Steven Krapfl wrote:

Interesting. I will have to come to Minnesota for vacation more. The wife ain’t gonna like me staring.

Sunglasses save marriages

Bearcat89 wrote:

I have no reason to explain anything, I won’t be doing it and I didn’t pass the law. I also won’t sit and complain about it.

awful lot of complaints from you in this thread for someone who said they weren’t going to complain

“sTaRt SeEiNg MoToRcYcLeS”… as a biker flies by at 30 over the speed limit zig zagging between lanes.

I believe John is in Ham Lake area – kind of west side. He’s good sh*t and will take care of you. If he can’t do it, he will know someone that can.

Bearcat89 wrote:

Until about 2019 they were great, besides breaking valve springs and leaking cam towers. After that the truck started having issues. The 5.7 is a great motor but it still had its issues.

If there is any data showing ford, chevy or ram having better reliability than toyota, I’d love to see it.

Hard to argue against a toyota given the plethora of persistent issues the big 3 have going on. Seems like with the big 3, if its not one thing, its another. This is coming from a current Chevy and former Ford guy. The couple people I know with Rams have been plagued with issues also.

Quite annoying that pretty much all of them make crap these days and charge a criminal amount for that polished turd.

Aaron has gone off the deep end. Unfortunately his mental health has obviously taken a nose dive since his divorce. I miss the good old days of Uncut Angling slaying huge crappies on a hair jig made of road kill deer he drove by on the way to the lake. His content has been fading for years and is now unwatchable.

To each their own. Making it home to their family is more important to some than others.

Bearcat89 wrote:

You ride atv often. Cruising at 55 isn’t to absurd. My old can am did 86, and my KTM did 80. Lord knows what my cr500 did, I was to scared to get past 70 on that.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. No matter how much you do it, driving that fast on an ATV is incredibly dangerous, especially considering other drivers on the road and the fact there are zero safety devices in an ATV.

mxskeeter wrote:

55 on some county roads

55 on an ATV is crazy. Especially in sconny where lots of guys are using them to drive to/from the rural bar

maybe if I’m lucky I’ll catch the 3rd period of tonights game when I wake up in the middle of the night to pee

its legal to drive ATVs within the city limits of cloquet. I don’t live there but have friends that do and its a weird feel when you drive thru that town and theres ATVs ripping up and down suburban streets. I believe you need to have them registered with the city to be legal but not 100% sure.

Man, the NHL really sucks at scheduling. There were only 3 games yesterday… a SUNDAY… how do they put the game with the two of the top attendance’s in the league on at 10 PM central? I get they want to minimize game overlap but I don’t think the NHL has an audience like the NFL where the NFL fans watch every playoff game. I think the majority of NHL fans only tune in for their teams game and the NHL is missing out on lots of views with these atrocious game times.

Go wild!

You sound like a good dog owner crawdaddy. I do many of those same precautions for every hunting trip. In my opinion, you owe it to your dog to do all that stuff and you’re doing them a disservice if you aren’t.

Mike Schulz wrote:

cool!!! sound would have been great!!!

are you getting no sound? I have sound when I watch them but I might have screwed something up when uploading them

Here’s another video from today. Cool to see he is not phased by the snow

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Youbetcha wrote:

Less likely to hit your dog.

Less likely to hit the wolf too

Brittman wrote:

Yep – we have already been discussing practicing opening them … use a sandbag or stuffed toy to trigger the trap. The plastic zip tie works extremely well and there are videos showing how they work. Finding the large zip ties with enough strength to do the job is another story. Mine are 24″ by 3/4″ and work.

I got a free set of zipties sent to me by I believe it was the MN trappers association. I can’t find the link now but maybe others can with some searching. I signed up with my name and address and they sent a nice 1 pager of info on getting dogs out of traps as well as a few heavy duty zipties for free.

Kudos to whoever it was in that organization who decided to set up that initiative. It went a long ways in my book. Anyone hunting with a dog should have something similar in their game vest.

Edit: found the link for the dog release kit

Dog Release Kit (BE SURE TO CLICK FREE SHIPPING IN THE CART)

Jimmy Jones wrote:

Apparently the sap has a multitude of minerals and some medicinal qualities

Same is true for maple sap. During syrup season, I make my coffee using sap water.

at least in my area, hard to find enough walnuts to justify a syrup operation whereas maples are all over the place. I’ve also heard walnuts produce much less sap than a maple, further amplifying the difficulty of having any sort of scaled operation. Maples produce ~3X more sap than walnuts according to google.

Reef W wrote:

I’d rather they get subsidized to support wildlife and other environmental concerns than get subsidized to grow more corn.

Amen. Farming is so subsidized its crazy. I know a few farmers and they will do anything they can to avoid ever paying the government a dollar but they have no problem taking every possible subsidy handout from the government. Its ironic because they’re so against other people getting handouts but not themselves.

Bearcat89 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Gitchi Gummi wrote:</div>
ATV road hunting is the FFS of grouse hunting

So when you go hunt the atv trails and whine you see atvs, do you do the same at the lake ?

I don’t hunt atv trails. Never have, never will.

ATV road hunting is the FFS of grouse hunting

MN indeed has some of the best grouse hunting in the country. Without a doubt. We have great habitat along with extensive logging cuts providing the diverse forest mixes needed for grouse to flourish.

Regarding ATVs, I’ve found it doesn’t matter if you are hunting trails that are not designated for ATVs… If an ATV can get down a trail, they will. You just have to live with the fact that there are more road hunters than walking hunters out there. I don’t think its very sportsman to drive around with a drink in the cupholder and fly around corners to try to try to get on a bird before it knows whats going on, jump out of the rig and blast a bird on the ground. But if thats hunting to you, whatever floats your boat. I wonder if those same guys road hunt deer too.

I dont road hunt at all. I put over 200 miles on my boots grouse hunting last year and shot close to 40 grouse. I don’t have a problem shooting birds. I have a problem with a$$hole ATVers that break the law. Most of the places I hunt are out of cell service. Pretty hard to call them in.

What is your ax to grind with me? All I’ve said in this thread is ATVers do in fact impact hunting and they often leave messes in woods and you come at me with personal attacks.

BigWerm wrote:

The bold is already illegal and not at all what I’m talking about. People road hunting anywhere, including approved ATV/OHV trails are not really hunting imho. And you will not have to worry about these people if you are not hunting driveable trails. For example the non-ATV/OHV logging trails in Paul Bunyan are blocked off from any vehicle entry, and I shoot most of my grouse there.

none of the trails I hunt are approved ATV trails. that doesn’t stop them

BigWerm wrote:

And honestly unless you are road hunting (which I’d argue isn’t really hunting), it has no impact on hunting imho

I disagree 100%

Where I grouse hunt, 90+% of the other “hunters” in the area are road hunting on ATVs on the same trails. It really takes the sport out of it and the pressure significantly impacts bird movement. They ride trails that are not designated ATV/OHV trails, drive like a bat out of hell, often have alcohol in the cup holders, and will drive down a trail even if a truck is parked at the end and very clearly hunting it with a dog (i.e. kennel in back of truck). If I ever come up to a trailhead and see a truck parked there, I will let them have it and go hunt somewhere else.

There is very little etiquette by this crowd. I try to avoid them the best I can but its hard when they can cover 10 miles to your 1 mile you can cover on foot. It really puts a damper on things when you walk 3 miles into a trail and you know the last mile is where you will see the payoff with the most birds only to get leapfrogged by a couple guys in a SXS and hear a bunch of shooting 2 min after they leapfrog you on the trail.

Jimmy Jones wrote:

Public land or private property there’s always going to be that certain segment of our society that thinks laws do not pertain to them.

in the superior national forest, 9 times out of 10 the rouge ATV trails will lead to a pile of empty beer cans and/or a pile of trash and burn pit

I’ve fished the rainy river in the boat and lake of the woods in the snobear on the same day in April. Caught a 28” in the boat and a 26” on the ice same day.

One of the things I do at work is manage a small subsidiary of our parent company that owns several thousand acres of land down in Florida. I get no less than 20 letters in the mail every week from random people/companies wanting to buy our land site unseen. Most are lowball offers – I’d say less than 5-10% are even somewhat close to a value we’d sell it for. Most of the people giving the offers are people who try to get it for cheap, get it surveyed/plotted/engineered and flip it to a developer.

Capitalism is doing a number on the housing stock and real estate market in our country.