Doc Shakalu

Forgive my ignorance but is it wrong to still start a kid out on a .270 WSM? Killed my first deer at 7 years old with my grandfather’s and it is still one of my favorite rifles.

Have a two year old boy born in September and another due in April…problem with April is it’s right in the middle of turkey season which will be a problem next year, but is going to make for some epic birthday trips in his future.

Headed to North Dakota for a few days next week for work. Planning on squeezing in a couple of pheasant hunts while I’m there. I was wondering if y’all have any advice on the best way to store a couple to have mounted when I get back to Houston. I appreciate all the help.

I’d spend a little more and get the Nitto Ridge Grapplers. I used to run KO2s on my 02 Excursion with a 7.3. Bought KO3s when it came time for new tires and they would not stay balanced. Shop gave me a credit and sold me the Nittos and I couldn’t be happier. Running 33s if that makes any difference to you.

I’ll play along for fun. From ChatGPT:
Your profile identifies you as an LSU fan, petroleum engineer, husband/father, and someone interested in hunting and fishing.

Political positions you’ve actually expressed

Based on the posts I found, there is strong evidence for these specific positions:

* Strong concern about immigration and assimilation. You’ve criticized high levels of immigration and particularly expressed concern about immigrants who, in your view, don’t assimilate into American society.
* Strong opposition to H-1B/foreign labor replacing American workers. Your comments on the T-Mobile/India discussion were particularly emphatic.
* National-interest/economic-nationalist framing. Your concern isn’t simply immigration generally—you repeatedly frame the issue around American jobs, American communities, and maintaining an identifiable American culture.
* Strongly pro-gun. You explicitly describe carrying two Glocks and have participated in firearms discussions from a safety/ownership perspective.
* Strongly pro-law-and-order / concerned about crime. Your reactions to crime-related threads are consistently on the tougher-enforcement side.
* Skeptical of progressive cultural politics. Your posts on transgender issues and the political/cultural discussions around them are openly hostile toward progressive gender politics.
* Traditional/conservative cultural outlook. Your comments about American history education, immigration, firearms, and cultural change point in that direction, although I wouldn’t reduce all of your views to a single political label.
* Strong attachment to Texas/American identity. Your comments about Plano becoming less culturally familiar to you repeatedly invoke what you consider traditional American/Texan culture.
* You appear receptive to Trump-aligned immigration politics, but the material I found isn’t sufficient for me to conclude exactly how you view Trump overall or whether you’re a Republican. Your comment about Fetterman potentially moving toward the GOP was clearly negative toward the idea.

The interesting part: you’re not just a Political Talk poster

Your Outdoor Board persona is considerably different.

You come across as a knowledgeable, experienced outdoorsman rather than someone who simply talks about hunting. For example, you discuss specific fishing setups, turkey calls, hunting trips, arrowhead hunting, firearms, and equipment. You also give fairly detailed firsthand advice.

Your turkey-call posts are a good example: you describe progressing from a box call to a mouth call, then locator and pot calls, and say you get more satisfaction calling a bird in for your wife or a new hunter than necessarily killing one yourself. That’s a noticeably more personable side of the account than what appears in Political Talk.

Your posting style

I’d characterize Doc Shakalu as:

“Southern outdoorsman + blue-collar/professional technical guy + culturally conservative/populist Political Talk poster.”

More specifically:

* Blunt
* Sarcastic
* Comfortable being politically incorrect
* Not particularly concerned with getting downvoted
* More interested in saying what you think than presenting a carefully sanitized argument
* Strongly rooted in hunting/fishing/Southern culture
* Practical rather than ideological in non-political discussions
* More knowledgeable than the average poster when discussing technical subjects
* Occasionally intentionally inflammatory on Political Talk

The voting patterns are interesting too. Several of your political posts received zero or positive votes, while some of your more inflammatory cultural/immigration comments received substantial downvotes. For example, the T-Mobile/immigration thread contains one of your comments with +27/-0, while other comments from the same general discussion were downvoted.

So you don’t appear to be simply posting whatever gets the most approval from the board—you’ll make comments that run against portions of the audience.

One caveat: TigerDroppings currently shows 67 posts on the indexed profile, but the search engine only exposes a subset of them. So I wouldn’t honestly call the above a definitive analysis of every single post you’ve ever made.

If you want, I can go further and ? build you a “Doc Shakalu TigerDroppings scouting report”—? board-by-board, ? including your apparent political ideology, cultural views, personality/posting style, likely allies/enemies on the board, subjects you repeatedly return to, and a few representative quotes from your posts.

Grimreaper 125 grain Whitetail Special

Never used those but I do hang urine soaked tampons in areas I am hunting and have had luck with that.

I was just stating the fact that the state of Mississippi is a success story for repopulation and maintaining a healthy deer population that gives hunters an ample amount of meat supply for their families throughout the year. There are some very nice bucks in MS if you hunt the right places. If I knew how to post pictures I’d show you some that I have gotten over the years. I grew up in Ocean Springs but was born and raised to the age of 10 in LA. I live in Texas now and my family owns a 400 acre farm in NW Arkansas. I’ll be bow hunting two properties I have access to in MS week of Oct 19th looking for a couple giants. I have access to property in many states and I’m choosing to bow hunt two properties MS this year with my limited time. It’s all about location in MS.

Edit: I had 4 points this year for Kansas and did not get a tag, but admittedly if I had got one I would be bow hunting there.

Used to play $0.10 antes with Mammaw and Pappaw. They have both been with the Lord for several years now, but I still have little IOU’s from them in my Crown Royal Bourre bag. This good thread I haven’t thought about it in years.

I am very fortunate that one of the oil fields I’m the engineer for is down there and I made friends with the biggest landowner other than what we own. He lets me hunt it after he cuts all those brown top millet fields. I have never duck hunted there but I’m looking forward to this season. I’m from MS and our last few years have been pretty horrible.