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Exodus hits exactly where my field points do and has given a clean pass through on every deer I’ve shot with it. Ain’t fixing it if it’s not broke.
Hunters are allowed two lines per unused tag, and any gator that is hooked after tags are filled is to be released “in the most humane method possible.” Basically the state is on record saying shite happens.
I just want you to know I was the first downvote

re: .22 creedmoor or .22 ARC

Posted by TheDrunkenTigah on 10/3/26 at 3:30 pm to
What he said. Only good reason to go ARC is so it’ll fit in AR platform rifles.

That said, the ranch vs prairie are very different guns. Handle them both first if you can, prairie is going to have a much heavier barrel and will lend itself to shooting supported.
Gonna be awesome when they drop this stuff in a 7mm-08/308 case.
As long as you can point them south, the older versions of Tactacam are fine. I have several I haven’t touched on their third year. I do find that they need to be angled a little to allow water to run off, the one I had fail was sitting closer to horizontal and held rainwater, which eventually got inside.
If you’re talking about the lithium pack that’s the same shape as the AA tray that goes in the back, the capacity isn’t any higher than a set of lithium AAs, you just have the ability to recharge it and not throw it away.

Solar panels are the way to go if you’re in an open area. Buy Tactacam branded panels, Chinese knockoffs will cause nothing but issues. If you aren’t in an area with sufficient light, look into herd360 cables and feeder batteries in an ammo can. Our cams will last about 2 months taking hundreds of pics a day instant sending on a 7ah feeder battery.
Savage and Ruger have always made a very accurate cheap barreled action since they both went to the floating bolt head, the trigger and stock are just where they save the mfg costs. Ruger got a little too cute with the second generation Americans and is having issues, hopefully savage doesn’t make the same mistake.

re: Snake ID- juvenile racer?

Posted by TheDrunkenTigah on 9/25/26 at 11:00 am to
Looks like a speckled king to me.
I know we’re getting close to opening weekend when every thread just turns into yall bitching about how your neighbors kill everything.
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Numbers and quality are two totally different things. Nobody argues that Mississippi deer herd has numbers


Where MS has the soil quality to produce quality deer, it does. Everywhere else there are numbers and the quality of the bucks roughly reflects the habitat. The government can’t regulate you into 180” deer on pow pows 100 acres, no matter how hard you want it to.
A sticking/heavy bolt is a pressure sign. Check the brass you’ve fired for ejector marks and flattened primers.

Not something I would play around with, especially with a kid shooting it. Could be as simple as you left some oil in the chamber, or a carbon ring has developed at the throat, either way I would have it looked at by a smith.
It got there from people transporting deer carcasses or live deer for pens. You won’t hear me argue baiting doesn’t increase the rate at which it spreads, but that’s why the management zones are massive relative to the amount of confirmed cases, large enough to reduce transmission due to young buck dispersal. I just think the effect a statewide ban would accomplish is overblown, at best you’re just slowing the inevitable. I wouldn’t lose sleep over it either way.
If you ban feeding across the entire state, people will just continue to do it like they did for 30 years before it was illegal, and since they’re already outlawing they’ll just throw it on the ground. This at least gives people who insist on it the ability to do it somewhere that there’s lower risk associated with it and allows at least some kind of targeted approach to enforcement.
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If they were serious about CWD, they would try and get away from these if CWD is spread through a herd by saliva as they say.


All supplemental feeding is banned in CWD management zones in MS.
I don’t think it will be carte blanche approval to throw corn on the ground, it will still need to be mechanically spread somehow. The rationale against piling feed up has always been that it encourages aflatoxin which is deadly to turkeys, CWD is the new kid on the block. MS game wardens and judges are more than happy to lean on their own subjective criteria to determine if they think it constitutes a pile vs spread depending on how much they like to turkey hunt.
Man I enjoy a few too many drinks but if you are so lit on a weeknight you can’t remember buying something, it’s time to hang up your spurs.

re: Raccoon issues

Posted by TheDrunkenTigah on 9/18/26 at 7:00 pm to
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Sometimes you just have to ignore and look past the smart azzes on here.


He’s not being a smartass. He’s trying to prevent the OP from wasting a bunch of time and effort trying to do something that’s almost impossible.

re: Raccoon issues

Posted by TheDrunkenTigah on 9/18/26 at 6:57 pm to
You are baiting near good coon habitat. You’re paying the tax for it. There have been extensive studies done on this and even if you reduce their numbers by 90% they will repopulate to the same level within a year. Move out of the bottoms and to more upland areas, or take your medicine.

re: Am I poor?

Posted by TheDrunkenTigah on 9/17/26 at 4:37 pm to
It’s not just Little Rock, I see this everywhere. Everyone will just say they’re in debt but the question remains how the hell are they getting approved for all this shite.