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I heard it was going to not rain for a day or two, twas a joke apparently. Rain all this week is predicted as well, so no time to dry out, and definitely no time to shoot (practice or test)in this mess. I wonder if we could get the entire year's worth of "average rainfall" in during the first half of the year? 🙄
 
I wonder if we could get the entire year's worth of "average rainfall" in during the first half of the year? 🙄
It certainly wouldn't be unprecedented. One year when I was still farming back in the early '90s, we had an extremely wet spring. A lot of crops got planted later than normal, but still within the correct time frame. However, the rains just stopped in early July. The year ended up wetter than average, but the summer and fall were drought conditions. Needless to say, crop yields were much less than optimal.
 
We have rain in the forecast thru Tuesday. I need to mow while I can still see/find my mailbox but it's too wet.

Back about the Sprig of 1978 I was working telecom construction in south Arkansas. Plowing/trenching cable is weather dependent and weather days can be called for "results of rain". A very long drawn out weather system stalled out over that area for weeks. It would rain for about 3 days and stop but it was too wet to work and after a couple of days of not raining we'd plan to work that 3rd day but here came the rain again for about 3 days. This went on for over a month and I thought I was gonna starve. We got paid 2 hours per day "show up pay" anytime the weather shut us down. And we got per diem of about $8 a day back then. It's hard to live on 10 hour's pay per week when you make about $8 an hour and $40 per diem. I had a new bride, new truck and new 40 foot travel trailer. Managed to keep all 3 somehow. It finally quit raining and I mean it quit raining. That summer was miserably hot and dry. Finally finished that project and moved on to the the next one on Oklahoma. HATED that place!
 
I heard it was going to not rain for a day or two, twas a joke apparently. Rain all this week is predicted as well, so no time to dry out, and definitely no time to shoot (practice or test)in this mess. I wonder if we could get the entire year's worth of "average rainfall" in during the first half of the year? 🙄
Rainy days gives some great testing periods where wind is as calm as it gets. Don't write them off. My flags have been still several times as of late up here on the mountain.
 
Rainy days gives some great testing periods where wind is as calm as it gets. Don't write them off. My flags have been still several times as of late up here on the mountain.
You've probably got a nice grassy range field to walk across too tho, not the sloppy red dirt/mud at the range to walk/wade thru 😖 I've shot in the rain before and did good, but raining and pure mud to walk back and forth thru, I'd rather hold out for a little drying out, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do I reckon. 🙄
 
Well yeah, grassy between my bench and berm and a member of a range that has gravel from bench to 100. Great places to test, to bad I don't shoot much anymore.
 
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On track looks like.

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