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Best of luck. I will just quote Mr. Dixon at LRI.

"There are two types of gun enthusiasts: "Those who have been fucked by PTG and those who will be."
Ya but in-between there are people who only get bent over a little bit. 🤣🤣 I hear.....they have never, only bent me over a little bit. But 200 bucks is 200 bucks. 🤣🤣

PortaJohn

I was looking at this winters projected jet stream pattern and it looks to be a dry winter for Texas. It's going to be another La Nina winter, so it will be wetter in states like Idaho and Colorado. The only bright side is it won't get that cold here in North Texas. Hay isn't cheap either.

well, down south hay is abundant because it's been raining.

i don't pay any attention to the long term bullshit. when its supposed to be wet, its a dry winter. when its supposed to be dry its a dry winter.

im going to plant my oats anyway and hope for something
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PortaJohn

We currently don’t have the herds to produce all of the meat that is needed, especially with the screw worm issue. Given the already high beef prices this cuts both ways. The consumer will pay when the price of cattle continues to climb and ranchers that go to the bank to buy cattle will feel the pinch too.

screw worms arent a problem in the US, yet. they last were in the 60s. its impact is that we are being careful with Mexican cattle, which i think has been stopped all together.

the higher prices are going be in the lack of supply because the Texas cattle producers (largest cattle producing state) have had to sell more of their breeding herds because of drought. we are all currently trying to rebuild our herds and its going to take a couple of years, but there are very few who are going to be borrowing money to buy replacement cattle at historically high prices. we are all going to breed for them and not sell.

case in point, i have two heifers out of my calves i am going to trade with a buddy of mine so we can get them away from breeding back to their daddy bull.

the biggest driver of price increases have been reduced herds because of the droughts we have been in. we need more rain and that will help prices stay flat for a while. but i dont think thats going to happen until we fix the low herd numbers.

If you buy beef by the percentage of how much cow it encompasses, I have some questions...

I get 1/2 a steer every year as part of a land lease agreement. The rancher who leases the property raises the steer and eventually takes it to a local meat market. We split the processing and disposal fees. The meat market hangs the beef for 21 days to age it (per my request). They then cut and package my half of the steer as I have requested. They freeze everything and call me to pick up and pay my part.
The weight of the steer will vary, but this year my half was just over 400 lbs. After processing I ended up with just about 300 pounds of meat. My freezer is an upright model that is about 5’x3’x2.5’. Almost every year the 1/2 steer fills the freezer up. Near the time we are expecting another 1/2 steer we start giving the previous year’s meat to family and close friends. We do this because otherwise there will not be enough room in the freezer for the leftover meat and the new stuff.

Optic question

That's fine. I was just making the point any company of any name can task an optics maker to make a scope to whatever level they want. Stamp their name on it.
That is very true.

In terms of the Integrix, the early models are built in Taiwan, but what appears to be a new OEM. They are also building the new Mepro scopes. It is not entirely clear to me if Leapers owns it or has partial interest in it. It sounded like they are more than just a customer, but I could be wrong.

As of a few months ago, they were building a cleanroom at their facility in Michigan and planning to assemble production Integrix scopes in the US.

ILya