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I have not roped well this week and that makes me very cranky, so I would like to take this opertunity to apoligise to all of you lovely folks, for the next 40 million posts give or take a dozen...Get it over with now I can say anything I please.... Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | ||
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Ray, You are just usin a silly assed excuse for being an ornery cranky irascible SoB  Do us all a favor and rope lousy every week... I need the entertainment... Hugs and Kisses, 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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I have some puppies in the back yard you can rope.  Ray, at least get your child support check in the mail. Puppy chow is expensive and now that the pups are getting older they howl at the moon and piss inside. Just like their Daddy.  JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous. | |||
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Ray: You the header or heeler  Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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I,m mostly a heeler, my grandson and daughter head the steers...they catch and I miss lately..it comes and goes with me, sometimes I forget where I am!  Judge, Nice touch on the mustache, but use a little more skill in the future, I keep mine trmmed like a proper English gentleman... Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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There are a few posters that I take note of in a positive way, Ray and JudgeG are among them. Good natured kidding is all ever meant in my posts, hope they are taken that way. Bad days have a habit of going away!!! Sacred cows make the best burgers. Good Shooting! | |||
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Blame it on the header.  Must be turning them to slow  Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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My wife and I did that for ten years and I outgrew it. It costs more time and money than hunting and you dont even get to keep the steer. Also you always be the header as you dont get as many complaints when you miss. It was a lot of fun though, at least until you get your finger caught between the rope and the innertube on the horn. | |||
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Good one Judge! I actually did "Laugh out loud" How much do you have to pay someone to take one of those "Hounds from Hell" home? Elmo | |||
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Sounds like a good case of PMS to me or menopause. My wife acts the same way. Are you related to her? | |||
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Jboutfishing, I've noticed that it is alway the header fault, they seem to always give me a bad handle.. But the bottom line is, miss or catch, I can still rope at 70, that is truly a gift.. AND I ain;t getting any older, thats far enough, we'll just hold it right here...time warp or whatever it takes Mr. Spook (SP. ?)whatever. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Are you sure it isn't that you've run out of your famous "elixir". You know, like the bottle you got in Dallas at the birthday party.  | |||
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Ray, Better rethink that part about not getting any older. There is only one alternative to getting older. Mr. Spook (or Spock ... gee I love it when an Alzheimer's patient still knows all the original Star Trek trivia, but can't remember what he had for breakfast ...) can't help unless he can beam you down another bottle of that elixir, and some Metamucil cookies. Go ahead and let it all hang out and whine to heart's content. We'll still respect you. In the world of curmudgeonry, infamy beats no-famy. Your not just getting older, your getting better.  | |||
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RIP, Let it ALL hang out, most certainly not, you would be shamed for life and your too special to embarrass im public!!  Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Ray...I think those were the female pups. I'm sure the mustaches on the males are much more vigorous. DB Bill aka Bill George | |||
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Yeah you must have felt so bad you went and bought that 404 Jeffery from Cabelas! Now that had to make you feel better you old gun whore! I'll fetch your slippers and get a shawl for your legs so you don't get too cold on that front porch in the evening! OK, Ernest, time to give Ray back his rocker!  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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One thing for sure, you guys love me more than those over on Big Game Hunting!!! Those bubas have no respect for thier elders or their betters!! their downrigh rude to this poor old gentleman!!   Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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What you need, Ray, is your header being your son-in-law...and your daughter won't let him say anything bad about her father!  That's the way I do it.  Glad you are roping at 70. I hope I'll just be able to saddle up at that age, or remember what I was going to do!.395 Family Member DRSS, po' boy member Political correctness is nothing but liberal enforced censorship | |||
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Hang on Ray! I always enjoy your posts! Especially when you throw in a "githralter and stanglesterhalter" or something or other John There are those that do, those that dream, and those that only read about it and then post their "expertise" on AR! | |||
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Ray, Typical deal heelers starving out the headers... blaming em for neck catches, half heads, hard corners, heel draggers & so forth. It ain't easy turning cattle for cranky old grandpa's!! I quit turning cattle for dad when he quit letting me ride pastures for a living at age 14, he mentioned something about tractors & my saddle didn't fit a Jonny popper, so I went down the road to the nearest feedlot got a job riding pens & went to turning cattle for other cranky guys that I wasn't related to. Mike "Too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" | |||
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Dang Mike, now that is funny! | |||
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Roping, huh? Let me get this straight. The cow is already captured, right? Then you turn it lose and catch it again, right? Well, hell, I'm going to a fish store, buy some live fish, turn them loose in my pool, then catch them again! Man, I can't wait to have some real fun! Just hackin' on you guys. My buddies are ropers and I give them the same shank. I was at a rodeo in Utah, hanging on the rails, when an old fart asked me how I was enjoying it. I told him the first paragraph. He got to laughing and said it was pretty funny. I thought he looked familiar so we introduced ourselves. It was Wolfred Brimley (spelling), the western actor. He's a "real" cowboy and one hell of a nice guy. Swift, Silent, & Friendly | |||
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Hawksawtom, Yep, that was he and his roping partner used to be Richard Farnsworth before he died, he was one of my favorite actors also...I have had brief visits with Wilford at several ropings. I take it back on the apologizeing, I roped great yesterday under the most adverse conditions, rain and high wind, caught everything I roped at so I'm back to my usual beatifull, congenial, happy, glowing, loving self.... Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Prof242, My son in law, my daughter and my grandson are my headers, the whole family heads for me!! they also heel..They all have a much higher number than me..I just got upped to a #4 I think and thats a bummer, makes it harder to win you know. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Ray, Glad to hear that your twine is back to being a catch rope instead of a throw rope! Mike "Too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" | |||
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Yeah, Ray, can understand. My daughter and grandchildren only barrel race. My daughter owns Farmer Jim's Feed in Falcon, Colorado, so the expenses are kept fairly low. .395 Family Member DRSS, po' boy member Political correctness is nothing but liberal enforced censorship | |||
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prof242, I once got my pickup seized & impounded in Falcon, Colorado (may have been exceeding the posted speed limit a little & didn't realize we had outrun a local police man back in Limon, didn't outrun the radio though)headed back to Ft. Carson from leave. Used to get on a bunch of bulls out at Swede Hansen's just up the road from there a bit. This probally didn't have anything to do with anything, just a small world ain't it? Mike "Too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" | |||
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Sweede Hansen, havn't heard that name in years but a big old fat boy used to be my Agg teacher in Marfa, Texas was named Sweede Hansen, He was the best.... Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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MARFA, TEXAS??? That goes a long way to explaining about Ray! Now we know the Marfa Lights were just Ray and his buddies out snipe hunting at night! | |||
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Ray My family grew up on cutting horses, my dad is 71 and is too fat and stiff to get on a horse at all, hasn't ridden in two or three years. I wouldn't feel bad about not picking up some heels at that age. A shot not taken is always a miss | |||
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Now Rusty, you surely don't think an old west Texas kid raised on ranches, cowboyed all his mispent youth, when he wasn't at a rodeo, would be out shooting such things as whatever showed itself between beers, now would you? I think that the answer to the Marfa Lights was the reflection off our Lonestar and Coors light bottles...Apparantly things have not changed a lot because I saw a deal on TV about the phenominal Marfa lights and the Gov. is doing a study to get to the bottom of that, well, good luch nobody else has...I think its cowboys screwing up the world... Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Lord knows Ray, we tried to create the same effect up in Odessa! LOL! | |||
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Ray, Now I know whose footsteps those were that I was following in!! If I had it all to do over again I just wouldn't have stopped for gas as often. "Scars are just tatoos with better stories!" Mike "Too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" | |||
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Ray, Nice to see a few cowboys on this site. I ride bareback horses. Have to look you up when im in Filer before Pendelton and talk about some hunting. About those Marfa lights, I was always a bit to "relaxed" from the Reata to still be awake once we got to marfa...... college days ya know  6x NFR Qualifier NFR Champion Reserve World Champion Bareback Rider PRCA Million Dollar Club 02' Salt Lake Olympic Qualifier and an all around good guy! | |||
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Silwane, Must be an old Sul Ross boy, I can talk barebacks, bulls and bronc riding with you, I didn't start roping until those rough stock days were over, well maybe a little calf roping..this team roping is fairly new to me and I'm just getting the hang of it, at least off and on, its reminds me of golf, when I'm good I'm very good and when I'm bad I'm really really bad! At any rate be sure to visit any time you pass through, I always good for a cup of coffee or a good meal...Always ready to talk hunting or rodeo... Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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And I have been known to pop a cork form time to time! Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Ray as we all get older our eye hand coordination goes some where else. Thats why i gave up trying to type in a way all could read. We just got back from 2 weeks fly fishing and telling lies without going near soap, as this will put a hex on good fihing and wash away all the beer we spiled on our selfs when one of our felow hunter/fisherman got to his punch line. My advice to you is stay away from the dreaded soap and your rythum will come around , but you freinds may not!! This is just some kindly advice from one old geezer to an older one. Cheers. Charlie | |||
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The Marfa Lights were the Score Board lighting up when Rankin was in town playing. Go Red Devils....Frank | |||
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