Is it better than the cute little Cafe where they grew their own fresh veggies right out beside the parking lot?    

(the one where you bought the T-shirt)

That was good eats, but we'd been eating BBQ for 4 days straight by then so any veggie would have tasted real good to me by then .....

Fresh, jest cooked up string beans can taste very very good up in that there clear mountain air.

OK, then the challenge to MM is to show us a place that will rate up with the existing top two best places we have ever found to eat while on a mountain trip.  

I will offer up a third offering to help set the benchmark to beat, remember the night we got all fogged out while we were eating dinner?    

That was a right good place to eat, it was.

Ain't got to be BBQ, can be anything local that rates VERY VERY GOOD.



..... them boys they'se gotta eat, you know .....






  MM done forgot them posted pictures of the shooting bench, he did .... and I had to spend the money I wuz gonna send him to go buy a new trailer hitch for a different car since Momma traded in her old Acura (and my old trailer hitch with it)

When your wife is around I am your old friend, the handicapped deaf mute dude.

Really, is there anything I could ever tell your wife that wouldn't get you into trouble somehow?

We lost Toymaker because his wife wouldn't let him play any more, I'm not taking any risks with you.





Think of a simple heavy wood 2x16 (doubled to make 32 inches wide) table making up two shooting stations with end supports and a center support between them.  With a simple flat square bench type stool made with the same end and center supports with 2x16 wood for the stool surfaces.     Dig the wood into the ground a bit, lay in some sacrete then level it up good before the sacrete sets.    

Add in several 25 pound sacks of sand, or sacks of perilite or fertilizer or whatever kind of sacks of stuff you actually can use around the farm when we are done.

Simple and sturdy, so your misses belong to you, not the rig.

Pressure treated wood, lasts as long as you will even out in the weather.

We don't have a count yet of who's coming, but I can see two folks shooting at once without any great stretch of the imagination.

Cost it and I'll send you the money.    I can come a day early and help you dig it in and level it.  

You want to lay it out in the final form with somebody sitting at it with a rifle on the bags looking through the scope.

I've built shooting benches before without doing this step and guess what, the distances/heights of bench and stool were actually off by a good bit, so far off as to be practically unusable.   Certainly it was uncomfortable as all get out and the ill fitting cramped recoil made things worse too.

MMRanch wrote on 01/17/14 at 20:08:22:


Nope, left them all at the last place I had to shoot, which was on land that has now become a state park.

I used to live out at the edge of nowhere but town has grown out to and now way past us.

I used to go out my back gate and shoot all I wanted, now it would be a State Park felony to do so (and stupid since there are housing developments back there now)

I had a bench set up out in the woods and a 150 yard range all cleared out, waterproof sand bags stayed out at the bench until the kids got to them with their pocket knives.

Sitting wall and fire pit

RimFire area looking down range  

Well, if your wife has gone to work, we won't be bothering anybody 'cept ourselves with any banging we do.   If she is off work and is at home, we may have to think on that a bit.

I didn't realize your range was right at your back door, but it makes sense ---  that is where I would put mine if I could.

Do the picnic tables move/rotate?    That might well be enough for our casual type shooting.    That picnic table can hold two shooters just fine.

My shooting ranges were always much cruder places than yours -- heck, you've even got grass.

Repost of trip as planned so far -- we are 6 months out from the trip and some of us need to be thinking about reserving the vacation time.


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The 2014 Spring trip starts June 18th and runs through June 25th

The trip contains two sections, first section is MM's farm and the second section is the Blue Ridge Motorcycle Campground.

Google location for MM's farm  is  219 M and M Ranch road, Lynchburg Tn 37352

Wednesday June 18th, arrive at MM's and set up tent, etc
Thursday, June 19th, road trips and shooting
Friday, June 20th, Jack Daniels whiskey sipping tour
Saturday, June 21st, Bike Rally day
Sunday, June 22nd, break camp and head towards Blue Ridge Campground

http://www.blueridgemotorcyclecamp.com/

Monday-Wednesday June 23-25, ride the neat roads Dave found then find your way on home.

Since there are no rooms to reserve ('cept for those going to the Blue Ridge and those you reserve yourselves) we don't need to be doing a lot of extra planning beyond what we got right here.

You show up for what parts you like and you leave when the itch strikes you ....


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I will be at MM's in the afternoon on the 18th to help him set up whatever needs setting up.   Dave will show up on the 19th.  


....  It would be nice if we all told MM when we were showing up so as host he can plan for our arrival.   How many and when likely will play some against the trips that he plans and the assorted eating type stuff.