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Allen Griggs...

pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
...since PM is not working, are you close to Boon N.C.?....how far from Maggie Valley?...We usually come through that area when on our way to Thomasville..???...like to see the area you live in!..I have friends in Maggie Valley...flatlanders with a cattle farm in Grand Bay, Al....[;)]
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ....me and the wife are planning to drive from Mobile, to Las Vegas...in the late Dec.-early Jan. time frame...which way would you go?If you have the time,thanks,Willie...
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When you mentioned your Savage ML, is that the Mod 10ML that uses the smokeless powder?

    I was kind of wondering what standard velocities with a 240gr XTP will run out of a 26" ML.
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    Shortest distance is to shoot though I-40, ABQ and Flagstaff. Risk of snow and high winds that time of year though.

    If you take aim thru El Paso, Tucson and Phoenix you avoid the sometimes winter storms on I-40 through northern NM and AZ. But you add some distance and ABQ has some good eat'n.

    So it's a trade off.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Any way you go there will be a risk of winter weather in N. Arizona and S. Nevada, I-40 adds Missouri, Okla, and Texas to the risk list. I would probably get familiar with both routings and be prepared to make a decision the last week before leaving based on weather forecasts. It is possible to change routes, along the way, but that adds miles and time. You could take I-10 to El Paso and I-25 to Albuquerque if eating here is important. From Albuquerque I-40 to Flagstaff and west is about 5 hours if the weather is good.
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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,272 ******
    edited November -1
    Go west until you smell it, turn north til you step in it.[8D]
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mobile Alabamy? If ya wanna run mostly "big road" go west on I-10 and somewhere in th Cajun state grab I-49 to I-20. Take I-20 to Dallas-Ft. Worth and grab RT 287 north to Amarillo, then I-40 west all the way to Kingman Arizona, you will know you are in Kingman because it will be hot.

    From Kingman grab RT 93 north, you can take the new bypass or you can cross Hoover Damn and then on to Vegas.

    Bunches of other ways to go but in Dec, Jan you are in for a treat. Flagstaff had three seasons, July, Aug and Winter. NM can be a nitemare east of Albuquerqe and the same with TX west of Amarillo. May be best to fly that time of year if sudden snowstorms make you jittery. That high up in elevation makes for sometimes SEVERE winter driving! I spent a lot of years running I-44 and I-40 from PA to CA so I know what it's like in the winter, unfriggin predictable!!
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,690 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I will defer to these other guys, because I have not been west of San Antonio for the past 2 years.
    Now, if you need help getting from Mobile to San Antonio I am your guy!
    Also I know the way from Mobile to Greenville SC.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Pwillie, if you make it through ABQ AND it ain't the middle of the night. I will buy the tacos.
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks guys...I've been the I20 rte to Amarillo, then dropped down to San Angelo...Have been the 10 rt, can't stand driving through La......are Houston...10 sucks period, so I guess we will take the northern rt...
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Pwillie, if you make it through ABQ AND it ain't the middle of the night. I will buy the tacos.
    Thanks Boy Dog!...You never know...LOL
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I-20 doesn't go to Amarillo.
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
    I will defer to these other guys, because I have not been west of San Antonio for the past 2 years.
    Now, if you need help getting from Mobile to San Antonio I am your guy!
    Also I know the way from Mobile to Greenville SC.
    I know how to get to the Carolinas....Been going up there for 40 years....
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