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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. "So I left my phone in the fridge for like 15 minutes and now it's foggy"
  2. Some of greatest leaps in evolution come from near extinction level events, so in a way we are just helping the human race and all the other winners evolve into greater excellence.
  3. Yeah, I'm 37, but I hate watching any type of video on my phone, especially if there are people around. If I'm trying to figure out how to do something, give text and some pictures to go along with it instead of a video. Especially if I need to filter through irrelevant information just to find what I need.
  4. Maybe he was swallowed by the dragon and is waiting to bust out Boba Fett style?
  5. While it was slow most of the the time, the payoff was probably worth it. They've managed to set us up for quite a ride, even if they took their time doing it. I just hope they are able to channel the first few seasons of GOT instead of the last few in what comes next. Binging this would have been better given the slow buildup they went with.
  6. As a side note, the new hunting pouch is I've been working on is pretty much done, and the powder horn to go with it is coming along nicely. The hunting pouch is loosely based on the pouch worn by Stephen F. Austin in this portrait painted during his 1833 trip to Mexico City. His pouch looks to be made from bobcat or possibly Mexican Jaguar (which likely had a much more extensive range during those times). Not having access to those furs in historically based tanning methods, I've made mine out of deer from the first deer I ever killed which I had the presence of mind to tan using a method that was pretty similar to methods available to settlers at the time. The horn is a Southern banded horn style that comes from North Carolina, where some of my ancestors from the Isaacks family who settled in Texas before the revolution hailed from before they came to Texas. If my research is correct, my great some odd grandmother died during the Runaway Scrape. While I can't find evidence of any direct ancestors fighting in the revolution, there were at least two lines of them who made it here and became Mexicans. The hunting pouch was made with materials and methods as close to accurate as possible to those that would have been available to the settlers of early Texas, and while I've cheated and used a modern drill for the powderhorn, it has so far been otherwise been constructed using only hand tools, and I will be using historically accurate methods such as traditional cuttler's resin to finish it out.
  7. Got out yesterday and spent the afternoon trying to develop loads for my muzzleloaders. My .54 Caplock Lyman Great Plains Rifle had a crack through the lock area that I had glued, but not only did the glue not hold, but the crack got worse. I guess a new stock would be a fun project to work on. Shot all afternoon and finally was able to get my .50 flintlock Pedersoli Scout to give a goof enough group for deer out to 100 yards. Turns out it was shooting to the right and I had to drift the front sight to get it on target. I thought I was just flinching bad from not being used to a flintlock, but after my lock got good and dirty and my flints got good and dull, I had enough flashes in the pan and times where the pan failed to ignite to figure out that I wasn't flinching anymore if I ever was. I probably still need to work on follow through, however. A bit dirty. Good enough.
  8. To me, my favorite part of hunting is being out in nature and having the time to take it all in and watch stuff like that. It's better than just straight up hiking because you don't really have to be anywhere or make it to a specific campsite before dark or anything like that. You just take your time slowly stalking through the woods and watching everything that is going on around you. If you get a shot at whatever game you are chasing that is just icing on the cake.
  9. Ah, the Crosman 760. Was the BB gun I cut my teeth on back in the day. I learned to shoot using that little bugger, and I don't recall ever treating it as anything other than a fully functioning firearm. Unfortunately something broke on it, so 13 or so old me decided to take it apart and fix it. I ended up with a bunch of useless parts, but I did gain a bit of knowledge about how it worked. I took a lot of stuff apart after it quit working back in the day and learned how a lot of it worked. Most of it never worked again, but I did learn to salvage parts (especially electric motors) for my own experiments.
  10. Should have left a foreign passport and a couple copies of Sims on the ocean floor.
  11. I have an HEB 27 miles away and one 62 miles away.
  12. The barrel is literally a piece of pipe that I electrochemically machined using jigs that you make with your 3D printer. I'm pretty sure they don't live in the stone age.
  13. Nope. Look up the FGC-9.
  14. No disagreement that they were better. I just enjoyed this one more for whatever reason.
  15. There should be a pop up that asks you if you are sure you want to enter the cloak room and get ad aids on mobile. I accidentally clicked on it and feel like I need to Google the suicide hotline.
  16. I thought the ending fit the show pretty well. I need to go back and watch the first episode again to see if it was as bad as I remember, but I'm probably too lazy. I'm glad I didn't give up on it though. I think it might have been the most enjoyable of the Marvel series on Disney+.
  17. Bear grease apparently makes great patch lube for muzzleloaders and all kinds of other stuff. There's even records of pioneers felting the fur, along with raccoon fur to make hats out of.
  18. Oh, ok. I guess there has been so much going on and this thread is moving so fast that it's just hard to keep up with. But good for Egypt voting for the good guys when stuff that was supposed to be sent to them was sent to Ukrain instead. Seriously, we need to remember the good stuff these smaller nations that don't have our resources do for the cause even when it seems like something trivial to us.
  19. Didn't Egypt vote with Russia or abstain in one of the recent UN votes? I wonder if this had something to do with it.
  20. He'll probably be dead next year whether or not you shoot him. I'd save my tag.
  21. I like where they are going with this, however the first episode was terrible and I only kept watching because I had nothing better to watch. I'm glad I did, because this is a nice break from overly superheroey stuff.
  22. I wasn't aware that dogs could be foreign exchange students. I guess even pets want to go to our obedience schools.
  23. A true megalomaniac would deny he is a megalomaniac.
  24. Since you didn't throw a "(no pics)" into your post, I believe Surly bylaws require you to furnish one.
  25. I have a few boxes of their ammo in my safe. On one hand, I wish I had more, as every box could be ammo that they might have for their troops, but on the other hand, that ammo provided them with with money to wage this war and they probably wouldn't have made as much if not for the American market. Biden (not trying to get cloaks here, just stating actual facts) put sanctions on on imports of Russian ammo for poisoning foreign folks or something like that, which was something he had the authority to do under some act or somesuch. It didn't sit well with a lot of folks because Russian ammo has usually been the cheapest plinking ammo out there and they felt like it was just a way for him to attack gun owners. I wonder if there was any intel about Putler's plans that actually influenced that decision.
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