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I spend most of my hobby time shooting NRA BPCR and BPTR and similar competitions. This year, I spent close to 2 months on the road, traveling around the country to shoot. These use either blackpowder cartridge rifles or long range muzzleloaders, so there is much time spent building custom rifles as well as inventing, testing, and reinventing bullets and loading ammo. Right now I'm on a third of the way into a 12-day run to cast 1500 .45 bullets. Here is 240 bullets from today and yesterday.



I also have a woodshop, and my own private stock of walnut, cherry, oak, and others from my own property. Lately, I've been learning to turn on a lathe. Something I last did about over 50 yrs ago. I'm slowly catching on with this spalted walnut bowl that I'm planning to hold my curried pheasant dinner soon.



And I needed a small cup to hold a few sips of fine Islay scotch, so I turned this oak cup. The color in the photo is a little off. I'm getting better, but have a long way to go.




But this time of year, Dusty and me are mostly bird hunting.