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If your not going to tow anything over 27’ I would go with a Tundra. I’ve got a 2014’ and love everything about it. I tote (5) 6’ 2” and larger guys on our hunts around and they have plenty of room. They also hold their resale value.

Slow response I've been away this weekend. He did a partial replacement - < 10 sheets that had been installed too closely together and were buckling. Other places they just used circular saws to cut a gap between the sheets, then re-shingled it. I agree with you guys that you have to research your contractors, and there are lots of really good ones. This guy, you can see his history, several different companies over the years, same owner, same phone number, slightly different company name. T&T T&S. He used his wife's name to create another roofing business. We're going to the R.O.C. to file a formal complaint. I hope you guys who actually stand behind your work know this isn't aimed at you, and I applaud you for doing it right the first time. It's just frustrating. One of our rooms now has water that came down the wall bubbling the paint. When I peel that paint off, the top layer of drywall will come with it. I might have to tear the whole wall out to make it look "normal". Even in the roof of that room several screws became so rusted they popped out the drywall. Anyway, thanks for coming on and giving your suggestions. Hopefully, this will be a cautionary story to prevent it happening to someone else.

I have a Ram 1500 with Hemi, get 17 in town, 21 highway and its a 4x4. All the power in the world without the worry of burning up a turbocharger. Some recalls, nothing major, usualy something weird like a roll over airbag. Very comfortable truck for driving, I had a 2017 F250 for a short time, and traded for a Ram 2500 diesel and love it. Plus, Ram prices are tough to beat.

Ram with the Hemi

To get the girls bro.

I'm looking to purchase a rifle for my wife. She like's the Tikka lite in 7-08. Just wondering what everyone's thought on the rifle are and if anyone was considering selling one. Thanks

My second rut hut in 3 years, on 3 points!

Looking to buy either head. Which in your guys opinion would be better suited for 15xs and 85mm spotter? If anyone has one used let me know! Thanks Daniel

Well here's the story, ill keep it short with pics. Went down this year for the first time, what a great experience. I met a couple great guys here on CWT that were looking for a few guys to hunt a ranch in Sonora Mexico, we talked and sounded like a great experience. So paper work and gun permits followed. . The time had come to go on the hunt, 1/05/19 -1/21/19. We met at Chad's place at 5am ( my friend Cecil and I ) loaded up and met the rest of the group, 8 in all The trip down was good, a little slow at the border checking on the Mexico side for the guns and had to unload extra Suzuki vehicles and drive thru check point and re load. Great from there , 60 miles down and then 2 hrs on dirt rd. back to the north to the ranch. Arrived about 3pm and met the ranchers and hands, if I could spell there names I would but I don't want to disrespect them by butchering there names. Great people for sure. That evening Jayson and Chad showed us the lay if the land. I thought it looked like the Matazal's foot hills and all. I knew I'd be right at home. The food was so good, lodging was super, hot water heat, clean was awesome . Started early Sunday morning after a great breakfast by momma . Then it was of to the hill, rained quite a bit that morning, saw some great bucks but it was the first day, dumb move, my buddy had a chance at a dandy but passed. He should of shot, he ended up with a 1x2 second to the last day. First buck he was stoked, a had 10 opportunities thru out the week at some big ones. He's learning how to shoot folded in half, steep stuff. So the week went on with some great bucks shoot. By the time I knew it was Friday and we just got Cecil done. . Saturday was it , I had to find something decent. Jayson and Chad and rancher Lupe went on a journey. I almost got a shoot at one I had been chasing but safety was on and he was gone. We moved further up the foot hills and started glassing, let me tell you those Swarovski BTX are crazy. Chad found lots of good bucks but they wouldn't stay still long enough to get a shot. Yes they were rutting hard. Then he found one a mile + away. We made a plan and went for it. After 1 hr hike we were within 700 yds.. Set up and found his does, then a great buck ran up to us at 20yrds, tried to get a shot, not easy with a 25x scope on a running buck that close, he never took his nose of the ground. Anyway my buck stud up and the shooting started, after 4 shoots with the 6.5 Creedmoor I went to Chad's 300rum, 2 more misses. Ranged again , my Zeiss range finder was still saying 655 yrds I was dead on left to right just couldn't tell if I was just high barely going under him. We broke out a Swarovski range finder , the same. Then a Vortex Jayson had, it said 705yrds, dialed it up and bam, he's on the ground doing the right stuff. . took the long walk over and found blood and guts but no deer, Chad said he thought he saw a buck get up and walk down into the thicker brush. Ray the cowboy came over and his dog jumped him up and he went around the corner, they found him days after we left. I put a bounty on him for incentive. It worked. They found him 60yrds from where I shoot him , shoot was a couple inches back. Ended up meeting Carlos at the border a few days later and collected my buck. I was shocked he was bigger then I thought. A big thankyou to Chad and Jayson two great guys , can't wait until next year. Here are some pictures from pick up to the wall. There's one picture of him with a 95" buck. One picture with his new friend's, and one of the biggest buck taken by Jim., congrats on a stud

I hate fords!! But the ecoboost is hard to beat.

It takes pretty warm daytime temps to break the 68-69 degree mark. Just hope you are on the lake when it happens. I’m planning on getting at Bartlett this coming weekend to satisfy the itch. If daytime fishing sucks, I know I can catch whiskey catfish at night and still have a decent fry.

Thinking the same thing.

Why be a Putz?

So I can look the part while I'm cleaning up after my Wife's horse! Why do you want to know? There's no Brokeback Mountain scene here!

This.... Exactly...

Also one more thing I’ve learned in my struggle to be a better antelope hunter is to get a good phone scope for your spotter or a decent hyper zoom camera (I have a little image stabilized canon that was like $250 at Walmart that has a 60x optical zoom and it does well for scouting and takes way less time to set up then a phone scope and spotter). Take tons and tons of pics of every “decent” buck you see. Then when you get back to camp at night you can flip through them and compare and contrast the ones you think were big. So often for me I get an initial look at them and it’s burned into my memory how long the prong was, or how tall etc etc and in my mind it gets bigger and bigger. Then I get back and look over the pics and realize it was actually a young buck with light bases and it made the prong look big etc. Sometines the morning light will hit a buck just right and you’d swear he’s 90” and then you get to looking and you were way wrong. Sometimes the opposite happens and you think they aren’t great and you get back and start looking over photos and realize they were a big old mature buck with a big head and it’s actually a smoker and you overlooked it. Anyhow that’s my most important piece of antelope hunting “wisdom”!

Congrats on the tag!! You had a 1/100 chance of pulling it so consider yourself blessed but do those of us who weren’t as lucky a favor and make the most of it!! Buy the Bo permit without a doubt. You’ve got the chance to have an absolute world class antelope hunt and kill a giant. If they auctioned that tag it would probably bring $15,000-20,000 so consider it a lottery win and make the most of it. Spend a few hundred bucks on gas and the $80 or whatever it is to access the Bo. Get up there for a couple weekends leading up to the hunt (more if you’ve got time) and most importantly take off 3-4 days prior to your hunt. Do your hunting before the hunt and kill on opening morning. So many people show up for antelope hunts on opening morning without ever looking around at all then expect to hunt for 3-4 days into the season. The best bucks are gonna go down at daylight on opener. There’s always a chance you can kill one sleeper buck that’s been hiding in the cedars anytime during the season, but I personally would make the “hunt” the few days leading up to opener. It’ll be less stressful, look over a ton of bucks when they aren’t being shot at, pick out “the one”, figure out what he does and be in there opening am and smack him at daybreak. Also post pics!!!

I will take it

I hope it collects a lot of dust before it is put to use. Not sure if this riddle works in this case. The one who made it, didn’t want it. The one who bought it, didn’t need it. The one who used it, never saw it. What is it?

What a surreal feeling that must be to look at your own casket.

Like he said. Contact the registrar of contractors. As a tile contractor myself I hate to see stuff like this happen. Kinda gives us good one's a black eye.

Got a great taxidermist..

Have you ever hunted?

Thanks for the help lancetkenyon. Good luck on your hunt.

I clean after every shot for the first 20 then after every 5 for the next 30 during break in. After that I don't clean until accuracy falls off which is a different number depending on caliber, barrel, bullet and powder used. As a rule I try to clean every 150 rounds or so.