Five Seasons

I'm a big nurture vs nature with dogs. That said, I've seen some dogs that just kinda suck no matter what you do. There's always a little bit of a gamble.

yeah that's a steal. Our golden live till 15 and he was around that. Just a mom and pop breeder out of the newspaper classifieds (remember those?) when my then gf and now wife were in college. Dog was absolutely amazing. Never sick and never an issue. We spent a heck of a lot more this time around... time will tell.

that's awesome, we just named our puppy Colt. Great minds!

we just picked up our new black lab almost 3 weeks ago now. He has big shoes to fill after our golden made it to 15, but passed in August. That dog was amazing, wouldn't chase out of the yard and you could walk him off a leash, never had a single obedience class. As for Colt (sweet name I know) things are slowly being destroyed around the house.

not to hijack your business, but my dad just got some from walmart in macedon for a decent price. Not sure about quality. He said there were some 7 footers and mostly 3-4'. But it's walmat, so keep that in mind haha.

lol. what?

probably for the best. it's f'n gross

I bought my M&P pre-covid/riots for under msrp and just bought my ruger mpr for under msrp. I know everything is being hit by inflation and guns and ammo aren't immune. But it's nothing like I saw when Obama was elected and sold more guns then any president in history.

we know. we remember when you missed the huge stock market boom and all that money because you stocking up on canned goods. we remember during a global pandemic and now during inflation when it wasn't needed.

I am not foolish enough to think gun confiscation is impossible, but this isn't Australia. Guns, like it or not are a part of our history and who many american's are. I can't remember some of the recent statistics but it's crazy and like the majority of americans own at least one gun or something. Anyhow, what I think is far more likely than some officer knocking on your door and wanting your guns, is what is happening now. Making it so, so hard and expensive to get one or possibly the insurance route that makes it hard to keep owning one that is more likely. So papist doesn't get to go down waco style, but he may have to pay out of his ass for insurance or risk someone finding he has one without insurance and getting arrested. The slippery slope is something many worry about with gun control. I think most gun owners are ok with better back ground checks, closing loop holes, training or age restrictions. But what happens is what happened to us in NY. They keep coming back for more and more and it's hard to tell us that we're crazy conspiracy theorists and paranoid when a guy like me who is 38 has seen it in his short life. tell us you're alone in this world without telling us you're alone not everyone is an old man and had time to squirrel away Nam era AK's.

I bet it's a lot more than a few thousand. It's relatively easy to find one online and have it shipped to an FFL that will make it compliant. And from what I saw searching, there is no shortage or price gouging.

and that's that. Thanks Kathy, you just added another AR to the state because of your BS.

thanks just got off the phone with allstar this morning. they don't have what I want in stock, so on gunbroker now lol.

I don't watch the news a lot as it's depressing. Did they ever share the details of the buffalo shooter? I know he was 18 but did he buy a NY safe AR or was it out of state? That seems like the kind of detail that's pretty important to the story, but you know... the media might leave out.

that's how mine is. How else do you make it compliant without removing all the features? I hate the pinned mag btw and it's honestly dangerous. I had a double feed at the range and I'm sitting there with a multi-tool thinking to myself how dangerous they just made this gun.

the whole microstamping thing is laughable to me. So there's a guy in his treestand all legal, but the criminals... you know the ones they're trying to stop. Like they're going to be following the rules? lmao

I have everything I "need". I do have 2 AR sites, a reflex and coyote one and thought it just doesn't make sense to have a hunting AR and home defense AR, so it was on my future list. Might have to speed that up

what town/county?

is there a summary list somewhere of the changes? did microstamping go through?

you're dead on. I hope people just shoot what makes them happy. I pass 1.5's on just about any year, but I've had tough ones where I've taken one that was a big crotch 4. That same tough year I passed smaller 3's that were the same age. At the end of the day, taking a 1.5 off the table (big or small) still "hurts" you for next year. Although as I'm writing this, taking the better genetic 1.5 out might hurt you even more. edit to say my statement above doesn't apply to button bucks. Leave the g damn buttons alone.

I know what he means though. There's a scrub buck and then there's a 1.5 who looks like he's been roiding.

it's interesting because a lot, and i mean a lot say 225. As is this took me a good 3 to 4 hours to smoke 10 pounds, which I guess isn't bad. But starting that low seems like it could take a while... I wonder too if lower heat is important when cheese is added or for thicker sausages. I didn't let mine sit overnight in seasoning either, but my recipe didn't have any cure. I have some summer sausage I still haven't done that has cure and a 24hr wait time. next year!

yeah i for sure think next year will be adding legit fat and not just fork. Some kind of ratio like a few of you posted about. thanks all

hell we don't even have tough laws for drugs and theft, why would they even think about trespassing? My legal firearm though? Oh boy, watch out!