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Good evening fellow riders. My Bro-in-law and I made it back home this afternoon after a trip down to Natchez MS on the Natchez Trace. We got on the Natchez Trace Parkway a little SW of Nashville TN and took 2 days to get to Natchez, with a night in Tupelo MS. We crossed the Mississippi River and stayed in Vidalia Louisiana Thursday night. I have been up and down the Mississippi River hundreds of times in my career as a towboater and driven through Vidalia several times chasing boats down for crew change but never spent the night there. We were blessed to stay in a hotel that was right on the river.

I bought an economy, long range scope based on a couple YouTuber's reviews a couple months ago. When I received it, I was impressed with the apparent build quality so I decided I would build a new long range whole punch to go under it. I was considering my options and leaning toward a Ruger Precision Rifle in .308. It looks to be a great system out of the box and reasonably priced, though still expensive. While down in VA for a family reunion, I found a new bang stick shop and spent a few hours trading lies and drooling on their stock when the proprietor asked me what I would say if he could show me .308ish ballistics from an AR15 platform. He then went on to educate me on the 6mm ARC from Hornady. After a few minutes googling the round, I decided to buy the parts to build a Upper in 6mm ARC. After gathering everything up, the nice young man offered to assemble the upper free of charge. BONUS! I ended up with an Aero Precision upper receiver(no forward assist) and Aero Precision 12.5 M Lock forearm with a Ballistic Advantage 18" barrel, rifle length gas tube and adjustable gas block. Capped with the Silencer Co. QD muzzle device. OH, some nice Trump 2024 graphics on the dust cover. Here it is mounted on my Fight! lower with the 30cal JK suppressor and Magpul bipod.

They have sold to Cypress Creek Motorsports. Dave and Ruthann are staying on staff for a three year transition before fully retiring. The Venture was never a huge seller for them but I don’t see very many people willing to invest that much $$ into a bike that’s been out of production since 2013. He did tell me they’re hanging on to the molds. The trike market is falling just like the touring market, younger people aren’t buying them. I use the same powder coater as Hannigan, he told me a couple years ago that he gets trailer and side car frames but very few trike frames anymore. They have a 3rd gen in right now getting a sidecar fitted to it. Cypress Creek builds a ground up trike using Chevrolet V8s and automatic transmissions. Called Challenger Trikes.

You know where Shirley is gona stay.

I'm glad I found her a good home. Feels like she's still in the family. Did Hannigan give it a checkup?

Naah, they’re arguing synthetic vs Dino.

I wonder what those two bikes are saying to each other, looks like they are having a conversation about Ronnie. 😊

I've been on segments of the Natchez trace and wouldn't mind doing the whole route. First time on it we were passing quite a few. In talking to and Attorney I work with he let me know to not get caught speeding on it because it's a federal road. Getting a ticket on is not just paying a fine you have to show up in federal court. Good thing we didn't get caught 'cuz we hit some of it pretty hard.

I did an I.B. Lake Michigan Loop as my 40th Birthday "bucket list", got home in 18hrs and joked with my riding buddy that we should have planned the 1,500 Gold ride just in case. 5yrs later and my knees hurt every morning and hands getting numb on the commute to work....and I wonder how I did it with such ease.

The Natchez Trace is very close to my sisters’ home in Franklin! I envy you!

Sounds like a great ride. Wish I could have been there.

We have to get the names of whom ever he's taking orders from first then hang him from the gonads.

Sad news. I don’t know what to say. I’m sad, I’m angry, I pray for his family.

I stopped in at Hannigan’s factory today, one of the office guys told me they dropped the RSV and a few other bikes out of their lineup this year. I don’t know if it has anything to do with the selling of the brand or not.

Not only that we need to find out who backed him. Some reports of up to 70K transferred to him in the weeks prior. Some reports said it was from shadow companies of the Socialist Democrat party. To be clear not the Democrat party. This is the one Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are a part. If this is actually true it would shake up parts of the congress and senate as well as NYC.