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Reagan1k

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  1. I still see a lot of faxes in my line of work. Some vendors still send out order acknowledgements and invoices via an automated fax.....I guess they're still running legacy software on an AS400 or the like. Others allow you to opt in or out with the choice of fax or email. We have several old-school clients who hand write PO's and fax them. Not ideal but doesn't bother me. It is somewhat comical that they often email and ask if I got the fax, when they could have sent a .pdf or simply typed the order into the body of the email from the start. For those of us who started in business pre fax machines, when all order/invoicing was done via mail and on 3-part paper, the fax machine doesn't appear to be such a dinosaur as it was still days faster than the old way. But, I can see how someone who has always worked in an instant communication era would find the fax to be a pain in the ass. Bear in mind that we used to add long distance charges to orders in the event we had to (gasp) make a phone call regarding an order, instead of all correspondence being via USPS.
  2. Unless you can make it less comfortable (colder, wetter, etc.) inside than outside, you won't keep them out. Now, one rat snake per 250 square feet will minimize their length of stay.
  3. Damn. So very sorry.
  4. ....... Not that he’s drinking from enough to be sick. He made all that up.
  5. Have you seen what collectors are paying for Black Talon? There is a cult following for those old rounds.
  6. Not if you're having a beer and burger at a Twin Peaks in Waco........... Not a good example. There was nothing timely about that release, nor was it done willingly.
  7. That's pretty cool. You can do some amazing things with a 10/22. There have to be more custom mods for it than even the M700 action. I know a guy with a few tricked out 10/22's and what he can do with them is amazing. I think you'll see a lot of people gravitate even more to .22lr if these pill prices stay even remotely close to where they are now. A lot of "professionals" build duplicate rifles in .22lr equal to their work tools. Makes a helluva lot of financial sense right now for sure.
  8. I still hunt with a LT20 LTD 1100.
  9. That's why girls say they're not fat.....they're big boned. That 700# gal had a lot of structure to her. I'd be curious what the hide weighed by itself.
  10. Something that always interests me is how different owners clean or restore their guns (if there's a spot of rust or old, tired wood). I've got a Heinz 57 collection of everything including some of the common things like Kroil, brass wool, old pennies, boiled linseed oil, Renaissance, etc. What do you use for everyday cleaning/wipedown, fouling removal, minor rust, and wood preservation?
  11. Nice, do the window slots slide or are they hinged?
  12. I was about to request that you post the band info. Thanks. That’s always amazing to me when you see some of the ages. Especially with geese.
  13. Protein and cotton seed feeders are filled. Here’s to plenty of slow soaking rains this spring!
  14. With all of you on that. I've made the choice never to tell any sponsee or friend in the program that I am "proud" of them. I just say that I am happy for them, and that's the truth. Doesn't bother me one bit for someone to say it to me, but as stated, it can come off as odd and could perhaps lead someone prone to people-pleasing to view their actions in sobriety as being for someone else's approval rather than for their own wellbeing. Especially for someone new in sobriety, I think it is preferable to reinforce that you are happy for them, and not come off as patting them on the head and saying "Good Boy" ....even if that isn't the intent.
  15. For that matter, if you are not shooting cross-mountain and won't need a lot of energy out past 300-400 yard, a .270 could also be in the mix. Granted, it's on the lighter end for elk, but perfect for mulies and white tail if those are the primary goal. If you are proficient with it, there is no question that it is enough with a well placed shot at reasonable ranges. With the proper bullet selection and staying within its limits, the .270 was good enough for Jack O'Conner so it's good enough for me. I think anyone who has ever guided professionally or assisted guests/new hunters would agree that a hunter who is comfortable with and accurate using a lighter caliber is preferable over someone with a belted magnum or too much gun that they don't shoot well.
  16. You wouldn’t go wrong with a 7mag. Maybe a .300 win mag, as another consideration. However, if you want 180 degrees from exotic, then a 30-06 would still be the universal caliber to consider. I’m not an ‘06 guy, but have a couple older guns chambered in it. I honestly can’t recall ever killing big game with one, but I do recognize it as a premier, do-all lower 48 caliber when it comes to load selection, ammo “typically” being everywhere, and appropriate for elk/moose down to white tail.
  17. 6.8 Western by Winchester / Browning is now officially on the market (or at least is being marketed.....no idea if it is actually available anywhere) And go...........
  18. Yep, you don't see that gray on the back and shoulder too often.
  19. About two months after I stopped drinking, out of the blue my assistant commented that my signature had changed and I had decent handwriting - She asked if I was working on it - As if I had a Big Chief tablet and pencil out every night doing handwriting exercises. She didn't know I'd stopped at that point, but it was a pretty clear reminder that when I was drinking those 6-8 dry hours every day at the office were a disaster. I'm thrilled for your partner and for you that he's doing well, and I hope he continues to do what got him to this point. I've got a friend in the program and he always tells me to keep doing what I'm doing and not doing what I'm not doing. Serenity and sobriety are sustainable, but are not continuous without effort.
  20. And those deer hold tight in that corn. I hunted in Pike County one year and the outfitter stressed to me that if I see a combine start to work my field that my hunt wasn't over, but just beginning. Bedded deer would emerge from the stalks ahead of it and then circle back behind to feed. Other deer would come out of the timber and into the field when they heard the combine start......like they rang a dinner bell. I get tickled at midwestern hunters who look down their nose at a Texas corn feeder.
  21. Yeah - He got caught napping and didn't hear the combine coming.
  22. More than you'd want I'm sure....especially if the GW was having a bad day. S-S-S or let mother nature handle it as it appears he won't suffer much longer. Yotes will have him in a week or so. The compassionate thing would be to shot him on sight regardless of season, but the law doesn't always provide for that discretion. On a related matter, nature is resilient. Two years ago I saw an decent Aoudad whose left rear leg was hanging on by a thread above the knee joint. Basically all he had was a ham and a loose appendage dangling. I couldn't figure out what had happened. I was going to shoot him but a bigger ram pushed him away. Fast forward to this year and I see that ram on camera in a feeder pen. I was mildly surprised to see that he'd survived but then realized he was in the pen. That SOB was strong enough to jump in and out over the 4' panel on one rear leg. Not saying that little buck will make it, but sometimes it'll shock you what does and doesn't survive once the injury and infections heal.
  23. They don't need a subpoena; the Feds placed the ad on facebook. Joking...maybe I'm not. These aren't the old oil can filters. These are stainless or titanium in line filters and the ads are not even creatively veiled to pretend to be for fuel There is a case where a guy whose business is tricking out 4x4's got a visit from LEO's because of his purchases of legitimate stainless in-line filters. He documented it and shared it with some media. I seem to recall he was former military and a gun buff, so he figured out exactly what the problem was. Most of these shipments are coming out of china, so there isn't a manufacturer they can raid, but they can figure out who's making the transactions.
  24. I have had good experience with Freedom prior to the market implosion.
  25. We don't shoot spikes unless they are obviously a mature deer. If there is one iota of doubt, we let it walk. We can always shoot it the following year, and it prevents us from shooting yearling spikes. For example, the picture above would be a shoot-on-site. The guidance from our biologist was that since the doe's genetics (not identifiable) are a significant factor in offspring's antler development, "culling" very young bucks was not an efficient management tool - As long as the herd vs. range population was in check. If the pasture is overrun with deer, then reducing the total number is the primary goal, and in doing so you can chose the "inferior" young bucks, but only as part of the process of getting the population to an optimum level. Once bucks get to 3 or 4 years, we can see the obvious bucks that are never going to develop and we try to take the scraggly ones to lessen their impact; primarily on the available food for more desirable deer, but also to remove some of those genetics from the heard as a secondary goal - But, the primary goal is always to get a mouth off the range competing for food. We have witnessed that if we have enough bucks reach 5-6 years AND have adequate food and water, that mother nature takes care of itself with regard to antler development. If, however, the range cannot support the aggregate number of mouths, then no amount of selective culling is going to be effective until the population comes into balance. We strive for (in this order) 1) overall population numbers 2) buck/doe ratio 3) selective "culling" - which unless #1 and #2 are address, does not seem to have any benefit. It kills me when I see a picture of a 2 year old 6-8 point and someone calls it a cull as if that's improving their genetics. Unless they are in a closed environment and have numerous other bucks from the same breeding year with which to compare it, to me that's not a cull; it's just one less buck you'll have reaching maturity and its true potential.
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