On warranty return it’s tough for manufacturers to take them back, because they’d have to pay for the shipping and lithium batteries are DG, so they’re required to be properly packaged with the correct DG markings. They’d also eat a hazmat surcharge for every shipping label they send out for rma.

It’s cheapest for companies to just let you keep the faulty one and figure out where to recycle it. Not saying that’s right or wrong, but reality of shipping batteries these days.

It’s also not legal in the US to ship a lithium battery by air that is known to be faulty. The more you know

O’Reilly will take them but you don’t get a $5 gift card like you would with a car battery core. I drop my old vex batteries at O’Reilly just to keep them out of landfill

On 1911’s I own a sig in 10mm and a Ruger in .460 Rowland, and I love them both.

I used to own a Remington and, believe it or not, that one was by far the most accurate probably due to the extremely tight bushing fitment. That bushing was similar to those on hand fit guns. I do regret selling that one but that was a different time in life where I couldn’t afford to just keep a gun I wasn’t shooting anymore.

Steven Krapfl wrote:

For a good value 1911, I chose Springfield Armory. For the 1911 that gets wiped down and put away, gotta go original and get a Colt, preferably 70 series. However, as of late, I got a sweet tooth for Brownings and the Hi Power is a classic John Moses Browning gun as well.

I believe Springfield and FN both just released hi-power remakes this year with Springfield offering the better modernized package at a better price. I have no direct experience handling either though.

Loomis13 wrote:

Yeah, have the L6 Verado. That motor is so quiet! Thanks for the thoughts everyone.

Mojo, great offer, appreciated. I am the Des Moines area so wouldn’t be unlikely to the make that work. But thanks again!

If you’re already in Iowa I wouldn’t hesitate to reach out to Iowaboy1. He is something of a genius with outboards.

Dan Baker wrote:

Honestly, the thing I like about 28 the most over my 18 is the how much quieter it is. The ticking of the 18 nearly drove me insane at times.

When the ticking starts to turn to auditory hallucinations, I know I’ve been fishing too long without catching. I consider it a feature LOL

I am still loving my FL-20 from like 7 years ago. Works great. Do they still make the flat face ones?

I don’t have any laser recommendations but I’ll nominate the Leupold deltapoint pro for your dot consideration.

Have one on my EDC and one on a PCC setup, absolutely love them and no problems at all. I have a trijicon RMR on a shotgun which was considerably more expensive, has a smaller window, must be removed to change battery, and is notably not as crisp. I still like it but I’ll jump on Leupold deltapoint pro sales any chance I get to add another to my collection.

No laser recommendations here, I don’t care for them. Had a bad experience with viridian in the past (well not too bad, it was free). It devoured batteries every 3 months even when not being used and sitting in a safe. I’m sure there are better options, I’ve been looking at a mawl for a rifle setup but I haven’t reached the point that I hate money quite that much yet. And I’ve got no nods to have fun with it.

The lack of action, or lack of disclosed action is telling. It’s either really, really important for the gubmint to play dumb, or it’s just our own. You don’t fear the attack dog when it’s your attack dog.

We went out to Superior for a day on a charter in June and hammered lakers while searching for cohos. I’m not mad, they fight good, eat good, and we had a blast!

I have an ecowater system in my house which was built in 2004. I forget about it and let it run out of salt often. My water isn’t very hard to begin with.

Had a different model in my last house, in Hastings, and bypassed it altogether because there was no difference with it running or not (maybe it was not functional, I didn’t bother to care).

I grew up without one. Call me crazy but I think they’re a huge waste unless you’ve got obnoxiously hard water.

Last time I was over there about a month ago there was construction at the MN River bridge. Something to be wary of not sure how long they planned to work.

gim wrote:

Seems like a reasonable time to post this one. From the DNR.

I’ll add on here Gim, when’s the last time you saw any clear, solid ice? Been quite a while for me. The white ice with air entrapped isn’t as strong and that’s most ice I’ve seen for the past few years, save one time on the backwaters of the river we were fishing 4″ of perfectly clear solid ice, on foot obviously.

I should add, prices are actually reasonable on the food, the $300 tab included cheese plates, wine and beer for 4. If you just go for dinner only it’s about $100 for two, after tip. Not bad at all.

Domacin in Stillwater is our #1 in the cities, and has been since my wife and I had a date there very early in our dating relationship. So I am a bit biased, however 9 years later I see the same employees, same ownership, and the tenderloin and rissoto remain as staples on the seasonally rotating menu. This tells me staff are treated well. We now know one of the owners, casually anyway, simply from going there 2-3 times every year for a very nice dinner. I popped the question there in 2018 in the back room in front of my parents and my now in-laws.

We just went again on saturday with some friends and it’s the one place I’m not at all bothered dropping $300 on dinner and drinks for 4. I’ve never been disappointed there. I recommend them at every opportunity!

I just left State Farm and I’m now paying $700 less per year for all lines combined thru and fam. However, we go through this same cycle every 3-4 years. Might go back one day might not, after about 3 years I start shopping, loosely. Hand out my coverage and ask for a quote to match the exact same coverage. Whichever one comes back the cheapest is the answer.

Just my 2 cents. State Farm has been jacking rates every 6 months the past 2 years to the point that it’s outrageous for me now. Plus no discount for pay in full? Wack.

This is my first time with am fam. I went from a mutual (forget the name it was a long time ago) to state farm, farmers, state farm, now am fam. The circle of life.

I’m going to 2nd the helmet. I rode wheelers without a helmet for a long time, then started snowmobiling and now I understand. Even if you don’t care about the “safety” factor, my helmet is warm, comfy, has audio, hell I’d actually just I’ve fish in it if it was windy enough to warrant that!

I really feel your pain on the “10ft” last season. Complete rebuild on my 05 RS rage skid, and acquired a “free” 1993 XLT special and everything under the hood was in boxes. Rebuilt that over a weekend, fired it up, runs great. Drove them both onto the trailer and that’s where they remain today. What do we have to do to get enough snow to qualify as a natural disaster? Because I’m game for it

I have my grandfather’s 742 Woodsmaster in .30-06 and I considered replacing the redfield 2-7 scope with something new when I acquired it, however I noticed the issue I was having was simply a combination of the diopter not being focused and the lenses having a thin layer of oily residue. Cleaned it up, adjuster for my eye relief, and just like that the scope is once again serviceable.

Just a consideration!

I’m 6’2″ 265 lbs so when I carry appendix, muzzle points at my important stuff.

I stopped edc’ing my p320 a month ago. There’s a lot of literature out there about these pistols and I do believe most

However, the tolerance stacking that can occur with excessive use of mim internals combined with the sheer volume of documented ND’s with p320 finally got to me.

Drop safe issue was related to too much trigger mass. That was addressed by sign years ago. But tolerance stacking

I may consider a p365 as the FCU design was ground up. Meanwhile I’ll continue with my p250 which was the p320 predecessor in DAO and is proven safe and free of the p320 issues. I carried it for 10 years before moving to 320 and I trust it completely.

I have tested my own p320 extensively through dropping and hammering on it and I couldn’t produce any uncommanded action, but at the end of the day as these mim parts wear through use the tolerance stacking issues can surface.

My 2 cents anyway.

Sounds like RAM should have spent less money on the stickers and secret compartments and invested more in driver comfort. I suppose a comfortable seat doesn’t make everyone look at you for how ridiculous your truck looks though. Kind of like that South Park episode with the bikers.
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Idk man, in the current era my buddy has a 2019 Laramie 1500 and I just test drove a 2024 ram 2500 the other day, and despite trim level differences both had the most comfortable driver seats of all the current brand offerings, in my opinion anyway.

I think they figured out interior comfort pretty well since that 2012 model year.

Grouse,

You’re onto something. Only when the structures are actually made out of ammo will our stockpiles be considered “almost enough”

When you know who owns the salt and sells the salt, you will understand the salt lobby and why MN uses so damn much of it, increasing salt use every year but not increasing amount of roads.

I love the maglights that take 2 double A batteries I have one in every vehicle.

Also run a Fenix, forget which model. It’s my spotlight in the boat, I can see upriver pretty G damn far when I have it set to maximum.

We should get into a thread on weapon lights lol that’s where the real flashlight budget gets blown up!

I want to show off my chart reading too. Snow-water equivalent varies depending on the temperature. Looking at a common temp range, 15-19F, 20″ of rain is equal to about 1″ worth of rain.

So even if we get a 24″ snowfall it’s not worth much in terms of water.

My yard has been perpetually damp for several weeks, and I have very little tree cover and high winds every day. I don’t think my yard got into draught mode all summer. This is the first summer in 4 years that I never stopped mowing for 4 weeks at a time, we just kept getting rain once a week and everything was lush and green all year.

Neighbor lost some corn crops due to excessive water. Not a lot but some. I’m 30 miles from downtown St. Paul.

Ammo is nice, I like ammo. I use ammo often. I hate having to buy ammo although I do, often.

Ammo is a nice gift.

Probably not helpful, but I have a set of k drill blades that need sharpening and mailing them in to be sharpened apparently just never sticks as a priority in my mind. So I bought another set, 3 years ago. And now I have two sets that need to be sharpened lol

I got a 15′ taking from a guy here on Ido for a really nice price. I run a lund impact 1775, and the talon is probably the most used piece of gear on my boat. Two would be better, but I’ll never buy a 2nd for this rig.

Pull up on shore, talon down. Launch boat and go park truck, talon down. Fishing a spot, talon down. Love this goofy thing.

Find a damaged one and use trollingmotorparts.com, parts for these are surprisingly cheap imo

Got my quickfish 3hd, like it so far not having used it outside of my garage.

Is there any rebates or clearance on time, I need more to fish

Bearcat89 wrote:

Built closet shelves just for ammo. It’s senseless to take up safe space with ammo. What a waste of a safe.

Agreed. If someone is in my ammo room, or worse in my safe, they’ve either been invited or we’re already in more trouble than I another safe would help solve