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14 June 2009, 08:44
Mike_Dettorrewhat's cookin ??
I tried to move to Texas...they wouldn't have me...said I was too rough and tough...so I had to stay in California...
MikeLegistine 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.
14 June 2009, 08:55
WhitworthWill y'all let a Virginian come down??
"Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP
If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming.
Semper Fidelis
"Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time"
14 June 2009, 09:04
mstarlingDon't have any backstrap left (need to go back to Texas to hunt piggies!), but do have some frozen ham left.
Would that work with this recipe?
Will probably try to get down that way in September.
Mike
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DRSS, Womper's Club, NRA Life Member/Charter Member NRA Golden Eagles ...
Knifemaker,
http://www.mstarling.com 14 June 2009, 18:59
Bob in TXWhitworth,
I keep trying to get you to come out and play with us!!
Bob
16 June 2009, 01:58
drewhenrytntSasquatch eat pig too. Drooling.....cold swim in river.....drooling again.....end of June, Sasquatch revenge.
We Band of Bubbas
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16 June 2009, 03:07
jeffeossoturns out I won't be doing SQUAT for a month, due to work .. oh, I'll shoot, and might even get to make a day trip.. but no hunting till mid july.. which means "bang" ... sizzle .. wait, I aint skint it yet!
16 June 2009, 07:27
Whitworthquote:
Originally posted by Bob in TX:
Whitworth,
I keep trying to get you to come out and play with us!!
Bob
Bob, I would like nothing more!
"Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP
If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming.
Semper Fidelis
"Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time"
We Texicans have always enjoyed addition to the mix. You want to be a Virginian? OPPS, 300 years too late!
You can come to Texas, set up your tent sit down look around and say, " Gosh! What a beautiful place! I want to be a Texan!" Well, right then and there you are a Texan!
In a vast State filled with diverse cultures and eclectic groups of people, the glue that binds us all together is the simple fact that we are all "Texans"
God Bless the Republic!
God Bless the fallen Heros of Texas!
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.”
