its seriously too damn hot

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so i got a wild hair and decided to go out and measure off a 1000 yard range. all i have is a 200 foot roll-up tape measure and was doing this all by myself. i got 25, 100, 200 and 1000 yards marked off. but thats about it. damn its hotter n hell out there. i dont know how anybody can work outside all day in this crap. i guess if you have been in it all along and get used to it, it wouldnt be so bad. really what i was wanting was the 200 yard mark so i can sight in my AR with iron sights to see if i would be competitive at the 3 gun match. if i cant hit anything, i guess i will use the AK. that way the cool points will make up for my lack of marksmanship. 8)
 
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so i got a wild hair and decided to go out and measure off a 1000 yard range. all i have is a 200 foot roll-up tape measure and was doing this all by myself. i got 25, 100, 200 and 1000 yards marked off. but thats about it. damn its hotter n hell out there. i dont know how anybody can work outside all day in this crap. i guess if you have been in it all along and get used to it, it wouldnt be so bad. really what i was wanting was the 200 yard mark so i can sight in my AR with iron sights to see if i would be competitive at the 3 gun match. if i cant hit anything, i guess i will use the AK. that way the cool points will make up for my lack of marksmanship. 8)

1000 yards is only about 3/5ths of a mile!

Hitting at 200 yards for me with iron sights isn't too difficult but I tend to have trouble past that.
 
damn i see what the heat has already done to me. i went to 1000 feet. the 1000 yard will have to wait. feet, yards, whats the difference.lol thats about what i was thinking when i was out there.

yeah its not that far, but when you walk it, then walk back to undo the end of the tape measure, then walk back; tie it off, go again. walk back and undo. and then it gets tangled up in some weeds half way down. lol sucks.

but i did get a good measurement on the 200 yards. and yeah, its not too far. might go back later on tonight and set up a target and see how it goes.
 
damn i see what the heat has already done to me. i went to 1000 feet. the 1000 yard will have to wait. feet, yards, whats the difference.lol thats about what i was thinking when i was out there.

yeah its not that far, but when you walk it, then walk back to undo the end of the tape measure, then walk back; tie it off, go again. walk back and undo. and then it gets tangled up in some weeds half way down. lol sucks.

but i did get a good measurement on the 200 yards. and yeah, its not too far. might go back later on tonight and set up a target and see how it goes.

:lol: you didn't tell me you were doing suicides!
 
I lol'd at 109. This is where I've been working all day.


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I remember working in temps like that. It was in a paint-line warehouse at the old W.H. Stewart plant on Sheridan in downtown OKC, and we had a 75 foot long drying oven at 175 degrees and a 20 foot long post-wash/phosphate oven at 350 degrees. The ovens were open-ended, as the parts moved through them on an overhead conveyor. In the summer the thermometer was pegged at 130 degrees all day and night. The first summer I worked there was the summer of 2003, where we had 105+ days 35 days in a row. And I remember walking outside at break time every day and thinking, "Goddamn it feels good out here!"
 
I know its hot where I work, but the guys that serve in the military in the sand box have to endure this everyday, with a lots more gear on.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm becoming acclimated to the heat. Work outside all day, and later on, work in the shop at home.

I just hate seeing the ponds dry up with the folks that own them losing all of their fish.

For the record, I'm a slight friend of John Stall, the ODW supervisor of fisheries in NW Ok.

Last week, the lake at Salt Plains died from the heat and lack of wind to introduce oxygen into the water.

There is a line of dead fish 20 yards wide on the down wind side of the lake. The ODW has decided to not restock the lake, as its getting too shallow, and detrimental to the ODW budjet.
 
AC has turned people into pussies. I work all day everyday, even weekends in the heat I LOL when I hear them talking about cooling centers on the news. Now for the old and young that's one thing but come one
 
Its all about getting acclimated to the heat.
When a kid we never had AC, only had water coolers. Open up the windows at night. When there were windows that opened up from the top and bottom in older homes, it generated a breeze through the lower window. I spent many nights with my head on the window sill, collecting any breeze I could. Still remember hearing all the trucks going by on the highway at nights using their jake brakes.

I don't remember feeling abused or anything. It was just the way we had to live.

I sure appreciate the AC now though! :D
 
Ya, 145 with 80lbs of gear and ammo sucked while on patrol in Ramadi Iraq. 110 sucks with body armor and police gear on patrol here at home. 130 in an attic sucks for my buddy while hes doin A/C work, its all about getting acclimated to your normal environment.
 
I don't really mind the heat. It's the fact that it's so dry. Never in my life have I ever fed or even heard of feeding hay in July. We're already putting out 5 to 8 bales a week and hoping we have enough to get us through winter.
 
oh man i can remember the swamp coolers. we was so poor that we didnt even have automatic drip line to run water to it; you i had to go out with the water hose and wet the pads and fill up the bottom. and that was only in the living room. we had a 2 story house...and our bedrooms were on the top floor. :blink: only thing we could do at night was get a wash rag, get it wet and wipe it all over and turn on the box fan.

now, i am all kinds of pussified. i keep the thermostat set on 72.
 
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