Yesterday when we were wind surfing, I learned to plane. That is where you go really fast and the board starts to lift off the water. When your on the board, and a wind gust comes. You hook your harness on a hook on the boom. You have to lean back and bend your knees or else the sail will pull you forward and you will be swimming with the fishes. You also have to try to move back on the board. It’s really fun.
Here are some pics.
On Saturday we went wind surfing. We went with a friend of ours from dads work. We spent about half an hour on the beach learning the ropes. It was really fun but we have to go a few more times before we really “get” it. They say that we have the best water and wind for wind surfing so we are learning in a good place…… Oh and we saw a dead fish.
Here are some pics (not of the dead fish)
I am in the blue.
Yeah, for some reason, Caleb is in jail. Just kidding. We went to field trip to a art gallery. It was made in an old jail in Albany and we went with Aaryn. It was made out of brick that had carving that told who made the brick. Most of them were made by M or K. There was a scratching in the wall of someones name. I always wondered how they did that. With their fingernails? the gallery was as about contemporary art. After that, we went to a gas station to eat lunch. After that we went to a place where they had malts. I didn’t try one (I wasn’t hungry) but I got some candy.
I read in a book that Canada 60% of the lakes in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake. That’s more than all the countries in the world combined. So I researched about lakes in Texas. There is only one lake in all of Texas that is NOT man made. It is called Lake Caddo. All of the other seven lakes (just kidding, there is more than that) in Texas are man made. The natural lake is in northeast Texas. The biggest lake is in southeast Texas and is 114,000-acres. Hmmm, might be big enough for more than two people, eh? Most of the lakes are fresh water, but there are a few that are salt water. There was no web site that had a list of just the salt water lakes.
There are 169 lakes in Texas, if I counted right. That is not that many for such a large state. http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fish/recreational/lakes/lakelist.phtml. There are at least 100 lakes in Alberta. I couldn’t find a complete list. It says there are 89 but the list is incomplete. Nova Scotia has the most lakes in Canada which is 142 (again, if my counting is right). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lakes_of_Alberta. Nova Scotia is approximately 21,000 sq. miles (not meters). Texas is approximately 270,000 sq. miles. Texas is more than 10 times bigger than Nova Scotia. There would be 1,420 lakes in Nova Scotia if it were the same size as Texas. That was counting the number of lakes there are, not the size. But you have heard it said, “Everything is bigger in Texas” (except snowmen).
After losing all the hockey games up until now, WE WON!!!!!!! 6 to 5. I was on the red team and I’m in the middle of the picture. I joined late and our team had never won a game so this was exiting. Aaryn took the picture.
Last Saturday when we went to the gym to play games we played Hockey!!!!!! The 9 other guys actually did pretty good for the first time. Too bad I couldn’t score that much (that wouldn’t be fair). But I got dad pretty good. 😈 Mwa ha ha ha ha
The night before, we went to Big Five Sports Store to get some more sticks and balls. We went to the storage bin to get our sticks. After a little bit of showing the guys how to hold their sticks, we started. They were different from any other group that we have played with because the just went crazy. They weren’t that good at stick handling or shooting but they rushed at you swinging their stick at the ball. It was really fun and I think they had fun too.
I took some pics of a tree that was blooming. They say it’s a pear tree that doesn’t grow pears-ornamental 👿
whoa.... where did that come from
Preston came here for a few days and this is what we did with him.
Make blue cornbread
Scared the cahooties out of me.
Built cool things out of lego.......
......and getting stuck on the butt of a big armadillo
ewww..... he should pick his nose more often
ahhhggg..... he got back at me for that.
played dodge ball.
Looking through the scope; waiting for my target to line up with the cross hairs. There it is. The perfect shot. I take it. What? Missed??? I’m upgrading my L96 Sniper Rifle because the hop up
broke.
A hop up is a chamber that the BB goes through before entering the barrel of the gun. The whole point of having a hop up is that it puts a back spin on the BB so that it shoots straight and you can adjust it. There is a knob that pushes down on a tube of rubber that puts a back spin on the BB. The adjustment can make the BB go up or down. You want the BB to go straight and without the hop up, you wouldn’t have that much range. The hop up chamber goes right in front of the barrel. The whole unit is about an inch long but it can vary with different chambers for different guns.
The reason I’m upgrading my hop up is because it broke. There are some other reasons a person might want to upgrade. One might be that you can adjust the gun to shoot how you want it to shoot. A new gun probably doesn’t feel or shoot right until you get used to it or adjust it to how you want it. Another reason might be to make it more powerful and accurate. Barrels have a lot of affect on accuracy and power. Most stock barrels are 6.08 mm. You can get barrels that are as small as 6.01 mm. High quality BBs are from 5.95 to 5.98 mm. Having a tighter barrel increases accuracy and adds around 30 FPS to your gun.
What kind of hop up do I need for L96 Sniper Rifle? There are many different kinds I could get. Lots of companies make them but they are really hard to find. A few allow you to use AEG inner barrels instead of sniper cut barrels. UTG is the brand of my gun and the hop up broke. UTG is a clone company that makes clones of guns. Clone guns are guns that are made just like high end companies but they use cheap parts like pot metal and cheap plastics. PDI is a high end company that makes parts. They make two different versions of hop ups for the L96. One can take sniper cut barrels and the other one, which is more popular, is one that take AEG barrels. PDI offers repair kits that have extra allen wrenches, O-rings, screws and almost anything you would need to fix the chamber. Lalax also make two different versions that do the same thing. Lalax hop ups are harder to find and aren’t as good as PDI but if you want a sniper cut barrel, then you should go with Lalax, that is if you can find them.
What barrel should I get? It depends which hop up I want to get. If I get a PDI hop up that needs a AEG barrel, then I would get a barrel cut for an AEG. If I have a Lalax chamber that uses sniper cut barrels then I would get a sniper cut barrel. I took a look at both AEG and sniper cut barrels and the only difference I saw was the groove that the bucking slid onto was on different sides and the sniper barrel had a straight cut hole for the bucking to press down on while the AEG had slanted sides. I could also choose to get a ported barrel. A ported barrel has a hole for all the air in the barrel to escape. That means that I get more accuracy but it leaks out 5-10 FPS because there is not as good air seal.
Everything costs money. The UTG hop up costs around $8 but it wouldn’t last long. The PDI hop up chamber can cost from $45-$60 depending on where you get it. Lalax will be slightly cheaper but is harder to find. The barrel will cost $80-$85 if I want it ported. Airsoft is not a cheap sport but hey, I’ll have this gun for a while.
I still haven’t decided which one to get. If I can’t find a Lalax one then I’ll have to go to PDI. By the time I realize I can’t find a Lalax, the PDI might be out of stock. Now I am always checking web sites for the chambers and it will take a while to find one. Dad and I ordered the UTG stock hop up and it should be here soon. It should hold up until I get a high end chamber. Happy Sniping Eh?
Work Cited.
http://www.airsoftcore.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=39052&mode=threaded&pid=352740
http://www.shootercity-airsoft.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2780
http://www.tntsniperproshop.com/product.detail_383178_th_1607027?lang=en
http://www.airsoftforum.com/board/lofiversion/index.php/f153.html
Yesterday in the snow we made a BIG snow ball. It was almost 5 feet tall all around. It was so heavy that we had to stop rolling it. I wonder how much it weighed?
That was it before it was done. It’s not that tall now.