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it's the only way they could get anyone to visit their website. most u of a grads are too busy deliverin' pizzas or can't read or own a computer anyway. how do ya get a u of a grad to leave? pay him for the pizza. u of a has joined the california boycott. they said they are going to continue their boycott of the rose bowl. Lark.

now that mccain is in for 6 more years and will be like 112 next time he's up for election, i can see him doing even less than he has that past 20 years. he might run out and try some other bill that will be deemed unconstituional and cost a jillion bucks in the mean time or keep up with his "no earmarks for Az" policy that just means all the money goes to some other state instead of us. or maybe he'll leave his mafia princess for another chick even younger than her. it's been apparant for several months that jd wasn't gonna win and i have some serious doubts about his capability, but i know one thing, he ain't mccain. and that was enough for me to vote for him. i hope thomas pulls out the AG deal. at least he's hard on border crossers. i don't see horne being much of an asset there. if brewer can keep the momentum and whup up on that dork goddard-napalitano it'll be a good thing. he won't be the AG or the gov and be out of politics in Az. anytime he's a civilian, it's good for this state. i can't imagine what he'd do to Az as gov. with napalitano, she just didn't do anything. that moron would try to do something, and it would be wrong. the nov general election is gonna be interesting. some interesting races in Az. hopefully harry mitchell will lose. but there are some real interesting things to watch in other states. florida, california and nevada especially. use your vote like a rifle. Lark.

badgers are one cool animal. like the wolverine of the lower 48. always in a bad mood. that is a real good mount too. looks like he's ready to bite ya. a taxidermist friend o' mine mounted a badger and a bobcat fightin' over a dead jackrabbit once. Lark.

my grandad had an electric skinner 50 years ago. whenever i would go to slow he zapped me with a hotshot. that's a slick setup. you put a lotta thought and imagination into it. first thing i saw was the vicegrips and wondered how you were gonna roll up the window on your pickup or change channels on the tv. but you guys probly ain't old enough to remember those days. Lark.

i pack a .30/30 a lot. bought another one at the last gunshow i went to even. sierra makes a 125 gr hollowpoint, flatnose, .307 diameter bullet for .30/30's. if you handload, get some and use em. they are far better than the old 150's and 170's. you can get a lot better velocity and the hollowpoint really works well. they make those new leverevolutions, but the only experience i have with them is in a .45/70. but try the 125's. they work well. Lark.

did you guys see the show about pete shepley when he broke his arm right after he got an Az elk tag? broke his arm ropin', just below the shoulder. i mean mangled it. had to put plates and rods and screws and a grease zerk in it. he made a sling deal that went around him and his release hooked to it, near his shoulder. he would hook the string to the release and push the bow with his left arm to full draw and work his right hand up and pull the trigger. he killed a bull that way. you'll be ok this season. might need some work later on, but for now you just need to let it rest and get ready for that one shot. it's a rotten deal to get hurt right now, but you still have a tag and your arm is still attached. give'r h e l l. Lark.

mine got so bad that i couldn't get my wallet out of my pocket. had to put my belt in my pants before i put em on. had to keep my knife in my left pocket because i couldn't reach in the other one. couldn't hardly even comb my hair. it was so arthritic it was about stove plum up. had a 2 inch bone spur growing into my biceps that cut about 35% of the muscle and it hung down in a little flabby ball. when ya have gorilla arms like me, that's a lotta muscle. had another spur about 1 1/2 inches growing sorta into my shoulder blade. there were a buncha little ones. it looked like a burr on an antler. i wanted to make a bolo tie out of it but they chunked it out with the rest o' the stuff and didn't save it for me. the new joint is amazing. smooth as glass and very little pain. i have to be a little careful when shooting a heavy recoil rifle and the dr released me with only one restriction. no archery. i shoe my mule, hammer stuff, tool leather, shovel, pick, everthing i want. i've been told i can get a permit for a crossbow tho and i'm looking at that pretty serious. arthritic shoulders are a little worse than an injured rotator cuff. and on the rotator cuff, it depends a lot on where the injury is. most folks think it's a rotator cup and has something to do with the socket, but the cuff is the group of muscles that attach in different places that allow you to move your arm in a circular motion. you get little tears and stuff where they connect to the bone and it causes all kindsa problems. my left one has some slight injuries in the cuff, but it has the beginnings of a buncha bone spurs. he said he can fix it in about 30 minutes. it's on my list, right after knee replacement. i will give you one real good bit of advice. get a good dr. a lot of the problem i had with my right shoulder was because of some real bad advice by a dr. "she" told me surgery wouldn't help. what she really meant was that arthroscopic surgery, the type she could do, wouldn't help. i finally went to a dr a friend recomended and he took one look at the mri and said to see another guy, because i needed total joint replacement. i didn't even know they did shoulder replacement. i had an elk tag, so i waited about 7 months before surgery. the guy that did mine does over 100 shoulder replacements per year. rehab was sorta rough because of all the atrophy from letting it get so bad, but even he was amazed and how fast i recovered. a lotta that is because i'm one tough sob, but a lot of it was because he put things back right. get a good dr. if anybody ever needs a reference send me a pm. i'll tell ya his name and number. Lark.

heck, i had to have my whole joint chopped out and a new titanium ball and teflon socket installed. and a buncha kevlar cord to pull the shredded biceps back to the bone. he did a little rotator cuff work, but the right one was in farly decent shape. whatever you do, don't let em cut on it or imobilize it until after the hunt. i'd take it easy and if your bow is tuned up real well, limit your practice to just a few shots a day in the week or so before the season. i'd take it easy for a week or so right now and let it heal up some. if you've been shooting a lot you might just have a sore joint or some bursitis. if they suck that toothpaste junk outta your bursa sack, well that is just a whole lotta fun. makes youre eyes go back in your head for a minute. i've had heck with my shoulders. kept me from bein' the greatest bow hunter ever. one thing to keep in mind is how you sleep on em. when they're sore, try real hard to not sleep on em. dr. told me that sleeping with a lot of weight on your shoulder can really cause some problems. as far as this season, if you take it easy and don't over do it, you should be ok. just let it heal up as much as you can until then. shoot a big one. Lark.

shouldn't be too hard to decock it. just noisy. all ya gotta do is pull the trigger. not too cool in the house. unless you're wanting to wake everbody up. some of the 10's have a heavy barrel like the 13. you see a lotta 10's that were police guns from foreign countries that made it back here. my 13 is a maryland cop gun. says so right on the strap. good pistols. you should be able to get a hammer and install if fairly easy. Lark.

is it a .38? if it's a 12 it will say airweight on it. if it's a .357, then it's probably a model 13. they are all 3 a k frame, but without an adjustable rear sight. same basic frame as the 18 and 19, combat masterpiece and combat magnum. i carry a model 13 a lot. i wish they made a model 13 with the skinny barrel you can get on the 10. Lark. p.s. model 12's are for standard velocity .38's only.

my daughter in law gave birth to Orion, named after the hunter constellation, at 945 tonight. 10 lbs, 23 inches. he's already bigger than a coues deer. gonna go get him a backpack tomorrow so he can git my buck out this year. full set o' teeth, needs a shave and is already cussin'. he nursed for awhile and bummed 2 bucks offa me and walked to the snack machine and got some jack link's. his mama and dad, Shawna and Gunner, are fine too. good kids and now good grandkids. what a blessing life is. Lark.

i'm happy about the deal. good lookin' kid. looks a lot like me. has a big head too, so he has lotsa brains like me too. they were a little concerned because he lost almost a pound overnight, but then they remembered they circumsised him after they weighed him the first time. Lark.

if my boys are with me we just build a fire and eat it for lunch and pack out the head. Lark. ps. if you leave the neck bone and leg bones and othe bones in when you cook it, it puts a lot of flavor in it.

we have a big grinder, a tenderizer, a couple different vac packaging machines, and all the other stuff like knives and everything. the grinder is really handy. but if you don't have a grinder there is a real slick way to take care of all the stuff that you normally grind up. take the shanks (lower part of the legs), neck, ribs, all the trimmings, etc., and put em in a big pan, add a little salt and pepper (don't use garlic on game, makes it taste funny) and put it in the oven for 12-16 hours. cover it with a lid or foil. bones and all. when it's done the meat just shakes off the bone. then package it up and freeze it. when you wanna make tacos, green chili, burros, enchiladas, beans, gravy, just about anything, just nuke a package and fix it up. you get every speck of meat that way and it is great. my wife will take about half of it and make green chili with it and freezes it. my dad lives on the stuff. absolutley his favorite thing on earth. he mixes a little mayo and mustard with it and makes lunch meat for samwiches. a crocpot or one of those big electric roaster pans works real well too. i know it's a real problem for a lotta folks to find something to do with all the leftover stuff you would usually make hamburger out of and this is a really good way to do it. never throw the neck away. from anything. it is topnotch this way. for green chili, the more sinew the meat has, the better. if you cook it long enough the sinew disolves and makes things real juicy. anyway, try it. it's a great way to take care of meat. Lark.

i haven't killed a lotta midget deer, but everyone of em has been a backpack job. of considerable distance and difficulty. main thing is gut it and skin it and get the temp down to what ever the atmosphere is. get the heat out of it. they are small enough the heat leaves pretty quick. get em out and get em in an ice chest. and before you go, go to the store and buy a wyoming saw. that is the best tool i own. you can reduce a couse buck to not a lotta weight pretty easy. leave the spine, the head minus antlers, lower legs, all stuff with no meat on it there. the saw doesn't weigh a pound and on a coues you can reduce it by 20 pounds without even trying, with a saw.

i don't think i could eat anything that looks like that lion tam has. and how do you guys know how gas tastes? i know a buncha guys that always say "that tastes like $h!t!!!". i always ax em how they know? Lark.

i hafta agree on the buttout tool. them things hurt! Lark.

i knew that some organ removal a few stitches wouldn't be able to keep a hockey enforcer down very long. glad you're doing well. Lark.

you eat pigs and chickens don't ya? they'll eat anything. i ain't gonna go outta my way to eat a bobcat, but if you want to, go ahead. i saw a photo and story of a guy eatin' a bear on this site today. i've had lion and it's ok. i've had bear that was ok too. had some that was awful too. when i was a kid we cooked some coyote on a stick over a fire. a coyote we'd trapped several days before and skinned and was layin' by the barn. it was worse than it sounds. i'd rather eat a shoe or own a 7mm/08 than eat coyote again. i saw some guys eatin' monkey on tv once. that's too much for me. looked a lot like a couple guys on this site. the monkeys anyway. if ya wanna eat predators, i'm all for it. if "you" want to. Lark.

i was watching the boone and crocket show the other day and they said that wyoming was going to make some big changes in a lot of units because of the severely declining deer herd. glad they did it. now we'll hafta wait and see if the huggers can find a lib judge that'll let it stand. you know that's comin' next. Lark.

about the best thing i ever did was quit drinkin'. i'm really glad i quit drinkin' before everbuddy and their stupid dog had a phone or digitial camera to take photos of everthing ya do. they'd have my own section on youtube. i was always sure that the drunker i got the better i was at dancin' and singin'. even sober i'm good lookin' and bullet proof and 10 feet tall tho. dance till your shoes wear off dude. don't worry about the consequences. Lark.

a guy asked a question about c.o.l. jeffro said something that sounded real contrary to everything i've ever done, read, been taught, etc. i asked him to explain. instead i get catclaw calling me a liar, like he likes to do, because i don't have a fat barrel on my .300. nobody said or asked anything about compressed loads. when i get a load close to the desired velocity i usually get it where i want by tinkering with the overall length. seat it deeper to slow it down, longer to speed it up. as long as i'm within what the rifle likes as far as the distance from the bullet shoulder to the lands. the info i posted was the simplest description i could find of what i was saying. the less "jump" a bullet makes, the more pressure and velocity it makes, with equal powder charges. that's the rule. to everyone on this site, please disregard anything i've ever said about reloading. it ain't worth it being called a liar, when i'm trying to loan someone some experience. and again, with like loads, the less jump a bullet has, the more pressure it builds and the more velocity. and there ain't anything artificial about a pressure spike. pressure is pressure. it doesn't go away until it's relieved. Lark.

dang, that's a big ol' bull. looks like a lotta happy folks. good job all around. Lark.

yep, that's what i said and if i'm wrong then so is joyce hornady and about every other reloader of any repute. i'm real astounded by your reply. but what do i know? i have a rifle that doesn't have a fat barrel, therefore, i don't know anything. i looked a little for something on the net i could post real easy, but couldn't find anything, so i'll hand type a couple paragraphs out my trusty ol' hornady reloading manual. 3rd edition. found the same info in sierra, hogdon and speer books. didn't look at any of the other ones. now you're sure that stuffing the bullet in farther makes more pressure and velocity? positive? there are some variables and i fullly agree with what 308 said because as long as you keep the shoulder of the bullet in the freebore area of the throat, it doesn't change things a lot. they change and measurably, but not to a great extent. at least not dangerously. and i think that's what he said. but i'll let him explain his thinking. i've talked with him enough to know he is extremely knowledgable and experienced and would trust him. now when you let the shoulder get close to the lands, you really see some changes. when a bullet is seated deep, it has farther to jump before it engages the lands. when the shoulder of the bullet engages the rifling is when pressure really sky rockets. and mean it gets high. 50 to 60 thousand psi in some cases. take it from a guy who built and maintaned steam boilers for a lotta years, that is a lotta pressure. no power plant sees more than maybe three thousand psi, and that will rip you into hamburger instantly. this isn't stuff to be foolish with. i never give anyone reloading data. but i will share experience. instead of just saying i'm right and someone is wrong, i'm gonna spend a few minutes on this, because i don't want anyone getting hurt. this is what the 3rd edition of the hornady reloading manual says. pages 18 and 19. it has some illustrations, but i don't have a way to post them. "to illustrate the effects of variations in bullet travel before the bullet enters the rifling, we'll compare a standard load with adjustments made only in the bullet's seating depth. in a "normal" load with the bullet seated to allow about a 32nd of an inch gap between the bullet and the intitial contact with the rifling, pressure builds very smoothly and steadily even as the bullet takes the riflings. pressure remains safe throughout the powder burning period, and the velocity obtained--3500 fps-- is normal for this load in this rifle. seating the bullet deeper to allow more travel before it takes the rifling, as in the next 2 illustrations, permits the bullet to get a good running start. (this is the real important part so pay attention everbuddy) 'POWDER GASES QUICKLY HAVE MORE ROOM IN WHICH TO EXPAND WITHOUT RESISTANCE', AND THEIR PRESSURE THUS NEVER REACHES THE 'NORMAL' LEVEL'. nor does the velocity, with same powder charge it only comes to 3400 fps. when the bullet is seated to touch the rifling, as in the accompanying illustrations, it does not move when the pressure is low and not having a good run at the rifling as did the other bullets, it greatly increases pressure to force it into the rifling. as the now rapidly expanding gases now find less room than should have at this time in their burning, the pressure rise under these conditions are both rapid and excessive. velocity is high at 3650 fps-- but at the expense of rather dangerous pressure." this is verbatim from the hornady manual. word for word. if i'm wrong, then so are buncha other folks that have a lot more experience than i do, and i didn't start reloading last week. a compressed load, with the bullet touching, or very close to the rifles, will create more pressure and velocity than a noncompressed load that is touching the rifling. because it has more powder. if it didn't it wouldn't be compressed. but we aren't talking about compressed loads. we're talking about c.o.l. in equal powder loads, the bullet seated deeper will not achieve the pressure or velocity of the bullet that is not seated as deep and is closer to the rifling. i don't know what more i can say on the subject. like i said earlier, unless the guys at hornady, nosler, sierra, speer and hogdon are all wrong, what i said in the earlier post is true. again, there are many variables; chambers tolerances, throat length, rifling integrity immediatly after the throat, differences in case wall thickness in different brands of brass, and especially in military brass, bullet jacket thickness, bullet composition, especially pure copper bullets, all have very defined and measurable affect on pressure and velocity. if you're going to reload, be careful. make sure you're doing it right and then check again. there's my rebuttal, refute if it you want. but i'm not wrong. and to anyone just starting to reload, please be careful and consult folks who have some experience at what they're doing. read up on it a bunch. modern rifles will take a lot of abuse, but when they reach critical pressure, things blow up. you're holding a contained explosion in your hands, next to your face, at pressures 20 times greter than a power plant makes. as long as things are done correctly, you shouldn't have a problem. be postivie you are correct. 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maybe the motor city madman is gettin' a little senile. dumbass. at least he's cooperating and not claiming he didn't do it. Lark.