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Reagan1k

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  1. Lake Charles is beautiful and Hackel-berry is getting slammed. Would LOL if this wasn’t so sad.
  2. Damn Bear. Sorry to hear that. Hope you start to bounce back soon.
  3. Such a shame those rigs still require one to unzip when you have to stop and take a piss. All those are missing would be a catheter to offer 100% stress free hunting. "deer hunting has gotten so expensive"..........Quail hunter - "Hold my beer..."
  4. This place I visited had so much money invested in irrigation wells and piping to support the habitat improvements and reseeding for desired vegetation that I'm sure some old pipe salesman retired on that deal alone. I'd estimate that the man-hours spent half-cutting mesquite and other brush work to be in the 10's of 1000 hrs. Each bedroom had it's own elaborate, hand-carved wooden paneling gear room with a high end gun safes, gear lockers, etc...... and those each led to separate Ritz Carlton kennels.
  5. Unless you can turn-key the rental and management of both the property and the renters over to a 3rd party, I wouldn't do it. Owning single family rental home has its own set of problems, but the day to day headaches of a short term rental are exponentially greater. I have a stake in a property we rent through a condo association and they handle everything. Light bulbs, repairs, cleaning, renters locking themselves out at midnight....you name it. I'm anonymous to the renter. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole if I had to ever deal with renters and the associated maintenance. It's their vacation and they treat it as if they are in a hotel. They want everything addressed immediately. I don't blame them, but I also don't want to be at their beck and call.
  6. Passionate (and wealthy) quail hunters are like nothing I've ever seen. A few years ago I visited a ranch that had been a dedicated quail ranch "sanctuary" owned by a small group of hunters, but was sold and was transforming into a whitetail focused ranch. The infrastructure and habitat expenditures the prior owners had made to make it the best wild quail hunting ranch possible was staggering.
  7. This guy better enjoy one more year of pilfering feed. He's already turned his tips horizontal so he'll be prime in one more year. He'll have that smell that stays in your head for 3 days and makes you burn the clothes being worn when you loaded him up.
  8. Never hurts to toss a couple of flash bangs in the house as you arrive home after a long day of work, just to settle shit down and help you ease into a relaxing evening at home.
  9. I keep some loaded magazines in my safes (in the door pockets) but my real stash is in cans or case boxes in a closet.
  10. Great point. For me I equate my list making and process actions like a 5th step. If I get all my "to-do's" out of my head, and past my teeth on to paper, the are no longer swirling around as a typhoon in my skull. They are identified individually and no longer just a foggy notion of "all this shit I have to do" which creates a feeling of being overwhelmed. It becomes cathartic to cross them off and see the list shrink and if I can't do it all, I get to say, "oh well - tomorrow." To me, those actions seem to come naturally to well adjusted grown-ups but it only took me 50 some-odd years to mature - glad I finally did.
  11. If he has offers, look up the models on Gunbroker.com and see what similar pieces have for current bids. There are more precise way to value but that’s a 5 minute spot check
  12. It's a shame but it's been like that consistently for some time now. I travel back and forth to Fredericksburg and Llano several times a year and I stopped ordering brisket. I'll get a pork chop, smoke ribeye or smoked prime rib but no more brisket for me.
  13. Atlantic Firearms just got in a big shipment of Wolf ammo - .223, 9mm and 7.72x39 - cheap steel stuff but they have it. Flat fee $18 shipping. For some reason they have their ammo link hidden under "parts and accessories", but if you're in a jam and need something to shoot, it's there. https://atlanticfirearms.com/taxons/ammo?criteria[availability]=in_stock
  14. So you're still holding out for that WeWork IPO ?
  15. Not sure about TX, but I heard a big issue in the south eastern states is that Academy had furloughed a lot of freight drivers due to Covid and therefore normal deliveries are off schedule. Academy supposedly has (or by now maybe had) a lot of ammunition in their warehouses (relative to other suppliers) but is slow and sporadic in getting it to the stores and on the shelves. That's why some other non-ammo items are also strangely out of stock and they have some bare spots on various shelves. It shows up randomly but when it arrives its relatively plentiful for a short time. Obviously that will eventually burn off as they 1) get more drivers back and 2) what they have is distributed and scooped up by buyers. In the meantime, its a matter of checking daily for new arrivals or becoming buddies with the manager and getting a phone call.
  16. Congrats - Also, thanks for the reminder about our family members whom we punished. We joke a lot among ourselves about the old life. In meetings and in just talking to other drunks its common to talk about wrecking cars or doing absurd shit and everyone laughs. I tend to be bad about that and have to be careful not to take a cavalier attitude back to my family because it isn't funny to them most of the time. Their experience is different than ours with regard to our drunken state and recovery. Good for you on the milestone and for being aware of your wife's perception while you celebrate your sobriety. I needed that reminder today.
  17. Kissing cousins. Both are cool little rifles. The 600, 660, and 788 were all excellent rifles (especially considering their price points at the time) that have recently been more appreciated by shooters and collectors. Sort of a cult following since their production numbers were a fraction of the 700. I wanted a 600 carbine in .308 for a nostalgic truck gun to take until I got serious about it last year and saw the prices. I wouldn't want to bang one around these days.
  18. Poor Kodak!
  19. Some of the replies to that were pretty funny - people offering to trade acres of land, etc. Guy had fun with it - even posted this Sad thing is there are so many new guy buyers around right now they probably thought that was the going rate not knowing any better. If left in a vacuum without the other posters turning it into a comedy routine, he'd have probably accidentally sold it for that to someone who didn't know any better.
  20. That's really cool. A lot of people have no idea that the 6.5 Rem. Mag even existed. Those 660's in 6.5 are pretty hard to come by. Not many made relative to the more popular calibers at the time (like .243). Honestly there aren't many "better options" as aside from ammo being a challenge, you can put that round up against any whitetail cartridge and not play second fiddle to any one. Thanks for sharing that.!
  21. It’s not real, but Cheaper Than Dirt is really selling 9mm for $1.00/pop in 50 round boxes. That blows my mind that they must have takers at that price.
  22. Had to have been stolen. Dealers and street criminals don’t go on wait lists at FFLs for a 5.7 and pay that cost for Ammo.
  23. Husbands and the wise things they do.....
  24. "Did you throw away my ........." is how numerous conversations start each month at my house. I'm not sure if she really believes I did, or if it is a coping mechanism she's adopted to ease her mind so she doesn't have to blame herself for not putting shit back where it goes or organizing her things. Much easier to blame me and then coast emotionally.
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