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HOOKEM4

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  1. I think I am going to order one of those atn deals and see if it works. I have had decent luck using nothing but a green light, but it would be nice to have the ability to aim and see what is currently on the fringe of the lighting I use. Would that scope work with a gun mounted ir light and feeder light at the same time? Does it get washed out possibly?

  2. 6 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    What kind of scope you shooting with?

    Primary arms I have had for 3 years and stayed zeroed till this.

    6 hours ago, Lat22 said:

    Probably the mounts. 

    First thing I checked. I used blue loctite on all threads and everything is tight. I tend to agree with you though.

  3. I had a shittttty last weekend. I was in S.Tex thursday/friday. Morning thursday it rained and didn't see shit. Thursday afternoon I had a solid management 8pt mature I shot at. Well it was right at dark, couldn't find blood and the guy that took me told me to just chalk it up (I looked for over 1hr). Then went Friday morning and was put on a 7 year old 12pt that was prob 22"+ spread. I shot and hit fucking air. Depressed I went by my ranch on the way home and went to the range. 100yds didn't even hit paper. Went to 25 yds, shot again and was hitting 5" high. 

    The good news is I am not suddenly a terrible shot. The bad news is I get to go every few years to shoot the big fuckers in South Texas and have never been allowed to shoot a trophy buck. The one time I do, somehow my scope gets fucked up and I miss out on it.  Pretty shitty end to the season considering what could have been. Lessons learned, sight in scope every time you move the gun. I had checked it 2 weeks prior and somehow in that time I messed it up.

    Lastly, fuck that scope, I ordered a new scope this morning.

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  4. 9 hours ago, SquishMitten said:

    Reading some of the responses got me thinking...if Mansfield was to sustain a complete failure, would the overall devastation be less if they were able to blow up Miller? In other words, would accepting that the places on the above map will be a total loss - and deciding to destroy Miller ASAP - ease enough pressure from the oncoming wave that the end result would be less total damage/death?

    The answer would depend on what level of failure Mansfield had and how it progressed. In imagination land, if you completely removed the dam as a whole in one instant, you would have over 1 million acre feet of water flowing into a river that holds like 25k acre feet (at pool elevation). So the impact of removing that volume of water is pretty inconsequential. There are too many factors involved to try and estimate the downstream impacts since it would wholly depend on the level of failure and the discharge rate of the failed section. 

    Any substantial dam failure would likely result in the rest of the dam failing at a fairly rapid rate and the impact from here to the coast would be catastrophic. If it was PMP/PMF situation (say from a hurricane tracking upstream and camping in the watershed) that caused the failure, it would cause biblical flooding and the damage would be inconceivable. 

    shocked the princess bride GIF

  5. I finally get to go down to South Texas and hunt on my bosses lease next week. We are taking a client and they are way below the max they can shoot for the year (both Bucks and Does). Looks like I will get to fill out all my tags this year. 

    I hope it is a light travel time for our southern neighbors. Last year was a shitshow. I had a group walk right past my stand in the pre-dawn hours that I could only hear but not see. I would have not been that on edge but the week prior another person on the lease had been in a stand with his daughter when two dudes walked through carrying AR-15's. It truly is the wild west down there.

  6. They have to be using different units of measurement, right? Whatever it is at today and yesterday, it is fucking killing me. One would think that after 37 years of living in the area, you would build up a tolerance but it just seems to be getting worse every year. 

  7. 50 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    truck drives great, i love it. I'll try to knock out a bed liner (line x? ill call around tomorrow) and weather tech mats in the next couple of days. 

     

    Get the best husky liners and dont look back. They are better than the weather tech by a solid margin. I went to them in my new truck after having creasing issues from the weather tech. Trust me I am pre med.

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  8. We have run the toyos hard to 60k and the michelins that come on them for the same. But we need something more aggressive for the land the trucks roll through than the michelins. Our guys abuse the shit out of these trucks and will get stuck on pavement. True specimens we have working for us.

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  9. 6 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    I agree. They do wear more evenly and stay balanced more than anything else I’ve ever run, though. I switched back to Nitto a set or two ago, and took them back at 1k miles (a week of driving at that time) Much louder and harsher.  But I keep getting less and less miles with each set of KO2’s. Time to do something else. 

    What mileage do you get from the bfg's?

    We were seeing 40k before we swapped when we easily would hit 60k on the old compound. 

  10. 3 hours ago, Errestaurants said:

    what do you recommend?  I've ran K02's on my 3500 and they've been pretty good. 

    Toyo will kill the bfg's in longevity. Michelin if you want better road handling. 

    We run a fleet of F250s and use a variety of tires. We used to exclusively run bfg till we noticed they changed the compound. They just dont hold up like they used to or should.

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