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Reagan1k

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  1. Pretty good call- came close. Descended into an airing of grievances (decades old) that my saint of a cousin arbitrated. Uncle is entitled / privileged per aunt. Aunt is poor-mouthing miser pretending to be “of the people” per Uncle. Neither are wrong. It sure as shit ain’t really about the money.
  2. This is cool. My aunt is pouting and borderline refusing to let an uncle plug in his Tesla. Her rationale is that she’s never been reimbursed for gas when he hosts Tday, so why should her utilities “go through the roof” so that he can plug in on her dime. If this’ll go ahead and go nuclear, maybe we can leave and never do it again!!!
  3. Saw on camera what I believe is a prime example of the drought's effects...... for us anyway. We had a 3.5 / 4.5 yr old main frame long tined 10 with a nice G2 kicker last year that we'd hoped would be really special. He's easily identifiable because of a white spot on his hide. Watch him all last year and knew he'd made it through gun season. Haven't seen him since February. He finally showed up last night on camera (I guess the cold and / or rut finally got him out of seclusion). He's added some mass and his G1/G2/G3 lengths are arguably better, but he lost at least 12" of combined G4 length (nothing more than bumps this year) and his 3" kicker is now just a nub. He's in good shape physically, and IMO definitely shows at 4.5 yrs now. If he'll stay on property and not get himself shot by neighbors (and we have a better weather year) it'll be interesting to see a side by side by side comparison showing the effects of a drought in the middle as he ages into a mature buck.
  4. Please 'splain something to me........Most of my travel is domestic. Points stack up with MR, Marriott, and United mostly. What if any arbitrage strategies are used by you pros to maximize those points, vs. just booking reward travel directly through the sponsoring entity (above 3)?
  5. That's a pro-tip. Easier to work with and you can be more precise with your trimming and separation when the meat is in this state. Even if the meat hasn't been frozen before, popping it into a freezer for a period of time to firm before you trim / separate is a helpful practice.
  6. Cold and dry (not submerged in water), you can keep well prepared meat a LONG time. In fact, it probably enhances most if not all cuts and the final product.
  7. SIAP - Eli Lilly stock just took a hit over one of those blue check memes posing as Lilly & promising free insulin. Expect legal filings soon against Elon personally for recklessness (I'm no lawyer) and allowing this shit to spin out of control. I'd expect other companies to issue public statements that they are not affiliated with twitter in any way, in advertising or as a creator of content. Shady stock shorters could easily use this to manipulate the markets of any company until this is fixed - if it even can be under his leadership.
  8. Agreed - But I think that reinforces @G650 's point. Elon is arguably very good at working with and for the benefit of engineered type products, but Twitter isn't a widget. It's a compilation of feelings, thoughts, and ideas. Even the engineers working on it are dealing in the abstract and he has zero skill set for the functioning in the abstract, where emotional maturity and nuance are required. It's not what he doesn't know that will destroy this...it's what he knows for sure....that just isn't so that'll kill it.
  9. Decades worth of trial and error on skinning 100's of deer in numerous ways under various weather conditions and fresh dead vs. hung has led me to this conclusion....... Unless you have a permanent set-up at the ready and dedicated to either air or wench methods, it's far quicker, easier, and safer to just skin the SOB with a good knife rather than to dick around with all the shortcuts. Just like driving somewhere.....point A to point B - don't get delayed on the side roads looking for a faster way.
  10. Does Twitter count? - seems likely to die. Elon is playing Russian roulette with a full cylinder.
  11. His style reminds me of someone who buys a car and then decides to do their own NTSB crash test on it. Just because he's an engineer doesn't mean he can re-assemble or rebuild something that's intangible after he tears it up. And I don't really use twitter - I'm no conductor, but I know a trainwreck when I see one.
  12. Only one way to find out - 23andMe ground-check!
  13. 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.
  14. Helluva buck! Congrats. That’s how you do it.
  15. 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.
  16. 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 -..."
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. @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.
  21. Are you going to keep that streak alive and continue feeling great? I hope you do and I hope you keep coming back.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing. I need to do something like that!
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