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i've shot a .250 for many decades. mine is a 99 savage. it's an excellent deer cartridge. i'd love to have a ruger. is your's an old flat top? or is it an international? i've looked for a model 70, but they are way to 'spensive. one o' these days i'll run into a ruger at the gunshow and bring it home. but the .250 is a very good round, for about anything. Lark.

i'll agree with you on the #2 notypical. that's a mule deer. there is some really smelly stuff goin' on with that buck. but the #1 just looks like a fat horned typical. i don't see anything there to call it a nontypical. i've also heard and read that the #2 typical is actually a little bigger than the #1, if it were ever measured by someone who isn't prejudiced to the old #1. whatever, the deer are all great bucks that deserve recognition. except that muley. that ain't a coues, period. Lark.

just got home from the hospital. not one emergency all day. no suction, no problems with anything. her mom gets to feed her again. she either played and laughed and smiled, or ate and slept, all day. all the iv's and wires and tubes and stuff have been removed. she's still on a little o2, but they are diminishing that all the time and she still is taking the methadone for the withdrawls, but that is going down too. she acts a little drunk, because of it, but she is one happy little camper and her family is one thankfull buncha folks. things are lookin' pretty good right now. if she keeps it up, she might even get to go home sometime next week. what happened to her was for whatever reason, guess you'd call it a birth defect, her pumonary artery grew around her trachea and crushed and deformed it like a boa. they that to put her on a bypass machine, cut all her ribs, cut her trachea, relocate the artery to where it should be and then rebuild her trachea. had some problems with the trachea repair not wanting to stay open and all kindsa other stuff. she "coded" once and almost did a couple other times, in the week after the surgery. them dr's know what the heck they are doing. i wonder how much of this kinda stuff will not happen anymore under obamacare? one thing i did learn through all this, is no matter how bad off you are, you don't have to look far to find someone who is worse. some o' those poor little babies in that place are going through a lot more than Lark. several haven't made it since she's been there too. seeing the devastation on their parents faces is hard to take. i know what it's like to lose a child and it really pains me to see someone have to go through it too. but today is a good day for our family. there were times that it looked pretty dire but i always had faith that she'd pull through. even when things were darkest. thanks for all the concern and kind words. and you knotheads remember always what is truly important. Lark.

if you're smart and sneaky enough, it don't much matter what ya wear. i had on a blaze orange shirt and hat in colorado a couple weeks ago and snuck right up on a pronghorn buck with 6 does with him. went from well over a 1/2 mile away to about 200 yds in wide open prarie. just using whatever geography i could. as far as having to wear orange, it's the law there and if ya wanna hunt in colorado you have to wear it, so it doesn't matter what a guy thinks. i prefer not to, but them fellers up there shoot whatever ain't orange. generally i just prefer dark or neutral colors of something in green, blue or brown plaid. if you have on dark clothes and don't let em see ya move, they think your just a shadow anyway. the stupidest thing i've ever seen is the camo with with all the limbs and leaves painted on it. like somebody else said, all you're doin' is makin' bill jordan rich. i have camo and use it a lot, but generally don't need it. i'm just a natural camo'd guy. and i'm sneeeeeeeeeeky. Lark

. that's funny right there. Lark.

you guys ever pull goat horns? you put the skint head in a garbage bag and chunk it up on a tin roof for few days until it so stinkin' that buzzards make a u turn. then ya get em down and pull the horns off. it always makes at least one o' my kids barf. this time they put vicks up their noses and just did some heavy duty gaggin'. today i had to blow the brain soup outta the skulls with a hose and put the heads in a wash tub and start boilin' em. you talk about a gurgglin', bubblin', stinkin, putrid tub o' soup. wooo. i seen the neighbors kids barfin while they were on the swing. on each other. then there was some air quality car from the county sniffin' around. the other neighbor's pigs dug outta the pen and run off. hopefully i'll get this done without gettin' shot or goin' to jail. anyway, all the free stew ya want tomorrow. come on over. Lark.

carl's goat did have really pretty horns. the classic heart shaped curl everbuddy talks about. mine scores about an inch more. mine is around 78 and his is about 77. really nice bucks for anywhere really, but for colorado they are exceptional. we saw a game warden that couldn't believe we got 3 goats over 14 inches. said he saw very few 14 inchers, must less 15 inchers. if a guy gets off the road and walks a little, good things happen. ya'll best get out the outta state info and go next year. it's too close to Az and too easy to do, to not go. poor carl, he really takes care of his truck. i think he's gonna sell it after 5 days of us fartin' in it and eatin' sardines and spillin' em and gettin' in with guts on our shoes, etc. and the bed had goat blood and little goat tunds all over in it. i only had like 14000 miles when we left and we put about 3000 more on it while we were gone. Lark.

shoot the one on top. he ain't doin' the herd one bit o' good. Lark.

one time me and my buddy were pokin' down the old road that went along the top of middle mountain. there was a little wallow right on the side o' the road. i mean like 50 feet from the road in a little meadow. we stopped the truck and got out were dinkin' around lookin' for tracks and such. talkin' loud and laughin'. my buddy shot a rock with his .44 mag. then i had to show him far i could pee and was makin' a big whizz rainbow out into the waterhole. as i was lookin' at my stream i looked up and there was this goofy little dude in a treestand lookin' at me and he wasn't in a good mood. i cut it off so quick it gave me a cramp in my prostate and i couldn't pee for about a day. we started laughin' so hard we were cryin'. and this little midget lookin' dude just give us dirty looks until we left. glad he didn't have a camera. he said somethin' us about bein' jerks, and he was right, but it didn't have anything to do with the waterhole whizzin'. we were just jerks all the time. but i axed him why put a treestand on the side o' the road? and he didn't have an answer. i think he got to see a lotta folks from where he was. sorta like this camera. Lark.

good job dude. take them kids huntin'. Lark.

you sure that one wernt in the slot? i ain't never seen a antler in the water before. pretty cool. Lark.

main thing is to hunt where there ain't no soldiers. that's all i know about fort loud sneeze. good luck tho. Lark

we did have a lot of fun, bill. i'm the good lookin' guy in the green shirt on the far left. holding the gigantic goat head. on my left is my youngest son, Bridger. on his left is my oldest son, Gunner, and on his left is my son in law's dad, Carl. Lark.

i wore stripes a lot when i was younger, but not that young. that's Gunner's boy, Orion. how'd ya like that gut eatin' turtle? any o' you guys that want to hunt goats, but can't get an Az. tag, like everbody else, ought look at colorado. it's a little expensive and access to private land can be sorta hard to figger out. this unit had a BGAP area. Big Game Access Program. had about 35,000 acres of private land that hunters had walk in access too. cost $40 extra for the access permit. but there were a lotta goats in the interior of it and very few folks wandered into it. they mostly just drove around the edge. we bought the landowner vouchers for $70 each. you still have to pay the state or the license after that. a lot of places want up to a grand for a voucher. most are $250 to $750, so we felt fortunate to find these. and we got some of the biggest goats we've ever shot in colorado. you'd be hard pressed to shoot em any bigger in Az. got the last one cut up and in the freezer today. cooked up all the necks in a slow cooker and are gonna have goat neck enchiladas tomorrow. also made a big batch o' goat jerky this morning. good stuff. the place we hunted is 800 miles from creen queek. it's lotsa fun. ya best look into it. Lark.

i sighted in my new vortex today. put it on a .264. 7 shots and it was deadnuts. easiest scope to tune i've ever used. the clicks are actually 1/4" at a hunnerd yards. had 2 other rifles with me that were rescoped and needed sighted. took a lot more shooting with them. seems every scope i've ever had takes either more or less clicks than advertised to move the crosshair. the vortex was a dream. i can see more of them in my safe. Lark.

our granddaughter got sick a week ago sunday. ended up in the hospital with what they said was the croup. kept getting worse, instead of better. after quite a few tests a ct scan revealed, of all the crazy things, that her pulmonary artery had somehow grown around her trachea and was choking her. her 6 month birthday is friday. she had surgery today. had to do the heart/lung bypass deal, cut all her ribs, section her trachea to remove the deformed part and relocate the artery then put her all back together. she's gonna have a week or so of icu and should get to go home after that. surgery was a resounding success. her parents, and my wife and i for the most part, have lived in the hospital for about 10 days now. been about as stressful as anything i've ever had to deal with. but because of a lot of spiritual experiences, it's been a very rewarding time also. really brought an already very tight family even closer. got to know our son in law and his family even better and get even closer them. just a lot of very special things. we had written off the colorado goat hunt that starts saturday, but it looks like we'll at least make it before the season ends for 4 or 5 days. anyway she is gonna be fine and i ain't lookin' for one bit o' sympathy. we've been so blessed these past days that we don't need any. just want all you knotheads to realize what is truly important and what really means something. Lark.

37? how old is that in human years? my cowboy hat is older than that. i got underwear older than that. 37? i got a can o' spam under the seat o' my truck i save for emergencys older than that. i been married longer than that. to the same woman. my cousin was in prison longer than that. i had a job longer than that. i got cheese older than that. just found it in my saddle bag the other day. happy birthday. dude. and mucho mas. Lark.

that thing has som many deductions that it will takes points away from the next 2 elk he kills. Lark.

they made the 98 in a buncha different caibers, mostly in the 57mm length. after wwII there were so many 98's around and so many guys wildcattin' and such, there ain't no tellin' what it was. they made a 7.65 belgian too. them ol' mausers are fine actions for sure. and you're right, you can't beat a .270. Lark.

that's the flattest turkey i ever seen. musta been a dry year. Lark.

it breaks my heart to do it, but it hurts too bad to ride anymore so i'm going to sell my mule, Leroy. this is a top shelf hunting mule. 15 year old, 14.3 hand, dunn mule. smooth gait. black feet. good traveler, won't step on your hounds, real easy to shoe. extremely gentle. he comes to you, you don't have to catch him. real good packer too. never had a bear on him, but have had everything else. no spooks. easy keeper. shoulders were white spotted when i got him, but have never been a problem. if you want, i will sell him with a new steve edward's mule saddle, 18 inch, taps, cinches, pad and britchin. if someone is interested, i will make a package deal with Leroy, the saddle and a champion 2 horse, tandem axle trailer with large tack room. trailer has been completely rebuilt and repainted. new floor, new tires, new brakes, new aluminum. zolotone bedliner type paint throughout the inside. it has never had a horse in it since rebuilt. this is a real good mule and he is a traveller and calm always. the saddle is as good as new and so is the trailer. i ain't gonna give any of it away, but if someone is interested, send me a pm. Lark.

i answered it. Lark.

good job. looks like a perfect shot. only thing that matters now is that after you cut it up it will fit n a fryin' pan. happy eatin'. Lark.

ebb, if you had a mauser in '06 that still had the stepped miltary barrel, i'd bet it was originally in 7.65mm (.312") either argentine or belgian mauser. they probably reamed the chamber to '06 specs so they could shoot easy to find '06 ammo. but .30 cal is 7.62mm. the bullet ain't gonna be quite big enough to go down the barrel right. when the barrel cold it's gonna fit a lot tighter. after the first shot, it mighta warmed it up enough to expand a little and not grab the rifles right. especially if it was a barrel that had a lot of rounds through it. i've seen a couple rifles like that over the years. also seen guys shoot .308 win. ammo through argentines too. shoots ok, if you can get it to chamber, just not real good. but it's a lot easier to find .308 ammo that argentine. i wouldn't recommend it tho. a lotta guys used to take the 8x57 and ream the chamber to 8mm/'06 specs and shoot a buncha cheap military '06 ammo through it to fire form the cases into 8mm/'06 then reload the cases. pretty cool round really. bill, i've read some of capstick's stuff. he lived an exciting life. wasn't he the one that declared war on the baboons and killed the whole herd in once place because they kept killin' folks and stealin' kids? as far the thread talking about controlled round feed and africa, it is about mausers and mausers are controlled round feed and they are used a bunch in africa, to this day. Lark.

ok, now i think 'member somebody sayin' that the boyzee state mestano's were gonne get whupped up on by the organ state biebers? i mean the biebers managed to keep it sorta close, even tho their first 14 points were actually scored by the zebras. that punt runback had so many holds and blocks in the back they wouldn't o' had enough yeller rags to chunk. they scored another td on a fumbled pass and another one off a dropped punt by boyzee. and boyzee benched 4 starters for stupid penaltys. i scored it; organ state biebers - 10 zebras- 14 mestan'os 37 so i wonder what the deal is? are the guys that handicap these games just not very good at it and rate the teams that play boyzee high, or is boyzee maybe a pretty good team? and i like that petersen guy's policy of stickin' your butt on the bench when you do somethin' stupid. i like watchin' hard hittin' football. Lark.