planeflyer21

Hunh…more power to you bro. I agree with the cleaning WELL but personally (not judging here), I'd take it to the range after that for some shooting.

The Tucson Trap & Skeet Club just hosted the World Championships (again), a week-long event. It was reported to me they went through 80,000 shells of 12 gauge per day. Let alone all the 16, 20, 28, and .410 users.

I was checking those out…but Sportsman's has MVPs in stock. Won't be long until the .308s are rolling into there.

And this one was on the house!

IRS agents get allotted 2 50-round boxes of ammo per month…and not everyone uses it. I'm thinking GREAT surplus deals in a few years!

All our RSOs took first aid/cpr this past weekend. The presenter stated she was on unsure footing because she felt "guns are only made to kill." Once we got past that half hour disruption, we continued on with the course. To her credit, she met me at the range this morning. Brief safety lesson, discussion on how the SP101 d/a revolver works. Ringing steel at 60' on the 3rd shot. Shaking after that first cylinder but she continued on through the adrenaline. Briefing on the Ruger MKIII. During her second magazine on this one, I realized how you fishermen feel when fish takes the whole lure in one gulp. HOOKED! Before she left we were discussing her first firearm purchase. From never having fired a shot (never holding any type of handgun before), to describing it as "This is like zen…nothing but focusing on the task at hand," in two and a half short hours. :banana:

Badass badass performing unarmed badassery!

Shite…that would barely keep us covered for the Arizona shoots.

Thank God! That's a great update brother!

Naawww. That's over on the OK border, where the feds can stir up the ol' "Us vs. Them" mentality. No buildings or wells. Dad did get a hair and used his dozer to widen two intersecting roads into runways (USAF ret), but that is grown up now. Those maps Tom posted have the roads nailed. Typical county dirt roads.

Just for future reference, a barrel of oil is a special measurement unto itself, at 42 gallons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel#Oil_storage

We've finally got Dad's land listed with a realtor. They are concerned with selling to ranchers or mineral companies. My understanding is hunters/hunting clubs in Texas need places to hunt. This would be ideal! Deer, javalina, located a few miles down stream from the Red Bluff Resevoir, on/near the Pecos River. A few miles west of 302 on 285, closer to Carlsbad than Pecos. Three joined pieces forming 480 acres, with over a mile of river front, and a separate 40 acre parcel within spitting distance. List price for the whole package (all 520 acres) is $234K. Edit: to correct road 285

Me too brother!

Howdy from AZ Grendel!

6.8 is comparing apples to toe jam. The 6.5 Creedmore is based on the .308 Winchester. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6.5mm_Creedmoor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.308_Winchester While the 6.8 is tumbling across the ground, the Creedmore hasn't even reached its apogee midflight.

Car & Driver once wrote "Buicks are always seen as specialized Chevys or luxury cars for the masses."

Correct, after passage of the 5-year noncompetition clause.

One of our RSOs just got a Savage 6.5 Creedmore and is starting with the reloading. You're looking at an OAL with 0.020" more than the .308, which might give you some magazine issues with the heavier bullets. The trajectory of the 6.5C duplicates that of the .300 WinMag, if that sort of thing is important to you.

Yup. All the dads on our block used to change oil in the cars about the same time, then pour it on grass and weeds in the alleys. "Keeps the dust down."

I'm more referring to every factory, city, county, state, small business, big business, and Tom, Dick, Harry, and June, dumping anything and everything everywhere whenever. Anyone remember the news reports saying the Great Lakes would never have live fish in them again?

Sonoran Desert is natural habitat for the jaguar. Ranchers killed off the few that were here but they've been migrating back the past couple of decades or so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar#Jaguar_in_the_United_States

Don't know about that…it would be hard for one spill to poison the Great Lakes on the scale industry did in the 1960s and 1970s. Fish kills, algae blooms, Cuyahoga River catching on fire.

Welcome from AZ brick!

Just south of Tucson in the Santa Rita Mountains.