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  Big Changes
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  This past week I have been cleaning out my shop here to get ready if we get a contract on my house. I hired a young guy for one day and he took an eight foot trailer load and the bed of his pickup full of "junk". He came back yesterday and I filled the back of his truck up with some of that stuff like your friends that hasn't been touched in not only a year but a decade. Brand new galvanized nails and deck screws making up the bulk of it. I also gave him an air compressor, a Delta table saw, a saber saw and a portable work station. I use pneumatic nail guns and hardly ever use a single nail and honestly I haven't pulled the trigger on a framing gun in three years but I have three of them along with a case of nails for each one. Guess they will make the move along with the rest of the large woodworking tools. I have one more cabinet to empty and that will pretty much do it. Back during the Christmas break I got in touch with the high school shop teacher here and gave them all of my hardwood I had in my lumber racks. It was a sixteen foot trailer about half full mostly short drops but perfect for projects the students could make. All they could afford is pine so some oak and ash was greatly appreciated. Boy, I'm glad I got that behind me now. To top it off the school told the teachers if you have personal things in your classroom come get them out so two pickup loads came out of my wife's room Sunday and Monday. She's retired anyway so it is as good a time as any. There was a small hope of resuming classes but that's not going to happen. Today they are issuing portable devices to all the students here to access their classes from home we'll see how that goes.
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  Winter showed up.
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  Here's the drought map for our area. If you move the cursor over the map it gives the county name. Where my property is it's one adjacent to the red area on the border that is Maverick and Zavala counties. We are in Frio County and rr2244 is somewhere around Blanco County I assume. Even Calhoun County which is next door to where I live on the coast is in an unusually dry pattern. We seem to be getting large amounts of rain at once then go through long dry spells here. We had close to eight inches in one day just a couple of weeks ago here. Crazy for sure. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?TX
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  The question that explains almost everything
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  Road Trip
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  @lathoto Mark loves that Harrison. He just put a new chuck on it after twenty years I guess. He uses soft jaws a lot he has a cabinet full of jaws for different od's and got a new gadget that attaches to the jaw holes for boring them so you don't use a ring. I don't remember the company that sold those lathes I think they were in Rhode Island. Every year he would go to the ASME shows in Houston and Chicago compliments of them and I got to go one time to Houston. CNC machines were gaining popularity for small job shops then and there was lots of little guys drooling over tools. I spent two hours at the Bridgeport Booth playing with a retrofit CNC set up for a knee mill. I wish I had taken more pictures of the tool cabinets when I was there. When I worked for him no cameras were allowed in the shop and we were always under scrutiny by the engineers we worked for. Eventually there was a sting that busted some guys that worked for our customer selling machine work under a dummy corporation using parts from our shop and others relabeling them and selling them back to the company. Corruption has no borders. I will pump Mark and see if he knows where any used lathes might be maybe he knows something.
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  Epic Music...share what your listening to!
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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXBXlJYKTNI
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  Barbecue
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  Got to have a little seafood around Xmas. I broke out two dozen shrimp and wrapped them in bacon then gave them a ride in the new smoker. I should have pre cooked the bacon a little but they were plenty good just a little over cooked. I dusted them with black pepper and garlic salt before wrapping and cooked twenty minutes at 350. I tossed a link of the boudin I just made on earlier and gave it a little smoke. It wasn't too bad and wasn't as spicy as the fresh link I tried when I made it. Maybe freezing and time will tone it down some. Merry Christmas.
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  Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving
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  Fall Harvest
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  I don't worry too much about the seafood caught around here. We have a bunch of marine biologists stationed here that do several samples weekly for fish and shrimp also oysters that include water quality testing and also tissue testing. Lots of money generated through the sales of license at least they have a few good programs they spend it on. The oysters are really regulated and about time they are.
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  Our elections are binary choices
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  New breakthrough in optic lenses
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  I remember when Simmons came out with the Aetec line of scopes. Aspherical lenses, boy they were the cats meow. I fell for it and bought one for around a hundred and fifty bucks. Buddy of mine had a slew of them on his pig killing rifles he used at night with a red spotlight. Better than a Zeiss he claimed. I still have one on a 6.5 x 55 but the second one I bought used I retired to the back of the cabinet. Certainly nothing like a Zeiss.
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  Garden 2019
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  We are wrapping up our spring garden this week. Wednesday it rained almost twelve inches and last night another half inch but we got most of everything picked before all this rain. I went ahead and pulled two rows of sweet corn yesterday and cut it off the cob for freezing. I still have six rows I planted later than yesterdays that should be ready pretty quick. Sure hope it doesn't sour or rot. I mowed the major portion down of my corn but it wasn't doing anything so that's the way it goes. If it would have all made it I would have some major work on my hands like years past. We picked a few blackeyed peas and they are already in the freezer for the winter, eight two cup packages to be exact and we have a table full to be shelled right now from yesterdays pick. I made Polish Dill Pickles and my wife has been making sweet and bread and butter style as well as some kind of squash pickles. That may be a bust, never had them. I guess enough sugar and vinegar and you can tolerate them. We ended up with enough tomatoes for 16 half pints of salsa and some for the table to slice and put on sandwiches. Home grown tomatoes are so different from store bought hot house varieties. Dang mockingbirds sure like them. I got a few pictures before we picked and some of the finished products. Sweet corn silks are really colorful sometimes and for some reason I didn't have one single worm in the ears. I didn't spray anything on it I guess the moths didn't make it this year in all the wind we had. What little damage I had was from a chinch bug looking insect and very few of them. Pickle Factory Finished Wife's Canning Blackeye's G 90 Sweet Corn
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  April 13 2019
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  Well, the African Lily is doing its thing finally. Another day or two and it should be 100 percent. The striped Amaryllis shot out a couple more blooms also. It's going to hit ninety here today and the winds have been blowing in from the Gulf to the tune of thirty miles per hour just about every day this week. That's the fuel for all the violent weather going on at the frontal boundaries. Plenty of humidity to go with the wind, almost see it in the air. Got my shadow in one of the pictures.
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  Good Cop/Bad Cop
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  @rhyno This happened in my city, so I am familiar with all of this. Charlotte has a notoriously shitty police department, I could go on for days about just how sub-par they are at their job. This is a primary example of their poor police work. However, in this particular situation, I think it is all a bit 50-50. They police violated several standard practices that, if followed correctly, would have likely left the situation with everyone still breathing. But there has to be some blame on the man shot here. He came into the BK with a gun, threatening people, and went into the kitchen area after someone he was having a dispute with. He then still had the gun in his possession and did not respond in a smart way to the officers when they arrived responding to multiple reports of someone threatening people with a gun. I don't know what his state of mind was at the time: watching this it seems obvious he was not right in the head, and I would think that an officer should have been able to draw the same conclusion and react in a different manner, but his erratic actions are ultimately what put himself in danger. So to me, the shooting was almost certainly unnecessary, but there is no way the courts are going to rule it anything but justified. And this is coming from someone that, if you have read some of my other posts, thinks very little of the Gestapo we now have as police officers in most parts of this country. The policework here was certainly shoddy, but there is nothing anywhere as close to as bad as the Philando Castille incident. And they let that shitty cop off 100% free. So there is no way anything is happening to the cops on this one
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  Congress sets voting, gun ownership, drinking and enlistment age at sixteen
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  @mamalukino ... ok, then don't put it in the "news" section.
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  angrier and more extreme
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  BANNED
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  Worst for me is I am selling a new Nucleus action and had 3 guys on the line for it. Now I can't contact any of them....
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  FedUp Fails Again, Hard
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  FedUp Ground couldn’t find my freestanding business when I was downtown, literally ACROSS THE STREET from FedUp Office. They took several adult signature packages to the health food store directly behind my shop. There was a 25’x4’ lighted sign facing their door. There were similar signs on each side EXCEPT the back that faced the health food store. The little vegan snowflakes would nearly die of fright when multiple cases of ammo and rifles from the auction would show up. The mailman there for a while was a slender young lady who never filled her bag more than a quarter full. Small flat rate boxes with 70# of lead ingots were invariably hand labeled in her script “Very Heavy”. She had a tall curb and four steps to get lead boxes from her truck to my front door. I would see her trying to get those out of her truck and go get them myself.
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  Netflix watch list.
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  Seige of Jadotsville on Netflix is pretty good, from the little research I did it stayed pretty true to actual events, certainly didn’t paint the UN in a good light.
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  How does the NRA work?
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  I don't care about bump stocks ... I DO care about the way they were gotten rid of ... I care about that a LOT. They were gotten rid of by changing a definition. A definition about technology. And the technology did not change. So how could the definition change? Well, logically it could not change. Hence it was not changed for logical, scientific, rational reasons, it was changed because a tiny few dukes and duchesses wanted it to change ... and THAT IS BAAAAD. Once we allow laws to be made by the dukes and duchesses, we know where that leads ... well, we're already there ... hecque ... maybe we've almost always been there ... but yes there are some of us, like moi (and most on this site) who are the real liberals. Those who believe in liberty. And that means in part ... PHUQUE THE KANG !!! :D
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  Seriously Mentally Ill Indiviuals with guns
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  Being good and Godly doesn't mean going to a building with a cross on it. It means being righteous every minute of every day. Seeking truth, in all things. Fighting evil, no matter its form.
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  Santa was running a few days late
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  Careful what ya get them interested in, it can get spendy LOL This was Drew at 15....by 18 he had gridded up as a pro racer with MotoAmerica.... Oh the guns i could have owned back then! LOL Glad he's on his own building guns for me now!
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  Merry Christmas
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  Merry Christmas Gunhive!
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  Manly Survival Humor
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  aVe is pretty funny in his own way, I enjoy his videos to pass the time. His tool tear downs are fun, I use to do that all the time when I was a kid, he’s better at putting them back together then I ever was though.
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  Wet Weekend
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  @orkan One big ice machine. It wouldn't matter, there would still be fools trying to go around the barricades in Houston crashing into icebergs on the feeder roads.
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  Concealed Carry
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  LaVaca Bay Oysters
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  @bigfoot said in LaVaca Bay Oysters: Oyster harvesting used to be my winter time job. Nothing but hard labor and cold fingers. The last sacks I sold to a wholesaler I got $12.00 for 120 pounds of whole oysters in the shell all cleaned of dead shell and singles. I got paid as low as $7.00 but that was the lowest I would take, I would shuck them myself and bootleg just enough to pay my bills. Now they are paying over $40.00 for a hundred pound sack. I'm not going to elaborate on what some people will do for money at the expense of a resource. There has been some massive changes in this fishery in Texas brought on by the industry and the participants thereof. I'm glad I'm not part of it anymore. Hopefully the ecosystem will recover. Enough of that. I bought a pint Tuesday to fry up and see if I still liked them. Some folks hate oysters and some would walk on fire to eat a dozen raw ones dipped in Tabasco Sauce. I have eaten my fair share of raw ones that I personally caught but with the condition of my liver and other body systems I have to decline that treat nowadays. I like fried oysters and don't necessarily have to douse them in cocktail sauce to hide the flavor and a very simple breading of plain cornmeal and some black pepper. Texas Oysters if they are any good will be salty naturally and just a little dash of Tony Chachere's seasoning in the meal won't over do the salt. Deep fry them at 350 degrees until they float and you're good. If you go to New Orleans every seafood restaurant will have a sausage Po'Boy on the menu. Don't know if I would like coleslaw on mine though. They sure smell the house up when you fry them. Looks like a little bit of heaven on a plate right there.
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  Gulf Coast Thanksgiving
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  @rr2241tx said in Gulf Coast Thanksgiving: Nearly had to call 911 to get me down from that sorry seat. hahaha! That had me laughing.
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  Making a Murderer
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  @rhyno If you knew how many people are arrested AND charged without the cops even ATTEMPTING to get their side of the story, you'd be disgusted. I mean, it would literally make you nauseous. Cops are no more interested in investigating than reporters are. As soon as they have someone making a claim, then they can do what cops do best... go from zero to 100% instantly and escalate the situation as fast as possible. Cops - "You can tell your side of it in court." Prosecutor - "Well they wouldn't have arrested you if they didn't have something." Judge - "Well the prosecutor wouldn't have charged you if he didn't have something." Citizens - "Well none of this would be happening if you were totally innocent." You're guilty until proven innocent in this country. The sooner you all understand that, the more equipped you will be if/when it happens to you.
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  Taking A Selfie
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  What a stupid A hole.Somebody should smack some sense into that moron before he shoots someone.
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  Winter sure is early...
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  Yeah... did it again here last night. lol
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  Home decorating
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  So obviously a setup
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  Propaganda and education controlled by the state brainwashes the sheep easily. Now what was I doing 35 years ago in a drunken stupor I can cash in on.
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  Squeeze Bag
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  Tab Gear gets the vote from me. Texas based in Bandera and headquarters about an hour and a half drive from our South Texas property. I guess they do some manufacturing there as well. I saw where they make suppressor covers and will get one as well for my 30 caliber can. Too bad they don't make scope bags, I could use a couple. Can't seem to catch them in stock at LaRue. Finally quit raining here.
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  Dust Devil
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  @orkan I bet you get some big ones if you are in some flat terrain. They claim it's a sign of a weather change. That may be true, It clouded up north of us Sunday night after this was shot and rained as much as eight inches in places and has continued to be unstable the last few days. Down here on the coast we get water spouts and right now it's prime conditions for them. There is a thunderstorm booming right now as I type.:( Pretty soggy here.
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  Matagorda Bay Shrimp
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  @bigfoot said in Matagorda Bay Shrimp: In learning to make roux one must test the first batch to failure. Equal parts (by weight) of butter and flour. Low heat and a wooden spoon. Constantly stirring as the color changes. There is a spectrum of flavor you may taste along the way. White, blonde, brown, and finally dark brown. Take your time. I used to grow my own cayenne.
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  A side of Round Up with your breakfast
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  @orkan said in A side of Round Up with your breakfast: We'll pay the price for this chemical onslaught we're under for generations to come. They won't stop until the earth is sterile and unable to support life. Mother Nature will likely make a course correction before that happens. If extinction of humanity is that correction, then we only have ourselves to blame. As Agent Smith said: "Humans are like a virus"
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  Tell me about trucks
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  I guess I'm late to the party ... but as for "trucks" ... when we bought this land ... I was still finishing up in CA .. and wife was "advanced party" in Manhattan Kansas ... I traded in my city vehicle (a grand cheokee) and got a RAM 3500 dually with a 6.2 cummings diesel. THat was 2012 ... research indicated as long as the RAM was well maintained it would last a lifetime ... I got it with 50k miles and expect it to last for 800k miles ... I just passed 100k miles ... We really do use it for the "tow truck" ... pulling stock trailer, flat bed trailer ... bail trailer ... etc. If I had it to do over again I wouldn't get a dually I'd get the 20 inch wheels ... I think those work better in the mud. This is 4wd and I've never been stuck somewhere I didn't drive out of on my own. This truck is working for me. == My wife had a Jeep Liberty ... and she keep having to replace her tires ... we finally got her a Wrangler with giant tires ... and kevlar exterior ... which is useful on the gravel around here. The liberty was 4x4 .. so is the wrangler ... it is a good off roader ... and we have bridge washouts around here, so I could make a difference, when the 3500 would be unable to cross the creeks etc. We spend years researching crap before we buy ... the tractor ... the buggy ... the 4-wheeler ... the swathers ... balers ... etc. I expect all the non-gas powered vehicles to last the rest of our lives ...
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  Clock punchers.
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  @orkan said in Clock punchers.: Every business owner I've talked to in the last 5 years have all said that it's near impossible to hire good help. The welfare state has ensured no one needs to care about jobs. You can just go to the government with your hand out, and the more worthless you are the more money you get. I think a lot has to do with how many of the new entrants in the workforce were raised. It seems as though too many parents had not set boundaries of acceptable behavior and expectations. Not so long ago a friend of mine's son was complaining about his boss. The son was not happy about being told what to do and how to do it...… I said maybe you were never told but you are get paid for DOING WHAT YOUR BOSS TELLS YOU TO DO. What really floored me is that the kid didn't think that made sense.... He wanted to tell the boss how things should be done. His employment at the store lasted 3 days...
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  Swimming Hole
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  @lathoto The deck is done and just doing some final cleanup. The bottom of the deck is enclosed now, I took this picture before they put the cedar pickets around the perimeter. It seems like every trip to the Ace we have here is a hundred dollar bill now, ant killer, umbrellas and benches then I was informed I needed a timer. Just got through wiring that into the GFCI. The fence guy showed up looking hungry and I already know what that's going to cost. My wife went to a pool supply place about an hour from here and they relieved her of about four hundred bucks for chemicals and now I'm a chemist whether I like it or not. We have a little bulldozer looking vacuum that runs around inside the pool sucking up all the saw dust these guys left us. That alone entertains me for about an hour so it's all good. Feels good to float around weightless every evening for an hour or so. That reminds me, need an outdoor radio. Back to Ace.
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  Kinetic Sculpture
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  Queen Steel Knife
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  Just How Far Will the Left Go?
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  Summer Time
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  104 yesterday at the 22BPCR match. We shoot under tall live oak trees so it was almost bearable on the line but going downrange to reset the targets was tough. Decided that I didn't need to go to the Lever Action matches today because it was 85 degrees an hour before sunrise and a clear day forecast with southwest winds. Only 103 right now but the heat of the day is still coming. Fencing crew is going to work around midnight and knocking off at 9 am. At this rate I should have a brand new fence just in time for a range fire.
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  Why does Donald Trump bother?
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  2nd Gen Dodge Diesel Pickups
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  @martino1 You could always call them and let them know what you're running. I don't want you to just go out and get them and find out they are too soft for your application, as mine is slightly different and I haven't ran anything of theirs but their bilstein 5100 shocks as of right now.
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  I’m rethinking Appendix carry
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  @tackyp said in I’m rethinking Appendix carry: I’m a pretty lean guy so I can’t hide a gun at my 4oclock. So I appendix carry. Maybe not anymore See I'm the oppisite. I'm not lean and can't appendix carry, so I carry at the 4:00-4:30
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  Body armor experience? Hope I never need any.
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  Spring Garden Planting
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  @toni Thanks, turned out OK. Got some friends and neighbors fixed up too.
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  Don’t buy Sentey Elctronic safes.
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  This is going to be true with almost any affordable safe. Safe's are made to keep kids and druggies out and keep the guns moderately safe in a fire. Insurance is for protection against professionals.
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  Group of Minnesotans sue to end CPS
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  What is this click bait thread title? I opened it thinking the MN guvmint was coming after @orkan ‘s competition primer seater! 😃 I wouldn’t put it past them to have hopes of equally stupid gun related bans.