I'm swithching to mid mount pegs on the 883 so its in the shed . Rode the S-40 today ... Wooow ... I'd forgot how much more effort the heavy bike takes .   I dipped the Little Suzuki into a 90 deg. curve and slid it sideways (kinda like BullWinkle used to do when he'd pull a rinno out of his hat) !      Used way-more effort that needed !    S-40 feels like a toy after getting off a 600 ' lb... er .

Most of my shooting range stuff is products of my shop.    I got a (store-bought) shooting bench for christmas 2 years ago , its diamond steel with a plether cover and seat.   I've designed my target frames to hold either a 8.5x11 paper or a half sheet of poster size foam board.

I have a (Steel 1/2") milk jug  - 22rimfire woin't  wiggle it at 100yds the 222 barelly does.     There is regulation size steel Turkey targets for rimfire use , (Chicken at 40, Pig at 50 , Turkey at 77 , Ram at 100 Yds.) two sets one for pistol and one for rifle.  

There's a pair of rocking  steel targets 2" and 4" circles that will be ok with all but the biggest pistols (357 OK).

For the big centerfire rifles I've got Deer size plates on legs out in the hay feild at 250 and 350 yds. from the back porch , and the said milk jug from above.   And ofcourse paper targets.  

The air rifle targes include a set of iron turkeys and some home-made spinners.

If the archery round bale gets to soft to stop a bolt I can replace it easy enough !       I do have a tarp over it and the one there now was rapped with about 4 times as much twine as nessary (seem to be working perty good).  

I got a spring loaded "Skeet" tosser and a handheld one too but doin't leave them set out as I tend to favor the single projectile side of the game.  

Between Swing steel targets, Killing something once in a while , and taking a bike ride when I need or want too , its easy to keep a good outlook on life !  

Yea !!!

everytime my "city folk" brothers come to visit they bring their guns and leave with a "GRIN FACTOR" stuck on their faces !  

I usually have one stuck on my face too !  

I guess I'll wait until you get home and can get unpacked and get back into the home routine.

However, you seem to be saying you found some good stuff to go ride on.

A week's worth of good stuff.

You also are appreciating Blue Ridge more and more for location and price and the people content.

We'll talk more later as right now the only reason we were planning on going to the Dragon Hotel for that one day was so you can get your carnival fix in.

Since you got new good stuff to do maybe we should revisit that thought a bit if all your good new stuff is located far away from the Dragon Lodge and is relatively nearer to Blue Ridge.

Always remember, one night of Dragon Lodge costs the same as two nights at Blue Ridge in Cabin #4 (which can hold 4 people with 2 on the floor which makes it even cheaper to do).

I am easy either way, I haven't sent in any money any where yet ....


Ponder on it a bit and post again later, after you get unpacked and sleep some.

Ofcouse the barn has electricticy, but only 110's worth !  

The standard weekend for the Lynchburg Bike Rally is "Father's Day weekend".   I'll ask the feller who started it and sets things up to be sure (he's only open Thursday-Sunday).   But Father's Day is a perty sure bet.

So I should plan a ride for 4 days or 5 days ?  

Also I could plan on cutting hay the week befor hand so the fields will be short.       or    at least "shorter"    if the weather is hot and dry its easy to see where the bullets hit on on the hills , long as the grass is short !  

P.S.   I allready have extention cords ...  

Yall just  come on !  

Dave wrote on 10/21/13 at 04:00:39:


Nice maps; all motorcycle all the time; yea !

Six slow rounds per galloop is about right, more than that tends to overheat the barrel.  
But then you can switch off to the other rifle and give it six slow ones while the first barrel cools off good ...



June 7th through June 15th a 9 day long (two weekends) span of time.



We got 9 days to play with, two places we want to stay and one place we want to at least visit for a while.

How about we plan to stay Sat-Weds AM at MM's place, go to the Dragon Carnival Weds AM through late afternoon (or if Dave wanted to reserve a Dragon 3-man room we could even stay the night) then we can roll on down to Blue Ridge for Thurs - Saturday night in Cabin #4 on my nickel.   Sunday could contain MM's Fathers Day Rally for those headed back in that direction.

I guess the key part is if any newbies are going to want to come, in which case they would really want to stay that one night at the Dragon.  

If no newbies, then we don't have to stay at the Dragon unless Dave just wants to.

Really, we need to plan out these trips for the folks we know are going to show up and catch the others as they come (if they come).

This layout gives 4 days shooting and screwing around at MM's place, a day/night/day at the Dragon and 3 days at Blue Ridge trying out all of Dave's new roads.

Dave and I are still working, so if we reserve the rooms we got the money to front them.  This can lower the bite for the guys who aren't working and makes it all a bit more reasonable for the core group who really really are going to be showing up.


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Now Al, Oldie, et. all  --  if you really are planning on coming you need to ring in on this here planing stage with a firm Hell Yes I am Coming so folks can be sure to plan out the spaces for your corpus to sleep.  

We are still at the vague "tossing ideas up at the wall" stage so please also give your opinions on the general flow of things too.

I keep on ASSuMEing that everybody knows what we do at each stop but that isn't true for a newbie now is it?

At MM's we sleep in the loft of his barn on air mattresses, we shoot misc. guns and ride bikes around going to get stuff to eat.  It is low stress, sit in a lawn chair, clean your rifle, talk and drink a beer out of the cooler type stuff.

The Dragon is a noisy frenetic carnival atmosphere, with roaring bikes and lots of testosterone dripping off the roadsides, all flowing down into the fern choked hollows where all the scrap Hurleys rest in pieces.  

Folks like to try to die fairly regularly up at the Dragon ... airlift medical helicopters, cops lights flashing, tickets given out daily, that sort of stuff will go on while we are there.   Everything is gougey pricey at the Dragon Lodge and you have to ride 30-45 minutes one way just to find something other than Dragon BBQ/burgers to eat.

Blue Ridge is generally lots of older bikers, lots of couples, lots of touring and adventure bikes of all sorts and types.   Pace is more sedate than the Dragon.   People are nicer and walking around talking to folks is commonly done in the evenings.  You meet interesting people with interesting stories to tell at the Blue Ridge.

Blue Ridge is calming and relaxing, plus they will feed you 3 meals a day for a reasonable cost right on the site.  Nearest sit down meal of your choice is 20 minutes away at Waynesville or 5-7 minutes away at the Jukebox or the little Mexican place.  Depends on just how relaxed you are, really.

Okay, i'm still healing up, but hell or high water I will be there. Although, the wife is talking about going to tennesse to pay her respects at her mothers resting place, and wants to make a vacation out of it. So, I will probably try to get one of the 2 queen bed cabins if she comes, if not I can do the same thing as this past session and split with whomever.

I am currently trying to sell the Harley and her 250 Honda rebel to purchase my own savage, if it don't work out..... i'll be riding my little toy Kawasaki and be towing 2 bikes on a trailer (her savage and my 300).

Either way, i'm not gonna miss it....and if some unforeseen event comes into play, i'm going to pay in advance so if I don't show someone who tents it could take my bunk. (if I am going alone), (if I rent the queen cabin I will probably get refund for that).

Further info on me to come.... (gotta ensure the wife and I are on the same page in the same book)

Let's see, yo active memory, wake up old son !!  

MM lives near Lynchburg Tn, right?    If so, Google what do you have to say about it?  

Yep, Jack Daniels is located there so that's gotta be about right.

3+ hours to Deals Gap, NC   4+ hours to Cruso, NC

This means based on simple distance the plan would be to go to Deals Gap and the Dragon first, stay the night and then go on to Blue Ridge.

Old_Rider, by all means bring your wife with you to the Blue Ridge.   She will likely like it a lot and what she sees there will make her want to come back again sometime or another.    Look forward to taking her and tell her about Dave's wife going there and get her to looking forward to it, too.  It is a nice place for couples to ride together.

She worries about you going off and getting hurt again, so she will go just to take care of you.   She loves you.

The group is at our best behavior there at Blue Ridge anyway and you would get a much more positive review of the whole group there at Blue Ridge than at the Dragon Lodge (all the noisy testosterone dripping stuff and beer drinking doesn't bring out our best sides you know).

Plus we could trust her to only tell the truth about our little escapades, right?