What did you do today?

[Wapiti]

There's some there already, but they are made from standard 250MS plate. I put them there for kids to shoot rimfires at, little pig effigies on chains and small round swingers, but when people shoot centrefires at them they get damaged. There is a 40mm thick swinger plate, 400 x 500 at 100yds, that has copped a caning but as long as the chains aren't hit that'll survive.
New ones will allow smaller ones to be put up to test your hunting accuracy, like up the hill above the high rock walls there cut by the creek, 4, 6 and 8" gongs to see if your hunting accuracy, off your two legs against a tree or whatever, is up to going hunting.
And a target frame to check zero at 50 and 100, things get bumped don't they.
That'll compliment the two-person double-sided steel benchrest that's already there.

[Wapiti]

Got out in the welding truck to do what I could inbetween rain squalls and get some more bracing cut and welded as much as I can. Even if I get just enough done to allow all the sight wires to be strained so some mates can help and get the 2400 long Gio posts in the ground while I finish the welding.
Looks like some more rain up to and over the weekend too.
If it rains I will just blade and stick-rake all the dead timber in a nice and wide windrow into piles each side of the new fencing. haven't done that either. It's great habitat for the large Cunninghams skinks, Eastern Blue-Togues and Shinglebacks. They love these hollow logs. So I can't crush the logs up. Might have to pick all the likely ones up with forks first.

But it was one of those unreal days we get in the higher regions of the Granite belt - the big dark clouds under the level of the higher rain black clouds fly over so fast, it's just great to watch. I could see the rain squalls coming so we'd cover the generator and mig and pile into the cab to sit them out, my two mates (Rowdy and Dusty) listening to the loud taps of the big raindrops.
The wind was rocking my mig gun hand, had to brace on the SHS and 114 cattle rail I was welding. Good old flux-core wire, the occasional rain drops and the howling wind would've made using a normal gas-mig completely useless. As would've the galvanised steel.

No shooting today, even though it was plainly obvious the pigs were out cruising the grasslands and mooching around the logs. We watched them from inside the cab, at least a km away across the creek near the camp. No, two k's. I wonder if they've found the offcuts and offal from the 4 deer and two goats the weekend hunters took for meat? I bet they have.
How good is that?