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    d.kaufman

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    Poll is up for meet n shoot

    Northern Indiana Meet N Shoot (@Winamac FWA)

    Poll time for the first Meet N Shoot of the year. Poll allows for multiple responses and you can change your pick/s as well. Left out Mother's day weekend and Memorial Day weekend as I figure many will have plans for those weekends Will be held at the Winamac FWA as usual. We usually meet up...
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    Pretty dang windy out here today at wildcat rffs match but good time as always. Quite a few malfunctions in the trustee 10/22’s I guess it’s time for the annual cleaning lol
     
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    melensdad said:
    Everyone focusing on Purdue's basketball team . . .
    But yesterday I was coaching Purdue fencing at the Midwest Conference Fencing Championships hosted by Michigan State University.

    Purdue Women's Epee - GOLD MEDAL
    Purdue Women's Saber - SILVER MEDAL
    Purdue Men's Foil - BRONZE MEDAL

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    Just a follow up to yesterday's TEAM event.
    Today is the INDIVIDUAL competition.

    Men's Saber - GOLD for Purdue
    Men's Foil - 5th for Purdue
    Women's Saber - BRONZE
    Women's Saber - 5th for Purdue
    Women's Epee - GOLD for Purdue
    Women's Epee - SILVER for Purdue

    Also one of my former high school students also earned BRONZE (T) in Women's Saber

    . . . so a pretty good weekend
     
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    Pinewood Derby for Cub Scouts went pretty smoothly. Kid's class of cars was brutal. That class had the 1st, 2nd, and 5th overall fastest cars in it (and were talking about losing by a hundredth of a second each race). He did have the 9th fastest overall out of 24 entries. Until next year and a new design.

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    Ballstater98 said:
    Pinewood Derby for Cub Scouts went pretty smoothly. Kid's class of cars was brutal. That class had the 1st, 2nd, and 5th overall fastest cars in it (and were talking about losing by a hundredth of a second each race). He did have the 9th fastest overall out of 24 entries. Until next year and a new design.

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    Burn the powdered graphite into the wheels. Guy I know told me about it in time for my son's last derby. He had access to a small conveyer at work and he'd powder the wheels up and let it run, several times. I didn't have a conveyer so I chucked the nail in a drill spun it for a second or two and on to the next one a couple of times.
     
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    Ballstater98 said:
    Pinewood Derby for Cub Scouts went pretty smoothly. Kid's class of cars was brutal. That class had the 1st, 2nd, and 5th overall fastest cars in it (and were talking about losing by a hundredth of a second each race). He did have the 9th fastest overall out of 24 entries. Until next year and a new design.

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    Heard pink cars are faster.
     
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    CheeseRat said:
    Went to rural king to buy cattle panels. I just threw these in the cart when I saw the wife coming my way with a box with turkeys in it. :ugh:
    I am going to start out hanging between 2 angled down chains. I have some decent 3/8 chain and these are 1/2” plates. May have to play around with chain different chain lengths? Bought 2, so if it doesn’t settle down, I can shoot at other. lol.
    Straight out the gate I’m going with factory orange, but white does sound like the way to go. Don’t think I can really get an angle out of chain hang way? I think the hang mount may allow give to go that way. I’ll have to get some cardboard around it to do a splatter zone test? Looks like hanging gives a little more life to plates with allowing give while hit. Thinking mid to low on plate will splatter down, have to see about high on plate?
    Bunch of fence and other things to do, hope to maybe get a chance to test it all out today/soon… Thanks all!
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    You can get the plates to angle by using flat washers between the plate and the chain.
    Always use round headed carriage bolts to help with any potential ricochets.
    Bolt thru target, then add washers, then thru chain, then a washer and a lock nut.
    Doing this moves the "pivot point" back and makes the plate angle back some....more washers = more angle.
     
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    FYI, Willow Slough Shooting Range is having a customer appreciation day on the 18th of this month.
    10 bucks gets you unlimited shooting time. They're staying open late until 7pm that day also.
     
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