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I can remember eating at Inman's when it was on the other side of 16 before the fire. We used to haul loads of smoked turkey, turkey sausage, and fresh bread back home as xmas gifts for clients and friends. Current spot was the Ramblin' Rose (RIP the "Hunter's Ball" - that was a throwback.) I still go regularly. It's all still the same and I enjoy it. I'll tolerate Coopers and like the pork chop and smoked sirloin if I go, but it isn't somewhere I'll go for brisket. That's not to say others don't like it. Too salty and often with a pot roast consistency for my taste. There's a new spot in town right on 16 just north of the bridge that is interesting to pop in. Brett's Biltong (South African air dried beef). Really good and sort of a butcher shop/deli combo. I think you can even sit for a beer or wine.
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Ha! You're right. That's exactly how it looks. Comes in .300bo too.
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My doc explained it as the body is built much like a chemical plant—- very precise and expecting certain inputs. When the inputs are impure or not what the plant is built to process, it flares, processes don’t work as expected, and the output is contaminated. The gut and digestive system, starting with chewing and saliva, is perfectly tuned for natural sugars, but the processed and refined ones fubar the chemistry. Same with all the other processed inputs. The more you give it what it wants, the better the output and it happens pretty quickly. Also, once off refined sugars for a bit, isn’t it crazy how much better and sweeter fruit tastes?? Show just how tuned those refined products are towards making us crave them instead. Not by accident….
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Lyssy and Eckel stocks it bagged in a lot of places and will bring in bulk if they don't have it already. Most feed stores will order it for you if they don't keep it on hand if you'll agree to buy a certain amount. Side note - be wary if you have any Aoudad. They're like a heat seeking missile when it hits the ground and will break your bank in a hurry.
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TLDR - unless you're bored I've been using protein on a low fenced hill country property for 20 years, and have hunted the same property since '77. We've gone from "big bucks" being 120" 8pts to consistently seeing 140"-150" bucks and taking the occasions 160-class. My observations are as follows - Growing larger native genetic WT in TX takes two things Time and Money - with money being the smaller of the investments. It takes time to allow the demographics to change so that you have a relatively sizable population of 5-8 year old bucks. The more you have, the more likely you are to see & have the chance to harvest. They have to get old before they can get big, and it's at least an 8 year process to fully reset the age of the herd - There's plenty of natural mortality from the time a buck fawn is born until it could be +5 years old. Shooting any of them before that blows up he model....as you're reducing an already dwindling population as time goes on (neighbors, cars, predators, disease and injury). Where I see the benefit or protein (done on a reasonable budget) is in improving the health and viability of your doe throughout gestation and afterward during the weaning process, along with helping out the bucks in times of higher stress. The more you can boost the long term survival and health of your fawn crop, the more bucks you have to potentially reach maturity. Yeah, you might get a few bucks who are feeder whores and use the supplement to gain a few inches or some character , but the name of the game for us is having more bucks survive to maturity and that starts in the womb, and then continues by keeping them viable and fed during high stress times (post rut & Jan - March) so they don't die, or aren't so run down that their body can't devote energy into antler production. I'm a huge advocate for protein and cottonseed done in this manner on even small, low fenced tracts but it helps to understand it isn't a direct path to big bucks the same year. It never hurts the deer, and done to the extent it hurts your wallet, there is always a benefit.
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I'd watched that Allterra video before I posted that. Was left scratching my head as to how Federal would choose to drop this while knowing it wasn't consistent and would basically delivery flatter shooting misses rather than heavier doped hits. Appears to me that the marketing and finance team won the battle when the development team wanted to delay or even shitcan the project. They let the target roll-out date drive the project. I'm sure they thought.."We can fix it after the fact and no one will be the wiser", but that doesn't fly with the @686 crowd who is going to run this stuff through all the paces and not just rely on what the box says. Big miscalculation on the target market appetite and their insistence on consistency.
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If cholesterol is high, it is very valuable to know if you are an over-producer or an over-observer (if diet is otherwise reasonable). Any treatment reaches maximum effectiveness if the right blood work is done to determine this, but that's usually a step beyond what reactive, traditional physician protocol will do unless pressed. They'd normally default to a statin right away. If an over-absorber, something as simple as adding red rice yeast and bergamot can provide great results. If an over producer, then it may require a statin (which isn't a terrible thing). Boston Heart Cholesterol Balance test or something similar (unsure if there are others) gives you the full picture...far beyond a standard panel.
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Think of the opportunity - there have to be millions, thousands, hundreds, 50 or so hunters who need to have a flatter shooting 7mm platform out beyond 700 yards. I'm not judging. I buy stupid gun-shit all the time. Hell, I think I'm going to build an 8.6BO or 338ARC. Federal has to jump on this wave of Creedmoor > PRC > Next Gadget craze while its hot. I have to admit - they did it right.....forming strategic alliances before introduction with that many rifle makers in various price points to make it easy to buy - It'll be successful.
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Big typo!!
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Posted without comment. Federal Premium 7mm Backcountry At launch, the following gun companies will be introducing rifles in 7mm Backcountry: Christensen Arms Gunwerks Seekins Precision Fierce Arms AllTerra Arms Savage Arms Weatherby Geissele Automatics Proof Research Horizon Firearms Pure Precision
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Yep - If all one has eaten is the "enhanced" stuff with the fruit (jelly) mixed in, then the plain greek tastes tart. Just takes a resetting of taste buds and expectation of what it should taste like. Incredibly versatile - I mix it into all kinds of stuff to make a creamy sauce when I want something different (mariara, tomatillo, or whatever).
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Perineal Perennial topic of conversation for us in Jan/Feb - Hard to follow through with in Oct/Nov unless made a requirement before shooting a buck. Everyone loves the idea for someone else's hunt but has a hard time pulling the trigger during their own sit.
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The straight double action is fine. Solid double action trigger. What I'm playing with in dry fire is the double action plus or whatever you want to call it. Being able to push the hammer up and then have a quick and easy reset to the single action trigger is cool and I could see myself carrying that way. Its a very comfortable pistol to handle and feels great. The integrated thumb rail is perfect (for me at least). The whole thing along with the controls handles well. I've got one of their mini-wing IWB holsters in route, and that'll be the next test to see how that fits and draws.
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This is the correct answer. The 401(k) contribution limit is the limit (age dependent) but then ***if your plan and your cash flow allows*** you can choose to make after tax contributions which go towards your total retirement plan limits and have what's colloquially called a Mega Backdoor Roth.
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Finally got around to putting an optic on what'll be a carry gun for me. Like that the standard fixed sights are still usable through the reflex without mods. Off to the range this weekend.
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Anyone hired a firm or individual for virtual marketing? Looking at less than full time hours a week to do some lead list aggregation, emails, LinkedIn / social media stuff along with project follow up. Seeking input from anyone using or has used a firm to provide this work virtually.
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Ha! I used this analogy in a meeting yesterday to explain how I felt before going through the steps and establishing a conscious contact with a higher power. I can still feel like this when I'm not right sized and spiritually fit, but now I have some solutions other than the bottom of a bottle.
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I Blindly Dive Into Buying and Selling Antiques
Reagan1k replied to RDCanecutter's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
Someone's great grandmother spent a shit-ton of time needlepointing for those chairs. That's a 50's+ target audience to sell those - not a facebook marketplace crowd.....probably a consignment store. Think you mentioned you were in 'bama? The MB crowd would buy those. Check with Stash downtown in Birmingham and see if they'll consign them for you. People spend silly money there. I've got family south of there and they love stopping in. I hear about it far too often. -
I Blindly Dive Into Buying and Selling Antiques
Reagan1k replied to RDCanecutter's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
Yep - I have a family member who works in estate sales. They go into a house at catalog everything that the family leaves. Literally everything....and other than the obvious crap, they use Google Lens and a couple of specialized apps to find a completed selling price and then they discount from there for their sales price. Interesting work as they have to balance selling it for the right price to extract maximum value vs. getting it gone as normally the goal is to walk away with nothing but the walls left in the house so that the family can list it. Really valuable stuff they'll list on line and simultaneously take in-person bids during the sale, and the rest of it they discount and then keep discounting over days/weeks until its gone. I had no idea about how any of it worked until we had dinner one night and they explained the process. They often take weeks to prep for a sale and then sales can go on for 2-3 days or many days over a period of months depending on how much crap there is. It's certainly a different process than what I envisioned which was the typical Saturday morning garage sale. Many of their customers are doing the same thing as the OP and trying to buy for the sole sake of reselling on line or in their own market place they've developed. -
A lot of life is just picking your hills to die on. Depending on the personalities and stressors involved, it may be worth looking at a wash/dry/fold place that charges by the pound. Call it a cop-out and rightfully so, but sometimes surrendering a small battle to win a bigger war is the path of least resistance.
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Having been through it before in TX and helping a family member go through this process right now, my observation is that a living trust is only as useful as the attention paid to properly funding it (putting the assets in correctly) and that often isn't done correctly. Seems that the fear of probate is often manufactured (mostly through Holiday Inn Express seminars and because Daddy always said....) rather than being founded in the truth. Easy to say and looks great on paper, but when the newness wears off the trusts are often ignored or forgotten and never properly managed. That can leave a bigger mess or more heartburn than had the average person just left well enough alone. A living trust can be a great tool, but like any tool, it needs to be deployed properly and for the right reason. Saying "to avoid probate" begs the follow up questions of why and at what alternative cost. The answers to those questions usually determine the right direction to take.
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I carry a 10mm Glock with Underwood Ammo loading 140gr Lehigh Extreme Penetrator. Killed plenty of hogs and my share of deer with it. Love deer hunting with it as a placebo for bow hunting
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How to value and sell an antique/vintage ice chest
Reagan1k replied to Mittens's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
If you want the largest audience, using one of the bigger auction houses would give you national exposure. Someone like Austin Auction Gallery has in-person and online bidding running simultaneously in their auctions. You'd be shocked at what the online exposure does to valuations and selling price. There may be only a few people nationally who are into vintage ice chests, but rest assured, they're all running screens on these auction house offerings and bidding. Those folks, plus the decorators and shop curators all run up the price above what you'd get on classified or sitting in one shop on consignment. All you'd have to do is get it to the auction house or have them arrange to pick it up.....they'll handle the real shipping to the eventual buyer. Call them or someone similar and see what they think. -
Similar experience in Eleuthera. 'Rental company" was a just a guy and his car. Told me to ignore the warning lights on the dash.....and when I was done, throw the keys in the seat, park it at the airport, and text him that we'd boarded our flight.
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