My Election ritual.

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WestKentucky

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204EA41F-831E-4576-8719-FF153601F175.jpeg I have been of voting age for half of my life. Ever since I have been of age, I have watched the Presidential election results the same way, doing something significant with one of my firearms. This year I’m not building or toying with anything new, but I am working on a nice holster for my contender. It’s a project I have been building up nerve to do ever since I started playing with leather on Father’s Day. So far so good.

2020- contender holster
2016-assembled an AR pistol from an 80% lower
2012-shot and cleaned my newest revolver at the time, my 1st anniversary gift, S&W 30-1, also moved my safe into the new house.
2008- I was in college, went target shooting and ate dinner watching results. Cleaned guns when I got back to the apartment.
2002- I didn’t quite make the cut to vote as I was just a few weeks off, but Dad and I went to the farm and sighted in a muzzleloader I had bought from a neighbor. That year I killed my first deer with a muzzleloader.

So how do you spend your election night? Hopefully it’s celebrating your freedom. If it’s on topic, let us hear about it.
 
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Im very happy with how this has turned out.

And as a bonus happy point on this holster, this piece of leather was salvaged from my grandmothers house when I remodeled it a few years ago. Leather from this piece was used to make her oversized cigarette case which also carries an RG snubby 32swl.

I need to buy a snap and stitch on a belt loop now that I know what it’s actually going to look like. It will sit butt forward right side. Butt forward to help protect the scope, but I’m thrilled with the progress so far.
 
On election night I clean and oil my 2 pairs Red Wing boots. Been doing this since 08. Same 2 pairs of boots. These used to be my work boots, now they are my shooting and traipsing through the woods boots.
To keep it gun related, I do this on my gun cleaning bench.

WestKentucky, nice looking holster. I'm going to give leatherwork a try over the winter.
 
When I got home from the polls I headed down to the basement and reloaded some 9mm and .45 ACP. Sort of as a reminder to myself not to take the right to do that for granted.
 
Sitting on a Zoom Class (remote learning instead of on site instruction due to covid) for 4th year Electrical and trying not to fall asleep staring at a screen talking code references for 3 hours after a 9hr workday. I think its criminal to start classes on election day.

Had to race down to the polling station on lunch to get my vote in.....busy day. Would have much rather been doing "gun stuff".
 
WestKentucky said:
So how do you spend your election night?
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Apparently I'm the same age as you. Ive spent half my election nights watching my vote not matter Lol. This year I spent the night trying to tell my 11 year old not to worry so much about it and my 9 year old that she needed to worry more about it.

Demi-human said:
Now I wake up to see if I need to riot or not...
Wait, that’s the other side...;)
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Nope. They went ahead and got started rioting before it even happened.... just in case
 
kidneyboy said:
On election night I clean and oil my 2 pairs Red Wing boots. Been doing this since 08. Same 2 pairs of boots. These used to be my work boots, now they are my shooting and traipsing through the woods boots.
To keep it gun related, I do this on my gun cleaning bench.

WestKentucky, nice looking holster. I'm going to give leatherwork a try over the winter.
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A fellow red wing man. Good man.
 
Adding a poly varnish to a gun--

--and praying for certain US Senate results (this can also relate to guns,....).

With my morale being low about the "other subject", going to Krav Maga class (I'm 65 years old) will be a welcome distraction, and can punch/kick some pads held by any sparring partner.
 
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crestoncowboy said:
Apparently I'm the same age as you. Ive spent half my election nights watching my vote not matter Lol. This year I spent the night trying to tell my 11 year old not to worry so much about it and my 9 year old that she needed to worry more about it.
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Same for me. My girls are 8 and 10. I’m giving my 4 month old a pass for not caring.
 
Steel Hayes said:
Every election evening, I’ve done the same thing. The B.P. Revolvers come out and I decimate the left over Halloween pumpkins.
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I once bought half a pallet of pumpkins at walmart just for that. Marked down to a penny each but i was generous. I got pallet and all for a dollar

WestKentucky said:
4 month old a pass for not caring.
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Yeah my 3 year old wasn't terribly concerned either
 
In 2008 I was shelling corn in a field that I own , talking on the phone to my friend about Obama and I accidentally unloaded about 200 bushels of corn on the ground because i got caught up in my phone call and forgot to turn my unload auger off.

Exactly four years later, election day, i was again shelling corn in that very same field. I remembered what had happened to me four years earlier. It probably cost me around $1000. My mistake. I remembered that sick feeling that I had in the pit of my stomach. Suddenly I had that old DEJA VU feeling come over me. I looked beside me on the ground and there was a swath of yellow corn on the ground! My grain tank was empty, I was unloading corn on the ground AGAIN!!
It was a horrible coincidence, but i had sheared a key on the pulley on the unloader drive shaft. The pulley had spun out on the shaft until the belt got tight.....then it galled itself onto the shaft, thus engaging the auger......! Blah. Again? No way! Yes. It did. I know it sounds like BS.....but its a true story.
What did I do today? Shell corn. Not in the same field though. That was two days ago....
True story!
Hey, you asked.
 
This year I loaded some of my new AR magazines to go on my plate carrier. Depending how future elections go, this may be a ritual for me.
 
Armored farmer said:
In 2008 I was shelling corn in a field that I own , talking on the phone to my friend about Obama and I accidentally unloaded about 200 bushels of corn on the ground because i got caught up in my phone call and forgot to turn my unload auger off.

Exactly four years later, election day, i was again shelling corn in that very same field. I remembered what had happened to me four years earlier. It probably cost me around $1000. My mistake. I remembered that sick feeling that I had in the pit of my stomach. Suddenly I had that old DEJA VU feeling come over me. I looked beside me on the ground and there was a swath of yellow corn on the ground! My grain tank was empty, I was unloading corn on the ground AGAIN!!
It was a horrible coincidence, but i had sheared a key on the pulley on the unloader drive shaft. The pulley had spun out on the shaft until the belt got tight.....then it galled itself onto the shaft, thus engaging the auger......! Blah. Again? No way! Yes. It did. I know it sounds like BS.....but its a true story.
What did I do today? Shell corn. Not in the same field though. That was two days ago....
True story!
Hey, you asked.
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Sometimes agricultural mishaps make for good hunting spots. I know a guy who has that mistake for a few seconds every year right in front of his deer stand. I have never deer hunted with him, but he also knows the good spots for doves. The fun of hunting with him ended for me when I learned what he was doing. I don’t like baiting. Just not my kind of hunting, but if it’s a legit accident I have no issue with it.
 
As an adult, I've always tried to go shooting or at least go out and purchase a new firearm on every election day (after voting, of course). As well as exercising the vital and necessary right to vote, I believe in exercising the 2nd Amendment right that protects all other rights, each election day. Yeah, kind of symbolic for me.

Yesterday, I met up with another forum member who kindly sold me a sweet older (JM-marked) Marlin 1894C (thank you again, Robert).
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