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  1. Whoa just "hit the lottery" at Twins

    I have a dozen + bottles of W12 and can source ERs whenever I want...that said I do love my W12, so do I just pick up another bottle..... or one of the others?

    You can choose one of the following bottles to purchase:

    Weller 12

    $    28.99

    Stagg Jr

    $    49.99

    High West Midwinter Dram

    $    78.99

    EH Taylor SmBatch

    $    39.99

    Eagle Rare

    $    29.99

  2. 35 minutes ago, Texas St. Armadillos said:

    Made my Poor Man's Pappy batch yesterday.  What is the consensus on how long to let it blend?  6-months?

    I usually give it a month or two

  3. 58 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

     

    Teased a buddy with some $300 Costas once, so he had me try them. I stopped teasing him. It was like 4K TV being streamed straight to my eyes.

    That said, I've never pulled the trigger on a pair. I just know I'd lose or break them inside of a week.

     

    38 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    Pay the extra money for the 580 G and not the 580 P lenses. The clarity of the glass lens are so much better than the polycarbonate lens. If you're going to spend the money, then spend the money to get the best pairs available. Then buy some glasses straps, even with the floaty thing on the cord. I aint too proud to look like an idiot to save $150-180 sunglasses.

     

    That's why you buy 3 pairs! If one pair goes down, send it back to Costa

    I have 2 glass and one polycarbonate, for impact resistance activities like shooting. Or weedeating, power tools, etc.

    And they all have cables

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  4. 1. a boat that gets up in under a foot of water

    2. my Costas (amber/glass), I'm not leaving the dock without them

    3. higher end spinning reel with light braid

    4. quality light action pole I can cast all day

    5. topwater, spoon and gulp with screwlock jighead

     

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  5. A bullsnake is in the Pituophis genus with gophersnakes and pinesnakes. They all look fairly similar. And technically a bullsnake is a subspecies of gophersnake, so not all gophersnakes are bullsnakes, but all bullsnakes are gophersnakes. All are very large powerful constrictors and are amongst the largest snakes in North America. Maybe not as long as an Indigo but pretty close. They eat pretty much whatever they can get a hold of. Big ones can have a pretty salty disposition and bow up like a rattlesnake and vibrate their tail when annoyed. Generally speaking, we have (Sonoran) gophersnakes in far west Texas (and on into the Pacific coast) and pinesnakes in East Texas (and on into the south east even as far as into the Mid-Atlantic), and bullsnakes in between (and the states north of us).

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  6. On 6/13/2020 at 8:33 PM, markstanco said:

    Western rat snek? Or water snek?

    Relocated to a creek behind the house.
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    Western Rat Snake. A dark adult specimen.

     

    43 minutes ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

    Wife and I went scouting for Indian Paintbrush to transplant this fall and ran across this fellow. It was still cool so he wasn't real active. I had to come to a complete stop so he could get across the road.

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    Bullsnake.

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  7. On 6/6/2020 at 1:07 AM, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    wait, are you suggesting the snake climbed up on the roof and down the vent?

    Is that an actual thing or are you just being surly?

     

    On 6/6/2020 at 2:19 AM, ROFL BOX said:


     

     


    The pro in me says "yes, this very well could be an actual "thing".

    The pro in me also says this has a .000001% chance of actually happening.c58d08183abab190927c87cd3796baf0.jpg

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    Did you know there is a Facebook page called "Rat snakes in Predicaments".....I think I've seen more rat snakes off the ground than on the ground. So might want to check your math

  8. On 6/3/2020 at 10:37 AM, chitwood said:

    I did not realize until very recently that the red/yellow rhyme for coral snakes only works for North American corals.  Other corals, including central and south america, have a different color scheme.  If you ask me, that is cheating.

     

    It works for North American corals most of the time but there are aberrant specimens that break all the rules, kind like around here.

     

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  9. 2 hours ago, Handcruser said:

    Thanks for the response.

    I’ve been thinking of getting an AR that can shoot 70-100 grain pills. Not interested in 5.56.

    I think I’ll grab one of these to pair with my 300BO and 6.5C. The only other chambering that would interest me is probably 308, which would give me 165+ capability for some larger game (although my 6.5C would fill that role just fine really).




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    This 223 Rem 75 gr BTHP Match round is a bad mofo in a 223 Wylde chamber with a 1:7 twist

    https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/rifle/223-rem-75-gr-bthp-match#!/

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  10. On 6/3/2020 at 11:11 AM, Baboontyme said:

    I know surly is big on its guns. I'm not really a gun guy but I'm going to get a shotgun strictly for home protection. I've got a buddy who is helping me pick something out and get the right accessories, but he is single and doesn't have the same needs that I do to keep everything secure. My kids are getting older, and I don't care if they know that there's a gun in the house, but I absolutely want to make sure it's secure. I know what I was like when I was a teenager, and I remember picking the lock to my dad's drawer to get his .38 just so we could go out into a field and shoot it into the ground. I have to remember that my kid shares my genes and I don't want this to be an option for him. I also don't have a ton of room for storage for a huge safe. I'm not terribly concerned about ultra quick access, I doubt this gun will ever be fired. But I guess in the even that something did ever happen I don't want to be fumbling around with a ton of combinations and keylocks. My current thought process is that I would keep the gun in a locked closet (not secure) with a biometric trigger lock like this and I would keep the shells somewhere separate but close-by in a small biometric safe like this . Do these seem like decent options?

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    22 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    We touched on this with revolvers earlier, but this is the appeal of the Taurus Judge to me. It's a revolver that shoots .410 shells. 

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    18 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Exactly. I’m not judging anybody but I don’t even keep the guns and the ammo in the same building. I have dogs. 
    But if I did, it would be a revolver loaded with shot shells.

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  11. 1 hour ago, landman said:

    The news reports on this read a little differently:

    FORT WORTH -- A 31-year-old man fatally shot by police early Friday after officials say he swung a metal rod at officers has been identified as Joey Ellis. The shooting occurred shortly after 3 a.m. after officers were called to a disturbance at the Great Western Inn in the 1800 block of Lancaster Avenue. There, police said, Ellis told officers he had broken windows to several vehicles because the manager would not give him a room for free. Ellis was being escorted to a patrol car for further investigation when he broke free and attempted to run, said Lt. Abdul Pridgen, police spokesman. Pridgen said officers attempted to subdue Ellis using a Taser and a baton, but the man continued to resist arrest, picking up a cinder block as if he was going to hurl it one officer and later trying to remove an officer's gun from its holster. Pridgen said the man had picked up a metal rod and was swinging it in a threatening manner at the officers when he was shot by officers E. Pate, 34, and M.E. Anderson, 26.

    Not sure what the final report was...still, wonder why they never seem to get shot in the leg to get them down.   

     

    No cop has ever, in the history of cops, been trained to shoot someone in the leg.

    I don't know truth of the statements above, but if substantially true, deadly force would have been justified by Texas law.

     

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  12. That’s a decent size rat snake, although I have taken shits bigger than that.

    Rat snakes are bitey. If you grab it anywhere other than behind the head, it will bite you.

    Might draw a tiny bit of blood. But it doesn’t hurt.

    It could be a little scary though, so a pair of gardening gloves and a long sleeve shirt will give you the confidence to just go in there and grab it and release it down the road.

    Or you could just ask your husband to do it.

    Either way, video it and post it here. 

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  13. If you want to have some fun get a couple hundred feet of paracord, put it on an extension cord spool, connect it to a heavy fishing  weight, then some 200 pound mono with an extra large circle hook. Hook up a live blue runner or similar and drop it at the rig. 

    You’ll want to have a good pair of gloves, be standing by a cleat and have the captain ready at the helm. 

    Feel the hook up, cleat it, drag away from rig and get it on.

  14. It is difficult and slow going, I've tried 

    Try cloning new shoots in a light potting soil and vermiculite, keeping it moist and out of the sun.

    But I just buy it at HEB plus. 

    I have a huge herb garden with tons of lavender. And some in pots. It’s my favorite plant.

    Plant it in a place where it gets good drainage and do not over water it.

    Take cuttings of it, put it in a mesh baggie and put it inside your pillowcase. 

  15. My business was approved for the EIDL

    i read the terms of the loan:

    https://taxresolutionacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SBA_Form_1391_-_EIDL_Agreement.pdf

    and with these terms I will not take 25000 or more....I hesitate to even take any. 

    I’ll probably wait just under the two months they give you to decide, and then maybe take 24900 and bank it if things are getting worse.

    My May numbers were actually slightly above average.

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