Beautiful! Congratulations on an awesome bull @tpk936

@tpk936 congratulations on the elk!

@mamalukino said in The Political Necessity of Lying: All candidates like to talk about measures they believe will “work,” because it allows them to avoid being specific. Everything works, because all actions, whether good or bad, have consequences. But that doesn’t mean everyone likes or benefits from those consequences. Thus, the question is not whether something works, but whether we like the way it works. Communism works, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works (at least some of the time), if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don’t care about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral, will work, depending on the outcome you’re after and how you define the term work. https://robertringer.com/the-political-necessity-of-lying/ Evidence of a politician lying.... lips moving. The sad truth is that they don't have to lie to stay in office. Nancy Pelosi referred to the Affordable Care Act at a Democratic Party event that we had to vote for the ACA act to see what's in it. I SAW THE VIDEO ON THE NEWS. I don't know that an elected official could make a more bone headed comment than that. One would hope she would read a bill before voting for it. I just don't know how the heck our media let her off the hook for that and allowed her to become speaker of the house. SHE'S IN THE LINE OF SUCCESSION TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT. What we can do about the LEFT WING NUT MEDIA... TALK ABOUT BLATENT BIAS...

260 Remington resized and polished in rice for two hours. Ready for the next loads with 95 grain V Max and 100 grain Sierra hollow points.

@orkan South Texas will take it but not parts of South East Texas. Some places east of where I live have had over 100 inches this year. A couple of places got as much as forty five inches in a couple of days. Out where rr2241tx has his property I don't know when it rained last and my place towards San Antonio hasn't had it's yearly quota yet and continuous days of 100 degrees and up. We started off wet but when the faucet turned off that was it. With the exception of a couple of tropical downpours it's unusually dry here on the coast except for the eastern areas.

@orkan said in Inline Imgur Galleries: Added the capability for inline imgur galleries and posts to be displayed. Pasting the imgur gallery code such as this: https://imgur.com/a/utVTqAC Will embed the gallery into the post like this: The preview pane when posting, will only display the link, but once you submit the post, the gallery will be embedded, if you've done everything correctly. Nice looking animal, bummer it looks like an uphill shot.

@donnie said in Taxidermist fail: Very hard to find a professional. Boy is it ever.

Thank you @dddoo7 ! Important distinction between worshiping God and serving Him.

@mindekei Welcome to the site! I'm glad the information was useful.

Took out one of my other 22 Creed setups. This one is setup for thermal. First shot high right, made an adjustment. Second shot low right, made an adjustment. Shot 3 more in the zone with two in the same hole. I'll call that good! Sure is nice having the swaro with the camera hooked up. I just swing the screen out and glance at it without having to get off the rifle. Zeroing thermal is usually a real pain in the butt. This made it simple!

Doe control is necessary for a healthy buck population I have been taught. Bucks seem to want to spend more time fighting than breeding when there's an abundance of does. Don't know about antelopes guess they have their own nature. My hunting buddy down here has taken on a ranch of about a thousand acres owned by his sisters husbands family. They don't have any water sources on it and is perfect for whitetail they just never developed it. I guess he's been there about seven years and made watering places with plastic wading pools and convinced his brother in law to get the well going and try to keep water there. He has fed a little protein and he and his sons have been shooting out the old spikes and otherwise dud deer and put up lots of cameras to see what was really in there at night. Two big problems they found as to why there wasn't any "good" deer. One was a pig control trapper and hunter that was allowed in there. He did way more than trap pigs, cameras caught him. He just about annihilated the turkey population too. I would have had him thrown in the pokey. The other was the Department of Criminal Justice had permission to train officers how to catch prisoners with bloodhounds on horseback in that place. That was a no brainer. Unloading a trailer full of hounds and horses in the fall chasing trustees. They finally put them on a schedule that wasn't conflicting with hunting season and they may have stopped altogether now. They had a bad habit of just showing up unannounced. He came up on a riderless horse one time and a couple of inmates were sitting under a tree resting and him with a .270. That could have been bad. The place has only gotten better and some deer worthy of mounting have been taken but seven years isn't long enough. He might be half way there.

I found the picture of the one we had tanned. It's a picture of a picture so it's not too good. That's my dog Ruby standing by the truck still panting after getting a whipping from the cat. She had the bobcat held down under a little shrub out in the pasture about thirty feet. I was more worried about a rattlesnake than I was the cat at that point. I had a rifle with me but laid it down when I saw where the bobcat was and had to get low for a shot.

Some sharptail grouse (at least that's what I think they are) behind the house tonight.

I love mine. I just primed 200 pieces of 6br brass 2 days ago.

The one I bought two years ago took a little over 4 months. My current one is at a year.

So these pics are of the barrel caps that Bigfoot made for me. Before these I would have to carefully tape off the thunderbeast brakes on barrels that I coated. It was not a big deal, but was very time consuming. Bigfoot made these caps that screw right on to the brake and bottom out exactly at the right point. With these, all I do is screw them on and paint. They also have a hole to run a wire through to make it easy to hang the barrels. Thanks for the caps Bigfoot. They are a very intricate piece to machine and they work flawlessly. You are talented.