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Other than knowing where Newsome's skeletons are buried, Harris doesn't stand a chance. Much as I despise Newsome, he's formidable and would crush Harris. It wouldn't be much of a fight.

The proposed FairTax, or some facsimile of it, makes the most sense, well more than an income tax does - if for no other reason than the cost of compliance + enforcement is trivially small. That would save us all a non-trivial amount of money annually. There is no real way to game a...

The federal government doesn't have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem. Figuring out a way to tax the "underground economy" doesn't solve the problem, won't even make a dent in the problem. Our legislators and executives have been reckless for decades.

The inmates are running the asylum. https://www.racket.news/p/magic-monetary-theory-goes-primetime?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1042&post_id=144720339&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1b256w&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

As somebody else pointed out, it's usually the pancreas, but it could be the thymus gland as well (located in the throat). I don't believe I've ever had thymus. Pancreas is usually fairly fatty, often a higher fat content than a prime ribeye. Considering all the fat, you'd think pancreas...

I'm going to be in Jo'burg for an extra day on my way up to Limpopo in August. Any gun stores you know of near OR Tambo (my hotel is really close to the airport) that would carry Rhino bullets? Looking for .423, 400 grains.

It pays to measure what the max COAL is. Most 9.3x62 have a really long leade. In mine, practically every bullet I measured would seat as far as as a max COAL of about 3.38". SAAMI spec on COAL for 9.3x62 is 3.29" I just did some load development for 286 gr A Frames, set them to 3.32". With...

Same as the SD of any other bullet of that caliber and weight. 250 gr is .267 285 gr is .305 300 gr is .320 SD is a function of weight and diameter. Length is not part of the calculus.

If you find yourself needing to disassemble the bolt, call me. While it is a Mauser, disassembly/re-assembly isn't quite the same as a conventional 98 or 96.

Let's just say I have an interesting YT feed and leave it at that. :D

For those of you in Houston, if you want to give sweetbreads a go, El Tiempo Cantina serves them as an appetizer. If you like cooking, you can get them at Fiesta or 99 Ranch Market. The great thing about buying offal is it's cheap. If you think it taste like ass, you can always throw it in...

I'm with you. Collards and mustards, sauteed up with some venison sausage...I imagine that's what'll be served in heaven. Chitlins are what I imagine will be served in hell, what I imagine hell to smell like. Burning sulfur? Yeah, that's pretty awful. Chitlins are way worse.

Steve Rinella has an amazingly good recipe for venison heart - thin sliced, sautéed in butter, then serve atop baguette. Venison heart crostini is something you and your missus will really enjoy. Above all else, my passion is cooking. I just can't see myself doing it 6 days a week, with a 100...

I have this recipe book. Give it a whirl. The idea of offal is off-putting to many, but most of it is way better than you imagine it to be. I'm still not a fan of calf or chicken liver, but I absolutely love venison liver. Two organs that I find especially tasty are pancreas (sweetbreads)...

Big ninny. I just emailed Dan @Limcroma Safaris. Liver may not be safe to eat over there, but I bet sweetbreads and heart are. Sweetbreads, lightly salted and peppered, fried in butter, are one of life's greatest pleasures.

I have a LH MRC 99 Alaskan in 404J. Once I adjusted the LOP and comb height to fit me, it became a pretty sweet shooting rifle. Before, when it was too short and the comb was too low, it slapped the ever-loving shit out of my face. Between the smooth bolt and the trigger - imperceptible...

Occam's Razor. Mom has HX of colon cancer (around 2002 or 2003), they took about 4 or 5" of her transverse colon and she's been fine ever since, until recently. About 18 months ago, she started losing weight, it took them almost a year to diagnose stomach cancer with signet ring cells. All...

I.D. docs in the US live for this kind of thing. Mostly they treat MRSA and VRE and other such local nasties, but they took that specialty for the exotics. @camlo - do what @WAB says, get to a major med center. DFW has one, Houston has a better one if you're down closer to this part of the world

As I mentioned previously, no prophylaxis is 100%. Doxycycline is probably somewhere around 90% effective. If you are bitten by enough malaria-carrying mosquitoes, you're going to get it. Fortunately, not all mosquitoes carry it (nor even most, I would imagine), and the only way they're going...

That's how malaria works - it goes through boom-bust cycles. The longer you've had it (you will never get rid of it once you've gotten it), the longer the bust cycles last. It could be years between episodes. The parasites just hang out in your liver until they've reached critical mass, then...

.366 - 320 gr RN or PPSN .264 - 160 gr

I took mefloquine years ago on a business trip down into the Amazon in Ecuador. Mefloquine gave me some serious night hallucinations/terrors. I'm allergic to doxycycline. It did wonders in resolving pneumonia the first time I had it about 14 years ago, but I started breaking out in hives...

Good policy. You always have to do a cost-benefit analysis. If you were going to a malarial area, especially one where P falciparum is endemic, the potential benefit far outweighs the potential cost.

I'll be in Limpopo north and west of Jo'burg by about a 3.5 hour truck ride in August, right on the Limpopo river. I'm told by my outfitter that malaria isn't a concern there. That said, P falciparum is no joke. It kills hundreds of thousands of people annually in malarial areas. It can...

So does Europe, for the most part. As secular as Europe is, abortion is largely banned by some time in the 2nd trimester almost everywhere. Only VERY Roman Catholic Poland and Portugal ban abortion outright.

I actually attended St George elementary school in the 70s. Many will cry about the money that's leaving East Baton Rouge Parish schools. Yes, they're going to lose a lot of revenue. But public schools in Baton Rouge have been atrocious my entire life. Losing this tax base will change...

I'm tempted to say "What the AF???". But I have exactly 2 friends with anything bigger than a 338WM, and they all look at me with my 404J like I've lost my mind.

No disagreement with any of that. I finally put a scope on my 45-70 because of the thick timber where I deer hunt, and I'm not getting any younger. I'm bringing an aperture as a backup for my upcoming hunt in Limpopo.

At someone else's suggestion, I painted my front sight with white fingernail polish. Also, replaced the NECG with a low XS Ghost ring. I'll be sighting it in this weekend.

Oh dear Lord, @AfricaHunting.com - please delete that prior post.

I have 2500, I want 2600. ;) If I can get to 2600, I'll send what I've got to muledeer, I'm sure he'd be interested.

I haven't bought any Hammers for it, but I may. Honestly, I have a pretty good load with Hornady bonded DGX at about 2240 fps. I know there are lots of guys here who use the "magic load" for 404J and are getting 2400 fps, give or take a little.

For those interested in the load data Zastava M70 9.3x62 Bullet: Shock Hammer 258 gr Powder: 2000MR, starting at 58 gr, moving up in half grain increments to 62.5 COAL: 3.30". I measured the old fashioned way (with a wooden dowel) and with my Hornady COAL measuring tool, and the both showed...

Firing pin was definitely the issue. GRT is way overstating pressure/MV Left is predicted MV, right is actual for 258 gr hammers

Bob, a page or 2 back I posted a pic of the relevant part of the bolt assembly. Zastava just does it a little differently than classic Mauser style. I watched a few videos on Mauser bolt break down to make sure I hadn't lost my mind, but it's just different. Zastava does have the same little...

It was the OEM Turkish walnut

I honestly don't know. I'm not sure adjusting the weight is going to do anything about the awful take up, though. It certainly doesn't have the recoil of my 404J, but it's way more recoil than anything else I shoot other than the 404J and the 1895GBL. The break on my 404J's trigger is so...

I talked to them a few months back. They have a trigger that'll work with the safety I have.

So now another question. I really want to put a Timney on this rifle. Go with what I've got considering I'm now only 16 weeks out? It's a good shooter, but the trigger really does leave quite a bit to be desired.

Many thanks to @Hogpatrol - I just fired a CCI primer in an empty brass in my garage. Problem solved, the shroud just wasn't turned in all the way.