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  1. Earhole him, will kill him dead as a hammer. Probably the only way with a subsonic round that small. Get on line, and order the heaviest grain subsonic you can find.
    This would work perfectly: https://www.aguilaammo.com/products/22-sniper-subsonic-long-rifle-subsonic-lead-solid-point , never seen a sixty grain on a .22LR.
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    This. Probably don’t need to worry about the twist rate. I have shot a few hundred of these through a youth single shot bolt action 22 and they are very quiet without using a suppressor. If you can’t find the Aguila’s, look for some CCI 22 lr 40grn hollow point subsonic. They are pretty quite out of the same 22.
  2. Question for you boat guys - this is the sliding door to my cabin. The three screws at the bottom won’t stay tight and keep working themselves out. The thread part looks kind of like a wood screw.
     
    Is there anything I can either put on the threads or in the fiberglass hole that will keep them in tighter, but still be able to unscrew them if needed?
     
     
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    Is the core of that door wood or composite? For composite, I’d probably just poke some JB weld in there with a toothpick, then put the screws back in. If wood, I’d do a more thorough job of removing the trim piece and checking for rotten wood. I’d oversize drill the holes and epoxy in a dowel. Drill the dowel for screw pilot holes, paint/seal everything and then reinstall trim and screws.
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  3. On 10/14/2025 at 4:34 PM, Anastasis said:
    I like the concept behind the Moultrie feed hub set up, but hate the monthly per feeder fee. I already get bled out enough on the spypoint camera data plans. 


    I just bought on of these on sale at Avademy and didn’t research before hand. I thought it was Bluetooth connected for setup too. Nope gotta be cell connected. I’ll use it this season then buy a $35 manual controller for next year. I need to buy another and won’t get the connected version next go around. I paid $150 and it has the solar panel already so I’m OK with it for now.   

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  4. Was at my buddies place over the weekend near Nacodoches. I put out a feeder to hunt during gun season. I set it for 7:30 and 4:30 so you will be in stand when feeder goes off. If too early the hogs will get there first and eat all the corn

  5. Nice!    We spent part of this week at Galveston State Parkin the RV.  We took the kayaks and I did a paddle back into the reclaimed marsh solo on Wed and with the wife on Thursday. I found one tailing red on Wed and was able to catch it only to tape out at 28.5-29”.    On Thursday I got one keeper and two short reds and an dink trout.   We enjoyed the paddle but spent the rest of the day slumped in a chair on the beach.   Probably should have tried the surf a bit as it had 4’ visibility but was very happy with the reds.  Chasing them in shallow water is probably my favorite inshore fishing. 
     

     

     

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  6. Never had to reseal the helm but have had the cylinder done a couple of times at a couple different shops (2x in last 15 years).   I would guess a competent shop could handle it?   The rebuild kit looks to be a dozen o-rings and new stainless hardware to button it back up - shouldn't be a terrible job I wouldn't think.  

    Ended up just buying a complete new helm pump from West Marine on sale. Got it put in, purged the system and it ran great. Probably should have done it two years ago.
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  7. Just back from a week on the Frio at Garner State Park.  We had site 45 in the big oaks right by the Pavillion, one of the best in the park IMO.   Wheeled the kayaks across the road and parking lot and entered the river right below the pavilion.   Very light crowds on Thursday Friday and Monday with the kids back in school.   We packed a cooler with drinks and a lunch almost every day and would find an open picnic table down in the day area.   Wife would read or paddle/float around the river and I chased bass and cichclids with the flyrod. 

    I think we are scheduled to do a group trip with family during the summer but we’ll definitely be back next September for a relaxing chill trip.

     

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  8. On 4/16/2024 at 10:57 AM, davidg said:


    That sprayer will work fine.  There are some recommendations for different spray nozzle sizes but I just use what came with the sprayer.  

    Here’s a couple of PDFs I saved a few years ago with different mix ratios for different applications and a slide deck from one of the AgExt BrushBuster seminars.  There are some of the seminar videos on YouTube if you want more info.

     

     

    ManagingDeep-RootedInvasions.pdf 4.6 MB · 2 downloads

     

    brush-busters-quick-mixing-guide.pdf 51.94 kB · 2 downloads

     

    Killin’ mesquite, honey locust and huisache is serious bidness.

     

     


    Quoting my post from April 2024 on killing mesquite.   

    I spend some time Sunday and Monday removing dead mesquite and honey locust that I had sprayed in June 2024.  After a year, they are usually rotten enough to push over with my boot, breaking off at ground level.  Trees with 2”+ trunks needed sawing at ground level.  

     

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    Made about a hundred trips to the brush pile.   Need a small trailer for the utv

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    Either missed this one or the poison didn’t take.   I didn’t put a marking flag on it so probably missed.  A sprayed and not killed tree will have about 20% of the leaves by this time of the year. Usually takes a 3 year, annual treatment on a pasture to kill them all.

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    Looking for a cattle cube snack

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  9. We’re finishing up a Labor Day trip to the lake with the boat and RV tomorrow so I’ll figured give a 5 year update on owning our trailer.

    This trip is number 44 with 134 nights slept and having towed a little over 11000 miles. Almost half of our trips were to the same state park/lake that is only about 90 minutes away which makes it an easy weekend trip.

    Overall we still love having the trailer and it has become a focal point of family get together wherever we go. We have had good luck not having any major system issues on the road or after pulling it out of storage. The worst repair has been an electric brake failure and a tire slipping a belt and I caught both of them before anything go to far out of hand.

    We retired in June so some bigger trips are on the horizon. We have 10 days in the Black Hills/Custer State park reserved for next year and are waiting to reserve a spot in the Davis mountains next spring. We have a Frio River trip and a week at the beach to close out the summer this year before we start taking long trips to the ranch this fall and winter.

    Thanks again to those early Covid posts in this thread that was instrumental in pushing me towards looking at RVs and ultimately buying one. It been a great ride.

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  10. They're pigs.  If you can procure some military ball ammo, try that if you feel safe running it in your rifle.  Zips through most anything.  Wacked an oinker years back with an old M1 Garand will ball ammo.  Sleepy pig had two small holes on each side.  If you let the air out of them, they take naps.....:)

    Even better, they run off somewhere else to die so you don’t have to dispose of carcasses under your feeder.
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  11. I bought a pair a few years ago off Amazon and they exceeded
    my expectation. The ones I bought had multiple heat levels and seems like they lasted a few hours on a med level while duck hunting.

  12. Come tax season, is there anything special that must be done with the distributions for the NEOS ETFs like SPYI?  Like would I need a tax guy to figure it out or a place like Schwab would automatically know how to categorize the distributions?

    You miss out on the company % match for the rest of the year too.

    Always check your plan deductions in your payroll portal and match to a check stub early in the year and when getting a raise/large bonus and prorate your 401k contribution to meet the limit sometime in December.
  13. Anyone rebuilt or had rebuilt a SeaStar Hydraulic helm pump? I have the HH5371-1 1.7 cu/rev pump and it’s sucking air and leaking oil pretty bad. Its had a small leak for a year or so but it really let loose last weekend and has about 1/3 of a rev backlash. I found a place in Ca called Seatech Marine Products that will do a rebuild for $200 using your old pump. Anyone ever used them or had one rebuilt here in Tx?

  14. The Seiko SPB143 is just above that price range.  It can be found for around $900 sometimes.  Another Submariner clone, but I like it.  It's a throwback to their 1965 dive watch.  I dig the satin sheen dial.
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    That’s $575 at Macy’s right now. I have similar looking Citizen Promaster Titanium Diver that $460

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  15. I had a spypoint and It sucked in the area I was using it. Wouldn’t maintain a cell connection and killed batteries trying to connect. I bought two reveal 3.0 Tacticams and they have been great. I also got the solar panel/lithium battery and have never changed out batteries in over a year. Will probably buy two more within a couple of months when the hunting sales start again.

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