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I'm with you about bringing on summer...I'm ready. You just don't have to remind me of the red bugs. They'll remind me soon enough. One good thing I can say about winter, is I don't have to mow the yard. We're so wet here that a heavy dew swells the creeks. I'm glad they oil topped our road a few ye...

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Another vote for 5744. 5744 works great for .45 Colt and should for .30-30. I use the Lyman 454424 as well with 16.0 grains and it is a good plinking load. Accurate .45 Colt I've not (yet) used the .30-30 load, but plan to with the 173 gr Lyman. Accurate .30 WCF Of course, I use it because I buy it ...

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Let's see...snow Friday night/Sat morning and I mowed the yard for the second time this year yesterday evening. :lol: One word for ya...Simazene! Man's best friend, next to MSMA. It's been too muddy the past 6 months to spray the yard without losing my spray wagon. It was funny to be outside on a n...

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GoatGuy wrote:...... Never thought I would ever say it, but I'm kinda ready for the tick and chigger season!

I'll NEVER say that, no matter how much I hate snow!!!

And if anybody out there doesn't know what a chigger is...you don't wanna know.

(hey, I made a rhyme that time)

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Yep, Friday it was 70+ degrees. Saturday a cold, cold rain hit and dumped more water on an already saturated NE Texas. It evens snowed briefly on Sat. But yesterday, it snowed almost all day. The ground was warm, so we never accumulated more than 5 or 6 inches here (and only slush on the roads.) but...

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I don't use a sling to shoot while hunting. My deer rifle is one of the early Ruger M77 MK II all-weather (stainless with lightweight Zytel stock.) it doesn't take much pressure on the sling to move the forearm and cause it to contact the barrel, changing the POI. When I first got the rifle I had to...

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I never heard who had Tom Horn, so I rented it from Netflix. It was okay, but it's not in my list of re-watchables. That list is topped by Outlaw Josey Wales, the Cowboys, The Shootist, True Grit, Dances with Wolves. It's rainy and cold today, so I may have to break one of those out and watch it (wh...

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Custer had long hair, till some Indian borrowed it. Lots of Europeans had longer hair (in the early 1800s, some regiments required you to grow a mustache/beard/long hair dependent on tradition). I'm thinking they're waiting for the fourth guy to come back so they can do their version of the "Y...

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That HAS to be the price in rands

Still, if it rands, that's over 1700 US dollars!!!

I'll pass.

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USPS delivery confirmation is a facade and a crock. I had an important package of mine delivered to the wrong house---four miles away!! Luckily a friend lived there and he personally brought the package to me. Look online and sure enough, USPS showed it "delivered." When I complained (and ...

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We went to visit this past weekend. I was fairly impressed with the college, the campus, and the professors we met. Even the student body, as a whole, seemed more mature, happy, and friendly than many campuses I've visited. The enrollment is small (about 700) and the student to teacher ratio is abou...

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Yep, Carl is okay in my book. Now if I could just sic him on that 14 car and give him a little karma treatment. I wonder if Keselowski has AFLAC?

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This is still the all time best..! Pinky the cat [ I get a kick out of the woman running around with the box....No clue whatsoever. No fair. I could see the ending coming from a mile away (as I ate my beef and elbow noodles concoction my lovely wife made for supper.) I still ended up with macaroni ...

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Here is the next time they tried to wash the cat in that machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hPxGmTG ... re=related

Reach in there and baptize that cat why doncha?

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My oldest daughter went to Sterling her freshman year, and would still be going there if my wife had not begun working at the private university here in our hometown two years ago(which allows her to attend tuition free.) I asked my daughter what were the best things about Sterling, and she immedia...

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It's pretty small. The one my oldest daughter goes to is here in (East Texas Baptist in Marshall) Texas and I had never heard of it until my nephew came all the way from Montana to attend it. Come to find out it has a pretty good reputation for its Nursing, Business and teacher programs. I was kind ...

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Don't know a thing about Sterling, but I went to a Presbyterian college back in the early '70s and let me assure you -- "Presbyterian" in no way translates in to "not a party school"! :o :D Oh I know that. Look at Baylor in Waco as a big example. The partying wouldn't bother me ...

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I normally just tie a rope around the cat's neck and tow it behind the boat for about 20 minutes... Just kidding. Seriously, whoever designed that is a disturbed individual. I hate cats as much as anyone, but that's no way to be treated. I guess we can always invent a machine to do our dirty work. W...

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My youngest girl graduates HS this year and is thinking about attending Sterling College in Kansas. Any forum members (residents or alumni) heard good stuff about this place? It's Presbyterian (I think) so it shouldn't be a party school ( :roll: you never know, that's why I'm asking.) This kid will ...

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rjohns94 wrote:Isn't there a troll season? instead of feeding the troll, just ...... just saying!

There's no guns allowed in DC. You have to wait for them to wander off the res.

Drat. Now Hobie has to move this to the politics section.

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Ouch.

Reverend, you done quit preaching and went to meddling.

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Ah, Joe...somedays it just doesn't pay to hit "send."

If the previous 14 offers of help aren't enough, I have a .308 as well that shoots "minute of critter" at 300 meters....

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I started to say that joke was classical, but it was baroque first.

Get a Handel on yourself, man. You're dying in front of this audience. Go Bach to talking about guns.

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I remember those well. Never had one myself, though.

My aunt bought one similar for my uncle for Christmas one year. When he opened the present, the gun was a lever action!

I'll see if he will let me take a photo and post it. I've never seen one before.

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I can't remember ever having done so. Maybe. Get a pulse back, sure, but actually survive later, no. We have revived more than one with an AED. At least two I know of are still around town. I hate TV shows and movies where CPR is used (very poorly) and the person gets right up after 30 seconds and e...

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See , I'm so jaded I thought you were going to post this.... Dog lifesaver.jpg Trained CPR dogs... :roll: I got this in an email this morning and when I saw the title of this thread I thought I knew what was coming. On a serious note, the method of CPR you posted is new to me. I have noticed the tre...

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Wait :!: I answered wrong. Your rifle is defective. As a pal, I will take it off your hands for a small disposal fee. :D After all, what are fiends for? :lol: Fiends? Freudian slip? Or just a sense of humor like mine? :lol: :D If "friends" on this forum are always enabling you by selling ...

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Wait

I answered wrong.

Your rifle is defective. As a pal, I will take it off your hands for a small disposal fee.

After all, what are fiends for?

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I think that's what happens when you shoot a .444 Marlin round in a .45-70??? Do I win???

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I watched it a while back. Was very hard to keep a dry eye. My wife was busy doing something else and only passed through the room a few times while I had it playing. Later, I asked her if she wanted to watch my movie before I mailed it back to Netflix. She asked, "That war movie you were watch...

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willygene wrote:250 those guys are nuts, i make my living making saddles and gun leather and i would only charge 60 to 80 for something like that. Good leather ain't cheap anymore but that's hiway robbery. By the way good job the last one i made did have the closed bottom.

you taking orders?

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I'd also like to watch it. Do we know who has it?

Thanks, 1886 and Hobie.

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Well, this thread got off on the wrong foot :lol: Joe Yeah, but it landed on its feet :D I make my poor ole dogs stay outside, and they like to get up under the shrubbery and dig holes! I guess they at least keep the armadillos away, who would dig the "mother-of-all-holes" under the slab....

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I still have it, and I used to shoot a 35 lb fiberglass recurve. I bowfished with it a lot. Could hit a needlenose gar in the eye every time. But I never got the hang of shooting with a compound bow. Not having formal instruction from a mentor probably has more than a little to do with it.

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Beautiful! :D :D I have one just like it. It's a safe queen now, since I have so many others, but it is still a favorite. After running 50 rounds though it, I'm done for the day (unlike my titanium 340----3 rounds with is and I'm done) There are so many different J-frame holsters out there you can h...

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Yep, glad you were able to sail smooth waters across the barren wasteland they call the Dakotas (I'm dissing your homeland, Terry M. :D ) Old frame contenders have gotten to be very reasonable in price. If Amanda wants to try a different caliber, you should be able to hit the guns shows or watch gun...

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you'll poke your eye out... :lol: I practiced with a bow until I was very confident I could hit the mark ....at 20 yards. I would sit in a stand (in my back yard) and the deer would walk around me in a circle....at 40 yards. And look up at me every now and then. I swear I saw a grin :oops: I was sur...

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Unfortunately there seem to be more people like that getting into LE than the protect and serve guys. I'll only say this...You get what you pay for. It's not an attack on anything you said, I just see the trend in my own line of work as well. It's harder and harder for us to find good candidates wi...

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I am a Texas LEO. I personally am not aware of any peace officers with the attitude your stepson describes. I am guess the urban areas like DFW may have different attitudes, but I also know a lot peace officers from that area and know of none with that attitude. I may be that they only talk about it...

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jdad wrote:You may need a second job. Twins do eat a lot.

Yeah, you may need to check out the thread on lead vendors, too.

I don't call myself shooting that much, and I went through 60 or 70 pounds of lead last year.

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With the canines gone, what should I do next?

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Let me guess, they came through Searcy, Arkansas? It seems like everybody did. Must have been a ferry there. Nice Photo. I don't have any that crisp of my old folks. They settled near Searcy, my mom still lives in that area. I think My great-grandma Anderson was born in Searcy in either 1896 or 189...

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Let me guess, they came through Searcy, Arkansas? It seems like everybody did. Must have been a ferry there.

Nice Photo. I don't have any that crisp of my old folks.

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Exactly!

That's why you can't trust either one of them.

Here's how you strike fear in the cats and keep them in line:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35442008/ ... ?GT1=43001

I don't advocate the above link. I'd rather eat a rat!

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I guess that's three of us with .40-65. Mine is actually a BPCR 1885, but I just couldn't stand it and had to hunt with it two years ago. It worked well, but it's just too dang heavy to tote up and down the MT hills. Got my eye out for a .30-40, .25-35, or .38-55. My two .45-70s don't count as obsol...

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Mike D. wrote:In order to protect those lead loving Condors we must stick with the alternatives, though.

Let me guess, the condors run around gobbling the spent projectiles up like candy?

I can't say anymore or it'll get political.

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RKrodle wrote:Hey Vance, we are just windy and cloudy here. They're calling for rain later.

Radar was showing nothing here, but when I look outside...

Feb 14 snow.jpg

I doubt it will stick, but I'm sure schools will close, the stores will be out of bread and milk, people will panic...and so forth.

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Now, this is a first.

The last snow has not completely melted (it was gone except for the shaded areas) and here we go again!

Ground is already white.

Any of my more southerly neighbors want to trade houses?

Especially any forum members from the Bahamas.

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Do you have your loan officer on speed-dial?

I'd have to lean towards the .357 BH as well, especially if you plan to hunt.

Second on my lust/list would be the .45 Colt Vaqueros (higher if you love to plink with CB loads.)

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.45-70 250 gr GMX.jpg I have not been able to find info on this anywhere else. The catalog shows it to be under R&D and the website shows nothing (unless it's on the media pages). So, there are no ballistic charts or BCs listed on it. I personally will try them when the bullets become available...

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