I don’t like iwb and I also don’t get worried if I’m printing some. Most people are not very observant. Other CCW folks are more likely to notice. I got a leather pancake holster from TT Leather. It’s molded to my carry gun which is a CZ PO7. Match made in heaven and it conceals better than you would think. Super comfortable even sitting in the truck. I use to have a kydex holster that was lined in leather on the inside for a FN I used to carry and I liked that but this pancake holster from TT is the cats a$$.

I got mine in brown cowhide with s black shark skin trim.

Here’s some red meat for you guys. Does Kaprizov’s lengthy injury change Billy’s approach to his contract negotiations even slightly or is it still just throw money at him until he says yes? With all this teams injuries they are still winning. 6-4 in the last ten and a 3 game winning streak. This team has had every reason to fall off a cliff but they haven’t. Life with Kaprizov is good but are they proving life without him is survivable?

JoeMX1825 wrote:

Ovi with the hat trick today, 13 away from breaking the Great One….

29 goals in 41 games this season!!!

When he broke his leg I thought for sure the record would stand until next year but now it looks like he is just on a mission to get it done this year. Good lord I think he had a 4 plus minute shift the other night! He can break the record but he’s still no Dwayne Jetski. Unreal the Caps could win the President’s trophy this year. Which of course is usually followed by a first round exit so maybe better to let the Jets have it. Chyckrun is a beast for the Caps I always wanted Billy to take a run at getting him while he was wasting time in Arizona. Young, big D man with some offensive prowess and at the time on a cheap contract. He will be up for a payday now.

Got a Solo Stove last year. Major game changer. Got the biggest one they make. Fires are very easy to start and maintain. We didn’t use our old fire pit once last year. We have our Solo Stove under our outdoor shelter so even if it’s raining we can have a nice fire. Lots of accessories available but all are overpriced of course.

Here’s a clue. The NHL has no F’s to give when it comes to the fans. As long as everybody keeps throwing their money at all the various streaming services in order to see every puck drop and every game it will always be this way. They have no desire to consolidate everything and make it cozy and cheap for the fans. They will take their money from whoever wants to stream a package of games. You want to see every game then pay for every streaming service plus a VPN and you might be able to get them all.

I have the Fanduel app at $20 a month. That’s as far as I’m willing to go. I kicked these other streaming services, cable services and satellite service bandits to the curb years ago. If I don’t get to see every single game like last night I have no F’s to give about that.

MPR and NPrs funding will soon be on the chopping block. The same people in Washington kicking and screaming about USAID and other audits being conducted are the same people who wanted to hire 87,000 more IRS agents to audit you.

USAID is turning out to be little more than a money laundering scheme. Politico was getting millions from USAID to be a media arm for the dem party. Lots of waste and taxpayer money lining pockets of people who don’t deserve or need it on both sides and around the world. Doge now has access to CMS (Center for Medicaid and Medicare payments) big fraud stink has always been coming from there. If we can do away with somewhere even close to 50% of fraud and wasteful spending and fund the slimmed down government with tariffs and greatly reduce or eliminate the federal income tax the Republicans may never lose an election again.

Sounds like the Department of Education is about to be at the end of it’s run as well. Many exploding heads coming soon.

I have the Ultimate Ears Mega Boom. Plenty loud for my purposes and great sound. Little to no distortion. Twelve or thirteen inches tall and about four inches in diameter. Lasts pretty much all day and half the night on a charge. It fell off the pontoon into the water last year. It was probably submerged in the water five to seven minutes by the time I turned around and located it and fished it out.

The power light was still on but lost Bluetooth. I powered it off and back on and reconnected to Bluetooth and it’s been good to go. Highly recommend it.

start to get hyped Wild fans, this kid is the real deal!

Said every Wild fan for the last twenty years!

I almost hate to admit it but when we purchased our lake property I was taken aback at how many people in the area were always on a meat hunt. Most had lost their license to fish or hunt at some point due to poaching deer or over harvesting fish. It wasn’t even a deterrent they just kept doing it. Not near enough enforcement and penalties aren’t what they need to be. C&R is not the issue over harvesting is the problem. People do it with impunity on a rather large scale.

I know a guy who has lots of pine trees on his property. He rakes all the pine needles into a big pile in a semi shady spot. He puts seed potatoes in the pile of pine needles. His yield is unbelievable. And nice big taters too. I’d try it but I have no pines on my property.

Yeah I think I am going to go with a solar powered electric fence controller. My only problem are deer. No coons and no rabbits and very few squirrels in our neck of the woods. Lots of predators.

Disregard wouldn’t allow me to post and external link…

Grow bags are a non woven fabric that seeps water and lets the roots breathe. The ones I have have no seep holes as the fabric naturally seeps water. I do not put them directly on the ground I put them on 12X12 patio blocks that have cross patterns in them to let the water drain off so the bottom of the grow bags does not sit and soak in a water puddle. Pallets or something along those lines would work just as well. Just keep them off the ground directly. By keeping them off the ground you lessen the chance of any ground bugs or weeds infiltrating in from the bottom.

My opinion has been that the black ones would get too hot in the summer but I have no proof of this. All of mine are colored. The new ones I got actually have a 6 inch by 6 inch flap on the side towards the bottom that is held by Velcro. So you can lift the flap and see how your potatoes are doing or actually stick your finger in there to check the moisture level or check the root system. They do need more attention from a watering stand point as most container gardens do. They are economical too I just got six bags for $20. Amazon of course.

Any Mac and cheese worth making has bacon in it or at least some kielbasa and topped with either french fried onions or crushed chili cheese Frito’s. I will start with the big pan of frozen Stouffers Mac and cheese and doctor it from there and usually smoke it. I’ve made probably 50 pans of this stuff and always get compliments.

I thought the Utah Outlaws was a choice at one time too. That would be better than the Mammoths. Be some pretty cool logos that could come out of Outlaws to choose from.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

I wouldn’t mind the Wild signing Brendan Saad now that he’s a UFA for the rest of this season… He’ll definitely have alot of teams interested in signing him for the pro-rated veteran minimum…

I was thinking the same thing. He’s been a Wild killer most of his career.

I like Roma’s and I will plant an early girl or some other slicer. Going to cut back on the maters this year. I had eight containers of maters last year. The deer nipped them early but they recovered. The day I was going to pick the majority of them the deer got all of them the night before!

We do a container garden up at the lake. We have a bucket caddy on wheels that holds eight buckets. It’s close to the cabin so for four years the deer never bothered it. They got a little braver last year. I’m going to have to come up with a fence system around it this year. I really had success with potatoes in grow bags last year. Deer never bothered them and they were only ten feet away from the tomatoes. I started with six bags last year and already got six more for next year. Ten gallon ones work the best. You have enough room for 3 or 4 potato plants and they aren’t so big and heavy that you can still move them around.

Michael Saal wrote:

The Dewalt also have an electronic lighter. Just push the button to start. I have 2 of them.

What I don’t get is why you need a separate AAA battery for the electric start why didn’t they just make it run off the Dewalt battery? Still a nice feature though.

CaptainMusky wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Ice Cap wrote:</div>
I have the DeWalt branded heater I think the manual actually pointed out the variable heat settings. It is great to know that though. I really love this heater. Has a fan, built in light on the handle which is really bright and a couple USB charging ports that all run on any of your DeWalt batteries.

Does that only run on 1 pound tanks? Seems that way since it says 7 hour run time. I believe a big buddy will run like 100 hours or something like that on a 20 pound tank.

It can run on 1lb tanks but I have it hooked up to a 20lb.

I have the DeWalt branded heater I think the manual actually pointed out the variable heat settings. It is great to know that though. I really love this heater. Has a fan, built in light on the handle which is really bright and a couple USB charging ports that all run on any of your DeWalt batteries.

I wonder what Nate and Cale will think about waiting for Picks and Prospects?

Similar to what Kaprizov thinks I’m guessing.

JoeMX1825 wrote:

So it begins….

Vegas’s Alex Pieterangelo withdraws from the 4 Nations Tourney roster due to “body soreness and wanting to rest for the playoffs” yet is still playing in Vegas’s regular season games leading upto the tournament.

Curious to see how the NHL/NHLPA deals with this before we see MANY more players doing the same…

JoeMX1825 wrote:

So it begins….

Vegas’s Alex Pieterangelo withdraws from the 4 Nations Tourney roster due to “body soreness and wanting to rest for the playoffs” yet is still playing in Vegas’s regular season games leading upto the tournament.

Curious to see how the NHL/NHLPA deals with this before we see MANY more players doing the same…

Good for him. This entire tournament is nothing more than the NHL feathering their nest. A disruption to the regular season and without the Russians in it just makes it window dressing. The NHL would have never put games up against the NFL playoffs before but this silly tournament forced them to alter their schedule.

Alex Tuch coming back might be a nice fit but there have been no rumors of him being on the trade block as far as I know.

I don’t think Hamas has ever been accused of being smart or logical thinkers or making decisions based in logic. They choose to continue to fight a war with people who have the ability to make their pagers blow up. Hamas is driven purely on the blind emotion of hate. It will never change. This ceasefire is only temporary it may last weeks, months or years but there will be many more cease fires needed in the years to come.

Again thanks for the helpful input. I looked at those hunting blind chairs Karry I will have to see if I can find some to sit in to see how I like them. Two things I like about the pedestal seats is one, I already have them so it’s money I already spent. Secondly you can get out of them quickly if you need to get on the floor and grab a fish from the hole. I fished with a friend this past week in his skiddy. He had his end with a built in cushioned bench I sat in an upholstered glider swivel chair on the other end that came out of his living room. Nice and comfy but impossible to get out of quickly and I lost two fish due to that.

Reef I think you may be right on the battery set up. After doing some research they are not supposed to be charged under 32 degrees. Basically all winter. So I can go with a smaller and cheaper 50ah and just take it back and forth and forget the solar set up. As Dutch mentioned the sun has not been shining much this month. I already have three lithiums of various amp hours from eight to twelve for powering my Helix 7. I have a small portable power supply of 300 watts that has USB ports and two 120 ac plug in for charging or running other things. As I mentioned before my DeWalt heater also has two charging ports a light and a fan. I can piece this together pretty nicely with things I already have.

If I just need 110V down the road I can always run an extension cord from a genny into the house and have a power strip on it to plug a few things in. Now about batteries. Are the Norsk and Dakota’s worth the significant cost above others that are out there in my small application?

Thanks for the input. I have not looked into battery prices or solar system prices yet but the idea of bigger being better always applies when it comes to batteries so yeah an upgrade there is probably wise.
I’ve had pedestal seats in the last small wheelhouse I had (sellers regret big time) but that was set up with a trough that opened up the full width of the house and you drilled three holes in a row. There were two of these in the house. You lifted panels out of the floor to drill holes. So that design lent themselves to pedestal seats quite well. I really like the comfort of the pedestal seats compared to just folding chairs or the tripod fishing chairs you get plus I already have four nice pedestals. I hate sitting on a bunk fishing it’s a back killer. If anyone knows of any good alternative seats let me know.

Haven’t decided on the number of holes I want but surely a minimum of six. I most likely will be fishing with two other people max on a rare occasion. Most of the times my self and one other person.

I think there is someone at Red Lake that runs at least one if not two bears.

Vinyl, epoxy or laminate would all seem to get pretty slippery to me until you got the floor completely dry which can take awhile. Then as soon as someone goes in and out its wet again. I got a 17′ long by 7.5′ wide one piece rubber garage mat. Going to do a floor in a skid house with it. I’ll only have to cut it once to get the length down to 12′ I think it ran around a $150.

We have fished out of a bear in Devils lake the last ten years. Six of us go and we rent two bears with guides. The only way to go out there. You are guaranteed to fish every day regardless of weather. Not so if you go with portables. We go for four nights and three days of fishing. Heading out there last of February. Had some epic perch bites and good walleye over the years. Usually Walleye until mid morning and then the perch come on.

We went out of Woodlands in permanent houses the first two years. Don’t waste your money. Then went Perch Patrol in portables. Fishing was much better. Then we went guided Sno bear and never looked back. A Sno Bear is the closest you will get to ice trolling. Sometimes we only move 40 yards or so. From the time you reel up to move and get your lines back in the water is under ten minutes.