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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. Also, the Florida Panther is actually a subspecies of mountain lions, despite being officially called panthers.
  2. Actually, the difference and whether there really is one between coyotes and red wolves has been debated for decades.
  3. I have a degree in wildlife. I am aware that they are two different creatures. But that doesn't change the fact that mountain lions have been called Panthers in the US since before it was the US.
  4. Panther is just a colloquial name for mountain lions.
  5. Saw one in Hallsville about 12 years ago. Was driving a county road, and jumped a doe by a creek bottom, and then looked over and saw it on the other side of a barbed wore fence running next to the truck. Asked around afterwards and I wasn't the only one to have seen it.
  6. At least one of them is a lizard person.
  7. So what kind of image could we expect if we point this baby at Proxima Centauri? The first thing I would be doing if I was in charge of this giant reverse space laser is trying to see what kind of information I could gather on the planets orbiting our nearest stars.
  8. Where were the good guys with guns? Seems like just a bunch of bad guys with guns.
  9. Albuquerque probably tops the list for cops doing stuff like this.
  10. DA’s office releases footage from Smith County constable’s alleged theft of home
  11. What does this have to do with pegging?
  12. The only left hand rifle I own is a caplock Lyman Great Plains Rifle. Something about having an exploding percussion cap a few inches away from your eyes made me want to get a rifle to where that is on the other side of the gun. My flintlock is right handed and I don't really have any issues shooting it.
  13. I started to watch the first episode and realized I'd forgotten pretty much everything that happened before, so I ended up watching the fifth season again. Just finished it. The shootout scene with Arthur was pretty awesome.
  14. Was an answer to people wondering how nobody else got hit is all.
  15. I checked, and am seeing that the Pedersoli Howdah 20 gauge double barreled muzzleloader pistol gets about an 8 to 12 inch patern at 15 yards, so not too much spread. That's about as close as you can get to the shooter's weapon with commercial offerings.
  16. Yeah, but what is that thing he has on his head?
  17. At that range a shotgun really doesn't spread out all that much.
  18. I'm a big advocate of shooting with whichever side your dominant eye is on. I'm admittedly biased, being a lefty staring at the plethora of guns that can only be reasonably found in right hand models, but there is a good bit of history to overcome as well. We've all heard stories about nuns slapping left hands away with rulers, but that really doesn't come in to play as much with firearms. It's the firing in formation with black powder bit that really mandated almost all firearms be right handed. And here we are two hundred years later in a supposedly much more progressive society, but it is still hard to find a gun built for a lefty.
  19. I haven't seen all the videos, but if there was a lot of smoke, it was probably a homemade blackpowder firearm. The pics don't really look like a slamfire type gun, and you would need commercial ammunition for something like that anyhow. My bet is it was just two pieces of pipe with some sort of electronic ignition source to make things easy. Black powder isn't too complicated to make, but it does take a bit of knowledge. Making good black powder is a bit tougher (part of the reason the classic American longrifles had such long barrels, they couldn't make very good black powder in the colonies at the time), but at close range it doesn't matter all that much.
  20. If you mark the line, but don't cut down to it you can use files and then sanding blocks to get down to it and make it look nice. The harder part at that point is fitting a recoil pad on it and making it look nice. The actual cutting of the stock should be easy. Just go slow, make sure to keep everything square, and take care not to round off any of the corners.
  21. Won't you blow high immediately after consuming a drink, especially liquor? He was obviously blasted, but I would suspect his actual BAC wasn't quite that high.
  22. Based on what I've seen, I'd say there is a more than 90% chance he lied on his 4473, which means he didn't purchase it legally. But, of course, even if your background check gets rejected because you are a prohibited person, you have a less than 0.1% chance of even being investigated by the ATF, so...
  23. I saw something about it on reddit a few years before the Watchmen came out and read into it then. I was blown away that something that momentous was basically just ignored in school. Not that i disagree, but I think it is called that by some in part because there were race riots all over the country around that time. Most of them were more properly described as riots, however, as there weren't very many deaths.
  24. Yeah, I was blown away when I read about the Tulsa race riots a few years ago as an adult. How was this not taught in grade school history? I mean, I guess I know the why, but the how it was going to just fade into oblivion part is crazy. If it wasn't for HBO, it would still be less known than it was.
  25. Let's also hope that they cover the despicable history of the Choctaw nations connections with slavery as well. It took over a year after Juneteenth for them to free their slaves, and many of the descendents today are still struggling to be be recognized as members.
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