Tigerhead

You may want to look into a product called Generlink. If it meets code in your vicinity, it's my understanding that the power company will do the install. They aren't cheap but it's basically a cartridge or module that stabs onto your electric meter between the base and the glass readout section.

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He may not want to but one day he would make an outstanding coach. That dude knows what he is talking about. Oozes football knowledge in the most unpretentious way.

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Not to mention he's the kind of guy you would follow through the gates of hell. Natural leader because he leads by example.

Dang! I would love to see what the Old Revetments looked like. I would imagine all of the rocks would be visible with the tide that low. When I was a kid the rocks were all visible, all of the time, even with an extreme high tide. Not anymore. 60+ years of silt and settlement have made them more of a navigation hazard than a fish haven.

Back when ducks were plentiful in SWLA we hunted flooded sweet potatoes and killed like crazy. My dad would take two weeks of vacation during duck season and we would hunt the same blind every day for two weeks and would shoot easy limits every hunt. You couldn't run them off, but again, ducks were very plentiful. I'm talking 50's to early 70's. I always thought it was the vines they were interested in.

My dad was from Avoyelles Parish and he made a dish with goo that just had a white roux gravy. No tomato. So not a traditional court bouillon.

He would take a whole goo, minus the head, season it with salt and pepper, flour it real good, put it in a skillet rubbed with just enough oil to keep it from sticking. Throw a little chopped onion in and then cover and slow cook. Try to avoid adding water while cooking. If you go slow the fish will produce it's own liquid.

The most important part of the recipe was in how you cleaned the goo. A goo has a white fat on the inside of the belly. Don't remove that fat. The fat will render as the fish cooks and make the gravy. The dish has a very strong fishy odor. But if it doesn't run you out of the house while it's cooking, it's delicious over rice. Lots of bones of course.

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The guns are pretty cool on it, but Civil War muuuhh cancelled

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I think those are supposed to be pirate pistols reminiscent of Jean Laffite. Nothing to do with Civil War.

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Most people who have caught COVID claim to be mask wearers.

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I've read enough of your posts to know that you are smart enough to know that what people "claim" and what they actually do is often two different things. They get sick and to avoid embarrassment (or maybe blame if grandma died) they claim they were wearing a mask. It's just human nature. But wearing a mask by itself isn't a guarantee. All parties have to be masked to achieve an effective result. And it should be coupled with social distancing and hand washing.

Look, I've seen hospitals with outrageously high staph infection rates that turned the trend around almost overnight by imposing a mandatory rigorous hand washing policy for employees. I know this is viral and not bacterial but the concept is the same. Prevention measures most often help.

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Found the communist

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Is that you Senator McCarthy....lol!

I'm not fool enough to believe you can bring the infection rate to zero by wearing masks. That was never the intent. But there's no point in debating the effectiveness vs ineffectiveness of masks when a significant portion of the population is still hosting or attending superspreaders on a regular basis. Bars, restaurants, funerals, weddings, political rallies, and so forth, where people are likely to ignore social distancing and un-mask, completely negate any arguments against mask wearing based on rising numbers of infections. It's like someone drilling holes in a boat hull then saying bilge pumps are useless and ineffective. The entire premise of your argument is just like that boat hull. Full of holes.

Now, on the other hand, if you have enough people in that boat, that are willing to work for the common good, you can keep that boat afloat. All it takes is for everyone to stick their fingers in the holes. You will still get some water seeping in, but you will slow the leaks down enough so that the pump can keep up. Will anyone be inconvenienced? Absolutely! After all, you can't operate an iPhone when you have your fingers stuck in a hole. But at least no one drowns. Don't make the mistake of getting distracted by the politics or whatever. Wear the mask. Wash your hands. Social distance. Take the vaccine. It would be a shame to lose your life or the life of a loved one when the end of the war is so near.

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What made Curly Hallman so bad at LSU. Didn’t he have a good resume

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He played for the Aggies. Need I say more?

What about carrying one gun for both squirrels and hogs. I've got a buddy who slays hogs with a .17 HMR. I don't think he's killing 350 lb boar hogs but certainly good eating size hogs. He swears by the Hornady 20gr FMJ round. Says it doesn't tear up a squirrel like the ballistic tip rounds but a well placed shot will kill a hog easily.

I have a Marlin .17 HMR. I haven't hunted with it but can say it's a tack driver on paper. Shoots a lot flatter than a .22LR. A squirrel wouldn't be safe inside 100 yds. unless there's a really strong crosswind. Not likely to happen in the woods, and if the wind is blowing really hard I'm taking my shotgun anyway.

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I know it's not a pump or automatic but I have a buddy who swears by one of these for dove hunting

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I agree with the Yildiz O/U for several reasons.

Number one, most landowners require you to pick up your empty hulls, which you should be doing anyway. An over and under shotgun makes that a lot easier to do. My hulls never hit the ground. I eject them into my hand and they go into my game vest.

O/U will also force you to be a better shot. I hear guys talk about shooting 5 boxes of shells to kill a limit of doves and in a lot of cases I can tell you how that happens. They fire their first shot flock shooting. They don't pick out a specific bird. The second shot may get a little more attention but they missed on the first shot so they rush the second. Their third shot is a desperation shot that shouldn't have been fired in the first place. I think knowing you have three chances helps to lead to this type of shooting.

O/Us are also less problematic in the field. Usually no issues with ejecting shells or whatever. Some dove loads don't function well in a semi-automatic. A pump shotgun may solve some issues with ammo but has virtually the same recoil as an O/U. So it's a wash on the recoil.

I've been shooting a Yildiz for dove for several years and have had zero issues. They are light weight guns, so if you are recoil shy you could go with a 20 ga.. More than enough gun for dove. $400+ change is hard to beat on cost.

If you go with the 12 ga., Academy sells a pre-fit Limb Saver brand recoil pad for the Yildiz. Unscrew the original butt plate and screw the Limb Saver on...easy peasy. I like a soft rubber pad on any gun just so I can stand it against the wall and not wotty about the stock slipping on the floor and the gun hitting the floor.

The only real disadvantage is if you are looking for a multi-purpose gun. Although 2 shots is enough for duck hunting, for instance, you will not like shooting 3" duck loads in this gun. If you just want a dove gun, go Yildiz. You won't be sorry.

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That has been true every flue season. What's different now? Unless you're one of those easily duped imbeciles who actually believe there have been 130K+ deaths because of the Chinese Flu.

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The difference for me was that this was an unknown entity. All of you geniuses that are using hindsight to argue your case forget that we had never dealt with this virus before. No vaccine, no established treatment, and really no long term data telling us what to expect.

When I was a kid, we had a bridge piling we would jump off of during the summer. Kids had been doing it for decades. There was another piling on that same bridge that no one would ever jump off of, no matter how long the line was on the first piling. One day I asked a buddy why no one jumped off the other piling. He just looked at me and said, "Because no one has ever taken that jump before." We didn't know if there was a hazard so we played it safe. We called that Common Sense.

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The stupidity of the mental gymnastics involved to come up with this argument is only eclipsed by the stupidity of the people who use it thinking they are making a salient point.

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You said a mouthful there. It's mind boggling.

Does it function well in the gun? Spring steel is made to be compressed. If the spring alignment is causing a malfunction then get rid of the mag or make it a 28 rd mag instead of a 30. I would bet if all mags were see through, you might be surprised to see what the springs look like when the mag is fully loaded. But if it functions properly?

ETA: I'm referring to large capacity mags. It takes a lot of spring travel to shove 30 rounds that far. You would have to make the mag 3 inches longer to keep from getting that over compressed spring look. How hard is it to get that last round to load? If you can load the last round without applying an unreasonable amount of pressure, I think you will be alright.