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I had this idea that I could rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home. I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up - 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it, it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope ... and then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer - no chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals. A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope. I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in. I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder a little trap I had set before hand... kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back. Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and slide off to then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head -almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts. The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp... I learned a long time ago that, when an animal - like a horse - strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape. This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run. The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down. Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave - I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head. I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope......to sort of even the odds!! All these events are true so help me God...

Either will work just fine. Do the set screw mod to the rear takedown pin and spring, if your particular lower has it going in from the bottom of the receiver (like a DPMS does).

Matt, you need to post ONE MORE TIME, brother... <thumbsup> <laughs>

Shoot me a PM, man - I'm desert SouthWest myself. Just barely north of Mexico, actually. Welcome aboard! <thumbsup>

Shoot that pic over to the guys at Impact Guns - they'll know what it is. I think I've seen something similar, but can't find anything now... :(

Think you can make that one a little bigger? (That's what she said... <lmao>)

ghitch, how many of those Gold Cups do you have, man?... ;D <thumbsup>

See, now - that big, hairy killing machine had all intentions of making him the next meal. Or, at least making him the next large animal it was gonna stash, and come back to later. We has one running around here in Southern AZ a few years ago - dead deer stacking up left and right, hidden in the brush. Took awhile for them to find the cat and put a stop to his habits, before he wandered into the nearby town...

Can you imagine the sheer amount of Whoop Ass that sucker would put on you if you didn't see/hear it coming at ya? :o That is a Huge female cat... <lmao>

I am so far behind on putting one of these in mine - STILL haven't ordered it yet... :o Ambi safety selectors, other builds - stuff just keeps getting in the way. <thumbsup>

I was just playing around with an AR-50 today - I should have know it was Karma, in some way... <laughs>

This same exact thing happened on another type of .308. Here's the thread on the other one: http://308ar.com/forum/index.php/topic,659.0.html

I got it now - yeah, that things attaches right to a pic rail, but it's not pic rail attachment on top of it...

Uh oh... :o

<dontknow> Huh? <laughs> I've been toying with the idea of a pistol caliber 15 for awhile now, and I've been watching their stuff - yeah, I'll admit, I fully realized that you said you already had a lower, but... <lmao> Drew, did you know that BCM makes a 10.5" 9mm barrel for these?... ;D

Somebody has to be making that for LB, like the way Aero Precision is making the C.O.P. for Armalite.

Yeah, made a mistake there - it's the one on the right... not left. Had a slight dumbass attack there. <laughs> It's not a pic rail on the top, but it's made for direct attachment of the Aimpoints or the Vortex - that's why I wondered how yours attached. That left one I posted above is a 30mm ring for a traditional Aimpoint (M2, M3, etc.).

DDLES makes some phenomenal dedicated lowers in 9mm. No magwell block needed, and they make their own 32-round mags for them. Slick stuff. http://www.shop.doublediamondsupply.com/AR-15-Lower-Dedicated-9mm_c7.htm

I like the Bushnell red dots. They're solid little units. On another note, check the mounting pattern on the base of that one you have - whilst perusing the optics section at a small store recently, I was surprised to see that Weaver makes a mount that will fit the Aimpoint T1, H1, and Vortex Sparc det dots, as well as anything else with the same mounting pattern. It was cheap, somewhere around $35-$40. EDIT - This one on the left right in the pic, Weaver model 99668:

Those gas rings are present on a piston gun, too, brother - right on the piston. <thumbsup>

With that one, we have just witnessed the pot calling the kettle black... <lmao>

D'oh! :o I didn't get touched here in my speck of AZ, with all that crazy weather that hit. The mountains behind me got a light dusting of the fluffy stuff, but it didn't do any more than a light flurry in town. Surrounding areas got the smack down, though, in some way, shape or form. Sleds in snow, though - I love it. Can't even explain it - kinda like "floating with speed" through the stuff, unless it's wet and heavy. At that point, it's like paddling through mashed potatoes. >:(

The bolt is the "piston" in a DI gun - complete with it's gas rings (piston rings). The BCG is the cylinder that the "piston" rides in. No joke. ;D It's just a piston without a connecting rod. <thumbsup>

Screen name ".30US" over on long range hunting? Recognize the pics - welcome aboard. <thumbsup>

Chris Christie is the fattest, coolest, most competent Governor in any state right now. I loved the grief he gave his state's teachers union. <thumbsup> Balance that state budget, brother, and don't take any junk for it.