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  1. I’m not a duck hunter, but what does the forecast look like for your hunt dates and how old is the kid?
  2. Nice! What did you shoot it with? Great colors on those antlers.
  3. The water was a brisk 56, but with air temps in the high 70s we had a nice afternoon yesterday:
  4. I put a friend onto one of my target bucks this morning, I have pics of him going back to 2016, aged at 6 this year: Tomorrow morning I’ll go out for myself, saw a ton of bucks today, really a great year at our place. Protein and food plotting regimen really showing results after 3-4 years.
  5. I posted about this gun in the Gun Owner’s thread a few months back. I saw it and thought I had it bought (for $750), but then I was told they sold it to someone else. I was let down and forgot about it for about a month, but out of curiosity, I checked with the gun shop and the guy they were holding it for hadn’t come to pick it up, so I was back in business. It’s a Flaig’s custom gun. FN Mauser action, Douglas barrel. Great, light trigger. Custom Flaig’s Circassian stock. Topped with a vintage Leupold VariX III 2-7 that I’ll probably replace at some point, but it’s definitely functional as is. Very light, shoulders quickly. Shoots easy off sticks, kicks a little off the bench. I’ll put a better recoil pad on and maybe a mercury recoil reducer in the stock at some point that will make it more fun off the bench. I have another Flaig’s custom in 375 Weatherby that I’ve posted about a fair amount, so this gun makes the start of a little custom gun collection for me. Flaig’s was an old-time German gunsmith in Pennsylvania that closed 30+ years ago. They were renowned for craftsmanship. I like modern firearms and all, but there’s nothing quite like an old time custom gunsmith’s workshop. I frequented several as a kid, and even now, remembering watching master smiths at their work amongst the smell of oiled machine steel, oiled walnut and gunpowder brings nostalgia flooding back. Hopefully we don’t lose all those special places where boys could stare wide-eyed at all of the wonderful creations built by the hands of men, listen, and learn.
  6. Got 8” of rain after seeding my plots, was worried they might have washed out, but germination looking good: Did a little shooting with this older custom gun I picked up a little while back, looking forward to some time in the blind.
  7. Our secondary was bad, we couldn’t tackle the “mobile” quarterback, (same as it ever was (the last few years)). Combine that with Sam’s reduced accuracy and our inability to implement a consistent running game and we lose. The calls that could have gone either way broke pretty evenly. (E.g bad offsides call on Texas on the punt; Texas not penalized for holding in the endzone, etc.)
  8. That’s what we use; works great to drive around spraying prickly pear, and if you’re burning brush, load the sprayer up with plain water and it works well to put out any stray grass fires.
  9. A quick CSB: Our Professional Hunter was driving us back from the ranch to Joburg after our hunt, and we’re on a road about like 281 west of Austin. We come around a curve and there are about 20 baboons lazily sitting in the middle of the road ahead. As we get to about 1/8 mile from the animals, the PH floors the accelerator. We’re all like WTF/ in disbelief, but the baboons slowly start to split up and head to the shoulder. The PH then steers toward(!) a group of them (we’re all thinking this is going to be a huge mess and I hope we don’t roll the truck), but they scatter a few seconds before we pass by at 90-100mph. The PH then explains that it is “impossible” to hit a baboon; they always get out of the way. He actually said they tried it in a friend’s Nissan GTR at ~150mph and still couldn’t hit them. (These guys are obviously kinda adrenaline junkies) Africa; it’s like a whole other country.
  10. They are worse than hogs. They climb fences and like to tear the thatched roofs off houses. There are tons of them. Several ranchers I met shoot every one they see.
  11. Cabo, I’m sure you know this, but just in case not, if you cut mesquites with the saw, you’ll need to spray the stump with Remedy or something similar to kill the stump or it comes back as a pissed off bush. I put in my food plots today with my get-r-dun all-in-one setup.
  12. How many acres did you plant and what proportion is that to your place; and how did you plant (fertilize, disk, throw seed, drag?)? I've been food plotting for about 10 years on various places. In my experience, its all about soil prep and planting methods/techniques; so if your results aren't what you hoped, don't get discouraged, just look at what you could be doing differently on your technique and implement that next time.
  13. Where about is your place? I have had good results with Turner Seed mix, but it’s more expensive than BWI and harder to find. I wish I could have planted last week, hopefully this week.
  14. Nice, I’ve never seen a lefty hammer gun.
  15. Nice! Did you flip the pic or is the hammer on the left side of that rifle
  16. A confluence of: new business theories of Planned Obsolescence, Chinese manufacturing, Gub’mint energy efficiency standards, EPA taking phosphates out of detergent (iirc). We wore a mid/high level GE out in 4 years, and it didn’t clean great. Went with high end Kitchen Aid (has motorized nozzle system) about 3 years ago and it cleans really well, no problems. Also, you have to use the good detergent in the little packets, the big box of cascade sucks since they took the phosphates out.
  17. Thanks, I think they are both 6+ years old, so definitely potential takers for this year. This is west of Lampasas. The cows are in our south pasture, but the calves have found a gap in the fence, I'll have to go fix it.
  18. Pulled cards last week. Most of the velvet is knocked off. Pigs have not shown up on camera since the rain started. Got one other little issue to deal with:
  19. This idea has merit. I need to take some time and get my food plots planted around the first of October as well.
  20. The pigs have come back a few times, looks like our setups are making it on their rotation. I’m looking forward to pulling cards this weekend and seeing how consistent they are. Hopefully our spring is flowing again and the tanks are full.
  21. As soon as the first September cool front comes though, I start getting the deer stand itch myself.
  22. L I V I N! Just keep your phone handy or be careful; don't want to be like that guy that was upside down in a treestand harness for 24 hours.
  23. They have been living in isolated countries and have just started getting out and seeing the world the last two decades, and are just starting to travel to nature destinations in numbers the last few years. Once people see the finite nature of the world, conservation usually takes better hold. As the world communities continue to bash Asian black markets for animal products, and more Chinese get out, I think things will improve.
  24. Purportedly, more people believe in Traditional Chinese Medicine than believe in The Bible. Cultures evolve over time, I'm optimistic that things will get better. A hundred years ago, we were in a similar place: "Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals -- not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening." -Theodore Roosevelt
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