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One drawback to Texas critters. I'd have to shoot 5 or 6 of our whitetails to equal one cow elk, and then some.

Can you imagine that.

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GWB

Imagine that.

I imagine he was mighty tasty.

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GWB

Yes and so was the young doe I killed on the last day.

will put the makins' on about midnight. Should be ready about 6AM.

It's about 65 degrees out. Day is done. Think I'll just sit, have a smoke and enjoy a beverage.



and contemplate the wise words of Rudyard Kipling.......



Betrothed

OPEN the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout,
For things are running crossways, and Maggie and I are out.

We quarrelled about Havanas�we fought o�er a good cheroot,
And I knew she is exacting, and she says I am a brute.

Open the old cigar-box�let me consider a space;
In the soft blue veil of the vapour musing on Maggie�s face.

Maggie is pretty to look at�Maggie�s a loving lass,
But the prettiest cheeks must wrinkle, the truest of loves must pass.

There�s peace in a Larranaga, there�s calm in a Henry Clay;
But the best cigar in an hour is finished and thrown away�

Thrown away for another as perfect and ripe and brown�
But I could not throw away Maggie for fear o� the talk o� the town!

Maggie, my wife at fifty�grey and dour and old�
With never another Maggie to purchase for love or gold!

And the light of Days that have Been the dark of the Days that Are,
And Love�s torch stinking and stale, like the butt of a dead cigar�

The butt of a dead cigar you are bound to keep in your pocket�
With never a new one to light tho� it�s charred and black to the socket!

Open the old cigar-box�let me consider a while.
Here is a mild Manila�there is a wifely smile.

Which is the better portion�bondage bought with a ring,
Or a harem of dusky beauties, fifty tied in a string?

Counsellors cunning and silent�comforters true and tried,
And never a one of the fifty to sneer at a rival bride?

Thought in the early morning, solace in time of woes,
Peace in the hush of the twilight, balm ere my eyelids close,

This will the fifty give me, asking nought in return,
With only a Suttee�s passion�to do their duty and burn.

This will the fifty give me. When they are spent and dead,
Five times other fifties shall be my servants instead.

The furrows of far-off Java, the isles of the Spanish Main,
When they hear my harem is empty will send me my brides again.

I will take no heed to their raiment, nor food for their mouths withal,
So long as the gulls are nesting, so long as the showers fall.

I will scent �em with best vanilla, with tea will I temper their hides,
And the Moor and the Mormon shall envy who read of the tale of my brides.

For Maggie has written a letter to give me my choice between
The wee little whimpering Love and the great god Nick o� Teen.

And I have been servant of Love for barely a twelvemonth clear,
But I have been Priest of Cabanas a matter of seven year;

And the gloom of my bachelor days is flecked with the cheery light
Of stumps that I burned to Friendship and Pleasure and Work and Fight.

And I turn my eyes to the future that Maggie and I must prove,
But the only light on the marshes is the Will-o�-the-Wisp of Love.

Will it see me safe through my journey or leave me bogged in the mire?
Since a puff of tobacco can cloud it, shall I follow the fitful fire?

Open the old cigar-box�let me consider anew�
Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you?

A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke;
And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.

Light me another Cuba�I hold to my first-sworn vows.
If Maggie will have no rival, I�ll have no Maggie for Spouse!


Ah yes, a woman is just a woman, now a good cigar, that's a smoke...........


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GWB

Gee', I'm going to drive to Texas someday and buy you a beer. You've got life figured out..

Fair tools....knife is some homemade job from a 'ol boy in Oklahoma.....grin.

We have fun round the Milford.

Give me a couple days notice, we'll meet at my lease north Uvalde, kill some critters and a some brewskis

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GWB

PS: the coons there are lightweights. We will have no problem takin' em' the best three out of four......

GWB thanks for the "pigs fly" video!

My boys got a kick outta that!

I got a 300 yard .3 in the mothball and a couple 200 yards .3s in the mothball, but it is rare that I would shoot at the center of a target in a match or have exact POA/POI intersection. The only reason I kept any of them was because I won small group for the round with them, just caught a lucky condition. I usually shoot at 6 or 12 O'clock of the bull to give myself a more precise aiming point. Bisecting a circle is not all that great an aiming point. If your bullet wipes out your aiming point that is not a real good thing either. Just the way I was taught to shoot BR, never helped me much but the guy that taught me did pretty well at it.

BTW mine was a new build with the scope just mounted and one shot fired with just a dial to the bullet hole. Try posting up some long range groups.
200 is not much fun

300 is a little better




800 is a lot more fun.





1100 is a hoot too



damnit I don't think a one of those was in the bullseye

gee,life is good in Texas..Enjoy....

That is a big old dude

Sir,

Not bad for bore sighting.

Just think what you'll be able to do once you get a good load and establish a zero.

Hell of a lot better than I'll do on my best day.
+1

GWB

Cool. I usually have a little can of tannerite sitting right by my 800 yard target. They are hard to set off at 800 because even an almost perfect shot will skoot them off to the side. I love it when they do pop at range. The time delat on the sound getting back is pretty neat.

It's not Montana or Wyoming, Idaho, Utah or Colorado, or any of the states where there are big deer, elk, moose or bear,
but my roots are here. I make the best of it that I can.........

I'm a meat hunter, not a trophy hunter. All of the stuff in the pix were taken DIY, on low fence/no fence ranches in Texas, most of it between 2000 and 2008..........

This is my first grandson. He is the joy of of an old mans life.



This use to be my "game room". He is now four. It was his nursery from the time he was born. Now it's his "game room"











I would get a kick out of putting him down for a nap. We would go to each animal and I ask him what they say, then he would tell them nite-nite before I put him down for a nap.

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Trying to do my part to raise him right.

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Tell me that boy ain't huntin'.

Yes,
Life is good not only in Texas, but in these United States.

I thank my Maker daily for the privilege of being a member of the "lucky sperm club" and the fact that I was born here.

In case I haven't said it before. Thanks for the hospitality ya'll shown this newbie.

Catch ya' tomorrow.


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GWB

That right there is great stuff; thanks for putting it up, and I am glad to have you here.

There has been a lot of concern on this thread as to who actually gets out hunting and fishing and who just talks about it. Since I was out huntign this morning I figured I'd put a pic up.

That cannot stand.

Life in Wyoming doesn't suck, but I would like to see some of Texas one of these days. Maybe even shoot a pig.......