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Zero chance this episode will air now....it would hurt all the woke people's feelings and certainly trigger almost all of them. Eddie

how come all the good ammo is in the far end of egypt?

Yup. Pretty sure these primers came from Smitty's. Still make the pistol go bang. Found them in some of Dad's things when he passed last year. Just loaded 300 of them. Gonna be thinking of Dad and remembering those days at Smitty's when I shoot them this weekend

Well, just pulled the trigger on $5k worth of work in Mexico between myself and my wife. The Dentist is Dr. Martinez in Naco, the place has been there since we've lived here with tons of locals here going to this office. Never heard any horror stories from this place in the 20 years weve been here so i feel we are in good hands. Weve been going to this place last couple years and have a pretty good report with the guy which also helps. Yotebuster definitely put the fear of God into me with Mexico dentists in general so I will keep this thread updated whether good or bad.

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I think we had Smittys in Tucson, I know I've been in one somewhere. But I do recall the Fedmart off 22nd St. One night me my dad and grandpa went in to buy grandpa a .22 pistol for snake control at his ranch. I remember wandering over where the TVs for sale had Star Trek playing and watching Capt Kirk recite the preamble to our glorious 🇺🇸 Constitution. I thought how elegant, I need to know that. That episode was a premier it was 3/1/1968. Dad bought gramps a little West German .22 Peacemaker. I ended up with it 30 years ago but now it's out on loan to an ex for snake control. Yup, a Canook gets it, why can't more Americans?

$320

SOLD

Gone

Love the color of the boat!

okay thats fine thank you

Is there a way to PM?

There is not a lot of snowpack from this past winter. The recent storms help a little bit, but it is going to be a dry looking spring and beginning of summer.

That's pretty cool, dad left you primers during a shortage. I'm still shooting 30-06 rounds my dad reloaded close to 50 years ago About a year ago I was going thru some of dad's tool boxes (at the start of the Covid fiasco) and found N95 masks he had for wood working. He's been a gone a few years but it still felt like he was trying to help out.

And weather. 9 has the craziest weather I have ever seen. It can go from short sleeve weather to single digits or lower in a matter of hours. And the freakin wind can blow. I don't think you need a guide unless you just want to. If you can get up there even once for a couple of days you should be good. And you will get some good advice from some of the guys here. Lots of open country to glass and lots of tanks. We have taken several bulls there.

It sure has, and we just keep getting older😀 August 4, 2010 I posted this, wow!

Trophy squirrel for me this year 😁

Pops and I will be archery hunting in unit 9 this year.

Points have an assigned number. Its basically saying that you drew a bonus point

7 saum 175 eldx @ 2915 fps 809 yards Bullet went through two ribs, both lungs, and was hanging out the off side by a piece of skin.

Follow up to my post a while back. I finally weighed them. 225gr TSX and TTSX .338 Win Mag

5a early archery bull for me!

Drew another unit 10 early archery bull tag, I have now drawn this hunt 2 times in 3 years!!! Unbelievable!!! Pressure is on to try to top the bull I shot in 2019, that was a great horn growth year, this year might be tougher but 10 has great age class. I AM EXCITED

7w archery bull. Ran to bull basin and bought a new V3 31 to celebrate the tag! Ya I'm a little excited!

Be careful in Mexico. I went to dental school in Glendale and saw some really bad stuff come out of Mexico. Their cost per procedure is going to be lower but they are gonna make it up in volume. I can’t count how many times I saw someone who needed one crown and a couple fillings and they came back with 4-5 crowns. Yes they probably spent the same or less for those 4-5 crowns but the thing about dental work is that if you do 4-5 crowns poorly you’re setting yourself up for a really really expensive future. Everything dental goes up exponentially each time you mess with it. A sealant is $30 (sealing a crack before a cavity) a filling is $200 (cutting the cavity out and filling it back up) a crown is $1000 (cutting the tooth into a top hat shape and recovering it with a new ceramic top) a root canal and crown is $2500. Taking the tooth out and replacing with an implant is $3500. All of these prices will be lower in MX, but I can promise you they don’t stay in business at the prices they charge without doing volume. If someone comes into my office for a $1000 crown my overhead eats up pretty quick. If I do two the second one has much much higher profit and so on. That’s how they make money on a $300 crown. The other thing to keep in mind is the dental lab work from down there is atrocious. I saw stuff in dental school that I know I could have done better on when I was 8 yrs old. Just for reference, my dental lab charges me $250 to build me a crown. That’s what it costs for quality work. If I charged $300 for crowns I would go out of business in a hurry. Im betting they get their crowns from Mexican labs for $15-30. Scary thought if you ask me. When you think about the stuff a tooth has to go through, acid, hot coffee to cold ice cream in the same bite, hundreds of PSI of pressure. The thought that a $15 piece of lab ceramic made by an underage worker in a lab mill in Mexico is gonna make it more then a few years is not happening. That’s my two cents on it. Get a dentist you trust. Spend the money. You won’t regret it. I wish I were closer I could get you set up.