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while i may have struck out on this afternoon's hunt, at least I was THERE ..., thank goodness that I have the health and opprotunity to hunt! Can't hunt them from the couch! opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | ||
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Jeffe. I have made 8 hunts this "rifle" season. So far the only thing I've killed is one hog........  and one bottle of El Jimador tequila. Like you said, every one has to be somewhere, and hunting is a good place to be GWB | |||
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Que, Hombre! 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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so i breaded shrimp and fried them... and while i had my fryer out, I fried two chickens .. just cajun fried em both ... YUM! opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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Jeffe, You are welcome to come romp with us in January in Sabinal if your schedule permits. Bob There is room for all of God's creatures....right next to the mashed potatoes. http://texaspredatorposse.ipbhost.com/   | |||
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and struck out again .. but i was OUT THERE, brothers, no "inside" opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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Yep, being out there is the biggest part of it. I still have a spike/cull tag to fill here in Lavaca County (must be a spike or have at least one unbranched antler). This eveing, I watched 3 deer from the kitchen window, and 2 were spikes. A stalk to decent range on them would have been fun, but today was not a good one for me, and my health problems kept me confined to around the house. But I am hoping for at least one more good day before the season closes as some backstraps have been weighing heavily on my mind...  Now if those hogs would just come back as well...  Bobby Μολὼν λαβέ The most important thing in life is not what we do but how and why we do it. - Nana Mouskouri | |||
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Well Christmas eve I had blacktail backstrap, Christmas Day I had a wild boar ham, yesterday I had elk steaks and tonight I had a spinach salad with seared pig back straps. Mike Legistine actu? Quid 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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Why is it that every one of Jeffe's posts end up talking about food that he has prepared? Damnit Jeffe! The problem is that every time I read them, I am hungry........ Hey man, at least you went hunting....... "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" | |||
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and AGAIN .. but, the feeders are starting to look like bomb craters -- with deer season over, and most hunters out of the woods, things are likely to look better soon... place was TOUGH getting around on, after a week of rains opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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My bud had some minor freeze damage up at his place and we finally got up there to try and fix some of it. Ended up more or less a pick up hog hunt. His BIL came in from out of town, had his son in law, myself and their hired hand called in a fellow with a few dogs. After several hours of pounding feet and a few wild 4 wheeler rides we managed to haul in 6 in the hundred or so pound range. At least got enough for the BIL to make a meat haul and I ended up with some 25# of fresh ground pan sausage. There were more there, but the uncut cotton field coupled with the 6" of water and gumbo was more than we could get through in most places, and the hogs knew it. Most of the ones we got were found by riding slow along the ends of the cotton rows looking for black spots in between. Once the shooting started or the dogs were loosed, you just had to watch the dust fly from the tops to keep track of them, and ahead of them. The ahead of part was the wild rides. Been a while since I have pulled off some hard riding like that. LOL Sure am feeling it today. I actually think we might have done a bit better on the bigger ones with out the dogs scattering them. They were all pushed up in the fields due to the river being up, and "thought" they were hid out in the cotton. Keep at it, your gonna hit them. If there coming to feed they will slip up. Take care. Mike / Tx | |||
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