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I'm going to target 240 degrees, and adjust if necessary about the time I wrap it. I'm using the mid-size Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker. Doing another batch of ABTs as an appetizer; folks can't get enough of those. It's funny, I watched a different Mad Scientist brisket video on Youtube last night. That one linked to the A5 wagyu video, but I didn't watch that one--I figured there was no point in torturing myself.

Targeting 7 pm, but you never really know with BBQ. Sometimes you end up having to drink a lot longer than expected before the meat is done.

I did...the american version is certainly more affordable than the A5 Wagyu, but I think I'll be continuing to get my briskets at Costco. I grew up kinda near some of the ranches now in the Snake River Farms coop...I wonder if they offer a 'former neighbor' discount?

I'm smoking another brisket tomorrow; I picked up a large flat (8.1 lbs) at Costco that looks pretty good--much more uniform thickness than I generally find with the flats. Trimming (per the Franklin videos), injecting, and marinating tonight, up at 4 am tomorrow to apply the rub (modified Franklin, mostly kosher salt and coarse-ground pepper, but I'm adding a little cayenne), and it should be on the smoker over hickory with a bit of mesquite by 5:30 am. This time I've got butcher paper for the wrap, and I'm looking forward to it having a better bark as a result. I'm also allowing two hours for the rest, wrapped, in a cooler. Now if the cook just cooperates somewhat with the timeline I've laid out... Just for fun, I searched on A5 wagyu briskets last night, not because I ever expect to cook one, but because a lot of the top competitive teams rave about them for contests. The damn things are in the $400-$500 range!

I don't recall the air in Terre Haute ever smelling particularly good...lotsa good smoke on homecoming weekend when they lit the world's largest bonfire, though. 'ol Rose was just named the best undergrad engineering school in the US for the 22nd consecutive year...almost as impressive as their old varsity rifle team was!

No on 1(marijuana), I think it's a bad idea, and I feel my opinion is validated by the fact that Murphy and the Dems very much want it to pass. Not fully decided on 2 (property tax break for veterans who served in peacetime). I generally vote against anything that will raise taxes or borrowing, and I don't understand why this has to be a constitutional amendment...I think amending any constitution shouldn't be taken lightly, and NJ tends to try and do it for every little thing. That said, I need to find out how the exclusion is really defined. From what I've read, I can't tell if peacetime means service in the absence of a declared war...which is too big of an exclusion, I think (it would rule out Korea, for example). No on 3, (congressional redistricting date) again why use a constitutional amendment to determine the date of a redistricting? Plus the Republican state committee has branded this a blatant attempt by the Dems to retain additional seats by delaying redistricting by a couple of years. Increasingly, I'm living my life by the simple principle of WWMD? What Would Murphy Do? Then I do the other thing.

I love the smell of Eley ammo. It smells like victory!

I think it should have all of the stuff NJ hates...bayonet lug, grenade launcher, flash hider, self-serve gas, beer and wine sold in grocery stores... But that in no way constitutes a legal opinion.

They might be tossing the guns under the bed, and locking up all the $1 a round plinking ammo they've been buying. Bigger investment to protect.

I went to high school with the Idaho Attorney General. Larry's a good guy. He argued endlessly in American Government class, telegraphing his future career path.

Pelosi is up for re-election, so she'd be screeching all over the news regardless. This just gives her a good topic du jour for making the voters think she has any relevance here.

There are indeed gun collectors that focus on collecting Glocks. Which is a little like a car collector focussing on collecting Corollas, but it's a thing. The Glock Talk board has a forum specific to collecting Glocks. You may find some good info there. GlockTalk forum

Ah, that could be it.

It shipped with 10 round mags? I first heard of that starting less than a decade ago.

At $50 a permit, the state is going to make a lot more money off of @Pizza Bob than they will from the millionaires tax.

Similar story in the case of Brandon Lee (Bruce Lee's son), filming The Crow. A cast member shot him, either with a blank, or with a blank in a gun in which a bullet had been previously been lodged in the barrel. Brandon Lee

I need to see if our KWH rate has changed over the last year. We did get a residential bill a month ago for $600, nearly double what we were expecting, but it was based on an estimated reading, and our actual meter reading at the time was quite a bit lower. I just haven't done the math to see what the bill should have been. The actual reading will be taken this month, at which point we should be back to a real number for the two month period. Update: Just got this month's bill, based on an actual meter reading. $98. So the average over the two months was about what we were expecting; no idea why their estimate was so screwed up last month.

I know it's been pointed out before that for a gun board, we spend an awful lot of time talking about food. I'll just note that on the Pilots of America aviation board, there is currently a thread raging on Isosceles vs. Weaver stance. 40 posts and 400 views in less than 18 hours. It's kinda funny. Lots of BBQ threads showing up there as well...

Thanks for the link. I'd not seen that one, and I've been watching a fair number of BBQ videos in recent months. The big names in competition BBQ have some great content out there. My wife wandered by my screen a week or so ago and asked "are you watching meat porn again?"

That should be amazing. Great price, too. I don't have a Walmart with grocery department near me, so I have to rely on Costco, and I've not seen them anywhere near that cheap there, or at Restaurant Depot, when they were letting non-members in. Is the comparatively low temp overnight just to get the timing right to finish cooking by dinnertime tomorrow? I just ordered a roll of butcher paper to wrap my next brisket, as I've heard from a few sources that it makes for a better bark than does a foil wrap.

I dunno. I'd think the pointy stick penetration in ballistic gelatin is only limited by the length of the stick.

Taxing stupid would provide a lot of income in this state. Although the state lottery is kind of a tax on stupid.

So much wrong here: Loaded rifle used as prop in rap video

Fishing?

The article states that it isn't known when the middle-class rebates would be paid out. So I think we can safely assume those checks will go out in October of 2021, right before the gubernatorial election. The rebate program will be cancelled by December of that year.