Duckhammer_77

Tensas, box stand over a food plot along the river.
280 Ackley, had a 9 pt on camera last night, hoping he shows up in the daylight chasing a doe

Want to cut cable and ditch Cox, but ATT doesn't have fiber available to my address. Is the ATT "Internet Air" worth it in BR or should I stay with Cox until ATT has fiber in my n'hood?

200 Accubonds at 2700 fps

Have a traverse 30 Nosler, ridgeline 28 Nosler, and mesa 6.5 CM models, all purchased before the private equity sale. I hand load for them and they are very accurate rifles.

They sold to Ancor capital in 2019 just when word was spreading about them. They got super popular and ramped up production right as covid happened. They went from boutique gunmakers with experienced staff to high production with whoever they could get to run the machines. They changed things internally to increase profits. QA/QC went to dogshit, rifles weren't grouping, machining looked like shite in the chambers.

My buddy bought a mesa 6.5 CM in 2021 and it looked like they reamed the chamber with a shrimp fork. LOTS of people had to send back their rifles for warranty work and the company wasn't always the nicest about it. Go to any Cabelas or Scheels and you'll see plenty of CA rifles on the used rack from this period.

The internet hasn't been very kind to CA about it either. Hopefully they've been listening and got their shite together. Outdoor Life has an article saying the new Evoke is the shite, but I'm sure Ancor pays for ad space too.

With the Evoke at $1k and with CA's track record, get a Bergara.

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White Bear

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I agree with you that I have better and more important things to worry about. My kid just told me they have a project due at school Friday...at 7:45pm just now. :rolleyes:

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overwhelmed by the coonass population. Kill everything they can

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coonassholes lease some land next to me and put pics of grown men holding a spike and 4-pt on their FB pages like their proud of them. And saying shite like "we need food on our table!" All the other clubs around us have agreements for 8-pts or better. I'm trying to pool some resources and go to the land owner with a better lease deal to get the assholes out of there.

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the Ryobi 18v cordless air pump...can fit under the seat

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mine lives under the back seat of my truck. This plus a tire plug kit has saved my arse a few times. I use this waaay more than I thought I would. People never realize that spare tires need to be inflated too, even if you're changing a tire, this air pump is awesome. Hands down best fathers day gift I've ever received. Even rolling into the camp ready to hunt and SxS has a flat - five minutes later, it's plugged, inflated, and you're rolling.

mine is digital and looks like this but I think it's discontinued
this is the new version

See, this is how shite starts. That's a deal on a great scope and I don't have a rifle for it...yet. :rolleyes: but now I have to get a rifle cuz I'm gonna buy that scope.

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Sportsman's Condo...but it's LOUD

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was sitting in a SC last Friday with a doe feeding under me within a beer can's throw. Banged the shite out of the side with the gun barrel trying to get it around and out of a different window. Doe never looked up. The other does 40 yds away snapped up at me and froze forever staring at the stand...but they didnt spook. go figure. :dunno:

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Search facebook marketplace and you may find someone who builds blinds locally. They may give you a discount on purchasing multiple stands.

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we just got several made by a guy in Bunkie that was advertising on FB marketplace. He built exactly what we wanted in terms of footprint size, windows, door placement, etc and gave us a good deal b/c we had seven built at once LINK

Our lease has a couple Dillons, an Antler Shed, and multiple SCs. The Dillons are nice, we just got a one-time deal on them. The SCs take a beating from the river and we go find them down stream, drag them back, set them back up and shovel the mud out. They're hard to tear up, but we have to replace the windows a lot. They all get hot and opening the windows dont do squat when its still 85 and humid as hell opening weekend. But, they get warm fast when you have a little heater.