Dooney Update and The Belt Fed Test Fire

Greetings and Salutations!
OK
Been a while, but as they say, been BUSY-BUSY. I mean what else can I be with the Dooney and -trying- to maintain this place. Add on some of the more recent adventures and whatnot and I’m to-the-bone tired.

Now first, the Dooney update.

New measurements: 32.5 inches long. 29.8 pounds.
99th Percentile across the board. The A.I. I plugged into said he’s currently the size of a 2.5-3 year old. Pssssh… I already knew this as that’s the clothing we’ve had to buy. 2T bottoms and 3T tops… sheesh…

He -is- a wee bit of a chonkyboi, but as he get more mobile, he’ll lose the fat.

He’s rolling and sitting up quite well, but hasn’t gotten the hang of crawling yet. Personally, I think he’s going to bypass it and go straight to walking as he loves to just stand up, leaning against the hassock, and learning how to move his lil (not so much!) feet trying to figure out this ‘walking thing’… My understanding is huuuuge kids often bypass crawling and go right into walking…

He’s also discovered hamburger (ground beef) and seems to have quite a taste for it. I’m thinking that idea of buying another deep freeze and stocking it with 1/2 a cow might actually need to happen.

At this rate when he’s 7, he’s going to ask for the keys to the car ‘cos he’s got a date…

I am sooooooooooo screwed

Looks like it’s going to be interesting few years Aye?

Now…
Other adventures. Cowboy needed some assistance out on his horse ranch. Seems his head Farmhand saw some flashlights and heard possible ATVs out in the back woods of his A.O.

Seeing that recently we’ve had turd-world invaders rustle and butcher!!! some horses here recently, I figured it’s a good idea for us to recon the back 40 as he wanted. So we settled on Saturday afternoon to do so…

The farm is 8 acres of pure-dee Panama Level Jungle School growth, with a few deer trails and signs of LARGE carnivore activity, via the entire deer skeleton (relatively fresh) we found. Couldn’t have been more than 6 months old as there was still some minor cartilage on the bones, and they were in no way bleached. So he’s either got a Bobcat out there (probable) OR less probable, a Florida Puma/Panther. I’ve personally seen a panther out where I used to work on some federally protected wetlands (4000+ acres) and that was enough to know you don’t want to fuck with a panther…

Nevermind potential ‘hostiles’ like turd-world rustlers or homeless trespassers.

Hence us rolling out with a 4 man fire-team with 2x M-4s, one 12 gauge, and Cowboy rolling with his AK. We covered about a half-mile out, and a half mile back by my pace-count app.

I almost fuggin died I swear.

118 degree heat index, and I was in full uniform as the ONLY long sleeves and pants I own ARE my old uniforms. I mean I have ‘business casual’, but I’m not about to hump the Jungle in chinos and a Brooks Brothers shirt right? I only had only(thankfully) ONE Tick, and the bastard was on the back of my hand. As soon as it bit, I felt it, grabbed it off before it could ‘dig in’ and got rid of it.

I’ll be honest. I need to work on humping under a combat load. It’s been since Afghanistan since I have, and it shows. I mean I -am- a fatboi… not going to deny it. I like my groceries. I can hump a ruck on even terrain, but Jungle? Notsomucho. And when I say ‘jungle’, I fucking mean it. We needed Machetes to break trail at some of the points we investigated. THICC bush. The “Bad Bush like back in the Poontang Valley in ’69” as the old joke went…

At least I didn’t need to be carried out, but man, for a minute, it was a near thing.

Once we got back, and did the AAR, and then, well since Cowboy’s ranch -is- my test range, and it was still a nice day out, it was time to bust out “Ole Painless”

Yepper.

Now unfortunately, the codec for the audio was fucked up. Cowboy shared it with me after videoing on an iPhone, and shared it thru my messenger, at which point the codec went bad? No idea. I’m not a code monkey.

If you could (or can, not sure if the audio is working or not) hear it, I fired 3-4 round bursts. The Hoffman Tactical Trigger Kicker worked as advertised, and the upper experience zero misfeeds nor any jams. It ran like a top.

My only bitch is that despite a ton of loctite, the Holosun vibrated loose. Not sure what the solution is going to be for THAT particular issue. A better mount? Stronker loctite? Thoughs in the comments if you will. Otherwise?

10/10, ZERO regerts for this one.

HIGHLY recommend
So on that note,
More Later
Big Country