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apache, no my leica does not have the angle deal in it. i put an angle indicator on my rifle and do it that way. i'm still learning this long range stuff, but have made some pretty long shots on game. figuring the angle can be real tricky. Lark.

i'll bet everyone o' you poor maroons call at least once this weekend. poor, poor guys. Lark.

lots of extinct deer had tusks. some had really big ones. the irish elk had tusks several inches long. i've been told and read many times that the elk ivory is a remnant tooth that used to be a tusk. the photos i saw of the one they dug up, it had fairly large tusks. i was wrong about the irish elk being prehistoric. said they died out about 11,000 years ago. i think bill quimby killed the last one. and cows eat fish in a lot of places. but that one island, there ain't any feed part of the year and they feed em some kinda big ol fish. kinda gross to watch. i'd hate had to have a t-bone offa one. surf and turf in the same piece o' meat. Lark.

ain't an elk ivory the remnanat of a tusk? i saw photos of a prehistoric elk skeleton being dug up once and it had tusks. it was in the U.S. too. seems like the irish elk had big tusks too. and they ain't even prehistoric. there is an island around greece somewhere that they have a buncha cattle on and they feed them fish. man, i bet the milk tastes bad. i think most animals will eat about anything if they get the opportunity. i seen a gut eatin' turtle last hear in colorado. Lark.

i don't. might taste like sody water. why don't ya taste some and tell us? i kinda think it might not be too good or there would be all kindsa stuff flavored with it. Lark.

i thnk chef oughta go bu one and give us a report. Lark.

that tink's outfit used to make foxpiss flavored gum to cover your breath. they really did. i always wondered a couple things tho, how bad would it have to taste and how bad does somebodies breath have to be that foxpiss can make it better? Lark.

ow. life is hard, it's a lot harder when you're stupid. he's lucky it wernt no hollowpoint. hope he gets well and i dang sure hope i never do that. ow. Lark.

this add is by a non attorney spokesman. do you have shingles? bungrash? loose stools? cement stools? are you losing your hair? are your fingers arthiritic from dialing the phone, is your ear plugged up with sweat and wax from calling the azgfd? are you having problems sleeping or having hallucinations from lack of sleep? waking up with night screams? has your wife gone to live with her mom until after the draw? are you afraid the only thing you'll draw is flies? if you have any or all of these symptoms you have pre draw stress syndrome. PDSS. it is a horrible disease and if left untreated it can lead to other, more severe symptoms. alcholism, stupidity, being a soccer fan or even worse, a u of a fan. or you may be rendered completely useless and insane and buy a 7mm/08. if you, or a loved one display any of these symptoms, please call the hotline now. operators are waiting to help you. the number is 602-942-3000. Lark.

ok guys, rememeber, i'm the smartest guy there is. the only thing that works is to keep the wind in your favor. there have been scientific "tests" that say some of this junk covers like 90+% of "replicated" human odor. why do you think they throw in replicated? think about it. and there have been other tests, by some pretty good universities, that say that all that stuff, especially the charcoal in the clothes, is a buncha BS. only way charcoal will work is if you are covered with it. i mean covered in it. the little bit they put in shoes and clothes doesn't do anything beneficial. and the sprays? c'mon, even i can smell that stuff you are spraying on. even if it did cover your scent, you still have the smell of the spray. and cover scents, now if that ain't stupid deal. go put skunk juice or something on to cover up your smell. you think a buck gets a whiff of a skunk he ain't gonna be looking for it? they don't like the way they smell either. if you want to cover your scent do the indian trick and stand in the smoke of your fire or rub fresh cut quakie and pine bark on ya, but that has it's limits. when i used to bow hunt a lot i wore clean clothes every day and made sure and took a bath with soap that didn't have any perfume. never put gas in my truck with my hunting clothes on. and kept the wind in my favor as much as i could. a ruttin' bull ain't too hard to fool most of the time. deer and other critters are more difficult to get in on. here's a trick a guy taught me. a circle has 360 degrees in it. draw one and put a dot where the animal you wanna shoot is and a dot where you are. or cut a circle out of a piece o' paper so you can move it around. imagine which way the breeze is blowing. you can keep the wind in your favor for for way over half of that circle. you have to look at it in a lotta angles, but you can stay out of a deer's nose pretty good. breezes are tricky and the terrain and brush and trees move it around, but if you get to where you can read it, you can come out on top a lot more. all this scent eliminator stuff is like camo and a lotta other stuff that is pretty much nonsense. it gives you a false sense of security. when you are trying to injun on something you need to have the biggest inferiority complex you can come up with so you will keep everything in mind. don't ever think you have the upper hand, because you don't. i use camo. a lot. but if an animal sees you move, you're busted. dark or neutral clothes work as good or better. same with smell. if they smell ya, you're busted. don't let em smell ya. only folks that benefit from scent eliminator stuff is the guys that sell it. Lark.

cool, when do i start? if i'm all the sudden moron who don't know nothin' i just as well move to a town where i fit right in. i see them guys flippin' signs and wonder if i could cut it in the real world. do they have a union? Lark.

you started it. you know how i can get. Lark.

yaaaaawwwwnnnnn........... crap the phone is ringin'. probably some outfit wanting to pay me buncha money to come and help em fix somethin'. oh wait, i forgot. i don't know anything. dangit. wonder if i can get a job flippin' burgers? Lark.

wickepedia is a wonderfull thing ain't it. i've done this stuff for 40 years. i ain't impressed. Lark.

when i first read that i thought what the h e l l, amanda is as sick as the rest of us and if it really did that i was gonna eat some and then i saw the word was "shirt". took me a second to see that "r". Lark.

one time when me and my boys were quail huntin' with big john and porky and all their kids and grandkids, well, nature called. so i took my little folding porta john and wandered off out in the brush. i took a gun, because i always take a gun. might see somethin' to shoot and with porky around ya might need it for self defense. anyway, i was getting all comfortable and was about ready to clean up when all the sudden them cheesy little cables broke and my fancy store bought porta john folded flat on me. it was a really crappy experience. i got me one made out of big steel foldin' chair now. and big john and porky have real long memories. Lark.

a good friend's cabin was lost in the fire. i was wondering how everyone else faired? did singleshot's folk's place make it ok? never heard. Lark.

you guys are gonna get so nervous you're gonna get shingles. drink some chai tea and settle down. i think i'm gonna see if i can get a degree from some diploma mill that says i'm a certified hunter phsycologist specializing in pre and post draw anxiety. i'll make so much money in the two weeks before and after the draw i can hunt anywhere. but then again, i used to be the same way. wonder if i would get more business with a german accent? you poor guys. Lark.

i don't know much about shooting steel but don't tell me i don't know what i'm talking about when it comes to iron. i've used more of it in one hour than you will in a lifetime. AR plate is nothing more than steel that has had carbon added to it. anywhere from 2 to maybe 10%. you can cut it with a torch, weld it with mild steel rod. it's kinda hard to drill a hole in. and i've seen it torn to pieces in any manner you can think off, just like mile steel. it's made to use in abrasive areas. mildlly abrasive at that. it goes away real fast where there is high abrasion. mild steel is just iron with a very small amount of carbon. that's why you can't temper it. i've used thousands of tons of any kinda steel you can think of. train loads. i never said it wasn't any better. i questioned whether he needed it. seeing if maybe i could save him a little money. youngbuck, have fun with whatever you decide on. the only sihlouttes i ever shot were 1/2" mild steel plates that had a sharp edge on the bottom and they were balanced in a matching groove in wooden blocks. when you hit them, they fell over and it didn't knock a hole in them. put a dent in em, but no hole. this is sort of what i assumed you were doing. that's why i asked how it was secured. Lark.

it's harder but i don't think you'll see a lot of difference. a r plate just has some carbon in it. it works a little better in a wear application but where you're smackin' it with a big ol bullet i don't think you'll see a lot of difference. used to be that sihlouettes were balanced on wood and when you smacked em good they fell over. are they still that way? once at usery they had a ram out there at 200 and it was anchored solid. me and another guy blew the crap out of it. i was trying to write my intitials in it. the other guy shot a face in the head. i had my .300 and .270. i don't know what he had. but it had holes all over in it and some guy from the pistol range came over there raisin' all kindsa h e l l because he said we weren't supposed to be shooting it. it was for pistols. he was yellin' at the range masters mostly. i got to laughing so hard at him i couldn't hit nothin' after that. it had so many holes in it i bet is sounded like a piccolo when the wind blew. it was funny listening to that guy whine too. but try davis salvage. they are on washington west of the dog track a little ways. the salvage yard and big iron yard is on the north side of the road. the one on the south side is ornamental stuff. if you anchor steel down solid, even 1 inch, you can knock holes in it. if it can move when it's hit it will take it a lot better. Lark.

yeah, but it's thatcher. your kids are gonna grow up and marry some web footed thatcher kid. big picture dude. big picture. Lark.

try davis salvage in phoenix. why does it have to be a r plate?

a guy sent me a photo today that had 30 little baby elk laying in one place. so maybe the babies did better than feared. at least better than i did anyway. only one guy i know, so far, lost place in this fire. they did a good job saving dwelllings it seems. Lark.

i'm thinkin' she's been eatin' the wrong kinda mushrooms out there on them hooty owl countin' deals. glow worms.........i seen a few glow toward the end of a jug o' takillya. but only after the jug was empty. you guys see any pink elephants or talkin' javelinas? Lark.

all during the fire they were praying for rain. now that it's over they don't want it to. in my opinion, i hope it rains and rains hard and long and deep. be some run off, but it would be best to just get it over with and get back to healing up. i saw some of the aftermath this weekend. looks like some really hot fire. burnt to the dirt in a lotta places. rain fixes about everything in Az. might cause some problems, but the benefit outweigh them. let'r rain, Lark.