Hotter than a bandit's pistol ...

Too hot for which part? Loading or shooting?
It's not prime shooting weather here, but I figure if I'm gonna work all day in a 90 degree shop, another hour or so sweating through something I enjoy isn't a big deal.

Not to mention, trying to shoot long distance with the dust coming in from the Sahara desert does not help at all. When it is this hot I too shoot my 22's with iron sights. My 52C and 513T are my go to at 200 yards.

I’m lodging in Kalifornistan this evening, well away from my firearms, which puts all of you in a better situation than me for shooting. Closest I might come is being shot at. Hope the weather breaks for you soon.

Skylerbone said:

I’m lodging in Kalifornistan this evening, well away from my firearms, which puts all of you in a better situation than me for shooting. Closest I might come is being shot at. Hope the weather breaks for you soon.


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Nice picture of you and your daughter.

Makes sense from that perspective. I haven't ran into any powders that turned out to be really temp sensitive...but, I haven't been reloading a long time. And I'm farther north, so what's hot to me is probably pretty mild temps for you folks.

Hot here...and DRY..gonna turn into a National Forest Service fire AND shooting ban soon, I fear...

Skylerbone said:

I’m lodging in Kalifornistan this evening, well away from my firearms, which puts all of you in a better situation than me for shooting. Closest I might come is being shot at. Hope the weather breaks for you soon.


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Have a great trip. Cali is a beautiful state.

On a roof in 90 degree weather is miserable everywhere in the world...



So is a roof in 29 degree weather, 72ft up...


So, literally, any day shooting is better than the alternative.
(Why am I doing so many roofs lately?)

We are outside all day anyway, so become acclimated to the heat and long ago built a shade structure over the shooting bench.

It’s always cooler to sit shooting in the shade than working out in the sun.

If you just can’t get used to the heat anymore you might try getting up a little earlier and get it done before things start heating up so much.

79 in the Ocean State cloudy and breezy. Gun Club is open with limitations. Going to cruise by and check, usually no body there, if so I’m shooting, first time since mid February.

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Nice picture of you and your daughter.

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Hey! She’s only 4 years younger than me but I was a little road weary after 2,000 miles this week.

The heat this time of year is brutal in most places... Down here in paradise my working days (when I have customers...) start at 0300. I’m on the road by 0400 hours (93 miles to the ramps I use down in Everglades National Park one way...) so that I can be on the water when my anglers show up at 6am. We’re back at the ramp by 2pm (hopefully before the nasty thunderstorms show up) then it’s 93 miles towing my skiff back to home base...

Been doing it for years - and will miss it when I finally have to quit.

I just got back in from hosting my friends annual 4th of JUL shoot on my backyard range. 84 and feels like 91 and only a slight breeze.... 6 of his family members probably went through 1K+ in handgun ammo shooting steel plates. About 30 minutes ago as the sun came out the fun dissipated....

Best and worst thing I ever did was graveling in my pistol range, easy to find brass, great for working drills requiring movement, but utterly sucks when it's hot and the suns out. Zero shade between 1000 and 1930 this time of year.

Tomorrow AM the wind is forecast to be light, so I'm testing a couple new loads for one of my ARs. Luckily my bench has shade trees and I'll be set up early before the suck moves in. I think this fall I will finally put in a small section of overhead cover for the pistol range. I'm kind of limited because that backstop is also used for 100-300yds.

whughett said:

79 in the Ocean State cloudy and breezy. Gun Club is open with limitations. Going to cruise by and check, usually no body there, if so I’m shooting, first time since mid February.

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That's about the only thing I miss about RI.

Well that and fishing/diving, duck hunting on salt marshes, coffee milk, wieners, Wes's Rib House, Spezzi, clam fritters etc.

Legionnaire said:

8:30 this morning, already 80 going up to 99. Next three days look to be over 100. Sigh.

There are certainly days I miss Pennsylvania.

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I can deal with the heat..to a certain point. But the humidity the past week here in N. Texas has been brutal.

Chuck R. said:

That's about the only thing I miss about RI.

Well that and fishing/diving, duck hunting on salt marshes, coffee milk, wieners, Wes's Rib House, Spezzi, clam fritters etc.

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Someone sounds home sick.
I’m not native having arrived here in the 60’s courtesy of the US Navy. Never got around to leaving until I retired and started wintering in Florida. Best of both states IMO.

lemaymiami said:

The heat this time of year is brutal in most places... Down here in paradise my working days (when I have customers...) start at 0300. I’m on the road by 0400 hours (93 miles to the ramps I use down in Everglades National Park one way...) so that I can be on the water when my anglers show up at 6am. We’re back at the ramp by 2pm (hopefully before the nasty thunderstorms show up) then it’s 93 miles towing my skiff back to home base...

Been doing it for years - and will miss it when I finally have to quit.

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COVID19 must of been tough in your business.
Winter temps seemed milder this year, AC when on in early March.

Phoenix...108°...."But it's dry heat"...yeah, right, turn on your oven and stick your head in, that's dry heat too. July and Aug we get 115° routinely, sometimes 120°.

Good thing is this winter while you are shoveling snow, I'll be shoveling sunshine off my driveway

Weather like this is why I try to stay North of the Mason-Dixon and near some of the largest bodies of fresh water in the Western Hemisphere. Freshwater resources will be the oil resources of the future. That said, I’m trying to move even FURTHER north while still staying close to the freshwater.

daniel craig said:

Weather like this is why I try to stay North of the Mason-Dixon and near some of the largest bodies of fresh water in the Western Hemisphere. Freshwater resources will be the oil reaources of the future. That said, I’m trying to move even FURTHER north while still staying close to the freshwater.

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Friend of mine was complaining because it was still in the 60's where he lives in Washington. I think we had 4 days of 60's and 9 days of winter and than back to normal temps where you can fry eggs on the sidewalk.

ms6852 said:

Friend of my was complaining still because it was still in the 60's where he lives in Washington. I think we had 4 days of 60's and 9 days of winter and than back to normal temps where you can fry eggs on the sidewalk.

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Frying an egg on the sidewalk is weather I never want to experience again. One trip to the Middle East has me wanting to man a weather station north of the arctic circle or a science station in Antarctica

Demi-human said:

On a roof in 90 degree weather is miserable everywhere in the world...

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So is a roof in 29 degree weather, 72ft up...
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So, literally, any day shooting is better than the alternative.
(Why am I doing so many roofs lately?)

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Ha! This I can relate to. Although I do prefer roofing in the 29° temp over the 90°+ hell on earth hot metal or asphalt roof.

Shooting afterwards isn't so bad when your cooking like bacon all day. I don't do much BP shooting in the summer though. Butter bore turns to soup. Loading and sweating. Not fun.