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never shot one. a guy i work with has one. it's supposed to be a subsonic round that you can supress well. specs say it's a necked up .221 fireball. not a .223. it's a real pud of a round as far velocity and all that. but it would still hurt to get hit by one. i ain't into self defense stuff, but it's a real interesting concept. Lark.

i will only shoot a 400 bull or bigger this year, unless i see one that is smaller first. l hate the word "class". you always see "350 class" or "200 class" and then you look really close at the photo and then figger anything over 300 must be 350 class and anything over 160 must be 200 class. screw the score, when the right one jumps up, you'll know it. hopefully it does. i've worked my butt off and settled for some dinks before. but i do have HIGH hopes for this year. Lark.

hey murf, them kinda mushrooms are worth a lotta money. you shoulda sold em to some hippies. morels typically have the profile of a xmas tree. only they look like a sponge. some of them were round and other odd shapes. and they taste incredible. i hope we find some more. there are a several kinda mushrooms in Az that are save and good to eat, just be careful. Lark.

wild turkeys have such an amazing flavor that it's a shame to cover it up with marinades and sauce and chili powder,etc. if you pluck it, stuff it and bake it just like thanksgiving. if you skin it, bone it out, cut into strips and bread and fry like chicken. wild turks are really good. a lot like a great big quail. have a really unique taste. Lark.

a friend got pulled over last summer because his grandkids didn't have helmets in his side by side. he researched it some and felt that wasn't the case afterward but the bunnycop still pulled him over. also heard of guys out in the middle of nowhere getting ticketed because they didn't have a seatbelt on in a side by side. i think pretty much everything is against the law anymore. Lark.

don't know what kinda penalty could be worse than being a steaming pile religion of peace @$$hole like this guy, but i was really happy to just read that a liberal state like mass and a liberal town like boston could find 12 decent folks with the guts to send him to he l l . have fun with your 70 virgins, goats that is, and rot in he l l with the rest of your slimy "brothers". ally ally akbar now dude. Lark.

this is a federal conviction. completely different than a state conviction. much shorter appeal process. like mentioned earlier, OKC bomber was in jail 6 years and got needled. this guy will get about the same. have fun with the cornhole process joke-har. hope they use bacon grease. Lark.

what kind of rifle do you have? if it's a tube fed lever like a winchester or marlin, you need to make sure to use either flat or round nose bullets. mine is a 99 savage with a rotary mag, so i can use pointy bullets. i haven't shot up the gunshow ammo i bought when i got it, but plan on someday loading up some 75 gr hollow points. should perk it up a little. also, those old rifles aren't twisted fast enough to shoot 117's or 125's. stick to to 100 gr or less. the bigger bullets won't group well at all. glad somebody is still shooting the old blackpowder rated cartridges. Lark.

whoever told you .257 roberts brass could be used is stupid. period. be careful who gives you reloading advise. ,257 roberts is a necked down 7x57. not a rimmed case. nothing about it other than it's made of brass is even similar to a .25/35. with that said, i have a .25/35. next time there is a gun show in town you can usually buy all you want. there will be more than one old dude that custom reloads that will have bags full of it. the parent case is a .30/30, you can use several other cases too, but the old .30/30 is the closest to it. buy however much you need and shoot it up then if you want to reload get some dies, rcbs makes em, and then reload. the reloads you buy will probably be loaded to old factory velocity. it's one cartridge you can't improve much on with reloading and the rifles for it are so old you need to keep that in mind. again, don't listen to folks that don't know what they're talking about. you might get hurt. have fun. Lark.

i tried, said it had no record of me. no hunter id, no birthday, no points. tried to call 4 or 5 times. call failed every time. are they even still open? can't believe they can continue to find new ways to provide horrible service. Lark.

when you are as smart and good lookin' as me, just listin' it once ain't enough. sorta like this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_urvjCXg6c and scoring racks is a lot like weiner measurin' and a lotta other things. another way to brag. i'd rather just be humble and know that i'm better than anybody else. Lark.

i hafta disagree that scoring animals has ruined hunting. while i'll agree it has taken away some of the man vs animal primal enjoyment that i think should be the root of it all, scoring animals, has if anything, done a lot for the sport as far as keeping a lotta folks interested. i'm not one of the guys that is real interested in scores, but knowing "the score" of an animal is a good way to keep a lotta folks interested. and if someone says an animal scores so much, i sorta know what size they're talking about. cavemen probly had some sorta way to brag about their success. they also probly measured weiners too. which in all actuallity is what a lotta scoring animals is about. like who has the jacked upedest truck, and the biggest gun, smartest dog, etc. but i never had to worry about that kinda stuff because i've always been smarter, taller, gooder lookin', stronger, tougher, and smarter and better lookin' than anybody else. Lark.

b&c did away with the excessive inside spread deduction years ago. pretty sure sci doesn't even record the spread. kinda dumb to get points for air between the beams and not get credit for the mass of the points. when b&c developed their scoring system things were a lot different. only folks that cared much about a "score" were rich guys that wanted to be able to brag to each other. joe hunter was into it for meat and true sport. so, i guess it's lot like it is now. there was some effort many years ago to use water displacement to score antlers. can't remember the guy that spearheaded it. scores are ok i guess. to me, a guy oughta go hunting, shoot something they're happy with and then get ready for the next hunt. i probably have close to a dozen racks and skulls laying around that will make one book or another and have never entered even one. but that's me. if i ever shot something that might be a world record, i would enter it tho. if you wanna stretch a tape on something, have at it. if you don't, that's good too. main thing is too hunt. get outta town and into the wild country. ain't no better smell than when you open the bolt on a clean early morning right after you shot a buck and you get that whiff o' burnt gunpowder. scores don't matter much then. Lark.

if you guys are worried about it, you need to shoot more. doesn't last long enough around my place to be a concern. Lark.

buncha .22 whoreders................Lark.

oh man, u1 tommy gobbler season really makes me homesick. good job. Lark.

the winter of 78/79 was a good wet winter. excellent run off that spring. the turd floater of '83 was in september. had an extremely wet year, especially the summer, up to that. then in september it started to rain and just about didn't quit in the mountains. big lake, crescent lake. all the greer lakes, nelson lake and lyman lake all ran over the spillway in september. first time in history for lyman to do that. the frisco had such a stream it almost washed clifton away. trees turned the railroad tressle into a dam and flooded the heck outta things. that's why they built the flood gates there where you cross the river. you can normally jump across black river. it was raging. probably over 100 feet across in the skinny places. crosby crossing turned into about a 200 acre lake. ran over the spillway on the north end and out of the smaller culvert on the south end of the crossing. during the early bull hunt it was really hard to get anywhere. you couldnt' get across places that never had water. my pal shot a bull across black river from us a couple miles above crosby xing on sunday evening. we skunt it out and went back the next day with my row boat and pulled it up the creek from crosby, floated across, loaded the bull and whitewatered it back out. had about 3 inches of freeboard with me and him and big ol' bull in the boat. took about 5 minutes to get out. what a ride. put the head up in the front like a viking boat. there was an ol' guy named shorty haws that was a woods boss for southwest timber. they called him shorty because he was only 6'8". little guy. anyway, he was crossing the dike when we were floating past to get to the truck. he said to us laughing "BOY'S, I SEEN A LOTTA THINGS ON THIS MOUNTAIN IN THE LAST 50 YEARS, BUT THAT'S THE FIRST TIME I EVER SEEN A ELK IN A BOAT" it was a good day. Lark.

so what part is illegal? is it against the law if you're drunk and chasin' a bear? sorta like drunk in publi-K!. i chase bears all the time. without a hatchet. it should be an olympic sport. tried at the chicago zoo awhile back the bears there are either real lazy or too stupid to care. this guy oughta go fishin' in black river. you hafta chase bears all day down there. Lark.

rotten luck for sure. i've lost several dogs to lions and bears over the years. no fun. Lark.

"oooooo, it smells bad"..........."IT OUGHTA AFTER THAT STEAMIN' YAM I JUST LEFT IN THERE"!!!!! open a window guys, it goes away..........sometimes. Lark.

it was in '83. ask around RV. lotsa folks seen it. i do have some old kodaks tho. it was an adventure. put the head up in the front like a viking boat. one wild ride for sure. Lark.

maybe it'll be a rebound year. 6 inches so far at the Rancho Neglecto this year. maybe it'll be another '83. we floated a bull out in my row boat on black river above crosby crossing that year. Lark.

nerds and yuppies are ruinin' the world. $h!t stinks. deal with it. ya buncha pansies. i kinda enjoy clearin' out the building a few times a day. Lark.

a lot of target shooters just use a neck sizer if they are using the ammo in the same gun always. i only shoot targets to practice up for killing things so i full length resize everything because i hate it when i get a tight cartridge. when i'm shooting at an animal i want my rifle to load, eject and reload in a hurry, without any worries. that's another reason i only shoot old model 70's when i'm real serious. they always pull the fired case out. seen several guys over the years yank back a 700 and leave the case in the chamber. for hunting, full length resize is my only preference. Lark.

i think the case is a .221 fireball. shortened up .223. even shorter than a .222. the intent of the cartridge is to have a subsonic rifle that can be used with a silencer. Lark.