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Indoor vs Outdoor range shouldn’t matter. Like stanco said, get some help if you can. If no help is available, be very slow and deliberate and think through each step of what your doing. Keep the gun pointed down range at all times, don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you’re looking down the sights at the target (even if you are dry firing). Make sure the palm of your support hand (left if you’re right-handed) is positioned under the magazine of the pistol, not on top of your shooting hand (the slide will come back and cut your support hand)

How does the cowbell sound? Does it swing or is it rigid? I visualize this as part of the design discussion:

Has anybody else’s wife seen an amoeba (Naegleria fowleri) related story in years past and had an irrational freakout? Mine saw one on facebook last year about a girl swimming in a warm creek in the Carolinas or Ga last summer that got it and was sick with worry that our kids were going to get it. I did my research and explained to her that that’s a worry in stagnant/pond type water, not really with lake water, and even so, the risk is about 1/5 that of getting struck by lightning (if I remember correctly). Statistically speaking, driving from the house to the boat ramp is more risky. Still, she never really got over it last year and was trying to get the kids to wear nose plugs. Hopefully she’s over it this year.

What’s the water clarity like? do you have to watch for stumps?

I believe I have it bundled with my home and auto with Farmers, insured value of $25k. I should probably shop all of my insurance, but I like my agent and he was Johnny on the Spot when I had a bad hailstorm a few years back.

I think they are a viable option; you might have to plan out your usage and make reservations pretty far in advance, but its a way to potentially try boating and different types of boats before you commit to something. If there was a viable option where I'm at I probably would have tried it. In my mind, a lot of the ROI of boat ownership has to do with the degree of barriers to utilization of the boat. Some folks that have a bad experience set themselves up for a bad experience by living a long drive from a busy boat ramp, storing their boat in a sub-optimal manner, only going out on holiday weekends, yelling at their wife while trailering, etc., and not doing any preventative maintenance. Then they decide to sell the boat after not using it for a couple/several years, and its a bad situation all around.

like this

What was the beef over?

If there is a forum for the brand of boat you're looking at, I'd get on there and see what you can find. In my experience, lots of stuff is brand-specific. E.g. did the manufacturer use any wood on the boats; where are the usual trouble spots and how to fix. Some general stuff: Engine hours, check the oil level and color, note the engine make and model and research longevity/issues/winterization/maintenance proceedures online, Have the gauges been replaced (might not have set the engine hour meter to actual hours when replaced), does it go in and our of gear smoothly, (I don't know anything about I/O's so thats something else to look at), Do all the electrical items work, does it have dual batteries with a selector switch, any corrosion on the battery terminals, test bilge pump, does the bilge area look clean or greasy/grimy, do you smell mildew, Hull condition (blisters in the gel coat/deep scratches), If it has a trailer does the trailer have bearing buddies and do they have grease in them.

This is a pretty good summary of my annual expenses for my 17 year old 21' wake boat; I haven't had any "major" expenses (replacing engine, etc): insurance $(300.00) yearly locker rent $(1,440.00) service/maint $(1,000.00) (low cost year = $250, and I do my own minor maintenance) depreciation $(500.00) registration $(100.00) gas/oil $(800.00) $(4,140.00) total So, more expensive than a lot of other hobbies; but in the same ballpark as a family trip flying somewhere for a week. My kids really enjoy it, and I'd much rather them spend weekend days with me on the water than in front of a TV/iPad. It's a priority for me to get them into the water pretty frequently (and I like watersports/swimming a lot), but I wasn't interested in a pool at my house, which probably costs more (up front and annually with depreciation) than a smaller, well-cared-for boat like mine. Boarding/surfing/swimming is great exercise, and between that and loading/cleaning I get a great workout on boating days (that I enjoy instead of dread). I've often thought, if I could board/surf two ~half-days a week (one day after work, and then a weekend morning) I would stay in pretty decent shape without any other workouts.

Not to interrupt the gangbang, but Texas used to be in this business as well, FYI: "It is hard to imagine places more different than New York and Sierra Blanca, and the contrast has always underscored the mercenary marriage between the nation's largest city and the small town where it has dumped its sewage since 1992. That year, after Congress had prohibited the city from dumping its sludge in the Atlantic Ocean, New York signed contracts with several companies to treat and transport its sewage. One of them was a Long Island joint venture, which began shipping up to 250 tons every day on the 2,065-mile journey to West Texas. The Texas Observer, the political journal, recently called it ''the poo-poo choo-choo.'' The Long Island company, Merco, had first sought a site in Oklahoma, but after meeting resistance there learned about a failed resort called the Mile High Ranch in Sierra Blanca. The company purchased the 81,000-acre area so that the treated sludge could be spread on ''application areas''..." https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/27/us/new-york-s-sewage-was-a-texas-town-s-gold.html

Thanks guys. The swaro really has made shooting more enjoyable for me: great eye relief, reduced eye strain, fast target acquisition, and the illuminated reticle and fine crosshairs help me focus more on a point of impact. I’m a very “aware” type and I tend to get too distracted while shooting, thinking about / noticing every little thing, and the minimalist sight picture is beneficial for me. My dad asked me to shoot his 7mag for him to check the zero (I think he’s scared of it now), and it has a high end (albeit 25 year old) Leupold scope on it, and looking through it was just laughable compared to this new swaro. I told him to just shoot my gun. Sir, you basically just said that you’re dating an underwear model and then didn’t post pics. New website, still isn’t ‘Nam. : )

Was modifying the yardage presets for the ballistic turret on my Swaro tonight. I polished the action awhile back on this Sako and now it’s damn smooth. Just cycling the bolt gets my blood pumping like no other firearm ever has. The patina on the bolt handle is changing with more use, building more character. This old gun is becoming a favorite, can’t wait to take it hunting again. .375 H&H with .223 for scale:

My mom gave my girls little potpourri bags (?) to put in their dressers, and the next night after a bath, my 5yr old is running around naked waving her underwear repeatedly yelling “SMELL MY UNDIES!!!!!”

What lake?

The purple asparagus is coming out strong

I don’t know if they were afraid of the tree or the scary yellow parking block:

That's great shooting with a light contour rifle. I have a T3 Lite in 270, but I don't shoot it anywhere close to that level of accuracy. Were you shooting prone or from the bench at 1125? Are the rings 20 moa?

What u shooting stanco?

The biggest factor I’ve seen that seems to determine if people think it has “rights” or not is how much charisma is it has. I.e., Deer, cattle, foxes etc have people protesting; meanwhile bees, quail, bighorn sheep, and boatloads of other stuff on the ESL, etc have been having some real struggles and none of these folks are doing anything about that. This leads into another factor I don’t understand the logic of: I think they are more pissed that people are killing and eating the animals than if the animals were dying of disease, or indirect human cause. A new resident around Yellowstone asked an old backcountry guide “what can I do to help preserve the ecosystem around the park?” The answer: burn down your house and move back to California. We all live in buildings that destroyed habitat and displaced fauna. Farming vegetables on a industrial scale displaces fauna. Our individual existence results in the death of animals. Killing them to eat them vs driving them out of their habitat and/or into death by some other means seems arbitrary.

Troph, I’m not giving the daquiri dude any clicks by going back and reading why you’re moving to the Axis - is it for surfing?

What about insects? Do these folks not use bug spray, etc? E.g., pouring fire ant killer on a single ant mount possibly kills more “living things with a brain” than the total number of “living things with a brain” an average person eats in their life. As a species, we are committing genocide against ants, I guess?

What about snails, oysters, etc. that don’t have brains, are they on the menu or not?

That’s apples and oranges though. The Kalahari Bushman is a professional hunter in his element, a tourist from Seattle out for a drive with his guard down is about as far out of it as he could get. Most of the folks that get fucked up by mountain lions are hikers/joggers/kids playing (i.e. folks with their guard down), not hunters.