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  1. 3 hours ago, Angry Gorilla said:

    My wife owns a small women's clothing boutique.  She is constantly bringing home clothes from the store that she either has to mail out, get altered or dry cleaned, or return to the designer.  Every time she takes all the hangers in the closet to hang them on her little hanging rack she uses.  Now, every time I take my laundry into the closet to fold, I have maybe 2 hangers left.  

    I've asked her calmly and politely many times and offered to buy her as many hangers as she needs from Amazon.  Yet every week I have no hangers.  Now when I confront her about it, instead of asking nicely I tell her (without raising my voice) to stop taking my hangers and to buy some if she needs them.  She then starts acting like I'm OJ with some uncontrollable temper and am about to snap at any second.  That makes me 10X more ragey than the hangers.  I would rather her look me in the eye and say "fuck you, I'll use  your hangers whenever I damn well please" than start trying to reverse the situation and act like the victim.

    Do you only have like 4 or 5 hangers?  Seems like after the second time, you would just go buy a shit ton of hangers anyway  and be done with it.  One reason I like the wire dry cleaners hangers is because my wife wont hang her shit on them.  

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  2. 43 minutes ago, Bigpoppapump said:

    Ya, I'd make an educated guess that the video card would still be the bottleneck with either of those CPUs.  A big question is 1080p or higher resolution monitor.  If you stick with 1080p the world is your Oyster.

    For gaming, frame rate beats resolution.  Get the highest resolution, 120hz monitor you can afford, especially at 24" and below. A 1070ti probably wont get above 40 fps at 4K UHD and will look choppy compared to same card at  HD or QHD with a faster frame rate.

  3. Just now, CooterBrown said:

    Told my 12 YO, the day you stop believing is the day presents stop flowing.

     

    Yep and mine are in college.  Still come down the stairs to see what Santa brought them but they aren't waking us up at 6AM to go see now.

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  4. 17 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    The logical part of my brain agrees with the 20g semi recommendation.  Reduces felt recoil some.  20g for sure.  Less pellets in the air compared to a 12g (so unnecessary for dove/quail).  Forces better mechanics.

    Then there's the part of my brain that goes back to what i started with.  Single-shot .410 that i used to slay with.  Then graduated to a H&R single-shot 20g.  Same thought process of starting my kid off with a single-shot 22lr vs. a 10/22.  You have to make that shot count.  You can't crutch on follow-up shots so you get damn good with that first shot.  And whatever you go with.  Before they can pull the trigger, they need to know how to break it down, clean it, and re-assemble.  To me, that's where the "ownership" part of the gun takes place.  Just you, your gun, and a cleaning kit.  

    Felt recoil if a big thing to small kids.  OPs kid is 11, mine were 7-8 when the first shot a shotgun.  I still have my single shot H&R 20 ga that I started with and it kicks like a mule compared to the gas auto.  When they were learning, I single fed rounds and it wasn't until they were probably 12 that they were allowed to load more that 1 at a time.  Same with a 22.  They both started with a single shot bolt Marlin 22 with a red dot sight before getting semi-autos of their own as they got older.

    Here's my boy's first duck, killed with a single fed 2 3/4" #4 steel just was it landed. I think he was 9 here.

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    And his first game, killed by him self a year later.  He was walking along the dam of our lake farting around and ran back to camp and said he saw a squirrel in a tree and wanted to kill it.  I gave him his gun and 3 shells.  He killed the first one, then saw the second one down a fence row and stalked and killed it too.  

     

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  5. 14 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    i figured that would spook the shit out of them if you dropped a big arse topwater on top of them.  may have to try that sometime.

    Yeah, used to chunk the shit out of Spooks or Top Dogs but that was in knee to waist deep water, usually over shell.  For sight casting in less than knee deep water,  I like  a lightweight paddle/shrimp tails or my favorite,   a gold Johnson weedless silver minnow  spoon with short piece of shrimp tail.  You can chunk it  a mile and drag it through the thickest weeds. 

  6. On 12/4/2018 at 2:49 PM, pepper brooks said:

    Anyone got a good recommendation on a shot gun (probably 20 gauge) for a soon to be 11 year old?  Need something he can shoot now, but also something he won't outgrow in a year.  

     

    Start the 11yo  off with a gas semi-auto.  The Weatherby SA-08 is a decent youth gun that's not that expensive and has good reviews.  I started mine kids off with a Beretta 391 youth and they shot it a bunch growing up but LOP is a bit short these days.  If you do buy a youth gun, go ahead an by a full size but stock if possible for when they grow. I've looking for one for mine but they are $$$ these daysites if you can find one.

    On 12/4/2018 at 6:16 PM, Jkwellborn said:

    Pick the shotgun of your choice and form 1 that thing into a sbs.

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  7. Thats our ranch cowboy. He wears crocs when hes casually hunting with me..
    74 year old man and still works 7 days a week, been on the ranch 31 years. All horseback.
    Tough as nails. I take him with me when Im out hunting. Knows more about deer than anyone Ive ever met.


    Also looks like he's a varsity letterman, so he has that going for him too
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  8. Just now, crash_davis said:

    his last move of evading and then some ninja shit and then pins the dude shows he really really knows what the fuck he's doing

    Still trying to decide but it looks like the old man went for the gooch on that last move.  I would tap out too when that happens to me.

  9. 5 hours ago, Modessit said:
    9 hours ago, Kwix said:
    Old man is fast no doubt, but damn he uses the exact same move every time. You'd think the young guy would learn by the fourth try or so. 

    Which is probably why he was there. He had something printed on his shirt and didn't do anything besides show how to evade and counter. Young guy kept losing with his right foot and diving at the right leg. I'm sure the results would have been the same if the he reversed it and dove at the left leg. Old guy was probably teaching them why that's not good strategy and maybe how to counter someone who tries it. Also teaches the young guys not to take an opponent lightly just because they're older and smaller.

    I imagine that if the young guy went for the other leg, the old man would probably have a counter to it also. 

  10. 29 minutes ago, Jkwellborn said:

    Funny you should post this. I saw that today and will be getting the x5 this weekend. Sale goes off Dec 2. I’ll probably pick it up after Texas Beats ou.

    I have it on my amazon tool wishlist and noticed it was marked down yesterday.  Its a great price for the X5. May go ahead and snag one too.

  11. On 10/22/2018 at 11:16 AM, drt said:

    If you do go airless, X5 would be my rec.  I have one of the handheld graco that has the paint cup, and cleaning is a fucking pain.  So much so that basically everything that isn't a big job I just roll or brush.  But the big jobs require refilling the cup constantly.  Go big or go home.

    The X5 is currently $224 at Home Depot and on Amazon and the X7 is $292 if any body has an airless paint sprayer on their Christmas list.

  12. My son built this one this summer for a gaming computer.  He seems pleased with it.

     

    PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

    CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($329.99 @ Amazon) 
    Motherboard: ASRock - X470 Master SLI/AC ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($128.98 @ Newegg Business) 
    Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($154.99) 
    Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($119.89 @ OutletPC) 
    Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC Black Edition Gaming 
    Case: Phanteks - ECLIPSE P400 TEMPERED GLASS ATX Mid Tower Case  ($79.99 @ Amazon) 
    Power Supply: Corsair - Enthusiast 750 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99) 
    Total: $1583.82
    Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
    Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-28 13:18 EST-0500

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