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Right! He's known since last week that
was wanting to look at it tonight too.
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Right! He's known since last week that
was wanting to look at it tonight too.
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That's entirely possible. This was my first mead and it was not Chaucer's.
And for the record, I never said it was nasty. I just said it smacked of ass dew. Any further judgment depends on how someone feels about ass dew on their tongue.
And that in turn depends on the source of the ass dew.
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In on three where the cool kids be
And I think I've found a new grail gun. The ruger gunsite scout, with black laminate wood. That thing is just plain sexy
And I think I've found a new grail gun. The ruger gunsite scout, with black laminate wood. That thing is just plain sexy
You're only on two.
The Ruger is sexy, but I think I'd rather have the Mossberg MVP scout.
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I was listening to this today while driving home behind a Cadillac and it just made me laugh, and want a Nash Rambler :>
[video]https://youtu.be/enqNl7tdLR4[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/enqNl7tdLR4[/video]
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I'm kinda curious about Ruger's new precision rifle.
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OK, since my name was spoken in "mead" earlier
I'll throw my Confederate 2¢ worth in....MOST, but not all commercial meads draw a near perfect vacuum. To me, one of Chaucers' major problems is that they use almond honey most of the time. This is honey that was made primarily from honey made by bees during the almond pollination period out in California. I like almonds, almond milk and almond flour, but the almond honey seems to have an astringent flavor.
Another major problem, and this is the primary reason so many commercial meads suck, is that they are "new meads". They have not been aged properly. They ferment the basic mixture, rack it 2 or 3 or 4 times, bottle it up and apparently ship it out. And then wonder why people say "such and such sucks". Some people like the commercial stuff, or at least they say they do because of some hang-up of not wanting to show that they don't know what the hell they are talking about with meads. Many a "good wine snob" denigrate mead because all they have ever had is the "new" or relatively new "junk".
When I made my first batch of mead (after learning on 2 batches of mustang grape wine), and was attempting to "follow the recommended procedures", I "taste-tested" some of my brew when I racked it the first time. It tasted like bad dog doo with sweetish overtones. I thought "Oh this is gonna end real well. Not." Racked it again 33 (supposed to be 30) days later and tried it again. Still tasted bad, but maybe, just maybe, it was a "little less bad". Ditto for rackings 3 and 4 (30-ish day intervals). A little better each time, but nothing to really write home about.
Everything I had read by real home wine makers said "Ya gotta let mead age at least a year. Longer is better", so after the 4th racking, nearly 6 months after dumping the yeast in, I bottled it up, labeled it and put it away in a dark closet and forgot about it. And already had wine batch 3 and mead batch 2 fermenting.
A year and a day after I bottled "Mead Batch 1", I popped a cork. That stuff was like night and day, compared to the crap I tasted a year before. I have worked my way through 15 of those first 25 bottles, about 1 per month or so. Each bottle has been very tasty. I've also worked on batch 2 and 3, as well as mustang 1,2,3,4. Blackberry melomels 1 and 2, along with mustang 5, are peacefully "mass aging" in gallon jugs in a dark closet. (melomel is mead made with some kind of fruit juice substituting for some of the water.)
One of the local small commercial (75 hives) beekeepers started having seizures for some reason and had to give up all alcohol-based beverages due to negative reactions with his anti-seizure meds, so to eliminate temptation, he gave away all his home-made wines and meads (around 400 bottles). That 18 y.o. wildflower mead was smoother than a babies butt and sweet as honey.
Some wines, like mustang grape, can be drunk "new" or right out of the carboy and taste pretty good. Let it age a year and you will never drink "new" MG wine again. The problem is the waiting. MG keeps getting better for 5 to 7 years, then it starts to break down and get worse. Mead, on the other hand, apparently keeps getting better, at least through 18 years.
Mead is simple. Not exactly easy, cause you have the racking and bottling and waiting to get through, but really simple. A sweet mead recipe (most of mine are sweets) is 1.5 gallons of honey, 3.5 gallons of distilled water and 1 package of champagne yeast. 18 months later, you have 20+ bottles of really smooth nectar. OK, I skipped the fermenting, racking and bottling steps, but you get the idea. Every mead batch is different because every batch of honey is different. The various nectar flavors in honey will vary from year to year, even by the same hive because every year has a different nectar source ratio. BUT even un-aromatic commercial off the shelf bulk honey from who knows where bought at Sam's makes good mead. Eventually.
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Goin' back to my ole nom de plume... I am seriously considering changing all my online nicks to "Bjorn Nekkid".
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The MVP is nice also, I like the fact it accepts AR and M14 Mags.
However I prefer the ruger, mainly because i shoot southpaw, and ruger has a left handed model
I also want to try their model 77/357, just wish they would make a left handed version
Looks like a pretty good value for what it is.
What I do is just be right handed. Right is right.
The 77/44 and 77/357 look pretty neat.
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Hey has anyone heard from Dex? Haven't seen him post in a while. Is he on vacation or something? Also, I'm getting worried about that Slicey north Carolinian. He's never this quiet. I'd really like to know if my friend is ok..
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Sounds like a party. I'm in!
I'll sharpen your knives for you if you go to work for me today G
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Dex seems fine just really busy. Haven't heard from NCSlice.
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Sounds like a nice afternoon followed by a nice morning. My commute was a bitch today so I'm gad to hear that somebody's morning is nice and peaceful. :thumbup:
You know..... There's a Magua picture thread and a general TM Hunt picture thread somewhere around here. Some of us could use some new knife shots to drool over while sitting at work.
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I wanted Ruger to make a 77/357 years ago. Now that they have, I don't really want/need one anymore.
One thing I decided was that to truly take advantage of the versatility of the .357, you have to load it for the gun it's going into. You can get the .357 up to .30-30 muzzle energies in an 18" barrel! But I'd never want to put those rounds through my revolver... and in fact prefer 180gr subsonics in my Blackhawk. So once I realized that, I just bought a .30-30. Now I can't mix up my rifle and handgun ammo accidentally, don't need to worry about resetting my reloading dies, or maintaining two different .357 sets, etc. etc.
(ok, I still want one a little bit...)
Yeah, the gunsite scout is hot. But short-barreled .308's? No thanks. The same in .30-30 with a lifetime supply of Hornady GMX bullets? Yes, please!
I'll check out the new Precision Rifle thing. I've been out of the loop since I started obsessing about knife-making.
One thing I decided was that to truly take advantage of the versatility of the .357, you have to load it for the gun it's going into. You can get the .357 up to .30-30 muzzle energies in an 18" barrel! But I'd never want to put those rounds through my revolver... and in fact prefer 180gr subsonics in my Blackhawk. So once I realized that, I just bought a .30-30. Now I can't mix up my rifle and handgun ammo accidentally, don't need to worry about resetting my reloading dies, or maintaining two different .357 sets, etc. etc.
(ok, I still want one a little bit...)
Yeah, the gunsite scout is hot. But short-barreled .308's? No thanks. The same in .30-30 with a lifetime supply of Hornady GMX bullets? Yes, please!
I'll check out the new Precision Rifle thing. I've been out of the loop since I started obsessing about knife-making.
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