Wildhorse mesa

First posted
Monday December 19, 2005 07:40
Updated
Thursday May 11, 2006 14:12

Sunday December 18, 2005 about 13:00 bill decided to practice S&W .22 pistol shooting. So about 100 miles of essential non-gas-wasting travel was required.

Here are the targets.




Trying to hit a 12 gauge shotshell hull from about 30-40 feet is quite challenging.

When you hit a shotshell hull with a .22 hollow point, they frequently fly as far as 50 feet!

Beer cans can fly as far as about 10 feet. No shortage of these targets on southwest deserts.

Here's the history of the pistol!!!



Red sight bridge. Slide just below.

Yellow barrel.

Green frame.


The [new!!!] pistol shoots GREAT! Finally!

S&W is highly recommended for really great reputability.

Hey, we all make misteaks.

Fixing mistakes and moving on is most important.


S&W corrected its mistakes. A NEAT COMPANY!


One of the guys at S&W asked, "How many rounds do you shoot?"

Response, of course, is "What?"



All for $154.99 plus several 500 round bricks of .22 shells.

And look what happened!!!


















22A was being sighted in when Burlington Northern Santa Fe detective spotted bill through his binoculars [Williams statement] about 1/2 mile away.

Williams visited to find out what was going on.

Williams took driver license number because he said he needed to show management he was doing something. We nice time BSing about guns.

Williams was probably screened to BNSF for personality profile before being offered job.

But you can probably guess, when people carrying guns meet you want to make sure both are reasonable chaps.


Here's looking northwest from Wildhorse mesa.




That's mount Taylor.

Grants, NM is just to the left where the mountains meet the horizon.

Large trucks can be seen on I40.

It will be interesting to view this scene five years in the future if the Peak Oil people are right!
In the 1940s and 1950s, a Shell geologist named M. King Hubbert observed that the production from any given oil field follows a bell curve, with annual volumes increasing until half the oil in the field is depleted, and declining thereafter. Basically, the bottom oil is harder to extract. King reasoned that production from all U.S. fields would follow a similar curve and predicted in 1956 that total U.S. oil production would peak in the early 1970s. His analysis caused a furor and was widely disparaged, but proved correct. "Hubbert's Peak" entered the lexicon of oil analysis—one of the great geological I-told-you-so's. Forty-nine years later, a growing number of noted geologists and industry analysts suggest that the global oil supply may now be topping out, a claim that has been met by skepticism from yet other geologists and economists who say higher prices will spawn both more discovery and improved recovery from existing fields.

Whoever [bill is exactly 45 days younger than Saddam ... but hopes to outlive Saddam, dubya helping, of course] takes the photo may have to bicycle to this spot then.

Here's wildhorse mesa looking east toward Los Lunas, NM



That's a BNSF train heading west.

Here's a digitally-unedited jpg of the main town.




On I40.

Here's approaching Albuquerque at about 16:15 on I40 starting down Nine mile hill.



When this 75 mph is replaced by a 55 mph sign, then perhaps the government may be getting serious about considering gas/diesel efficiency.



Grey rabbit got fairly good mileage considering it was travelling at about 75 mph much of the trip.