Steuben Jerry

I've seen some poor reviews on Optima, not an overwhelming amount, but for a $300 battery there shouldn't be the commonality of it not holding a charge in a year. Leaning toward Interstate as I have had good enough luck with them. The 5 year old trolling motor battery that I mentioned in the original post is an Interstate. I figured I'd at least research the Optimas. It's been a while since I bought a marine battery, and the Optima looked like the new thing that I just didn't know much about. But $300, yikes!

I'm essential so far. I have May 1 scheduled off. Hopefully we'll be somewhat back to normal by then, and I can keep my plans for a 3 day weekend for the turkey opener.

I have no use whatsoever for a bump stock and personally think it's a stupid gun accessory. Although I don't believe I've heard it here, I do cringe when I hear gun owners say "you don't need that". Where does that stop? You don't need an AR-15, you don't need a semi-automatic, you don't need a "high power" rifle, you don't need a sniper scope, you don't need 10 boolets to kill a deah...

I don’t really know its history, it’s in that boat I picked up last year. It was hard to keep a charge on it over the winter, and I see that 2/14 sticker on it. I purchased the trolling motor battery in 2015. Figured that’s no way to start the season.

I need to replace a starting/deep cycle battery as mine is 6 yrs old. Looking for recommendations for what to get. I see Optima batteries advertised but I know little about these type of batteries. Are they really worth the price? I could use a new dedicated trolling motor battery too. A couple of Optimas would be $600. That’s a lot of coin for batteries unless they are really, really worth it.

Army Corps of Engineers sites are closed around the twin tiers. I really hope the state launches will be OK to use!

Happy Birthday!

Prayers for your Mother, First-light!

Steuben County took a bit of a jump this weekend.

Crappy picture, but there’s 6 strutters in this group. A couple of days ago in the late afternoon.

Happy Birthday guys!

All of it.

That’s an awesome mount! I really like that fox too.

Yeah, that’s the bad part for sure.

That sucks that the owner didn’t even approach you first. You think you’d be the first one he’d tell in case you were an interested buyer. I’d echo what Greg said. If you like that land, or other local properties for sale, you should at least see if you can wrangle an investment purchase, especially if you can get it on the cheap. Banks do land loans, and sellers will give terms too. You could turn your lease payment into a land payment. Money is super cheap now too. And if something bad in life comes up in the future, you can unload it for more than you paid for it. It’s worth a serious thought anyways. Especially if you have a close family member to split it with.

Never heard of that, had to Google. And up comes the subject of testicles again! https://allthatsinteresting.com/killer-whales-eat-sharks

That is way cool!

Happy Birthday! C'mon back, we miss having you around!

Biz, if this is true, you need to donate a little blood for antibody production for your forum friends! How much can you drain before you get woozy?

Pre-tenderized apparently!

Thanks. Sounds like they're bottling and not emptying existing bottles and re-bottling. As bad as the article makes it sound, it's a legit operation. They just don't compound the bulk materials. My place doesn't compound either - yet. We're working toward it.

Hope it's not the virus, and that she feels better soon!

Bottling and re-bottling are two very different things. This is very interesting if true. I run a bottling operation and am a competitor of Corcraft.

That's awesome - hope he stays safe Rob!