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Interesting that Brayden Simpson isn't on the list for second base for the simple fact that he's listed as one of the top 50 second basemen by D1. Looks like he's #5 on their list if I'm not mistaken. Definitely a good problem to have with multiple people we can plug in here after Dickinson's departure.

AKA Acadiana Wildgame Processing.

To add onto that, I got an email that since I had the $120 residential plan that was being renamed to residential max, I qualified to get a free Starlink mini to use it to roam. Just putting that out there if anyone else is on the package to look out for the email. I actually opted to drop my plan down to the 100m plan since I only get upwards of 60ish mbps anyway. Gonna save me $70/month. Still easily works for our needs and I work from home and stream on multiple tvs.

Good to hear. Looking at the weather for the weekend, hoping Saturday morning is good before it warms up. Will be there for the youth lottery.

I'm in the same boat as you. I hunt a ton of public across the state, mainly bowhunting, and I pass a ton of bucks that I don't want to kill every year. If the next person shoots it and is happy with it, more power to them. I'll congratulate and help them drag it out and shoot the bull after the hunt as well. To each his own. Just because I want to shoot bigger deer doesn't mean I expect the next person to do the same. Not to mention if I bring my kids, I much rather let them make the decision of what they want to shoot as it makes for a miserable hunt if you see a good buck that doesn't necessarily fit the restrictions and have to tell them "nah you can't shoot that one, its not big enough". Good way to ruin our future hunters.

Stuffing tube, foot pedal for on/off, and poly bags for grind are the only way I'll do it now. I've done it with the vacuum seal bags and all that but I find the poly bags last just as long as I need them to in the freezer which is about 1-2 years. I clean my meat and divide it into 8 lbs (I mix my grind 80% deer 20% beef fat). I put my 8 lbs deer and 2 lbs beef fat into a tote and season it like I want (before I grind anything, helps with the mixing to me) then do my course grind. Continue this until all of my meat has gone through the course grind, mix everything up even better, then change to my fine grind plate and stuffing tube with the poly bags. Use a tape dispenser once i get my 2 lb bags filled and into the freezer they go. No extra work added. Everything else I'll vacuum seal and label.

ETA: I didn't even answer the main question. I have an LEM #22 like you're looking into and its perfect for my needs of a couple deer a year.

Ordered a holster for my thumb trigger release that i can clip onto my bino harness or belt. Will be nice to not have to worry about digging in my pocket or backpack for it.

I haven't got my normal swarms either. Wondering if its due to the warm weather and limited fronts we've got so far if it maybe backed up their migration or something and they just haven't made it here yet. Gonna keep the feeders full for the next couple weeks just in case.

Was in the same boat. I have suppressors for the rifles but needed something when shooting the shotguns. Walkers has a buy one get one free promo for one of their muffs that blocks out the high decibel noises. Used them this past weekend and they’re kinda nice. I’m sure they have better options but they serve the purpose.

Pretty intrigued by these. Looks like Beast stick knock offs, but that price is nice for what you get with the 4 pack.

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I have a set of tethrd skeletors that I use on a normal basis, and a set of old school lone wolfs but I can't stand having only single sided steps...makes it a pain trying to hand stands but doable. Much rather double steps.