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Well, due to the weather, I'm not going to get to make it down there. We were going to drive there this evening. I just spoke with our Ft. Worth office, and they said it was already getting bad. All of you still going be careful...... | ||
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You should not let the threat of a little freezing rain keep you away! I am off to the airport right now. Great event...except for my wallet! | |||
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Wish me luck. Leaving Graham for Dallas in the AM. No frozen stuff falling as of 5:30 this afternoon. | |||
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It rained on us a fair bit leaving this evening but we had a good time and I am glad I went today as it was not too crowded. I did buy the three-day pass so I may have to go back...  ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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I'm watching closely but am not optimistic about making the drive from Austin tomorrow. Flying in this weather is usually fine. Driving is another matter all together. I may just hop on Southwest. | |||
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I checked the updated forecast and didn't realize it had gotten so ugly...  The forecast does seem fluid at this point and the line between rain and freezing rain here looks to be pretty close - presently calling for high 32 and low 31 tomorrow.  ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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I made it to DSC but decide not brave the weather to go to the AR dinner... It raining like a bovine urinated on a planar segment of fossilized terra firma Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Well, now I don't feel so bad about not being able to make it -- I have an aversion to hard(ish) stiff falling from the sky And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. | |||
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Crybabies. We are expecting -15 degrees F. at my house tonight. | |||
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Had a great time today at DSC. NE450#2, BobC, Mac, Hogkiller, and my ownself had a great time at the show. Got to meet a bunch of the AR crowd. Always a joy! Dinner with a room packed with AR and DRSS folks was a blast to say the least! I'll post some pictures when I get home. If I can get home tomorrow? Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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  If we worried about that stuff up here, nothing would get done for 4 months of the year.   Cheers, Canuck | |||
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 Seriously, I would rather have snow than freezing rain. But if I had the choice it would be neither.  ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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Well, with ice on the road and Texans in cars, us Okies are going to have to stay home from DCS. Sorry, wanted to be there, but the 8 to 10 hr drive when it should be 4 hrs is not going to happen this year. | |||
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Oh, poo...get out and go to the show. I wish we had something like that up here. My parents are going to the show and they don't even hunt really. I'll be at a local gun show tomorrow but that's not a safari show by any stretch. _______________________________  | |||
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I went to the DSC dinner tonight. It was great to meet a bunch of guys and put a face to a name. Many interesting people. Forrest B is as classy in real life as I thought he would be (he made an appeal for a charitable cause). I met Phurley5, who is a real gentlemen. The guy knows how to kill elk. The anonymity of the internet may breed bullshit, but the folks I met tonight have an impressive hunting resume. People who go to DSC are serious hunters. All in all, if I would have gone home tonight, my flight would have been cancelled, so I am glad I elected to stay in Dallas one more day. The AR dinner was quite good. I have never been afraid to speak my piece on AR, something I appreciate, but equally glad no one held it against me. BTW, having lived and traveled in more places than most of the posters here, Dallas weather can be as bad as anywhere. 20 below can't hold a candle to freezing rain - or even the sheets that came down earlier today in Dallas. My colleague didn't make it out tonight. Never seen a flight cancelled for cold weather (lift is actually increased in cold weather), but seen plenty cancelled for the weather we had tonight. | |||
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Not wanting to start a pissing match (my comments above were all tongue-in-cheek), but you don't really think that the places with 20 below don't often get freezing rain too, do you? It isn't 20 below every day you know. Its been snowing, raining or freezing rain here for 6 straight weeks. The coast has been getting buffeted by system after system of wet weather and we have been getting it shortly thereafter, with some nice cold weather mixed in. Its -24 C right now. It was +3 C and raining two days ago.  As I said, if we let a little freezing rain stop us, nothing would ever get done...from Nov to March! Anyway, I just thought I'd respond to your comment because it reminded me of one of my pet peeves....the guys on the coast always boo-hoo when it gets down to freezing because they say a "wet cold" is worse than a "dry cold"...as though 0 deg in Vancouver is colder than -20 deg in the interior. They apparently don't quite get how moisture content and air temperature actually works. Cheers, Canuck | |||
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Mike, The wettest part was the dash from the hall to the car in the parking lot. Wink and I were soaked to the bone in about 2 minutes. We have a fine time last night and I wish you could have made it. Quite a turn out. -Steve --------  www.zonedar.com If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning DRSS C&H 475 NE -------- | |||
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Agreed with Canuck. I grew up in the Midwest and spent 5 years in Ft. Worth. My parents have been there for 16 years. Texas weather cannot begin to compare with Canadian and Interior Alaska weather. That's not the point of this thread but don't be ridiculous. Texans are notorious for emptying a grocery store at the first sign of weather. Again, I have lived there and know the facts. _______________________________ | |||
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Yukon, Canuck: I have lived in Alaska as well as International Falls, MN. To be sure, both places are colder. However, when it comes to interrupted travel plans, nothing beats the wind and ice you can get in Dallas. It makes travel very difficult very often - that is my point. 20 below zero is actually very easy to fly in. I can't imagine anything was flying last night. I know my colleague had two flights cancelled back to back. But you are right about emptying the grocery store - they even had that on the news. Little over the top - you may not fly, or even drive if the rain turns freezing, but you aren't gonna die. | |||
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Get a backbone! Washington has had some of the worst weather in history. One of the reasons I'm at work today.  The only easy day is yesterday! | |||
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If you do not have infrastructure to clear the roads and most people lack the tires or driving skills to navigate on ice, freezing rain is very dangerous wherever it happens.  ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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Watch the bridges on the freeways this evening and tomorrow morning. You won't believe how slick they'll get. analog_peninsula ----------------------- It takes character to withstand the rigors of indolence. | |||
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Did you get to the show? ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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I agree with you about the infrastructure and driving skills. Dad lives there and jokes that most people don't know how to engage their expensive 4WD's. I just called him at the show and they were getting ready to leave. He said the weather was getting worse...which is code language for "I don't want someone running into me". I understand it's a good show. Go if you can! _______________________________ | |||
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I haven't yet. I was trying to decide between this afternoon and tomorrow. If I holler at my computer any more (cdrom issues), my wife may make me leave within the next 5 minutes.  analog_peninsula ----------------------- It takes character to withstand the rigors of indolence. | |||
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Be careful. I am hoping the forecast is wrong and tomorrow will be acceptable, but it looks like if I wanted to go back I should have done so this morning. ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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Guess I should have headed back over today since as far as I can tell the roads were wet but not frozen. Maybe they will dry over night before it gets below freezing...  ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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I am back home; I was supposed to be back at 7:30, but my plane was late, so I caught a flight to Vegas and then down to PHX - wanted to get out of there before that rain turned to ice. | |||
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I dilli-dallied around on Saturday and didn't find out my sunday morning flight was canceled until too late and couldn't get a flight out on Saturday. Now my Monday flight has been canceled and I'm here until Tuesday, at the earliest. Stuck at an airport hotel for two days. What joy. The frustrating thing is I am seeing planes taking off. -------- www.zonedar.com If you can't be a good example, be a horrible warning DRSS C&H 475 NE -------- | |||
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I went for about three hours this morning; I'm really glad that I went, since I enjoyed it much more than I thought that I would. All in all, it was a high quality show. analog_peninsula ----------------------- It takes character to withstand the rigors of indolence. | |||
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Sorry I missed you. I took the whole clan back over this afternoon and we did not leave until they were calling out the raffle results. The weather hysteria was something else and I think it had a real effect on the traffic at the show yesterday. It cost me a little at the jewelry booth but I have Valentine's Day covered and my wife has met the people I wanted her to meet, so it was definitely worth going back. I think the only person who was not very polite and nice to the crazy guy with his wife and three daughters was the woman at Banovich Fine Art. She cleary was too wrapped up with her sales prospect to be able to be polite to us... ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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