MOPanfisher

The crappie are still there, lake falling right now, but some fish at the original.spawn line just out from the pre rain pool level, might not be as fast as it was last week but they are there and plenty of nice ones as well. Even a one armed guy casting with wrong hand from the bank can cat a few.

Well if she understands the risks and is capable of makIng that connection at a ersonal risk.level she is still an American citizen (I presume) and that is her choice of course she also puts you and your wife at increased risk but there are a lot of folks doing the exact same thing. Most will suffer no ill effects some pay dearly for it. I am.maybe just as bad locally hut if I go further (with wife) I do the mask thing. I just had to.modify mine a bit to fit better. Right now allergies aren't as bad for me but for a few weeks the sniffles etc were making me seem like a carrier.

Good luck!

I am in same boat, in fact we are going to have to let hospice put mom in a "respitell care" for 5 days so wife can transport and care for me during/after surgery, the big down side is that she will be in isolation while there both to protect her and the other patients but wife simply cannot keep up with both for a few days until I can sort of do more than wake up and take pills. Mom and I have some rather heated discussions in the middle of th nigh about staying in bed, you never really think she remembers anything, but his morning she asked my wife if I was still mad at her. Sigh, sometimes all you can do is the best you can do and remember an earlier time. Thank you for being there to take care of your mom, taking care of mine was the only thing my father ever asked me to do as he neared his end. Oh and COVID 19 may well be a rougher version of the flu in how it affects the population but like the flu it sure is hard on those who are most vulnerable.

I want the gunmakers to work too. 😆

Having watched a few videos I am amazed and could just sit there and watch people catch fish I think, and forget I was fishing too.

I had an old push mower that was given to me and the carburetor was toast, even had a little screw that plugged something rusted out and let raw gas run out everywhere. Parts store guy yu can't get one for that old Kohler motor so rebuilding it was pointless. Asked if I did the fix could they rebuilt it, sure, then how. Told him I will drill it out and fill it with JB weld and sand it smooth, still have that push mower. Have a weed eater that was exactly what yiu described also a new carburetor was less than a kit, just throw that one away and put this one on, poof all better. And I broke off an aluminum carb body only Gravely mower baking into a picnic table, new one was $150 or so, but hey we have a blown motor back here I could sell the o e off of it for $50, cool do I need to take it off? Still using it, but a little more careful about backing into stuff now. Lawnmowers and tillers can be fun to tinker with, sometimes when you arent in a time crunch. Sometimes I just get so ticked off, usually trying to get some goody spring back in place and have to walk away and consume a cold beverage, go bak later and it's like it wants to help me put back on and nearly jumps back into place. I would be a terrible marine mechanic, I would be an acaholic, hiw log will it take you to fix this for me? , looks like about 3 cold ones plus tax and labor.

Hard to test positive if they don't test them! Testing is only a snapshot in time, test every single person in the US and before the results are tallied up the results will have changed, ones who were negative have now been exposed and are positive. Part of why I think the whole test everybody think is dumb. If you have tested positive then you can quarantine or be tested for anti bodies for possible use on others or if no symptoms are you contagious or not. Beats me. Every time I go to a dr or clinic I get questioned and have my temp checked, always ask if I have been out of state, have to tell them yep, right across the state line to get here to KU clinic. Seems to confuse them.sometimes. see my address is in Missouri this clinic is a couple miles into KS I don't know of any other way to accomplish this visit, ??

I used to run them until I thought they werw ink then give them to a friend at work who usually ran them until whatever my new one was appoaching junk stage. The one I have now I have welded up I think 4 different places and have another spot, just need both arms to disassemble it, will get there soon enough, welding is the easy part, but have to remove plastic fuel rank, thought for about 5 seconds I can weld it with it one there NOPE, not gonna do it. Just occasionally a logical thought bleeds through.

Competition

With Oneshots background I would say he is lucky that is all that ever blew up. Fishing Wrench well who wouldn't have expected a motor to explod on him at some point, little worried as to why it was in your lap, a little more "love" for them than you admit? 😲

Definitely me, I hate telwworking, and being forces to due to immuno-suppression and injury is driving mreakig nus and it is a short trip. The one thug I have learned is that sholud I make it to retirement I believe I can handle that!

Oh yeah the AR 10 is whole different creature with many fewer choices, but still nags at my consciousness. Went with a state hog hunter NE even a few years ago to try and kill a big boar that was try shy, he was packing a 16 inch AR 10 in .308, he sat down abkut 10 feet away, just a bit behind me on right side. Told him if he fires that thighs th hog had better be on topen of me and winning. PSA still has the prices but yeah bot the availability right now. I go back k and forth between wanting to be able to something based on the .223/5.56 case because I have quite a few, to want g something different, 6.5 and 6.8 are good options but not set on anything. don't want a blackout or anything geared toward a suppressed rifle. But 7.62x29 is pretry available for components and I reload everything, and not something readily mistaken for a .223/5.56 case while being inattentive. Part of me wants the variety and part want the simplistic approach. I have killed a couple deer with my AR and it did thwm quite well, but I don't deer hunt much and have better options for that if I wanted to, probably will thin my herd of some of if the heavier rulers once should is replaced, not that I have any true thumpers anymore. Last oe of those I fired was a lever .45-70 that I was uildi g loads for a buddy, man that gun was sweet and could be downloaded easily as well, but he wouldn't part with it. Older Marlin 1895 cowboy octagon barrel!

The bad part is that sometimes you really don't want to support a Candidate like say Donald Trump, but your only real opturn turns out to be Joe Biden? Why he does get out a coherent sentence I simply can't stomach it, and the other is a narcissistic bully. Sometimes all you can do is hold on and hope for better choices later. For all the talk of Presidents budgets, what was accomplished etc. The main effect that a president had on the market place is confidence. Presidents confirm and sign into law things from Congress but they don't deserve the accolades or curses they often get for signing legislation. Congress is too much like pro wrestling, most of their difference are for public consumption and appearances. Many like having a present that holds the public attention, so they can like a magician implement whatever their true agenda is. I believe that primarily their agenda is to expand govt power and need and to be re-elected, which is why they are often forced into D or R for the funding and logistical support there is a price for that support.

There in lies the question, the bigger part of me wants a basic simple M4-forgery carbine, beater in .5.56. But then a part of me want something beside vanilla ice cream. 6x45, 7.62x39, .30 AR, .350 Legend and the list is simply too much to choose from. So when the prices drop and supply goes I simply freeze lie a deer in the headlights and don't choose another one, or maybe I need to step up to an AR 10?m and we'll all I need is more my and a bether rifle range and more time to tinker. My current one is a Remington R15 with floated handguard and it is a shooter for sure.

The basic definition of an asaut rifle is an intermediate size cartridge and has select fire capability. Meaning it can be fired semi or full auto. In reality there is not a solid and hard legal definition of an Assault Rifle, which is part of what allows lawmakers and others to go make up it upwith things like color, pistol grips, quick change magazines and other semantics. ARs are often like an old beater car, you can buy or build one that will smoke tires and compete at about any level, or you can have one that you build yourself as a "gunsmith". Then like building your racer you decide upon a different whatever, which changes something else, which works well but then causes something else to be off. The actual assembly of an AR from a purchased kit can literally be done by anyone with a slight mechanical ability and the desire to do so. Tinkering with one is something that many just can't resist. You can buy a fully assembled one guaranteed to roll or built your own from a kit. ARS are, if done correctly, very reliable if, if ammo is correctly matched AND the system lubed. ARs don't like to run dry, even many regular military folks carry lube dry ones jam, oily greasy ones are messy but will keep running. I did not assbe mine, I bought it fully assbled but more as a Target Style rifle, it will happily keep my reloads with there with any bolt action I own. Many ARs are used for predator hunting, acuracy more than sufficient, quick secind or 3rd shots when multiple critters appear at once, my biggest irritation with them is they simply are not ergonomic in my eyes, partly because I spent my formative years wasted as a woods bum carrying around a bolt action rifle and just am not used to the AR style for quick reactions etc. I haver heard the saying that ARs are like barbie dolls for men, you can buy them and play with them as they are or buy all the accouterments and spend your time changing her up.

I should have noted that this was not normal, it was a pre fishing trip snack. Friend loaded me up for a quick trip. Wasn't easy with my right wing in a sling, but did manage to catch four nice crappie for him to take home, every time it send shooting pains up my arm/shoulder but it was also the last time that piece of arm and shoulder will ever go fishing. Later this week a few inches of humerus and my shoulder joint get a full reverse replacement. So it was a good evening, I will be thinking of the "thump" as I slide into unconsciousness. At least that is my plan, will also be thing of all the dan delicious stuff you guys keep posting and me putting up pics of cheese whiiz and venereal sausages. LOL.

Anybody with a decent cnc machine can produce an AR lower off of specs already available, quality varies widely but thay why you can buy them from 25 to 250 for just a lower. There are now so many in use and in citizens hands banning would be a joke and cause a lot of enforcement issues. Won't happen in the US, lots of folks would like to but it's simply impractical on a monument scale and currently an unwinnable battle in SCOTUS. And as I said earlier nearly every military issued rigle had been extremely popular with the public and basically every upgrade since the first bang has made firearms more useable and deader in one way or another it's the nature of rhe beast. I don't need AR's but I certainly enjoy mine and would happily have another in a slightly different form. And mine has an alibi for when Epstein didn't commit suicide so I know it wasn't involved there in him not hanging himself!

What terms for Federal congressmen are limited in any way. The terms are 6 and 2 but they can be elected as many times as they can, am I mistaken there? Presidents are the only ones I am aware of federally that are term limited.

I don't disagree at all, but basically every military issued firearm has been a very popular weapon in the civillian world. Essentially every mprovement in weaponry makes them more efficient, easier to handle, hold more better ammo. Even shotguns are very availabLe in "assault versions". And I am not one who feels shotguns are necessarily more deadly just different. As for the surge, it was made "popular" for lack of a better word. Names faces kill counts etc. Gets splashed all over the news, but it is news and should be reported, however I wish they wouldn't give out names and photos just to deny the SOBSs he fame they seek. Honestly I guess I am not wired to understand what drives these goofballs, and I have no desire to understand them, they are crazy and or evil and if they are in the act they should go down like a chicken killing dog. I know many have mental issues and arw on or off various psychoactive drugs and that is terrible, however there are a lot of people dealing with those issues and.don't go out and shoot people. Once they cross that line, I have zero sympathies for their plight, makes me sound not very Christian but so be it, never claimed to be a good one.

How about an all American junk food snack. Cheese Whiz and Vienna sausages on a club cracker.

I am one of "those guys" who say Assault is an action. Not a weapon. It's what yiu do with it, could be an assault bat, an assault propane tank, etc. It's all in how it is used. In the hands of a good guy an AR/M4 or a good shotgun is a valuable life saving tool to stop a bad guy from taking lives. For some reason the idiots who go off the deep enf to display and carry a rifle I public irritate me, dumbest things I have ever seen. Although to the best of my knowledge none of the big demonstrations of gun owners has created any shooting incidents. More happen at gun shows, have seen some real geniuses there, was working the door on a small local o e, when one of the dealers (I knew him by name) went out the door and came back a few minutes later with an AR he had but to show a customer. Whoa, hold up and let me safety check it, mag was out but I cycled the bold and out popped a loaded round, I was ticked, he was embarrassed but still could have easily been wayyy worse. We talked about it later and he was still embarrassed and apologizing.

A litthe more breakfast love this morning. The girl who helps take car of mom said "I am Hungry this morning". Not a problem, 3 egg omlette, ham, gouda cheese and some fresh asparagus, almost ready to fold it.

Violence has been with us since the dawn of time and always will be. There a fair amount of contention as to who this quote is from, but it still rings true to me. Even if what we as individuals do is small the cumulative effect is large like picking up trash. THe key is knowing what to do and how to do it. I guess we can rely on our legislative bodies to tell us? Every terrible piece of legislation often has at its roots a truly benovolent desire to do something good, however the very process by which it happens in a legislative body dooms it.

I don't care what cor or hue their skin might be, or whether they are XX or XY or some extra Chromosome. I do get tired of pure politicians and lawyers, and the ridiculous promises they make, as most of the rouses can be pushed, championed, tweeted about and splashed all across social media, a President simply doesn't ha e the power and authority to do most of them, it requires action in the form of bills from the House and Senate and then combined AND in a format that doesn't I clue some bizarre cra added so that a President can sign it into law, or if they x goose to veto it, I do appreciate it when a President actually veto something rather than simply use a pocket veto and let it die with a veto or signature. There are aome things a president can do, but by and large I am not a supporter of Executive Orders, laws shuld come through the process and then congressmen can live/die politically on what they actually support. I would love to see a line item veto as well so a President could theoretically line out portions that are tacked on to get support from a particular senator or Rep regardless of political affiliation and send it back to Congress to force them to stand on the particular issues. And while I will never see it happen things like term limits (12 years maybe) a set amount of pension, and a requirement for all 3 branches to disclose financial statements (which govt employees who are involved with contracts, purchasing and approvals are required to do) if your personal fortune grows by 1000% in a year it should be shown why not necessarily to the general public but to a watchdog agency or something. There are a lot of laws and rules that apply to govt employees and military, think they should apply to elected officials equally. Ans while I am at it I think that while in elected office they should absolutely be able to go to a "special health location" say Bethesda or may VA to get treatment without cost, BUT when term is up they go to the very same options that we all have, buy insurance on the open market just like everyone else. There I have slipped off of my soapbox and will set back down in my recliner with an adult beverage and be quiet, maybe. I fully realize that it is a very complex situation, but nothing will change if it doesn't start, even small steps.