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fattyflattie

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  1. lol wut. St. Pius and Strake (among others) are top 20 most diverse. Maybe some shit "private schools" fall that way, but the ones that play school are diverse. Are we talking actual private/prep schools here or middle of the mall shit? https://www.niche.com/k12/search/most-diverse-private-schools/m/houston-metro-area/
  2. Figured you'd be all cried out this week. Wipe those tears away honey, it's all going to be ok.
  3. Refinishing affects purist collector value. But I wouldn’t even think twice. Whether it’s pre-Garcia, spotter, finnbear, deluxe, etc matters much more. But since you’re going to hang onto it forever, irrelevant. There was a time when wood just wouldn’t have the accuracy of fiberglass, but with stabilized stocks, alum bedding, and others, that’s no longer the case. I don’t disagree with Shank that it’s not the “important” part of the equation, but there’s a hell of a difference between holding a gorgeous piece of hand carved wood. I’m sure H&H and Westley Richards could nail the fiberglass thing, but… As far as dents and dings telling a story. Not untrue. But exterior surface rust doesn’t hurt accuracy or function either, and no one not wiping their bluing down after a wet jaunt. Would say that’s just personal preference. I would never fix the dents and dings in the guns my G-G-grandfather passed down. But I’ve certainly fixed the checkering I dinged on one of mine, and had some dents pulled after an unfortunate accident (not mine ) when I let someone check one out for a min. I’m not advocating dragging a Blaser onto a mountain trip, but to and from the blind isn’t that hard to keep them unscathed imo.
  4. Don’t threaten me with a good time. We don’t send enough care packages to our nations most disgraceful, imo.
  5. They should have murdered him after he held a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly, while robbing and assaulting her years before. Lasted far too long on this earth, and I hope they didn’t bury him in a sweater. I saw someone had mailed a bag of dog shit to Babbitts family, as her remains. I’m sad that didn’t happen to that POS.
  6. That really sucks to hear. I’ve only bought a few “new” bolt actions in the last 20 years, but have stacked the safe with Weatherby, Sako, and Winchesters from the 50’s and 60’s. Every one of them, to the rifle, has absolute silky actions. I haven’t found the perfect load for each of them, but the ones I’ve worked up have all been shooters (sub MOA 5 shot groups) Some love regular old core lokt and power points, some needed something more bespoke, but that happens with off the shelf rifles, too. Such is the pursuit of one jagged hole. My 70’s have been the most difficult, for sure. 1 MOA for them is the goal *several had already had blueprint and barrel work done. My opinion, and it’s only worth what you’re paying for it, lose the break. Get a can, get a really good pad, hell wear one of the gel pads. A proper fitting stock goes a long way. I’ve always been a bit recoil adverse, but I don’t really get bothered until a bit past a 300WM. I’ve got a little .308 that hurts me more than most of my wbys, the gun absolutely matters.
  7. No, but it did draw a pretty hearty chuckle. Have seen it now with Rush, Floyd, and Babbitt and has yet to not deliver.
  8. Also works. Someone here was appalled a few weeks ago when a txaggy screenshot with the Floyd version was posted.
  9. If you can’t beat them, try and imitate them. Pretty sure freshwater doesn’t just take scraps, though.
  10. Wait, a borrowed George Floyd joke getting pos rep on Surl? #bothsides indeed.
  11. Seriously. I can only post so many lines from the song.
  12. That depends, are we doing Charlotte Plummers or watching the belt sander races?
  13. Is that what you came up with after reading those sentences? Not an explanation of why it could be labeled as such? Interesting look at seeing what you want to.
  14. And yet, we are afforded the same vote. Womp.
  15. Let me guess. Another former republican who still doesn't like to be called a Democrat?
  16. Agreed. I used to have manage a group of young engineers (most were kind of weird and nerdy, gamer types). Very smart, kind kids. One day one overhears me talking to another guy about hunting, and we get to talking guns. Turns out, a bunch of them were big AR guys. They would tinker with them over and over, changing them up, etc. But the more I spoke with them, they didn't really even enjoy shooting. Not a single one hunted, no one shot clays, none of them grew up in families that had firearms or hunted. They just loved the mechanics of, in particular, the AR, and having something in the house made them feel safer. Was very eye opening, and they didn't have a clue when I was telling me about all the pre-64's I had been stacking away, or why I was trying to score this awesome old Superposed. They didn't have a clue those even existed. They were bored with the lack of moving parts in my bolt guns. A Ruger 1 would of mind melted them. An entire generation of kids that were in diapers when the AWB sunsetted.
  17. Kids that didnt get into UT thread ----------> You can put your fishcamp and intro to aggy vids there.
  18. There isn’t much better than a massive 8. Wow. Amazing how a dude like that just “shows up”. Really makes you wonder what rarely comes out to be seen
  19. I wouldn't give af if both were Thanos'd tomorrow. I used Fox as the example from the right. You can convince yourself however you want to feel better about what the political bent and readership of the NYT is. I couldn't care what conclusion you draw from that exercise either.
  20. Is it? When I moved to Houston 15 years ago American shooting center (huge range, clays, long range, etc) was a bunch of guys that look like me (now). I go now and on a Tuesday afternoon and its 50+ Asian men with nothing but tactical SA rifles, and maybe 5 old white dudes working on some handloads. Every. Single. Time. Pistol range about 80% Asian and Hispanic guys that was 90+% white guys from Katy a few years ago. The entire clay section still has the same demographics, along with the 200-600yd (or whatever it is now) long range stuff. Mostly middle aged professionals that trend white male, although there is more women showing up at the 5 stands everyday (including my wife) So, while it seems the tacticool trend bothers you, both sales and what's at the range seems to be getting more and more mainstream. Shit, I see just as many chassis rifles as I do wood stocked hunting rifles. Good luck seeing anything with custom exhibition wood on the rifle range, maybe 1 out of 10 trips - it's typically mine that some old guy will come ask to take a look at. Chassis rifles are "tacticool". No one is committing crimes with them. Why is precision shooting tactical? Are you yearning to go back to the 1.5 MOA out of the box model 70's of our youth? As long as it can hit a dinner plate, remember that? I'm looking at replacing some shot out barrels on my hunting rifles with a carbon fiber barrel. Is that tactical, or just modern tech. Remember when you didn't know anyone that hunted with an AR? Forget about shooting sounders out of helicopters for a moment. 90% of the kids you see on facebook next to scraggly spike or fork horn have a little 556 with the stock completely collapsed, and a can on the end in the pic. Turns out super ergonomic (will fit kid 1, 2, and 3 perfectly with the pull of a lever), affordable, indestructible, low recoil rifles are popular with people with small kids. Oh and I can make it where their little ears are protected too, sign me the fuck up. No more trying to unfuck a flinch for a decade after handing your 10 yo dad's '06 because you want to get your kid involved in hunting. Now, lets talk about mowing down sounders. It's fun af. Does it bother you that people enjoy that? First time ownership of firearms is record breaking year after year, and across every demographic. I would bet both aisles are well represented in that rainbow coalition demographic spread. Prices are up year after year due to demand. Exciting new wildcat rounds showing up every other year. All of that screams mainstream, and I'll bet dollars to donuts those first timers aren't grabbing some easily accessible plain walnut ADL, and certainly not some AAA Claro adorned Blaser. Doesn't bother me in the least. Less competition for what I personally like to fill my safe with.
  21. Thank you for the explanation. No offense, but you can see the reasoning for the concern. There's lots of shit aggy can aggy up that doesn't affect the world, nuke capabilities near the very bottom of the list.
  22. I've chased a bunch of them. This was an old 461 sako. I'm not in a hurry, looking for the right one. And there out there, but getting tougher by the day it seems to get the condition I'm hunting.
  23. I missed that or lost interest too quickly. Completely tracks though. Funny.
  24. Assuming you weren't in the thread, that's pretty much what happened. Dumb but balanced article about UT and Bama fielding "the best teams money can buy" that goes into their respective use of NIL (as if 3 of the 4 teams they discussed aren't the bluest of bloods or anything). Some poster says NYT sucks, not reading that (sensitive #1). Then NYT stans come in football board negging posters (sensitive #2, 3,4) Then back and forth (snowflakes abound on new years!!!!1!) Second thread gets created about it days later to call other side snowflakes. Fin. The point is, that board has spoken loud and clear there is a super fucking thin line on what it will take accept in terms of political posting. The football board feel CR about how 9.95 feels about the football board. Notwelcomehere.forrest.gif
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