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ROFL BOX

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  1. Common wisdom is that voting for this would kill the TPID deal between the city and downtown hotels, which would create a Mexican American cultural district and additional funds for homelessness solutions. 
     
    Wish they had a better plan b/c I’m not sure what we are voting for. Expo Center definitely needs improvements, but I’ve also heard talk about using the money to build a large music venue on the property, which wouldn’t make any sense.
    Multi-purpose is what I have heard.

    Sized to fill the gap between an Irwin center size & the smaller venues.

    & Also, I think the commitment for the shift is only 4 years.

    Why can't we have both?

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  2. Seems easy enough - no new taxes, simply a reallocation of the existing already collected Hotel & Motel taxes.  The Travis County Exposition center is in sore need of renovation & even an entirely new indoor facility.  The parking lot is a constant hassle & the actual venue is way WAY out of date.

    I'm asking that if you do vote, please support Prop A.

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  3. Doing a small total re-roof today out in Blanco & the customer has 2 nice ponds, neither getting much action or use.

    Brought my ultralight gear & had some nice C&R fun.

    Had a prob. 10 minute run where every cast brought in some sort of perch. Prob. caught 4 diff. variety overall.98d8a79f96d063f8c5a541f7f6d01d19.jpgdb45950e8f93037425eb72eeaa0633a1.jpg72b68c1d400f1699e0b402d025463dae.jpg3b03b77f62c40f70e3caf369e29a7595.jpg989507b8254b9d490992fac420ca0830.jpg8bc48e12828c31be63cb7fddb0b1dd22.jpg4f82b3ebc6991b94f2f161baeb216b47.jpgeb72da5c4a5c7f1b8b81a1138900d61b.jpg294e40d904d45bfe51af27ba2fa70632.jpg

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  4. 5 hours ago, South Austin said:

    Not sure he handles cases outside Central Texas, but Marty Cirkiel--father of Austin restauranteur Shawn Cirkiel--has a very good reputation in this area. 

    Yeah, but he said it's Fort Bend.  SW corner of Houston area.  Not really close enough to make it reasonable.

  5. 3 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    We blasted so much more than that. Not sure.  Same guys that went to Argentina.  Said without gloves you're ending the day quite a bit sooner.  

    Yeah, 1st wife's F-I-L told me about going down to MXX 2 or 3x where you brought 2 or 3 guns & they had "bird boys" who would both swap you out on loaded guns & in between that, they are racing into the field to collect downed doves (apparently no regs on daily bag limit; they wipe out a lot of planted fields down there from what I've been told).

  6. 25 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Caught a mountain of shit from friends that took me to a high-brow skeet shoot.  Show up wearing matching black, wet-weather golf gloves.  Screw it, it was short notice and I don't own shooting/driving gloves.

    All day affair, summer, O/U barrels get damn hot.  Have to have a set of gloves.  

    I was @ a skeet shoot on Tuesday.  50 rounds total over 5 stations (5 sets of 2 per station).

    Not a single person was gloved.

  7. Tearing off a roof or doing a roof repair kills any of those pretty fast, all but the thick leather (cuffed) variety.  Again, I end up with problems @ the seams or the fingers burning out.  Even when I'm doing cedar work, that doesn't cause problems for me anywhere near as fast as the grit from shingles will.

  8. 7 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    I covet that dock and feeder over the tank.  Been eyeing a built for one for a while now to get out past the weeds and cows tearing up the waterline.  

    Yeah, their entire facility is balls deep.  Love going out there except when the wind is blowing from the wrong direction (which it did pretty much the entire time we were outside).  The only thing missing from that pond is a good sized cluster of tall trees to provide shade for early or late fishing.

  9. 1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:

    I hate the flurry.  

    I have done it before, but only when the "team" had already purchased it & nobody else wanted to participate / had to leave early, etc.  The Fast & The Furious... that's for sure.  This is one of my favorite events for the Rodeo Austin schedule (outside of our Q cookoff & the rodeo 'season' itself).

    I keep dropping hints to my wife that I really really really really REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY want an O/U 12 ga. (& not in some shitty brand, used is OK provided it's in good cond.) but so far she hasn't even remotely picked up on that.

    Guess I'll have to drop the $ 500+ on my own & see if she notices it.  Having 10+ longarms that she doesn't look @ too often kinda makes it easy to slip in new guns while she's not looking.  :D 

    If I get that gun cab. / safe that I mentioned might make that a bit easier as well.

  10. 12 hours ago, davidg said:

    Very surprised they let you shoot those waterfowl loads at clays. No wonder they were saying it was loud.

    Nobody asked me what it was I brought & I only had one person @ one of the stations who was confused by me having my own ammo.  I always loaded my own racks except for the 1st station where I was 1st to shoot & our # 2 guy simply handed me shells.

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    Another fella on a different team brought his own shells; was popping a 28 ga.

     

    I will readily admit that I don't know a lot about the difference between these rounds & a common dove or clay shot.  So... hep meh, kind sirs.

  11. 14 hours ago, Armybrat said:

    Very cool.

    were those Ruger Wranglers for sale?

    Prize for one of the teams.  I forget if it was in addition to the buckles for best shooters or top fund raising team.  Don't think they doubled up on prizes for top shots.

  12. Selected scenes from the Rodeo Austin shoot-out yesterday @ the Texas Disposal Systems Exotic Game Ranch in Buda / Creedmore.

     

    Always a good time & it's been a few years (like, maybe 6 or 7?) since we were back out there for this event.

     

    Only one flight this go, but still a lot of fun. The Fiocchi did well, even if I didn't. Lots of comments on how loud my 12 was.

     

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  13. For the ATX area, we might see a low 90's coming up & a bit lower than that in the MetroPlex

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