Teamdirtyleg

I have no problem with the fact that I'm being a baby about it. Dad now lives on 200 acres that borders the King Ranch but there just isn't much there and what is there his wife has named. compared to some of the places I grew up hunting (17,000 acres in Mexico, Callaghan ranch, some of Briscoe's stuff) it doesn't get my interest up....and there are zero quail. Maybe someday.

Sort of depend on how long you'll be gone. For a few days to a week you might be able to leave them alone but you'll need a large volume or auto-waterer and you can probably leave enough food provided nothing else can get to it and the chickens can't screw it up somehow. I have neighbors that are usually tickled pink to come take care of them. They keep any eggs laid of course.

Trial and error can be as effective as "build it with science". My dad used to hunt in Alaska a bit when I was a kid (never took me) He bought a 7mm magnum for those hunts. I never liked that gun. My first rifle was his .243. It was a pretty good rifle. We have a newer (to us) 30-06 that I haven't had a chance to use. My dad is too old to hunt much anymore and I'm married to someone that doesn't value land ownership or hunting leases.

Yup. Love it!

In my teens I killed a couple of elk with my .270. One at 400-ish yards. It's easily the favorite rifle in my family's collection. Years ago my dad dropped it out of a blind and broke the stock. He replaced it with a solid oak stock that is pretty hefty but steady AF if you have a rest.

I hiked about as high as you could get on that iteration of Pacaya. There was a huge slope of scoria cinders between us and the top. The very last part beneath the crater looked like a legit mountain climb it was so steep. My sister lives down there and her kids have gone up Fuego. One of her boys had his birthday on pacaya where they roasted dogs and marshmallows over lava on really long sticks

Tikal is really great but if you arrive after dark, don't leave the door to your room open while you bring your bags in or don't turn the lights on. We ended up with so many bugs in our room I'm not sure how the Mrs managed to hold it together. Probably trying to maintain composure for the benefit of our 4 year old daughter who was flipping her shit. I mean there were bugs everywhere...thousands. The next morning the maids flipped my sister mattress next door and there was one of those big, scorpions underneath it. Do the sunrise tour of course. Sitting atop a temple watching the mist rising off the waking jungle hearing the Howler monkeys weird calls is a unique experience. The food was surprisingly good at the Tikal Inn. There's a pool. Panajachel is derisively called Gringotenango because of all the American tourist that come through. The lake is gorgeous. Antigua is one of my favorite places in the world. You might be able to line up a hike to the top of one of the active volcanos like Fuego or Pacaya and roast some hotdogs for cooling lava. If you want to get off the beaten path (aside from Tikal or mule packing into El Mirador) and would like to see a little more Mayan culture get up into the highlands.

Oh! Orwell, not a Keystone Species reference...

Starfish and sea otters?

We all thought Gore was the robot, but Bush sounded like he was shorting out.

"exquisite sex and wholesome violence". I completely forgot about that.

Doesn't happen very often but I am occasionally mean to myself and punish myself by lurking in the political board. There is no reason to participate in there since many of the posters, and we all know who I'm talking about, live in a contrived world and there is no sense arguing with someone who lives on their own make-believe planet.

We should have the powers that be alter the methodology regarding Political board rep. Make it a separate category or inverse its meaning.

I've got nothing better to do. I'd much rather hear some butt stories than anything that DD up thread has to contribute.

It's sadly comedic. Supposedly he leaves subway walking and talking on the phone with his agent at the time these guys confront him and they were all "Hey aren't you that guy from empire?" (making it seem like a chance encounter) and then proceeded to attack him while wearing ski masks with MAGA hats on over the ski masks. They also happen to have with them a "noose" and some bleach (implying it was planned). They beat him, noose around neck, pour bleach on him, yell "this is MAGA country" as well as presumably some other derogatory things. This all went down during the 60 second surveillance gap where footage shows Jussie walking around with no rope around his neck and him emerging with the rope around his neck. Oh, and still holding his Subway sandwich and cell phone. He walks home leaving the noose around his neck till he gets to his apartment and leaves it on until the police arrive. SOUNDS LEGIT! What a fucking clown!

Live look at "extensive training program".

This should be included as a bullet point in "A Quick Guide to Understanding Aggy"

We all joke that they’re a delusional bunch of slap-dick, group think rubes, but it’s still a little jarring seeing this much...what is word....is there one that describes this degree of abject stupidity and removal from all objective reason and critical thinking.

Only Nixon could go to Chinatown...or something like that.

Drool and all.

Don’t know if it’s been brought up, don’t care, but we don’t know just how bad it all might have gotten tonight. RICK PERRY WAS THE DESIGNATED SURVIVOR TONIGHT.!!!!. RICK. PERRY. I’m shook that is all. Back to your monkey shit fight..

I had to stop, go back and read the name and relook at the picture to make sure this wasn't Hamm from the past.

Something doesn't ring true there.

I guess two or so comments above that where I said thought, prayers and good vibrations I, for a moment, believed it.