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Gladeite

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  1. He is a hunter also. Killed a 200" deer last year on a South Texas ranch. His guide is a friend of mine.
  2. Hot Dr. Pepper. Mom/grandmothers used to warm Dr. Pepper on the stove and serve to the kids in the winter. With a slice of lemon. Very good on a cold(Texas) day.
  3. Lefty here also. Carry AIWB every day at 11-11:30. G19 w/RMR or LW Commander. Able to draw effectively from seat with belt on. Hardly ever practice it, but seems to work OK.
  4. Don't own one but have friends that do. Apparently, the gas operating system can't take the higher operating pressures and are prone to failure. My friends use specific M1 Garand ammo or load their own. Typically 150 grain soft points running at a pedestrian 25-2600 fps.
  5. Gladeite

    TexMex

    37 year fan of Armando's here. Queso Flameado appetizer, rare+ Armando's cut filet, sopapillas for dessert. House margarita for starters and a nice bottle of red with dinner. Guaranteed panty dropper for the wife of 35+ years.
  6. My background and training is with the 1911 platform. Still love it, but like a mechanical watch, it needs care and maintenance. Love the trigger. Glocks don't need care or maintenance on a routine level and I have transitioned to them over the years for every day carry, training modules, etc... My EDC is Gen 5 because of ambi slide release and I am a lefty. I have 3 in my rotation and all have Dawson suppressor height fiber optic sights, Zev triggers + one Timney trigger. All have RMR capability and I will go thru phases of dot and no dot. Anyway, the stock trigger is advertised 5.5 lbs stock and has a two stage take-up. My gauge typically measures them at 5.5 to 6 lbs. There are a lot of after market systems that lighten both the take up and final stage. Some will shorten the take up, speed up reset, etc.... You can get what you like. Personally, I like a pronounced and light initial take up with a light, predictable wall. My trigger pull is two stage. Take up the slack, make the final pull. I train like that and speeds are based on how fast I can put the combination together. On mine, the Zev comes in at 3ish lbs(that is after 1000s of rounds). Today, I shot a 5 shot string from concealed at 10 yards. All within the 8 ring. 2.75 seconds total. 1.82 draw to first shot and 0.23 average splits. At 5 yards, 1.94 total. 0.97 to first shot, 0.24 splits. Not the fastest guy around, but pretty quick. I think the trigger helps me with accuracy and I have found a platform I like. I have 1/2 dozen platforms I don't like. People are different. I like fooling around with EDCs. My 1911 is custom built and I baby it, change out the mag/recoil springs, load ammo to my feel of optimum recoil/slide function. Same with the Glocks. I change out the triggers and sights. I also have a pair of 30S that I switch out to when I'm feeling .45ish. They have Zev parts, fiber optic sights, etc... My business partner wears a Gen 5 19 every day. His is totally stock, including plastic sights. He shoots lights out and is instructor level good. He never changes anything, just shoots every day.
  7. I carry Gen 5 19 on a daily basis. I like the Zev Pro flat face trigger the best. A little over 3 lbs on my gauge with great take-up and a predictable wall. Like holsters, everyone is different in what they like. I have drawer full of Gen 5 trigger systems that I do not like for one reason or another. The other Zev parts don't help my shooting so I don't need them.
  8. We have written contracts in Steamboat, Breckenridge and Pagosa. Each has their own unique attraction and reasonable airport access. Aspen/Snowmass is unaffordable at $2000+/ft and Telluride is now eclipsing $1000/ft.
  9. Good luck! Wife and I have been outbid 5 times in the past year in Colorado. We fly up to see property 1st day on the market and make full price offers, close quick and lease back for ski season at no cost to seller. We have not been close. Last person outbid us by $400,000. Prices are escalating in the established areas.
  10. We were members of Lost Creek. Pre-shut down it was easy to play mid day during the week. Last summer, tee times were completely full all day, every day. We dropped because impossible to get tee time for wife and I. Always placed us with another group and she did not like it. Way overcrowded.
  11. Hilderbrand Jewelers on 620 does a lot of Rolex refurbish work. Rehabbed my President and did a great job.
  12. There is no end to property appreciation in the Austin in the foreseeable future. In the upper end, there is a severe scarcity of supply. In Westlake, inside 360, the cheapest home available today is $1.984 million. Outside 360, there are a couple listings off Cuernavaca around $750 avg. and three in Lost Creek just under $1 million. Next cheapest house in Eanes in $1.875. In Barton Creek(AISD), the cheapest listing is $1.275(1 day on market), next is $1.95 million and next cheapest one is $3.385 million. Of the 40 listings total in these 3 zip codes, only about 1/2 are not some sort of condo/townhome and the 1/2 of the remainder are not desirable for one reason or the other. If I were representing an executive today, there are 3 total listings that I would show. A couple at $2 mil that would be closer to $1.2 million a year ago and are nothing special and a somewhat nice home at $3.385 mil. Next interesting home is around $5 million. Sellers are panicking all over due to nowhere to go. A home in The Courtyard just went under contract $500,000 over list with 90 day leaseback. The seller is already frantic because he has no shot at getting any home in these 3 zip codes in the next 90 days. In Dripping Springs, there is one listing under $500,000 and two others under $750,000. This is a giant bedroom/commute community and there is no inventory.
  13. The new place is Prime downtown. Backed by the Brookshires and Bergfelds. Manager/minority owner has pretty good restaurant credentials(for Tyler). Love Bernards for dinner and Villa Villagio for happy hour/light dinner. Jucys and Brunos for lunch. The Diner for breakfast. Don't live there but have spent a lot of time there.
  14. As a fellow lefty, a left hand Savage Axis is cheap, reliable and extremely accurate. .223, .243, 7/08, will work wonders on white tail. I load a 75 grain .223 soft point that will exit 80% of the time. No recoil to speak of. I think that is very important with a young hunter.
  15. Back in the day, when I used to shoot these things competitively, we had to use 6 shot at most venues. 45 yard shots are pretty far for #9 to keep the momentum to do significant damage. Not only have to knock it down in the ring, it can't walk out of the ring during your string.
  16. I have a .243 Mohawk. It is a deer killing machine. Mine is bastardized. Suppressed and a 30mm tube scope.
  17. Now that the politics are out of the way, it will become much more clearer that just because you test positive, does not mean you have COVID, does not mean you are contagious. I do not know any time in history that testing was this widespread. I would venture to guess, that pick any random year during flu season and this much testing, millions would test positive for the flu virus, yet would be asymptomatic. I know a personal trainer in Austin that gets the PCR swab every week as a test subject for a lab. He has tested positive 30 times out of 100. Throughout the year. Totally random. Not to say that COVID is not dangerous and the old, compromised should be careful, but millions of people have lost their job, had their career ruined, etc... The restaurant, travel, bar, music venues have carried the brunt of the suffering.
  18. Gladeite

    Getting old sucks

    Mine lasted about 6 months. Little bit lower inguinal. Started out as a small bubble I could push back in. A few days later repeat. Next month, little larger and maybe every other day or so. And so on. Finally, got larger and pushing out every few hours. Had to get fixed. Cool little plastic pad on the inside, spacer and then mesh that they sewed into the muscle. No problems since.
  19. As I have gotten older, I don't enjoy the recoil much anymore. For about 20 years, I did all of my culling with the '06. Loaded an 110 grain TTSX at 3500 fps and it is a killer for white tail deer and African plains game. This year, I am using a Savage Axis in .223 loaded with 75 grain Hornady soft points. Killed a bunch of doe, cull bucks with it. It works "most" of the time. Tracking thru dense woods can be a pain because of the faint/if any blood trail. They will usually be piled up 50 to 100 yards inside the woods/draw but finding a few has been a longer than necessary. About 80% DRT or within 10 yards. I have to do better than that. I don't have time to be tracking/dragging out of the woods on a cull mission. I have one more guiding trip starting Thursday, and I will finish up the season trying to build a better penetrator such as Barnes TTSX, Swift A-frame, Nosler Partition or a more violent expander that I can slip behind the shoulder and cause massive pulmonary disruption. Loving the no recoil.
  20. Shipleys glazed donuts are amazing good. My only complaint is having to train new locations when I open a new office or move. I prefer mine glazed and then with chocolate icing. I go in, explain what I am looking for and after awhile, they know me and will make 3 in the back and are usually still warm. I cancel out all the sugar with a Diet Coke.
  21. Gladeite

    Getting old sucks

    Supraspinatus complete tear, infraspinatus tear, SLAP and biceps tendon surgery in June. Hitting tennis balls and serve is at 25%. Can do full golf swing. Harder recovery than I thought it would be.
  22. I have a Daniel Defense 15. Changed to a Geissele trigger and put an ACOG on it. Quality firearm that shoots pretty good.
  23. Semi related story. My quail dog is getting old and losing muscle mass About once a month I find a #8 pellet on the floor of the house. About a dozen so far. Apparently they are slowly working their way out of his skin. Thousands of quail, chukar, etc... have been shot over him. Over the years he has picked up some stray pellets from 60+ yards. Lots of people hunting over him. Vet friends tell me that people are amazed when they bring their bird dogs in for X-rays.
  24. I agree. I think he is a 160 class deer. Width and left G4 holding him back from the next level.
  25. I'm curious what this buck scored. Any idea?
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