New Year's Day Snow, PDC, 3d Printing, Firearms Training, Lessons, Team America - Wednesday

Well well well, would you look at that, we got New Year's Day snow yesterday! It didn't amount to much at all but kept falling for nearly the entire day. The boys were super excited to see it when they got up and it didn't take too long for R to be dressed and out playing in it.

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Nearing the final day of the PDC championships and the field is down to just the last few. MVG won easily unfortunately.

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The look of things before R found his way out to play.

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His snowman ended up a bit dirty thanks to the debris that had fallen on the deck before the snow. I was impressed he managed to make a snowman given how little snow we actually had.

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He did get to try out the snowball maker that J had 3d printed and it worked like a charm. Made perfectly round snowballs a bit smaller than a baseball, the right size for their hands.

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The mid day matches went pretty quick with Bunting demolishing Wright.

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The whole day I had the printer working away. I really dig these stencil templates that I have been printing for @stryeyz which she is taking to work with her today and I'm anxious to hear how the ladies in her office like them. I'm expecting some orders from them of various ones they will want made.

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The ski waxing vises are together with the new stronger printed frames. They feel way tougher and will stand up to the use for sure.

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I spent part of my day trying to figure out how to work with FreeCad and have a stupid issue with it that I have to figure out, the arc function and constraints are fighting me.

I DID find a couple of darts practice rings that I edited to shape and got printed. They are a bit fragile though as I blew one up with a dart hit right away.

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Littler got the win pretty easily of Asp and still hasn't hit the 9 darter this tournament.

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We waited until the snow had finally stopped to go out for firearms training. I brought out the bigger guns and everyone got to put rounds through them. J was able to handle the 9mm on his own but R required some help due to the weight and size of his hands.

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The fun was when I brought out the 44 mag and I made sure to hold on to the thing while the boys pulled the trigger. This is the same monster that my father held in my hands when I was younger than R and blasted off between the garage and garden. R's eyes went platter sized and he wanted more!

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THAT is a hollow point 44 mag round that blew out the back of the post.

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One of the 9mm rounds got stopped by the post and is till buried in the wood. R found it first.

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I had music on for the afternoon in the house and put a print to the printer that I was watching go and realized it was NOT doing it right. I have had the setting at 220C for the nozzle and 50C for the bed. As I watched the printing go awry I made changes to the settings and it smoothed out very nicely. I then changed the settings to 240C nozzle and 60C bed. It made all the difference and after restarting the print I watched it work perfectly.

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R and knives.... As he loses the spasticness it will be safer for him to wield them...

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AMERiiiiiiCAAAAAAAAA!!!!! AMMMMERRRiiiiiiCCCAAAAAA!!!! AMERICA FUCK YEAH!

Team America World Police is still a great movie, despite of what anyone says.

DurkaDurkaStan

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Finally able to soak for a normal time now that my skin is not all destroyed.

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Today I hope to get the call about the tires for my truck so I can get it in, it's our day of little weather between the systems as the next one will be another mixed bag, PDC semi finals is on mid day, I will keep the printer going, force the boys into room cleaning, I need to dig into a freezer and begin the emptying process, and not sure what else I'll get to.


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Always good to teach firearms training to kids when they are young!👍 I think I was about 10 years old when my grandfather gave me my first bolt action 22 rifle that I treasured for years to come!😊

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Teaching kids to respect firearms and understand them is definitely better than teaching them fear. When they know what bullets do to rotten pumpkins and fenceposts, they know guns aren't toys. !BEER

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I grew up at the Mariposa range shooting my black powder rifle. My grand parents made buckskin clothing so we went to rendezvous all over California where I ran around in my skins. My dad used to compete in silhouettes, we had the black powder shoots, our "range" at the house then the Bass Lake sheriff's range we would go to a lot aside from the Mariposa range. Now I have the luxury of having a huge range right here on our farm with our hillside.

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