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Title: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: MikeBjerum on January 09, 2015, 10:51:51 AM
The two most under appreciated words in the English language are Visibility and Traction  :'(

(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/m58/IMG_09711_zps9c5ce090.jpg) (http://s42.photobucket.com/user/m58/media/IMG_09711_zps9c5ce090.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: PegLeg45 on January 09, 2015, 11:08:48 AM
Ouch!!
Title: Re: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: brushmore on January 09, 2015, 11:27:42 AM
What did you hit?  Just wondering what the brown gunk is on the passenger side.
Title: Re: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: JC5123 on January 09, 2015, 12:37:05 PM
Shooting boomers again? Told you to keep your truck away from the muzzle brake.  :-\
Title: Re: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: Big Frank on January 09, 2015, 01:02:14 PM
There goes the (guns and) ammo budget.
Title: Re: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: MikeBjerum on January 09, 2015, 01:28:43 PM
What did you hit?  Just wondering what the brown gunk is on the passenger side.

White out hit as I took a sweeping turn up hill out of town.  I was behind a semi and another pick up.  At about 20 mph I lost sight of the pick up, but could still see the top of the semi trailer.  I let off the gas and lost sight of the trailer as it pulled away.  Then I saw the pick up again.  It was stopped right in front of me.  I hit the brakes, heard the anti-lock rattle, and then the boom.

The brown stuff is ATF.  I sprayed it six feet out into the ditch until I ran out.  It looks brown because it is actually snow soaked and frozen ATF.
Title: Re: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 09, 2015, 01:52:53 PM
Lucky for 2 reasons, first, no one got hurt, 2nd, it was just the 2 of you. The same thing happened here Monday and involved 35 cars. It was flurrying a little then a squall hit and they just plowed into one another.
Visibility and traction ?  You have options if you lose one or the other, but when both go you're SOL.
Title: Re: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: alfsauve on January 09, 2015, 02:48:18 PM
So sorry.    But at least you walked away from it.
Title: Re: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: ellis4538 on January 09, 2015, 05:28:09 PM
What Alf said!

Richard
Title: Re: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: MikeBjerum on January 09, 2015, 11:17:47 PM
By the way, if you look real close you will see a box of American Eagle .22lr on the driver's side dash  ;D
Title: Re: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: alfsauve on January 10, 2015, 09:55:49 AM
And so grateful you weren't on I-94 in Michigan.    150+ vehicles, 1 dead.
Title: Re: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: kmitch200 on January 10, 2015, 11:04:49 AM
That sucks. Glad you're OK.
Title: Re: Not gun, but will affect my shooting
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 10, 2015, 01:02:36 PM
And so grateful you weren't on I-94 in Michigan.    150+ vehicles, 1 dead.


Kind of wish I'd been the guy with the camera.
That video is going to get more mileage than his car will.