Improvements nearing completion at the Dasher DOME

[birdog]

Clearing the cedar thickets and opening up the woods
on the left side of shooting range. About 250 yards remain.
Started working off and on in 2020. All that remains is from the
550 yard line to the 800 line which is the boundary of property

 

[RSchatz]

Looks like all the work is going to reveal several acres of productive land.
I can't imagine how difficult it was for the original settlers to clear land with the tools they had available to them.

 

[BartsBullets]

Congratulations Randy!

 

[Eric Leonard]

looks real good man,,been a day or two since i was down there

 

[birdog]

looks real good man,,been a day or two since i was down there

You are invited when Paul Rich is finished working back there

 

[birdog]

Pushing trees over with excavator and pushing to a pile with Cat D-8

 

[longbow]

A 500 yd+ range on your property? Cant beat it!

 

[birdog]

A 500 yd+ range on your property? Cant beat it!

800 yd from the shooting building, After this last thicket cleared, I may be able to shoot 1100 yd but not from the covered benches

 

[ttfreestyle]

800 yd from the shooting building, After this last thicket cleared, I may be able to shoot 1100 yd but not from the covered benches

You are always welcome to come to our little range if you want to go farther off concrete benches Randy. The Dome is a great place for sure , enjoy every time we get there.

 

[birdog]

I am getting the urge to shoot again. Every day I think I will shoot tomorrow but seems like chainsaws, bush hogs, tractors, etc. seem to be more important right now. But as this thicket clears I am getting yancy. I even put up a new piece of 3'x4' AR 500 yesterday. Now, to choose which rifle and caliber I want to shoot first. 6.5 x 284, Dasher, BRX, 6 Br, 6 XC, 6 BRAI (naw, can't get comfortable with it), PPC, 375 Cheytac Now, which action Viper, Viper SS, Bat SB, 700 Titanium, STiller TAC 408????? Decisions, decisions

 

[Eric Leonard]

I am getting the urge to shoot again. Every day I think I will shoot tomorrow but seems like chainsaws, bush hogs, tractors, etc. seem to be more important right now. But as this thicket clears I am getting yancy. I even put up a new piece of 3'x4' AR 500 yesterday. Now, to choose which rifle and caliber I want to shoot first. 6.5 x 284, Dasher, BRX, 6 Br, 6 XC, 6 BRAI (naw, can't get comfortable with it), PPC, 375 Cheytac Now, which action Viper, Viper SS, Bat SB, 700 Titanium, STiller TAC 408????? Decisions, decisions

You still got that 284?

 

[birdog]

You still got that 284?

Oh yea. Forgot the straight 284.
you were with me the day I found my load with the Reloader-17.
i remember you said I was getting WSM velocity with the 180 Bergers. When is your next day off that u would like to come over.

 

[birdog]

Looks like all the work is going to reveal several acres of productive land.
I can't imagine how difficult it was for the original settlers to clear land with the tools they had available to them.

I have ofter wondered the same thing. Lots of time to spend in the old days with no towns, TV, ball games, restaruants, etc., but much time for two man saws, axes, plus the wood cut was used to warm the cabins. They had no clutter in their lives to interfere with hard labor.

 

[birdog]

view from the top of the ridge looking toward 800 yard line.

 

[birdog]

 

[birdog]

D-8 can push a huge brush pile.

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