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  1. NSIAP, but why is Oregon rated #5, ahead of OU at #6 and Texas at #9?  All have 22 committed/signed:

    UO  90.97  1-5* 11-4* 10-3*

    OUsucks  91.13  2-5* 12-4* 8-3*

    Texas!  90.90  0-5* 13-4* 9-3*

    I know there are Brownie points for 5* players, but OU has 2 and both Texas and OU have more 4* players.

    Regardless of the answer, this is one reason why I don’t worry too much about ranking as long as needs are being met.  

  2. 8 hours ago, Mdhorn said:

    Really liked this quote: “Kids have gotten so much bigger these days. Everybody thinks a guy that weighs 310 as a high school junior is a good thing. I think that’s a negative. He’s gonna have knee problems. "  Have thought about this a lot, even in sports such as basketball.  The stress points for big players seems to be their knees and ankles where they have to take a pounding with every jog. That's why I'd probably be more inclined to scout tight ends (insert mom joke) and leaner, big boned players.  Also, playing on turf can't be good for the knees.   

    I know that basketball is a sport that exhibits lateral quickness but soccer is another sport that really develops lower body coordination and flexibility and probably could be scouted more overseas. But what college has that many resources? 

     

     

    I remember how in the late 80s, a kid was big if he weighed over 250 out of HS. By the early 90s, we started seeing 300 pounders left and right, especially on the OL. It was a crazy, and noticeable, change. 

  3. I’ve always thought that many HS OL get ranked highly as underclassmen based largely on the fact that they matured earlier. Some drop in rank as seniors, but the 4-5 star types are usually good enough to keep their stars. However, they don’t mature as much physically after age 17.

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  4. 4 hours ago, 89Horn said:

    They skip over that?  Seriously?  I believe you get your ass kicked for doing that.

    They've replayed that game several times.  Bo Jackson is in the game, then they skip to further action, and Bo Jackson is no longer in the game. 

    And, no, I don't watch LHN religiously.  I just made note of that and recorded the replay once just to make sure they had really skipped it. I think it is something they borrow from ESPN Classic, so I don't blame LHN as much as I do Disney.

  5. On ‎12‎/‎14‎/‎2018 at 8:36 AM, LTtxfan said:

    CDC has been at Texas for 1 year this week.... Man that yr went fast!! 

    On the radio today, CDC said  that he's asked the Texas Communications Dept to partner with LHN  to have a lot more current programming about Texas on LHN and that new content will  be developed by Texas Communications Students.

    Said he wants to see LHN to go "from current sports programming followed by  "The History Channel" ..... to current sports programming followed by current programming about The University of Texas. "

     CDC ROCKS....🤘

    I'd like to see all game replays shown in their entirety, not skipping ahead to "further action."  For example, the Texas vs Auburn game from 1980-whatever always skips the possession where Jerry Gray does the impossible and runs down Bo Jackson, separating his shoulder.  It's not like there is important programming that needs that extra 30 minutes of airtime.

    Rant over.

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  6. Just as a side note/csb, my old next door neighbor had a long-running syndicated outdoors show, and he shot one episode featuring my black lab, Anna (RIP...brain cancer sucks).  It was about introducing pups to hunting.  He filmed it at another friend's hunting preserve.

    Halverson Hunts 

    He intended to shoot a follow-up episode with my dog the next year, but he up and died on us.

    Regarding the owner of the preserve I linked above, he told me one time that his favorite group of hunters is from Texas.  He says when the oil business is good, they spend like drunken sailors. He also said they tend to be less attentive to his guides' instructions than most other OOS hunters, but I told him that's because they're Texans.

  7. That's what I hunt with, but there's just something about an old Model 12.

    7 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    I'll take your money with 870 Wingmaster and fixed choke.  All day, every day.  Just a "friendly" wager.....

     

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  8. He didn't like being publicly humiliated, although I said it as nicely as I could given that he was my cousin's new boss.  He had a bit of an ego, plus the most expensive gun in the hunting party.  I'd take my dad's Model 12 over his Euro shot gun, but that's just me.

  9. I know an Arkansas kid who played college football in South Dakota. He was a lifelong hunter, but one of his teammates from California had just taken up hunting in college. A few years ago, this kid invited his dad to come from California to hunt, and while relaxing during a break, his dad put the butt of his loaded shotgun on the ground and draped both hands over the muzzle.  For some reason, one of the dogs raised a paw to get his attention, and the dog's paw came down on the trigger. The dad had one hand completely blown off, and the other one was so severely mangled that is was basically non-functional.

    Another cousin of mine brought his new boss from Colorado Springs up to hunt one year.  This guy was an experienced hunter, but he was careless with his gun.  One time, I was sitting next to him in the back of a pickup while we drove to another field, and I turned towards him to see that I was looking straight down his barrel about six inches from my face.  I calmly grabbed his barrel and pointed the muzzle straight up and said, "I'm sure your chamber is empty, but this makes me a bit nervous."  He was offended, but I didn't give a shit.  He deserved a little public humiliation.

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  10. I get you though, my cousin and uncle would host hunters every year, and he was constantly barking out orders to them to maintain their positions, empty their chambers at the end of a drive or when crossing fences, etc., etc., etc. some of them made me nervous though, and my dad and I would try to position ourselves as far away from them as possible

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  11. Just now, BabaYaga said:

    This is on the experienced hunters.  You set the expectations.  You lay the ground rules.  You mitigate this stupidity and have contingencies on place.  You establish parameters.  Fields of fire.  Zones of coverage.  Lock that shit down.  

    And then hope they don’t get too excited and forget all that. 

  12. When I was in elementary school in SD, kids used to bring empty shotgun shells stuffed with tail feathers to throw around at recess.

    No zero-tolerance back then.

    However, that fun ended when one kid brought a live shell with the pellets removed but stuffed with tail feathers. He taped a steel shooter marble over the primer, and in one epic WATCH THIS moment, he tossed it into the air and it discharged upon impact. It was quite the show that didn’t even get him expelled.

    Different times...different times. 

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  13. 20 hours ago, Hugh G. Rection said:

    I've done the same with quail and those things can't fly worth a damn.  They flutter up about 6 feet and away at about 2 mph.  I had some newbs with me and they found it somewhat more challenging, one of them shot and killed one of the dogs, another time a quail flew between us and one of them wheeled around and shot the vehicle and dog cages.  It was an adrenaline-fueled hunt, trying to stay out of their way.  We flushed up a wild covey and they couldn't even level their guns before the covey got away. 

    Newbs can sure as hell get excited and try to “ground pound” pheasants (wounded or not), only to have a dog in hot pursuit get shot. Shooting a running pheasant not only is less rewarding than dropping one from the sky, but it can be a bit futile because their folded wings are like birdie-Kevlar. It’s best to let the dogs chase down the wounded birds or trust that the runners will hold and eventually flush at the end of the end of the field. 

  14. 19 hours ago, kevwun said:

    Pheasants are very tough birds.  You have to hammer them pretty good for them to hit the ground and not take off running.  It does not help that you are usually shooting them in the ass because they are almost always flying straight away from you.

    One trick is to focus on the head because the long tail makes the center of the silhouette to be behind the kill zone. Most wounded birds are shot in the hind end, and even if you drop a leg, they can quickly bury themselves in the cover where only a good dog can find them. Shooting behind them is especially problematic if they are hauling ass left-to-right with a tail wind (for a right-handed shooter) because that’s when hunters (at least me lulz) tend to stop swinging through the target.

  15. On 12/11/2018 at 11:09 AM, Sbbruin said:

    I like you old man..  But this comment is so comical I don't know where to start.  The only ones unwilling to engage in real, meaningful dialogue is the NRA and 2nd amendment diehards, and everyone knows that.

    And perhaps that’s because the people and groups calling loudest for “meaningful dialogue” have no intention of stopping or backing off when their  “common sense” gun control laws have no effect on evil doers.  Banning the internet and 24-hour news would probably do more to change people’s uncivil behavior, but like that will ever happen. 

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  16. I was born in The Pheasant Capital Of The World, Redfield, SD. The highest pheasant populations in the state (and USA) are now in the counties along the Missouri River, although the numbers are generally great over most of the state. When the spring isn’t too wet, and the CRP acreage is decent, the hunting is unfuckingbelievable. 

  17. On 12/9/2018 at 3:52 PM, Speedtrucker said:

    I mean I love having pets etc but I don’t treat them like family or do shit like I see friends etc post about...

    Nor am I getting an animal cancer treatment or whatever. Guess cause our pets were work animals growing up. Mousers or work dogs etc so what I mean is I can’t see myself wasting serious money on a pet when I can spend x5 less on a cat that might have those awesome ears

    Scissors will get you those awesome ears, and they’re reusable. 

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