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  1. And with the pitch speed conversion charts, is the larger diameter and lower density of the softball a significant factor in how much it slows down in flight due to air resistance, over its shorter time of flight?
    a baseball loses like 5 mph from out of hand to the plate. (And some of the increase in baseball pitch speed is due to moving the measurement from near the plate to near the release point)

    The internet says 4-6mph velocity reduction between pitcher and catcher for a softball. The bigger, lower density softball slows down faster, but traveling a shorter distance vs. baseball; results washout to be about the same.
  2. they invented the motherfucker
    and there are 2 stores remaining: borger & monahans

    It’s been a few years, but the Monahans location was quite serviceable for the area and if memory serves, it was the best restaurant in town.
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  3. I did some turkey hunting the last two weekends. Tried to get my 15yo daughter on a Jake this AM but it wasn’t to be.

    Cut a new lane and installed a backstop at the ranch where I can shoot 785 yards. Rang the steel on the first shot which was cool.

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    Steel through phone skope:

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    I shot an NRL Hunter match about a month ago in Brownfield. Tons of fun and really stepped my long range game up.

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  4. When I’m hunting in a remote area (no cell signal and/or hours for an ambulance), I always carry a tourniquet. I don’t worry too much about band aids /blisters, etc. But fractures resulting in ruptured arteries or an incidental GSW to a limb that results in bleeding out are catastrophic problems that I’d like to have a solution for.

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  5. I put 20 rounds through my 375 last weekend. I have decent reloading experience with it and have been hunting with it several times over the last 6 years. I’m actually looking at doing a new 375 rifle build in another year or so. There’s options beyond Winchester I can list if you’re interested, and I’m at your service if you have any questions. Africahunting.com is also a great resource.

  6. I agree with the above, but the biggest issue are the neighbors. I have a very healthy population on my place. The neighbors basically believe in the "if it's brown it's down." We had up to 3 doe on my place that dropped twins every year. Throught the last few years all but one has been shot by a neighbor. I talked to the guys I think are doing it and they swear they wouldn't shoot a doe with twins. They are the only ones that could have shot them imo. They don't travel far. It is just a tough environment hunting on these smaller places. 
     
    With that said, I ordered a timed protein feeder and plan to feed some going forward. So I guess I am a hypocrite?  

    Have the protein timed to open during times when hunters are in blinds and hopefully the deer will be at your place getting a snack instead of getting shot at the neighbor’s.
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  7. I am not sure how much of an impact protein will have on a 150 ac low fence place...



    My experience: my folks bought 180 acres low fence about 7 years ago. It had not been hunted for about five years prior. It had a good number of nice framed eight pointers but nothing beyond eight points. We started feeding protein (timed, not 100% year-round) and putting in fall/winter food plots and the next year we had 9 pointers, the year after that we had 10 pointers. Two years ago we had a small framed 14 point, and other nice bucks. We have mostly decent neighbors that don’t shoot everything that walks, but the nutrition worked. Now we have too many does and my dad won’t let me get the doe numbers down to correct proportions, which definitely can also become an issue IMO reducing your buck’s quality. We only had one 9 point and maybe one 10 point this year. Here’s a good one from a few years back:

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  8. I wish federal would spend this bandwidth on grendel ammo and not another cartridge. They did this shit during Covid with thirty super carry which was a fucking dud.

    The PRC line is legit. This doesn’t appear to be.

    I’ll be at shot if you want me to stop by their booth and get some answers.

    For Federal being such a big manufacturer, they have been almost an afterthought in the precision / higher end rifle cartridge market. The honest feedback Federal needs to hear is this IMO: “Hornady stubbed their toe with the 7PRC by not being able to source enough Reloader 26 powder to meet demand. They had to drop down to different powders at lower velocities, which disappointed a lot of adopters of the 7 PRC. That said, if handloaders or alternate suppliers had Reloader 26 available (like Federal did) they were able to generate the specified velocity (3000fps with a 175ELDX from a 26” barrel) and accuracy (sub MOA) that Hornady advertised.

    Regarding the 7 Backcountry: If Federal doesn’t have tight enough QC regarding this high-pressure ammunition to keep their velocity standard deviations for a normal shot string (6-10) below ~25ft./s and maximum velocity spreads below ~60 ft./s; this cartridge will be dead on arrival. The long range hunting and shooting community are very detail oriented, shoot with chronos and they will not tolerate inconsistent ammunition. So if there’s a problem, Federal needs to get it fixed immediately and not send out inconsistent product.”

    The Allterra video laid it out really well: basically it doesn’t really matter if the bullet from the 7 backcountry has X inches less drop and more velo than the 7 PRC at 800 yards; if the ammo won’t shoot sub MOA, you’re going to fucking miss a lot, and people will not tolerate that. Hornady understood this and publicly said “we had to source different powder and slow the velo down to keep the accuracy, which is the highest priority”.

    I assume if you told a Federal guy this they would react as though you’re telling them their baby is ugly, but that’s the truth IMO.
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  9. If it’s a timed feeder, the bucks may monopolize the feed. For better antler and body growth, you want the feed to help the health of the entire herd. In order to minimize your time, I would get the largest feeder that you’re comfortable putting out there. As long as the feeder doesn’t allow rain into the feed, the protein will stay good for a long time.


    These are all good points to consider. Our bucks don’t dominate the feeders, as I believe we have too many does. The fawns stand with the does and pick up the protein that falls to the ground at our place. It looks like this a lot:

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  10. [mention=179]Anastasis[/mention] might holler at Mitch at Krivoman. His stuff is very well thought of on the bow hunting forum I hang out on. He used to be in Georgetown but I think he moved to Round Rock or Cedar Park. He has blinds and feeders as well as protein feeders.
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    I have two of the Hammer timed protein heads on my protein feeders (the units that Krivoman uses), and I have had good luck with them with the exception of some very dry low protein feed we got once that tended to clog up the drop pipe, other than that, good reliability.
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  11. Also, according to Shoot2Hunt, RCBS has paused tooling development for reloading dies as the steel casings are so hard it takes about 12 passes through dies to reload. :(

    So probably a non-reloadable cartridge between that and Federal I believe said the powder they’re using isn’t commercially available.

  12. I’m one of the target customers for Federal with this 7 Backcountry and I was really intrigued at first ( 7 PRC velocity from a 16-20” barrel vs a 24-26”), but one of the included rifle builders (Allterra) showed that the accuracy / consistent velocity isn’t there with the 7 Backcountry ammo that they’ve shot. Yikes, and embarrassing for Federal. Feel free to skip forward to the range session in this video:

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  13. @Anastasis what county is your place in? What is the soil type that the coastal field is growing in? The reason I ask is that fall overseeding some of that coastal field might be a great option for you. Happy to discuss that more, but for protein supplement, cottonseed or protein pellets can work great. Last I checked, they were about the same price in my area (by weight). I’ve seen some places feed both, which isn’t a terrible option either.

    Cotton seed can be fed pretty simply by just dumping it in a ring of wire net that is inside a barbed wire feed pen and secured in place with a t-post. Obviously it gets wet in the rain, but it doesn’t seem to matter. If you don’t want it wet, there are feeders available that keep it dry, or you could put something over the wire net ring.

    Alfalfa bales can also be fed simply in a similar manner, but are about the same cost as protein pellets by weight the last time I checked in my area.

    I started feeding pellet protein almost twenty years ago, and I like timed protein feeders that will allow you to control time of access to the protein and quantity of consumption. Feeding in the winter through spring green up is great and then during a hot dry summer feeding will help with body condition and antler development. Free choice protein feeders are less expensive, but you can go through a lot of protein really fast and it can get fatiguing to the wallet and the psyche feeding that much protein to low fence deer.

    I really like All Seasons feeders:

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  14. Yeah shooting does is all work / no fun. The best way is to make it more of a work hard / play hard weekend. Like “pull the trigger on a doe and then come back to the camp and grab a beer and watch the game while the steaks cook”. Also it helps to have some young guys out who will help clean a bunch of deer.

  15. Yep.  I think I need to change my strategy next year and get the doe out of the way early.  It seems like every hunt I had from November 1 through Christmas was in shorts and a t-shirt, though.  I loathe cleaning and skinning deer when I'm sweating my ass off.  

    I like doing mandatory doe shoots on opening weekend. Get them out of the way before the rut.
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