Amarillo is a LOT nicer; just try to find a decent restaurant in Lubbock……and Amarillo is a lot closer to Santa Fe and Taos and the joys of Colorado. If Tech’s vet school is half as good as their medical school, tamu’s vet school will drop again in the international rankings.
My father was a college prof; I grew up on small university campuses (not SEC or SWC). Personal confession: I went to a&m on a full ride academic scholarship (ChemE) as a freshman-I was evidently an 0.002% guy. “Underwhelming” would be an incredible understatement. Got out after 2 semesters. Married into a family of engineers and accountants, plenty of acquaintances from both universities.
I’ve never met an aggy engineer I’d let design a carport for me, or an aggy accountant I’d let balance my checkbook. What starts at Texas changes the world, what starts at tamu fucks things up. It’s a second rate cow college situated in shithole East Texas-always has been, always will be. Never doubt it, never forget it.
You lost me at vodka martinis
A martini is gin plus a variable amount of vermouth plus an odd number of olives (never an even #!). Those vodka variants should be renamed-how about “pussywash?”
Potato chips-any kind, any size, from the little Subway size up to the 5 gallon cardboard bucket size (do those still exist?). If it’s open, I’m eating them all. Greasy hands, swollen lips from the salt, stomach doing somersaults, none of that matters. My mouth wants more!
Don’t disagree with the pussification comment, but jalapeños are all about growing conditions; drier and hotter = hotter peppers. I buy ‘em at the store, too, but it’s kinda like buying a sealed box of chocolates-you just don’t know what you’re getting. I’ve tried several times to grow my own and experiment with water requirements, shade, etc. but the damned deer eat them right down to the dirt.
You might try telling her that 5 or 6 Speer 135gr (short barrel load) hollow points is the adult equivalent to hollering “STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!” To a 4 year old……just for big bad guys. I have always found that female shooters are very apt pupils early on in training-evidently most are not descendants of Dan’l Boone and actually pay attention to things like front sight and trigger control………
My experience over the years, too; I think there may be some, ah, “loopholes” in Italian environmental regulations that can be exploited for some finishing processes. In other words, I drink wine in Italy, not the water.
I can’t find where Norinco ever made lever gun replicas. I’d bet that’s Italian. If you got it from Cimarron (perhaps a Uberti?) start with Cimarron, then Uberti. Good luck with all that. If it’s a Miroku/Winchester you may have better luck.
6’3”, 195#
17 fishing shirts in my closet (Magellan/Academy for the win)-TEXAS polos on game day
Pissant F150 ‘cause reasons
Cargo shorts at least 5 months of the year (prefer Duluth)
Ray Bans
Guatemalan palm “straw” hat from Sunbody in Houston
And a gun-always a gun. Nobody has clued you in that fishing shirts are excellent for concealed carry?
Original fine cut wintergreen Skoal
I’m thinking of having “FAAFO” embroidered on my fishing shirts……..
After further review, it appears that Brownell’s sells a couple of possible brews/kits for coloring-might work OK for the sideplates, but it won’t come close to matching the rest of the receiver. As a long-time hobbyist gunsmith/CAS shooter, I’ve “aged” quite a few replicas with steel wool, ScotchBrite pads, and a ring of keys for smacking the wood. Go slow and gentle and use a lubricant (that’s what she said, right?).
It was “case colored,” a very superficial chemical coloring, not “case hardened,” which goes much deeper for softer steel to increase wear resistance. Most likely can’t be redone by anybody-it’s a pretty toxic chemical mix applied under very controlled conditions. Sorry-pretty rifle. May as well get out the steel wool and cold blue and go for the antique look.
Date night for wife and I in the mid-70’s (poors, in student housing) was 2 burrito supremes at 99 cents each and a single medium Dr Pepper; I still get random cravings for a Burrito Supreme and maybe even 59 cent pintos and cheese,,,,