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Re: GMC AT4X 2500 HD 100 mile Review
BigPig
10 minutes ago
Picked it up today. Taking it on a 1000+ mile road trip starting Sunday Morning. Some of that (+/- 80 miles will be snowy/icy sorta maintained off-grid logging roads) will let you know what i think when i get back. Pretty spring like at home but where i am headed not so much. Great looking truck. I finally saw that color in person and it sure is unique.
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Re: Civil War
10 Gauge
12 minutes ago
Well, you could say approximately 3 percent of whites owned slaves when the Civil War started. I have seen estimates as low as 1%, but also some higher. Higher percentages mostly reported by groups that have a keen interest in racism because it has made them rich. But that is not my point. My point is that when the Civil War kicked off, the overwhelming majority of white people in the south had never even met, probably never even seen, a person of color in their lifetimes. Most rural white people were impoverished by today’s standards.
Yet some of you want to believe that these people marched for hundreds of miles, some with no footwear of any kind, to protect slave owners and oppress black people.
The truth is that white southerners were literally paying 80% of all the federal taxes, and the government had plans to tax them more. This is what motivated them to fight. They were fed propaganda just like we are today. Most of these people lived at least a partially subsistence lifestyle and not by choice, and they could hardly afford to buy the bare necessities to live.
But I guess it was just so important to oppress black people and ensure they remained slaves, that they left their farms behind for the wives and kids to manage, and fought a war that they barely had enough financial backing to fight. And kept fighting when the salaries were unpaid.
Don’t be a fool.
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Re: Medicare Advantage plans
jsteve
38 minutes ago
Free Advice on the Internet...take it for what it is worth... I sold health insurance for over 40 years and am now retired. I post "free advice" about this stuff on a regular basis in hopes I can help some folks on here Well, I'm just saying with the numerous texts, telephone calls and emails I get each day about Medicare and Medicare Advantage, who knows what to believe. I have been on Medicare and now on Medicare Advantage plan for a couple years...I have never had a single problem and I have some medical issues. All the plans are pretty much self-explanatory and outline the coverage and costs. I didn't say your advice is wrong, or there is anything wrong with suppling the advice, I didn't even know insurance agents could be involved in Medicare Advantage or Medicare, I just thought everyone signed up like me after reading and studying the available plans. Please Carry on. Advantage plans are private insurance plans. It is not a "supplement" like a lot of the commercials make it look like(Plan C). You still pay for Medicare B. You either have regular Medicare or you have an AP, cannot have both. They are also just 1 year contracts. If you do nothing they will continue with what you had but your doctors may not be in their network and the embedded drug plan may not cover your drugs anymore. That is why you have to check them out each and every year.
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Re: 6mm Dead?
DStroud
42 minutes ago
I think a 25PRC would be cool and you can get Lapua 6.5 brass and a pretty simple neck down. I've never owned a quarterbore...might be time I have one….25 PRC that is. I had even planned to use it in a NRL hunter match next month but can’t find a 10 round AI style magazine to fit a LA. They make them for SA and even for the medium actions but no long actions. I have been shooting the 134gr Hornady bullets running them relatively slow at 3000fps just playing around shooting steel mostly. I think the PRS shooters in general are always looking for the Goldilocks spot between recoil/ BC/ seeing trace and bullet impacts. Obviously Berger and Hornady have noticed this as well and are looking to provide high BC bullets for that market they see growing. Wonder when Hornady will introduce the new 25caliber to bridge the gap between the Creedmoor and the PRC?
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Re: S&W revolver?
bluetopper
55 minutes ago
What you have is a 4 inch barreled 38 Special M&P (Military and Police) Postwar. In 1945 S&W began the S serial number prefix at S811120 and ended in 1948 at serial number S999999. In 1957 when S&W started assigning model numbers, this firearm became known as the model 10.
I want to caution about storing it in the leather holster. It tends play havoc with the bluing. Your stocks appear to be very nice well made stag. Look for original walnut ones on ebay.
You have a wonderful handgun in great shape your grandfather left you. Hope you treasure it for many years.
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Re: WTB old model ruger blackhawks
TexasUplander
1 hour ago
I have an unfired 1970, 3 screw, 4 5/8” bbl in 357, I don’t have original box because I bought it out of an estate. I’m asking $800 if interested I can send you some pics Thanks Mike
Sounds like a beauty sir. I just use them to build on so not looking to spend that much.
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Re: Lease money stolen
txshntr
1 hour ago
Man, I hate that for you. Really isn’t much on the legal side that you can do to recover what was stolen but worth a shot.
There have been a lot of comments about not posting on the internet and just “taking care of it”. I know some people just talk but I’m 100% positive that is exactly what would happen on our lease. Money wouldn’t be an issue to fight it the legal route but they would have to find the thief because he would be preoccupied and hoping the law found him.
I know this for two reasons…One, a few years back we had a family of morons get off and they stole our outhouse (and not a good one) and at one time there was talk of burning down their camper and house. Two, I am the one that collects all the checks and pays the rancher directly.
I am not an easily intimidated person but I would be terrified Hey T Rex - how you doing?? JR Doing good JR! Glad to be back
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Re: Nosler Bullet Question - Deer
txtrophy85
2 hours ago
For deer and hogs I would stay with ballistic tips.
I shoot accubonds but only if:
A. Hunting an area where I am I can have an overlap of bigger game species like Bear or Elk/Moose.
B. Shooting a very fast round like a .257 wby where a cup and core might be a little too frangible.
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