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Reagan1k

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  1. That’s wonderful. My experience is that I can’t think my way to recovery from the disease. As Bear said, my mind is a scary place. It’s not a mental exercise. Recovery comes from taking ACTIONS contrary to our mental state. I had a mind that was trying to kill me (in my mind is the disease) and a body that wouldn’t die. Recovery comes through taking actions contradictory to ever mental thought and want I have. I can’t think my way to recovery and right living. I must ACT my way into right living. My advice to all newcomers is to save yourself a lot of heartache and misery by being smart enough to be dumb enough to just do what your sponsor says and take the actions as fast as you can regardless of how you “feel” or how ridiculous those actions may seem. You can Recover from this is you take the actions. Godspeed Zach. You can recover!
  2. The spent brass on the ground begs the question of what kind of snake you shot (at) previously.
  3. This reminds me of how 4 year old children fight incessantly over a meaningless toy. If one of them ever says fine, you can have it, almost simultaneously the other one says they don't want it anymore.
  4. I have this as well. Use it often, sometimes for the recipes and sometimes just to get ideas.
  5. Powerful thoughts from Twice. Well said. My bottom line is that all I can control are my actions and reactions to events surrounding me. When problems come up, I can work on the problem or I can work on me. The problems never get any better when I bear down on them. What does get better, if and when I choose to let go, are my actions and reactions. I can't re-hit any shot I've already taken and sometimes even my best shots land in a divot through no fault of my own, but I can do the next right action based on where I find myself in this exact moment. I'm so far from perfect at it, but when I'm mindful of it good things happen. Bad things happen too, but I can find myself in less dis-ease (disease) if I'm focused on right here and right now. For me, it was little things at first. I'd get wound up over politics and social drama. My sponsor suggested that I quit listening to political radio and stop watching the 24 hour news cycle. In short order, the political turmoil seemed to improve. Intellectually I knew it was still going on, but it didn't affect me as much and seemed to be better when I didn't allow my mind to participate in something over which I had no control. Most of my life's problems die of neglect. The book says when I am disturbed, something is wrong with me. That's a tough pill to swallow at first but it becomes more palatable and eventually it becomes freeing when I look inward instead of outward. What am I scared of? What am I worried about losing or not getting? Am I OK, right here and right now? Most of the time I suck at it, but I'm at least mindful and when the gut tightens enough, I'll say "oh yeah....this feeling is my own doing". The event or circumstance is not my doing but the reaction to it is. If I start whining to my sponsor he tends to remind me that if I find myself in a world full of assholes and confrontations, then I'm the common denominator in each equation.
  6. Agreed. Cannot stomach it. Smells / tastes like a bait bucket to me.
  7. Williams is the call in the Houston area.....but I won't keep repeating myself like Goofy. Drove my self there and back after the procedure - That was 90 miles each way at the time. No scalpel, no stitch, didn't take a pill. Barely sore - went to work the next day. Cannot fathom going through more pain, risk complications, and a undergo a bigger ordeal when it isn't medically necessary to get the same result.
  8. I do this with a Dish "Hopper". I turn it on when I know we'll be out there and off in the months I know I won't go. Works fine. Looks like a football helmet without a face mask. Just set it out on a cinder block and run coax from it to the receiver. Doesn't even need power to the unit. When I leave I throw it back in the box and stick it inside the cabin.
  9. Who made it? What's it weigh?
  10. I’m glad you’re back. The obsession of the mind is a bitch. I only speak from my experience, but the freedom doesn’t come from the meetings. They are vital and they help, but the freedom from the mental obsession come from working the steps with a sponsor and then working with others. The originators of this way of life didn’t have meetings, and certainly not like we do. They had each other and the steps which they did with haste. My personal observation is that my sponsees who slip up are all “fixin to” work the steps where as my guys who dive into the process right away seldom if ever consider drinking and when they do they have the power to let that thought pass. I pray nothing but the best for you. You CAN stay sober one day at a time... you’ve already done it. Just keep adding days and grab some power through the steps.
  11. Same - but they'd also never heard of anyone wanting to make a roux with gluten free flour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  12. I'm not suggesting this is a good idea or not, but if your GF roux tastes OK in the gumbo, but the color is too pale for your liking, you could change the appearance by gradually adding some Kitchen Bouquet to it, and it too is GF. Flavors are mild. Now pardon me while I run out the the cemetery and roll my grandmother back over.
  13. So is that basically a 6.8 variant but using standard mags and BCGs? I have to say I don't recall ever seeing that which is a blessing for my pocketbook. Thats' the only thing that has kept me from the 6.8 previously.
  14. I don't disagree. And the more I think about it or we banter on Surly, the more I think the 6mm ARC is going to be successful. The sheer number of ar15 platforms (compared to ar10's) in the hands of hunters / shooters means that this one will grab some traction due to the love and respect of the .243 caliber. So many more people have ar15 lowers on which they can slap an upper to fire a pill they're already partial to that it will overtake the 6.5 Grendel in short order IMO. Then let someone make a 16" - 18" micro action bolt carbine in 6mm ARC and slap a 1x6 or 1x8 and you've got a hellua duo for someone that wants a hunting AR and bolt gun in the same caliber. Guess I need to make some room. I think I've talked myself into another caliber.
  15. The 6mm Creedmoor is your huckleberry! https://www.wilsoncombat.com/ar-10-tactical-hunter/ https://www.savagearms.com/content?p=firearms&a=product_summary&s=22973
  16. That's why I'm fairly interested in the 6mm ARC even though I like the 6.5 Grendel (AR15) and have a 6.5 Creedmoor (AR10). The 6mm / .243 projectile is really the sweet spot for convergence of ballistics and terminal performance. Being able to use the AR15 platform for a ".243" rather than the heavier AR10 which was previously available for most 6mm/.243 chamberings (Rock River Arms makes or made a pretty sweet .243 AR10 hunter for a while) is compelling. I love my AR10's but they are a load to haul around if not shooting at the range.
  17. Most banks have a no-fee youth account they set up for minors tied to your main account. They can open a debit card account and even tie it to a savings account (separate from your accounts, but under your umbrella). Just call or go into a local branch of your Credit Union or bank.
  18. I posted some of the release announcements up thread somewhere. It is interesting....for no other reason than with Hornady behind it it will likely become more mainstream. I love the 6mm round for medium sized game if for no other reason that I've shot countless numbers with a .243. I've always wanted a .243 chambered AR, but they require an AR10 receiver to shoot standard rounds, where this one offers a .243 in an AR15 platform which means lighter weight, more compatibility among mfgs of uppers and lowers, etc. As someone else said on a board I follow.....its what the 6.5 Grendel should have been. And I love my 6.5Gren so why not. I'm sure I'll end up with an upper at least as a start, but I'm a whore so that's a pretty low bar as for an endorsement.
  19. I have 3 safes worth of guns. Not sure in wanna haul all that stuff upstairs. I'd think about what friends you have that own a business and have some space inside. Unused room, storage area, etc. and pay them what the storage unit would cost to let you store the safes there. No way I'd put my own safes in a storage unit.....and I have some storage units in a place that is well maintained and secure. I'll trust them with a lot of stuff but not 3 safes full of firearms.
  20. Get a little hand grinder and take it down to a smooth raw finish. Re-season and go.
  21. Not to be a smartass, but my recipe Is to make a gumbo using venison sausage instead of andouille. 2 legs, 4 legs, no legs- gumbo doesn’t care.
  22. Hogs shrugging off a 5.56 is what I like. They shrug for a couple hundred yards until they become buzzard food and I don’t have to drag them off.
  23. I took a guitar class way back in college. After several classes and some instruction during office hours, the prof told me he didn't want to discourage me but it was likely that I would never play a chord, he'd pass me on pass/fail, and that I didn't have to come back unless I simply wanted to. I think he was relived when I never stepped foot back in the building.
  24. "Did he hit you?" love that question.
  25. True, but the even the mere fact he was still in the game at 83 gives me some hope.
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