Day 788

I'm not sure when we woke up, but we stayed in bed for quite awhile today.  It was after 9 before we got out of bed.  After pet stuff and breakfast I went out to the apartment to try out the new drill bit and oil I got yesterday.

I spent an hour trying different ways to of drilling the hole.  The plate didn't damage the new drill, but the drill didn't seem to make much of an impression o the plate.  I tried different speeds and pressures, but nothing much happened.  As a last resort I put the masonry bit back in and really bore down.  That didn't seem to do anything either.  So I decided that maybe a pilot hole would help, which meant another Amazon order.

Next I went to work on the trigger.  I used the polish I got yesterday to polish the trigger and hammer surfaces.  I also polished the pins.  Then I put it together to test it.  All that work might have reduced the pull about 1/4 of a pound.  It did seem to make it smoother.

I took the trigger apart again and installed the reduced springs I ordered awhile back.  They were supposed to reduce the pull to between 5 and 6 pounds.  When I put it back together the pull was 5.5 pounds.  I think that's about all you can do to upgrade a stock trigger.  It's hardly worth the work given that the reduction comes from the springs, which cost money.

My last effort was to repack all of my gun parts.  I had a plastic container left over from something.  So I packed all of the stuff from the largest cardboard box in it.  That makes getting to the parts much easier.  I also repacked all of the stuff in the cabinet so that it took up less room.  The result is going to be a whole lot easier to deal with.

It was after lunch when I finished, so it was back inside for lunch.  After lunch we took the dog to Circle C.  She can't do retrieves because of her mouth.  So we walked around the park instead.  Lucy had a good time exploring the woods and smelling the smells.  When we were done we made a short stop at HEB to buy more of the package dinners we had the other night.  They are on sale and really good.

When we got home it was surfing until dinner.  Dinner wasn't until 7 because I'd bought potatoes to bake.  For some reason they took way longer to cook than they should of.

After dinner was reading and football.