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Originally Posted by Ron61
And on a better note, a couple of pictures over at the range. Yesterday was a perfect day.
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You've got the right idea, Ron, might as well enjoy the '69 and a good day at the range. Not much we can do about rain right now.
My son, 14 yr/old grandson and I finally got to the range to practice with our deer rifles. It looks like my grandson will have to use my .243 BAR since my son elected not to buy him a deer rifle yet. Neither one of us wants to give up our favorite rifle to the cause. The BAR has a very nice fiddle-back stock and I hate to let a youngster carry it ...but oh well.
For years, in northeast ND, we had a large lake called Devil's Lake that was filling up with water and covering entire farmsteads. The ND government wanted to let it drain into a north flowing watershed ...but Canada wouldn't allow it because of some rough fish. Still, Devil's Lake has been one of the best producing Walleye lakes in the nation since it started to fill. When I was a kid, and long before that, this lake was a shallow foul smelling slough, hence the name, Devil's Lake. Recently it has leveled off so there is less controversy.
As the lake rapidly filled, areas 200 miles away, in the same aquifier, began to fill their own small lakes and sloughs. For several years, my company was continuously raising railroad track across these areas and protecting base with grapefruit and larger sized rip-rap. In one memorable case I was asked to slow down my train because of possible storm washouts, but when I left the wet area restriction, I immediately speeded back up to 55 mph. Unfortunately the wind had blown some of the large rip-rap onto the tracks (with water wave action) and I thought I had ripped off the crater compound pans (super heavy grease) covering the pinion gear drive from the traction motors-to-wheel teeth. It didn't destroy them but they were rather scraped up and dented. Sounded terrible and rode rough.
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http://nd.water.usgs.gov/devilslake/ )
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