<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Gitchi Gummi wrote:</div>
Pretty hard to find any legit argument why Ford/Chevy/GMC/Ram can even come remotely close to Toyota in terms of reliability and longevity.The issue they had with the first turbos were a pretty big dent in the argument that Toyota reliability is unmatched.
Ford/GM have issues just like this with darn near every one of their last few generations of half tons.
Pretty hard to find any legit argument why Ford/Chevy/GMC/Ram can even come remotely close to Toyota in terms of reliability and longevity.
orvis has 30-50% off a lot of their hunting clothing already on their website
I don’t think that’s true but I could be wrong. I just watched several videos of cyber trucks driving FSD on gravel roads (no lines)
Speaking of technology (i.e. texting while driving and automatic headlights that don’t come on) anyone know how the tesla self driving cars do when roads are slippery? There are more and more of Elon’s cars on the road which is scary if you’ve been following the FSD issues with the cyber truck. I’m skeptical they’re as safe as a human driven car when the roads get slick and situational awareness is key.
one rain storm will never fully alleviate a drought unless its darn near a flood. the ground is so dry that a lot of it ends up just running off in these types of storms and not soaking into the ground.
Yoga stretches are life changing if you take them seriously and do them consistently. I think many here would benefit greatly from doing yoga but I think most wouldn’t even think about doing it because of the stigma
My optometrist has me do a color test every exam. I had no idea it wasn’t standard thing to do. Seems weird not to do it, it takes like 30 seconds of flipping though some cards.
How often do you get an eye exam? Maybe I’m in the minority but I do not get regular eye exams. Perhaps those with poor vision (i.e. those with glasses/contacts/lasik) do which would make sense. I can’t even remember the last time I got an eye exam but then again, I have great vision (minus the color blindness lol). They do not give eye exams at my annual physicals either.
I’ve used several different types of ammo over the years and every shot I’ve taken has killed the deer no problem. Hard to say what works and what doesn’t. Who’s to say a shot missed was because of the ammo versus buck fever?
And HOLD up! Walkie-talkies for calling out “hen” or “rooster”?? How do you manage ID the bird, raise your gun, push the button and relay the info all in a quick, possibly loud and probably hectic moment? This system I would have to see to believe it works smoothly…
the walkies aren’t used for calling out birds. like you mentioned – that happens too fast. the walkies are for communicating during the push. Rather than yelling out to the guy next to you to slow down, speed up, flank left, hook right, etc, you just talk on the walkies. You can only communicate so much with hand signals and yelling to the guy 40 yards from you is without a doubt spooking birds. I think effective communication is a critical component to successful pheasant hunting. All it takes is one guy deviating from the plan to blow up an entire field. Calling out roosters/hens without a doubt spooks birds but I think its important to the success of a hunt to do so and we are extra cautious to not shoot hens. If a bird flushes from the right side of a push and flies to the left, if you can give the guy on the far left an extra second or two to get ready for a rooster, that significantly increases the success rate.
At least for my group, communicating during the push is important because its not as easy as just walking straight down the field. When hunting draws and winding sloughs, there’s a lot of shifting as far as who is walking where. Like often one guy on a certain side may need to push up more or less depending on the corner/wind/draw/etc. And often the most used phrase on the walkies is “hey so and so, slow down!”. I’m a firm believer that 90% of pheasant hunters walk way too fast and blow right by birds.
25 a YEAR???? jiminy christmas.
The less noise, the better
Couldn’t agree more. My group started using walkie talkies this year when pheasant hunting in SD so we don’t have to yell to each other anymore and can be as stealthy as possible. Can’t believe it took us this long to realize walkie talkies are an incredible tool for stealth pheasant hunting with a group. And before anyone asks, yes its legal in SD.
My youngest son is color blind. Quite severely actually. The entire male line of my wife’s family is color blind so it wasn’t exactly a surprise.
Yes it is predominantly in males because color blindness is linked to the X chromosome and is passed down from the mother. This is because men get their X chromosome from their mother and the father provides the Y chromosome . Women have two XX chromosomes, so even if they get one X (i.e. one side of the family) that has the color blind gene (lets call it X*), if their other X chromosome (from the other side of the family) does not have the color blind gene, they will not be color blind because the X overrides the X*. So for a female to be color blind, both X chromosomes (the one from mom and dad) both have to include the color blind gene.
Since men only get one X chromosome and it comes from the mom, if the mom is colorblind, her sons are pretty much guaranteed to also be color blind. And then even if the mom isn’t colorblind but carries the X* gene, its a 50/50 shot if the male kids will be colorblind or not depending which X chromosome she passes down. Genetics is fascinating stuff!
We were tested for color blindness in school by the librarian/nurse every year through elementary. Same time they tested our hearing.
I remember getting vision tests every year in school but they were not color oriented at all. It was just reading small letters on various rows. I’ve had 20/10 vision for as long as I can remember but just was never tested for color blindness
I once took a brother of a friend pheasant hunting and he shot a hen because he was colorblind. Coudln’t see the colors of the rooster for verification.
That was the one and only time he came with.
funny you say that because my core group of guys I pheasant hunt with is myself and 2 others. One of those guys is color blind (he is protan color blind – so different than mine) which means with my diagnosis, 2/3rds of our group is color blind. We’ve never shot a hen tho! Call em out when you see them and if you aren’t sure, you don’t shoot.
I’m still trying to figure out what colors I am limited in being able to see. This picture is a good depiction of what limitations the different type of color blindness has. I have deutan, so I’d be upper right in this pic.
I don’t believe Wiebe is. I ordered those same sunglasses he has (one lens is red and one is green) and it has nothing to do with color blindness. They’re only that way for fashion or whatever you want to call it.
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I do love my high top wingshooters. Comfy right out of the package. Last 2 seasons then toast. On my 3rd pair. Always open to other suggestions.
I also have the high top wingshooters. I thought the higher tops would have more ankle support but I roll my ankle almost every time I’m out grouse hunting in those boots when I’m bushwhacking off trail. Never have that issue with my danners or other boots, just the wingshooters. Like I mentioned above, they’re also a quite heavy boot when compared to similar alternatives and I have the non-steel toe version.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bearcat89 wrote:</div>
If you buy some red wings they will give you laces and oil your boots for the entire ownership of your boot free of charge. Their uninsured gortex are the best boot I’ve owned and I run insulated gortex in the winter. Great boots, not mistaken for Irish setters.Wingshooters, by chance?
I really want to like my wing shooters but I just can’t. I gave them 2 hunting seasons to try and like them but they’re just too heavy. I put on a lot of miles over grouse and pheasant season and that requires a lighter boot.
Temp wise, we’re a good 2+ weeks behind “normal” temps in my neck of the woods. I gutted my deer in shorts and a t shirt yesterday. Most years we’d have snow on the ground by the 2nd weekend of deer rifle season. The 7 day forecast doesn’t have any significant ice making weather in it and I don’t trust any forecast looking much further than that.
Gim, I’ve got a pair of danner sharptails and they require a double knot to stay tied.
Netflix was dead and pulling at strings to stay relevant. This is the final nail in the coffin.
Their stock price has almost doubled in the last year. Almost tripled in the last 2 years. Quite a ways from dead if you ask me.
Cool story. It’s pretty wild how many different game species almost became extinct about 75-100ish years ago.
Never ceases to amaze me how people on this site will never miss an opportunity to throw jabs to one side of the aisle but yet at the same time are completely oblivious to the travesties on the other side of the aisle.
[Ignoring the whole snowmobiles and shortening of winter]… imagine increasing base prices of SXSs to $25-30k and then wonder why they aren’t selling like hotcakes… Jiminy Christmas the audacity of these companies is something else.
Also, just because banks will finance just about anything these days doesn’t equate to “people are still buying them”.
the frabonis breakfast sausage seasoning is incredible. We use that and then just add real maple syrup
I haven’t had to pay for my Navionics app in a long, long time.
same here. For sure been >5 years since I’ve paid for it. Not a chance I’d ever pay $50 for Navionics, let alone annually! I believe as long as you keep it backed up in your icloud (for iPhone users), you won’t ever need to repurchase the app (at least that’s how I think I’ve got around paying for it). I am not able to download any new lake maps but I already had everything I needed downloaded years ago, so its not an issue.
edit – just checked my purchase history and the last time I purchased navionics was in 2017 for $4.99.
Onx and Navionics are my most used apps for hunting and fishing, along with a weather app (I prefer Storm Radar).
Lindy just now that it takes a good month or two before you’ll see improvement. It takes a while for a supplement like that to build up enough in the system. Don’t get discouraged if you don’t see improvement week one.
I noticed a big improvement when I started giving them to my now 11 year old golden about 1.5 yrs ago. I was so impressed with the noticeable improvement with my older dog that I started them on my 2 year old golden right away and will do so for her entire life. I use cosequin
20ga 3” all season long, including Dec. Anything from 4s to 6s – I’m not picky. Anyone that tells you that you need a 12 ga to kill pheasants probably just isn’t that good of a shot.
For choke, I’m usually running I/C on the bottom and modified on the top.
Yessir. Only public land for this guy. Primarily Superior National Forest’s ~4 million acres. Could hunt a new trail every day and never run out of new spots to try. This year I’ve made a point to try at least 1 new trail every time I’m up there and its paid off.
