Hey Forum members,
As with aceaceca s' "explain your handle", I too have been wondering......
When your not riding or rebiulding or just fiddling with the bike of your choice, what else do you do for fun,
I enjoy some of the shooting sports. Mainly down at the club, shooting at paper targets,
but I do cull a few foxes during Lambing season for local farmers, and I am a member of the
Hunting and conservation branch of SSAA, ( Sporting shooters association of Aust ), who cull feral animals
in National Parks etc. Goat, donkey, horse, camel, wild dog, deer, pidgeon, rabbit, etc. It's not really fun, but we do get out
into some pretty rough parts of outback S.A.
My second love though is this...











Black powder .50 cal, round ball, Pennsylvania Long rifle. Left handed Flint lock.
Curley maple stock, Gree mountain octagonal barrel, Siler lock, Brass furniture.
Proud to say.. Made her myself.







.58 cal. Zouaffe. Percussion lock. rifled barrel.



.22 cal (5.56mm) 52 grain. .30 cal (7.62mm) 180 grain. .58 cal (bloody big). The 'Red coats' used .75 cal. (3/4 ")
I LIKE IT
AC.
Oh yes and this poor old girl..

Nice lookin' front stuffer. Wood to metal fit looks great as does the carving. Very nice all around. Did you make the powder horn as well?

I did a .45 cal Bucks County rifle from a kit quite a while ago. It was fun, learned a lot. I don't have any pictures of that. Got the itch again a few years ago, but I was still in college and couldn't afford all the parts for a rifle, so I did a pistol from scratch. I bought a straight barrel and filed the swamp into it and made a lot of the brass parts. Here's a picture. Made a pipe hawk at some point in there too.



I also have a 44" Colerain octogon to round 16 ga smoothbore barrel and a nice dense walnut stock blank waiting to be made into a fowler when I get a chance. Got a whole bag full of raw horn ready for powder horns also. Stinkin' Commando has been taking some of my time lately.

My Dad has been working on a Lehigh rifle with 46" barrel for a while now. I need to get on him to finish it. It's going to be very very nice.

Too many hobbies.

Ben

My first and longest standing hobby, has been shelved for a while. It hase been sold off in favor of my Motorcycle habit. I sold the gasser to fund my BUsiness venture.
Over the years I have had about 25 different Heli's.








And a someday project


And my long term project, former daily driver

That picture was taken about 6 years ago, sadly only the wife remains moving under her own power.

I grew up playing music mostly in Clubs around LA & Orange county Calif and buying selling & collecting vintage guitars & related stuff. Saddly a neck injury a few years back has left my right thumb & first two fingers mostly without feeling so it's basicly imposible for me to play at all now. It sucks but life goes on, just differant.

drinking/chicks (been on hold the last 2 years) and guitar for about 20 years now which I have branched out into synths and home recording.

I dig guitars too. Put together a Carvin electric kit when I was about 16. The switches are starting to go, probably need to be re-soldered. I've been eyeing up Martins at my local guitar shop. Considering trading some of my music stuff in towards one. Love them acoustic guits.

bwolfie - I started getting into RC planes after I had a couple nitro cars. Built a glider first and piled that up a bunch of times. I don't think I ever ended up flying anything with a motor though. Helis sure look like fun!

Ben

bwolfie wrote:And my long term project, former daily driver

I'm glad you are able to call your wife a long term project. I, for one, would never put that out on a public forum, regardless of how accurate it was.

And she sure isn't a daily driver.

Brly, yes made the powder horn, nothing fancy, must have spring loaded tap at our club. Haven't got to Pistols yet. Can't hit much with a rifle. I'm better if I drink.!!
Brent, It looks like great fun, interesting I bet. I often stop and watch from the sidelines, we have a aero club just down the road. Very clever. Expensive ?
gtsun, I think I'v been saying for about 45 years, that I would like to play a musical instrument. Is it physically hard to play for several hours.? Sore fingers ?
Pelican, Drinking / chicks. In that order ? You obviously know the difference between a dog and a fox... 5 more beers.
Swoosh, What do you do ? Computors ? Electronics ?
AC.

Aside from thinkering with Nortons, I spend a lot of time on this (and my other bicycles)



Jean

Jean, that looks expensive, and someone stole some of your spokes.

AussieCombat wrote:Swoosh, What do you do ? Computors ? Electronics ?
AC.

I post on this forum.

Jeandr wrote:Aside from thinkering with Nortons, I spend a lot of time on this (and my other bicycles)



Jean

The doctor I volunteer for has a bike like that which he races on weekends

Brly wrote:I dig guitars too. I've been eyeing up Martins at my local guitar shop. Ben

Hey, I have a Martin j40. If you ever go to Pennsylvania you should stop by the factory and take a tour. I went when I use to live close by, and it's a great way to waste a couple hours.

I had my favorite guitar stolen, I sold one, so now I'm down to the j40 and one electric.

AussieCombat wrote:Pelican, Drinking / chicks. In that order ? You obviously know the difference between a dog and a fox... 5 more beers.
AC.

haha, well I love the girls more, but in a quantity contest the beer wins

bwolfie wrote:Jean, that looks expensive, and someone stole some of your spokes.

Total cost was $2500. Bought the parts on e-bay, the frame, fork, handlebars, seat post, bottle cages are from China, the Ultegra compact gruppo from Oz and the wheels from the US. I replaced the seat with something more forgiving and the stem for a shorter one. This is a 58cm frame or large in easy to understand terms and the whole bike weighs 19 pounds which is pretty good compared to my touring bike (26 pounds). The best thing is I can't carry anything besides myself.

Jean

I'm a family man, so my womanizing days are just memories.. hehe... I still love everything about them, just limited in my ways!

I have a couple of guns, though I'm not especially fond of them. I like gardening- starting to prep my land for an olive and avocado orchard. I cook, mostly italian, red wine is high on the list as well. I don't surf much anymore, but the ocean brings relaxation. Real jazz, fine art, politics from the left, and a taste of hawaiian herb now and then.

Would you like to share some of those memories Don, I mean... er, we're all gentleman here.
It would be just between you and us.