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<blockquote data-quote="QuietTexan" data-source="post: 2381920" data-attributes="member: 116181"><p>I lived in CO and West Texas each for a long time. Both places will see huge temp swings in one given day, 20* when you wake up with 40 mph winds then it's 90* by the afternoon. Just like in AZ, where you can see even more drastic freezing to 100* swings because that's how deserts work. No place has a monopoly on temp variability. Colorado just has better scenery while you're freezing your butt off in July. I still try to avoid loading for 100* temps unless they're just for shooting when it's that hot, I go for early mornings or evenings in the 70s-80s for summer load work. Things can get spooky with anything fast when you're talking legitimate 100*+ temps and you didn't work up there. Doesn't take much to bake a case in the sun or the chamber gets overheated by not cooling as fast.</p><p></p><p></p><p>When I was a younger man I've been in below zero actual temps both Colorado and Texas, over 100* both places, seen snow piled up over fences lines and cattle drifting down the highways in blizzards, eyes frozen over and dying because they're too stupid to paw the ground and you have toss hay on top of the snow for them. Chopping ice with a hatchet and wondering where the red ear tags came from but keeping them alive while hoping someone is doing the same for yours. I've seen the ground baked to where it splits open and the tufts of grass blow like tumbleweeds and you'd **** in your own hat just to wet your horse's tongue and you try to catch his for yourself and you walk beside him all day because you can't ride the poor thing when it's lathered up worse than you. 30 miles of fence lines and thank God nothing was broken this time because you don't think you could run the wire stretcher to fix a break if you found one. The smell of saddle soap and Hoppes and the rustle of metal on leather as you pull out the Winchester for a one-in-a-thousand shot that drops an antelope, sinking your teeth into the hot liver and tasting the copper blood knowing you'll make it home now. Knowing the sorrow of a broken chain on a windmill next to a dry tank with 50 dead sheep piled in the bottom but then the joy of finding a calf trussed up in the mesquite and seeing him run back to their mommas and saying your eyes are only wet because a thorn snuck past your tapadero. Definitely not because you're about to take his nuts and even after 50 years on the ranch that makes you shudder every time. I'll tell you about a time in scrub pines on Raton Pass where..........</p><p><img src="https://media0.giphy.com/media/YmB5hhxqrh6WQ/200.gif" alt="adam sandler man GIF" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤡" title="Clown face :clown:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f921.png" data-shortname=":clown:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietTexan, post: 2381920, member: 116181"] I lived in CO and West Texas each for a long time. Both places will see huge temp swings in one given day, 20* when you wake up with 40 mph winds then it's 90* by the afternoon. Just like in AZ, where you can see even more drastic freezing to 100* swings because that's how deserts work. No place has a monopoly on temp variability. Colorado just has better scenery while you're freezing your butt off in July. I still try to avoid loading for 100* temps unless they're just for shooting when it's that hot, I go for early mornings or evenings in the 70s-80s for summer load work. Things can get spooky with anything fast when you're talking legitimate 100*+ temps and you didn't work up there. Doesn't take much to bake a case in the sun or the chamber gets overheated by not cooling as fast. When I was a younger man I've been in below zero actual temps both Colorado and Texas, over 100* both places, seen snow piled up over fences lines and cattle drifting down the highways in blizzards, eyes frozen over and dying because they're too stupid to paw the ground and you have toss hay on top of the snow for them. Chopping ice with a hatchet and wondering where the red ear tags came from but keeping them alive while hoping someone is doing the same for yours. I've seen the ground baked to where it splits open and the tufts of grass blow like tumbleweeds and you'd **** in your own hat just to wet your horse's tongue and you try to catch his for yourself and you walk beside him all day because you can't ride the poor thing when it's lathered up worse than you. 30 miles of fence lines and thank God nothing was broken this time because you don't think you could run the wire stretcher to fix a break if you found one. The smell of saddle soap and Hoppes and the rustle of metal on leather as you pull out the Winchester for a one-in-a-thousand shot that drops an antelope, sinking your teeth into the hot liver and tasting the copper blood knowing you'll make it home now. Knowing the sorrow of a broken chain on a windmill next to a dry tank with 50 dead sheep piled in the bottom but then the joy of finding a calf trussed up in the mesquite and seeing him run back to their mommas and saying your eyes are only wet because a thorn snuck past your tapadero. Definitely not because you're about to take his nuts and even after 50 years on the ranch that makes you shudder every time. I'll tell you about a time in scrub pines on Raton Pass where.......... [IMG alt="adam sandler man GIF"]https://media0.giphy.com/media/YmB5hhxqrh6WQ/200.gif[/IMG] 🤡 [/QUOTE]
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