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Mighty fine

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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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.
  4. 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

  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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.
  8. Ya'll have probably heard about Larry Vickers pleading guilty to violating NFA laws.  I really have no sympathy for him.  Dumbass did a lot more than push an envelope here.  He fucked around and is gonna find out with some time in the can.  I often wondered where he got his automatic weapons for some of his YouTube videos.  Makes me wonder how the Demolition Ranch guy obtained the MP7 that he has been flaunting on YouTube recently.  Is he next? 
    https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/north-carolina-and-north-dakota-police-chiefs-and-federal-firearms-licensees-indicted
    Ha, I just saw that that he has a new video with LEOs shooting his mp7. Figuring this was a quick CYA move?
  9. I try not to rank these admirals and other commanders in any order outside of having Admiral Nimitz at the top of the depth chart with Admiral Spruance the top commander that was active out on the high seas. If he was not in charge at Midway we might’ve been fresh out of carriers at the end of that battle. The rest all played a role as part of a larger machine and the ones that rose up and performed the best all should get an equal share of the praise for beating Japan.
     
    Spruance and Admiral Lee are the two I believe I would’ve enjoyed a conversation with the most outside of Nimitz of course. Spruance had a mind that never stopped organizing and planning, even in retirement. He was born at the right time, in the right place and was in command at precisely the right time in history to do what he did and the history of the war accurately shows that. 
    I've been enthralled by battleships since i was a kid. Lee at Guadacanal is one of my favorite accounts of the pacific theater. Being an Olympian in rifle shooting, then going on to run a battleship division like a calvaryman charging on horseback with pistols blazing.... fucking awesome
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  10. Anyone have any opinions on the second generation Pythons? Have been debating between one of these or a lever action 357.
    Ended up getting a Henry 357 instead of the python. Took the difference and also got a P365 Macrobed8e198073fb08748eff508eb56037c.jpg
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  11. A buddy of mine flew on the Space Shuttle and said that the Israel border is the only national border visible from space.  Why?  Because it’s green in Israel and brown everywhere else. 
    *when the sun is shining
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