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  1. One option is to buy any model with a Remington 700 action...generally the cheapest you can find since most parts get thrown in garbage. Then send the action to Hill Country Rifles in Kerrville Texas and they will build a gun on the action. They sell some finished guns also. I had my rem 700 in 7mm rem magnum accurized there...great gun with a Swarovski 3-14 scope on top. I can have limited skill shooters banging a steel plate at 850 yards pretty quickly at my long range targets in the hay field.
  2. One thing to check on...I have not had this issue...but I have heard of other hunters having their dogs severely injured by old abandoned razor wire spools that are covered with vegetation.
  3. Good question .. I used to hunt it extensively for grouse & like snow shoes both depend on edge cover and successional habitat. Not bad .. but if you live in the southern tier there are equal or better options. That again… is based on the assumption of habitat equaling quarry
  4. Not investment advice, imo the moa does not work...they have had data analysis inconsistencies, well documented..and on the cap structure side they have done some really questionable financing including their most recent...none of those things typically correlate with successful outcomes
  5. 8 years today since this litter… in a blink
  6. I live in the most Northeasten town in NJ ..ie within the metro NYC area and my kids were a “social experiment “ as my wife calls it with a mix of public, super exclusive & expensive private high schools and Catholic schools. We moved the family back to my hometown because it has a top 10 school district in the state . My kids started in public school then my oldest made a power point presentation saying he wanted to go to a private school that just built a $25mm Stem center and had the best educators around. We said if you can get in , 400 kids applying for 38 spots we will pay, he got in and it was the correct place for him .. plus the way they taught interdisciplinary math was light years ahead of every other school. He ended up getting engineering scholarships every where but his first choice , Stanford where he was sadly waitlisted. Then his sister went there even though I thought public school might be better for her … she excelled and the small class sizes helped them both blossom. Not because of the reasons stated about teacher control, you just can’t teach Socraticly and with group leaning with 25 kids the way you can with 12 . They were teaching like 16 years olds like 3rd year college students and it worked. More upside , more successful people compete to go to these schools and it drives their self motivation and expectations for college life and career. There is a negative as someone mentioned some of the kids are sheltered and complete entitled p*ssies. Upside my son started varsity football at 14 , and he wouldn’t elsewhere honestly. Other negative is I often felt like the poorest family at the school , it set my daughter up with really skewed / dilusional views of the world . Most all of her friends families had their own jets .. her boyfriend family owned the Chicago Bulls and Whitesox .. the place was ridiculous. Upside of that is she is comfortable with the wealthiest people in the world and has sky high expectations for herself and others . Our next kid down hated the private jet situation and chose and all girls Catholic school.. she thrives in the structure and probably would have struggled with the free form Socratic teaching at the secular private school. Will she learn as much , no … but it is the right place for her. My little guy is 14 and a man child physically ( 6’2”) and 202lbs who has wanted to play football for Bergen Catholic since he was 6 .. so that’s where he is a freshman playing football .. seems to be the right place for him. Again is he doing differential equations like his older brother as a freshman ? No .. is the caliber of teachers equal ..no. But he is happy getting straight a’s doing something he loves in the right environment for him.. that’s what matters . All of your kids will be different and have different needs. early on save your money k-5th grade . Then private. I will say it was a bumpy transition to go from public to secular private for my two oldest.. I should have had them apply in 7-8th grade in hindsight. But I saved $130k a year for 2 years and they adapted quickly. Another downside they don’t tell you at highest end private schools in this area … is there is are actually a couple of admissions negatives for college. Everyone is applying to competitive schools so in a class of 138 kids … each ivy will see 20 apps from your kids class. In my daughter’s case she applied to Northwestern and 2 Ivy’s and she was competing against kids in her class whose parents were on the board or trustees for those schools … unsurprisingly all their kids got in early decision with equal or worse grades . They leave out the insane level of nepotism and money your kid will compete against in their class for college. — sorry for typos I left my glasses in the office
  7. I find it hard to believe that you could ever require psychiatric care.
  8. I run two collars. 80 % of time I don’t need the gps so I don’t need the bigger more expensive receiving collar with giant antenna doing yard work or teaching young dogs obedience. When needed running dogs is just slap on the first gen garmin 220 gps.. works like a charm after 10 years. Other issue is I need 6 collars typically so it’s a big $ upgrade when I do.
  9. I am always stunned that more people don’t die in the point pleasant canal between the conditions and the poor boating etiquette
  10. You cant compare it to other democratic nations because the US indirectly subsidizes every drug and medical device on the planet...they are almost exclusively discovered or developed here...then the EMEA about 6-12 months later tags along then the rest of the world. So like it or not you are paying for the benefit of discovery of new treatment paradigms for the rest of the world. Middle men and insurance , hospital management are separate issues, that lies out of my professional expertise.
  11. At the time I was planting winter rye...it was in the fall.
  12. Shouldn't you be asking people if "if they want fries with their meal" instead of being in this thread?
  13. Agreed..I kept a tacoma with a manual tranny at the farm, and I have a diesel defender...they are not even remotely in the same class in regard to ability. I blew an oil pump on my tractor while tilling a recently plowed field I was restoring. I walked down to the house, got in the Defender...shackled a 2000lb disc harrow up to it...and pulled that thing around like there was nothing attached to truck and finished the field....not to mention I was able to disc going uphill, with my tractor I can only plow or disc going downhill or I get bogged down. I dont think I could even move a harrow with the tacoma on flat dry ground. Even driving on our logging roads I am all sliding all over the place in the tacoma.
  14. After 2 days of the best dogs in the country finding no birds ..we have another setter & the grand sire of my new puppy running in the morning. Erins Wild Atlantic Way
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