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56 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:
26-06 is such a great round. If you handload you can get “close” to the .257 weatherby. Friend has one and it’s all he shoots now. Flat and fast. Not much else you ask for.
Outside of maybe 2-3 hunts where I was playing with a new to me Custom Sako .243, I shoot my 257 wby. Probably 95% of the pigs and deer I've taken in the last decade have been with that wby. But I don't disagree, very close round. I just liked the rifle. And the prize i really was chasing was the .243, but not for that money. I have several .243's and no 25-06, so not the worst thing in the world. Funny I've owned a 6.5-06 for almost a decade as well, but not its easier to get shells for cousin.
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On 1/17/2025 at 8:39 AM, BabaYaga said:
Yeah, I get it. You make the correct point that it's just aesthetics. A sleeve of rounds on the butt stock. Par for the course. It's the skeletonized stock and attachments that put people off. Again, If I was up in the mountains or needed a truck/cabin gun in that caliber. I'd have to give it a look. It's the light and red dot that in my mind make it superior to a classic version. As the old saying goes, can't hit what you can't see. Wolves messing around at night with livestock nearby, or a bear rummaging through the trash. As momma used to say, most bad things happen at night.
It just goes back to using these tools are they are designed, or just looking cool.
While running thru my usual "keeping an eye out for list" the other day, I saw one one of the tacticool Mad Pig rifles for $10,500.
I took a break from my P-gun quest and bought a really nice 25-06 a few weeks ago, but don't have login to surly on my phone anymore. Really nice stock, really, really nice checkering. Has a couple spots on the bluing that will need to be addressed. Missed on a .243 with one of most beautiful maple stocks I've ever seen. I was hoping no one had really seen it (only 2-3 guys going back and forth and still well under priced) then it jumped about $2500 on the last few hours and ended mid 3's. Fucking craziness.
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Hard not to be frustrated but I'm sure he'll figure it out soon (if not already) - that pic is what it's all about. fwiw, been a VERY rough year for ducks.
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18 hours ago, hornmpa96 said:
This is a good discussion. I need to implement the shoot a doe first rule on my ranch. There are too many times when folks shoot their buck and somehow never find a doe to take the rest of the weekend.
Best I've ever seen it work is when you have an area that the bucks don't really care for but the does still come in to eat (near well traveled roads, near camp, etc) I understand you can't really enforce that (nature finds a way), but it seems like more often than not, most of the ranches I've hunted have a "meat stand" or "guest stand" that is tends to have many more does than bucks showing up (typically not prime locations on property). I always try to sneak over to the guest stands a few times for does or culls if I'm really hunting a certain buck that hasn't shown up to my stand yet. As noted above, I really enjoy walking random senderos for does.
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1 hour ago, 686 said:
I like doing mandatory doe shoots on opening weekend. Get them out of the way before the rut.I like that too, but difficult to be blasting early in the season when you've got big boys on the cameras all October, but have yet to show. I like shooting does on little walkabouts, away from the main feeders/stands most.
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Great to see you back around here @ROFL BOX
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1 hour ago, Spaulding Smails said:
Took the kids out this weekend to try to put some meat in the freezer. We had our sights set on knocking down two WT doe. We typically see at least a half dozen doe at every blind at every hunt. Four hunts between Friday PM and Sunday AM. Not a single realistic shot for either my son or my daughter. I sat with my daughter on every hunt. Had a few yearlings come to the feeder a few times. That's it. Saw a whopping total of three mature WT doe. All three were passing through, never stopped and had zero interest in the corn. Had one group of axis doe do the same. My son saw a young WT buck and about a half dozen axis doe that he passed on. He didn't see a single WT doe all weekend.
We did a spot and stalk Sunday after the morning hunt and jumped two groups of doe. The first group was 400+ yds and never stopped. The second group was in the thickest brush on the ranch and we couldn't get a reasonable look. Incredibly frustrating. Not sure if it was the weather, too many acorns or what. Very strange.
This seems like it happens every year. I always tell myself to take them earlier in the season, and every year I end up having to put in a bunch of hunts to grab a couple of doe. I got what I needed this weekend but it was more difficult than a month ago for sure. Don't know if it's real or just a perception for me.
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5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:
I also have to wonder if that’s a product that needs to take that road. Don’t those kind of wide or oversized loads pre-plan their route to be sure there are no issues like narrow lanes or sharp turns, low bridges, or I don’t know hill crests with high point issues?
Unless there's a way to barge it, it's going to go over road or rail. Those towers are too large for rail, even if they did want to deal with the +/- 6 week schedule the rail offers you. Having done (and hated) doing heavy haul for a living for a spell, I can tell you that the rail roads were far and away the most difficult of all entities to deal with. They largely give 0 fucks about what you need to do to cross their tracks (typically removal of the arms/fixed overhead lights), charge out the ass to move them (think 15-20k for a 2 man crew to come swing them in for you to pass in 10 mins, then swing them back) and will try and push railpro's on you at any opportunity. So unless you are with one of the premier heavy haul outfits, most of those guys just do what they need to do as far as the RR crossings go. The only attentive one I ever got was on a haul south of Atlanta out in the middle of nowhere, out of dozens of interactions with several lines. Those towers dont sit on shelves, @CycleTex87 nailed it, someone going to have a lonely foundation on a site somewhere.
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On 11/24/2024 at 6:39 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:
Yeah but @fattyflattie and @BHMCruiser think that’s ok because reasons. The NRA represents gun owners and Donald Trump takes gun rights and the 2nd Amendment very seriously.
Lol. I don't believe that any politicians outside of a few of the congress critters gaf about the 2nd, especially Trump. Their purported support for it is largely just campaign rhetoric. But I'll take someone who'll lie about their support over someone who is openly against the 2nd any day of the week. At least they'd have to squirm if it ever went down.
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5 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:
There's a place similar right off 1 in coco grove. I'm doing my weekly visit later this week and have to check this out.
Also, this.
Couldnt edit. Appears we are talking about the same place. It's loaded with monied Cuban women drinking wine in the middle of the day, every time I've been.
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3 hours ago, G650 said:
So we park and go in, and literally through a gas station store, past the motor oil and the pork rinds, is a doorway to the most majestic wood paneled room with hundreds of bottles of wine.
There's a place similar right off 1 in coco grove. I'm doing my weekly visit later this week and have to check this out.
3 hours ago, Horn Dogg said:Fuck Miami
Also, this.
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On 11/17/2024 at 9:13 AM, troph said:
Change mandated elections are here to stay until one party actually does real and lasting work for the working and middle class. I think Biden was on his way but inflation and not enough time and terrible messaging got in his way.
look I think trans rights are human rights and I’ll not ever change my position but we need to lead with a more populist message for the working and middle class and then things like climate and civil rights are secondary and not forgotten but not at the core of the platform. Education, healthcare, childcare, unions, taxes all have to be messaged well - and we have to run against oligarchs and the political class. Kamala tried to but she was too focused on the disaffected Republican and should have been all over the working and middle class.
Warren, AOC, sanders are the standard bearers and then message the shit out of us vs them, create the messaging around our enemies. Be bold and colorful with language (avoiding messages that promote violence). Our enemies are the billionaires and multi hundred millionaires. Demonize them, don’t take their money per se don’t lock them up but promise enforcement against them (IRS, SEC, etc) and promote benefits for the middle and working classes.
learn from Trump - you MUST identify THEM and US and blame THEM tirelessly.
benefits for the middle and working class?
Children of families under a certain income or first time college? Free.
healthcare bankruptcies? Eliminate for those under a certain income. Single payer would be much better.
taxes? Increase zero tax brackets substantially (not zero SS/medicare), increase highest rates, create new Uber wealthy tax rates, including something like a 25% cap gains rate for those with millions upon millions in cap gains.
Childcare - make it free for those below certain income levels so the second wage earner in a family often the woman isn’t effectively working for a penance.
Social security - above extreme incomes in retirement (say more than $500k in retirement jncome) eliminate SS benefits. Probably a drop in the bucket but it would message well.
unions - we need more of them, plain and simple. Labor has to be able to negotiate with leverage against the oligarchs. Promote them with improved legislation.
Abortion is likely a dead issue - voters are voting for republicans and for voter led initiatives to make abortion legal in their red states (not all).We MUST create an US versus THEM approach and beat it into the populace. Without it, we will continually win and lose in change elections as the working and middle classes vacillate between the parties.
Your entire plan is building a bigger and better free shit army? Even don't have a pot to piss in poor people don't want to be associated with poor people. Piss poor rural red voters out front should have told you.
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1 minute ago, BurntEyes said:
So, I'm wrong in my perception that having non-party line ideas that fall on both sides of the teams is openly accepted?
No one here loves everything the side they vote for does. But if you chose a side, then yes you may or may not be shouted down, called names, and ridiculed from the board. Last 8 years of CR out front should have told you.
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5 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:
Should Harris have picked Shapiro? What did Walz bring in retrospect?
The lulz?
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On 11/4/2024 at 9:36 AM, Incredulity said:
i'm 6'4".. call it what you will but I would be repulsed by having to crane my neck back to kiss a woman.
Don't think its a problem kissing where he was, though.
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1 hour ago, ztejas said:
But - if we're going to be adults about it - we all know that Texas and Rice do a lot more to break barriers and challenge the status quo than aggy ever has or ever will.
I don’t know, maroon carrots and false claims of turning mercury to gold are rather substantial achievements.
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37 minutes ago, ztejas said:
Yeah this was my first thought. A ton of kids going into O&G, too.
This drives a lot of it. But I’ve yet to meet a Rice grad that wasn’t doing very well.
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Here’s another way to look at it. There’s two I’d love for my kids to attend. There’s a third where I’d rather them become a fucking lawn technician than attend.
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49 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
In other words, as I read Lonesome Dove, I had a whole movie playing out in my head that - if i had any artistic skill - I could have sketched out in detail.
I can think of a few parts I’ve detailed in my head since the first day I picked it up…
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41 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:
You may be underestimating the amount of time that you'll spend putting them back up after the hogs knock them down.
I’ve had real good luck with my pens. But those fuckers have tried for sure.
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Fwd:fwd:fwd: litter boxes in classrooms. This is the version for the other side.
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9 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
According to that link, 16% of Democrats approve of Ted. Shows you how much of the electorate is uninformed. I don't understand what criteria some use in these polls. "Uh, I'm alive so I guess my senator is doing a good job."
Not a chance that’s correct. Doubtful 16% of Texas pubs like Cruz.
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20 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:
Great car. Does it also come with knee high tube socks, jorts, and a Corvette hat?
If it doesn’t I’m out.
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Damn that’s nice. Wife would not be amused though.
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