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was deer hunting and forgot my ear muffs. Stuck a shell cartridge casing in each ear before shooting. worked in a pinch and helped!

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Haha- I did this once a few years ago!

I have Razor Slim Electronic Muffs for the kids, I use them sometimes duck hunting too, I have some gel, or gummy maybe- ear plugs that work well, I can hear enough with them in, but they muffle the sound.

I don't shoot without pro anymore.

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I've been stung twice in the same foot.

I have broken 20 ish bones in my body, including jaw and leg. Stingray takes the cake.

You can feel the venom in your veins, feel it running through, the pain spreading. It's awful.

I will barely get in the water these days.

ETA: it's been compared to a bullet ant on the initial sting, higher peak pain, and longer duration

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Glad I'm not alone on it. Man it was a rough day. I got hit in South Padre. Literally about 10 steps out into the water, at the beach. People swimming everywhere around me. Bam!

I Jumped out of the water when it hit, thought maybe I stepped on a crab or something, but the pain was unreal. Tried to stand there a minute or two and calm myself thinking no way this hurts so bad, then picked my foot up and looked at it and go oh fudge!

Was with Ex Wife, kids, and Ex in laws, I think they thought I was being dramatic, didn't care. Drove myself to IGA, got hydrogen peroxide, meat tenderizer, and a 30 pack. Back to condo, cleaned it real good, tenderizer, and then wet towel in the microwave, wrap foot, sit on floor, drink, repeat, the entire day. The heat gave relief, but the time gap between the towel cooling off, and heating it back up, would about put me down.

Woke up the next morning, went fishing, drove home, went to Dr for antibiotics. I won't even fool with them ever again. Somebody catches one on my boat i cut their line.

Man.

Sting Ray hit is mine. F those things.

I've broken quite a few bones, torn a bunch of stuff, bullet hole in calf, concussions.

Sting ray takes the cake. But I'm tougher than Steve Irwin.

Do they make like a model or toy of whatever model you got him?

Could do something like that.

I used to live less than a mile from there.

Friend of mines family owns ranch on one side of it. They lived through and watched the whole thing. His parents talked about driving through the road block every day, the blaring music, animal sounds, and then the unfortunate ending and shootout.

I did a ton of digging into RR and Koresh stuff a long time ago. Just sickening that our government did that to citizens. Ruby Ridge was horrific.

And to follow it up- the whole thing in Elk. Everybody around says Koresh was never hiding. Constantly out in town, etc. They could have grabbed him any time. No need for innocent kids to be harmed.

Also- Crazy that the same sniper Horiuci was the trigger man at both of those. I know military guys follow orders. But you'd have to be a different kind of cold to take out an unarmed woman holding a baby, and then a short time later open fire on more innocent people in Elk at the BD compound.

There's not much there anymore. They pulled the school bus out of the pond years ago and cleaned up any of the other remnants that were left. Just the small monument stuff you mentioned that's left now.

223 AR is great, low recoil, adjustable stock. Perfect for kids.

I have a 300BO "Pistol" that my oldest has been shooting since he was 7-8.

Tiger Droppings for the win. I may be doing this now.

However- yesterday while duck hunting i got told my friends uncle will sell me an A5 20gauge in amazing shape for 500$.. I'm going to research if I can put a youth stock on that.

I love duck hunting.

This morning- 2 buddies ive hunted with for 20 years took the boat out in TX and hunted a lake we have hunted since early 2000's. In all that time, we've never been skunked there. Today we never fired a shot. But to make it better- all 3 of us had waders decide to leak this morning, and we forgot the chairs, so standing in the mud for 4 hours with wet butt and feet, the highlight was talking trash to some "kids" that walked in and set up across the cove from us. One of them shot a coot and tried to walk about 600 yards chasing a crippled coot!

So thats fun.

Get a faulks 3n1 whistle, and a DR66 call, don't need anything else, find a good spot, sit still, and hope that's where they want to land.

I am shocked at the lack of ducks. I didn't want to fight the wind this am so we put the boat in the water at the camp and cruised for squirrels. Found a few.

So odd to me that there's not very many anymore. I remember squirrels everywhere on the river banks this time of year.

This morning was better, not great. Still tons of birds, not much besides dinks under them.

Went way up into the old river channel and this cut to a back lake in there and caught a few keeper trout and stripers on DSL and rattle traps.

Yeah, I think it was just sand trout under the birds this am up north.

May grab some gulp tomorrow and see of we can find some reds up there somewhere on the banks or docks tomorrow.