Since this got bumped I can confirm I got that Rock River pup as shown above. She’s great, very intelligent. Can already tell she loves to hunt and swim.
As for pups yet this year I’m not sure. I would check with JWT Heavenly Springers though.
Can definitely see the sire’s bloodline in yours and mine, at least when he sits still long enough for a picture.
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Thanks all, head is at the gal that’s doing the European style head for me now, did a rough quick measure Sunday and he should go an inch or so either way of 140. Ended up with 86 pounds of trimmed meat off him, explains why it felt like it took way longer than usual to process.
Beautiful deer. By the look of his neck I don’t think there is much doubt that the rut is on, at least where you shot him.
He was definitely cruisung trying to find that ‘first’ one. Despite hearing the crash (I didn’t see it though) and my previous few years of ‘horror’ post shot I still retreated back to the house to give him an hour and change into clothes/boots better suited to trail him down into the valley. So by the time I got to him rigor was already starting up and made it hard to stuff him into the otter sled I use to drag and also made it really easy for the sled to tip over with that big neck and head off to the side of the sled.
Bearcat – hha optimizer lite. First sight like that I’ve used, i like the fact my sight picture isn’t going to change regardless of distance, so long as I have it set for the right yardage. Here at home it’s not much of am issue as I don’t have stands set up that you can shoot more than 25 yards but I hope to start hunting out west in a few years.
Jimmy – this one is from my family place in WI. Next weekend will be in laws, my son has now taken over the #1 shooters position there and I’m the backup.
I knew I would be long winded so made a separate post, shot him morning of the first. Would be a 10 had he not busted up both brows.
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I have a zestar, honey crisp and fireside in my yard (along with some ornamental crab apples), galesville WI, by far the honeycrisp has been the most temperamental, i thought it was a goner twice now but bounces back the next spring. The zestar has grown like crazy in comparison, they were both planted (6-7′ tall potted trees) in 2019, this was the first year the honey crisp had a bloom and year 3 of the zestar producing apples. Fireside was planted last spring and did have a bloom this spring. Protect the bases from rabbits, there were two apple trees in the backyard when we bought the place, both got girdled by rabbits the winter before we purchased and it killed them. As mentioned make sure to get multiple varieties that are compatible pollinators unless there are plenty of other apple trees nearby that will work.
My shop is about the same size, I believe my heater is a 50k. Due to location and setback requirements on bigger tanks I can only get up to 125 gallon tanks so i have 2 of those. I keep the thermostat at 45 degrees unless I need it turned up for some reason and those two tanks last the season for me.
Which reminds me, I need to get them filled.
When they pulled my gall bladder it was removed laproscopicly and I just went back to look it up, it was 11.9 x5.3 x3.2cm, however they said afterwards had they realized it was that big they would not have gone in that way (had 2 near golf ball size stones in it). So I’d guess at 13 cm you are correct. Pretty sure they reused the holes from when they went in to clean up the mess my appendix made after it went boom a decade prior.
Call me in the morning,there are 3 choices for the stator.
641 526 3060.
Thanks, I did pull it outside this evening and did a live test, consistently got 16.3 ACV at idle. Slightly low but possibly just my cheap tester. I’d think that means this one (so far) is still functioning wouldn’t it? (I know just enough to be dangerous with this stuff)
Poomunk, I see that too often, most likely the stator is gone too, this is caused by an incorrect battery, dead battery, corroded cables or connections.
Like any charging system, it is designed to maintain a battery, not charge a dead one.
What I mean by incorrect battery is: AGM, maintenance free, a dry cell like an optima battery or a lithium battery, the internal resistance of those types of batteries is too high and the charging system thinks it is sensing a dead battery and will burn itself out trying to charge it even though it is actually fine.Make sure everything is right or you will burn it out again in short order.
Maintenence free, never would have guessed that (exactly what I’ve had in there). Attempted a resistance test on the stator last night but my meter is nonwhere near accurate enough to be useful. Was planning on pulling it outside so I can put the muffs on and run it to do a voltage test.
Do you know where I might find the current replacement part # for the stator assuming it’s garbage too? Usually for discontinued original part numbers places like boats.net have the current part that replaced it, on the stator though all I’ve found is that the original is discontinued and no replacement listed.
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They do get dirty quick (one of mine has some sticky residue on it I can’t seem to get rid of) but other than that I have no complaints. I’ve got probably 400′ worth in various lengths. I do being them in in the fall so that they never have water freeze in them, not sure how much that really helps longevity.
Speaking of, same sire as mine
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Rare photo of a young springer not going 90000000 miles an hour. (He was from Rock river kennels out of beaver dam WI, bit of a haul for you)
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My parents have what would be described best as a ‘hobby’ farm, before my early teens it was a little over 40 acres, 4-5 acres of it was tilled and we did everything with a Ford 9n (everything that was not done with the horse team (Belgians) that is, which was a lot when he was younger). They are tough machines, we added fluid to the rear tires which the added weight helps a lot as it was our only plow(rear blade) my entire childhood.(but like Grouse said, chains went on usually around deer season and stayed on till we started getting ready to plow in spring(gravel road/driveway)) Grouse hit a lot of the highlights limitation wise, I can’t speak to anything hydraulic as to this day he still has zero equipment that uses any hydraulics. We ran a 2 bottom plow on it, it could and did run our baler(small squares) but that was pushing its limit. A basic mechanical inclination, repair manual, tools and space the average joe can work on these.
When he bought the first expansion to the farm (which doubled the size, most of it pasture) we bought a john deere model A which became the workhorse for the next decade plus.(probably not an ideal foodplot machine but still my favorite tractor to operate, plus it sounds cool as hell) His workhorse now is a massey ferguson 135, built very similar, quarter of a century newer, a bit bigger and live PTO (and power steering). I doubt you will find one under 2k though, if you do it probably needs a lot of work. But there again they (like most tractors of that age) were built with the idea in mind that the farmer would need to fix it in the field himself (dad spent last winter rebuilding his in his garage).
Same set up as deertracker in my .50 accura. I’ve experience very minimal meat damage, 3 have dropped where I shot them and 3 no more than 30 yards. 1 made it all of 75 yards, the ironic part of it is that he went uphill most of that 75 yards with a bullet hole right through his heart. Shots were all between 10 yards and about 80 yards.
Rifle/slug shooting grouse. If he wants to start wing shooting I need to find someone WAY better than me to learn from (it wouldn’t take much).
Here I thought I was probably one of the only people who still did this. I use 4 (240#), in a line between the wheelwheels. Whether it needs that much or not, it’s just how many I have (bought as weights to hold down some large pieces of wood I was gluing together). Last truck had a fiberglass topper that seemed to be enough weight by itself. The difference with/without is very noticeable, can’t think of a way to describe it but it’s a different ‘help’ than switching 4wd too.
I’ll be shooting my mathews dxt until it blows up or I cannot draw it anymore (my shoulder is telling me this will be the last 70# bow I shoot though).
(Backstory to below, I gree up with my dad shooting a bear recurve with the old fiberglass arrows from the 60’s that weighed a ton by modern standards, bit I recall ever deer he shot those things just blew through the deer even with that ‘slow’ recurve)
In my quest to create a sledgehammer of an arrow this year I tested out adding various insert weights to see how they flew and hit the target (cx piledrivers). I settled on 100 grains added, increased my FOC to around 14% if I recall correctly. Flys well and thumps the target a lot better according to my ear, just shy of 600 grain total weight (now within 50 grains of those old fiberglass arrows of my dads). I initially only tried 100 to see if I could see what ‘too much’ looked like but turns out they were the best test arrows I shot(did 20, 50, 70 and 100). I do not shoot distance in the woods, longest shot maybe 30 yards (relatively thick woods and I don’t hunt fields), most set ups are 20 yards or under for primary kill zones so the added ‘arc’ of the heavier arrow of little concern for me. I don’t have a chronograph but speed change at 20 yards visually seemed minimal, my point if impact didn’t move at 20, 30 yard it dropped a little more but not a lot(don’t remember exactly).
My buddy swears by grim reaper heads so I’m going to take a chance on a mechanical this year too, at least until they give me a reason to think otherwise. If I go back to fixed blades though I will go back to a replaceable type blade as I’ve not been able to ever get the Montec broadheads as sharp as I’d really like them to be, so may as well go with replaceable type that come out the box sharper to begin with.
My primary deterrent is that I bear a descent resemblance to this character and process what most would say is an even more badger like disposition.
Kidding aside (sort of), I don’t live anywhere that I’d be genuinely concerned about home invasion being a high possibility and if I did I would be moving. I still have precautions in place though but that is for me to know and whatever unfortunate soul who dared try to find out.
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Best sweet corn was growing in my garden. Friday was the 3rd storm to knock it down, not sure it’s going to stand back up this time
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Haven’t gotten cameras ready yet but am over at my parents doing some work around the farm as my dad is on restricted duty for a month or so. Was done with jobs for the day so decided to go do some field watching like I did before cameras. Just sit a row or two back in am adjacent corn field and watch. Was watching some small bucks in the field (alfalfa) and out strutted a pretty nice buck, all the other small ones parted way and gave him the middle of the field with a wide berth. He looked to be pretty much formed on main beams with just the tips still growing. Not huge but nice, I’d guess he will be mid 130’s when done. Didn’t have my phone with me, pretty far away to try and take a picture anyway. Coulee country of WI east of La Crosse.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Sharon wrote:</div>
Part of the trouble that makes today’s kids seem worse is that with technology and social media we hear about everything, and we hear about it much quicker too.While I totally agree with this, I just don’t think when we were kids we would have shot fireworks at people. I was not a great kid my any means, but would have never done it. One problem is when I was a kid, I was afraid to be arrested and what would happen when I got home or got picked up. These kids have no fear of this.
Exactly same first thought that came to mind. My fear of the old man’s belt was a far greater driver in behavioral modification than the legal consequences. Now neither of those are present.
I had forgotten about the interesting positions pups like to sleep in. We’ve had a little bit of land shark going on but not bad at all, seems to consistently get a case of the zoomies about 730 in the evening, usually kicked off by seeing his own reflection in the glass of the patio door. Only had 4 ‘accidents’ in the house so far and half of them were the first day so that is going quite well.
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Good point there, I wasn’t sure how they handled cranking (haven’t dug too deep yet as its a ways back on the priority list).
I think we wore him out today. He woke up just a bit ago so I took him outside to see if he needed to go, just looked at me and walked back to the door so he could sprawl out on the floor again.
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I happened to be taking some tools out to my shop when I read this so I measured my truck out of curiosity. 2018 silverado extended cab with 6.5′ bed, without the hitch in the receiver it was 19’6″, 20′ on the head with my 2″ drop hitch in. So at 20′ minus the OH door you would have to park perfect and have your hitch out to ‘maybe’ get the door to shut.
Our last house (bump out in middle of garage, truck on one side boat on the other), my wife parked in the ‘middle’ and didnt want to have to have the OH door open in order to open the back hatch to unload groceries and such in winter so I mounted one of those longer soft foam dock bumpers on the wall, once she nosed the vehicle up till it touched then she knew it was in enough. I think your situation though may be too tight to even allow for the bumper.
I’d go airsoft, I’ve got a weak co2 bb gun I bought to start teaching my son with, I tried once to deal with some problem rabbits using it and watched them bounce off the rabbits head and he didn’t even stop eating.
It was too quiet in the house after losing our old boy Boone last summer so last weekend we met this guy. Owner is going to hold him until after our opener trip so he will come home just before memorial day (and we will need to have come to agreement on a name by then)
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I didn’t need to adjust the post or anything else on my Karavan trailer.
Thata encouraging (I have a karavan also, albeit a 2001 model)
For those who have it, how much give or take does it set the boat back on trailer from the original post location? One has been on my wish list for a while, my post is already as forward as it can go so may have to move the rear roller set back a setting to keep rear roller under the transom (hopefully not so much it messes with weight balance on tongue).
