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re: Latitude Outdoors Carbon synergy sticks: immediate stop-use notice
Posted by mrcoon on 11/4/26 at 8:24 am to freshtigerbait
People are completely forgetting about the glue job. If done right you don't need pins. The problem is two fold from what I can tell. The pins are not installed to where they even do anything, and the epoxy job is junk likely to poor prep work on the shaft. They obviously had poor QC/QA when they started production along with cheaping out on components.
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You will have a private levee to drive in to get there. It's impressive how rich pieces shite like them can pull these types of stunts. I hope the locals never stop destroying the gates.
re: 243 for young first time hunter, did I make a mistake?
Posted by mrcoon on 10/22/26 at 8:56 am to GREENHEAD22
I am about to share an unpopular opinion, but here goes:
I guided high fence for several years, was in a club for many years with 243 lovers, and was there to witness the shite show with my 2 young cousins starting off with 243. I loath the cartridge for anyone other than an experienced adult. There isn't much room for error with the damn thing. Most of the bullets for them expand much too rapidly or just break apart inside of 100 yds. If they don't exit you're not getting any blood due to the incredibly small entry hole. What comes next is a lost or incredibly hard to find animal if you don't see it go down or if you don't get a good idea of which way it ran. I've seen this play out dozens of times. You have to remember the 243 was invented as a varmint cartridge that could kill a deer at the hands of a skilled fur shooter if one popped up. It doesn't happen every time and people kill a lot of deer with them, but there's a chance it doesn't work or makes life hard when there are better options that would make it not as hard. Another thing 243 people love to do is claim they just missed or made a bad shot when they in fact didn't. When you're shooting shite fenced in you can stumble across them a few days later when the buzzards show up. On my old club we have found several then the shooter claimed he missed but didn't feel like going looking because he didn't have any blood.
This is my lived experience of almost 40 years of deer hunting. Personally shot over 150 and I've been around hundreds more. I won't shoot less than a 6.5 mm cartridge and feel confident. I much rather see a kid use a 30-30 than 243 or 223 or anything similar. I started my girls on the 3030 and then moved into a 308 shooting 130 grain barnes. 308 with the 130 Barnes has the same penetration 150 grain projectiles, but with equal to a 6.5 CM or 708 with 140gr bullets. It kills like freaking lightning.
If you insist on 6mm and smaller cartridges for deer, use Barnes, Partitions, or something bonded besides Federal fusions as they are extremely soft. They tend to pancake inside of 100 yards. I've seen the 180 grainers not make it out of fallow deer at 90 yards. It wasn't really a problem because 180 grain bullet out of a 30-06 has a lot of power and creates a large wound channel because of the 30 cal bullet. They would all fall within sight.
Lastly, I don't give a damn what cartridges you're shooting. If you know your shots are going to be less than 125 yds and you're hunting in thick terrain, don't use thin jacketed tipped cup and core lead bullets like ELDX, SST, Ballistic Tip/Ballistic Silver tip, Corelokt Tipped, Berger, and similar. They can and do go to absolute crumbles on impact. Sometimes they get in the cavity enough to kill the deer and allow you to recover it without too much trouble. Sometimes they just wound the deer and it either lives or dies days or weeks later due to infection. Does it happen every time no, of course not. Get your sample size up and you will see it happen eventually. Been there, done that, lived it. In those conditions Barnes, tougher bonded, and partitions are the only fails safe options. All of that high BC shite is for target shooting. It is meaningless inside of 400 yds.
My buddy who has a ranch in OK refers to ELDX bullets as "dog callers" because there's about a 50/50 chance that he's going to have to call the local dog handler every time he hears family or a client shoot when using them. They switched all their ammo to Federal Terminal Ascent. They have a lead nose that is bonded to the jacket followed by a solid copper base. I have seen his wife put big arse Midwest deer on her arse with a 6.5 CM with those and they exit. They are amazing bullets.
I guided high fence for several years, was in a club for many years with 243 lovers, and was there to witness the shite show with my 2 young cousins starting off with 243. I loath the cartridge for anyone other than an experienced adult. There isn't much room for error with the damn thing. Most of the bullets for them expand much too rapidly or just break apart inside of 100 yds. If they don't exit you're not getting any blood due to the incredibly small entry hole. What comes next is a lost or incredibly hard to find animal if you don't see it go down or if you don't get a good idea of which way it ran. I've seen this play out dozens of times. You have to remember the 243 was invented as a varmint cartridge that could kill a deer at the hands of a skilled fur shooter if one popped up. It doesn't happen every time and people kill a lot of deer with them, but there's a chance it doesn't work or makes life hard when there are better options that would make it not as hard. Another thing 243 people love to do is claim they just missed or made a bad shot when they in fact didn't. When you're shooting shite fenced in you can stumble across them a few days later when the buzzards show up. On my old club we have found several then the shooter claimed he missed but didn't feel like going looking because he didn't have any blood.
This is my lived experience of almost 40 years of deer hunting. Personally shot over 150 and I've been around hundreds more. I won't shoot less than a 6.5 mm cartridge and feel confident. I much rather see a kid use a 30-30 than 243 or 223 or anything similar. I started my girls on the 3030 and then moved into a 308 shooting 130 grain barnes. 308 with the 130 Barnes has the same penetration 150 grain projectiles, but with equal to a 6.5 CM or 708 with 140gr bullets. It kills like freaking lightning.
If you insist on 6mm and smaller cartridges for deer, use Barnes, Partitions, or something bonded besides Federal fusions as they are extremely soft. They tend to pancake inside of 100 yards. I've seen the 180 grainers not make it out of fallow deer at 90 yards. It wasn't really a problem because 180 grain bullet out of a 30-06 has a lot of power and creates a large wound channel because of the 30 cal bullet. They would all fall within sight.
Lastly, I don't give a damn what cartridges you're shooting. If you know your shots are going to be less than 125 yds and you're hunting in thick terrain, don't use thin jacketed tipped cup and core lead bullets like ELDX, SST, Ballistic Tip/Ballistic Silver tip, Corelokt Tipped, Berger, and similar. They can and do go to absolute crumbles on impact. Sometimes they get in the cavity enough to kill the deer and allow you to recover it without too much trouble. Sometimes they just wound the deer and it either lives or dies days or weeks later due to infection. Does it happen every time no, of course not. Get your sample size up and you will see it happen eventually. Been there, done that, lived it. In those conditions Barnes, tougher bonded, and partitions are the only fails safe options. All of that high BC shite is for target shooting. It is meaningless inside of 400 yds.
My buddy who has a ranch in OK refers to ELDX bullets as "dog callers" because there's about a 50/50 chance that he's going to have to call the local dog handler every time he hears family or a client shoot when using them. They switched all their ammo to Federal Terminal Ascent. They have a lead nose that is bonded to the jacket followed by a solid copper base. I have seen his wife put big arse Midwest deer on her arse with a 6.5 CM with those and they exit. They are amazing bullets.
re: Junky firearm maker Smith and Wesson buys my beloved savage
Posted by mrcoon on 10/22/26 at 7:18 am to RobertFootball
Yup, and Beretta controls Ruger now. It's sad.
re: Buck Ropes?
Posted by mrcoon on 10/7/26 at 10:50 am to CajunSportsman
I tired it and didn't get a deer let a alone a buck on camera for a month in an active area. As soon as I took it down they started using the area again. What does work is the eye gland stuff you can rub on a branch over a mock scrape. I am sure the rope thing works in some places.
re: Why is modern gun deer season in Arkansas so much shorter than Louisiana ?
Posted by mrcoon on 9/24/26 at 2:48 pm to tigersgeauxballzdeep
because they are not stupid like us. They actually like having a decent deer population over most of the state.
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upcard belongs to the dealer, so the dealer has SIX cards.
What kind of yankee rule is this ?
I have never played anywhere that didn't flip the 6th card and it was for the dealer. Terrebonne parish up to Evangeline this is how it was always played. It is a very well documented variation on the game.
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When the pot is over the limit, the winner takes only the limit
Depending on where you play what goes on with the pot can be different. Not a big deal. There are tons of variations on this.
BOURRÉ
BOO-RAY • CAJUN TRICK-TAKING GAMBLING GAME
Cinch is required — not optional. Agree on ante and pot limit before the first deal.
1. PLAYERS, CARDS & OBJECT
2–7 players (7 is a full table — not 8; the deck will not support the
draw). Standard 52-card deck, no jokers. Rank high to low: A K Q J
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. Aces high in every suit. Object: stay in and take the most of the five tricks to win the pot. Stay in and take zero tricks and you are bourré — you match the whole pot.
2. ANTE & DEAL
Everyone who owes an ante puts the same amount in the pot. Dealer may set the ante after the first hand. Shuffle. Player to dealer’s right cuts. Deal five cards face down to each player, one at a time, clockwise. Then deal one extra card FACE UP. That suit is TRUMP. The upcard belongs to the dealer, so the dealer has SIX cards.
If the dealer stays in, they discard down to five like everyone else and may keep or throw the upcard. Replacements come from the stub. If the upcard is the Ace of trump, the dealer must stay in (the Ace always takes a trick).
Deal passes left after each hand.
3. PLAY OR PASS • THE DRAW
Starting left of the dealer, each player says IN or OUT. Others look at five cards; the dealer looks at six. OUT (pass/fold): lose only the ante. Stack cards face down. Sit out the hand.
IN (play): you may discard any number of cards (0–5) and draw replacements from the stub. With 7 players many tables cap the draw at 3 so the stub does not run out. If everybody passes, redeal.
If only one player stays, that player takes the pot without playing the cards. Do not announce in/out or how many you will throw before it is
your turn. Penalty is often loss of next deal.
4. PLAYING TRICKS
First active player left of the dealer leads any legal card. Winner of each trick leads the next. Five tricks. Keep won tricks face up so reneging is visible.
FOLLOW SUIT if you have the led suit — even if your card cannot beat what is out, and even if the trick is already trumped. If void in the led suit you MUST trump if you hold a trump.
PLAY TO WIN / HEAD THE TRICK: if you can play a card that beats the current winner (higher of the led suit, or a higher trump), you must play one that heads it. If you cannot follow and cannot trump, play any off card. An off card cannot win. Highest trump wins the trick. If no trump was played, highest card of the led suit wins.
CINCH EXAMPLES
You lead and hold Ace, King, Queen of trump: drop all three at once. That is three sure tricks and the pot. Ace of trump already played.
You win a trick and still hold King, Queen, Jack of trump: lead all three.
You have taken two tricks and still hold the Ace of trump. Lead the Ace next. It cannot lose.
5. CINCH — REQUIRED, NOT OPTIONAL
A cinch is three sure tricks no matter how the rest of the cards fall. When
you have a cinch you must cash it. You do not get to hold high trump back.
On lead with a cinch: you MUST lead your highest remaining trump. A-K-Q of trump on your lead: play all three at once and take those tricks immediately.
Ace of trump already out and you hold K-Q-J of trump on lead: lead all
three. Same idea for any run of top remaining trumps that cinches the
pot.
If you have taken a trick and what is left in your hand is now unbeatable (example: you have 1 trick plus Ace-King of trump), you must cash the sure winners now.
If you win the first three tricks you have the pot — lead trump to trick
four if you still have one.
When forced to play “highest trump,” an adjacent card in sequence is
accepted (King from A-K).
You may not “play nice” to keep another player from going bourré. Force the win.
6. THE POT, TIES & BOURRÉ
Most tricks wins the entire pot. Three tricks always wins. Two can win if the other three tricks are split one apiece.
TIE for most tricks: nobody takes it. The pot stays and carries to the next deal.
BOURRÉ: any player who stayed IN and took ZERO tricks must MATCH THE ENTIRE CURRENT POT into the next pot. That is how pots explode.
A player who went bourré usually does not ante again on the following deal. Players who tied for most tricks often skip the next ante as well. Everyone else antes as usual. Many tables set a POT LIMIT so one night cannot wipe a player out. When the pot is over the limit, the winner takes only the limit and a bourré pays only the limit.
7. RENEGE (MISPLAY)
A renege is failing to follow suit, failing to trump when void, failing to head the trick when able, or failing to cash a cinch.
Penalty is the same as going bourré: match the pot. If you catch the error before the next player plays, most houses let you take the card back and play the legal one.
BOO-RAY • CAJUN TRICK-TAKING GAMBLING GAME
Cinch is required — not optional. Agree on ante and pot limit before the first deal.
1. PLAYERS, CARDS & OBJECT
2–7 players (7 is a full table — not 8; the deck will not support the
draw). Standard 52-card deck, no jokers. Rank high to low: A K Q J
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2. Aces high in every suit. Object: stay in and take the most of the five tricks to win the pot. Stay in and take zero tricks and you are bourré — you match the whole pot.
2. ANTE & DEAL
Everyone who owes an ante puts the same amount in the pot. Dealer may set the ante after the first hand. Shuffle. Player to dealer’s right cuts. Deal five cards face down to each player, one at a time, clockwise. Then deal one extra card FACE UP. That suit is TRUMP. The upcard belongs to the dealer, so the dealer has SIX cards.
If the dealer stays in, they discard down to five like everyone else and may keep or throw the upcard. Replacements come from the stub. If the upcard is the Ace of trump, the dealer must stay in (the Ace always takes a trick).
Deal passes left after each hand.
3. PLAY OR PASS • THE DRAW
Starting left of the dealer, each player says IN or OUT. Others look at five cards; the dealer looks at six. OUT (pass/fold): lose only the ante. Stack cards face down. Sit out the hand.
IN (play): you may discard any number of cards (0–5) and draw replacements from the stub. With 7 players many tables cap the draw at 3 so the stub does not run out. If everybody passes, redeal.
If only one player stays, that player takes the pot without playing the cards. Do not announce in/out or how many you will throw before it is
your turn. Penalty is often loss of next deal.
4. PLAYING TRICKS
First active player left of the dealer leads any legal card. Winner of each trick leads the next. Five tricks. Keep won tricks face up so reneging is visible.
FOLLOW SUIT if you have the led suit — even if your card cannot beat what is out, and even if the trick is already trumped. If void in the led suit you MUST trump if you hold a trump.
PLAY TO WIN / HEAD THE TRICK: if you can play a card that beats the current winner (higher of the led suit, or a higher trump), you must play one that heads it. If you cannot follow and cannot trump, play any off card. An off card cannot win. Highest trump wins the trick. If no trump was played, highest card of the led suit wins.
CINCH EXAMPLES
You lead and hold Ace, King, Queen of trump: drop all three at once. That is three sure tricks and the pot. Ace of trump already played.
You win a trick and still hold King, Queen, Jack of trump: lead all three.
You have taken two tricks and still hold the Ace of trump. Lead the Ace next. It cannot lose.
5. CINCH — REQUIRED, NOT OPTIONAL
A cinch is three sure tricks no matter how the rest of the cards fall. When
you have a cinch you must cash it. You do not get to hold high trump back.
On lead with a cinch: you MUST lead your highest remaining trump. A-K-Q of trump on your lead: play all three at once and take those tricks immediately.
Ace of trump already out and you hold K-Q-J of trump on lead: lead all
three. Same idea for any run of top remaining trumps that cinches the
pot.
If you have taken a trick and what is left in your hand is now unbeatable (example: you have 1 trick plus Ace-King of trump), you must cash the sure winners now.
If you win the first three tricks you have the pot — lead trump to trick
four if you still have one.
When forced to play “highest trump,” an adjacent card in sequence is
accepted (King from A-K).
You may not “play nice” to keep another player from going bourré. Force the win.
6. THE POT, TIES & BOURRÉ
Most tricks wins the entire pot. Three tricks always wins. Two can win if the other three tricks are split one apiece.
TIE for most tricks: nobody takes it. The pot stays and carries to the next deal.
BOURRÉ: any player who stayed IN and took ZERO tricks must MATCH THE ENTIRE CURRENT POT into the next pot. That is how pots explode.
A player who went bourré usually does not ante again on the following deal. Players who tied for most tricks often skip the next ante as well. Everyone else antes as usual. Many tables set a POT LIMIT so one night cannot wipe a player out. When the pot is over the limit, the winner takes only the limit and a bourré pays only the limit.
7. RENEGE (MISPLAY)
A renege is failing to follow suit, failing to trump when void, failing to head the trick when able, or failing to cash a cinch.
Penalty is the same as going bourré: match the pot. If you catch the error before the next player plays, most houses let you take the card back and play the legal one.
Cinch Rule means you already have enough sure tricks that nobody can stop you from taking the pot (usually three guaranteed tricks). When you have a cinch, you don’t get to pick and choose.
If it is your lead and you have a cinch in trump, you must lead high trump.
If you hold the top remaining trumps in a row — Ace-King-Queen, or King-Queen-Jack after the Ace is already out — many houses require you to put them all down at once and take those tricks immediately. You don’t drip them out one trick at a time.
Same idea if you just won a trick and now the rest of your hand is unbeatable: you have to cash the sure winners right then.
So if the Ace of trump is already gone and you have K-Q-J of trump on lead, you lead them (often all three together). If you have A-K-Q on your lead, you play all three at once and claim those tricks.
If it is your lead and you have a cinch in trump, you must lead high trump.
If you hold the top remaining trumps in a row — Ace-King-Queen, or King-Queen-Jack after the Ace is already out — many houses require you to put them all down at once and take those tricks immediately. You don’t drip them out one trick at a time.
Same idea if you just won a trick and now the rest of your hand is unbeatable: you have to cash the sure winners right then.
So if the Ace of trump is already gone and you have K-Q-J of trump on lead, you lead them (often all three together). If you have A-K-Q on your lead, you play all three at once and claim those tricks.
you don't have to give up your highest trumps when some A,Q, K
Yes, you have to beat what's on the table if you have it in your hand.
re: Doe harvest
Posted by mrcoon on 9/17/26 at 3:32 pm to Koolazzkat
must be nice to have too many deer
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :cheers:
re: Hunting board: Why don't people like Remington 1100s?
Posted by mrcoon on 9/16/26 at 10:32 am to Wishnitwas1998
Because they never shot them. The downside is the dreaded O-ring gas system that can't be neglected. You have to clean them and keep a spare O right on you just in case.
It's already called that.
The lunatic sports media made this whole case what it is. They got marching orders from someone who just hates LSU and in concert started chirping. The mainstream news does the same thing. They are controlled.
Sanky and many of the presidents probably believed some of the half baked false narrative hence the knee jerk reaction. Now they are probably fully in the know. Now it's crawfish time. They want back in their holes.
Sanky and many of the presidents probably believed some of the half baked false narrative hence the knee jerk reaction. Now they are probably fully in the know. Now it's crawfish time. They want back in their holes.
re: Maybe known already, but Donde Plowman, Chancellor of UTk, is apparently the driving force
Posted by mrcoon on 9/10/26 at 5:24 am to CatfishJohn
Well, she is a communist.
re: SEC could still punish Lane and LSU
Posted by mrcoon on 9/10/26 at 5:22 am to Downeast12
They wouldn't dare. With NIL too much money is tied in.
re: Snake ID - Snake Bite Edition
Posted by mrcoon on 9/4/26 at 1:29 pm to DownSouthDave
copper head
What is so hard about it? She brutally murdered her 3 kids. That is an instant ejection from society. I know a woman who had real postpartum psychosis, voices and the whole bit. She even says that the bitch needs life behind bars. You are what's wrong. Something as simple as a murder shouldn't be this complicated.
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