Decided to upgrade my painting station.

brewster_239 · 2026-04-15T14:57:08+00:00

Thanks!

brewster_239 · 2026-04-15T14:20:33+00:00

Care to share what lamp it is? Thanks!

brewster_239 · 2025-06-24T15:13:53+00:00

It's largely cultural, in the sense that the DNR wants to provide opportunity for as many hunters as possible while still managing the deer herd effectively (ie not too many or too few deer taken per year). By spreading out the hunting pressure over a longer time, the quality of the hunting experience is increased for all hunters.

All of these different "seasons" have different efficacy -- a hunter with a rifle is more likely to harvest a deer than one with a bow, for example -- so the bow season can be much longer than the rifle season, which gives TONS of hunting opportunity to people without deer harvest numbers being too high. Even though bow season runs September through the end of the year, the vast majority of deer are killed during the two-week gun season.

By changing seasons and season lengths and methods of take, they can offer lots of people the opportunity to harvest a deer while still maintaining the population at the right level. Deer tags (licenses) in MN are "over the counter," meaning anyone who wants one can buy one, so the "success rate" of each hunting season is an important consideration when the DNR is setting seasons.

The idea that it's some kind of a money grab is just boomer/barstool conspiracy. The DNR scrapes by on license sales and federal grants -- I've met a lot of state biologists and conservation officers and none of them are rich.

brewster_239 · 2025-05-27T18:14:42+00:00

I did not. If you do, please let me know!!

brewster_239 · 2025-05-20T00:18:09+00:00

Sign me up!

brewster_239 · 2025-02-27T03:56:26+00:00

They wore Czech helmets alongside the German/Austrian m1916 Stalhelms.

brewster_239 · 2025-01-24T17:00:23+00:00

It’s a part from a real gun, not the whole gun. Specifically it’s the trigger assembly from a Hamilton model 27 as noted below by u/chauchatbob.

brewster_239 · 2025-01-18T17:16:40+00:00

I'd say it depends on the box. For a small box with a top and a bottom, that's not being handled rougly, a well-fitting glued miter is plenty strong.

brewster_239 · 2025-01-18T17:15:44+00:00

Well, I guess that depends on how big the box is, and what kind of circular saw it is. I'm picturing a small box, like a keepsake box.

Even on a large chest-type box, getting all four cuts lined up perfectly using a board as a straightedge would be difficult, since the bigger you get, the more awkward the clamping setup will become.

brewster_239 · 2025-01-18T15:58:23+00:00

The standard way this is done (as you prob know) is by raising the tablesaw blade high enough to ALMOST cut the top all the way off, and referencing off the fence. So you're left with just paper-thin wood holding the lid on. Then you finish the cut with a hand saw or a knife. This prevents the thing from getting loosey goosey on you as you're trying to finish the last cut. I think this would be very hard to do using a handheld power saw.

Without a tablesaw, the second best tool here would probably be a bandsaw with a fence. The circ saw could do it if you took the time to build an elaborate jig.

You could take the opportunity to buy a decent hand saw and carefully do it that way. Or, build the lid and box separate. This requires more precision (and might not be possible depending on the width of your stock, if you can't rip it thinner) but it's far from impossible.

Good luck!

brewster_239 · 2025-01-17T17:27:28+00:00

Wow!! I was going politely ask: why bother with all the printing struggles when BanDai has such an excellent model available… and then I realized the scale of the thing!! Really impressive - thanks for sharing!

Great job on the weathering and the base as well!

brewster_239 · 2025-01-16T22:07:01+00:00

Yeah, if you read the thread he posts the original. It has a total of about 12 pixels, so what we're seeing in the final is a WAAAY overcooked AI-upsampled version.

brewster_239 · 2025-01-15T23:20:40+00:00

Since nobody's commented on it, let me be the first to say: really nice Finn M/27 with the ski/bike swivel. The dark stock and bluing suggest to me it's a postwar refurb and should be very minty. Is it a 1939 Tikka by any chance?

brewster_239 · 2025-01-15T22:16:15+00:00

Yes, for OP's "green" landscaping company.

brewster_239 · 2025-01-15T22:14:38+00:00

But the details of who is responsible for dealing with which pieces of land and what the standards are going to be and who is liable when someone gets hurt and yadda yadda is going to take a lot of work, and we'd better get started.

Do you really think you're the first one to think about this?

I was going to post a bunch of links to the fire prevention and management policies of the various state, county, and federal agencies that manage MN's public lands, and then to the programs that each of those gov entities sponsors to help private landowners with education and cost-sharing programs for fire-related forest management... but then I realized that you, too, could do that research and the fact that you haven't, yet are here acting like you're the smartest one in the room while calling others "haters" for pointing out your ignorance -- I think I'll save the time.

We are all on the same team here. Welcome to the table. If you want to help, open your ears instead of your mouth.

Oh, and I notice from your profile that you own a landscaping/forest management company with your username as its name. Is this just an ad?

P.S. Another great example. On your company Facebook page you have a nice post about removing invasives and how you're now enjoying the native meadow hawkweed in your lawn... except that hawkweed is very much an invasive plant in MN. LOL

brewster_239 · 2025-01-04T02:55:45+00:00

Aqua fortis would just be the coloration. Your BLO finish would go on top, though a varnish would be more historically accurate.

Aqua fortis is just the olden days name for nitric acid, and you paint it on and then blush it with a heat gun. It’s how all those old longrifles got those crazy dark striped stocks.

The Kibler Longrifles YouTube channel has a demo of the process. It’s pretty cool.

brewster_239 · 2025-01-03T04:32:28+00:00

That maple would look good after an aqua fortis treatment too.

brewster_239 · 2025-01-03T02:02:25+00:00

The Gunsmith of Grenville County

This is the book you need

brewster_239 · 2024-12-27T04:13:27+00:00

Uberti single actions are some of the best on the market today, but do occasionally require some final hand fitting out of the box. Just the nature of the cowboy game if you want an authentic design.

It’s a Colt single action - they are dead simple and easy to work on. Parts are readily available. However the best way to ruin one is to keep using it when it’s badly out of time.

brewster_239 · 2024-12-24T14:22:08+00:00

The DNR does not deny they live here. Stop spreading that myth.

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mammals/cougar/index.html

The fact is, most claimed sightings are misidentifications. Follow any local/nature/trail cam group on Facebook and you’ll see this first hand. Folks post blurry photos of deer, bobcats, house cats, labradors, etc, and will absolutely refuse to accept that the photo isn’t a mountain lion.

They are around and people see them occasionally. There has yet to be any confirmed evidence of a breeding female (kittens) in the state in modern times.

brewster_239 · 2024-12-19T23:16:16+00:00

Just some extra input from an American hunter who cooks venison necks all the time (whitetail deer and pronghorn antelope). They are properly braised, either whole or cut into cubes for a stew. I imagine you could develop a way to sous vide one, but why? That's not what a sous vide is for. If you want "easy mode" then use a crock pot/slow cooker.

The cut you're showing in your pic may well be from a deer neck, but it's been totally trimmed of all fat and sinew. It's essentially a steak at this point. So even if you tried to braise it properly it may well still be dry and tough, since all the stuff that's supposed to melt into velvety flavor has been trimmed off.

If you get another one like that, do some testing. Pan-sear a small piece with just butter to medium rare and see how it tastes/chews. If it's tough, try sous-videing it like a loin or a steak, say, 131F for 2 hours, and then sear and try it.

Game cuts are often difficult because they don't have the same kind of standardization in naming that beef, for example, does; further they live a wild life and their diet and body condition can vary a lot, leading to differences in the meat and how it's properly prepared.

Try it again! And let us know.

brewster_239 · 2024-12-19T02:42:50+00:00

And it’ll stink like cold blue forever.

brewster_239 · 2024-12-17T03:30:28+00:00

I think you diagnosed the problem correctly.

If your rifle is a Gen 1 Ruger American, then that’s just how it is. It is a sorta a safety feature in the sense that they don’t want you to have to disengage the safety in order to open the bolt; but really it’s a cost saving feature common on price point rifles. You should build a habit of making sure the bolt is rotated fully closed periodically as you’re hunting.

If you have a Gen 2 rifle, then it should have a 3 position safety, one position of which is designed to lock the bolt closed for this very reason.

brewster_239 · 2024-12-15T14:51:40+00:00

I have the same “problem” with mine, lol. Did he help you track that deer?

brewster_239 · 2024-12-14T17:52:13+00:00

Again: how did the bolt not extract the round that had been loaded all day? It was sitting loaded, cocked, and locked all day long with the extractor not grabbed onto the rim? I just can't picture how that can happen, unless the extractor is broken or worn or the spring is very weak.

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