Here's a great web site of an interesting guy I stumbled across:He's not only got a great collection, but works on and understands them too.
When I do carry, it's with a Ruger Redhawk 44 Magnum with a 9 1/2" barrel. I load 25 grains of 2400 behind a 210 gr. linotype bullet and get a chrono'...
I'll take 2.
Robert Hill, post: 425160, member: 378 wrote: Tried to leave a rodman at a job once many years . Boss told me that I couldn't because of some liabilit...
David Livingstone, post: 425340, member: 431 wrote: In my area, they mostly surveyed the actual boundary lines along the boundary lines, or they worke...
There was an old road that this was probably traversed down; so the traverse would have been written down in a field book and the sideshot angles to t...
This is 1970, no digital calculators yet, they came out in 1972 or so. I already found out why the angles only went to integer minutes; the tables onl...
Nate The Surveyor, post: 406851, member: 291 wrote: @WF WenzelI like the idea of small, light.Portable is so important.NYeah, the best gear is the gea...
Larry Scott, post: 406856, member: 8766 wrote: I came across a good quad map find. Working on a site map for Mount Rushmore, I pulled an early version...
After shooting the centerlines (and making allowances for the nearby rock face on the outside of the curve that they may have had to adjust to), I cam...
I'm going out to shoot centerline now, but the magnetic bearings ended up on the plan.Do you think they used the other tables if they ran out of the o...
I do have one of these also: It's small and pocket-sized, but pinpoints the iron in the hole nicely, so digging is kept to a minimum. Important in fr...
Larry Scott, post: 405612, member: 8766 wrote: In desert areas I find chaining pins.I don't think they were left intentionally.The coyotes won't chew ...
I got maybe 70 some of the old ones for California and Nevada. Las Vegas is about 4 buildings at a crossroads. Looking for a home; any ideas?
paden cash, post: 404928, member: 20 wrote: You must have just a few years on me. I think I was a sophomore or junior in HS and watched it on our B&a...
paden cash, post: 404919, member: 20 wrote: The two chances of finding a stash from some of the notorious outlaws are slim and none. I believe it was...
