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    Reloading safety reminder

    How many of you "ground" your reloading presses?
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    Where do you hunt?

    Yes sir!!
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    Best long range hunting shot to date...

    My best shot was in my great Uncle's barn. Me and my cousin would go out with a pellet gun and spotlight barn rats. One took a dash across the rafters and I hit him on the run with a Crosman Powermaster 760...drt! I haven't had many experiences that stacked up to the admiration of my cousin...
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    Where do you hunt?

    Spent most of my adult life in Texas, and like most have already said, lots of private land there. I worked for some big places and my "hunting" consisted of guiding folks that could afford to pay. Moved to MT and was in paradise. I could walk out my back door, across the logging road, and be in...
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    Sorry...meant to add, my name is Dale Parker...RafterP was my brand in TX.

    Sorry...meant to add, my name is Dale Parker...RafterP was my brand in TX.
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    I'm an adolescent therapist. I spent 25yrs working for the same company running long-term...

    I'm an adolescent therapist. I spent 25yrs working for the same company running long-term, residential programs in TX, NM, and MT. Pandemic hit and we got caught between 2 different gov't agencies and we had to close. My wife grew up in Denver, so we thought it'd be a good place to start over...
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    Good morning! Saw your post in the thread about not being able to post in classifieds. Saw the...

    Good morning! Saw your post in the thread about not being able to post in classifieds. Saw the pup in your pic and that you're in Denver and thought I'd reach out! I moved to Denver last April from Western Montana.
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    Weird Dreams Elk Hunting

    We were hunting NW Colorado this year and one of the guys brought his 9yr old son along. The boy started having a dream in the middle of the night and woke us up (not about bears; evidently it was about his older brothers!). I thought I had just nodded off again when the little guy "whispers"...
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    What's in your user name?

    My brand and the year I married.
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    Arken optics?

    I haven't looked through one, but looking online I can say I wish it had a less busy reticle.
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    OnX app question

    I bought OnX when living in MT. I wanted to be able to know who owned the property I was on. Where I lived it was a checkerboard of private, forest service, and nature conservancy. OnX was closed during COVID and I'm a "show me" kind of guy. I was able to use it at a most basic level, but no...
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    Vortex 3-15 Razor LHT review

    I had not seen that one. It looks to be not quite so "busy". I looked through another model in the store, and my eyes couldn't tell what was going on below the center of the reticle. I'd just as soon have a single dot to focus on, but that's just me.
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    Vortex 3-15 Razor LHT review

    I've had my eye on one of these also. My only concern has been the reticle. I wish they'd offer one without the "Christmas Tree". Not to derail this thread, but do any of you use that feature when hunting? (the Christmas tree)
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    What age were your kids when they shot there first big game animal.

    My son was 14 when he shot this muley with a .243.
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    brass annealing machine

    I'm in over my head on this thread, but I watched a guy on YT (has a very active channel; don't know about his technical cred). He used a drill with a spark plug socket and spun them in the flame of a gas torch to color, then dropped them in water. It seemed pretty fast. Not sure how many you do...
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