
Reagan1k
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Congrat! Those are awesome bucks.
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If that's a low fence hill country buck he's mature in my experience. If I'm wrong then its the difference between being 4.5 and 5.5 but I'd lean to 6.5. Hill country bucks are so tough to age unless you can get practice with verifiable photos or sightings over a series of years. I've always said they age on the fringes. Their backs and bellies start to sag and their nose starts to bull, but it's seldom obvious. It's never as pronounced as a South Texas buck or midwestern animal. It's nuanced. It mostly shows up in mass (check), often in coloration (check), and in character points or stubble around bases (check), especially if they aren't surviving solely on protein year round. The more they're relying on native forge, the more I always lean to older than they look and vice versa - if they have year round protein. We use this sheet to help with newer hunters or anyone who's hunted outside the region. It's pretty helpful and goes along with what we've seen in management practice for a long time.
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That's fantastic. I'm happy for them. Their food was great (in the truck) and they were very nice. I always made it a point to pick up pizza there whenever I could but its been a while since I've stopped in town and I missed the move. Can't wait to try it out.
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Are those the same folks who had the food truck on the outskirts for a few years? Name sounds awfully familiar.
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Fat people that don't want to die
Reagan1k replied to Parliament's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
100% right. There are other diagnostic tools that give a more complete picture, including distinguishing the type of plaque and risk there-in. Calcium score is a good start and especially for someone young to establish as baseline. I've done the Cleerly scan among other things on top of the calcium scan. -
Another nice buck - He broke a main beam last year He's 6 by my math/history. Main frame 5x6 with a split brow tine to boot.
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Letting them grow - '22, '23, '24, '25 He's 6 or 7 now by my math. Pretty cool. Even hill country bucks can get some respectable headgear if given a chance.
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I thought that was universally known as an order of "fried fried"?
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Yep - Ask if your plan has a True-Up Provision or not. "Most" plans now have it....not all...but more likely than not.
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Yeah - I think this was the observation I had and was trying to convey with my real world example, and it may have read as "let them eat cake"....which was not my intent. Modeling out the what-if and extending conversions into that next bracket from 22 to 24 could be a worthwhile exercise when you take into account the likelihood of a period where there is a single filer. It's counter to what the general advice boilerplate advice would be but MIGHT be useful especially if one spouse isn't in great health or is fighting family history.
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For better or worse I've fallen into the role of financial sounding board for several family members and I'm seeing this play out too - both sides of the coin. One giving with the only requirement being that the recipients then spend time with her to tell her all about the food they ate, the trip they took or the experience they had. She's enjoying her money vicariously through the while she can. Another is squeezing her dollars so tightly that the ink is oozing out of her fingers. Both have the same general amount of assets. Guess which one is happier day to day?
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Yep....As I said....It is a good problem to have and the couple was obviously affluent (through building their own business from the ground up and diligent savings). They achieved most of their pre-tax savings before the Roth was a thing and then failed to take advantage of roth conversions - Big mistake on the latter. My point in all of this was the bigger picture and how conversion tax planning should also take into account the "what if" possibility of single filer vs. MFJ in 10-15 years. The same would be true for the 22-30 brackets and a couple that is not as affluent, but still has sizable pre-tax balances. If those conversions don't hit while still MFJ, then that ship might sail. Assuming that one has many years to convert in the 22-24 brackets is fully dependent on maintaining that filing status.
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I know it has been discussed a lot upthread and I intellectually knew the importance of long term tax planning, but damn...watching the lack thereof play out in real life in jolting. I'm helping a family member who is recently widowed get their affairs in order and the double tax hit of RMDs plus the compression of the single filer brackets is staggering. This exercise has made me rethink and take a second look at what i've done b/c a lot of my planning has been based around the MFJ brackets and I hadn't fully digested the what-if / when there's a single payer. Those 32 and 35 brackets come screaming up really quickly for a single payer with sizable taxable income due to pre-tax qualified plans or other taxable income. Good problem to have nonetheless but damn, it hits hard and fast for an accumulator with high taxable income after the death of a spouse.
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I don't hate it. Like the Tac Pro more, but I don't have a lot to compare against. Have looked at some of the other grip modules but slow to move on that. I'm not sure I'm ready to start tearing down a 2011 yet. Not yet comfortable with my own ability there. I'm good with a rifle or 1911 but haven't yet studied enough to see what the differences are in the 2011 full disassembly / reassembly and what mods might be required of me.
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Speaking of...... I've been shooting the MAC 9DS Comp in 4.25" and the MAC 9 DS 5" fitted with a Cerberus Compensator and I love them. Good guns / value price - Lotta room to upgrade and still stay well under $2k including quality optic. I'm very pleased. Also love my Bul Armory Tac Pro 5" SS. Bit more money but also a great shooter. Been fun to work on breaking through some of my sight confirmation bias and shoot with more speed using all three of these. I've always been an aim small guy with hunting rifles so it's been a challenge but I'm enjoying the competition with myself to see how much I can improve times.
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