{"id":4981,"date":"2019-06-23T08:26:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T15:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2019-06-23T08:26:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T15:26:51","slug":"random-sunday-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/06\/23\/random-sunday-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Sunday Thoughts&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up early before I head to the rifle range, poking around a bit on the Internet, checking the news sites and reading the latest propaganda from both ends of the political spectrum (is anyone objective any more?), and generally just catching up on things. \u00a0 This is another random\u00a0 walk through an ever-increasingly random place (i.e., my mind).\u00a0 Bear with me; here we go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One site I&#8217;d like to alert you to if you don&#8217;t know about it already is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BatorInternational.com\">Bator International<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4982\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BatorInternational.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4982 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BatorInternational.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BatorInternational.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BatorInternational-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Check out the vintage iron for sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BatorInternational.com\">Bator International<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bator International popped up in my Facebook feed.\u00a0 I knew of it, but I didn&#8217;t know much about the place, so I clicked and wow I was impressed. \u00a0 The photographs of vintage motorcycles are awesome, and I saw more than a few I&#8217;d like to own.\u00a0 Bator International is in Ojai, California, and I know that makes for a nice motorcycle ride.\u00a0 Take a look.\u00a0 You can thank me later.<\/p>\n<p>The sticker business is going well.\u00a0 Gresh had a great idea with this stickers, and we&#8217;ve been getting lots of signups for our automatic email update notifications&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4933\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4933\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/5-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do you have your ExNotes sticker yet?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can get your ExNotes sticker by signing up here&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve had requests and your two Joes have been talking about organizing the Baja staff ride we mentioned earlier.\u00a0 We&#8217;re thinking maybe a 7-day ride to see the whales in Scammon&#8217;s Lagoon, and that puts it sometime in the first quarter of next year.\u00a0 You&#8217;d have to have your own motorcycle, of course, and you&#8217;d have to be on our automatic email update list. \u00a0 If you want to go, let us know, but only let us know if you&#8217;re willing to commit.\u00a0 You know how that goes&#8230;you say you want to do a big ride, 200 guys say they&#8217;re going, and the morning you roll, it&#8217;s you and one other guy.\u00a0 So if you say you&#8217;re in, please be for real.\u00a0 And those whales&#8230;.wow!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kV8xxTD06kM\" width=\"716\" height=\"403\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m leaving for the rifle range in a little bit, and I&#8217;m pumped up.\u00a0 I bought a box of once-fired vintage .300 Weatherby brass at a gun shop in Lamar, Colorado a couple of weeks ago, I loaded it last week (we&#8217;ll be doing a series on reloading rifle ammo in the near future), and I&#8217;m going to send lead downrange through a rifle I bought a decade ago but never fired.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a Weatherby Mk V I saw on a Gunbroker.com auction at the height of the Great Recession.\u00a0 A gun shop in the upper Midwest was going under, and this one was a real find.\u00a0 These photos are from that Gunbroker ad&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4983\" style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4983\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Euro300Wby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Euro300Wby.jpg 489w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Euro300Wby-287x300.jpg 287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 85vw, 489px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Weatherby Euromark in .300 Weatherby. 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