My cousin named his warrior, and I made him some vinyl which is plastered across the transom facing traffic while he’s driving. Gets a lot of good laughs and pointing and waving on the way up north.
I don’t have a pic right now but it’s
“The Fillet Show”
I guess I’m the outlier but my experience with Dyson has been terrible.
Dyson V8 battery was shot after 1 1/2 yrs of daily use. We serviced it appropriately. Dyson was of no help during battery replacement prices and in fact shipped the incorrect battery. Then 6 weeks for a refund on the wrong battery they sent.
Decided to scrap the idea of battery replacement and converted it to run on Milwaukee batteries. works fine now. Wish Milwaukee made a stick vac lol
Current owner of a 2018 impact 1775, it’s a good boat for the price, or it was back in 2018 anyway.
Now I see impacts going for 45k+ and pro V’s as low as 55k, there’s no question I’d rather a pro V. I paid 29k for my impact in 2018 and the closest pro V was still 50k, and we were making less money overall in our household so the decision was easy.
Pro V will have much better build especially on the storage compartments. Rebel vs impact vs pro V the storage gets more water resistant and better engineered with each tier.
Impact has a nice sturdy hull though. I have no lift problems, and if you felt it were slow to jump on plane you’d fix that with a prop change or adding cup to the prop anyway. I’m sure the ips2 on the pro V is a better ride though, how much better is the question.
Both good rigs but probably V is objectively better in just about every way.
I also occasionally pack in a fanny pack, especially on the boat or when wearing basketball shorts in the summer. Stopped caring what other people think about it a long time ago, fanny packs are nice. VertX SOCP is what I use.
My last set of MN reg stickers peeled off on their own, right on time to swap to WI.
WI reg stickers seem to do the same but even faster. I highly recommend plastic utility blades. They have them at Menards right where all the metal ones are. Heat gun and a plastic blade works great. If it’s real stubborn, give it a wipe down with a solvent (non chlorinated brake cleaner, adhesive remover, hell even wd 40 works) and let it soak in for a few minutes before taking the plastic blade to it.
I’ll also recommend vedder, my only gripe at all with them is their claw is flimsy. It still works good but it gets bent and the polymer has memory to it, so it seems less effective as a claw after day 1. Could easily replace with a modwing or another good claw of your choice I’m sure.
Odin holsters are exceptionally comfortable, but on the pricey side. I appendix a 509c tactical with a red dot, tlr-1, and pmm comp using an Odin setup and can hardly tell it’s there.
Bravo concealment holsters are actually really great and priced right. I like them a lot as well and if I’m running my Glock 17 it’s in a bravo torsion holster.
Like you, I’m carrying every day actually. Vedder and Odin are pretty much all I use now. That holster drawer will continue to get bigger lol
Likewise my septic is of 2004 vintage and it has a plastic stack that my septic guy referred to as a filter. He said mine was in excellent condition and to keep it that way, clean the filter once a year. He showed me how to clean it.
To me it looked a lot like the stack of racks used in a typical dehydrator, I’m guessing solids get trapped in each layer and can flow through to next layer as they break down over time. Looked to be maybe 8 layers if I recall correctly.
Condolences Randy. You are a model son, and there’s no doubt your parents are proud
Hook removal is interesting. I ended up with a treble hook in my middle finger. Spent 20 minutes trying to push it through and snip the barb so I could pull it back out. Didn’t feel good at all.
Finally had enough, grabbed my Leatherman pliers and just ripped it out. Didn’t hurt at all. That’s my new procedure for hooks embedded lol, just give a healthy tug and instant relief.
Group A boarding for life.
To each their own, but I cannot understand this for the life of me. I’d pay extra to be guaranteed last person to board on every flight. Hate sitting there waiting for everyone to shuffle in, I want to buckle up and take off asap.
This is wild, thanks for sharing. To me, it reaks entirely of the manson family stuff. Wouldn’t surprise me if CIA is grooming these clowns in some manner to push some deep state conspiratorial bs.
No doubt we’ll see a Netflix docudrama thing eventually. I’ll watch it lol
I’ve never encountered one longer than a few minutes. I can’t even imagine one dragging out for half an hour. Yikes
That’s my point exactly. Having done the job before, I specifically pointed out that it should take less time than it takes you to get ready to launch.
Saw it happen, took over another launch for a few weeks because they had a line out the parking lot on Saturdays and complaints were coming in. Guy was going full blown magnifying glass inspection on every rig during busy Saturday afternoons.
Also had the guy with the power wash truck show up every other week. Spent 45 minutes setting up that mat every day, and never once washed a boat or trailer. It’s not a well managed program to begin with so I wouldn’t cry about the cut funding. The one nice part is it’s an option for a paid internship for students out there looking. All the hospitals want college biochem undergads to work for free.
I should add there’s no reason for these people to cause a traffic jam. There’s like 5 questions to ask, whole boat owner is waiting in line. if your boat hasn’t been in the water for more than a week, no need to inspect. If it was previously in a zebra mussel lake or river, or a clean body of water, heading into mille lacs which is already fully infested, no need to dilly dally with inspections.
Actual inspection is 5 minutes tops- livewells empty? Check. Pitot tube free of zerbas? Check. Trailer free of weeds? Check. On your way into the water.
The inspectors taking 30 minutes to inspect a boat and causing traffic jams at a launch are power tripping, and you should complain to the local office about it. There’s no reason they can’t run a full inspection by the time you get unstrapped and plugs in ready to launch.
I can weigh in with direct experience. I’m college, I took a MN DNR internship as an AIS inspector on Mille Lacs. It was the only paid internship I could find, and I wasn’t in the business of working for free.
Stationed at Father Hennepin State Park, after the first week I noted that people aren’t coming in and out during the week at a state park in any respectable numbers. I observed much higher traffic at liberty Beach and other public accesses.
After another day sitting there not doing any public educating, I requested a move to another landing. Here’s where the fun starts. Some program manager in Brainard decided, arbitrarily, to staff the state park but not the public accesses on the southeast corner of the lake. Had to get approval from 3 levels of supervisors to move myself to a landing where I could actually work for the tax money they were paying me.
They paid “supervisor” interns twice as much to drive around in circles checking in on us to make sure we were working…. Yet requesting more work took multiple levels of escalation and days of waiting for a reply.
I learned an important lesson that shaped my career after college- I won’t apply for any government job, ever.
That being said, myself and some others were actually doing good work, education, helping clean off weeds (which most boat owners genuinely appreciated), sometimes washing the boats when they gave us a wash station.
I developed good relationships with some locals who were in and out 3-4 days every week, saw some amazing pics of huge smallies and muskies, tipped off local CO’s on an illegal northern dumping operation, generally made the best of the situation.
Also spent a day with an actual DNR biologist out of brained. Found out they are incredibly rare, and if you want to actually work DNR you won’t get there without LE experience. They’re a law enforcement agency first and foremost, conservation/ biology in a distant second.
Chemtrails from all the planes you see? No, contrails.
However, when Uncle Sam does stupid things like cloud seeding, it turns the conspiracy into somewhat of a reality.
Starting to think I’m just no good at fishing, I hardly ever catch anything on plastics unless I’m trolling the river with raps.
Leeches, crawlers, and crappie minnows get me about 90% of all my walleyes.
I don’t much care what the tourney guys do in all honesty. I recently stocked up on the preserved shiners so I always have something “real” to fall back on in my bag. Hoping to try them out soon.
In true IDO fashion you know what you need to do. This one has wheels, so it’s like portable ya know
Was at rockfest a few years ago and one of our camping neighbors had two of these networked together. It was awesome, I’d say they are definitely “loud enough”, whatever that means!
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Am I the only one reading the statement correctly?“Caught limits AND released 100” is a whole lot different than “caught limits THEN released 100 more”. The author makes no indication as to having caught a limit then continued fishing. This statement is ambiguous and could simply mean it took them 100 catches to reach their limit.
Also even culling is legal in MN provided you aren’t already at your limit. See the current MN regs book, Page 32.
Nope.
Nope to which part?
3 times now ordering snowmobile parts from eBay, the stuff ships and makes it to river falls. My mail carrier texts me and says shipper never paid full postage (my mail carrier is great btw), asks me if I want to pay the rest of the return it.
Tell her to return it. A week later I get a refund from seller.
How the hell does it even get on the first truck without proper postage?!?!
Here’s my strategy that appears to be working: Get your lifetime license, go to Holiday and ask for your re-print every year. The staff won’t be able to get the system to pull it up, or the system will be down mysteriously. Then go to the next Holiday and get the re-print there. The 2nd store always figures it out after about 30 minutes LOL
Am I the only one reading the statement correctly?
“Caught limits AND released 100” is a whole lot different than “caught limits THEN released 100 more”. The author makes no indication as to having caught a limit then continued fishing. This statement is ambiguous and could simply mean it took them 100 catches to reach their limit.
Also even culling is legal in MN provided you aren’t already at your limit. See the current MN regs book, Page 32.
I spent time in a laboratory, manufacturing, and eventually landed in Global regulatory affairs. Spent a short time managing EHS at two manufacturing sites but the workers comp side of that coin is absolutely terrible. Back in global regulatory affairs, specifically chemical compliance as it relates to import and export of goods from many countries.
It pays well. A lot of dollars ride on doing the job correctly, but it’s not inherently difficult the nice part is nobody wants to do it so it leaves room for those of us who don’t mind. Just need to be good at reading government legalese and translating it to real-world actions. What does that mean, What can we do, what can we not do, oops we did something what do we do now.
The one thing I’m constantly amazed by is how many corporate types are absolutely terrified of making a real decision; big or small, just choosing a path and sticking to it seems to be completely foreign to about 85% of the workforce.
Whichever you go with, if you’re like me and buy used trucks that are 3-4 yrs old, the 2500 is such a better value than the 1500 today it’s unreal.
I’ve always had Chevy trucks. 1997, 2010, 2016, 2020.
2010 was the best and most reliable of the bunch. 2016 was the worst by a mile.
Used 2500 gassers selling for 2/3 the price of used 1500’s around my area it’s wild.
I don’t have direct experience but I see Norsk advertises these 14.*V batteries as purpose-built for the live imaging setups from Garmin, Humminbird, and Lowrance. I would assume it’s a go
https://norsklithium.com/product/14-8v-15ah-lithium-ion-battery-with-charger/
We used the hell out of our 3rd party extended warranty. That 2016 Tahoe we had was the worst vehicle ever. Before 99k we had the tranny replaced, a few weeks later the motor was having a lifter issue, we had all our air ride replaced, shocks all replaces, even wiggled in new heated seats because they quit working. New stereo because it quit pushing the hidden screen door up, all oil lines replaced, tranny cooler and a few other things. I think we paid 1800 for the warranty and cashed out of it for 17k if I remember right.
Helps having the woman manage a auto repair place. Her business did all the battling with the ext warranty and got everything approved.
The quality discrepancies are absolutely wild, thanks GM. In my garage the 2016 Tahoe has been the most reliable “newer” vehicle we have and the only one that hasn’t seen a flat bed at 130k miles. My 2016 silverado on the other hand… and my 2020 2500hd ate 2 high pressure fuel pumps in 14 days time.
The 2009 malibu is the true goat and just keeps chugging along getting a modest 27 mpg. That car makes me happy.
Oh man, you’ll love the glock 19 and 17. I know i would never trade either of mine for the sig. But you’ll be happy the day you do.
Have a 17, always thought I shot it poorly due to the grip. Shot one with an Apex trigger in it last night, now I know why I shoot mine poorly. Mine was a police trade-in, and I suspect I have the extra heavy trigger in it. Feels a lot more than 5.5 lbs.
Also- I just found a home for P320 in the family, I’m going to mark as sold. Sorry thumper, and thanks for the interest
I hope that in the afterlife I do not have to face all of the chickens that I’ve consumed over the years. I eat various chicken dishes probably 5 days per week. Wings, strips, nuggies, breasts, thighs… I like chicken a lot.
Man those are really cool. But for that price tag, I’d probably run an S10, put tracks on it, and pull a skid shack around. Similar portability, could probably accomplish that setup for maybe $30 – 40K?
It would allow the MN regime to eject an overwhelmingly republican subset of the state’s vote. It’s not outside the realm of possibility, however improbable it may be.
I’m a weekend warrior but between Friday afternoon and Sunday night I tend to put away a LOT. Wife is 1 glass of wine every night type, she wanted to do dry January to shed a few pounds of baby weight. I agreed to do it with her because she really needs someone to help her be accountable with stuff like this.
I’d do whatever she wants if she’d get off Facebook and Instagram all the time!
