It takes me about an hour to empty the crud from the bottom of the cooking box, the crud from the flame spreaders and the crud from the grills. I usually end up using my grill brush, a large putty knife and a shitload of paper towels.
Once the crud has been removed, it's time to bring the cooking grills into the kitchen and scrub the crap out of them in soapy water.
Then I put it all back together, put a new catch tray into it and fire it up to burn off all the dampness from the aforementioned soapy water scrub.
So now the grill is ready for the summer. The traditional first grilling of the season is cheeseburgers but I'm thinking maybe steaks.
My sister sent me this picture that was taken in her front yard of the Artemis II on it's way to the moon.
One of the benefits of living in Daytona Beach is that she gets to see almost every launch from the Kennedy Space Center.
I spent a few hours with my brother and nephew sending copper/lead objects 100 or 200 yards downrange.
My nephew recently acquired a M1 Garand and he really wanted to go shoot it. He sent me a text message and asked me to meet him to try this firearm out.
I'm pleased to say that I can still hit a target at 100 yards with an iron-sight rifle. No scope, just a circle and a post. The magazine of the M1 holds 8 round and I was pleasantly surprised to hit the 10inch steel 7 times.
On thing I did learn about the Garand that I did not know about is that the bolt connects to the gas-piston operating rod on the outside the forestock circled in red in this picture:
Trust when I say that if you put your finger there, it will pinch the crap out of it. I have a small blood blister on the pad of my left middle finger...
As for my shoulder cannon, I was hitting a steel at 200 yards with no problems.
Now I need to replace my ammo stock...
No links tonight.
