Where Have You Off-Roaded Today? 3rd Gen

Where is this & what are you drilling for? Is this site just a test/exploration hole?

 

Cu-Au exploration

 

Just pick up your shell casings.

 

We were somewhere in Iowa...

 

Got a cabin in the Monongahela forest with the family. Cabin was on gravel FR but the trail to the lakes and hiking trails was all terribly bumpy natural surface.

 

I forgot to mention that being out in the middle of what looked like a desert at times not knowing exactly where we were out in Iowa as we were meandering about I can attest that these side roads went along the edges of fields what seemed miles long at times, we did pass a Dollar General.

 

Recommend clean that mud off those brakes each day, but guessing you do that anyway.

A year ago April, I drove 10 miles of 4-6 inch mud same as your pic there (active logging road after snow melt), and blew my front and back brakes. I pressured cleaned the truck 5 times over 2 days to get all the mud off.

That week I needed new rotors, calipers, pads, and back linings. Rotors got chewed up and calipers seized. Mud on what is normally a dry gravel/sand road in summer, so a nice slurry mix for the brakes.

The logging truck drivers on that road fully clean their rigs after each exit with a load. One driver asked me “you sure you want to go up all that road in your truck?”

Up higher it was pristine snow and an amazing but very expensive day.

 

It's a spot where everyone goes to shoot there's so much other shell casings on the ground

 

so pick up someone elses, thats a good lad

 

sorry but if you wanna pick up hundreds of other shell casings that have accumulated over years then be my guest

 

Dude, it would have been so bad-ass if you Evil-Kenievel'd it and jumped your truck over that valley.

 

I'm a little late sharing this....

Lonestar Toyota Jamboree in Gilmer, TX.

 

Every 2nd day at least. My 2nd Gen lasted 14 years of this.

 

So clean up your own. It is F’g amazing how much crap and garbage and shell casings I find in nature. People don’t give a shit. Some think it’s macho to leave their garbage in the woods. Fricking lakes full of beer cans, old tires, you name it. Pretty sad state of “evolution”.

 

Lmao I don't think anyone thinks it's "macho" to leave trash and to compare shell casings on the ground at a designated shooting spot in the middle of the desert to beer cans and garbage at a lake is pretty different lol

 

Every 100 picked up counts. I just picked up at least that many on Tuesday left behind by people, shotgun, rifle and pistol casings. Make the world a better place.

 

So it's OK to trash a place because someone else did? I think the point is to leave it better than you found it. Pick up yours and a few more. What can it hurt?

 

Always leave it better than you find it.

 

Yup, exactly. I won't leave a gum wrapper in the woods, and growing up any of my buddies who did that got a swift punch in the head.

Different place up here where I live when it comes to firearms. We don't really have "shooting spots", just not that fascination with guns as in the US.

Here rifles are strictly for hunting. I have 6 rifles, and hunted for over 40 years with my father. In that time, we put 14 moose and 18 bucks all in the freezer for the dinner table.

We never went anywhere to "shoot" our rifles and blast off rounds. No interest in that. All of the families we grew up with also all hunted the same. We would also clean up any mess left over by other folks.

We would go to a local range before hunting season to make sure everything worked and sighted. Fire off maybe 5 - 10 rounds.

Off to the backcountry to hunt. Get your game, put the rifle away until next season or next opening.

We would hunt all throughout BC, and up toward the Alaska highway. Two week trips, walking 15 - 20 miles per day up and down mountains scouting game. Often pass up game at the start of the trip, as we did not want that outdoors time to be cut short.

Here are a couple pics. One is from after the first hunting trip I went on and we came back with 2 deer. Another one is a pic I took of my dad on one of our trips in the old Chevy. Two wheel drive, and got us everywhere. Just throw on the chains and away you go.

Our Family photo album has as many photos of moose and deer as it does our family.

 

Jamboree Sightings