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Reagan1k

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  1. I think I'd be doing two things...... 1) gently and sporadically do some light rattling - not full bore heat of the rut type (unless / until it is really ON), but mimicking some sparring of younger bucks. 2) Shake the shit out of a coffee can with two handfuls of corn in it and see if he comes running. Either he's a local monster who's not going to come out to feed in the day (why he's that big) and rut curiosity is all that will kill him, or he's someone's breeder buck and he's laying around waiting to be hand-fed. Good luck - Keep us posted.
  2. Helluva buck! Congrats. That’s how you do it.
  3. Me too three!
  4. I'd consider myself an empath, but as an alcoholic that means I can read your mind and mood and know for sure what you're thinking, and it's always negative about me. I have to tune out those empathic feelings and acknowledge that I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex. It's that old saying - It's not what you don't know that's dangerous. It's what I know for sure that just ain't so that kills me.
  5. Amazing thing about the Program - the traditions and a fundamental understanding of what works among those that have recovered have led to an almost 100 year run of "if it aint broke don't fix it" since the Program came out in book form. I'm not sure there is anything else in our society that has been this consistent. That's one of the key reasons that they wrote the book - so that the directions for recovery did not become watered down or confused through word of mouth. Keeping those first 164 pages fundamentally unchanged through four editions allows a drunk like me to know that if I do what is suggested on those pages I can recover. Most often you hear page references to things that have become habit in our 10th and 11th Steps - many use 86-88 as a way to start their day "On awakening...". Or, as @BearSchlong referenced above - certain prayers / passages are read at the beginning or end of meetings and as part of that, the page numbers are cited. It becomes engrained and thus repeated. That's part of our "tool box" upon which we learn to lean at the direction of a sponsor. The fellowship is where I go to receive or share experience, strength, and hope....but the Program is the course of action as outlined in the first 164 pages. That's why I am so grateful that it hasn't been changed, because I know it works. The first 100 didn't really have a fellowship. Hell, they didn't even have a Big Book. They had a series of actions they took in a precise order and methodology from which they recovered with a staggering success rate. I think it is pretty cool and believe that there is some divine ongoing inspiration in the fact that I could wake up in a time warp, but the Program and guidance would be unchanged. I guess it is possible that the Program as outlined in the book could change and I might still find recovery in that, but I'm not willing to FAFO when my life is at stake. My mind is out to kill me, so I have no interest in working MY Program. My best thinking brought me to my knees. I want to work THE Program that has been more successful than anything science, religion, or personal will power has brought to bear against this disease. That's a lot of word salad to simply say - I love the fact that the consistency has been such that across time and distance we all read from the same set of precise directions (down to page number and paragraph)....so much so that that even the googlewebs will auto-fill what I need if I start typing "pages 86 -..."
  6. This m'fer has to go. Best I can tell he's climbing that fence enough to flop over and then somehow get back out the same way. He hasn't made a hole b/c he's the only hog getting in. Nice set of mouth scissors he's got showing up in the pics. Whoever in my group shoots him better have a tow strap or chain b/c one guy isn't dragging him very far by hand....at least not without getting a serious workout in the process.
  7. SG Ammo just dropped pricing on a ton of stuff, and are still paying shipping on orders over $200. Still not 2019 pricing by a long shot, and I guess it won't ever return to that.
  8. There are literally millions of other people walking this earth today doing it the same way. Don't drink today. Tomorrow is another day. We're not guaranteed tomorrow so why worry about if I'll drink then or not. Focus on today and live in the moment, doing the next thing in front of me. Not a bad way to live....certainly better than me living in a progressively worsening state of just existing until the next drink. I wish you the best, and if life sober is too much to bear, please reach out.
  9. @Cletus and @kingkoopa6 - One month or 43 days is a big deal. I'm happy for both of you. Keep ticking off those individual days and the months will fly by, then it'll be years. Keep doing the deal and when you have struggles, tell someone....it takes the power out of it. I look forward to both of you continuing to update us on your progress and milestones of sobriety.
  10. Are you going to keep that streak alive and continue feeling great? I hope you do and I hope you keep coming back.
  11. Great observation - good place to start. One of my sons took a tuft of hair and hide off the back of a great buck at about 250 yards a few years back. With his setup and a .300 Win he was on a dead center hold and had a rock solid rest. Buck actually dropped in his tracks, then stood up, shook himself off, and trotted away. No blood - tracking dog spent hours on him and all he found was that tiny piece of hide and a little backstrap. Bullet passed right above the spine and just skinned a little meat. I don't recall the specific but his hunting partner finally pointed out that his turret was not set in place. I think it was left in the adjustment position instead of locked down and had been spinning freely with any bumps in the truck. Something to check anyway.
  12. Old straight eight. Nothing spectacular, but this has low fence hill country hunting all over it. 30-40 years ago, he would have won the 50lbs of sirloin prize at Pinky's Grocery Store big buck contest. First time he's made an appearance this year. I do love wide, old, symmetrical eight.
  13. Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing. I need to do something like that!
  14. Oooo- that is an M. I saw the pic and the mag and obviously didn’t pay attention to the muzzle. I’m running a standard- not the M.
  15. You’ll love it even more suppressed! That was a no-brainer deal with the brace thrown in.
  16. I’d love to have that combo. I’m a .327 fanboy. Need to up by SA game.
  17. Love my AP5! Congrats. Not to kick the ant bed around here.....but, brace???? The way that picture is cropped, you very easily could have picked up the same deal I did and yours is just out of frame.
  18. Speaking of auctions - Tomorrow - a 1957 Model 70 Super Grade in .458 Win goes up for sale at an auction house. Still in the original box, with all the papers, and the bolt has never been unwrapped and put in the action. They didn't make a ton of those, and certainly there isn't another one on earth that is this NIB. I can't wait to watch it. Museum piece.
  19. I'm still a drunk who found a way to recover from my hopeless condition. Never like seeing this off the 1st page in case someone needs to see that recovery is possible....so bump.
  20. Speaking of handguns - I want this in an unholy way! I haven't had the itch for a modern weapon this badly in several years. Maxim Defense .300BO PDX
  21. Yep. He’s in too good of shape for this to be his last- naturally anyway. Between guests and kids/grandkids plus every hunter being happy to shoot culls, he’ll be eaten.
  22. Drought resistant appetite I guess. Lots more groceries for someone else when he becomes sausage.
  23. Dead man Walking - This old SOB on the left has risen up the shoot on sight chart. 2 x 4 with a gut. His partner on the right has some growing up to do.
  24. When you have to factor in the curvature of the earth and its rotation - that's a long way. I'd still be sitting there. Impressive!
  25. Man- I get it. I can tell you I completely understand where you’re coming from and I know it sounds like I’m not listening and instead criticizing. I’ve been right where you are. Dealing with life sober all day and then getting into recovery mode in meetings, reading this dry, odd book, and seeing these steps and promises on the wall. Having directions hurled at you from every angle and increasing expectations from home and work because you’re actually present. Speaking for myself, where I sit is my view is this. When I was sitting in the shit you seems to be fighting with, I wish someone had pulled me into sponsorship more quickly. It would have eased the dis-ease sooner. 100% of what you’re saying is normal and expected at this stage in your recovery. It’s a Weird place to be - coherent, clear minded and all these thoughts rushing in. My experience is that a good sponsor helps make sense out of all of this.
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