Darn heat wave

[Nevada Ed]

I have been waiting and hoping to get outside to test a few loads
but with this darn heat, 90*, before or at 10am in the morning
it just makes it a little hard to test loads in a "Normal temperature"
that I like to use for my data and also get a "Normal" fps reading
that might be close to factory ammo loads.

Right now it is 2:42pm and 98* and climbing to a reported 104*
if the news is correct.
Lows, in the high 60's at 4am in the morning, though.

With kokanee season over, I might finally have to start going to the indoor range to find relief, from my boredom.

After all these years of shooting, I am down to just a few more test in my rifles and small arms.

Hope to share my +P max loads with CFE-p and BE-86 in my
9mm 3.5" pistol, if the temps ever get down to where I can get out
to the hills , where I do my chrony work.

Hope everyone had a great Labor Day and is well.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Ouch, 98° and 104° are no joke. I thought it was bad here, you have it worse!!!

 

[Skeet 028]

101 yesterday..100 today. This weather is getting a bit painful. High 90s tomorrow and a 100 on Thursday. Doing a gun show Friday and Saturday...Hope it's cooler...weather says high 80s

 

[CH4]

You're all a bunch of pansies. Been 110-113 out in the Vegas area; but it's a dry heat.

 

[mikerjf]

Been a lot of that going on... for the last 86 years, at least!

 

[SMSgt]

I have given up the range for the summer months and then some here in FL. When sweat is dripping off your nose before you even reach your shooting station, it's time to go back home and have a cold one.

 

[Green Frog]

I'm hoping to be able to shoot in a N-SSA skirmish this weekend. I'm going to start overhydrating now since the lowest temps I can hope for are somewhere in the high eighties and low nineties. Of course this will be compounded with all the BP smoke!

Froggie

 

[TexasViking]

Here in the Heart of Texas, heat waves like we had this summer are pretty predictable. Mississippi Kites come and nest here but only in the hottest of summers which is kind of a drag. They're a small species of the Hawk family as you coastal folks know, with impressive wingspans in relation to their body weight under 1#. I really enjoy watching their aerobatics and have had nests in my large backyard trees. So I know for sure that if they think you're too close to their nest, they'll take a dive at you as a warning. They can float on air currents for minutes without flapping their wings. And since a lot of what they catch for dinner is also in the air, they can eat on the fly. One summer I even had the pleasure of watching an infant take its first flight. The landing was mostly a crash dive!

 

[Skeet 028]

Great Pic

You're all a bunch of pansies. Been 110-113 out in the Vegas area; but it's a dry heat.

Lookin at that picture...it kinda reminds me of what the lying trespassers look like after I shoot 'em and put 'em up on the dry ground area...here on the ranch. Put a stick in their hands and even the coyotes won't mess with 'em... They think they have guns!

 

[1sailor]

This coming Friday our daytime high is supposed to hit 81. That will be the first time this year it has broken 80. The overnight low that day is supposed to be in the low 50's. Living on the Oregon Coast can be a little wet and sometimes chilly but you guys can keep your triple digit temps. I'll live with fog and slugs. Although, I will often complain anyway.

 

[Delta Rose]

Here in the Sacramento area I just got an emergency alert on my cell phone asking us conserve power to avoid a blackout.

My son in the bay area says his office is blacked out, but at his house the power is still on.

My other son who is a transmission engineer at PG&E says he is juggling several crisis situations and doesn't have time to talk.

It's 112 and expected to hit 115 before sunset.

I sure don't miss Northern California, even though I lived there the for 58 years of my life. Had enough of the fires, heat and politics.

Hope you all get relief soon…

 

[.38SuperMan]

I'm just a short distance from the mountains in East Tn. Spring came at the end of January this year with our daffodils up about four inches with blooms about to open. Usually they're in that stage in late February. We had 3 snows last winter with one around 3" and one 6-7". Beautiful but the melt in a day or two.

Summer heat hit a month early this year. June is usually mild but this year it was mid to high 90's through June and much of July. Usually July and August are the hottest especially August. But August this year has been the mildest in my memory and September has cooled off about three weeks earlier. We're also getting plenty of rain, about average for a good year. Surprising, normally the grass would be brown this time of year but it's as green as "grass". Most folks aren't watering this year. For the rest of the month and next the temps look much cooler.

Hope you guys get some relief.

 

[TexasViking]

You're all a bunch of pansies. Been 110-113 out in the Vegas area; but it's a dry heat.

Reminds me of the late comedian Gary Shandling having his mom telling he should move to Phoenix.

Gary: But, ma, it's so hot there.

Ma: But it's a dry heat.

Gary: Like a blowtorch!

Luckily, we ended our +100 days about a week ago that started around mid June. Think we were at or near 109 a couple of times, and that's the hottest (109) I've seen in the 30 years I've lived here, and dry until the heatwave ended. Gotta mow tomorrow, for the 2nd time since Spring arrived. It was a hot one, and as I mentioned, it brought the Mississippi Kites. I have a huge Post Oak tree in the backyard that provides great shade, so I have enjoyed sitting out back and watching the kites with a cold one when it wasn't unbearably hot.