I have not. I plan to get one for my wife but she only had a muzzleloader tag this year so no reason to pick one up just yet. I am actually debating now if I should get her the 22CM though as it will be mainly a deer rifle and she wont shoot very far.
Ill disagree. The old saying "no publicity is bad publicity" is true. Many people will read this and go and look at the items and people will buy. In any situation there will be a significant number of people that will side with either perspective.
I will agree one needs to be careful about...
The 6 ARC is superior to the Grendel. If you are going to restock the Ruger then you may as well get the Howa. I don't think you can make a consistent argument that the Ruger or Howa is actually better.
I got nailed on a pizza carryout order. The review order screen didnt show a tip then when I hit the go to payment screen it added a tip and I missed it. That kind of thing really pisses me off.
That seems like it would be fairly hard on that salary. If you had no pretax deductions for health insurance or retirement you are only taking home about 12k/mo. After maxing out your 401k, HSA, and deductions for health insurance you are at about 9k/mo after taxes.
I dont know about comparing yourself to others, on the internet. Always people with more and less than you. Set goals that work for you and stick to them.
I grew up in WI and I remember in the late 80's and early 90's going around asking permission to hunt and getting access for a few days of work on the farm. My first Western hunt was on 2000, I think, and for a while there was good mule deer hunting in a lot of places and tags were easy to get...