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  1. Things cooling off a little last week making the pool really nice lately.
  2. The wild game meat is fantastic over there. The hunting outfitters take great care of their game and have the meat processed both for use at the ranches and also for sale in supermarkets. I would trade kudu for beef any day.
  3. I went to South Africa last year, loved it. The 375 was a big hit on that trip, more energy than a 416 outside of 100 yards and great terminal performance with that Barnes LRX. I really want to go to Namibia next. Magnum shooting can be a little addictive once you figure out a setup that works for you. I was never a magnum shooter until I was getting myself practiced up for that trip, now I really only look forward to shooting magnums. Shooting at the ranch, I’ll take 20 rounds of something big over 20 mags of 5.56 any day.
  4. Fired up the reloading bench tonight and rolled some 375 Wby, 300 Wby, and 300 Win Mag. Exploring some unpublished high velocity loads with the 300’s and Hornady 212gr ELD-X. should be fun.
  5. I’d definitely plan on having the removable fence that goes right around the pool for safety regarding the baby. Also, a beach entry is great for little kids.
  6. Sanded and painted my control panel rack and did a little miscellaneous cleaning this weekend; had a good swim this pm with the kids. Grilling chops and enjoying a Jaime Garcia, IPA, and KUTX. Happy Father’s Day Pool Bros.
  7. We moved recently and chose a house with a pool (first pool for us). The kids are loving it and I dig it as well. The wife was anti to start but is really appreciating it for the activity time it generates for the kids. Backyard faces east so afternoon shade and south easterly breeze typically. Good expense so far.
  8. Fucking tapa double post
  9. Welp, I’m needing to relocate to the North side of San Antonio for work, so it’s going to be Canyon or Medina Lake for me (30+mile drive either way). Should I look for a boat locker close to the lake or closer to home? I’m thinking closer to home, but I’ll be putting more miles on the trailer that way, and incurring the inevitable road-related issues (tires, bearings, etc). I’m spoiled living close to my current locker/ramp.
  10. Humphrey you da man!
  11. I’m assuming your eating backstrap - it looks great - how do you cook it?
  12. We’ve had mules for 12 years and they’ve been great. I think we only had to replace a fuel pump or something on the first one in ~10 years of ownership. We sold it to get a newer model with fuel injection and power steering so it starts without choking and you can steer with one hand. I’ve known several guys that have had problems with their Polaris machines.
  13. Been watching this ol boy for three seasons and this afternoon it all came together.
  14. I’m not a duck hunter, but what does the forecast look like for your hunt dates and how old is the kid?
  15. Nice! What did you shoot it with? Great colors on those antlers.
  16. The water was a brisk 56, but with air temps in the high 70s we had a nice afternoon yesterday:
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.)
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. Got my plots in today
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