Joe as a parent of a goaltender, I feel I am well versed in the construction of a goalie helmet. Yes the back plate is not as stout as the rest of the helmet. However, that back plate should never be the direct locsation of a shot. A goaltender would need to be looking straight away from the puck. The current helmets extent well past the back plate.

Now shots that hit any goaltender in the helmet, anywhere, especially at the pro level is going to leave some level of discomfort. It doesn’t matter if it is in the cage, ear hole or the top of the helmet, it hurts.
Shots from behind the goal line, intended to deflect off of the goalie are usually not the hardest shots, either. From what I have seen.

Plus, todays style of play by goalies creates the likely contact to helmets due to always being in the butterfly.

B-Man I use powerBelts in 245 gr.

They seal great in the barrel, shoot very well out of my optima, put deer down quickly, but… i have never been happy with the blood trail. Everyone could have been a difficult track if not for them falling over well within sight and under 60 yds.

so, I like them a lot, but be prepared for harder tracking.

Randy Wieland wrote:

There are ~17,300 parcels of property in Wabasha County of all different shapes and sizes.

Would be interesting to see how many residential properties, commercial properties, recreational, and ag use acres that equates to. Take the equation away of house value and pay flat rate on the land.

Quick google search says that Waubasha County is 523 square miles of land. 27,878,400 x 523 = 14,580,403,200.- thats about $0.001166 per sqft of land for tax

Alright, so by this plan or logic this is the tax responsibility.

A 1 acre property would owe $50.80
A 40 acre property would owe $2,031
a 200 acre property would owe $10,158
so and so forth.

By this logic we want our owners agricultural, and wild spaces to carry the bulk of the tax burden. Even though 1-4 people live on this acreage and use the same infastructure as the person(S) living on 1 Acre property, or in a city lot, of smaller size. I see the fairness here… and I don’t also.

How would we tax a 3 acre apartment complex? Just $150 bucks? Rent should be dirt cheap right?

I fear this would result in the fragmentation of our ag lands and wild lands and further speed up sprawl.

BigWerm wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>TheFamousGrouse wrote:</div>
The problem with “government spending” is what are they spending all that money on? Well, it’s…this is awkward…it’s us.

C’mon Grouse, you know that’s not what the problem is. Most people on both sides of the aisle are ok with spending on “us”, the problem is the fraud, corruption and inefficiencies before it reaches “us”. It’s $250M+ Feeding our Future fraud, a blank checkbook ($8B, still TBD years and counting) for Southwest Light rail, $100M+ Child Care Assistance Program Fraud, $18.5M for a Loon Center, $10k for a Dungeons & Dragons podcast, it’s $16M annually for 173 DEI positions in the Walz administration, it’s all the misappropriated COVID funds, it’s a $7.2M Goose Creek rest stop, it’s $1M+ DEI positions in just my local school district alone while 1/3rd of students can’t read/write at grade level and all the teachers say they need more student facing staff, or spending $18B surplus on “us” that has us headed for a $5B deficit. And these are just the one’s recently in MN. You just start adding 0’s to the frequency and severity once you get to the Federal Level.

I believe everything you just put down is at the STATE level. This has NOTHING to do with your property tax.

That would be your income and state sales tax paying for all that.

Not to say there isn’t waste locally as well. But if you or me are not at local meetings making our voice heard, it just complaining to complain.

Bucky, I think we all understand your prespective. The problem is, like so much in government, change happens slowly. A(n) important part to this is there must be solution to the current problem.
Do you have a solution? Or a different/better why applying property tax?

Or rather, how do we fund our local governments and schools?

MN property tax is progressive, meaning higher valued properties pay a larger share of the tax base. $600,000 will pay more than a $100,000 home, due to homestead exclusions and more. Agricultural homestead properties pay at a rate half of that as residential properties.

There lots of things I would like to see happen. Like I would like to see a cap on taxes for our neighbors that are over 60. But that means those of us under the age of 60 would pick up the burden of the taxes that they would no longer pay. That is a burden I would except, but many other would not.

At the end of the day, our property taxes are what the local governments and schools levy. Be it $1 or $1 billion dollars. They question is how to you feel the fairest and most equitable way is to divide that burden amongst the residents of your county?

I am sure there are some great ideas out there, they have to be shared with our representatives and get passed in our STATE legislature for any meaningful change to happen.

supercat wrote:

I understand property values going up and taxes to follow but what happens when property values go down such as 2008. The taxes did not go down the following years but stayed the same. In buisness if sales are down you have to make changes in spending to account for this in goverment you just keep spending. If your going to increase in good times you have to decrease during bad. Many people did not recieve any wage increase during those times but public employees still got cost of living increase.

You got thinking about how values and tax acted so I looked back at my records.
In for the 2008 assessment my home value was $124,100 with a tax of $938. For the 2009 assessment (post housing crash) my home value was $113,300 with a tax of $824. That is 8.7% decrease in value and a 12.1% decrease in tax in response to the housing market. unfortunately i do not information on any levy amounts to see what they did as well.

All from 2008 to 2025 proposed my taxes have increased from $938 to $1484 while my value has increase from $124,100 to $215,000.

Some of you all need to start looking at what places are selling for! Then look at your assessed values and compare. In my county in central Mn we are seeing rec land(hunting) selling for 5 grand an acre and some tillable selling for 8-10 grand. A person doesnt get much for $200,000.
As a personal example, my home is currently valued by the County at 215,000 seems high. Then a bout 2 months ago a get one of those silly letters for a real estate group asking to buy our home. Always funny to look at how little they offer! Right? Well for the first time ever, they offered $290,000. If I this would have been a local realtor offering I would have sold in minute.

Now, I don’t like to pay taxes either. However, have you all noticed how expensive everything has gotten the past 5 years? What percentage everything has gone up? do you think it our counties, city or school haven’t seen the same increases in cost to operate? I am sure it has!

My suggestion is to go to your local government meetings ALL year long, and voice your concerns when they discuss budgeting. Waiting until truth in taxation notices go out is too late. And pay attention to the Valuation notices you receive in March or April. If you disagree with the valuation, call your assessors office, and ask about it. In my experience they have the data to share with you on why it is valued what it is valued.

Reminton Core-lok in 150 grain 270, 130 gr 30-30 and i forget the grain of the 243 (96??). Have liked how Hornady lever revolution have performed in the 30-30. but have not hunted with them yet.

Grim, I didn’t doubt you. I just didn’t look to know it as fact.
I have no problems with tournament organizations banning or restricting FFS. Tournaments shouldn’t be an arms race of electronics.

However, as a person that has a signal FFS transducer on the boat, my son is good with it, but there are many that really have it “figured out”. I respect that they are able to see and use it so much better than many. it is still fishing, just a different style. A style this 46 year old probably never will conform to.

tswoboda wrote:

I love that he didn’t even give them a quote. That guy’s gotten so beat up on social media over the last few years, it’s gross. Just keeps putting record fish in the boat while the haters keep hating from their parents’ basements

Right! Funny he holds the C&R record, new Crappie record as well if I remember right, and if it is true he was part of the reason PMTT banned it, he clearly has SKILL using the technology than most. If FFS was so easy why are others not doing the same thing. A ton of people have FFS now and very few can use it like him.

Now congrates to the angler for catching a rock solid 54″ and jumping through all hoops qualify for the IGFA world record.

214, northern Todd County

Friday Morning rant.
This defense is exposed! The middle of the field is wide open, and our DBs can’t cover when we blitz. Plus the blitz is not getting home. Flores has not adjusted well. The one interception we had was just a badly thrown ball. if it is not over thrown, the receiver was open by 5 yds. Pace looks lost, deviates from his assignment way to much. Oh, did I mention our DBs are not good or average. they do not have closing burst for our “umbrella” defense.

Offense, well it hasn’t been great all year, effective but not great. Darnold is late on a lot of throws, more so as the season has gone on. Pass protection has been pretty good, but our run blocking is below average. O’Connell is a bit too aggressive in my opinion as well. We all like explosive plays, for petes sake, can we use a little ball control passing of say 5-8 yards for parts of the game? Why do we pass 10+ yds on slow developing play so much. And to the boundries so often. Use the middle of the field. It worked the first 2 drives, then it gets abandoned. O’Connell out coaches himself sometimes. Screens seem to work for this team. We use it once last night.
We have good pieces, and we where always going to lose some games, but we look like team the pundits said we were last night.

My personal opinions are that I am ok with the youth season. But I fail to see the positives of the early antlerless.

Early antlerless is clearly used to lower populations in area deemed to have a high surplus of deer. The problem I have is there is limited participation throughout our area. However, there are some groups that really hit it hard. I am not sure it truly adds to the antlerless harvest in end.

The youth season I do think is a good way to introduce hunting to our young kids. However, 16 and 17 year olds are now driving themselves and or buddies out to hunt, with limited to no adult supervision. These kids are just getting more hunting time, they’re more than likely long term hunters already, one that will hunt both seasons anyway, they no longer “need” the extra time to be recruited.
Plus, with the change to early antlerless and youth season being the same dates, some kids are again an afterthought, instead of having the entire focus on their development and success.

I have a 32, I really have never got it to by ultra crisp. However, in some lakes need to turn up gain like near 70, turn off the interference setting, and play with the color palette, some colors just seem better in some types of water. As always try to keep you screens depth setting twice what the water depth is. Example, in 15 ft of water the depth setting should be 30ft.

orve4 wrote:

Zone 214 we are up to 3 deer from 2. From scouting and the looks of our corn there are going to be lots of opportunity for Harvest. Last year it seemed deer numbers were a bit down from previous years but still plenty of deer. We hunt near The wadena/Bertha area.

Anyone else hunt that area?

I own an 80 and do most of my hunting in 214 as well. If I am not mistaken, we have been 3 or 5 deer for as long as I can remember. Not that it mattered last year. We had very few sightings of deer during Bow and rifle seasons, although last summer it seemed there were good numbers of deer. I hope they just hid well and will be in good numbers this Fall.
Trail cams have regular activity, and more pictures as we get closer to season which is good. We have another pretty good red and pin oak crop of acorns again this year, so we will see how that shakes things up.

Had this same thought and conversaiton today…are both the drotto and steps “needed”. I understand one could say neither are needed. The drotto with a roller trailer is a no-brainer for me. The steps would be great when the boat is trailered, when else?

I have the Drotto on my trailer, and love it, I would put on any boat I would by in the future. I do not yet have steps, however, many of my fishing companions do. I do feel I would love to have them. it is much easier and safer than climbing over the gunwale of the boat. it will be a purchase for me in the coming year/years.

I suggest as others have alluded to NOT keep yourself to the south 3rd of the lake. There are bass all around the lake. Fish the calm side if the winds pick up. There is currently a good shallow bite with chatterbaits going right now, less than 8ft water. There is also a boulder bite in 14-22ft. The smallmouth bite will pick up in the coming weeks. Cool to cold fronts actually make the bite better for smallmouth this time of year. In a couple of weeks if the water temps fall to the mid 60’s to upper sixties look for bass move a bite shallower 8-12 ft and dont overlook the main lake weed edges, thinking northwest and west bays here. Swimbaits and live suckers and redtails will fire up large fish starting about when you arrive there. Dropshots should always be rigged up and jerkbaits should play as well.

Trailer steps, Drotto latch, and maybe overkill on a crossover?, but now that i have a hotfoot in the boat it would be hard to not have it.

buckybadger wrote:

Property tax refunds and how the homestead break are applied is such a scam.

If you pay in more for taxes on a higher valued property, you are ineligible for the homestead exclusion also after a certain random value.

Some stupid politicians draw a line in the sand in Minnesota with arbitrary numbers to decide who should get property tax breaks, and who shouldn’t.

What if instead of a break for some and not others, we just lowered everyone’s property taxes on single family homes a small amount with the same net impact? Heaven forbid Minnefornia would consider something logical or fair.

Just some additional info for you all. For Taxes payable in 2024 the Homestead exclusion was caculated as 40% reduction in market value up to $76,000, or $30,400 of exclusion, the exclusion less declines as the market value increased to $413,800. At this point NO exclusion is given on the estimated market value.
For taxes payable in 2025, the state legislature adjusted the baseline values, max exclusion is $38000 at $95,000 of estimated market value, and the upper value limit was increased to $517,200, at which point no exclusion is given.

The problem with property taxes, is they are used to fund our local governments, and schools. Outside of Commercial or seasonal property, the state does not have a hand in those taxes.
So to lower our property taxes, residents need to be involved in their lake improvment districts, township, city, county and local school districts planning and budgeting. This is done by attending meetings and letting your voice heard. The local levies are what you are paying for with your property taxes.
The tough thing is, if levies are not lowered, but more homesteads are granted, more exemptions or special programs are enrolled in, that tax that those individuals/property owners save, is then just picked up by the rest of the taxpayers.

If this a result of user error (BIG IF), the only way I this happening is if the Front Keel of the boat hit the bunk square and fairly hard while loading. Or the bunk bound while loading (it appears these bunks pivot on that bolt?).

Like was said earlier a hard braking would do this without the boat moving forward. of which the boat shouldn’t do if strapped and winched tight.

In my opinion, that should be repaired on a “new” trailer under warranty, it seems like a good business decision to me

charger that came with my Marcum 30 ah MAX(?) as worked flawlessly for 2 years now.

Clearly, you haven’t spent time driving or riding in a bass boat, At 30 mph or 60 mph.

They are not a deep V boat, handle different, it is different driving experience.

I am telling you that a camera 4 feet above the deck of the boat is going to give the appearance of more travel and what the deck of the boat is actually moving(side to side rocking).

And again, A bass boat should never be plowing waves with the V of the hull at running speeds. It should be just high enough to CUT the wave. The visable wash from the hull should remain behind the driver on plane, that does not mean that the V is not in the water cutting waves.

All of this is not to say he shouldn’t have slowed down for the conditions. It appears not to be a bad chop, but cameras don’t do waves justice, and have never driven on Champlain. But these guys know how to drive a bass boat, scares the hell out of me as marshall sometimes. But the do know what they are doing. Again some make mistakes sometimes.

big_g wrote:

Anyone notice the first thing he did, after being thrown and his head hit the gunnel ? He removed his floatation device ? Why ? Seems like the last thing to do when hurt bad and you just whacked your head and your in a boat that just broke the motor off in the middle of a lake ?

Because he is functioning on adrenaline at that time. He doing things while in a state of shock, fight or flight mode. It is probably a thing he does every time he stands up from the helm, it was propbably not a consious decision. Not everything people do will to make sense at the moment of trauma.

The boat is not capable of sinking, so when it settled he was fine, as long as he stayed in the boat. Right thing to do? NO.

Some Bass boats “wobble” some do not. Having a boat chine walk is fine if you’re driving it correctly(under control).

I am not talking about chine walk. on pad there is side to side wobble in every bass boat I have ridden in, Triton, Ranger, Skeeter, or Caymas. Any wave action will give any bass boat wobble. Just so little boat is actually in the water, nature of the beast. I have a trition that chine walks, that is scary until you learn to drive it, still dont like it. But in that video, that is wave action movement of that hull not chine walk. And again, that boat was quite stable and not violent or out of control movement. Very typical of a bass boat ride and speed.

Elite anglers are not making a 30 mile run on these lakes at 40 mph in practice or tourny day, unless condition require it. Time is money my friend and they dont waste time. Not any I have known.

JJ was not going to start anyway, save for Darnold being very bad. This will allow JJ to really soak in the offense.
He will still get work in, I have know many people that have had meniscus repairs. All are on their feet right away, and with pain management are doing just about anything with in weeks. that is not saying he will be running drills, but he will not be a wheelchair. he will get his work in and will be more prepared when he is healed. It will be alright

crawdaddy wrote:

Wes was driving too fast for the conditions. Running high on pad at an odd angle to the waves, the bow was starting to chine walk a little, and if he would have slowly backed down he would have avoided the crash. I’m doubtful he hit something, he definitely wouldn’t “need” to to cause a crash like that. When a bass boat bow hooks, which is a sudden drop of the bow, it grips the water and causes the boat to spin, which can snap a motor off. Lake Champlain has eaten more <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>bass boats than probably anywhere. If you’re in a giant walleye bathtub you don’t need to worry about it, that bow never leaves the water, and that 250+ on the back never gets you going that fast. I’m guessing he was prefishing as he was alone in the boat. Funny he felt a need to run that fast in practice, most guys don’t.

It was day 3 of the Tournament(Sunday), at some where around 10 am. He had 4 fish in the livewell, and was making a move to another spot. Just for some back ground.

As bass boat driver, a bass boat “wobbles” at even moderate speeds, with the keel cutting water. That boat was handling to waves quite well, being well driven.
Every elite angler is running at 50 mph, every day of practice.

Bass boats typically should be run “bow” high in chop/waves. Now this means you are trimmed up to the point that the “V” on the front is used to cut waves. If you Run trimmed down you will spear the waves instead of cutting them. You do not want to plow through waves in a bass boat, it is not pleasant.

Now, all of this is learned by driving a performance bass boat. There is always a sweet spot of speed, trim, and comfort. These guys, know how to drive their boats. granted sometimes people make mistakes.

grubson wrote:

I want to hear that they found the dock and that there is damage to the hull. Hitting a dock with your motor will not cause the bow to rise up and the boat to spin around.
Remember that’s an 18ft tin boat, not a 20+ glass boat like most run. To me it seems he’s covering his tail for over driving the conditions.

I am sorry, I have a question here. Where do you see an 18 ft tin Boat? That sure looks like FXR 20 Skeeter to me? A Skeeter glass boat for sure.

That video does not show any kind of in appropriate driving at all. The second rise in the bow as he loses control is abnormal. Rouge wave, maybe. Something in the water that ramped the boat up certainly possible. There does appear to be odd “splash” area you can see as the boat spins 180 degrees?

On the government level, 70% or more disabled veterans can apply for a Disabled Veteran exemption, this exempts the first $150,000 for property value from real estate taxes. 100% disabled vets get the first $300,000 exempt for real estate taxes. DD214, your declaration letter, and a short application is all that is needed.

If you click on permit areas on the interactive map it say 2024. For example permit area 246 is lottery and has a reduced antlerless permit allocation of 1000 in 2024 vs 2000 in 2023.

not sure if that is accurate across the state but that was 1 area that is different.