Jerry, no problem, as you can see I also live in the South where we can shoot all year outside if we want. I use my rifles regularly in the field, in fact most of my customs are hunting or varmint rifles, I own exactly one dedicated match rifle and it's a 19th century original that I've restored to factory letter specs. My only daily transportation is an F-250 4X4 with mudgrips and winch, very necessary if driving very far off-road around here. I gotta admit, though, that nowadays I dog-off most of my outdoor shooting soon after Memorial Day and don't resume it much until around Columbus Day, it's just too durn hot & miserable and as you already know, everything down here bites! In the Summer I generally shoot at a friend's 500-yd private range with a large fan at the bench, and sometimes ride (truck has A/C!) the levees' semi-public roads looking for crows & armadilloes. Another friend has an 800-yd range beside his Ag-plane strip, and (sshhhh!) is furnished ammo by the local catfish farmers in order to shoot their (ssshhhh!) unfortunately-federally-protected egrets.....
The testing is just for my own info, to verify my own opinions if possible, and I guess some (a lot) of it is just for the right to be able to say (as ammo in any discussion) that I've been there & done that. At Froggie's suggestion I plan to skeletonize the scrap low wall receiver to reveal the action's inner workings to an observer, and will eventually send it and the test stand back to him for whatever use he can think of. Heck, I won't even mind if he wants to give it to the ASSRA!
Regards, Joe
