Everything posted by USCATX
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The Night Vision Fanatics Thread
Walked around the neighborhood trails and found a doe and a fox to watch. The pics don’t look as good as I saw in person and you would definitely need to trigger with the app instead of the buttons for better clarity. But holy crap, I would have never seen either of these without the thermal even with the moon tonight. It’s incredible.
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Gardening 2024: Zukes, Cukes, and Nuke The Flukes
Carrots, beets, lettuce, endive, mustard, fennel and kohlrabi are all thriving. I had to put up some netting to keep the deer away and just transplanted a ton more spinach, cauliflower and rapini today.
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Gardening 2024: Zukes, Cukes, and Nuke The Flukes
I’d keep watering the blackberries until it frosts and kills the leaves. Weird that apparently it will be December before that happens, but mine are alive and thriving right now.
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The Night Vision Fanatics Thread
Thanks again for this recommendation. I listened to quite a few podcast episodes and then called Jason and talked through digital night vision before settling on the AGM Rattler V2 TS35-384. These guys are really working to earn business and I was very happy to buy from them. I think I’ll probably get more use out of this thing as a hand held for looking at things around the house, night boating, looking for downed animals, etc.
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Bourbon
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
Classic little Travis County 8 point coming in pretty regularly. Also one 9/10 that I haven’t gotten a good pic of yet. I swear the cell game cam pics are my favorite phone activity during the season.
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Gardening 2024: Zukes, Cukes, and Nuke The Flukes
Yeah, frost will smoke them but when it goes to seed you can get another round in during fall by planting them. You can also throw them in pots if you want to mess with bringing them into the garage.
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Gardening 2024: Zukes, Cukes, and Nuke The Flukes
My winter garden is mostly planted, a combination of direct seeding and starts in pots that I’m keeping in partial shade because it’s so hot. I’m going to keep planting and see if I can make a succession of veggies for the winter. So far I have: Snap peas, snow peas, broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, fennel, red beets, golden beets, two kinds of carrots, three kinds of radish, endive, three kinds of lettuce, arugula, dill, cilantro, basil, green onions, chives and a few Cherokee purple tomatoes I started in mid summer.
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Not new, not classic, semi-old shitbox car thread
I love a good shitbox convo. What about an S2000? You could probably get a driver grade higher mileage one for mid teens and that transmission is about the sweetest shifting piece on god’s green earth. Nothing ever broke on the one I had and consumables like brakes and tires are very inexpensive. You could also get a 2.0 manual trans Cadillac ATS in the mid teens. I’ve only driven a V but it’s a very competent chassis if a little boring on the motor. If you’re city parking it then I’d avoid anything that you see in street takeover vids. The G35/37 is the king in those other than Chargers and Challengers.
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Bourbon
I like their barrel proof offerings. Decent replacement for Stagg Jr if you can’t find that.
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Hunting ‘23/‘24: Bag ‘em and Tag ‘em
Just got back from the lease and the four Amazon solar panels I put on feeders/cameras last year have all shit the bed. Are these disposable or is there an actual reliable option out there? I also second the Spypoint LM2s, they’re cheap to run and the plans are pretty solid as well. I just do unlimited during season and it’s my favorite thing to check while I drink coffee.
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Bourbon
It had been a long time since I’ve had a glass of this one. Great rye spice on the bourbon sweetness, it reminds me of older, low proof MGP rye. Which isn’t a bad thing when you’re warming up for a 10 pm kickoff.
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USC v. LSU in Vegas, 6:30 on ABC
He was the Brian Ferentz of defense.
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USC v. LSU in Vegas, 6:30 on ABC
Got ‘eem. Killers never prosper.
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USC v. LSU in Vegas, 6:30 on ABC
This. I hope he turns super red in useless anger.
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Gardening 2024: Zukes, Cukes, and Nuke The Flukes
I looked and couldn’t find the seed packet for them. I tried a couple last year and this one is definitely unique with a shiny green look compared to Clemson red or the more normal light green kind. They all taste about the same to be, but definitely don’t want to let any of them get more than 3-4” long. That’s all she needs, allegedly.
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Gardening 2024: Zukes, Cukes, and Nuke The Flukes
I have six okra plants and they just started producing because the deer trimmed them down to nubs twice while it was really hot and dry. I’m expecting about a dozen per day from these shortly.
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The New Car Fanatic Thread
I liked that tan one in all the press pics, but the other trims and in person have been a huge disappointment. That motor failure disaster is also horrible. We had a last gen GX and it was entirely flawless if slightly antiquated. I don’t want to live in a world where Lexus vehicles are blowing motors under warranty.
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Bourbon
Ha, that would have been a huge whiff otherwise.
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The Night Vision Fanatics Thread
Of course there’s a podcast. Why didn’t I think to check? I love a good podcast and will check it out.
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Bourbon
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The Night Vision Fanatics Thread
So what’s the best current value for something to whack pigs at night from 100-120 yards? All the feeders at my lease are very close and I want something easy and cost effective so I don’t feel bad sending a teenager out to use it. I got a hog light last year and it sucked so I’m looking for something better than that. Maybe NV instead of thermal? https://pulsarnv.com/collections/digital-nv-riflescopes Cheapest Pulsar? https://nightvisionguys.com/pulsar-thermion-2-xq35-pro-thermal-imaging-riflescope-2-5-10x-384x288 Cheapest Thor 4? https://www.atncorp.com/thermal-scope-thor-4-384-1-25-5x
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Gardening 2024: Zukes, Cukes, and Nuke The Flukes
These barely run, more like a little soybean shrub. Nowhere near the mayhem of cantaloupe or watermelon vines.
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Bourbon
Little Book is great again this year if you’re into rye. It’s not quite as good as last years PHC 10 year rye, but it’s also going to be way easier to find.
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Gardening 2024: Zukes, Cukes, and Nuke The Flukes
Got my first watermelon, I’m not sure who asked for personal size with seeds although the flavor was great. I can’t keep up with the damn cowpeas eating them fresh as green beans so I let a bunch go and harvested them as black eyed peas. Laborious AF shelling them, but it’s at least new and interesting. They’re an incredible cover crop to keep weeds down so I might have a literal million next season.