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I've culled deep this year,it was time any way but I've been working on replacing my heard for the last few years and have been bringing on a few heifers every year but I sold 39 heifers in one bunch that averaged 405 two weeks ago ,they were pretty fancy if I do say so myself but they brought $1.76.I banked it and if the grass does come back I'll buy some short and solid stuff in the third period and still have the cows and bulls those heifers were out of,and maybe another bunch of heifers by then who knows?? But it has been rough ,even with the rain we've gotten latley we are still just 2 weeks away from the next drought but hell you know how that is.I aint got any grass ,hays higher than hell if you can find it,looks like it might be a bear of a winter. Jim

Yea Fritz we got 2 & 3/4 inches here over the weekend and it came right,nary a drop ran off,that makes almost 5 inches in a week!!! Pastures are trying to green up and the yard is going to need mowin' in a few days .Sure hope you'all get some soon it sure is a load off I tell ya. Did you see them sale prices on triggers in the latest Midway sale bill,some were a whole 10cents off..lol... Jim

A dollar says you nailed it when you said who knows the differece.Bet it was a day of first for him,his first time in a sale barn and probably the first time to even smell cow chit truth be told. Jim

Thanks for the replys guy's,I'd heard Brownells wasn't handling them anymore and was thinking I'd try to order one from Enco for alot less $$ than Brownells had sold em' for,if I could figure out what size I needed,never thought about Midway,and I have to be up in Columbia in the next few days too so I reckon I'll swing by and pick one up,thanks for the link Don.And Z your the cause of all this,if you hadn't beat me to the punch right here on this board a short time back you dirty dog ,I'd already have one..lol... thanks again boy's, Jim.

Can anyone tell me what size or number counter bore I need when welding up the locking screw holes in M98 bottom metal?Thanks Jim

Finally starting to get some rain,we got almost 2 inches last sunday and it's raining now.Alot of my corn burnt up and most of my beans as it hadn't rained here at all since the first of june,a man could play marbles in my pastures the old cows have em' eat off so slick.I usually start feeding hay sometime after Thanksgiving but I started in july this year after selling alot of my heard,the heat has killed my turkeys by the hunderds the past couple months.But today it's foggy and cool and the rain looks to have set in for a spell.So I'm goin' to the tavern and have me a big bloody steak for dinner and I'm gonna start drinkin' good cold St.Louis beer out of frosty mugs before noon and I'm going to stay after it for a while and the bankers and the oil companies and the damned a-rabs can all kiss my ass cause its RAININ'!!Wish you'all were here I'd buy you all the beer you could hold ,It's a good, good day!. Jim

Very nice Mike,wish I had your talent. Jim

Jason thanks for your concern,I do appreciate it.I have been around the poultry business all my life and started reading about this type thing in poultry mags. about the mid 70s.Then in the late 70's the big companies started pushing for everyone to build buildings and get the birds off of the ranges and into confinment buildings to avoid this very thing(and other problems).Not to say it doesn't bear watching but I've kind of give out on worrying about it after all theses years and dollars.It kind of boggles my mind that the main stream media is so far behind,but they sure have got folks stirred up about it.Hope this plays out like sars,west nile,monkey pox..... Jim

Very nice ! 22-250 is one of my favorites along with the Hogue stock,you've got about the perfect combo there in my book. Jim

Very nice ! I think thats probably the best lookin' Mosin I've seen. Jim

NICE JOB!! She sure is a pretty thing,have you shot it yet?I hope she shoots as good as she looks for you.Did you do the bluing?You should be proud of your Whelen you did good. And thanks for the pictures. Jim

Hey Spec good to hear from you! I been wondering how you were makin' out as a swifty?Glad to here you managed to hold out for a decent tractor.How about training your wife,you gettin' to do that ?Hang in there buddy I hear since Jerry Moyers is gone the new managment is really trying to make some improvements ,hope so... Jim

I love em' off the grill,but we fried fish yesterday and I fried some roastin'ears in one of my fish cookers.If you've not tried an ear of fried sweet corn you ought to ,it's pretty darn good probably not as good as off the grill but when I'm fryin' fish if I can get it in the grease it's fair game. Jim

Good luck Spec., Hope your happy at Swift. Is your wife going to drive team with you there or is she just there while your in orentation? Again good luck and do keep us posted,I keep thinking I'd like to get out of farming and go otr now that the kids are raised. Jim

Well, I'm just about of the opinion that it's to late for anything other than bloodshed to really turn things around.We have pretty much lost control of our government and I don't see things gettin' any better.DT's line about sometimes it comes down to voting for the lesser of two evils about caused me to choke I laughed so hard ,not because I'd not heard that many times before but because it was such an understatement.I ride hell of my elected office holders and have told them about the same as what FC has said here but with a twist.... there are some issues I will agree to dissagree with them on but there are also some that I won't and if you get crossways of me on one of them SCREW YOU I'll give my vote,my money and my time to the other person and do everything possible to put them out of a job just for spite,let the chips fall where they may.Yea I know, I'm a hateful,selfish but so what, I can be.It's my vote my tax dollars and my Constitution that they are walkin' on. Jim

DT, I hope you'll be good enough to share any responses you might get . Jim

Mark ,it's been a spell since I've used one of the kit's mentioned so I'm having trouble remembering all the details but it seems that the kit's follower and spring are put together in such a way as to make you use the block at the back of the mag ,if I remember right,but I like to use the block in the front of the mag and use it as part of the ramp .I was having trouble getting a 22-250 to feed and someone suggested moving the block to the front and ramping it and sure enough it worked but seems like there was more to it than that but I just can't remember what it was now ,sorry.. Jim .

Thanks Clemson! Nice of you to take the time. Jim

Good ole dune coons ,rag heads,camel jockies...,lowest of the worlds low lifes. Jim

Not to rub salt in your wounds but it had been to dry to even do a proper job of gettin' ground ready to plant here,it'd just turn up in big hard dry cumps until weekend before last we got an inch and a half so late last week I set in to gettin' ready to plant corn,got about 20 acres planted friday before I got rained out.We got just a hair over 3 inches over the weekend and not a drop ran off, it came right,took all weekend to get it .After 4 1/2 inches in a week the creeks still dont have any water in them other than just a hole here and there but things have sure greened up.We might get to make a little hay this year if it'll just keep on some, and what little corn I got planted is startin' up already,hell of a long ways from made but up and rain in the forcast every day of the week but tuesday. Jim

Jerry ment to ask you this a couple days ago but what did coons bring down your way this year ?,they was $10-$12 tops here with a $7 average.I know they bring more the farther north you get but do your coons ever really get prime , and how big is a big coon in Texas ? 25lbs is the biggest I,ve ever caught around here,killed some over 40 up in Iowa some years back,that size can really make it rough on a poor ole hound. Jim

I like that! The only thing I'd of liked better would be to feed the stinking mooselums to the hogs where the last thing they could be on this earth would be a pig turd. Jim

Thanks for the link,think I'll order some. In the pics it looks like the bolt body & extractor are coated too,how does it seem to be holding up on the moving parts so far? The nut behind the trigger must not be to loose if your ringing the bell at 600yd's. Thanks Jim.

Very nice! I've never liked that color of laminated stock untill tonight,your rifle is a beauty!The metal and wood really go nice together.I guess it's the matte finish on the metal that trips my trigger.I still can't get over the fact that I like that stock as well as I do, man it's pretty! I know which direction my next project just turned. How about some details on the metal finish?And just how good does that LW barrel shoot?Thanks for the pics ,you did good and 6.5x55 to boot , you did real good Jer.You've really got one to be proud of there! Jim

Congrats grandpa!! Nothing like it,we just got our first one a couple weeks back,we're really enjoying her as I'm sure you will. 257 sounds like just the ticket to me. Jim