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Location:Kingwood, TX via Monroe, LA
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Interests:Hunting, Offshore, Inshore, BJJ
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Registered on:7/11/2013
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re: George Foreman has died

Posted by MWP on 3/21/25 at 10:27 pm
He lived right around the block from me in the back of Kingwood, TX in Fosters Mill subdivision in the early 2000’s. I think he split time between Kingwood and Marshal and then he moved across the lake to Huffman but pretty sure still owns or owned the house in Kingwood. I would see him walking from time to time and you would see him shopping at the grocery store and he was real close to the guy that owns our local camera store. I grew up boxing and have a cousin that is a trainer and promoter so we had something in common and then when I got into martial arts at a MMA school in Atascocita one of my training partners started boxing at George’s gym and he would eventually lead my buddy to Jesus. Great man and boxer X 2 since he practically recreated himself in the sport. A true legend sent from God. You will be missed Big George. RIP!

re: Shingles vax: Yay or nay

Posted by MWP on 2/21/25 at 11:45 am
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the only thing worse than the Shingles vaccine is getting the Shingles. I got the shot.


I guess the OT's consensus is good with the Shingles vax but not the Covid vax?

My 80 year old MIL (no pictures) currently has shingles and she actually got the shingles vax. Not sure how that happened. It does not look like much fun so agree with you.

re: College and Career guidance for son

Posted by MWP on 2/7/25 at 2:07 pm
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ROTC is a path to service as a military officer if that's something he may be interested in.


Or just go enlisted if you haven't a clue what you want to do and get the GI Bill money, then go to college. You will be miles ahead responsibility wise of most incoming Freshman unless of course you were an 03 in the Marines, then you probably regressed lol. Then you can go back and do the O route if you want to.

re: Waterfowl guns of choice

Posted by MWP on 1/22/25 at 3:40 pm
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I have the A400 X+, I absolutely love that thing. Throw in a couple Muller chokes and its the baddest waterfowl killing gun I've owned.


Same here. I had an Outlander before this gun. Something about Berettas just fit me so I think personally a lot of it comes down to fit, but I will say I have seen way more Benneli lemons than Berettas.

re: Duck Dynasty is returning to A&E

Posted by MWP on 1/22/25 at 3:24 pm
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the original show really needed Phil and Jase to balance it out.


The original show revolved around the entire crew plus Jep, Si, Martin, and Godwin working at Duck Commander with Willie as the boss interjected with some family thrown in. The only one of those dudes that even knows where that place is these days is Martin so I will be intrigued with how they develop an overall plot since they pretty well beat that old plot to death. Plus, there is only so much mileage you can get bouncing around Monroe/West Monroe places of interest lol that hasn't already been filmed.

Honestly, I am kinda surprised if Jase even gets on board with this. He has had his own show for the last few years that was about metal detecting plus the podcast he does and all the speaking gigs he goes on. His show was molded along the same script as Duck Dynasty, but I don't think it really ever took off so not sure if made a Season 2. I liked it.
I hought it was cool since they went to places all over NE LA which brings back memories of home.

re: Duck Dynasty is returning to A&E

Posted by MWP on 1/22/25 at 1:20 pm
This has to be all Willie. I listen to the Unashamed Podcast with Phil (until his health decline), Jase, Al, and the cousin and listening to them talk about Duck Dynasty, it seems they hated doing the show. Yeah it was scripted but after the producers realized that they weren’t gonna have a family backstabbing each other and dealing with drama on every episode, they let them kinda do their own thing. Phil always said if it gave them a platform to spread the word he was good with it. However I think everyone could agree, it ran its course so kinda surprised it is coming back especially since they are all doing Podcasts now,

re: 1923 Season 2 Trailer

Posted by MWP on 1/20/25 at 5:09 pm
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The actor said in a recent interview that he got to shoot majority of his scenes with Harrison and Helen.


I would love for that to be true.
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I bought a rain suit from them. Wore it saturday and I didn't get wet and it was very comfortable.


Same here. I like mine. I guess I am just to cheap to spend a ton for Sitka Gore-tex but Frog Togg's are straight junk. I give the rain jackets at least a thumbs up.

re: 1923 Season 2 Trailer

Posted by MWP on 1/20/25 at 1:34 pm
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You already know it is


100% that he will not make it to Montana till the last episode.

re: Most powerful opening scene to a film?

Posted by MWP on 1/17/25 at 7:19 pm
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Saving Private Ryan. No contest.



100%. Not really a debate either.
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don't know what farmers carry is


It's pretty simple. Just pick something up and carry it from Point A to Point B. In this case, it is carry something that equals your bodyweight for 2 straight minutes. Often times that could be 2 dumbbells that both equal your weight or they could be kettle bells or it could be a hex bar loaded with your weight.
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Most 180 pound people are not holding 90s for 2 minutes unless they are training that specific exercise for months. You’d need some crazy forearms cause that’s what’s going to give out first.


100%. This might be a test that every 40 year old dude should be able to pass but should is the key word. I bet 99% of the dudes out there couldn't carry their body weight for 2 minutes unless they specifically trained this for months. I started doing farmers probably about 6 years ago watching a dude with Popeye forearms carrying around 100's at my old gym. It was impressive. Way better functional exercise than just running except for maybe sprints.
Ditto. I do farmers walks twice a week myself. Usually do my cardio stuff in the evenings when I don’t train BJJ. My farmers circuit is walk a minute with 100’s in each hand and rest for 30 seconds 20 times. I have a path at my gym I walk and it is exactly a minute to finish at a normal pace. People who know me see me grab them 100’s and just know to get out of my way lol. It fricking sucks. I weigh 200 pounds so guess I could try to do an extra minute. Feel like this is pretty doable. Dead hangs I do those already. Same thing, usually do a minute and release. I think I could do 2 minutes. It would be tough but doable. Grip strength is so important in jits so I have been doing that stuff for years.
Absolutely not a full time QB, but drafting him to be a Taysom Hill type player maybe. He should primary be a RB but put him in various packages that align to his strengths which could be QB in some instances. With that being said, he shouldn’t sniff the 1rst Round. Maybe the 5th.
Yep, if it can pick up a duck on a 300 yard blind with hand signals without spending thousands of hours either paying/doing training, coming back and needing a bilge pump to get rid of the water, filling a landfill with hair, digging at a minimum 3 swimming pools in the backyard, and destroying 350 articles of clothing I might would be interested.

re: In their prime who you got in a scuffle?

Posted by MWP on 1/15/25 at 8:44 am
What about prime Chuck vs Jason Statham?

re: Cold weather- no duck…WTH???

Posted by MWP on 1/11/25 at 1:08 pm
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him almost getting hypothermia trying to catch some guys up around Morehouse Parish shooting over the limit.


That was probably daily for him. He really a hard on for the guys out on 15 and the guys in Jones off Dummy Line Road. He would sit in the ditches and watch people shoot and what was jacked up is he would write tickets on being out of order on when you shot back when we were on the points system. Heaven forbid you shot a Mallard hen first with that guy.

I was in high school during his glory days and only got checked by him once or twice since that dude wasn't slumming out at Russell Sage where we were hunting. However every once in a while we got the invite to Mer Rouge, Pin Oaks, or 15. One morning he busted a pit on Richland and it was raining bad. He asked for a ride in on the wheeler of a guy he wrote a ticket too and the guy basically said to pound sand and Joe confiscated his wheeler.

re: Getting deposit back from outfitter

Posted by MWP on 1/11/25 at 12:59 pm
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He called to reschedule to dates that would be bow hunt only for the deer portion. We've never bow hunted, so that would not have worked for us.


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Semper Gumby


Not very flexible now are you, lol?

Seriously, that is shite situation he is pulling. I would probably drive a ways to a Sonic for that kind of cash.

You also have to be a Devil with that screen name and probably the wrong individual to pull this kind of crap on.
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Gone are the days of mass migration based on solunar conditions or photoreceptors.


I think for certain species like Pintails and BW Teal, they are still coming early regardless. Then you get Greys, GW Teal, and Spoons that probably still migrate regardless of weather but come a bit later. From what I have seen the last several seasons, these ducks can get thick in early November and then get blasted on Opening Day and they quickly readjust. They shift feeding patterns and start finding places like refuges to not get shot at. Then everybody wonders why there aren't any ducks when they are mostly here already. Mallards tend to be the ones that will not budge till they have too.

Last season I am pretty sure I saw a mass migration. It was that January ice storm that locked up damn near everything to South LA. I hunted some property up in NE LA the day everything started to lock up and we literally saw thousands of ducks moving South in the ozone riding the jet. It was pretty damn epic.

re: Question for duck and goose hunters

Posted by MWP on 1/9/25 at 9:52 pm
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if green jeans is checking the freezer at your house then you’ve already got bigger problems beyond having a few extra ducks in the freezer


This, there is a way bigger issue going on if Greenjeans is checking the freeer at your house.