Saturday...

Started out with my morning cowboy movies like always on Saturdays. The one on AMC wasn't that good though, so I watched Burn Notice on USA. It's a rerun, but I love that show--probably one of the few original shows that doesn't rely on sex, violence or other shock material to get and keep it's audience. I don't watch much TV but I can hardly wait for the new season to start July 10th.

My show this morning was interrupted by a deer bolting through the front yard. Lagniappe of course couldn't let that go unchallenged and he vaulted his baby gate at the top of the deck stairs and took off after it through the woods. So I had to go out and get him back, costing me about 15 minutes of the show. Lucky for him it was a rerun.

Went shooting this afternoon and tried out some new .38 Special test loads. I settled on 4.0 grains of Win 231 powder and Winchester small pistol primers pushing Hornady's fantastic 158 grain lead semi-wadcutter hollowpoints. I lack a chronograph but per the load data, they should be flying at a nice 860 feet per second, give or take, and they group tightly enough to overlap from 15 yards and leave one jagged hole on the target. I liked them so much that in between loads of laundry I loaded up another 500 rounds of them for future practice sessions.

I finished the day with a nice run--3.5 miles. It was a little hot tonight but I pushed on and kept going and managed to do it in just under half an hour. Like the song says--I'm getting better all the time.