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Mighty fine

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  1. As important as the gun itself is the holster.  If it’s uncomfortable or difficult to carry, you’ll rarely carry – defeating the entire point.
    I carry a 365.  Wish I had gone with the XL or slightly larger option.  It’s a small gun, very easy to carry/conceal, not so great at the range.  Small guns are hard to shoot effectively.  I’m adding a red dot.  If you can add a light, add a light.  Like mama always said:  “nothing ever good happens when the lights are out”.  Also helps being able to see what you are aiming at.  Then comes the practice, dry fire exercises and clearing your holster. 
    The gun itself has been flawless.  Small mags are a PITA to load, but they all are.  God willing you’ll never have to use it, so practice, take it apart and reassemble as many times as you can, keep it clean, and it will work for you.  Is there a range nearby where you can rent various models to try out?
    I carry the 365 xmacro tacops with an enigma holster and am pleased with how easy it is to conceal.
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  2. 50% is high. It's been awhile since I looked at the averages, but I think net evap is on the order of 30-40 in/yr. But you're correct, ASR has the potential to cut those losses dramatically. That said, one of the technical challenges to ASR is protecting your stored water bubble. If the groundwater gradients are too steep (relatively high lateral movement), this can cause a portion of the stored water to move beyond the capture radius of the well, and that water is essentially 'lost'. On the most recent asr Class V injection well authorization I worked on, losses do to groundwater movement came in around 25%.

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  3. There needs to be away to pump this excess water down into the aquifer 
    I know some entities around Houston are exploring this (capturing and injecting stormwater). The difficult part is that you have do some level of pretreatment before injecting. At a minimum this would involve knocking out suspended solids to prevent fouling of the formation. Beyond this, the state regs require that the injected water be of at least as 'good' of quality as the native groundwater.

    The technology is there, but the infrastructure requirements are substantial especially when considering that there may be extended periods of equipment/facility downtime.

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  4. It will be interesting to see what the state does here re: Aqua. There are two (at least) regulatory issues here. The first is with regards to the groundwater district being able to recover damages for the overpumping by Aqua, which will end up in court. The second is with regards to Aquas inability to maintain minium regulatory capacity in its public water supply system in violation of state law. I could see they're CCN being revoked, though doubt any entity will be willing to take it over.

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  5. Not great but not surprising.
     
    UTRWD is currently building one, Ralph Hall, just a stones throw from Bois D'Arc. There are quite a few reservoir projects both conventional and off channel included in the regional water plans from the last cycle. I anticipate we see quite a few going in over the next three decades
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  6. Nice python. I need to sell a kid if I wanna get one.
    Re-frame your thinking. You're not purchasing a gun; you're contributing to your child's future savings/college account via your 357 plan.
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  7. Nice. Who helped you?
    I can rarely remember a name after initial encounter, but I'm wanting to say it was Keith (short hair slender fellow, maybe late 40s early 50s). Please correct me if I'm wrong on the name.
  8. I just recieved e form 4 approval on my supressor; submitted first week of January '23. I was getting itchy

    Eta: I submitted about a week before the atf rule on braces, so I suspect my app fell to the bottom of the influx of paperwork

  9. After reading the story, it sounds like the county pauper cemetery is located on the same land as the jail, but the graves aren't necessarily tied to the prison. Ie, unclaimed or indigent deaths from county hospital, etc. Other than poor taste in location, I'm not sure what the story is here. A mass grave wasn't 'discovered'...it's the pauper cemetery.

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  10. Is it?  When I moved to Houston 15 years ago American shooting center (huge range, clays, long range, etc) was a bunch of guys that look like me (now).   I go now and on a Tuesday afternoon and its 50+ Asian men with nothing but tactical SA rifles, and maybe 5 old white dudes working on some handloads.  Every. Single. Time.   Pistol range about 80% Asian and Hispanic guys that was 90+% white guys from Katy a few years ago.    The entire clay section still has the same demographics, along with the 200-600yd (or whatever it is now) long range stuff.  Mostly middle aged professionals that trend white male, although there is more women showing up at the 5 stands everyday (including my wife)
    So, while it seems the tacticool trend bothers you, both sales and what's at the range seems to be getting more and more mainstream.  Shit, I see just as many chassis rifles as I do wood stocked hunting rifles.  Good luck seeing anything with custom exhibition wood on the rifle range, maybe 1 out of 10 trips - it's typically mine that some old guy will come ask to take a look at. Chassis rifles are "tacticool".  No one is committing crimes with them.  Why is precision shooting tactical?  Are you yearning to go back to the 1.5 MOA out of the box model 70's of our youth?  As long as it can hit a dinner plate, remember that?  I'm looking at replacing some shot out barrels on my hunting rifles with a carbon fiber barrel.  Is that tactical, or just modern tech. 
    Remember when you didn't know anyone that hunted with an AR?  Forget about shooting sounders out of helicopters for a moment.   90% of the kids you see on facebook next to scraggly spike or fork horn have a little 556 with the stock completely collapsed, and a can on the end in the pic.  Turns out super ergonomic (will fit kid 1, 2, and 3 perfectly with the pull of a lever), affordable, indestructible, low recoil rifles are popular with people with small kids.  Oh and I can make it where their little ears are protected too, sign me the fuck up.   No more trying to unfuck a flinch for a decade after handing your 10 yo dad's '06 because you want to get your kid involved in hunting.   Now, lets talk about mowing down sounders.  It's fun af.  Does it bother you that people enjoy that?
    First time ownership of firearms is record breaking year after year, and across every demographic.  I would bet both aisles are well represented in that rainbow coalition demographic spread.  Prices are up year after year due to demand.  Exciting new wildcat rounds showing up every other year.   All of that screams mainstream, and I'll bet dollars to donuts those first timers aren't grabbing some easily accessible plain walnut ADL, and certainly not some AAA Claro adorned Blaser.   Doesn't bother me in the least.  Less competition for what I personally like to fill my safe with. 
    Your take generally aligns with my observations. One thing that I don't think is largely understood is how quickly/how much the gen-z gamers types turned hobby shooters are creating a subculture somewhat unique from the other gun owner types (hunters, gravy seals, etc).

    I used to have a sour attitude towards black rifles and had more of the mindset of Brisket, then I bought an 80 percent lower just to tinker and see if I could build one. The process of doing that (researching, watching videos, fucking up) flipped the switch for me. Tinkering with black rifles has made me a much more effective gun rights advocate compared to the NRA culture I grew up around in the 80s and 90s
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  11. Saudis need to have a foreign legion like the French.  Just a fully decked our mercenary army.  The got the money for it.  Just not dudes who are willing to do bad stuff
    Saudi doesn't have dudes with the will to do bad stuff...is this a serious statement? I mean, my impression is that Saudi will do any and every fucked up thing you can come up with, so long as they see it as being in their best interests.
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