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Range area too hot!
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:59 pm
by Rifletom
Been warm around here lately, so checked the desert where I like to shoot. 104-107 for the next seven days!!
Guess I'll wait for things to cool down. Probably won't be for a while. There is a range in the mountains above town, might be better up there. But, 107!? Na-da!
Re: Range area too hot!
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:29 pm
by Vaquero
I'd have to agree, a couple days last week they said it felt like 105.
So if it was actually that hot, not sure I want to know what they say that was feeling.
Mtns. sounds like a cooler option.
Good luck.
RP
Re: Range area too hot!
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:48 pm
by Mgderf
My family enjoys an annual "shootout", where we all get together at my brothers home range and just have some fun.
We take the opportunity to train the kids, nieces, nephews, and now grand-kids...
We all bring a collection of firearms and make a day of it.
A couple of years ago it got hot, but we thought it was mostly because we were sitting in direct sunlight.
Not thinking, when we first arrived, everyone opened the cases and laid everything out on the ground.
In very short order the "black guns" got too hot to touch, and we hadn't even shot them yet!
I actually worried about closing the cases and melting the foam linings.
Everything worked out, but now we set up in the shade.
Re: Range area too hot!
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:49 pm
by Mgderf
Mgderf wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:48 pm
My family enjoys an annual "shootout", where we all get together at my brothers home range and just have some fun.
We take the opportunity to train the kids, nieces, nephews, and now grand-kids...
We all bring a collection of firearms and make a day of it.
A couple of years ago it got hot, but we thought it was mostly because we were sitting in direct sunlight.
Not thinking, when we first arrived, everyone opened the cases and laid everything out on the ground.
In very short order the "black guns" got too hot to touch, and we hadn't even shot them yet!
I actually worried about closing the cases and melting the foam linings.
Everything worked out, but now we set up in the shade.
Re: Range area too hot!
Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:50 pm
by markiver54
Too hot to even ride...not too bad till Ya stop! Can't even ride though lately due to physical limitations.
Re: Range area too hot!
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:35 am
by GunnyGene
I wished the USMC had been considerate of the weather on many occasions.
Re: Range area too hot!
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 11:15 am
by JEBar
GunnyGene wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:35 am
I wished the USMC had been considerate of the weather on many occasions.
Re: Range area too hot!
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 11:17 am
by Rifletom
GunnyGene wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:35 am
I wished the USMC had been considerate of the weather on many occasions.
Ha! That is true, no doubt. Mine is a strictly volunteered operation. To the mountains I'll go.
Re: Range area too hot!
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 11:33 am
by BrokenolMarine
GunnyGene wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:35 am
I wished the USMC had been considerate of the weather on many occasions.
I know the feeling. Working on the concrete flight lines in NC where it was so hot and humid any aircraft after the first two disappeared in the heat shimmers. Standing on top of the aircraft in high summer it was sometimes hard to breathe... But on off days? We went to the beach and baked in the sun, or out on the water and baked in the sun, or shot in high power matches... and baked in the sun. Sheesh... I'm sensing a theme here.
The Corps never cancelled anything due to wx back when I was in, except flight ops.
Then, reluctantly.
Oh, except in boot camp in the 70s... If there were "black flag" weather days. We couldn't have battalion table pt or long runs, so they tortured... Ah... Trained us indoors. 70 recruits doing push ups, mountain climbers, and bends and thrusts in the squad bay will run the temperature up.
Re: Range area too hot!
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 11:45 am
by GunnyGene
BrokenolMarine wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 11:33 am
GunnyGene wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:35 am
I wished the USMC had been considerate of the weather on many occasions.
I know the feeling. Working on the concrete flight lines in NC where it was so hot and humid any aircraft after the first two disappeared in the heat shimmers. Standing on top of the aircraft in high summer it was sometimes hard to breath... But on off days? We went to the beach and baked in the sun, out on the water and baked in the sun, or shot in high power matches... and baked in the sun. I'm sensing a theme here.
The Corps never cancelled anything due to wx except flight ops.
Then, reluctantly.
I've often thought that there oughta be another line in the Hymn. But I ain't no poet, so couldn't make it rhyme.
From 120* in the shade ( there ain't no shade)
To -40* in the snow and ice.
From blinding light,
through darkest night.