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I think my benelli pump 12ga that's my turkey gun has a 26" field BBL. Honestly I've shot youth guns way to short and others with field barrels they're all accurate. Fit might make your POI different but that's your job to know where the heck your gun is shooting and adjust if need be. For a while I looked for shorter bbls for my gun like 18.5" didnt have much luck with what I found. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

you flushed a cat down there too? that's just wrong. i guess at least you took it out of the bag first.

good. i made it through first 2 of them. i got volumes 1 - 4. i think there's a Vol.5 but i figured i was good enough with finding four of them.

i just bought 4 volumes of Masters of the Bare Bow because i was curious. some interesting info on there. i really have to get an arrow saw and some more insert weights. to put together some more arrows and tinker. with a compound you could adjust the bow to the arrow but with trad you really can't get around not messing the the arrow a lot. i'm just not setup for it! need to get strings from steveB too. all i have is one string for this new one.

i had a 2007 Honda Ridgeline. it was actually pretty nice with creature comforts. sadly i sold it and never got to see it grow up into a real Honda Accord.

both. five captive deer were found to be CWD positive. oneida and madison counties were somewhat quarantined from moving deer out of them and testing a statistical number of taken deer was done. that same year 2 wild deer were discover positive. since then NYS is thought to be free of CWD. no cases have popped up supposedly. it was always a western states thing and out of site and mind here in the east, until Wisconsin picked it up. stories or theories of how they got are sketchy and shady as h*** if any are true. the author didn't make a connection with mandatory ARs because there's no connection to be made to say mandatory antler restrictions would lead to CWD. infected bucks wandering you could say might not help prevent it spreading but irrelevant where it doesn't exist. not to mention yearling buck dispersal is a something that happens but research studies like from PA have concluded that upwards of 80% of bucks have already dispersed by the time they're 1.5 yrs old and breeding/hunting season has arrived. bucks by their nature aid in CWD spread but making a herd less healthy focusing on wiping out the whole buck herd won't be good for deer or hunters. you need a healthy number of bucks to do their thing and make more deer. best to just maintain low but balanced and huntable populations of deer.

as a kid with a camp on a shallow lake and a jetski to get anywhere shallow fast fisherman hated you. not because you ruined the fishing but you got their before they could with oar power or a smaller trolling type motor.

old "jet skis" are a problem to get parts for. everything is special order if you can get it and expensive. 2 is always gold compared to just one but still. we had one i think might have been a '96. it was a Tigershark. it did probably around 40 or 45 on calm mornings or evenings with a glassy surface. not sure if the sea-doo is different but back then it didn't have the anti clog design. ride on a lake and going over a patch of floating weeds would kill your intake of water to the internal prop. multiple times i had it wide open with the happening. it's send you into a flat fast spin. when you were lucky stayed on and just got banged up. most of the time you kept going straight and cartwheeled on the water with a final slap like someone hit you with an oar. i'd never buy one that old. they're nothing like the newer ones.

i just know i drive around a mint minus a couple dents GMC Sierra 1500 4x4 V8 extended cab work truck .....because it was cheap. i know if it wasn't cheap i'd have problems. can't speak for the mechanical kind. lol

Michigan definitely had it right by having the a % approval for implementation, giving it an end date to be re-evaluated, and having the DNR monitor it's effects. those are important to any deer management not just antler restrictions. also why not include in the idea if yearling buck take isn't 60+% in some WMUs or aggregate group of them don't make any change if it's not needed? a personal pet peeve of mine is letting people who may not understand them steer the ship of whether or not to have them without first giving them the tools to make the decision. for example NY DEC pissed away all this money to ponder the idea of how people would relate to ARs and got no conclusive data to show if they should do them or not. they just got the obvious feedback; yes i'm willing to restrict myself for better opportunity, yes i might not like some versus others, and yes i'd rather get results for nothing without any sacrifice. only later have they started to educate the public on expectations for each age class for weight, antlers, and prevalence can be to maybe understand how much effort might be required to get a chance at each. in my strong opinion it should've been the other way around with further education on this is how each method for buck restriction might work. i mean DEC understands how and why something may or may not work but doesn't often convey that info the public and let them weigh the options. i think we've now surpassed 40K acres worth of land owners here in the Warren, Washington, Saratoga, and Rensselaer counties that are known by my group to be using antler restrictions of all shapes and sizes to fit their need that actually restrict more than the basic concept of mandatory antler restrictions that pass just most yearling bucks. depending on the goals and folks using them those ARs are yielding anything from gross boone and crockett record book bucks to much smaller around 80", all of which are making people happy. educational and understanding what they can and can't do, coupled with knowing what will make you happy is the key.

it's of my opinion the article that's been shared a number of times on here largely focuses on failures and author has a bias against antler restrictions. it doesn't really discuss antler restrictions in general but instead mandatory antler restrictions which aren't nearly as flexible and tailored to fit a local deer population and it's hunters. the author has only such much space to tell a present the discussion, and there's some factual meat in there, but right when things get really juicy of why something failed or how it could've succeeded it was onto the next situation. there's the really discussions. i really don't know the reason to spin off topic and end with CWD without making any effort to tie it to antler restrictions, right at the tail end too where he should be posing a summary of the situation, findings, or posing a question to open the topic for discussion.

if it's not a "canned" hunt then i'd do the same thing depending on what it was. being a lion and odd vital position i'd probably try to wait it out until it stands. I've still hunted and stalked to within close range of bedded deer and then took a successful head shot. i see nothing unethical or unsporting about it. the lion situation doesn't seem to be much different other than waiting for more ideal shot placement because of the animal it happens to be.

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i would not recommend Suburban propane out this way. The local office staff was respectable despite giving a hard time due to policies to milk a situation for every cent it's worth. I found their local office manager I was at least able to work with but dealing with them as a company was a huge pain in the a$$. At the old house i had a standby whole house generator fed with their (2) 100gal propane tanks. Logically I wasn't using much propane, so they constantly changed stuff to charge me just to charge me with actually providing any product or service. first tank rental went up claiming overhead and maintenance of tanks. I could agree with that being reasonable despite they're never just coming around unless for a fill. then later on claimed they're were changing cost per gallon of propane as i wasn't using enough but didn't tell me until after they sent the bill for $13+/gal. I asked about coming and getting the tanks and cancelling the account. Said their was going to be a fee and re-stocking fee per gallon of propane left in the tanks (that were obviously now full and that was basically the market price per gal of the propane). Then even after all that, they started complaining again i wasn't using enough propane so they said I was going to be charged a minimum propane cost of something around $140 each year from the start. i told them i was going to write a letter about what they were doing to the attorney general and county district attorney's offices. then it seemed like they put those plans on hold. i finally moved so i used that part of their policy to have them top off the tanks, lock them, and then give me a check for the balance of propane that was in them prior to top off. i told the new owners they should buy tanks out right and shop around for propane fills, which would pay back the tanks in no time.

awesome find! i couldn't do the reg cab with family. that's an great truck. practically brand new and not a tin can!

i don't drink coffee. i was paying for Dunkin Donuts brews almost every week day with the wife though. to save money i picked some up from a fairly new local coffee shop in town not far from the farm. they roast and grind it fresh right there. younger guy that owns it thought other coffee just didn't cut it and could be a lot better. roasted in his garage and built up from there. bags ziploc seal to stay fresh. still not a coffee drinker but it smells great and everyone who stops says it's really good. shop in town seems to do really well despite the remote location. wife likes the bold stuff (Sumatra) best but says it's all really good. buy 12 oz bags through the "Shop" link. https://www.ironcoffeecompany.com/#home-section

it did so well for them too... Parker will soon be leading the industry.... oh. wait. nevermind. they gone.

we used to do a March Maddness bracket at work.

i'm a constant negotiator. right not at $109 for digital phone, internet, and standard cable package. i bought a highend wireless router myself. i even played games with Spectrum to just get internet but that was a no go because it'd still be $75/month. being a long standing customer (over a decade) doesn't mean anything either. we have nexflix and amazon prime too. i'd dump the Spectrum account and just use our phones but need internet service at the house when we are both (both our phones) not there. what's kind of disgusting to think about with these perk "necessities" in our lives is if i invested that cable expense money the last 10 yrs and kept running with it until retirement, it'd would've banked me half a million extra to draw from. lol cable costs really burn your ass then. we have to live while we're here i guess.

just prior the other main brands were significantly different with manual transmission and less cool designs like belt drive cvt. hondas and yamahas could take abuse a lot more it seemed and polaris atvs were always breaking weird parts.

mounts look good. seems like it was a good year for you family hunting endeavors.

damn... hope your buddy recovers well. good to hear you got it done with no issues.

570 ranger is a dog compared to the quad. my wife's cousins are big into mudding. one of the cousins had a crazy lifted modified cam-am. one of their friends had a new stock 570 sportsmen i forget what they said but something about the design makes them pretty good for stock. story was told the one cousin sold his cam-am because on an outing he got stuck with it and the friend with the 570 had no issues at all. older polaris atv's weren't really the most dependable but they hold their own now.

myself included have shot some weird deer that didn't fit the typical mold. just another piece of info that tells the story of something you might not ever come across again. with doing what Culver does we often get asked how old. so knowing people are going to ask we should probably know. you can get the info and not use it but you can't get it later. like i said i figured there was enough interest there i thought you might be doing that.

i usually just use lithiums because i run fewer cameras and leave them for a long time. check maybe 2 or 3 times a over the 6 or so months they're out.