Benchrest recycling, carbon credit giveaway!

Tim Oltersdorf

Tim Oltersdorf

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As politically astute and socially responsible members of the benchrest community we must ask ourselves: what can I individually do to become a better and more enlightened member of the human race.
One of the most effective ways is to die. Think of the carbon credits your estate would get for that. Barring that, recycling comes to mind. Most benchrest shooters have, somewhere, stashes of tarnishing old brass, odd lots and brands of powder and bullets. Most have old barrels shot out or newer ones that never shot. Many have older rifles they no longer shoot competitively. Most are 6PPC. All ,and I mean all, of these can be recycled.
WARNING: The following contains graphic language including but not limited to terms such as kinetic energy, species-based ethnic cleansing, opposite sex, and most abhorrent of all, varmint shooting. If you are easily offended, such as myself, by all means read on.
When I go varmint shooting one of the rifles I use is my first sporter with an old barrel. It no longer shoots competitively. The scope is switched to a 6.5-20 scope with a fine dot. I gather all my misc., unfired, match rounds, reload old match cases with those odd bullets and blast away. The 6PPC round subjectively seems to have a kinetic energy about halfway between a 22-250 and a 6mm Remington. If you choose to engage in species-based ethnic cleansing you could, therefore, now have the gun and the ammo. If you have a varmint rifle you now have another. Despite the lack of scantily clad, beautiful, members of the opposite sex and a muzzle brake it doesn't get much better. Tim
 
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Tim, does this rifle that you are now using to blast away have a white stock with a black mamba wrapped around the stock?:eek:
 
What black mamba?

Mike, No. I am still shooting that one. It has a green mamba coiling around it. Jackie likes to call it a grass snake. Having been snake bit by it a number of times I can attest to its lethality. The gun I use to varmint shoot with is red and has a gold, double headed dragon painted on the stock. It contains a little audio chip that plays, when the gun is taken out of the case, the Flight of the Valkyries. Tim
 
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It looks like you picked the right snake to go on your rifle as the black mamba is more aggressive than the green mamba. I thought that the black mamba got it's name from inside it's mouth being somewhat black and that the rest of it was green, but such isn't the case. The photos of the black mamba look like a dark grey snake, with one bite venomous enough to kill 20 to 40 men. Below is what I found on the green mamba.

The green mamba is highly arboreal and seldom ventures to the ground unless following prey or basking. Green mambas are diurnal. Unlike the black mamba, it is a shy and unaggressive snake, and does not often gape and strike if threatened but usually makes a swift and elegant escape. Continued provocation will cause the snake to strike, and bites, although serious, are uncommon.

So, it looks like with continued provocation, a green mamba rifle might throw a few shots and give you a good snakebite pattern. Then slink away while the awards ceremony is taking place.
 
I think I will buy my carbon credits from Al the ass hole Gore. He would screw me a lot worse than you would. YMMV
Mike
 
The adverbs make all the difference

Dear Mike, It is "swiftly and elegantly slink away". Please use the correct terms. Tim
 
"swiftly and elegantly slink away" DOO what?? I don't slink away from anything!! By the way the last two club shoots at Denton I had to drive all the way into the nearest town because OUR buddy DR Tim did not show up with his WORLD famous mixmaster. You know the one I'm talking about. I drive all the way from OKC just so you guys can out shoot me, but I expect a drink after I get my butt kicked.

Regards Mike Southard
 
Overheard At The Super Shoot....

"We could reduce our carbon footprint by putting a one watt generator on each of the windflags at Kelblys...."
 
My son and I went skiing at Copper Mountain this winter. One of the restaurants on the mountain had a sign that said that Copper was 100% powered by wind generation. What a crock! There wasn't a wind generator anywhere to be seen. They are buying carbon credits from wind generation and then claiming that the electricity that they're using is wind generation. I think P. T. Barnum had it right. To keep it on benchrest,then I guess I can buy carbon credits and use them to power my Aussie wind flags or maybe I'll just forget the carbon credits and let the wind power them for free.
 
maybe Ethanol Credit

for those full of BS (Tim- if shoe fits)...could also double as fuel and tequila
 
Tequila a biofuel?

Dear Blinco, Let me get this right. Since tequila contains ethanol and ethanol is a biofuel then tequila is ,therefore, a biofuel. It seems that a margarita mixed in even a violently polluting 2 stroke powered blender would therefore be "green" and qualify for carbon credits.
I sure hope so. The gulf coast region shooters are a bunch of methane producers. Any one of them could take the place of 5 cows. Its gonna take a lot of tequila to counterbalance that. Tim
 
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