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the guy at guns etc is good on triggers. Lark.

you think they'da fired him if they won? the last drive cost him his job. he was always marginal and overmatched. his performance in the last drive was more than they could deal with. Lark.

there ain't a place in town that has any powder. i've heard sw is out of everything, but they have never had a good supply of reloading stuff. pretty much useless. i was at bass pro the other day and they had a lot of crap that nobody wanted and next to nothin' of the stuff folks do want. they had at least 50 boxes of .44/40 ammo. how many folks you know have a .44/40? and no .357, 9mm, .44 mag, .45 auto, .45 long, etc. i bought some .224 hpbt match bullets and some 140 gr btsp .270. other than that, they had a buncha junk. they had stuff like 165 gr. .270 bullets and 170 gr .308 in some morphodite type of bullet, but nothing anyone wants to use. it was pathetic. in the case of bass pro it looks like they have a moron doing the orders. some clerk who doesn't have a clue what folks use. but my favorite hole in the wall places are all outta powder and primers. a couple have a few bullets, but they are all outta the popular stuff. we tried to order some stuff on the net from cabelas, midway and at least one other place i can't remember the name of. they were all back ordered on anything that had to do with loading. even presses and powder throws. they had very few popular bullets in stock. kinda spooky. folks are scared of obama and his liein' assed ways and are buying everything they can get their hands on. the mi-wall booth at the last gunshow was so busy it paralized the rest of the show. obama swears he has no problem with owning a gun. but i think he's gonna figure out a way to eliminate ammo. he's gonna make primers, or powder, or lead, something integral, a hazardous material and make it impossible to get. if not the actual product, then one or more of the chemicals used to produce them. hide and watch. i know i've spent a fortune on powder, bullets and primers lately. because something is gonna happen. and if it don't, then i'm well stocked. all the obama voters are gonna get what they axed for, only they don't realize that they didn't know what were axin' for. Lark.

told ya clancy had to go. whisenhutt knows who to listen to. pendergrast was a sacred cow. the only hold over from dennis green. whisenhutt didn't want him but he had no choice because clancy is real well connected politically. his family actually used to own the land the stadium is built on. only reason he was ever hired in the first place is because of political connections and the only reason he lasted as long as he did was for the same reasons. the last drive in the super bowl was too much and his connections couldn't cover for it. you guys will learn to listen to me. i ain't kiddin' when i tell ya i'm the smartest guy in the wurld, wrold, i mean on earth. Lark.

pendergrast has always been a weak coordinator. they had a chance to win the big one and he went into the armadillo prevent. they even had a holding call on the drive and still won. they shoulda pounded the qb like they've neve done before. just needed one sack or something, but he had em all drop back into prevent. for one drive they needed to play like killers, and they didn't. the interception at halftime was a killer, but they overcame it and should have won. as far as the ref's, the immaculate reception was an incomplete pass. video proves it. they beat the oilers in the playoffs 3 years in a row and bad calls either kept the oilers off the board or kept the steelers in the game. the one where they said billy johnson didn't have control of the ball was the most pathetic call of all time. game wining touchdown. no good. video proves it wasn't even close. they beat dallas once because they called benny barnes for pass interference while he was laying on the ground 30 feet away because swann tripped him. look at the calls in the super bowl with the seahawks. rothlisberger had 9 completions and 2 interceptions and they still won. the very fact that holmgren got away with saying what he said with no fine proves that one. without the bad calls it was a blowout by the seahawks. it was pathetic. heck, some real iffy calls that went their way helped em beat the ravens this year in the regular season and the playoffs. in this game, whisenhutt threw the challenge flag twice and won both times. therefore, bad calls. they missed the grounding call so bad that later, on the same drive, he chunked one outta bounds and they immediately reviewed it to show they got that one right. because they knew they screwed up the first one. the roughing call on dansby will live in infamy, it was so bad. poor calls did have an affect on the outcome of this game. for whatever reason, the steelers always get the benefit. bum phillips and john madden are still pissed about it. i just hope the bidwills don't screw things up, because they have a real chance to repeat. but history ain't on the cards side. Lark.

ok, what are the ballistic advantages of a 7mm bullet? it is .284 diameter, a .270 is .277 (which, by the way, is actually 7mm diameter. europeans like to measure bore diameter inside the lands, not bullet diameter). that is .007" larger in diameter. 7 thousandths of an inch. wrap a piece of tissue around a .270 bullet and it will be over .284 diameter. they make a lotta big bullets for a .284, but big bullets in a small caliber don't do much good. too slow, high pressures, drop like a rock. if you need a big bullet, you need a big gun. nothing wrong with the .284 diameter, but it isn't ballistically superior to a .277. one thing a .270 does have over a .284 is that a 1 in 10 inch twist will stabilize any .270 bullet. you can experience accuracy deficiency with a .284 with various bullet weights, with most barrels, becaue they don't have an ideal twist, like the .270 and .338 cal's do. that's why the name changed from .280 rem to the 7mm express and back again, because they changed the barrel twist, trying to get folks to buy them. the .280 was remington's copycat of the .270 like the .244/6mm rem was a copycat of the .243. there are 2 big reasons they never did well in sales. both cases were made a little longer than the .270 or .243 to keep someone from chambering them in the wrong gun. this intern wouldn't allow an '06 to be easily necked down to the .280 and wouldn't allow the .308 to be easily necked down to a .244/6mm. and they twisted both barrels wrong to stabilize the bullets hunters wanted to use, instead of what they wanted them to use. the .280 would be a great gun, if there wasn't already the .270 and if you could neck down '06 brass without a lotta work. the .244/6mm is the same story. all guns are good, some are better, and the .270 is the best, having been divinely designed and all. Lark.

i've never been much of a cardinals fan, but not because of the players. the bidwills are poison. but i sure wanted em to win this game tho because my second favorite team has always been whoever is playing the steelers. again, they've never won a big game without zebra intervention. look at the rapin' the seahawks took a couple years ago. only time ever that an nfl coach went on national tv and badmouthed the ref's and wasn't fined. because the league knew holmgren was right. the poor calls did have an influence on the outcome of this game too. per the rule, the last cardinal play was an incomplete pass, not a fumble. might not have changed things, but to me the game was never really finished. the roughing the passer call on dansby was criminal. especially when the squeelers qb blatantly grounded the ball on the same play and it wasn't called. it kept a drive alive that led to a score. the cardinals killed themselves by letting the squeelers return the pick off at the half and by not playing any kind of defense the last 2 minutes. they oughta fire pendergrast over that last drive. but the refs did have a direct impact on the game. one more time, the steelers have never won a big game without ref help. Lark.

i've sent a bunch of em to "New Method" in frisco. they used to be pretty good, but i've heard they ain't that dependable anymore. they're the only tannery i know of this side of the mississipi. wherever you send it, it takes a long time to get it back. Lark.

there is no reason to blaspheme and mention the divinely inspired .270 in the same sentence as that other genetically inferior thing based on a .308 case. get him a .270 and your done. Lark.

everyone needs to read this article and think about what a good thing it is that our last governor left for dc. that guy was killin' us. he left this state in a horrible condition, but imagine what a couple more years have done. Lark. http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/l...budget0204.html

the steelers have never won a big game without help from the zebras. Lark.

the guy is an idiot, and sadly he is believed by a buncha other idiots. Lark.

rembrant, you ain't lookin' at it in the right way. the dumbocrats know that everything bad is caused by people. if there are no people, there will be nothing bad. no poverty, no hunger, no disease, no global warming, no violence, no guns, etc. and eventually, no people and no abortions. see, instead of good guys killin' bad guys in wars and stuff, we'll eliminate all the problems by killing the totally innocent. they are too little to fight much anyway and it's been proven to be ethical. and they aren't old enough to vote. if they were, then it would be a different story. it's really brilliant. it's a plan that will take awhile to mature, but when it does, no more problems. i'm pretty sure the plan comes from the song "imagine". so it has to be a good thing. obama is gonna save us all. or at least about 52% of the U.S. population thinks so, and that's all it takes to make it true. Lark.

ok, i'm glad that for once i was left out. Lark.

wait, i left miners off the list too. Lark.

so trappers are all high school dropouts? where'd that come from? is that a prerequisit? the statement i made was that anything we do, trapping, hunting, fishing, etc. can be construed as unethical by someone. but the same folks will argue that abortion is ok. guess i should have just said gutshot, and left bow out of it. trapping is an outdoor activity that has been eliminated, partly because of apathy by other outdoor enthusiasts. it didn't affect hunters and anglers and the azgfd didn't want to enforce it anymore and it got voted down. shortly after it had been upheld by a decent margain. there were some big differences in the bills, but trapping still got outlawed. the first one, seems like it was 200, could have taken down hunting and fishing too, the way it was written. outdoorsmen have to stick together in everything. even in the areas that we may not completely agree with. even all united in as a strong a bunch as we can be, we're a big minority. divided within our own ranks, we ain't got a chance. scottyboy showed a little of that when he said trapping is more humane that bowhunting. i don't think he is anti bowhunting. but he may have a preference. in either pursuit, one of the objectives is for an animal to die. everything we do can be called inhumane. i don't think it is, but others dang sure do. personally, i'm all for every kind of traditional outdoor experience. i feel there is plenty of room for everyone. but we've all been split up in little groups that instead of having the same objective, using and appreciating the outdoors in whateve way we have chosen, have been divided against themselves. i think birdwatchers, hikers, wilderness survival enthusiasts, hunters, trappers, anglers, loggers, ranchers, farmers, mountian bikers, etc. should all be together in keeping the woods open for us all and i think there is room for it all. and if everyone was all together we'd be a real formicable group. divided we ain't. and i really take exception with the high school dropout deal. did i read it wrong? Lark.

the azgfd commission has been a payback or reward position for a long time. it doesn't pay anything to speak of, but it's a nice thing to reward folks who have played ball with the right other folks. i had a good friend who was a commissioner once. he was a life long republican but had to change his party affilliation to democrat in order to get the appointment. he told me why and it seemed like they tried to keep a certain amount of elephants and donkeys on the commission. symington, a republican, was who appointed him too. and i also don't think he ever shot an animal in his life. decent enough guy, but he had no real interest in wildlife, especially not at as a sportsman. some guys who've been on the commission have been serious outdoor people who spent a lot of time in the field. but for the most part, they're people who are rewarded with a position of some authority for helping in other political situations. that is my observation anyway. and from what the guy i knew who was on the commission told me, he had the same opinion. this bill looks to me to try and stop some of the real damage that our past governor did with stacking the commission with people who have political desires and not wildlife conservation concerns. look at some of the people who've been appointed over the past 20 years. by both parties. a lot of them had no affiliation with wildlife conservation. or even a passing interest in it. not to bash women, but there have been several gals over the past 20 years who had next to no outdoor desires. their appointments were totally political. a few commissioner had some outdoor experience and a couple were quite involved in hunting and angling. but a bunch had never had a hunting or fishing license and had no desire to be involved in serious outdoor activity. the commission is just protecting themselves and don't want anymore scrutiny than they are already subject to. which is very little. one of the last appointees was voted down by the state legislature because of concerns brought up by sportsmen ogranizations, but the governor went ahead and appointed her for a year anyway and after the year she became permanent, because of weakness in the appointment process. Lark.

yup, what couesarcher said. get em a .270 and you're done. Lark.

no, dangit, all i got was the game. i always miss out on the good stuff. Lark.

ok, i'll take the "pro" side in the debate. i don't think auction tags do enough good to make up for the bad they do. the recent fiasco in utah and the subdivision bull in Az. are 2 good points for my arguement. there was another fairly negative deal in nevada that involved some o' the same guys in the utah deal. i don't think paying a buncha folks to watch an animal and then flying in on a jet and getting out and shooting it is hunting. and hunting is what is supposed to take place. a guy paying a guide to take him hunting is a good thing. this other stuff ain't. as far as hypocrisy, it seems to me that the eastmans do a lot of just hunting on their own. i know one thing, their stand is gonna make a lotta guys howl. oh well, mark me down for being against any and all auction tags. except for javelina. take the auction tags and raffle em off. the raffle tags generally make more money anyway, and anyone is eligible. Lark.

i don't think i've ever seen a shot out .270. seen one that was bad from neglect and rust. i think red rabbit is right. make sure it's bad first. is it a pre 64? if it is, you can invest a lot in it and still be ahead in value. also, if it is a pre64, look into refinishing the stock instead of replacing it. they have great black walnut stocks. i'd look at rebuilding it and make dang sure the barrel is bad. Lark.

ok, so i git on line and got the new required sticker for off road vehicles for my new power chair (polaris ranger). i get the tag in the mail and it says to put it in the upper right corner of the plate. that would be over the registration tag. it's all street legal and insured and all that. does this tag take the place of registration? i paid like $150 for year to register the stinkin' thing. when i re-register it do i need to pay the $150 again or just for the sticker? where do i put the 2010 sticker? i looked at the stuff splainin' it on the azmvd website and read what the azgfd has about it on theirs, but they have too many words and i got cornfused. anybody able to splain it in words a cowboy can understand? Lark.

the .264 is a great round and i agree it was ahead of it's time and never got the respect it should have. ruger makes several models in it now, as does remington. you see a lot of custom .264's these days. it is a hotrod that works best with lighter bullets. i prefer 100's in mine. my son has a sendero with a fancy range compensating scope and all kindsa neat stuff and used 130's. it won't shoot a 130 berger tho, because the bullet is so long. they are a little twist sensitive with long bullets. the 100's will drop buck in it's shadow and are real fast and flat. 120's are a great compromise too. if you want see some stuff blow up, try some sierra 85 grain hollowpoints. they are faaaaaaaaaaaaaast. just don't shoot it a couple dozen times rapidly a lot and get the barrel hot and clean it often and the lands should hold up well. i really like a .264. Lark.

how about when you said he appointed the judge? did you check up on that? how about when you said that the whole thing was his fault? did he help em try to cover it up? get over it. you got your guy in the whitehouse. now live with it. nowleave me alone, it's time for the nurse to feed me. Lark.

i'll probably never venture to this new range because it's on the wrong side of the valley, but at least they named it after one helluva guy. Joe Foss. if you don't know who he was, you should find out. as far as rangemasters, there usually great guys but i've seen a couple of em get pretty highhanded. i have my spotting scope mounted on an old rifle stock and a guy at the range wanted to look at it while the line was dead. a guy came running down there screaming at us because he thought it was a rifle. we showed him what it was and he left grumblin'. about 30 minutes later another guy picked it up when the line was dead and here he came again. this time he kept screamin'. i told him to shut up and he put his hand on his .45 like he was gonna shoot us. he found out i could yell louder than him. the other rangemaster came down and saw the situation and told him to go to the trailer for awhile. they have a real important job to do and i think they're mostly volunteers, but dang sometimes they go overboard. that's the only time i've ever really felt like one got completely outta hand, but sometimes they sure push the limit and make a lotta folks uncomfortable. all the other guys at usery seem to be pretty nice guys. they plum folks up, but then explain what the deal is. this one ol' buzzard acts like it makes him mad if nobody does anything to make him mad. anyway, glad to see a facility like this is named for a great American war hero and i hope folks use the heck out of it. Lark.