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  1. No, they don't keep anything except the sample they need. For non mounts you leave the head, they get the glands later, but if a trophy mount, they can just keep the glands.
  2. I'm with you there. As long as the glass keeps the rain out, and don't break easily, I can live with a little defect if it's all out of pocket.
  3. My son moved to WA state and left me one of those. I used it to power wash the deck before I treated it. Not to shabby, the middle tip would scar the wood if left in one place too long. I liked that the pump would shut off if I stopped squeezing the handle. The black tip, for soap, was pretty good too, good dispersion but a little fast, but it came with two bottles so I guess it was ok.
  4. California condors, yea about that. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/2/lead-ammunition-ban-passed-after-feds-withheld-key/ If indeed there is a problem, then why all the games? No doubt they are dying, but lead is abundant in nature,
  5. I don't doubt that it happens now and then, but you would think that vultures, at least around here, would be dropping like flies if it were gut piles that were the problem. And with as many lead sinkers I find on the shore, you'd think there would be more instances there as well. I think most of these incidents are isolated, just covered more.
  6. Seeing like it's next to the great lakes, probably fish. Or it could have migrated from Michigan. Most gut piles don't have lead, at least not in that much quantity, because most of us avoid gut shots, and many times it's a passthrough.
  7. I've got a bunch on the ground from a tree in the front yard, the one in he back, not so much, but there are a bunch of squirrels back there so that may be the reason.
  8. Came out nice, but was it just me that cringed in the way he did it? The way he used those pliers, vice, dremel and brush, even the WD-40 was IMO wrong. I would have soaked it in Kroil, or evapo-rust first, then nylon brushes after that.
  9. This is one rare deer, antlered doe with weird palmated antlers. https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/hunter-catches-deer-antlered-doe
  10. I've been zeroing a Benjamin Titan NP in .22 and I have no doubt it can take on a groundhog, but I would limit it to under 30-40 yards or so.
  11. Well, I've been receiving NRA wine ads for some time now, so I won't jump on that wagon yet. But I've received at least three ads in the last week or so, so they are really pushing it this time around.
  12. Yea, a couple years ago I was hunting when I seen one in a tree making his way down. It took me a bit before my brain would allow me to connect that shape with a groundhog.
  13. My vote would be for Lee as well, but for a turret press. It can be used as a single stage to learn on, then, if you want, it can be used in a more progressive fashion. Lee has a reloading kit that pretty much has everything except the consumables which come at a good price. Some of these pieces are rudimentary but you can upgrade once you know what to look for. https://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/item/0000690304/classic-turret-press-kit
  14. Not really, as to get to rehab means they have already commited a crime. With some of these prevention programs, the goal is to keep the kids from committing the crime in the first place. Look at all the "kid" crime being reported in TN lately, many from teens below 18. Giving them something else to spend their time on may help keep them off the streets.
  15. I totally disagree with this whole rehab BS, I think incarceration should be a punishment rather than a reward. Many of these criminals actually have a better life on the inside than the outside, what with libraries, gym equipment, TVs, 3 hots and a cot etc. If they want to make a difference, they need to invest that money into programs like the boys and girls club of old. Get into prevention rather than the rehabilitation.
  16. In a way yes, but I would not categorize it as sympathetic. I do agree with you that she is not the victim, no question about it, but if a regular civilian would have been involved this would have been handled much differently from both sides.
  17. I seen some of the reporting of it yesterday, and they were definitely implying that it had something to do with the trial. They kept emphasizing that he was shot in the mouth, so it may have been because of his testimony.
  18. Omega

    Storm

    Glad it missed the more expensive barn and hope your insurance will cover the rest.
  19. I have way to many "kits" to just get one, so I have multiple storage solutions. Most are like the tackle boxes, two are soft cases with those boxes inside, and one I use to put all my AR tools in is from harbor freight, not bad for around $15, less with the 20% off coupon. https://www.harborfreight.com/tool-storage-organization/parts-storage/toolbox-organizer-with-4-drawers-68238.html I went looking for this one, but the trays are way too small, I thought they were full size.
  20. If you like farming, you can always supplement your income with the extra veggies. Nothing wrong with enjoying life, as I was in the military, so my fun 20s were a little limited, but I too let them slide by before I started investing in my future. I guess I was investing though, as my 21 years in counted towards my retirement pay, so there is that. But the military, Army, didn't have much then, and it wasn't until 2000 that I started my TSP, the military's 401k plan. I was already in my 30s, and had only about 4k saved before I retired. My jobs from then on, have all had a 401k, and I have always maxed the matched amount, and now a bit more than that.
  21. Maybe he thought it was the Appalachian Trail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sanford_extramarital_affair
  22. Nah, I'll take whatever SS owes me back. At 54, I'm well into it, I won't depend on it, but I will take it.
  23. Not sure what you mean by that; you mean SS would be half? Currently I am operating (bills and stuff) from my military retirement, all my job checks goes to 401k and savings, so I am training myself to be retired permanently. SS is just a trigger if you will, I am no relying on that to live.
  24. Not early per se, but when I retired from the military, after a foreign assignment, I was home for about three months and it drove me a bit stir crazy. Same thing happened a few years later when we had a contract issue and I lost my job, I just had to get a job to get out of the house. Though I tried to get myself into my hobbies, they just weren't the same as having a job. My plans are still to retire as soon as I can get SS, but I may not if I still feel the same as I did those two times when it comes time.

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