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Stump Water

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  1. 1 hour ago, Grass Range said:

    I have never seen a bull quiet enough I could put a ring in his nose

     

    Need a head gate.

     

    Of course, if his disposition warrants that you ring him, then getting him down the chute and into the gate is gonna be fun.

  2. 8 hours ago, sassnetguy50 said:

    No.  The Uppercut and Stinger have similar velocity from a 2" barrel.  The Uppercut was designed for reliable expansion and it works.  

    Stinger on the left, Uppercut in the middle.

     

    Screenshot_20240325-140326_DuckDuckGo.jpg

     

    ok

  3. At Bass Pro I have found that the seasonal, [what I call] "large print" shirts like this one are here today-gone tomorrow. 

     

    If you find one you really like you better get two, because you'll never see it there again.  :mellow:

     

    ETA: And you won't find it online either.  And what's online you probably won't find in the store.  Pretty much applies to most clothing & shoes.

  4. 1 hour ago, Alpo said:

    Remember McCloud? New Mexico deputy Marshal that for some reason I don't recall was working with the NYPD.

     

    Sure you're not thinking about Coogan's Bluff ?

  5. Depends.  "Balls for a golfer" for example.  Some golfers don't care, but some golfers are pretty particular about whose balls the whack around.  Unless I played regular with the guy I would not go there.

     

    If the guy is a shooter (plinks or practices a lot) a case or brick of whatever should be fine.

     

    Like golf balls, I would not buy hunting ammo for anyone.  

     

    I have loaded hunting ammo for a lot of friends and relatives.  Some had specific requests and some don't know the difference between Federal Premium and Remington Core-Lokt or Hornady Superperformance and Winchester white box.  I guess what I'm trying to say is, when it comes to purpose-specific ammo, you really need to know the recipient.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

    Eight or ten hours is just a workday to you, but it's an eternity for me to be alone.

     

    Had this conversation with a cousin just last week.  Not only is it not "fair" to the dog, it's borderline cruelty.

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Dred Bob said:

    I understand that they really skew the curve for competitive shooters...

     

    Not at all.  The "top shooters" are going to come out on top no matter what you throw at them.

     

    From monthly to EoT = from one extreme to the other.  At monthly matches, unless the props can stay on the range permanently you'll not often see a lot of them because it's a lot of work putting them out and bringing them in.  At EoT you have to move 700 shooters through 12 stages in 3 days, so you can't write in stage complexity or "fun" that will cause a huge variation in stage times which will cause log jams in getting shooters through.

     

    State or club annual matches are the middle ground.  There you'll see more of the type of thing you're talking about... shooting through laundry and kicking down doors.  Stage time an moving shooters thru is certainly still a consideration, but there's a bit more room for variation.

     

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  8. Way back when I would occasionally shoot Jurrasic Cowboy that's what I had/shot.  Solid gun.  I had Surly Dave (I think that's the right alias) give it his treatment because out-of-the-box it's as stiff as they come.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Warden Callaway said:

    I was pretty much "free range" when a kid.

     

    This^... in the Blue Ridge of SW Virginia.

     

    Never drank from the creek/river, but drank from springs all the time.  Sometimes you'd make a small depression so the water from the spring would pool up and you could dip it out after it was running clear again.  Sometimes someone had been there before you and done the same... and there would be a dipper hanging nearby.  A backwoods public water fountain as it were. 

     

    Lots of households then/there still didn't have running water.  They carried water to the house from a spring.  If the spring was too far up the hill it was piped to a cistern closer to the house (probably thru iron pipe). 

     

    I have not lived where there was "city water" in over 30 years.  Can't stand the smell of it much less the taste.  I won't even rinse with it after brushing my teeth.

  10. Not twins, but...

     

    Around here giving ALL your kids similar names seems like the thing to do.

     

    Just coworkers kids, you have Jody, Judy & Johnny;  Eric & Evan; Dylan & Dalton.  

  11. 17 hours ago, Badlands Bob #61228 said:

    I would go to the range and turn them into practice rounds.  If they don't go off, you can pull them.  If they do go off, then you save the effort of pulling them and you get a little practice in.  It would be a lot easier to pull 75 duds than 700 live rounds.  I'd probably use them in my pistols and get keep a squib rod handy.

     

    This.

     

    The pard had a 5 lb. coffee can of .38s and if they had powder was "questionable".  After a match one day a few of us strapped on our hoglegs and practiced until they were gone..

     

     

     

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  12. 17 hours ago, Oak Ridge Regulator said:

    Almost all states now have a mutual agreement to collect taxes for each other ( not all but most ) almost every time I buy something on line now I get charged for VT state tax, 10 years ago you never got charged for tax for anything you bought on line but you know politicians, somebody has to pay for them to sit on their a** and make dumb laws so they all agreed to help each other take our money. It’s the ONLY thing they agree on

     

    As sales shifted from over-the-counter to the internet, states were losing a ton of sales tax revenue.  The federal gov't was kicking around the idea of an "internet sales tax".  Just imagine how that would have turned out.

     

    So, in this case, the states did us a favor with their "mutual agreement".   

     

    Prior to all that Amazon, having nexus in darn near every state in the union, was collecting sales tax anyway.

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