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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. Gonna head out in the morning with all three stinkies to give momma a break and cruise around on the side by side with them, maybe explore some creek beds, and just do some fun stuff out at our family land. The flintlock is gonna have to chill for a bit, and I'm going to bring along my .243 that is set up for longer range shots as well as my .300 BO for when we are exploring the creek beds in the brush after last weekends monster buck for the property casually crossing the road 250 yards off while I was cruising around with my flintlock episode. Anyhow, the plan is to spend some time with them just hanging out, not really looking for anything, but being ready, and then take them back home to momma in time to get back out for an evening hunt and then another in the morning after spending the night in the camper. After that we'll take the camper home (we are going camping over Thanksgiving break, which looks like it might become a family tradition, so I gotta make sure everything is ready) and head out to the inlaws' place where the middle kid will probably want to go sit in the blind out there with me. It's dang near as complicated as sports season just planning time to hunt and balancing family as well when you have young children. I'm just glad I have one who wants to go do that stuff with me at only three years old.
  2. Maybe what Chekhov didn't count on is that in some places pretty much everyone has a gun?
  3. Just finished the last episode of The English, and, man, that last scene really kicked up the dust in the room. And on top of all that dust was the acknowledgement that the circus is exploitative, but it's also the only way that some people will be exposed to some things. Such a great ending.
  4. I mean, you pretty much know as soon as they introduce some characters. Chaske Spencer gives some Anson Mount (Hell on Wheels, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) vibes. He also reminded me of Tommy Lee Jones in a lot of scenes. This guy needs more roles in quality westerns, but he would probably get typecast since he is native.
  5. It probably sucks worse if it is unsuccessful. Hats off to them.
  6. I learned that months ago from graffiti in a port-a-potty.
  7. Ideally, you could pick what kind of goats arrive, but realistically it would have a be either live or completely processed. I'm not sure the optics of delivering a freshly slaughtered goat to a stranger are very good.
  8. Speaking of, I'm thinking of starting a site called goat fund me where you can raise money to have goats delivered to a person of your choosing.
  9. Her kids are named Aiden, Liam, and Declan? Sounds like child endangerment just giving them those names to me.
  10. Using immigration to compensate for a stalled population is pretty poor policy, as it is just kicking the can down the road. Maybe we need to fix how society is structured instead of just screwing our youngest generations.
  11. The Peripheral is pretty good Sci fi, but I'm gonna have to hit up this The English stuff while I'm waiting on the next ep to drop.
  12. Yeah, why can't the rebels have more of those?
  13. Would air defense missiles still have an armed warhead if they missed their target and hit the ground somewhere?
  14. This feels like a "I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something" kinda situation to me. Hanlon's Razor, except there was actual malice, just likely directed at Ukraine.
  15. Looks like my plans to eat the birds won't be interrupted by nuclear holocaust after all.
  16. I wonder how many defenestrations have taken place today in Russia?
  17. Imamac clearly a Russian agent!
  18. It's poland. Any surgical strike is likely to be an amputation.
  19. Just started this. I like how one of the neon signs in the bar in the blueridge mountains had Texas on it.
  20. Was out this evening crossing an oil road, and paused to watch this guy go by... He was about 250 yards out according to the google earth's. I had my flintlock handy, so the shot wasn't going to happen. For this property in East Texas, that's pretty much a monster.
  21. My three year old has been talking about deer all week. The wife asked him earlier in the week what he wanted to eat for dinner, and he said "cone." She didn't get what he was saying and asked him a couple more times. Then she looked in the rear view mirror and he said "cone" again, but with his hands up next to his head with his fingers out. Little dude wanted to eat deer corn for dinner because he has been coming with me to fill and check the feeders and looking at the pictures from my game camera. So tonight we went to the inlaws place because we were in town and I took him to go sit in the blind with me to go "hunting," figuring he'd make all kinds of noise and it would just be a chance for us to spend some time together. He was quiet the whole time and did better than anybody could ask a 3 year old to be. Nothing came out for us to see or anything, but I couldn't have asked for a better experience with him. One of my earliest memories was standing in the back of my grandfather's truck out in the pasture and watching him shoot what was probably a huge buck for East Texas at the time, so him doing so well going hunting with me is one of those memories I'll cherish and hope he does as well.
  22. The Minie Ball was invented in 1847, but didn't really come into use here until about the time of the Civil War. It was apparently used in the Crimean War a decade earlier, but we don't really get into wars like that in our education system. Buy, yeah, I would put the Minie Ball down as one of those developments that had a huge impact. While it was a pretty short lived innovation due to the subsequent development of the metallic cartridge, it proved that rifled weapons had an important place on the battlefield compared to smooth bored muskets. As far as the American Revolution is concerned, the rifle was more of a niche weapon. It absolutely made a difference due to colonial sharp shooters and such, but muzzleloading rifles are slow to reload and not much use in the frontlines of battles as they were fought at the time. They are a blast to shoot and hunt with however. These days I find myself more and more wanting to hunt with my flintlock rifle and decked out in historically accurate clothes and stuff just because I'm a weirdo who likes to get back to my roots and do things the way my ancestors did things when they settled Mexican Texas.
  23. A couple weeks ago we had a crane rigger or somesuch get crushed by a load. Rumor mill says that the first limit switch at the top of the crane was bypassed (I can understandthe frustration, because the cable probably catches the limit switch all the time while lifting a load, but that's kind of a critical safety feature), and the second one failed or was bypassed as well and the hook was pulled up over the tip of the crane and allowed to load to just fall. Poor guy happened to be in it's path (line of fire failure, but I don't do crane stuff, so I'm not sure if it was avoidable). He was in his late 20's and a single dad to two kids. I increased my life insurance during our annual enrollment the other day. It might not be such a terrible way to die for the guy who was killed, but to leave behind two kids at that age in an accident like that that was entirely avoidable I think counts.
  24. They were probably pissed that they didn't have any way to sample any tissues left over for illegal drugs or alcohol so they could try and blame that.
  25. Two ain't that bad for a weekend or so. Add a third and things are like that worst timeline gif from community. My wife stays home with a 6 (just started school, so a bit of a break, but she has to be out of the house pretty early with all of them), 3, and 1.5 year old. I think I could handle it for like a week.
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