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i've bought a couple hundred super dutys for work over the past years, and they've been a reliable truck. i've always been a gm man, but i think the next truck i get will be a ford, for one reason, they are not part of the obama motor company. Lark.

it's a good thing i happened to be by a computer today so i can straighten you morons out. why's everbody need a big fat barrel? heavy barrels do not increase accuracy. the main reason for heavy barrels is so you don't hafta put a buncha machine work into a target rifle. the only other reason, other than looks, is for a rifle that is going to see shot after shot at the range, so it won't heat up as quick. but after it does heat up, it takes longer to cool down. what matters on a barrel is what's on the inside. twist, throat, headspace, and quality of the rifling. the outside does not add one iota of accuracy to a rifle. especially to a huntin rifle that is only going to see a few shots at a time after it's sighted in. big fat barrels are like jacked up trucks and short guys with high heeled cowboy boots on. trying to make up for some other deficiency. someone questioned the christensen rifles? i've only had experience with one and it is a nail driver. only it's like driving a 16 penny with a a 20 pound sledge. my son has one in .300 rum. i shot a muley with it at 640 yards and and elk at 735 last year. extremely accurate. very well made. o' course it was me shootin' it, so accuracy is a given. there ain't a lot of fancy slick stuff on it. the stock is rough feeling, the floor plate isn't all smooth and machined out nice, but they are one well made accurate rifle and the only reason i don't have one is because they are so dang expensive, especially after you invest a couple grand in a scope that is worthy of the rifle. get you a good slim profiled 26 inch barrel in whatever caliber you want and some kinda good action. .308 is ok, it's sorta like an '06, only less. same with a short mag, it's like a .300 win mag, only less. i guess a .308 is a good target rifle, real accurate round with twisted properly, but it's pretty slow, and i like hotrods. but if you're real serious, get a .270 and forget about all that other stuff. and for heck's sake, don't get a dang 7mm/08! Lark.

well, the average IQ o' this place is gonna take a big hit. probly like 60 points or so. i signed all the papers and am retirin' july 10. a couple days after my 55th birthday. i don't know what you guys are gonna do for sage advice from now on. we all know i'm the smartest guy any of ya know. i guess it really ain't fair, to be so smart, tall, strong, good lookin' and witty. i can run fast and jump real high too. but what i can i do? ya can't give it back. anyway, struggle along as best as you can without my shinin' beacon of intelligence showin' ya the way. i'll try to check back in on occasion, but i have so much planned now that i don't see me around a computer much until after the new year. fishin' in 'lasky for a few weeks, 3 elk hunts in Az, a primo new mex deer hunt, colorado pronghorn, Az. deer. heck, i don't know how i ever had time to have a job. i'll probly finally get a sheep tag too, just to round out the year. well, remember these things: the sun always comes up in the east and sets in the west. even in aj. wolves taste pretty good. go real well with condor. 7mm/08's are for wimmin' and guys that should be wimmin. bullwidgeon really does look like a javelina. the resemblance is spooky. global warming is a farce and was only invented to take your money. obama is a farce and was only invented to take your money. coues deer are like the circus midget of the deer family, funny to watch, but they're just there to make you laugh while they get the real show back in the ring. the usfw does not have anyone or anythings best interest in mind, other than more power, authority and control for them. don't ever let up on the azgfd. they have some good guys but they are still politically and monetarily driven and need to be reminded constantly that wildlife conservation is their real job. if you voted for obama, slug yourself in the mouth everyday. remember that when uso sued Az., sci lined up with them. (just an illustration that you need to really look hard at where you put your money and who's interests do they really have in mind) shoot every coyote and lion you see. there will always be too many of em. they're too sneaky for hunters to ever put a big dent in their population. save as much money as you can, which ain't east to do, especially these days. don't fight amongst each other, other than good constructive discussion that has real value. the .270 is a gift from heaven. and i'm always right. later dudes. Lark.

as long as it says 6mm remington on the barrel, it will shoot any weight bullet ok. the 6mm was originally called a .244 remington. they were trying hard to catch a little of the .243 popularity. the .244 would hold a couple grains more powder and you could squeeze a few more fps out of it. but the .244's barrels were twisted too slow to stabilize a 100 gr bullet well. they suffered along like that for awhile and they finally put a quicker twist in the barrel and renamed it the 6mm. similar to what remington did with the .280/7mm express/.280, again. the 6mm is a fairly sharp cartridge, but you can't resize a .308 and make one. which is one of the really neat things about a .243. Lark.

zakly. Lark.

ever time i go they never do anything i say. what is wrong with a designated sheep/elk/deer/pronghorn tag every year that automatically goes to me? they just have no vision. or sense o' humor for that matter. Lark.

no, it is made better. actually best. once you get to perfection, yer sposeta quit. your gonna end with somethin' like genetically altered plants. like talkin' corn or taters with real eyes. yer not sposeta mess with perfection. Lark.

why do you idjuts even mess with all them goofy ca'tridges when there is a .270? you can't see it, but i'm shakin' my head right now goin' tisk, tisk, tisk. Lark.

like i said, i get tested once a year. worked in a high risk trade for metal disease for a long time. i've never had a positive test. not from the work or from eating "contaminated" meat. and what i'm talking about is the usfw trying to control more land. if you want to use copper bullets that's your choice. i have no problem with it what so ever. in fact, if that makes you feel better, i encourage it. but don't tell me that lead in deer guts has anything to do with lead poisoning in condors. eagles, hawks, especially red tails, ravens and turkey vultures are all protected and eat carrion. the bald eagle is considered endangered. they all eat the same things as condors, from the same area. why aren't they dropping like flies? why isn't there any concern over them getting lead poisoning? over the years i've consumed parts of countless big game animals and birds taken with lead projectiles. swallowed more than one piece of 8 shot. i imagine i've ingested more than one piece of a bullet. i have a bullet in me. worked in a heavy metal rich enironment for years. i've never contracted lead poisoning. never even had it show up in the annual tests. i can appreciate your concern for the health of you and your family and if you feel you don't want to take a chance on lead projectiles i support you 100%. but i refuse to believe that bullets are a contributer to lead poisoning in condors. it is the beginning of a ploy by the usfw have more control. Lark.

lead is everywhere. the area around the grand canyon has uranium and lead all over the place. you find both minerals in the same places. you also fine lead where you find silver. buzzards have a gizzard. they fill it with rocks. wouldn't be hard to get infected that way. you also find lead in roadkill from car exhaust. even if everyone uses unleaded gas. the forest circus gave everything a liberal coat of lead paint for decades. to blame lead poisoning in california buzzards soley on bullets is completely irresponsible. it is just one more way to have control. why aren't the ravens, red tails and eagles getting it too? or the blue jays? why just buzzards? ever think of that? there are a helluva lot more of the other birds than there are buzzards. lead poisoning is a real thing. and it is really bad. but it takes lead on almost a molecular scale to cause it. the lead needs to be in solution or in a vapor or gas for it to have a big effect on people. that why the romans went nuts. lead pipe. the water leached the lead into solution and they drank it and it went into their blood. same with lead crystal glasses and booze containers. i've had a bullet in me for decades. i don't have lead poisoning. and i can prove it because i have to have a heavy metal blood test done periodically because of the work i did for years. the endangered species act is not about the species recovering. that's the last thing they want. even when a plan works, like it has on the yellowstone wolves, they won't let go of it. it is about taking liberties away from folks who use the land and this is a convenient way to do it. looking at some of the stuff that the usfw has been caught doing, like planting lynx hair, dragging off wolf kills around yellowstone, heck there ain't space to list it all, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if the lead poisoning is a plant by them too. i've never seen good results with copper bullets. if you want to track a wounded animal off into a canyon, then they are what you want. they would be ok on big bears and dangerous african animals, but they zip through too quick to shock an animal the way a well made jacketed bullet will. and i refuse to believe that the copper bullet deal in the grand canyon area is anything other than a ploy. Lark.

ok, one more time, if you voted for obama, slug yourself in the mouth every morning. Lark.

badgers? we don't need no stinkin badgers!! sorry, i couldn't help myself. nice buncha vermin furs. Lark.

just remember that on the school bus of life, coues deer ride the short one. Lark.

go there and figger it out. maps don't have any animals on em. nothing makes up for first hand experience. Lark.

i'm the worlds foremost living authority on the .270. i shoot 140 gr hornady interlocks. i've tried about everything there is and the el cheapo interlocks are as good as you can get. to me they perform better on big game than any of the bonded bullets. i wouldn't waste my time with any solid copper bullet. unless you're a condor lover. Lark.

me and my middle boy got rifle bull elk tags last year and again this year. and my youngest son got an archery bull elk tag also this year. so for now, i'm happy with the draw. except for pronghorn and sheep. 30+ for sheep, never a tag. and 15 since my one and only Az. goat tag. so in retrospect, maybe things need fixed. Lark.

what we're seeing is a symptom of the really sorry people who represent us politically. napalitano and the dummy state senators and representatives we have, have left this state in extremely poor financial condition. poor, or even lack of, planning has left every state agency broke. spending billions on wastefull projects just because the money was there, not looking at the financial earthquake that was coming with these stupid mortgages that were so popular, a whole host of things that intelligent people could see coming, have left the state devastated for money. so what is the plan? tickets. plain and simple. people who are too stupid to have real jobs get elected to these "burrocrat" jobs, that have no clue how to plan or have any intelligence or foresight let things turn to $h!t and then say well, lets give out tickets. tickets, tickets, tickets. photo radar, photo red light, speed traps, the new off road "fees" (as in tax), they are all just revenue builders and have nothing to do with public safety or environmental safety or any kind of safety. they are to make revenue. yesterday i was listening to the news on the way home and a judge in a suprise court was complaining about the photo radar tickets clogging his court. that particular court is set up to handle 10,000 tickets a year. they are getting 10,000 a month. just one court. 10,000 tickets a month. 120,000 a year. just one court. how many of them are given out in a year statewide? looks like millions to me. the fact that no points are associated with most of them say real loud that is just to raise revenue. out where i live i haven't seen a MCSO cop stop a car for speeding for a couple years. they dealt with crime. now there is a speed trap where the speed limit drops to 35 for no reason and i see the cop giving 3 or 4 tickets a day. that's just what i see in the few minutes i travel that road or am out working in the yard. awhile back the mesa city council was meeting and discussing their revenue shortfall and what to do about it. their answer? more red light cameras. why didn't somebody tell em to quit trying to evict poor sob's from their brake shop and losing millions in the process? oh well, they elected em. stopping speeders and red light runners or folks tearing puttin' around on a quad used to have some public safety intentions involved in it. now it is just $$$$$$$$. it has absolutely nothing to do with public safety or slowing crime. just money. because we let stupid people "lead" us. there is no good reason for Az. to be in the financial shape it is in other than really poor work by elected people. when things are good, everyone looks good. when things are bad, the ones that ain't good, really look bad and they burn the rest of us down in the process. you want good times, elect good people. Lark.

ever time i shoot somebody i always claim it was an accident or he was stealin' my chickens. Lark.

once again, ir you voted for obama, slug yourself in the mouth every morning. if you can't make yourself do it, get somebody else to do it for you. don't ask a friend, because they probably voted for him too. but you could slug each other everyday. and if you think this is bad, wait until you see what kinda anti gun, treehuggin', commie, socialist, legislate from the bench, give your money away to people who won't work kinda supreme court justice he appoints. probably be ayres. Lark.

did dick cheney take up turkeys? Lark.

the 4831 will work fine. i have a hard time getting as much velocity with as i can with 4350, but the 4831 is ok. especially the sc. it's a lot finer and easier to reload. i use h4350 anymore instead of imr. Lark.

yup. Lark.

i'm serious. can you imagine the kinda gals they'd get at a miss NRA contest? put these other stupid airhead contests to shame. rule #1 is they hafta be smart. i bet in a year or 2 it would be an even bigger event. miss America is even on cable now because nobody watches it. the NRA oughta listen to me. you all know how smart i am. once at a gunshow they had a tv with a video of chicks in bikinis shootin' machine guns. they had videos for sale of the same chicks shootin' the same machine guns, only they were nekked. i don't think nekked maching gun shootin' would be a good event, but the bikini one might be. man, my mind is racin'. i too many good ideas. Lark.

there is a gunshow this weekend at the state fair grounds. they will have it there. Lark.

that's what you call a redtick hound. a breed that was developed here in Az. by the Lee boys, Clel and Dale. it's now a recognized breed too. and to gamehauler's question, good hounds will stay bayed until they starve. if the lion jumps, they'll tree it again. i've had em tree and get dark before i could get there safely and have to wait until the next morning quite a few times. good hounds are truly a wonderfull animal. but good hounds come from dedicated hunters more than from good breeding. Lark.