day trip to the ranch

I took a little day trip to the ranch today; no serious hunting just piddlin around. Burned a brush pile, filled a feeder and made a loop around the place in the jeep. I got to the far back corner and started experiencing an intermittant miss. Not just a miss really, cutting on and off. I limped back and managed to get it on the trailer. Once back home, and after a real pain getting it off the trailer and in the garage, I did some investigating. Ultimately I found a small half circle of black plastic by the terminal screw that passes through the distributor body. I suspect it's part of an insulating washer that must have broken and is letting the terminal short out intermittantly. I'll pull it out and investigate asap. Wish me luck, if I'm on the right track it should be a simple fix.

White tail deer, the regular season started a week ago here. Occasionally and unintentially it's cows; the naughty ones will break into the feed pens and of course we're overrun with feral pigs.

Ha - You'd be welcome Rick, I'd love to get a look at your famous jeep, but I'm afraid you'd be in for a big disapointment driving all the way from Amarillo when you saw what we call "the ranch". It's really just a small property we use for a recreational get away, a 100 acres that you can drive around in 15 minutes. I had the jeep out there yesterday though, and my nephew shot a small sow late in the afternoon.

Edited by oldscot3 - 17 Nov. 2019 at 2:29pm

Yep deuce, you're right. We've had our place getting close to forty years now. We use to have so many deer they were practically stunted. We used all the tags we had and got all our boys to use all theirs to try to thin the numbers. We killed a lot of deer and ate a lot of venison in every way you could fix it. Then some of nearby properties begin to sell and it seemed like every new owner put up new high fence. Now, years later, we're really starting to see the effect. Much fewer deer, however the ones we have do look better to me. 

Someone has apparently opened up an offroad park near Marble Falls. My cousin was there two weeks ago for some big event. I'll have to ask him for details and post it here.

Jason and I would be up for the drive at Bridgeport if it comes together. Hidden Falls also looks like it might have great possibilities. You might even be able to interest Tumbleweed showing up!

oldscot3 wrote: Hey, I have a question about carrying my five year old grandson. Do these offroad venues have rules about roll bars and child seats, etc. Of course I wouldn't take a trail with him aboard if there was the least bit of roll over danger. But if child seats are a requirement for any trail, I'm going to have to fabricate some kind of back seat that will hold one. Ya'll know anything about that?

I have strapped my grandson’s car seat in with ratchet straps before I had the rear seat belts installed.  The car seat was sitting on the rear seat, however, and not just in the back.  It was plenty safe and secure.  Like Alan said, every park is different and they are all slowly requiring more and more safety items.  You would just have to call the individual park and see what their requirements are.  

oldscot3 wrote: Ha - You'd be welcome Rick, I'd love to get a look at your famous jeep, but I'm afraid you'd be in for a big disapointment driving all the way from Amarillo when you saw what we call "the ranch". It's really just a small property we use for a recreational get away, a 100 acres that you can drive around in 15 minutes. I had the jeep out there yesterday though, and my nephew shot a small sow late in the afternoon. Point of interest maybe, we're only a few miles down the road from the YO ranch. They used to host some pretty big, organized off roading events. I don't know if they do anymore, the family in recent years has suffered some significant set backs.