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Oh, he's down hill and down wind. Got that covered.

I typed up an explanation and deleted it. Hit me up on PM if you want the details.

I'm thinking of building a wall, that on my side is perfectly peaceful. On his side, a giant mural, an artistic expression that every time he walks out of his house, every time he comes out his driveway, he sees just how much I despise him. But man, I just don't know if it's worth it. The thing is, this guy is absolutely horrible. He has no common decency at all. I don't want to retaliate, But part of me does.

Somebody was just searching for one of these.

Huge congrats. I love those youth hunts. Way to stick it out. Big smiles all around - love it.

Great gun in a great caliber for AZ. I'm betting this will go fast.

YETI dissin on 2A. Talk about shooting yourself in the face. Who do they think buy their products?

Hey, awesome job. Not an optimal opening weekend, but you guys got it done on a great bird.

Crazy windy this morning, this will be the first year I've missed youth hunting in a LONG time but between baseball and Prom, not in the cards for us this year. Best of luck on tomorrow's opener.

Nice! My old stomping grounds. Brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for sharing.

Just beautiful. Thank you and have a blessed Easter.

I do love a good fish fry of crappie, walleye is right up there and yellow perch - you can catch them all day long at Fish Lake in Utah, but it's hard not to go for the big lake trout and splake when you are up there. Love some mid sized cats too. But the best eating fish, IMO, smallies on the Black, cooked up on shore the day they're caught.

Somebody rotate that, grrr.

You mean like this?

That was just awesome. I've been watching your videos all day. So the rifle in a lot of vids. This: What can you tell us about it? I want one!

I went last Friday and could see them suspended on the fish finder. Of course, got a call from work and was off the water before noon, Seemed most of the lake was 56-58 degrees, the suspended fish were near drop offs around 12 feet but I didn't get a bite before I had to cut it short.

Thanks, I'm gonna send these in. It will be interesting because I bought them a long time ago from a place in France before they had their warranty service country-specific. They actually have the black rubber coating instead of the green, which if I understood correctly was not an option for US sales at the time. Back then, I paid $1117 including the VAT. That's how old I'm getting, lol. As always, I appreciate the feedback and I'll let you know how it goes.

On average, what does it cost to have your optics reconditioned by Swarovski? I've got an older pair of 15x56's that I'd like to have serviced, but I don't know what it will cost. One objective lens definitely has a scratch on it.

Big muley for me.

The breaks off Gentry. When the shots star, they head for the rez. Not a fun pack out.

Honestly, I can't. I've been entrenched so deeply in the "don't give an inch" camp for so long, it's really hard to separate. Most of the objections I've seen and heard here are arguments I have made in the past. From my perspective, this thing IS going to be big, and it will be a major factor in the next election cycle. The "right", GOP, NRA and gun owners have always been on the defensive. The way I see it, if we're going to be defending 2A, we also have to own that space. We know the facts, laws, every bit of reasoning that goes into defending gun owner rights. If we are on the offensive, doing things that make sense, we have more credibility than the reactive crowd who has zero knowledge. In my opinion, we have way more power than they do when we flex our intellectual muscle and bring forth facts rather than emotion. But we can't step up to the table with an all or nothing proposal. Just to be clear, what I've proposed is an extension of what is already law. 18 year olds are already prohibited by state and federal law from buying a hand gun. Those who are challenging the ideas I've proposed, have never come out in support for lowering the legal age to buy hand guns. The idea that they are somehow defending their life or liberty with a rifle is beyond absurd. What I'm saying is that we either own the gun ownership rights debate and police it internally, or we will have some left-wing dip-**** force it on us under their uninformed ideology. And that's a VERY bad thing for us all.

Your words, not mine. Keep digging.

trphyntr, that's an absolute low, even for you.

No fan of McCain here. Hasn't it already been the law that you can't buy a pistol in AZ until you are 21? I hope I've made it clear enough that extending that existing law to long arms could come with previsions that require at least the basic capabilities, and parental consent? Honestly, I'm a little baffled by the direction this debate has gone. Anyone who has studied gun laws in any way knows that long guns are not the chosen ones for either crime or defense. The existing laws already prevent handgun purchases to those 21 or less, unless you buy it in a parking lot. It's absolutely legal for anyone to buy any gun, regardless of age, outside of the background checks, if done person-to-person. What you say is ridiculous, I think is smart - and powerful. Being the ones who self-regulate in an intelligent way, takes the teeth and nails out of the opposition. What is lost by saying an 18 year old can't buy a rifle without some sort of parental consent? Who loses out on that? The gun control debate will be won by the cooler heads. The 100% it has to be all or nothing mentality will lose in the long run. Trust me on this. We get to choose whether we are the ones with knowledge and understanding - AND, the ones with the answers. Or, we could just be a bunch of unyielding gun nuts who fail to see that there are actually two sides to this coin. That's a 50/50 proposition at best. Personally, I don't take those odds given how the media and schools and literally everything is against us. We either shift the perspective, or we lose - all of us.

Excellent post, Trapdoor.