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So you're saying it wasn't a wasted trip.

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Another vote for IC at the ranges you're talking about.

Are you hunting on private ground? Used to see lots of Blues and Snows around Cannon Refuge, as far south as Elsberry near BK Leach Conservation Area.

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Sorry to hear this about USAA. Based on somewhat limited family experience, any time you have an older vehicle totaled your odds of getting a good settlement are slim to none. Also in the case of various versions of the same vehicle they almost always choose the most generic and cheap version. They ...

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"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the American government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian."- Henry Ford

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If I recall correctly, 87% of all statistics are made up.

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As my wife likes to say "so many books, so little time".

Will definitely check out James Alexander Thom. Thanks for the recommendation.

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Just realized why I never find any new ones on the library website, I'VE READ THEM ALL. If you enjoyed those then you need to check out the books of William Johnston. I also greatly enjoyed all of Dr. Crichton's books. What a brilliant man, and he had a unique ability to explain the complex in ways ...

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"a dwindling supply of "Blue Magic"s" Lucky guy. Mine gave up when I started shooting skeet. 10-4 on the shot cost. I have primers, wads, and powder, but only buy shot when I catch a deal. Wish I had listened to my brother, he wanted to split a pallet of shot about 10 years ago. ...

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The lack of critical thinking ability these days astounds me. My brother and I have been discussing this and we think humans are in a period of genetic decline. First humans lived in a very challenging environment. Very dangerous and non-adaptives got weeded out of the gene pool pretty fast. Around ...

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"Pretty soon they'll have implants for your head with built in WiFi so you can talk to anybody at anytime from anywhere" I already did that myself with half a roll of aluminum foil. Seriously, thanks for the info. I just found out my company is getting everyone I-phones to use for Nav inst...

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"The problems with brass life are usually over rifles having generous chamber dimensions by design" This. In my son's Savage built No3 Mk1 fired cases are noticeably bigger than unfired. We have always neck sized only and so far cases are holding up well. Though we only use them for full p...

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"I don't understand your comments on 3 1/2" shells. The A300 is chambered for 2 3/4" and 3", as I stated in my post." Sorry, I read that on a pretty fast horse, babysitting two VERY active grandkids that day. Then ended up on a couple back to back trips so I've been away fro...

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From various guns used by family members and hunting buddies, I would avoid guns chambered for 3 1/2" shells. Quite simply they aren't needed. The 3" shells for waterfowl hunting are all you need these days. When the 3 1/2" came out the extra payload was an advantage, but with new pow...

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Not mine, my youngest son, but shot with my Remington 788 .30-30. Another example of QDMA improving the hunting. He was on a friend's farm outside Jonesburg, Mo

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As a long time Remington fan these latest quality failures are very disappointing. Two of my best .22's are an early 60's 511X and a late sixties plain jane 552 and it makes me sad that they've forgotten how to do that. I haven't had the ammo problems others have but I don't doubt the issues they've...

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RE-7 was my preferred powder in the 14" Contender for shooting steel. I worked up a load for the 150 spire points I used on the rams, then just seated 130 SP for turkeys and whatever 110 gr bullets I could find on the bargain tables for chickens and pigs. I would expect good things from it in y...

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Don't waste your time in the woods, from what I've seen cruising I-70 and I-44 the best hunting spots are near the super slab!

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Ballistic Products carries them, including some 2 1/2" shells for older guns, or they can supply fiber wads if you want to roll your own.

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I'm lucky. It's a 15 min ride to just walk in to Graf's and pick out what I want. Yes, their prices aren't the lowest, but they have what I want more often than not.

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Way to go Rooster!

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Do I need one. Nope.

But I definitely want one.

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I hate to say it, but that's one of the reasons we switched to Cricket Wireless. Virtually everything you "need" them to do can be done online, on ATT's network which works best in the areas I go. We're not big Smart phone people so we bought my wife a $100 LG, I kept my Pantec Breeze. Our...

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There is more powder around than you realize. I recently won a gift card as a door prize at a charity Sporting Clays shoot. It was to a LGS I visit once in a while, and I scored a lb.each of Varget and H4198. They had plenty more in stock.

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"Not surprising. My little brother never fired a live round in navy boot, all weapons training was laser simulators. This was at Great Lakes in 2000 iirc.y" Small arms have never been a big priority for the Navy. I went to boot in Diego in 1969, we had to shoot to qualify with Garands whic...

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Nice! Couldn't be too hard to put on Rossi Wizard since I have no plans to scope mine in .44 Mag.

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I'm probably one of the worst painters on the planet, but learned a little along the way. 1. Wet sand with the most coarse paper you can find, usually 150, follow up with 220. 2. Are you shooting with a spray can? buy one of the handles that snap on to the can, much easier to control. 3. If not can,...

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True American hero. Those SOG guys rewrote the book on what "bad butt" is, they came from all the different services and they were told to think outside the box, and there are no rules of engagement. There are a couple really good books on their exploits in both Vietnams. I think one of th...

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We were just there in July to celebrate our 40th, the Charleston Museum right across from the tourism bureau is fantastic. That's where the Hunley replica is.The other thing I would highly recommend is the Boone's Hall tour. It's a working plantation that still has original slave shanties (brick! Th...

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I'd be torn since I already shoot both .30-30 and 6.5X55, but the only fair way to do it is BOTH!

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Here in Mo. landowners and any immediate family members over 6 years of age can obtain no cost permits to hunt deer and turkey in season. Has to be at least 5 acres, and lessees qualify if they live on the property. Depredation permits are also easy to get with the help of your local agent. All of t...

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OK, it's really a blond joke, but I'm entitled. I was blond until it turned white, and my wife was blond when I met her. In 7th grade. An old blind cowboy wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake... He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a shot of Jack Daniels. After sitting there for a whi...

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Thanks. We were lucky enough to go there on vacation last Sept. then have been out there 4-5 time for work. Can't wait to go again.

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"I pick up a piece of primed brass and I don't put it down until the bullet is seated and crimped." What I have always done. Brass is base up in the block, base down and bullet up when done. Also look into case in strong light before putting it in the press to seat. Have never had a double...

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Don't forget the early blizzard kill in the northern plains last fall. Took a lot of prime beeves off the market in one weekend. I had to go to a refinery west of Billings two weeks after and ranchers were still hauling carcasses in for disposal. Had to be heartbreaking for them.

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I have the Glenfield version. Many features similar to the Mossberg 500, but has a steel receiver, and the safety is a crossbolt in the trigger guard. I do like the shell feed system (which is like the Mossberg) in that the lifter is up against the bolt when in battery. This leaves the loading port ...

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"People try to make them out-power the 357 Magnum"

Exactamundo.

Besides, Ruger already built the best small caliber ear splitter, the .30 Carbine Blackhawk.

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I have a 76 I bought about 15 years ago for $180. Bought it at a gun shop while I was ordering my M6 .22 Hornet/.410. One of my best days of buying value. The 76 isn't perfect, pitting on the receiver cover and a chip out of the butt plate so I treat it as a shooter. The owner worked at the gun shop...

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I'm sure you weren't missing, I could see you perfectly well, and your gun, and the cloud of smoke.

However the camera didn't show you hitting either so...

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I can count on someone here making me laugh every day.

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My brother finally convinced me to build an AR, but I had to be a codger and built one with a smooth side pre-A1 receiver and triangular fore end.

Prior to that my battle rifle was a Carl Gustave Swedish Mauser. Or my urban assault rifle, a Rossi '92 in 45 Colt.

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About ten years ago my youngest brother was cruising the back of our old home place, north of Rolla, Mo, it's mostly oak woods and he had planted a couple food plots to try to improve the hunting. Imagine his dismay to find an alien tree stand in the rear corner of the back forty right over one of h...

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I guess it depends on what type of seller you are working with. I see plenty of listings here on the St. Louis site that clearly have enough wrong to make me steer clear. But we get quite a few listings from small dealers and pawn shops out of the metro area that are trying to lure money out from th...

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"I would bundle them up well and put them inside an old refrigerator or chest freezer (or two), than fasten the refrigerator well with strapping (or maybe a few concealed threaded rods clear through the thing, so the door doesn't pop open at an inopportune time. Get that in your storage unit wi...

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Hey, just for the record, Ferguson is only about two square miles. The rest of the state is green from all the rain and mild temps and open for business. Canoe on our rivers, boat on our lakes, shooting ranges with events every week from sporting clays to benchrest and everything between. As one Fer...

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"Yep, keep tellin' yerself that! And Chevy probably gets their flexplates from the same guys that Ford & Chrysler do..." This. I used to call on several OEM parts mfgs in southern Illinois, this was the 80's, and one had wire pallet/crates full of water pumps and fuel pumps labeled wit...

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"TedH wrote: Griff wrote: Some county in MO used to set signs out on I-44 that there was a drug check in 2 miles... about ½ mile before an exit... you wouldn't believe the number of cars that ducked off that exit... into the waiting arms of the county SO... :D :D Yep, I believe that was in Fran...

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I found out recently that you need to ask. Was bobtailing back from a delivery on the north side of Cedar Rapids, Ia. and wandered into Walmart while taking my DOT 30 min. break. They had no .22 on the shelves and the young man working in sporting goods just happened to be at the counter. I commente...

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Lots of good suggestions. We have a bunch of powerplant customers in that area and I get through there a lot. Southern Indiana, from 30 miles north of I-64 to the Ohio, lots of nice small towns, but my favorite is Corydon. Boonville is another good choice. KY. Between I-65 and I-75 south of the Blue...

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Thanks for the link, I'll be reading articles there often I think.

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