to my eyes getting as old as the rest of the body but failing worse.

 
I rediscovered the fun of shooting it this winter thanks to a fellow in
England who sent me a T/C peep site to mount on it.
 

 
50 Yards paced. 80 grains of APP T/C breakaway sabot and Hornaday 451 HP XTP. The APP doesn't work well in the Hawkins. Some shots took two caps to light the load off.
 

 
When my eyes got bad I bought this T/C plains rifle in 50 cal. . since it was drilled and tapped I mounted a T/C  quick release mount and a old Weaver K4 scope I had on it.

 

I bought the Remington Inline because I have 7 Remington 700 center fires and wanted the inline to add to my collection. The second one is because I like to be able to buy off the local shelves the things I have worked the load up for year after year.I still like to fondle my 700's when cleaning them too.
 
Yup the T/C rifles are just taken out of the stocks and scalding water pumped thru them and wala they are clean. A quick swab of the bore with an oily patch and a rub down and it's done.
I laugh at those who say they buy guns like the T/C Omega because they are easy to clean. Hawkin style are much simplier.
:D  When the wife almost says to buy a new rifle you don't argue with her you just do it.
Q.S. Your on TB arn't you?
 
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I told her I knew how to fix that!!!!!!
You see I bought a Remington 700 ML a few years back in 54. I am having a awful time being able to buy local the same sabots and such year after year. I even went so far as to complain to the gunshop owner about selling 54cal rifles and not the componits. I fixed that problem very easy. I got a nearlynew used Remington 700 ML in 50 cal. with a Bushnell 1.5 to 7 on it. It also had all the equipment that came with it new except the allen wrench that removes the bolt screw.
 

 

 

 
Ya I've heard all that side lock stuff being more traditional stuff. Read this might change your mind a bit.
 
The in-line design has been around for years, as exemplified by Jean Samuel Pauley's in-line system of 1812. The Germans also had an in-line flintlock design as early as 1738. So the belief that sidelock muzzleloaders are the more historically accurate traditional firearms is false. Unquestionably, the in-line style is more popular among today's traditional hunters and shooters, says Tim Pancurak of Thompson/Center Arms. "In-lines represent the majority of our muzzleloader sales," he said—an amazing statistic considering that T/C's first true in-line muzzleloader was introduced in 1993. Dudley McGarity, national sales manager of Connecticut Valley Arms (CVA), says in-lines now make up about 80 percent of that company's sales. "They have really come on strong in the past few years," he said. "The in-line has enticed a lot of hunters to try muzzleloading. The in-line looks more familiar and is perceived to be easier to use. It is also perceived that they are more reliable and more accurate than the old traditional guns."

The inlines just lend them selves to updateing better.

 
:) Al

:D Ya'll just haven't found the right tree hugger who thinks it's cruel to tie up flies. :D :D  Worse yet are the ones that do bodily harm when they see you feeding them to the fish.

Then there are the fly haters and are afraid you might turn them loose an pay a ransom .
 
:)  Al

:) The bees only cluster up, eat honey and shiver their little wings in the winter. :D If a warm day happens to come about they all fly out and go potty real quick.
 
I on the other hand I clean bee keeping equipment,repair and replace for the next season.
Search for the best prices on the new equipment I will need plus new bees for increases. I also keep the wood furnace full of wood and empty of ashes, shoot and clean guns and reload spent rounds. Run my dogs every morning and every evening. find time to jump on the skis and take a little trip or jump on the sled and take a longer trip. I might even tie up a bunch of flies.
 
The bees are pikers. Even with what they do in the summer it is a hard for them to catch up:rolleyes: .
 
:) Thanks for the welcome ya'll.

Like to say hello and tell a bit about ME. I'm an older fellow, who retired and discovered I like messing with honey bees. :D Although I am not supposed to lick my fingers to much, better halfs orders.
Yup a happy married guy with two children and a passle of grand kids, mostly girls but They mostly like being outdoors too, a couple of boys too.
I love the out doors and do a lot of different things, Hunting being one. Shooting got me into reloading both rifle pistol and shot gun, forgot the muzzle loaders. Fishing got me into making my own rods, lures and flies.
My bees got me into wood working too.
I cross country ski and snowmobile and LOVE snowie winters.