mattys281

That’s one helluva buck. Congrats to the hunter, he’s gotta be very happy with that.

E3 is the liver and both lungs. Perfect shot from that angle and elevation

Cats are great shop pets. I lost mine about 3 weeks ago. He wasn’t really mine he was a stray that hung around the industrial complex and made himself at home in everybody’s shop. He came to visit me dang near every day for the last two years and would hang out on the forklift or on my desk right in front of me while I was trying to do office work. I have no idea what happened to him. I hope someone scooped him up and took him home. Better that than the highway getting him.

Wow great bull! Seems like you guys got this thing figured out.

It was a tough one to get through. My black labbie is 10 now. All gray around the muzzle, eyes gettin blue, noticeably slowing down and is now more content to bark at her younger sister while she chases the frisbee rather than do any fetching herself. that struck a little close to home.

Nice work, congrats!

Really? You must be hanging out in the wrong units. I had them run across the highway in front of me at least a half a dozen times. Fooling around in 27 a few years back, came around a hairpin turn on a FR and ended up nose to nose with one that was walking right down the middle of the road. this guy in 20a dang bear got in the truck with me.

Must be a slow day on the interweb for you fellas to argue over the price of groceries. I couldn’t tell you what anything costs, shopping is my wife’s job. If I ever have to go in a store for anything, that means my wife is broken and needs to be tuned up or replaced.

Helluva guy for sure. RIP

Good reminder: I gotta do some long bombing.... ling range shooting + aiming drills is the best cure for target panic I’ve ever found. I shoot like crap at that range, but find that if I can shoot well enough to stay on my 20” target at 100 then I’m shooting a softball group at 50. like @creed said: follow through is everything. If you drop the bow arm or torque it just a little, you’re way off. However if I still see the target in my pin guard after the shot, I’m usually pretty close

I say the blind too. What I do if weight is a concern is just get some camo netting or burlap blind material and keep a good length of that and some para cord and you can throw up a makeshift blind in about 2 seconds. It’s easy to just sit still and they’ll often walk right up close, but the minute you try to move to draw they get ya, ghillie suit or tshirt doesnt matter their eyes are designed to pick out the motion. Which ever way you go, don’t move if you can see his eyeball. Wait til he looks the other way and you can see the back of his head. Last year I killed a little button buck here in Az while wearing blue jeans and a tshirt with an American flag on it. I was in a tree saddle above his line of sight so neither him or the two does with him saw a thing until it was too late. Then in November I hunted in Nebraska and shot a whitetail doe on the ground from a range of about 10-12 feet. Stood between two cedars on a fenceline. She was supposed to walk past me and give me a quartering away shot but instead she stopped dead in front of me and looked right at me. I stayed still like a statue, she eventually took another step forward and looked the other way scent checking the cornfield. As soon as she turned her head I drew back and heart shot her. Good times!

Looking for another set of hands in my machine shop. I've got 5 CNC's right now, and may be buying number 6 at some point this year. At this point, I can't really justify a full time employee as I can pretty well keep them running on my own, but I could use some part time help so that I can free up a few hours to get caught up on my office/paper work and process improvement projects. I'd like to throw this out there to anyone that has a college student in the area studying engineering, science major or something manufacturing related. A high school kid is fine too as long as they have reliable transportation, and intend to study one of the fore mentioned topics when they finish high school. I expect I can keep them busy 15-25 hours per week. Start at $15/hr. Schedule can be flexible around class times, I'm usually there between 5-6am and stay until at least 6pm, usually 6 or 7 days per week, so we can certainly work something out. What they will learn from me: - Set up & operation of CNC lathes & Mills - Blue print reading - Inspection & QC - Process improvement activities - Calibration - Hand finishing - Depending on how long they stay with me, may get into CNC programming & manufacturing engineering What I expect from them: - Reliability. I don't tolerate people I can't count on. - Honesty. I've been doing this a long time and can get past just about any honest mistake. I can't tolerate someone that tries to hide their mistakes or is otherwise deceitful - Willingness to learn and take on any necessary task. Every shop has some dirty grunt work that has to be done. I'm the owner and I'm not too good to sweep floors or clean a toilet, so my employees won't be too good for it either. Anyone interested can contact me at: matt@zerotolmfg.com.

Thank god for the USA, that was born on this day under the ideas of liberty, equality, opportunity, individual freedom and the responsibility that goes with it . We’ve had our share of problems along the way, but nothing at all is perfect in this world and this country is FAR more good than it is bad. We’ve lifted 100s of millions out of poverty around the world and provided freedom from tyranny to our own citizens and many millions of foreigners as well. thank god for all the brave that have worn our uniforms, our Leo’s and first responders that guard the line between civilization and chaos, and for all the moms and dads that raise their kids right, and teach them to stand for that flag and love the country that has given so many gifts to so many people.

That’s crazy how they had and kept enough documentation to trace down that family history 200 years later. Very cool stuff!

Lmao! Those guys are awesome! Sometimes a ‘like’ just isn’t enough

I’ll never watch a pro sport game again. That’ll be an easy boycott for me, I’m not much of a fan anyway.

That’s purdy! Eric makes some nice ones

I'm willing to give the gov the benefit of the doubt and say that they over reacted in March due to bad data from China & ignorance about what we're dealing with. However, there's been data from antibody testing around the world since as early as April that showed conclusively that in Germany, South Korea, California & New York (and certainly more places, but these are the ones I specifically heard about) this disease was already waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more wide spread than they thought and packing a mortality rate 25-40x lower than what was original predicted. I also remember that in March our brilliant government in their infinite wisdom was saying 15 days to slow the spread. It was acknowledged that we could not stop the virus, we just needed to buy some time to let the hospitals get ready so they weren't over whelmed. At some point, however, a point that was actually very very early, the goal-posts started moving. There's even people talking about "we won't get back to normal until there's a vaccine". REALLY??? How's the vaccine for SARS coming along? HIV??? We've been working on that one for at least the last 40 years. Everybody know all along that cases would spike again when people went out and started moving around and going back to work. Why the heck is it suddenly a surprise, they talked about it in March. Gov. Cuomo himself stated that not one patient in NY died from lack of care. Not one! The epicenter of this mess, plus their idiotic government doing everything they could (like shoving covid patients into nursing homes with old folks) to make it the biggest disaster that they possible could, and they still couldn't over whelm the health care system. I have sympathy for anyone that gets it or has a family member get it. I also have sympathy for the people that are going to die of heart disease and cancer this year, and those diseases are going to take a helluva lot more than covid will. I've said it before, I'll say it again. I was wrong: My BS detector started beeping right out of the gate on this one & my first thought was 10% virus, 90% political BS. I now see clearly that it was and still is 99.999% BS. We can handle covid. We can't handle a decade and possibly an entire generation of state dependency & poverty.

Wow! Very shocking and sad news. Condolences to his family and friends

My business is essential too, but 90%+ of what we do is aerospace, and nobody’s flying. At least not for the moment

Nice! I was gonna treat myself to a new one for my bull tag too, but then the Chinese bat flu made me poor. Instead I just built some heavier arrows. those new hoyts are pretty sweet. Enjoy!

A few weeks ago there were stories that states were starting to reevaluate their covid deaths to get a more accurate count. Most prominently I remember the gov of Colorado talking about it, as they’d over counted by as much as 25% I think the number was. But as with any bit of good news surrounding the bat flu those stories are short lived and not usually remembered when making policy

And you have to keep in mind that 0.3% is a blanket of ALL age groups. If you spend some time digging through the several thousands of lines of data on the CDC website you find that for younger people the flu and pneumonia are more deadly, then they catch up around mid forties to 50 ish, the covid becomes more deadly for people in their 60s and 70s, then around 75+ it’s all neck & neck again, because at that age many people would get knocked out of the saddle by a stiff breeze or literally ANYTHING! And it’s important to note that the cdc data is based only in confirmed test results, it does not include all the people who never identified they had the virus. If you factor in all those people, covid becomes less dangerous than the flu and pneumonia for all age groups under 60. But of course it is much more highly contagious, so it’ll still out score the flu in the long run, but this thing is not the Black Plague or anything even close. we were duped. Dr Fauci needs to be tied to a stake and shot in the face with a ball of his own feces.