From Austin Bay:
“As for escaping to Texas, please stay away. It’s absolutely terrible down here. We have hurricanes and tornadoes and sweltering summers and gazillions of feral hogs. The worst of it: increasingly terrible traffic thanks to tax migrants fleeing California.”
What he said. Our local traffic around Plano/Frisco/McKinney looks on occasion like the traffic I encountered in L.A. back in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
He forgot to mention guns. We have lots and lots of evil guns here too, and a bunch of rednecks who love them.
Jeez, neither of you mentioned any of the really good stuff, like thorns and stickers everywhere, poisonous plants, snakes, and bugs, or the wintertime pollen that triggers allergies and ruins your car’s paint job, or God’s Own Revenge when you complain about the heat: Flash Floods. And then there’s the people! Not only are they all mixed up with unpronounceable names, but they all have distinctive Texas accents, about 20 or 30 different ones, almost to the point of mutual unintelligibility. Oh, and none of them can drive in the snow. Hell, most of ’em freak out in the rain.
On top of all that, we have all the usual BAD stuff plaguing the rest of the nation.
the older I get the less I like temperature extremes. I need moderate temperatures to get to the range
JQ
Is that an indoor range?
Same here. The hot flashes that are a side effect from my medication don’t help either.
Gun pics. Very nice Texas Starter Kit. I would suggest a cheek riser of some sort for the scoped M1A, although that appears to be an E2 stock.
LSP blog host running my scoped M1A with a Bradly cheek riser–
https://lonestarparson.blogspot.com/2023/12/wymxn-and-guns.html
I just moved 350 miles south to a rural south GA town. My wife saw how many bullets I have for re-loading and asked me if I had enough. By Texas standards I am a lightweight and I am right in line for GA standards.
One of my favorite novelists, and I think Kim’s too, John Sandford, writes about what happens when a car with a Texas license plate turns up at the Canadian border.
The Canucki border guards welcome the Texans to have a seat in the waiting area until the guards disassemble the Texas vehicle enough to find all of the (multiple) (loaded) handguns hidden here there and everywhere in the vehicle.
My experience is that Canucki border guards, like most cops, are right wing, and so will hold the guns and welcome the Texans to enjoy their stay and pick up their hardware on the way out.