http://www.wjowsa.com Stuck in Zion Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:47:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This year’s salsa garden’s twice as big as last year! I got 58 jars of salsa, diced tomatoes and marinara last year, I hope this year’s going to do twice as good! I have pumpkins, Walla Walla sweet onions, jalapenos, green, red and yellow bell peppers, Santa Fe Grandes and a couple types of red [...]]]> http://www.wjowsa.com/?p=365 The control4 home automation system revolves around an assortment of available linux-based controllers, sensors and other widgets that make operating everything from light switches to your home AV gear easy and give the power to program things to happen automatically based on a schedule, human actions or other stimuli. You would contact a Control4 dealer [...]]]> http://www.wjowsa.com/?p=351 I finally got an evening free after work to take the new Winchester branded, Tula built .22 varminter out to the local range. I put a Burris 9x scope on there and zeroed it in at 6x for the upcoming CMP meet which only allows 6x scopes. I started out with some Federal beige box [...]]]> http://www.wjowsa.com/?p=334 I have always like heavy bolt action .22s for accurate plinking. I have a Russian Biathlon basic and found it to be an excellent accuracy bargain so when I heard that Winchester was selling a TOZ rebranded as a Winchester I hoped that there was another bargain form the land of Borscht and the Bolshoi. [...]]]> http://www.wjowsa.com/?p=312 Having collected mainly military surplus rifles and .22 rifles, I really fell in love with the Swedish Mauser round after shooting it in my surplus Swedish Mauser. The first time I fired it, I landed a pie plate-sized group at 200M with its iron sights.  This is probably the best first-five group I have ever [...]]]> http://www.wjowsa.com/?p=299 When I first purchased this rifle it was caked in red laquer finish that seems to be slathered on as if the armorer got paid based on how much he could apply. The finish normally has a signature red color that can be closely replicated by Minwax Sedona Red stain if you like it, but [...]]]> http://www.wjowsa.com/?p=283 When I saw this little beauty advertised on a local classified site for sale, I couldn’t resist. The words that got me were “Unfired Mosin Nagant”. I didn’t think this was possible, and figured I would find a very well re-furbished rifle of some sort, but I was wrong. What the seller had was an [...]]]> http://www.wjowsa.com/?p=271 Putting V8s into little cars is fun. Driving them is funner. This project started out as a Gen2 RX7 with a blown engine. An engine and 700R4 automatic transmission from a 1988 Blazer provided the power. The good thing about this combination is the fact the Rx7 is already rear wheel drive, has an adequate [...]]]> http://www.wjowsa.com/?p=249 If you are a Pink Floyd fan you live a torn existence…. appreciating the music but resigned to the sad reality that they will never tour again. Fortunately the best cover band of all time has received the OK from Floyd to tour their music! Using some of Floyd’s old stage gear and an even [...]]]> http://www.wjowsa.com/?p=162 I got this former PU sniper form the mosin pile at a local gun show. Mosin Nagants can typically be found for about a hundred bucks. The sniper versions fetch a lot more. However old sniper variants can be found on occasion mixed in with all the cheap ones. If you examine the left hand [...]]]> http://www.wjowsa.com/?p=145