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Hot take that really shouldn’t be a hot take: eggnog is absolutely disgusting.   It’s made of raw eggs, milk, and loaded with saturated fat. Gross.

He’s still here. He’s got a fan club. Including us.

Brock Faber’s return to play protocol has been cleared. No timetable yet, but he can start skating in a few days

My brothers, my sisters…stand with me for the time has come. After many clandestine strikes and small covert operations… The 2026 Egg Nog War is here.

An armed society is a polite society, and this would be attacker got polite real fuggin fast!

GIVEAWAY! It’s Tuesday and we’re late this week because we’ve been out in the mountains trying to find mule deer. BUT, we are getting better about posting the giveaway on Tuesday. This week we’re giving away our regularly scheduled Red Ryder. AND a another Woodland Trail Western Carbine model 1999 from @DaisyRifles Which means another two winners! Until Christmas we will giveaway two BB rifles a week, and during December………more. Rules: Like this post Follow us Share this post via repost or QT post Be in the USA 🇺🇸 Winner announced here Monday November 2, 2026 We do these Giveaways to keep American Traditions Alive, and learning to shoot with parents/grandparents with a @DaisyRifles is as American as Tradition can get. We’re honored, and would like to thank Daisy for letting us help them give more BB Rifles to American families. We wish you all GOOD LUCK 🍀 and thank you for participating. Keep That PMA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Blackberry Skirmish. Pepper and bourbon up front, blackberry at the end. Pork, chicken, tacos, even vanilla ice cream.

I think that one of the most misunderstood things in American society might be Wildlife Conservation. I was having a conversation with a really good-hearted lady the other day, who loves animals, and didn’t know that without hunters and their money we would not have many of those animals. It is hunters and fishermen who demanded Conservation. It’s their money through the Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 who primarily pay for it too. At one point, areas of the country didn’t even have a turkey or a deer left to watch or photograph. Reintroduction of turkey’s started in the 1950’s and wasn’t even complete until the 1990’s. How does this work? The American Wildlife Conservation model works on a couple of principles. Those who care the most about a thing, fund it. Anytime someone purchases a gun, ammunition, or archery equipment, they are paying an additional tax that goes directly to Conservation. The other principle is scientific management. Modern game laws use science to evaluate population levels and determine how many animals can be removed from a population without damaging the overall numbers of the population. That’s why it’s hunters, not animal activists, who detest poachers the most. Hunters are also the ones who rebalance the ecosystem. Anywhere humans live, prey animals such as deer tend to outbreed sustainable population numbers. It’s because their natural predators aren’t omnipresent to keep the numbers in check. This leads to mass starvation in winter and disease running rampant through populations. If you want to save the deer herds, you literally must do the job of the wolf. Nature doesn’t just “balance itself out”, all of earth is a garden. Anytime numbers get out of balance, catastrophes happen to reset it. The goal of modern conservation is to prevent catastrophic rebalancing. The natives who lived on this continent before it became America knew that. They used to set wildfires and let everything burn. Nowadays conservation departments in some areas do the same thing through controlled burns. These burns remove built up deadfall and undergrowth, allowing certain tree species that require fire to thrive and protecting human infrastructure. The Pittman-Robertson Act also makes it Law that State hunting and fishing license fees cannot be diverted to other pots of money in a State. This isn’t like when a State charges tolls on a road and then uses that money for something else besides fixing a road. If you love animals and hate hunting or fishing, the most effective investment to protect wildlife that you can possibly make would be to purchase licenses for both and then just stay home. In a similar manner to how you can’t just confiscate the wealth of the top 1% of billionaires and run the country for more than a couple of days, there is no group of rich anti-hunting animal rights activists that could collectively pool their money and replace the dollars that each and every sportsman contributes. We are the ones who ensure fish are restocked, rare species such as the Hellbender salamander are protected, deer and elk graze the prairies and yes, that wolves roam their natural habitat. Protected species and endangered species are also primarily determined and supported through these exact same efforts.

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I apologize in advance to our more delicate followers. We must never forget the lovelies. That said, I tried to find a less intense angle of the events that unfolded but Rascal's bodycam was the only remaining functioning camera at his street position that night. The broader story is as old as time. Western self loathing and misunderstanding of its place and noblesse oblige stirred up in the same communistic cauldron as envy and third world avarice. The more narrow story of how and why Rascal was in France and how he managed to let any of those thugs bloody him up in the first place will have to be a story for another time. RASCAL IS FINE. Our people were able to get to him before he was overwhelmed. He claims he had things under control but he also does not seem to stoked that I have video that argues otherwise. He is stable and even making jokes with the nurses on site at a location that will remain undisclosed. He did say this: "Hey JD, givem' the new CZ Duty 4.0 F 9mm, it sure did the job and I really had not even had that much time behind it before things got spicy. Oh, and make sure to tell @SummRidge thanks, as always." "What are you doing in France, and when did you even leave?!" I asked, mildly frustrated. "Oh, sorry ol boy, that's Geneviève after me, says I need a fresh wrap, gotta go!" He said and quickly hung up. ... Well, there ya have it, my friends. This week is the new CZ. I will include more images and info below. *sidenote: Yes I notice that Rascal must have some unique model not available to the regular creature. It would appear to have some mechanism or feature uncommon to semi auto pistols that Rascal actuates prior to firing and it seems the pistol can also shoot off center if that is, in fact, where the assailant is, go figure *🤷‍♂️ Goodluck, Godspeed, Keep Going, & Paris When It Sizzles...