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texastough

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  1. I've had luck on the free section of craigslist with people trying to get rid of rocks/boulders
  2. IMO, all you need to understand Bakhmut is to look at the battle for Severodonetsk. That was an artillery duel with the Russians having a big numerical superiority in guns, so they were levelling the town slowly and inching forward to capture the rubble. The Ukrainians defended for a long time, because they were very slowly tactically retreating and then hammering the Russians when they advanced. While AFU eventually gave up the ground, the attrition on the Russian side lead to the highly successful Kharkiv offensive that liberated way more dirt than they had given up attriting the Russians. Bakhmut is a different sort of battle due to Russia's current artillery shortage but I think the same principle still applies. Destroy as much Russian equipment and personnel as possible while preparing for the offensive. As one of Ukraine's soldiers mentioned, if they didn't fight them in Bakhmut, they would just have to fight them somewhere else. Now, if Bakhmut falls with a significant amount of Ukrainian forces surrounded/killed/captured, its a different story. But I think it fits with what has worked for Ukraine so far.
  3. WRT Bakhmut, before everyone goes sandy vag keyboard general, they need to remember that Ukraine has both been masterful at head-faking the Russians, and at "withdrawing" only to draw Russians into predetermined kill zones. This reminds me a lot of the severodonetsk battle, which Russia eventually "won" but it left them so weakened that the Kharkiv front line collapsed. I think its an intentional strategy by Ukr.
  4. I'm gonna go with Okie Land Thieves!
  5. Just as soon as Russia takes Bakhmut, watch out Warsaw! I hope somebody stops them before they get to Paris!
  6. Another way to hunt is to clear the vegetation off a little area (for instance, with Roundup and then come back later and rake/tear the dead stuff out) and let the wind and rain work on the bare dirt for a while. If there's a spot with a good view above the spring thats where I'd start. I found the camp I've been digging just by seeing enough flakes on top to be suspicious. Digging turns up lots of flake, bones, big clam shell, fire rock, and some nice artifacts. The highest concentration is about a foot down. About 2-2.5 feet down, the black topsoil (mixed with rock/gravel) gives way to only clay/gravel/rock/sand and thats where the flake and everything else stops. I think depth totally depends on the location, because some areas lose soil, some build up soil, and in others the soil moves around (sand drifts etc). Also, every time an animal digs a hole or a tree goes down with root ball intact, some of the dirt a couple feet down gets put back on top -- and over thousands of years that can lead to a lot of turnover/mixing in certain areas.
  7. Did you ever dig by the spring? Thats how I find most of the Travis county artifacts posted above. Found a camp on top of a little bluff overlooking the Colorado River bottoms, with a spring down the hill about 100 yards away.
  8. Few more recent ones, Travis Co
  9. overheard my 3 and 4 year old boys talking . . . "you have to fart really quiet at fancy restaurants"
  10. Died three days after the accident . . . just horrible and so sad Best thread title of all time though
  11. post a pic that makes you say . . .
  12. Its the US government's fault. Did I do that right?
  13. too perfect
  14. Delores county is in the farming/ranching MAGA bubble. In Telluride, even the locals are mostly trust funders
  15. This concludes Russia probably has about 2,000 modern-ish tanks still operational, but seems to me it leaves out something really important from the analysis. How many trained tank crews does Russia have left? Doesn't it require some extensive training to use a tank effectively? Given Russia has lost most of its initial invading force and is replacing it with untrained mobiks, I would think that is the limiting factor rather than number of working tanks.
  16. I made a post a few months ago, looking at the daily casualty number claimed by Ukraine. At the time, the number had been 100-200 per day, and suddenly jumped up to 300-400 per day for a couple of weeks. I think that one coincided with the arrival of HIMARS and western artillery. I know the front line hasn't moved much in a month, but the casualty numbers are bananas right now: October 29: 550 October 30: 950 October 31: 620 November 1: 650 November 2: 800 The five days before that were 470, 480, 480, 320, 480. If true, that means Russia has lost 5,800 troops in the last ten days. Since Ukraine has not been making big gains, do these numbers reflect large numbers of mobiks finally making it to the front lines? Whatever the explanation, it is hard to see Russia lasting too long with that kind of attrition. I wonder what the Ukrainians have planned for them when the ground freezes up.
  17. 950 orcs killed yesterday?? I wonder if they are counting naval personnel in Sevastopol. Edit: I don't think so since they are not counting any boats on that list.
  18. SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!!!
  19. I'm wondering too if part of this is to gain strategic ground rather than simply gain as much ground as possible while conditions are ripe. For example, all of Russian occupied Kherson west of the Dnipro has been within HIMARS range, and Ukraine has taken advantage of that. But, after high value targets have been destroyed, there's a point where using HIMARS is more expensive than its worth. It was worth it to do the initial damage on the Nova Kakhova dam, but is it a good use of HIMARS to keep hitting Russia's repairs to the crossing? However, push south of Dudchany, as Ukraine has done the last few days, and it puts Nova Kakhova within Howitzer range. Much more cost effective to continue the campaign of destroying Russian logistics/ammo dumps/bases with Howitzers instead of HIMARS, with the added advantage that even a limited advance still throws the Russian front lines into chaos. For the same reasons, it would not surprise me if Ukraine does not directly attack Svatove at first, but instead cut the glocs running through Svatove and bypass the town to get within artillery range of the glocs going to Starobilsk.
  20. The point still stands that its really hard to see how a tactical nuke could help Russia on the current battlefield. The scenario that I think is most likely -- Ukraine pushes Russia out of the Donbas, Zap, and Kherson, and is getting ready to take on Crimea. Putin positions a tactical nuke at the ithsmus connecting Crimea to Ukraine -- basically the only way for Ukraine to enter Crimea -- and says if you try to invade Crimea, we nuke you. Hopefully the west's collective intel would know if that is a bluff or not, but if Russia was actually able to put a nuke there I don't know what the solution would be, short of calling in Mi6/007
  21. Pretty bold . . .
  22. You do sound pretty combobulated about this issue
  23. In all seriousness, I think this all ends with Russia de-nuked. Putin goes down, breakaway republics/regions gain independence, the west only removes sanctions after denuclearization, and post-Putin leadership has no choice but to agree.
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