Things to Do Firearms Related While Self Quarantined At Home

Somehow, after picking up a new rifle to tinker with along with 2 more scopes, a few more BuckMark magazines, a couple linear comps., and ammo, I ended up on a buying streak of non-panic spending. Wound up with most of another AR plus an extra stripped lower. My plan was to hit an Gun auction which was cancelled so I gave in a bit. Please don’t tell my wife I spent toilet paper hoarding money on rifle parts.

I’m still considered an essential employee (oxymoron for a government employee) so work and likely overtime is in my near future. Between time, with all 6 kids off from school, I’ll likely piece together that AR, get everyone out to the range every week, and start rearranging the old rabbit room into my indoor workshop.

Come morning my primary task is furniture mover as the wife ordered new sofas for the living room. Definitely gun related since the basement sofa and loveseat go to Goodwill to be replaced by recliners which won’t intrude on my current workspace.

If I don’t wind up locked in at work, the next project is converting a play room upstairs into another bedroom because apparently men love the challenge of continuous home remodeling and improvement.


I really have to stop shopping online! Some of my weekend receipts.

Speedo66 said:

Forest dog, is there a season for wild boar in Sweden, or are they considered pests like in many places in the US and always open to harvest?

Click to expand...

Yearling pigs can be shot all year. Sows with defendant young can't be shot. Boar over a year old have a closed season, 15th Feb- 16th April. Boar are considered a worthy game animal. Farmers aren't so keen and the laws do change to keep up with the growing numbers. The law on the use of Night vision has recently been changed to help in the control of numbers. The up side to boar is that its bought more young people into hunting as its more exciting than the more traditional hare and roe deer hunting.

Go to a different state, get a couple ARs sighted in, shoot some machine guns for the first time, and put about a dozen rounds through my neva been shot befo .50BMG bolt action. Sadly the latter revealed the ammo it came with is running a bit hot. Cases were getting stuck in the breech, and the last one i had to wait until I got home to remove.

Sort of firearm related. Making jerky from last seasons deer.

These are great ideas, thanks! I am already going stir crazy as this is my first week without the range. I reorganized my ammo in the safe, and saved so much space, I don't need the buy the Job Box from home depot for my ammo any more. Next I am following up with inventory of everything.

Hey, something more, sorta gun related, that I thought of. Sharpen every knife in the house!

Maybe it needs to be in the non-firearm weapons forum, but I'm hoping that it's not too far off topic.

Speedo66 said:

Thanks for the info! Is there a part of Sweden where they're more prevalent? While I've fished in Sweden a number of times, never had the pleasure to hunt there.

Our trip to visit relatives in Stockholm and Scåne, planned for July, will probably be cancelled.

Click to expand...

There are a lot of boar in Skåne and the counties surrounding Stockholm. Apart from boar there's not a lot else to hunt in July. If your passing Jönköping a visit to the Huskvarna factory museum, http://husqvarnamuseum.se/se/hem/ is worth while. When in the Stockholm Area, if your near Arlanda pay a visit to the shooting cinema, http://mauritzwidforss.se/skjutbiograf/ A different sort of shooting range

Armored farmer said:

Okay then...I guess I will hike on back deeper in the woods and check my trail cam cards...[sob]<sniffle >

Click to expand...

Ha! Very funny! The Forest Service here is still advising everyone to stay out of the backcountry due to the high avalanche danger. In fact, just a week ago Sunday there was a skier killed in an avalanche on a ski hill not 10 miles from here.
It's not really that bad everywhere around here though. A person would have to be nuts to go into the real backcountry around here this time of year, but it's always like that in the early spring in this part of Idaho. Besides, there's still plenty of nearby places to go shooting where the snow is gone for the most part. I'm headed down to a nearby (about 12 miles) public range myself this afternoon. And if we don't like the looks of it, if there's a bunch of people there (which is highly unlikely), there's always the county gravel pit, just a couple of miles south of here. The gravel pit was full of snow a month ago, but it's almost gone now.

.308 Norma said:

A person would have to be nuts to go into the real backcountry around here this time of year,

Click to expand...

Wellll, this is Illinois, so when I go deep in the timber I can still see my house. Lol

My cousin has a remote cabin in the chimney of Idaho just a few miles south of the Canadian border.
This kitty was lurking around too.

Armored farmer said:

Wellll, this is Illinois, so when I go deep in the timber I can still see my house. Lol

My cousin has a remote cabin in the chimney of Idaho just a few miles south of the Canadian border.
This kitty was lurking around too.
View attachment 901819

Click to expand...

He just shot that? With what? That's awesome.

Aim1 said:

He just shot that? With what? That's awesome.

Click to expand...

It was back in '17. He had trailcam pics of a big cat, so he got a tag.

I go out in the backyard and shoot the steel plate

Can you eat mountain lions?

peeplwtchr said:

Can you eat mountain lions?

Click to expand...

Sure you can. Cat soup ranks right up there with fried Bald Eagle.

We work out of home so not much new. I usually do my drill at the fridge target or the dot on the wall. However I've been doing dry fire house drills which drive her crazy. I've worn through about 10 of the B's dummy rounds.

I’ve been reorganizing the basement. I went through my “misc” crate and found some things that I had ordered and never installed....sights, triggers, optics, slings, grips, etc.... Then I spent some time deciding which weapons would be most useful in different potential scenarios. I would imagine burglaries would be on the downslope during our lock-down since everyone is home and those who are out stick out like a sore thumb. That being said, my good friend’s father was surprised by an intruder in his bedroom screaming for him to give him “the drugs”. He chased him out and actually injured himself while doing so. No gun.